WAAM EVENTS

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.

April 28th, 5:30 – 10:00
@ SPAF

Saugerties Performing Arts Factory
169 Ulster Avenue, Saugerties NY 12477

The WAAM Beaux Arts Gala is our biggest night of the year.
Last year’s Gala was a sold out event and we hope you’ll join
us this year for what is sure to be a fantastic party for art.
As our main fundraiser of the year, the WAAM Beaux Arts Gala
is a chance for you to enjoy a fun evening of friends, food, dancing,
and art – all in support of the dynamic programs and events that
WAAM presents throughout the year. We hope you’ll join us!

Stay tuned for more information about the event.

This interdisciplinary event will pay tribute to the past and current cultural energy of Woodstock, reflecting its continuing contribution to the arts. The program will consist of a series of short visual projections created by artist Harry C. Tabak accompanied by an interpretive performance by dancers Jill Ann Schwartz and Julie Manna and with voice accompaniment Therese Brewer and instrumentalist Conor Wenk. The dancers will interact with the projections and through their movements explore the imagery of Tabak’s art which is based on the natural forms of vines and tendrils. Accompanying the dancers and projections will be musicians creating an improvisational soundscape that echoes the cultural past of Woodstock.

Agnes Hart (1912-1979): A Journey Towards Abstraction  (continues through June 10, 2018)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Richard Scherr: LINES
Solo Gallery

FOCUS: Abstract Heart
Main Gallery

Members Small Works (A-G)
Founders Gallery

Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through April 29, 2018.

Juror, Katie Schimdt Feder and WAAM Gallery Director Carl Van Brunt will discuss current exhibition FOCUS: Abstract Heart. 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.

Abstract Heart: Passion, emotion, deeply-held beliefs – how do we express and convey these concepts through an abstract vocabulary? Abstract Heart solicits work that speaks from the soul through a personal visual language.

We’re changing up this presentation of the Potluck Slideshow and instead of featuring crowd-sourced digital images we’re asking visual artists to bring in an artwork to share with the group. Each artist will be given a short period of time to present and speak about their work.

The Potluck Slideshow is open to all.

Admission: a dish to serve four or $5.00 at the door without a dish

Please call or email to register your participation so that we can get a count of the number of artists to expect.

PROSPECTUS

The Potluck Slideshow is an evening of community, food and art open to all. The images of visual artists, working in all mediums are presented in an egalitarian environment of community, where the creative efforts of all are shared in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere.

The Potluck Slideshow offers a forum for open dialogue and exchange between members of the arts community and the general public, bringing an awareness of the diverse forms of visual art to the community at large. We encourage participants to submit images of both finished and experimental works, and/or works in progress. All submitted works will be presented in a fun, fast-paced format. Please prepare one or two sentences about yourself and your work to present with the artwork that you will share with the group.

This event will be accompanied by a potluck dinner. Admission to the event is a food dish to serve four or $5.00 at the door.

Submission Guidelines

• Artists may bring one artwork to share with the group.
• Easels will be provided to display your work when presented.
• Please provide your name, contact information and a brief biography or artist’s statement that we will compile in a binder for the evening.
• Submit biographical materials to: bryana@woodstockart.org

 Submission Deadline: Friday, March 2, 2018.

For more information contact Bryana Devine at the WAAM at 845.679.2940 or email bryana@woodstockart.org