Talk Shop 5.0
Curated by Vanessa Shafer + Cassandra Ruff
featuring works by:
BKMC
JENNIFER BLAIKIE
GABE BROWN
JULIANA CHO
VALERIE FANARJIAN
SUZAN GLOBUS
ERIN LUMAN
PUBLIC STONEWARE
YUNG-WU
June 6 - Sep 1
BKMC
Slow Fashion. Creating a hat one stitch at a time. Using construction as a form of meditation.
These series of hats are inspired by the slow growth of nature and the beauty time can bring.
Hand dyeing beaver felts and freehand embroidery are some of the techniques seen in these hand made hats.
Jennifer Blaikie
Jennifer Blaikie was raised in New York City and received her BA in Painting and Printmaking from Bennington College. She worked as an art educator for over thirty years and is passionate about helping young minds discover the joy of artistic expression. In the classroom and in her personal work she encourages creativity without the pressure of perfection.
Her most recent work, "Painting with Yarn," allows her to break patterns and create vibrant, colorful compositions that exude energy and spontaneity. The controlled chaos and playful elements in her art remind us that life is meant to be enjoyed and not taken too seriously. Her work aims to inspire creativity and joy while provoking thought.
Jennifer splits her time between NYC and the Hudson Valley.
Gabe Brown
Gabe Brown holds her BFA degree from The Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA degree in Painting from the University of California, Davis.
Brown is a 2018 recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She has been a Resident Fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for Contemporary Art, The Saltonstall Foundation, Spruce Residency, Anderson Center at Tower View, and Women’s Studio Workshop. Her paintings and works on paper have been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums such as Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Maya Frodeman Gallery, The Chautauqua Institute, Adah Rose Gallery, Zinc Contemporary, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Matteawan Gallery, The Saratoga Arts Center, Garrison Arts Center, John Davis Gallery, ArtsWestchester, Schweinfurth Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, The Horticultural Society of New York, and the Albany International Airport. Her work is included in both public and private collections.
She has been an Adjunct Professor in Painting and Drawing at Fordham University, Marist College and SUNY New Paltz where she received three Merit Awards for Professional Achievement.
Gabe Brown lives and works on a sustainable farm in the Hudson Valley.
Juliana Cho
Juliana Cho is a Brazilian born artist of Korean Heritage. She has a BA in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley and an Associates of Applied Science degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Cho has worked as a fashion designer for most of her career. She started working with clay at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City, and soon realized her fabric draping skills translated to this new medium. Her work bridges fashion and art, soft and hard sculpture, and often reflects her multi-cultural background, as well as her love of nature and the human form.
Cho splits her time between her studio in Ancram, NY and NYC where she is an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Valerie Fanarjian
Having grown up around seamstresses, Valerie Fanarjian’s life was surrounded with yards of material; brocades, velvets, sequins, and lace, piled and filling every space. Spools of thread were her first visual memory.
During Fanarjian’s art education at SUNY, New Paltz, she completed an internship at a women’s studio workshop where she found herself drawn to the non-traditional book arts. Her concentration shifted to bookbinding arts and paper-making.
Valerie combined these skills with her printmaking and painting to create works on paper.
Currently employed at Simon's Rock College, Fanarjian finds herself spending most of her time constructing Talismans and other implements of worship.
Suzan Globus
Suzan Globus focuses her multi-disciplinary art on creating a new way of seeing overlooked environmental and cultural issues, specifically the fraying relationship between humankind and the natural environment and society’s view of women to highlight the connection between the two. Through her non-objective approach, Globus uses raw materials as both support and paint in her two- and three-dimensional work. She juxtaposes fragile, discarded, natural and manufactured materials, like raw canvas and tree bark, with bold color in various media or lets the unaltered material speak for itself.
As a child, she spent hours alone in the woods cracking open rocks to see what was inside and collecting whatever treasures she discovered. This early curiosity about materials permeates her work today. She brings her experience as a sustainability professor, writer, and designer into her research-based practice. Globus credits her formative years spent in Japan as a strong aesthetic influence on her work.
She supplemented her undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland and Post Baccalaureate with honors and distinction in Fine Arts from Kean University with studies at the Arts Students League, National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York and Orsoni in Venice. She was invited to write and teach a course about sustainable design at the Michael Graves School of Architecture at Kean University. Recently, she was one of 10 invited artists exhibiting work in the Project on Crisis at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
The artist is a 2024 grant recipient from the NJ Council on the Arts. She has exhibited paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and videos in solo and juried shows in museums, universities and galleries in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California. She has been awarded residencies at Chautauqua School of Art and ChaShaMa North in New York and Mana Contemporary in New Jersey. Her work is held in private collections across the country.
Erin Luman
Erin Luman, (b.1977 in MA) is intent on trying not to forget. As a young person, she methodically catalogued her experiences in journals. When she got older, she collected keepsakes as a way to jog her memory; She’d pick up a stone from the ground after a first glance with a crush or she’d pocket a bottle cap to attempt to hold onto the feeling of watching fireworks in the thick darkness of summer.
In later years she was diagnosed as having problems with her working memory, so now it seems that her inspiration to try to catalog life’s moments is an obvious response to what she’s always known to be true - Her memories don’t stick. Her frustration with impermanence has sharpened her focus on overlooked places and objects and has ended up as her painting subject matter.
Luman uses acrylic paint on cradled wood panel in her seaside Massachusetts studio. She also sometimes uses maps from the 1970s/80s (folded and worn) for texture below the paint surface on the smaller work. After enjoying a couple sold out shows with the beach cottages, she continues her exploration of memory and the passage of time within different subject matter.
Public Stoneware
Ginny Redgate is a ceramic artist who produces large-scale hanging sculptures and functional work. Her artistic journey began with painting murals and exploring graphic design before she pursued Art History at SUNY Albany. Ginny’s early experiences with the impact of large-scale imagery and how it shapes our view of the world were shaped while working in the tech industry, where she spent over 25 years producing global advertising campaigns, events, videos, and executive presentations.
A decade ago, Ginny began transitioning from corporate life to concentrate on ceramics, crafting everyday tools and wall sculptures. Her functional work ranges from modern interpretations of classic forms to rustic and raw vessels. She draws inspiration from the rhythmic patterns found in nature and the rich history and culture surrounding clay.
Ginny's latest sculptural work explores the use of large-scale beads to tell stories, aiming to connect viewers with nature. Her clients include hotels, architects, and decorators, such as APD Workshop's Faraway Hotel in Martha's Vineyard, Elte in Toronto, Adobe in Carlsbad, CA, and Aero Studios in NYC, as well as numerous private collectors and fine shops.
Yung-Wu
Yung-wu (she/her) is a self-taught abstract artist based in Red Hook, New York. Heavily influenced by her upbringing in New York City and South Korean heritage, her work centers around the exploration of identity and fluidity of memory. Each and every work is created intuitively with Yung-wu utilizing a variety of unconventional tools, such as cardboard, battery packaging, and other found objects. Her process is a balance of spontaneity and intentionality, taking in the moment and translating that onto canvas. Yung-wu’s work continues to gain recognition at solo and group exhibitions across New York and Connecticut and is currently represented by Eleventh Hour Art Gallery in Brooklyn.
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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Allison Toepp / Ethel Leather
Leatherwork studio in the village of Red Hook. Toepp’s objects are functional works of art, handmade from materials that are dear to her. This is her way of celebrating her cows and her community.
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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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Kelly Storrs / Lowland Studio
Lowland Studio produces custom, hand-carved porcelain lighting inspired by the cycles of growth and decay found in nature. Their biomorphic designs allow light to come through the fixtures like dappled sunlight on the forest floor.
All lighting is designed, thrown and assembled by Kelly Storrs in her studio in Kingston N.Y. A potter first, Kelly came to lighting through a love of the simplicity, elegance and translucency of porcelain and a desire to explore those qualities by illuminating it.
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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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