Upstate Art Weekend: "Appearances" at Strange Untried Project Space

Appearances

Upstate Art Weekend

July 22 - July 23, 2023 11 am - 6 pm

Strange Untried is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition Appearances, co-organized by Adie Russell and Amy Talluto.

Featuring two and three dimensional work by six artists working in the Hudson Valley, Appearances embodies the mission of Strange Untried as a project seeking to connect artists through their work.

In his 1972 titular essay John Berger wrote “Appearances cohere within the mind as perceptions. The sight of any single thing or event entrains the sight of other things and events. To recognize an appearance requires the memory of other appearances. And these memories, often projected as expectations, continue to qualify the scene long after the stage of primary recognition.”

Berger asserts that what we perceive unites with both the data bank of our personal memories and our inherent sense of natural form, triggering affinities and associations which result in a kind of code or language. The selected artworks in this exhibition all skirt this boundary of recognition: Natalie Beall and Amy Talluto both create nonfunctional domestic objects that seem to no longer remember their use; Adie Russell creates charcoal drawings that explore erasure, loss and digital manipulation of historical photography; Judy Glantzman and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen both create representations of un-nameable faces in sculpture and assemblage, and Jesse Bransford creates color drawings of intangible phenomena inspired by his study of folk magic and the occult.

Live event: Saturday July 22 at 4 pm
Strange Untried will host a reading of “The Second Person,” a new work by poet Iris Cushing. The reading will last approximately 30 minutes.

Details:
This Strange Untried exhibition is a pop-up event located at Adie Russell’s studio in Lomontville, NY, 15 minutes south of Kingston. (The mailing address and google map address is Kingston, the hamlet is called Lomontville.) If coming from Hurley Mountain Road we are 1 mile up on your left in the white building behind the gray house. There is limited parking in the driveway. Please park there if possible. If not, you can park along the road.

The exhibition includes outdoor sculptures in a fairly flat grass landscape with the main entrance to the indoor space being at the upper level of a two level studio (6 steps.) There is an additional entrance on the lower level for those who would like to avoid stairs. Please reach out with any accessibility concerns.

Maake Magazine Issue 15 Interview

Check out my recent interview in Maake Magazine.

“I have an abiding interest in the quiet energy that objects contain, particularly in domestic spaces. In my research I look for objects that spark curiosity and hold latent energy, and I try to create that feeling in my work. Embedded within this fascination with objects is an interest in domestic space as the historical place where women have worked and created. ”
— Natalie Beall, Maake Magazine Issue 15

La Banda group exhibition @ Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn

La Banda, 2023
Group show curated by Tappeto Volante
Opening Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 6-9 pm
On view until March 19, 2023

With Eric Aho, Peter Acheson, Tomer Aluf, Liz Ainslie, Lisha Bai, Natalie Beall, Mildred Beltre, Timothy Bergstrom, Angela Conant, Vince Contarino, Jared Deery, Mary Finn, Marianne Gagnier, Benjamin Klein, Uwe Henneken, Eric Hibit, Volker Hüller, Alexandra Lakin, Leonora Loeb, JJ Manford, Monica Palma, Jesus Polanco, Padma Rajendran, Aparna Sarkar, Kim Sloane, Elisa Soliven, Jacqueline Shatz, Christine Stiver, Dominic Terlizzi, Zuriel Waters.

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Tappeto Volante
126 13th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 11215, New York
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The Tappeto Volante founders, curator Paola Gallio and artists Jared Deery, JJ Manford, and Elisa Soliven are proud to announce the second edition of La Banda, 2023, an expansive group show of works on paper, paintings, and sculpture. 

For the second year, TV introduces works by 30 artists drawn from TV's founding artists' and curator's network of contacts, from family to friends and beyond. 

La Banda is a playful reference to a famous scene from the 1980 American musical comedy film The Blues Brothers, where the brothers have an epiphany and re-form their band to support their household.

Tappeto Volante (TV for short) opened in 2021 to help uplift and rebuild the community after the displacement following the Covid19 pandemic, and it has been a celebration of the resilience shown by creatives ever since. With TV's annual survey, each founder calls on artists who embrace the gallery's values of inclusivity and equality. 

La Banda is designed to celebrate and express gratitude for the continued support and engagement with TV's mission to provide a safe space for underrepresented artists, performers, and emerging curators bringing projects and productions to life. The show is a tribute to the Artists whom Tappeto Volante Projects has grown and walked with through the first 18 months of activitiy.

Lacing Post, 2022

Arts Mid-Hudson Statewide Community Regrants Program

I was honored to receive a grant to fund my “Utility Suite” series this year. The Individual Artist Commission Grant provides support directly to selected individual artists for the creation of new work. This funding opportunity represents an investment in local artists. It is designed to increase artist initiated activities, enhance individual artistic career development, and foster creative interactions between an artist and a community.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

White Rock Center For Sculptural Arts Summer Invitational

White Rock Center For Sculptural Arts Summer Invitational IV: Collage/Assemblage

Opening reception
Saturday August 6, 2022
3-6pm
Additional viewing day: Sunday August 7, 2022
11-5pm

Artists:

Natalie Beall
Vernon Byron
Melissa Dadourian
Jesse Gelaznik
Daniel Giordano
Gracelee Lawrence
Jennifer Macdonald
Rebecca McGee Tuck
Andrea McGinty
Gelah Penn
Mandolyn Rosen
Amy Talluto

This year, White Rock Center for Arts’ thematic Summer Invitational IV: Collage/Assemblage, invites artists to mount a temporary outdoor art installation that considers collage (associated with two-dimensional art forms) or assemblage (associated with three-dimensional art forms) in our contemporary moment. The impulse to collect and repurpose, to create new meanings from disparate elements is an infinitely renewable and inventive process that each artist in this exhibition explores in different and expansive ways. Traditionally, collage/assemblage involves a process of joining various materials from the ordinary and the commonplace. Although present in material culture across the globe since ancient times, in the early 20th century, combining fragments of found material into an artform was radical to the western art canon.

Diane Waldman writes:

“Throughout this [20th] century, collage has come to symbolize a revolution in the nature of making art. Collage has often emphasized concept over end product; it has steered the meaning of process; it has brought the incongruous into meaningful congress with the ordinary and given the uneventful, the commonplace, the ordinary a magic of its own”.

Waldman, Diane. Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1992.

SHAPESHIFT at Fridman Gallery

SHAPESHIFT

July 30 - September 4, 2022

Fridman Gallery

 

Jill Baroff

Natalie Beall

Ellen Driscoll

Gordon Hall

Susan Meyer

Christina Tenaglia

475 MAIN STREET | BEACON

Opening Reception Saturday, July 30, 4-7pm

Utility Suite (Double Bell), 2022; paper and adhesive; 25 x 19.5 inches

Fridman Gallery is honored to announce SHAPESHIFT, an exhibition at its Beacon location gathering together new and recent work across media by artists living and working in the Hudson Valley.

 

What is at the edge of abstraction and representation? When we blur the line between these two points, what forms are possible? The works in this exhibition oscillate between being recognizable as functional objects and evading definition. The artists in SHAPESHIFT uncover new possibilities through deconstructing and recoding the various relationships among nature, architecture, and our bodies. 

 

Jill Barroff’s sculptures and works on paper create complex, diverse outcomes from the simple tasks of rearranging table tops, legs and corners, and cutting, folding and floating painted shapes. Often furniture-like and made from unexpected materials such as concrete, Gordon Hall uses materiality in abstracted floor-based sculptures to call their use and their potential user into question. 

 

Natalie Beall references toys, storage devices, grids, and hooks in her cut paper collages and mixed media sculptures, seeking to unleash the latent potential of the traditionally undervalued domestic sphere. Screwed directly into the wall, Christina Tenaglia’s sculptures made of wood, earthenware, and paint are untitled, focusing our attention on the presence of the objects, the relationships between them, and the spaces they inhabit. 

 

Ellen Driscoll’s works on paper incorporate ink, golf leaf, and silk, overlaying plant life and celestial bodies with architectural forms reflecting remediation, migration, and climate change. Susan Meyer’s brightly colored multi-faceted acrylic sculptures echo the psychedelic tones and architectural pursuits of utopian communities of the 1960s and 70s, exploring the tension between the environment and the manufactured world.



For press inquiries and images, please contact Hanna Gisel at hanna@hannagisel.com. For appointments and sales inquiries, please email info@fridmangallery.com or call +1 518 860 7937.

Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship

I’m thrilled to attend the Saltonstall Foundation artist residency in June. I will be living and making art in Ithaca, NY for one week as part of the foundation’s parent residency. More on the fellowship here.

That’s me on the top left in black and white! Photo credit: Pierre Le Hors

NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit

I am honored to participate in this year’s NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit which recognizes visual, literary, and performing artists who have received NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships and have had a profound impact on the arts through their creative work, and patrons of the arts who have championed the value of the arts in the world around us. I was the recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2017, and was pleased to donate the following collage to raise money for an organization I greatly admire. Bidding continues through April 7, 2022.

Untitled (Index of Form), 2014. Paper collage, 25.4 x 19.5 inches

New collage series available on upriseart.com

“I often reimagine the things I encounter everyday and wonder, how can objects open up new possibilities? These collages represent prospects for new domestic objects. They serve as open-ended learning tools, nameless storage devices, and implements that hover between utility and fantasy. I begin with the form of something tangible which then goes through a process of abstraction and invention. As I cut paper and layer shapes, I work towards a balance between form, color, specificity and the unknown.”

My new series of collages is now available on upriseart.com. For inquiries, contact advisors@upriseart.com.

dieFirma Holiday Market, Nov. 18–Dec. 18, 2021

The Holiday Market showcases makers from the U.S. and Japan working in a variety of materials.

The dieFirma Holiday Market will be open from November 18th–December 18th, on view alongside site-specific installations by celebrated Japanese photographers Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu.

Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5:30pm

ALLISON HALTER (straw and found branches)

ANNE PETERSON (quilts)

BILL MILLER (vintage linoleum)

HATORI (leather)

KIKUHU (soy wax, cotton)

LAUREN HURLBURT (paint)

NATALIE BEALL (paper)

SAMMA (metal)

YAMAI (natural dyes)

YURI HIMURO (textile)

Furniture provided by Karimoku.

2021 Nicholas Buhalis Award

I am honored to have received the Nicholas Buhalis Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. This award was established at WAAM in 2012 in order to honor painter Nicholas Buhalis (1929-1994). This year’s awardee was selected by the curators of Radius 50, Alyson Baker and Candice Madey of River Valley Arts Collective.

Installation view, Radius 50, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2021

Installation view, Radius 50, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2021

Mohonk Arts + Upstate Art Weekend

Mohonk Arts Invitational 1: FANTASY
Curated by Shanti Grumbine, Todd Kelly, and Alex Gingrow
August 27, 28, and 29, 11am-6pm
186 Mohonk Road, High Falls

Participating artists:

Natalie Beall, Amelia Biewald, Sam Bittman, Alta Buden, Aimee Burg, Melissa Dadourian, Maureen Drennan, Ruth Freeman, Jess Gaddis, Paul Gagner, Alex Gingrow, Shanti Grumbine, Jessie Henson, Beth Humphrey, Martine Kaczynski, Laura Kaufman, Todd Kelly, Niki Kriese, Anna Kruse, Ken Landauer, Niki Lederer, Rita Leduc, Rena Leinberger, Elisa Lendvay, Alison McNulty, Megan Pahmier, Ruby Palmer, Courtney Puckett, Amy Ritter, Mandolyn Rosen, Michelle Rosenberg, Michael Scoggins, Suzy Sureck, Amy Talluto, and Yage Wang

Radius 50 opens July 31 at WAAM

Radius 50
July 30 – September 12, 2021
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

Radius 50 is an exhibition of works by artists living and working within 50 miles of Woodstock. Of the 172 submissions for this exhibition, jurors Alyson Baker and Candice Madey of River Valley Arts Collective chose works by 13 artists who are responding to and reflecting on diverse aspects of the rural environments in which they live. The artists bring to bear the influence of their immediate landscape in both materiality and subject matter with local geography, histories, traditions, and natural resources forming the context for a broader dialogue about the relationship between artist and place.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Natalie Beall, Irja Boden, Kathy Greenwood, Shanti Grumbine, Brece Honeycutt, Martine Kaczynski, Alison McNulty, Tony Moore, Ralph Mosley, Linda Stillman, Joy Taylor, Victoria van der Laan, Yage Wang

Opening Reception: July 31, 4–6pm

28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498