WAAM EVENTS

Artist Len Jenkin will discuss the work in his current exhibition Len Jenkin: FIRE OVER WATER in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

WAAM is proud to host FOCUS: Gaia 2019 artist, micro-sculptor Sergey Jivetin on Sunday, March 31, 2-4 PM for a special event planned in conjunction with the close of the exhibition. Jivetin will be hand-engraving select motifs on heirloom seeds as part of his Furrow project. Audience members are encouraged to bring seeds they have special connection with, to see representations of their personal stories embedded and programmed into these seeds.

Seeds are fundamental units in our relationship with food, agriculture and the natural environment. On both physical and symbolic levels, seeds collectively carry the history of complex motives and consequences of plant domestication. Seeds have been both silent witnesses and active participants in waves of travels and migrations, growth and decline, individual and societal transformations. Seeds are also records of more personal stories of people or families that cultivated them for generations. Such diversity and richness in the deeply rooted relationships of people and seeds remains mostly silent, physically and figuratively locked inside the coat of each seed.

By traveling the country and connecting with a multitude of people and organizations that contribute to seed advocacy, Furrow project seeks to make those often compelling stories visible, to externalize and memorialize the contributions of professional and enthusiast growers, breeders and seed-savers.

The nature of the artist’s hand guiding a cutting tool and creating a miniature furrow in a shell of a seed alludes to a farmer’s plow piercing through the top layer of soil, releasing nutrients and jump-starting a cycle of growth. The symbolic act of piercing through the seed coat to uncover the information contained within, is coupled with the physical function of helping it germinate if planted.

Sergey Jivetin’s work is currently on view in FOCUS: Gaia 2019 (March 9 – 31) in WAAM’s Main Gallery.

Merry Prankster Roger Lazoff will discuss the current exhibition Get on the Bus. The exhibition includes posters, film, and books from Lazoff’s collection, many documenting the six years he spent living with and around the Pranksters.

In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters,  undertook an epic cross-country bus trip.  In a decade of Happenings, this event, chronicled on film and in print, became a celebration and a touchstone for the emerging counter-culture.  In later years, the Merry Pranksters continued to demonstrate their version of free expression, both graphically and through what might now be called performance art.

This exhibition asks and suggests the answer  to  the question: is Ken Kesey still relevant today and if so why? It is my belief that he is, not only because of his great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, but  also because he was so central to the cultural transformation  that took place in the 60s and early 70s.  Kesey’s circle of influence encompassed the Grateful Dead, John Barlow developer of the Well, the first online information source, and Steward Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalogue,  Kesey can also be seen as one of the key figures in the development of new art forms as can be seen in the 1964 Bus Trip movies.  To put it in the parlance of the time, Kesey’s vibes were everywhere and they are still being felt today.

Arbitrary History: The People’s Choice (Feb. 2 – May 5, 2019)

FOCUS: Gaia 2019 (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Abigail Gunnels: Domestic Detritus, A Family Album (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Small Works (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Pencils, Paint & Pixels: Onteora High School Students (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Artist Abigail Gunnels will discuss the work in her current exhibition Abigail Gunnels: Domestic Detritus, A Family Album in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Our Town: Images of Woodstock (continues)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Carole P. Kunstadt Solo Exhibition
Solo Gallery

Members Holiday Show
Main Gallery

Members Small Works
Founders Gallery

Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through December 31, 2018

WAAM & Woodstock School of Art Print Making Project | 12 – 3 pm

Collage and Card Making Station | 12 – 6 pm

Nancy Tierney & The Boys Jazz quartet | 4 – 6 pm

37th Annual Woodstock Holiday Open House! Join us for fun and festivities, including a cozy bonfire with s’mores in town, live bands and musicians, Victorian Carolers, Santa and Mrs. Claus, and more surprises to come! Visit all the participating shops and admire the beautiful themed window displays. Take advantage of special deals and sales, refreshments and holiday snacks! Eat at one of our excellent restaurants and enjoy food and drink specials.

Our Town: Images of Woodstock (continues through Dec. 31, 2018)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Ginnie Gardiner: The Color Prophecies.
Solo Gallery

FOCUS: Looking Real/Really Looking
Main Gallery

Members Small Works
Founders Gallery

Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through November 25, 2018

Gallery Talk with Juror, Daniel Goodwin and WAAM Galley Director Carl Van Brunt on current exhibit FOCUS: Looking Real/Really Looking, followed by audience Q&A.

Introduced in 2017, the FOCUS series features the work of ten artists in a theme-based exhibition. Selections are curated by a different juror for each exhibition with each artist represented by multiple examples of their work in service to the particular show’s theme.

The last FOCUS show of 2018 investigates the notion of the real in art. Does Realism really portray reality? Is a painting of a black square on a white canvas more or less real than a still life of apples? Is a concept more real than a photograph? And how can what we assume to be real be manipulated to mislead us. All these and other intriguing questions will be explored in this exhibition juried by Daniel Goodwin, Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Albany.

Rena Leinberger and Thomas Albrecht present Remnants, Hour Upon Hour: Sunrise/Part 3, the last in a series of performances exploring contingencies of time and trace: simultaneous actions that sometimes overlap, but also exist as individual gestures and missed opportunities. The changes are both visible and hidden, activating the museum space and remaining dynamic throughout the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

Think “Waiting for Godot.” If this extended performance seems absurd it is (on purpose) but it is also by turns deeply serious and hysterically funny. If you’ve never gotten into performance art this a great place to start. Performance art aficionados will be delighted by Leinberger’s and Albrecht’s take on this increasingly important genre. Open your mind a bit and you’ll find it flooded with meaning on a myriad of topics. Part postmodern situation comedy and part a serious critique of the boundaries and limits of what we know and what we believe, Leinberger and Albrecht are not to be missed.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A led by Gallery Director, Carl Van Brunt.

Richard Kroehling, an award winning director who has had his work shown at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Lisa Rinzler, a top flight cinematographer with more than 70 films to her credit, are presenting a workshop version of Dollarland, a major installation project they are in the process of creating. For this workshop version the artists have created two large wall projections showing non-linear narrative video on either side of a jewel-like center piece simulating a burning building from the past. Accompanied by an immersive sound track, beautifully shot and edited scenes are mashed-up with archival photos. You Tube videos and digitally altered footage convey a tragic history, disturbing present, and a dark vision of the future for Dollarland’s citizens. 

This unique installation utilizing the latest in technological innovation and embodying a revolutionary approach to narrative storytelling is reflective of the level of art currently being produced in the our region. It will be on view during the run of the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

Artists Richard Kroehling and Lisa Rinzler will discuss their installation Dollarland on display through October 7 in WAAM’s Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing 

Richard Kroehling, an award winning director who has had his work shown at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Lisa Rinzler, a top flight cinematographer with more than 70 films to her credit, are presenting a workshop version of Dollarland, a major installation project they are in the process of creating. For this workshop version the artists have created two large wall projections showing non-linear narrative video on either side of a jewel-like center piece simulating a burning building from the past. Accompanied by an immersive sound track, beautifully shot and edited scenes are mashed-up with archival photos. You Tube videos and digitally altered footage convey a tragic history, disturbing present, and a dark vision of the future for Dollarland’s citizens. 

This unique installation utilizing the latest in technological innovation and embodying a revolutionary approach to narrative storytelling is reflective of the level of art currently being produced in the our region. It will be on view during the run of the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

Rena Leinberger and Thomas Albrecht present Remnants, Hour Upon Hour, a month-long series of performances exploring contingencies of time and trace: simultaneous actions that sometimes overlap, but also exist as individual gestures and missed opportunities. The shifting records of presence are both visible and hidden, activating the museum space and remaining dynamic throughout the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

Think “Waiting for Godot.” If this extended performance seems absurd it is (on purpose) but it is also by turns deeply serious and hysterically funny. If you’ve never gotten into performance art this a great place to start. Performance art aficionados will be delighted by Leinberger’s and Albrecht’s take on this increasingly important genre. Open your mind a bit and you’ll find it flooded with meaning on a myriad of topics. Part postmodern situation comedy and part a serious critique of the boundaries and limits of what we know and what we believe, Leinberger and Albrecht are not to be missed.

The series of performances uses basic materials including fabric, foam, building materials and fabricated stones in a process of constructing representations. Throughout the performances, as landscapes take shape, are dismantled, then reconstructed in other representations, evocations of Hudson River School Painting, Absurdist Theatre, the artifice of cinema, and the cyclorama slide into a failed sublime.

The simultaneous actions unfold in proximity to each other, layering both individual and adjacent gestures to leave material traces of what has happened in the space, yet museum visitors will only see incomplete information as to what has occurred.

The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum is pleased to be partnering with George Cole Auctions for our 16th annual benefit auction.

APPRAISAL DAY  Saturday, September 15,  1- 4 pm
CONSIGNMENT DEADLINE    Friday, September 21, 2018
AUCTION DATE  Saturday, October 20, 1 pm

Accepting quality fine art consignments with an auction value of $500 +
Paintings • Fine Prints • Sculpture • Photography • Works on Paper  Historic Woodstock • Contemporary

Appraisal Day, September 15th with Sylvia Leonard Wolf, Jane St. Lifer and Pat de Roussie.
Appraisal fee: $10 per item/ $25 for three

For complete info visit woodstockart.org/waam-auction     T. 845 679 2940

Rena Leinberger and Thomas Albrecht present Remnants, Hour Upon Hour, a series of performances exploring contingencies of time and trace: simultaneous actions that sometimes overlap, but also exist as individual gestures and missed opportunities. The changes are both visible and hidden, activating the museum space and remaining dynamic throughout the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

Think “Waiting for Godot.” If this extended performance seems absurd it is (on purpose) but it is also by turns deeply serious and hysterically funny. If you’ve never gotten into performance art this a great place to start. Performance art aficionados will be delighted by Leinberger’s and Albrecht’s take on this increasingly important genre. Open your mind a bit and you’ll find it flooded with meaning on a myriad of topics. Part postmodern situation comedy and part a serious critique of the boundaries and limits of what we know and what we believe, Leinberger and Albrecht are not to be missed.

Richard Kroehling, an award winning director who has had his work shown at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Lisa Rinzler, a top flight cinematographer with more than 70 films to her credit, are presenting a workshop version of Dollarland, a major installation project they are in the process of creating. For this workshop version the artists have created two large wall projections showing non-linear narrative video on either side of a jewel-like center piece simulating a burning building from the past. Accompanied by an immersive sound track, beautifully shot and edited scenes are mashed-up with archival photos. You Tube videos and digitally altered footage convey a tragic history, disturbing present, and a dark vision of the future for Dollarland’s citizens. 

This unique installation utilizing the latest in technological innovation and embodying a revolutionary approach to narrative storytelling is reflective of the level of art currently being produced in the our region. It will be on view during the run of the WAAM’s Radius 50 exhibition.

We’re very excited this August 29 to present, on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of its world premier in Woodstock, NY, John Cage’s 4’33” produced by Norman Magnusson and performed by David Van Tieghem. Its world premier was in a concert produced by WAAM at the Maverick Concert Hall as a benefit for our “Artists Welfare Fund.” For the 8th consecutive year, we will present a performance of this truly revolutionary and still controversial composition in our Towbin Wing on the anniversary of the original performance.

This year, award winning avant-garde percussionist, Broadway composer and sound designer David Van Tieghem will perform the Cage piece and some of his own compositions. Columnist, editor and John Cage scholar Kay Larson will introduce the piece and host a Q&A following the performance.

Kay Larson was the art critic for New York Magazine for 14 years, and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times.  Click here to read a recent article she wrote on Cage and Buddhism for the Huffington Post. Larson is the author of Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists. Kay is currently working on her second biography of Cage.

To see a video-taped interview with John Cage briefly discussing his views about music click here.

Refreshments will be served.
We look forward to seeing you.

Nature Morte: The Early Years of Still Life Painting in Woodstock
(continues though August 19, 2018)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Chris Gonyea: HYPHAE: Connecting with the Forest
Solo Gallery

FOCUS: Surveying the Landscape 2018
Main Gallery

Members Small Works
Founders Gallery

FUTURE VISIONS: Chloe Mosbacher: Wake Up Call
Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through August 26, 2018

Juror Thomas Sarrantonio and WAAM Gallery Director Carl Van Brunt will be joined by artists Maxine Davidowitz, Yale Epstein and Tim Smith in a discussion about the current exhibition FOCUS: Surveying the Landscape, followed by an informal audience Q&A.

Introduced in 2017, the FOCUS series features the work of ten artists in a theme-based exhibition. Selections are curated by a different juror for each exhibition with each artist represented by multiple examples of their work in service to the particular show’s theme.

What is a landscape in 2018? The answer to this question is provided by 10 of the best artists of the Radius 50 region each showing multiple works in the second of three FOCUS shows presented at WAAM this year. Gallery visitors should expect to be surprised, challenged, and perhaps even provoked to rethinking their concepts of this familiar genre which in this exhibition may appear in unfamiliar guises. Then again there may some landscapes here that look just like you’d expect, with beautiful recognizable imagery from the region we know and love. The juror Thomas Sarrantonio is himself one the most accomplished painters in this genre, as well as a professor of painting at SUNY New Paltz.

Nature Morte: The Early Years of Still Life Painting in Woodstock
(continues through Aug. 19, 2018)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Doug Navarra Solo Exhibition
Solo Gallery

FAR + Wide National
Main Gallery

Members Small Works (O-Z)
Founders Gallery

Exhibitions continue through July 15, 2018.

WAAM presents a very special opportunity to hear from two of today’s leading experts in digital art at the same time. Scott Draves and Isabel Walcott Draves are a husband and wife team who are major influencers in the current software and electronic art movement. Art and technology’s power couple will provide an exciting look at the development, current trends, and potential future of the various ways technology is changing what and how we see. Scott Draves, one of the world’s leading digital artists, will present the development of his ground breaking work which includes the brilliant Digital Sheep, part screensaver, part revolutionary artist tool, part global art network creatively connecting 500,000 artists. Isabel Draves, director of Creative Tech Week, one of the foremost gatherings of digital artists and technology providers, will present an expert’s guided tour of the brave new world of art in the 21st century. This will be a thought provoking and eye opening event.

Agnes Hart (1912-1979) (continues through June 10, 2018)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Tony Moore Solo Exhibition
Solo Gallery

May Group Show
Main Gallery

Members Small Works (H-N)
Founders Gallery

Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through June 10, 2018.