Talk Shop 6.0
Curated by Ruby Palmer
featuring works by:
SEAN BLUECHEL
JULIE CHASE
ERIKA DEVRIES
LAURA MORIARTY
PHYLLIS GAY PALMER
JOY TAYLOR
On View October 3 - January 19
SEAN BLUECHEL
Sean Bluechel is a contemporary artist known for his thought-provoking ceramic sculptures and mixed-media installations. Born in 1969 in San Francisco, Bluechel studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Genres before completing a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Yale University. His work often features bizarre and surreal human forms, pushing the boundaries of both the medium and the viewer’s expectations. Bluechel's sculptures, which frequently include unconventional and whimsical elements, challenge conventional notions of form and structure.
Bluechel has exhibited his work internationally, with notable solo exhibitions at the Galerie Joseph Tang in Paris and the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York.
Currently, Sean Bluechel lives and works from Clermont, New York.
JULIE CHASE
Julie Chase was born in Alabama in 1966, grew up in Nashville, TN and moved to Catskill, NY in 2004. Chase owns the storefront gallery, Open Studio, on Main Street in the village of Catskill, which she opened 20 years ago with recently deceased artist Dina Bursztyn.
Julie is a practicing artist, largely self-taught, working in a variety of media, including assemblage, embroidery and painting. The materials for these pieces were harvested mostly from the shores of the Hudson River and from the surrounding forests as well as from urban and industrial detritus altered by time and circumstances. Each element Chase selects becomes a part of a puzzle in search of a resonance with other fragments in new configurations - driftwood, dry roots, rusted metal, sticks chewed by beavers, all part of a shared history. These pieces are part of an ongoing series - assemblages made with found objects - altering, carving, painting, polishing, joining, threading and combining elements - in search of synchronicities and surprises.
ERIKA DEVRIES
Erika deVries is a mother, artist, seeker, fairy tale reader, teller and believer based in New York’s Hudson River Valley region. For nearly two decades, Erika has been creating and relating embodied experiences across the disciplines of photography, performance, neon, sculpture, video and handcraft. Her works, rendered in neon, are handwritten transcriptions given to her children and loved ones which crystallize the moments when language and meaning coalesce. Her works are in private and public collections internationally. Her site specific sculpture, The Weather (big emotions) will be on long term public view in Kingston, NY fall 2024 - 2029.
Erika also works in various social sculpture formats; at the family’s building & creative hub at 26 Downs St. Kingston, NY. Together with her life partner, matteline deVries Dilling, they co-founded Cygnets Way, an interdisciplinary art & spirituality programming space which hosts; lectures, classes, workshops, healing work and screenings to activate cross pollination, center wonder and renew points of view. Your Mom & the Swan, is a vintage, designer clothing, art gallery, free store & objects of delight shop she and her teen aged son, Zane deVries Lepson publicly open two days a week.
LAURA MORIARTY
Laura Moriarty makes process-driven works whose forms, colors, textures and patterns mimic those found in nature. Laura's awards and honors include grants from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and she has participated in many artist residencies, including the Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland, the Baer Art Center in Iceland, and the Rabbit Island Artist Residency in Lake Superior. Laura’s work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2021, her solo exhibition, Resurfacing, was featured at the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey.
PHYLLIS GAY PALMER
Phyllis Gay Palmer was born in 1944 in New York City and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1966. She spent two years in Haulhuas, Peru with the Peace Corps, working to find markets for the local weavers and gourd carvers.
She and her family (husband Leigh, son Ethan, and daughter Ruby) moved to Tivoli, NY in 1989. Her work primarily involves the figure.
She began her meditation practice in the mid 1990s and has regularly attended all-women sessions at Insight Meditation Society in Barry, MA.
A series of paintings developed out of this experience, influenced by the colors and innate balance found in Tantric paintings by anonymous artists in India.
Phyllis lives and works in Tivoli, NY.
JOY TAYLOR
Joy Taylor worships Nature. This devotion is expressed in all her work, no matter the medium.
She is a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Painting, recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and has been a Resident at Women’s Studio Workshop and a Dutchess County Arts Fellow. Her public art work for the MTA can be seen at two locations: the Peekskill, NY train station is home to Jan Peeck’s Vine, (steel sculptures, railings and signage). Her work at the Larchmont NY train station, The Four Seasons, is a 7 foot by 41 foot mosaic mural. Her work has been featured in installations and exhibits at the Albany International Airport. Her paintings and work on paper can be seen at Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington, MA and in Hudson, NY at Carrie Haddad Gallery. She is also represented by Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, CA and by Pryor Fine Art in Atlanta, GA.
She lives in Red Hook, in an old farmhouse between fields and woods, where she sees and feels Nature in all her guises every day.
Ongoing Works By
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Eric Conroe / Finding Form Design
Inspired by a deep range of historical forms, Finding Form is about designing and making furniture and goods that have durability, function - and the inherent beauty found therein.
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Elisa Finoli / Aglaia Jewelry
Hudson Valley jewelry designer dedicated to ethical, contemporary jewelry. Aglaia jewels are wearable reminders of the power of beauty. The secret is in their highly crafted sculptural simplicity.
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Ken Landauer / FN Furniture
Zero-Waste, body-fit, durable furniture designed and made in the Hudson Valley.
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New York Heartwoods
New York Heartwoods (NYH) is a woman-owned and operated fabricator of fine solid wood furniture, using sustainable wood milled from fallen and urban Hudson Valley trees. Founded in 2011 out of their love of forests and desire to create both beautiful timeless designs and environmental and economic solutions for their community, they impeccably craft unique heirloom-quality furniture.
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Swish & Hammer
Traci Pinczes, a Hudson Valley Native, is dedicated to creating highly crafted art, jewelry and decor integrating up-cycled materials and masterfully tedious technique. VERSE showcases a robust line of her beaded jewelry and hand-dyed silk tapestries.
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Emi Winter
A multi-disciplinary artist versed in printmaking, drawing, painting, and textiles had a desire to translate her exploration of color and texture from custom woodblock prints into wool. This exploration led Winter back to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico where she began working with local weavers. The experiment resulted with a series of rugs that are open editions, intended to be functional objects in people’s homes.
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Withers Studio
Withers Studio (formerly Withers & Grain) is a bespoke design and build studio based in Red Hook, NY with a Williamsburg retail storefront. They produce exquisitely crafted furniture for residential and commercial clients.
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Brad Lail / Lail Studio
Lail Design was founded in 2016 by Master Thrower Brad Lail. Rooted in traditional craftsmanship with a modern design approach, Lail Design makes high quality ceramics with a minimal aesthetic. Durable, versatile, and timeless, they are designed to outlive trends and last a lifetime. LAIL pottery is hand thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired from Brad's home studio in Catskill, NY.
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