Lamps By Chris Beeston

Foreland Editions:
Chris Beeston, “Discover the Potential,” 2023
Plastic containers, LEDs, electronic components, steel hardware, 3D printed parts, cubic zirconia.
Edition of 25; each piece is unique and signed.
$575


Foreland is thrilled to announce “Foreland Editions,” a new initiative bringing limited editions from our favorite artists to Foreland’s Catskill audience. Our inaugural project, “Discover the Potential,” is a lamp by New York-based artist Chris Beeston offered in an edition of 25. This work marks the artist’s first limited-edition work.

Having dabbled with electric lighting components in his work since 2010, Beeston first made a small lamp out of a plastic food container sourced from a dollar store near his house in 2016. This sparked an obsession with
scouring New York dollar stores for the best containers, with special attention to unique shapes, floral decorations, bright colors, and inspirational brand slogans. Beeston shops internationally as well, checking out local discount stores wherever he happens to travel. He also sources authentic vintage Tupperware® containers on eBay, praising their robust construction and nostalgia-coded silhouettes.
In planning his first large edition of lamps, Beeston shopped with Foreland’s executive director Stef Halmos at his favorite Brooklyn dollar store: Dollar Junction on DeKalb Avenue in Bed-Stuy. They “hit the jackpot,” finding a huge selection of three-container sets from Turkish manufacturer Çankaya Plastik​​. Using containers from the same product line allowed him to shuffle the lids, so each lamp is a unique combination of colors. The lamps are dimmable, a first in Beeston’s work, and the containers are meticulously assembled with steel hardware, brass rods, wire, LEDs, and heatsinks. The lamps also feature custom 3D-printed legs and dimmer knobs, which are color-accented with inset cubic zirconia gemstones. Çankaya’s inspirational brand slogan (molded into each container) became the title for the edition: “Discover the Potential.”

 grew up in North Carolina and moved to New York after receiving a BA in Studio Art from Davidson College in 2008. Initially drawn to making intricate geometric sculptures, his current fascination with
home appliances highlights a belief that people desire deeper, more emotional connections with their surroundings. His studio is currently located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited at Patrick Parrish Gallery, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Coustof Waxman, Colette, and The Hole.


"Discover the Potential"

Cupid Triumphant, 2022

, 2022
White Carrara marble on stone pedestal
Sculpture dimensions: 49 x 43 x 29 in.

On view on the Foreland Sculpture Pad until April, 2024. 

Images courtesy of Alon Koppel Photography and The Hole

Standing, or resting, at one cubic meter each, Smith’s sculptures are at first glance both instinctively recognizable and bizarrely different – it’s as though the canon of classical statuary has been put through a trash compactor. The artist – working with a team of master carvers, a seven-axis reductive robot, and the digital research teams at museums like the Uffizi – has rendered some of the greatest hits of Hellenic sculpture in 3D modeling programs, before compressing each of them into a compact cube, painstakingly chiseled out of a Carrara marble block. The ancient stone draws a material through-line between the sculpture Smith has chosen for his antic homage – Apollo of Belvedere, Cupid Triumphant, Bernini’s David, and others – the better to defamiliarize these paradigmatic works as they appear before the viewer, radically reshaped. - The Hole

Adam Parker Smith

July 21-23 2023

NADA Foreland Returns for Upstate Art Weekend 2023

This year’s expanded edition of NADA Foreland will feature over 40 participating galleries and over 60 exhibiting artists in a collaborative exhibition cascading through our historic Flagship Building and Waterfront; a community market featuring books, art objects and more in our Bookhouse; a selection of premier food by Lil Debs Oasis, and beverage vendors across our sprawling waterfront lawn; and robust series of live music, discussions, guided tours, and other performances throughout the weekend. 

"We're thrilled to collaborate again with NADA and the international art community it has and continues to foster," says Jesse Greenberg, Foreland's Director of Programming. "This year's sprawling, kunsthalle-style exhibition will interact with the historical architecture and natural beauty of our Hudson Valley setting, as well as see an expanded offering of performances, special events, and community vendors.”

In addition, visitors will have access to "Foreland Presents", our signature rotating series of artist commissions, public exhibitions, performances, events, and workshops operating around the heart of Foreland's Studio Community. Curated by Jesse Greenberg, each project takes advantage of a specific architectural feature or location within Foreland’s historic industrial buildings.

The Glass Bridge: Rachel B. Hayes, "Tomorrow is for You and Me"

The Tower Stairs: Landon Metz, Julia Kent, Maria Antelman, Friends Meeting, Rory / Benedict, Liam Singer, Stonefruit, & Maeve Schallert.

Greater Valley Artists: Carter Hodgkin, "Dither Series:

Foreland Editions: Chris Beeston: Lamp Edition: "Discover The Potential"


NADA Foreland 2023 Exhibiting Artists & Galleries

Katarina Riesing, Todd Kelly,Asya Geisberg Gallery

Vaughn Davis Jr., Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly, Marcos Valella, Dimensions Variable

Maria Antelman, Chris Beeston, Chris Bogia, Rachel B Hayes, Carter Hodgkin, Landon Metz, Foreland Presents

Denis Arvey, Judith Braun, gallery albany

Leah Guadagnoli, Myles Bennett, Jamie Gray Williams, JDJ

Elizabeth Atterbury, Fabienne Lasserre, Mrs.

Blakey Bessire, Peter Hoffmeister, Craig Jun Li, Alexander Perrelli, P.A.D.

Susan Jennings, Lawre Stone, Laetitia Hussain, Norman Douglas, Tanja Grunert Gallery

Elizabeth Insogna, Aparna Sarka, Tappeto Volante Projects

Mirza Hamid, Morvarid Khalilzad, The New Gallery

Chris Bertholf, Georgia Elrod, Lauren Anais Hussey, Leonora Loeb, Underdonk

Founded in 2002, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit 501c(6) collective of professionals working with contemporary art. Its mission is to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within the arts field and to develop a stronger sense of community among its constituency. Through support and encouragement, NADA facilitates strong and meaningful relationships between its members working with new contemporary and emerging art. In addition, NADA hosts annual art events in Miami and New York, including NADA Miami, NADA New York, and NADA House.

Upstate Art Weekend (UPAW) is a connective annual event, for locals and tourists alike, celebrating the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York.

NADA Foreland

Space End

Saturdays & Sundays, 11am-5pm at 111 Water Street.

When Maddy Talias (they/them) and Wilder Yari (they/them) were conceptualizing their video installation SPACE END, Talias talked about witnessing their dad struggle with mental dissolution, and described dad’s mental state as being akin to ‘walking through rooms in a motel’; memories and states of being might be familiar, but they were ultimately transient in that person’s mind, twisting back on themselves in a loop. For other members of the family, the best course of action in those moments was to simply to wait, and watch, until that person came back to the present moment.


SPACE END tells that story in a cyclical collage, switching back and forth between struggling family member Kevin (Kevin Pajarillaga)’s mental state physicalized in literally moving from space to space within a motel, and a metaphorical plane where he and another family member Eloise (Eloise DeLuca) play out the struggles and triumphs of their dynamic in the face of his decline. In a place removed from physical limitations, Kevin and Eloise can express their tenderness, confusion, aggression, and longing to be close to one another. After reaching a heightened and difficult moment of self-reflection for Kevin, we are left with Eloise, watching her loved one struggle, ultimately forced to bear witness without the ability to assist.


SPACE END is a thoughtful reflection on a loved one struggling with dementia, a dual portrait attempting to capture and empathize with two halves affected by the same disease and imbued with deep personal significance. Voicemails from Talias’s own father play throughout, soundtracked by Kinlaw’s soaring audio composition. Talias and Yari further expound on the theme of familial ties via production itself, which was made possible by an almost entirely queer cast and crew giving their time and talents to make SPACE END possible, thus in turn bearing witness to something they might not understand or be able to change.
CREDITS:

Executive Producers - Dick and Carol Fallon, Debbie Fallon

Underwater Cinematographer - Jenny Baumert

Equipment - Greenwood Cinema Rentals + Quixote

Candle, 2022

Reception on June 4, 2023, on view till September, 2023

"When I think of mid-Atlantic summer communities like Fishers Island, The Cape of Massachusetts, and Fire Island I think about homes clad in shingles and shutters devoted to the pursuit of leisure with family and friends. A classic shutter motif I love are the kinds with cut-out silhouettes of moons, diamonds, and even candles where function is unapologetically abandoned in favor of ornamental pleasure. The design for Candle emerged from researching these motifs. The sculpture’s form is a dramatically scaled-up replica of an existing shutter design found in my research extruded from 2D to 3D. I chose a palette that invoked seaside confectionaries, clear blue skies, and the faded colors of comfy well-loved beachwear. Visually Candle gently stands out from the natural landscape but pops with optimism and joy to complement the relaxation and revelry found on the island during its peak season. A candle is a timeless domestic instrument – a way to know what is real when the nearby world is obscured by darkness. A lighthouse functions like this too – which is why I decided to make the sculpture, positioned on the water, illuminate at night like a beacon."

Chris Bogia received his BFA at New York University and MFA from Yale University. Bogia was a recent recipient of the Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation Grant; a Queens Council for the Arts, New Works Grant; as well as a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the Tiffany Foundation grant. He was also an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2017-2018. Recent exhibitions include a public project with Art in Buildings in NYC, a solo presentation at Mrs. Gallery, group exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, NYC, Primary, Miami, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, The Public Art Fund, NYC, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, Bric, Brooklyn, Mrs. Gallery, The New Museum, and a presentation at NADA with Mrs. Gallery in 2020. Bogia is the co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first LGBTQ artist residency in the world, and was FIAR’s acting director from 2011- 2020. He is currently an instructor of sculpture at New York University.

Chris Bogia

Glass Bridge Series: Rachel B. Hayes

Foreland is excited to launch our Glass Bridge Series with 

 an inaugural site-specific installation by the Oklahoma-based fiber and textile artist 

Changing over biannually, the Glass Bridge Series will present new site-specific commissions—which will also be visible from the street—by artists working with a variety of mediums.
Inspired by abstract geometric paintings, fiber art, stained glass windows, fashion design, and the colors and contour lines of the natural landscape, 

 has created fiber-art installations that cover sand dunes, cross rivers, and billow over mountains. 

For this inaugural installation, Hayes was commissioned by Foreland to design a new site-specific installation for the Glass Bridge. “My thoughts were to create a color field installation that would cascade, billow, and flow down the long hallway…using a grouping of jewel tone colors, the glass bridge becomes a kaleidoscope to look through at our surrounding environment, as the colors change throughout the day along with the ever-changing skies. At night the piece will glow from within for all to see.”


Join us on June 4, 2023, for an opening reception and Pride Month celebration! 


Introducing: Foreland Presents

Foreland Presents is our rotating series of artist commissions, public exhibitions, performances, events, and workshops operating around the heart of Foreland's Studio Community. Curated by Jesse Greenberg, Foreland Presents currently has four main exhibition series: The Glass Bridge, The Sculpture Pad, The Tower Stairs Series, and the Greater Valley Artists Series. Each series takes advantage of a specific architectural feature or location within Foreland’s historic industrial buildings. This approach provides artists with a distinct and unconventional platform to showcase their work, and does so in direct relationship with the architecture and infrastructure of the Foreland Campus.

The Glass Bridge: Rachel B. Hayes, Tomorrow is for You and Me
Rachel B Hayes kicks off our Glass Bridge series, using sheer mosaicked fabrics appearing like flowing soft stained glass to transform our pedestrian skyway into a public viewing vitrine.

The Sculpture Pad: Chris Bogia, Candle
As part of our rotating outdoor sculpture series, Foreland presents Chris Bogia’s Candle. Commissioned by the Lighthouse Works where it was previously on display for a year on Fishers Island.

The Tower Stairs: Maria Antelman and Landon Metz Housed in our six story grand stairwell, a specialized speaker system dedicated to sonic based artists, will feature a looping selection of works by Maria Antelman, Landon Metz and more.

Greater Valley Artists: Carter Hodgkin, Dither Series
This quarterly series works as a revolving open call to artists based in Greene & Columbia counties, serving to highlight the rich population of artists in this vast region. 

Based in Coxsackie, NY, Carter Hodgkin fuses art, science and technology to explore a new language of abstraction. Approaching the modification of code as a drawing tool, she generates atomic particle collisions to create animated forms which visualize energy. Her working process is an interplay between digital means woven into traditional media with an emphasis on the hand. She utilizes a range of media from animation and programming to drawings, paintings and large-scale mosaics.

Foreland Presents

Foreland Studio Artists Group Show

March 18th through April 16th, 2023, an exhibition of works by the studio artists at Foreland.

Opening reception March 18, 2023 from 5-8pm at 111 Water Street, Catskill, NY. On view every Saturday & Sunday from 11am-5pm. 

This exhibition is organized by Tania Alvarez and curated by Jesse Greenberg.

I MISS THE FUTURE

 (New York, NY) group show I MISS THE FUTURE features works by 

Maria Antelman, Justin Chance, Paul Gabrielli, Ben Godward, Joseph Heidecker, Michelle Lopez, LoVid, Brice Marden, Lucas Michael, Bob Mizer, Liz Nielsen, Jeremy Olson, Geof Oppenheimer, Matthew Porter, Letitia Quesenberry, Shoplifter, João Trevisan. 

The future is not as good as it used to be

Monorails above the city all of us love to ride

Tiny pills that you pop in your mouth with a sixteen-inch pizza inside

Jet-powered packs that you strap on your back and zip up into the sky

Picture telephones that let you look at to whom you are talking

Moving sidewalks take you to work so you don’t have to do any walking

Landing pads upon your roof for convenient hovercraft docking

Twenty-hour work weeks and everybody’s speaking esperanto

International worldwide government solving problems pronto

Colonies upon the moon and underwater condos

— The Tinklers, The Future/Dinosaurs Are Getting Better, 1991

Opening Reception Saturday April 29, 2023 5-8pm

Public hours Saturday and Sundays 11am-5pm through May 28, 2023.

Carolyn Salas at Foreland

Carolyn Salas 

Public sculpture on view: Carolyn Salas' "Tippy Toes", 2021. On view at Foreland through November, available to be viewed by the public on Foreland's waterfront sculpture pads.

Water Jet Cut and Powder-Coated Aluminum78 x 30 x 54 1/4 inches
198.1 x 76.2 x 137.8 cm
Dimensions Variable
Base: 15 x 54 x 30 inches
38.1 x 137.16 x 76.2 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 AP

Opening reception Saturday, October 15th 5:30-7:30

Followed by Foreland's Season Closing Party from 7:30pm-10pm. Including karaoke, dancing, drinks, yummy bites, and much more all in our beautiful 5th floor event space! Free and open to the public. RSVP required, email gallery@forelandcatskill.com for more information and to RSVP.

Here Goes by Theodore Sefcik

Here Goes

JAG Projects is pleased to present a selection of new videos by Theodore Sefcik. To create his video works, Sefcik begins by hand drawing all of his characters and scene elements using an unusual collection of mostly obsolete and vintage software.

Movement is a core element of Sefcik’s artistic vision. Sometimes the scene elements, including animals, humanoids, and inscrutable organic and geometric forms are directly controlled by Sefcik like marionettes. Other times, Sefcik provides his creations with their own methods of locomotion, and allows them to independently waddle, crawl and tumble under their own power using a system of invisible pins, gears and levers.

Sefcik painstakingly selects and edits his favorite scenes and deploys them onto scavenged and refurbished LCD monitors which are each paired with a customized minicomputer video unit to display these choreographed scenes of mirth, mayhem and grace.

Sometimes, a scene will last for an hour, sometimes only a few seconds. The length of time is not as important as whether a certain emotion has been captured and it’s story has been told. Sefcik believes that some stories can only be told by watching a 5 second loop on repeat.

Public hours Saturdays and Sundays 11am-5pm through Novemeber 20th. 

Opening reception Saturday, October 15th, 5:30pm-7:30pm 

With works by David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides

, a group show curated by Jesse Greenberg. Showcasing the works of David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides. With a focus revolving around forms and systems shared between nature and tools of observation.

David Brooks two aluminum cast renderings made from scanned drone footage of now deforested spots in the rainforest reveal tufts of tree tops and lumbering facilities emerging from a spill of aluminum presented on the floor like a memorial plaque.

Nathaniel De Large paper pulp wryley forms, seem like branches. Expressive and reaching, actually double as crude Augmented Reality Phone Cases. When attached to your phone, their branches reach into your camera frame, placing his art in any scene.

Matthew Fischer’s stained glass and oil on panel structures take the sun drenched light of the gallery, refracted through each other and through the room. Framing light and color, harping on musical ouvres, these works suspend something holy yet under identifiable proportions.

Russel Tylers serial formatic paintings look like film stills of a movie about stained glass. Each similar in their system and structure exist in their own harmony of hand, color, and proportional compositions, that could seemingly have endless iterations.

Susan Wides's “Arachnoid” photographic series of extreme close-ups of spider webs intermingled with the camera's internal lens flares and spectral trails present a tiny world where the physical, atomic, and macro all fold into their own indistinguishable field of abstract structures.

Public hours Saturdays and Sundays 11am-5pm through November 20th. 

Presenting works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Luí Lázaro, Meg Lipke, and Claude Viallat.

Document Gallery at Foreland

Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Luís Lázaro Matos, Meg Lipke, & Claude Viallat

Document Gallery (Chicago, IL) will be presenting works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Luí Lázaro, Meg Lipke, and Claude Viallat at Foreland. 

Presented by Bortolami Gallery at Foreland

Now Still Then, Robert Bordo

now still then

On view October 15th - November 20th, 2022. Public hours Saturday and Sunday, 11am-5pm.

Opening reception Saturday October 15th, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

Robert Bordo’s solo exhibition at Foreland, 

 presents two bodies of work; a series of new paintings entitled 

 (French for fireflies) alongside a survey of postcard paintings (2000-2022). Bordo has lived and worked in upstate New York since the early 2000s, where the bucolic environs, artistic community, and weekly commute from the city has provided fodder for his painting.

 revisit a motif from Bordo’s earlier works 

 paintings from 1989-91. As a young painter, he was drawn to conceptual and land artists like Robert Smithson and Richard Long, whose work was landscape-driven, ambulatory and often ephemeral. The early paintings are blue, monochromatic canvases embedded with Timberland boot prints and emerged when the lives of many, and especially gay, communities, were dominated by AIDS. Darkly humorous, quirky, and meandering, the early and recent paintings refer to the body and the landscape it traverses. The monochrome appears as a Modernist trope, but is queered in Bordo’s allusions to cruising and tight denim jeans. 

The postcard paintings began in 2000, when Bordo happened upon a box of postcards in his mother’s home after her death. He began pinning the images to his studio wall, utilizing the arrangements as a source of composition as well as a site for metaphor. The postcards in his paintings depict actual landscapes as well as imaginary ones, evoking a nostalgia for far-flung places of the past and future. Critic and curator Peter Eeley has described the postcard paintings as remaking pictures in paint and “an appropriate model for the ways in which we archive and recall images.” Earlier examples such as 

 emphasize a luminous background, while the most recent 

 is a dense lush puzzle of images, composed in a time when the landscapes depicted were out of reach.

Robert Bordo (b.1949, Montreal) has lived in New York since 1972. He was an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, New York, where he led the painting program from 1996 until 2017. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include The National Exemplar, New York, NY; Bortolami, New York, NY; The Suburban, Oak Park, IL; Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York, NY. His paintings have been featured in exhibitions at The Kitchen; MoMA PS1; the Brooklyn Museum; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Omaha; the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel; Artists Space, New York; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Drawing Center. His work is held in the collections of SFMoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Blanton Museum of Art among others. Bordo has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, fellowships, and residencies including PRAKSIS Oslo, the Robert de Niro Sr. Painting Prize, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Canada Council Arts Grants, the Tesuque Foundation Arts Fellowship Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Talking Back: Artists of the Columbia Collective

Foreland and the Juvenile Justice Arts and Media Network are pleased to present 

, a group exhibition channeling creativity as a form of agency, humor as insurgence, and joy as resistance within the juvenile justice system. Curated by Sofia Thieu, 

 features new site-specific works from the 

: a multimedia group of young female and trans artists named after their previous facility, the New York Department of Corrections’ Columbia Secure Center for Girls in Claverack, New York. The Collective is now incarcerated at the maximum Brookwood Secure Center for Youth down the street, constructed in 1983 as one of eleven state juvenile facilities operated by the Office of Children and Family Services, and where individuals under 16 have been sentenced in adult criminal court.


Under the arts programming and mentorship of artist Maggie Hazen, the 

 was founded in 2019. Since then, the Collective—comprised of artists Jay, Juste-A, and Marshmallow—has turned to dynamic artistic practices to navigate their circumstances of incarceration. Taking its title from bell hooks’ 1989 novel, 

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

, the exhibition explores defiant speech and the gallery space as a platform to “talk back” against a carceral system that silences these artists’ voices.


For more information on The Columbia Collective, visit 

On view September 3-25, 2022, public hours every Saturday and Sunday from 11am-5pm. 

Opening reception Saturday September 3, 2022, 5pm-7pm. 

Please join us for an artist talk and panel discussion with 

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

, focusing on the intersections of cultural and carceral systems, tapping our prison history archives, the crisis of youth incarceration, and visions of a decarcerated future. How do we identify modes of abolition and advocacy, create critical projects, and identify the reaches of our prison industrial complex? Following artist presentations and discussion there will be Q&A session with panelists and Columbia Collective founder Maggie Hazen. 

This event is free and open to the public.

spent ten years in a Pennsylvania prison. His cell served as a workspace where he made thousands of paintings and drawings. Mark’s portrait series, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study Of Mass Incarceration, is a series of over 800 drawings of his fellow prisoners. He was released from prison in July 2022. Loughney showed a major installation of work in the MoMA PS1 exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration curated by 

 is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator and founder of 

, a transmedia project that collects and tells the stories of ‘incorrigible’ girls in the United States over the last 100 years—beginning with New York State. Drawing on the personal narratives of young women in “the system” the project investigates the history and present state of youth justice and social services for girls and gathers information from archival documents related to the New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1975). Incorrigibles is seeking to expand research to include all state-run youth detention centers for girls in the US – recording and sharing accounts of women alive today who were confined in these institutions. The project organizes intergenerational community engagement events with young women and the public to encourage critical analysis around youth detention and behavioral intervention.

Chicane: New Work by Henri P. Broyard

Henri P. Broyard Artist Talk and Book Launch! Plus: Studio Tour & Cocktail Reception! 


Join us for an artist talk about "CHICANE", new paintings by Henri P. Broyard, followed by a tour and cocktail hour in Henri's studio. This event will offer a behind-the-scences glimpse of the Foreland studios! 

In conjunction with the artist talk and studio visit, Brooklyn based publisher Last and Least Studio will be releasing a new book of Broyard's work titled "Solitaire", available for purchase in person, signed by Broyard. The book focuses on Broyard's work during recent years and includes paintings, small studies and reference photography. "Solitaire" is a limited edition of 250. The books will be available for purchase online, Sunday 9/25 8am EST. 

This event is free and open to the public. Please arrive at the Foreland Galleries by 5pm. Punctuality is required! 

, a solo exhibition of new work by Henri P. Broyard, on view from August 6–September 25, 2022. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, 11am-5pm. 

Broyard is the awardee of the 2022 Foreland Fellowship, and was selected from a highly competitive group of nearly 100 applicants by a panel including Ebony Haynes (Director, 52 Walker) and Ruba Katrib (Senior Curator, MoMA) to receive a 1,000 square foot studio space at Foreland for six months. The exhibition is organized by Georgia Wright and will be on view in Foreland's galleries at 111 Water Street.

A wilid fete- creative cocktails, site-specific installations, and an immersive DJ performance.

Foreland Artist Party 2022

Foreland Artist Party

On Saturday July, 23rd, 2022 Foreland hosted the Foreland Artist Party--a wild fête that featured creative cocktails, site-specific installations, and an immersive DJ performance by Tschabalala Self and Mike Mosby.


The Foreland Artist Party was co-hosted by 

 and celebrated our vibrant artist community: 

Lyle Ashton Harris, Sky Hopinka, Nicole Cherubini, Maggie Hazen, Marc Swanson, Steve Locke, Laleh Khorramian, Zia Anger, Caitlin MacBride, Henri Broyard, Theo Anthony, R.B. Schlather, Samantha Bittman, Padma Rajendran, Sam Vernon, Chris Keating, Clair Catillaz, Monica Mirabile, Kathryn Lynch, Julia Weist, Susan Lisbin, Tomaz Capobianco, Heather Bursch, Tania Alvarez, Corinne May Botz, Paul Woolf Boettiger, Amanda C. Mathis, and Beka Goedde.

 Proceeds from the event contributed to Foreland’s ongoing initiatives, such as the 

Upstate Art Weekend 2022 | Foreland

Upstate Art Weekend 

JULY 22nd, 2pm-6pm, JULY 23rd & 24th, 11am-6pm in 361 Main and 111 Water St, Catskill.

Foreland is thrilled to participate in another year of Upstate Art Weekend! Our programming for the weekend of July 22-24, 2022, will include four concurrent exhibitions by some of the most prolific programs in contemporary art: DOCUMENT, New Discretions, SITUATIONS, and JAG Projects. 

Our three galleries in 111 Water Street as well as our Main Street gallery located at 361 Main Street will be hung with dozens of artists we here at Foreland have long admired. Food will be served by Atelier Ku-Ki in the 125 Water Street parking lot from 12pm-5pm on July 23 and 24, 2022.

Join us for our Foreland Artist Party on the night of July 24th to celebrate our vibrant Foreland artist community and Upstate Art Weekend! More information can be found 

presented by Document, Situations, New Discretions, and JAG Projects.

Foreland Gallery July Exhibitions

FGC July Exhibitions

Foreland is pleased to host a dynamic roster of exhibitions from a selection of four contemporary galleries for the month of July: Document (Chicago, IL), Situations (New York, NY), New Discretions (New York, NY) and JAG Projects (Hudson, NY). Each will have concurrent month-long residencies in the 3 gallery spaces, 4,000 square feet in all, and the Main Street gallery (an additional 2,000SF) within Foreland’s historic campus on the banks of Catskill Creek. 

The Foreland Gallery Coalition (FGC) is by invitation, with the goal of low risk, high reward for exhibition programs and dealers occupying Foreland's gallery spaces for temporary exhibitions bi-yearly.

Opening Reception July 1st, 5-7pm. Gallery hours are Saturdays & Sundays, 11am-6pm, through July 24th. Appointment available via individual gallery members.

Artists on view are Natalja Kent (SITUATIONS); Hans Bellmer, Felix Beaudry, E.V. Day, Aneta Grzeszyowska, Gordon Hall, Christina Kruse, Greer Lankton, Yeni Mao, David Anaya Maya, Douglas Rieger, Heidi Schwegler, Paul Shore, Vincent Tiley, Marianne Vitale, and Harley Weir (New Discretions); Anneke Eussen, Laura Letinsky, John Opera and Kazuhito Tanaka (DOCUMENT); Carrie Rudd, Rebecca Watson Horn, Ever Baldwin, Zoe Argires, Willa Wasserman and Theodore Sefcik (JAG Projects). 

The Moving Picture Show

 is a group exhibition of work by 10 media artists who embrace and challenge the conventional uses of video, creating work that is formally innovative, conceptually rigorous and politically significant. Rooted in the moving image, this assembly includes video installation, video sculpture and single channel video, all by artists who make their home in the Hudson Valley. 

Themes of landscape and history, human interaction with both natural and synthetic plant life, hacking of video games and techniques of animation are explored. Works in 

 celebrate the camaraderie of shared creative principles but are also unflinching in their social critique. 

The exhibition features pieces made during and in response to the pandemic confinement as well as work preceding this period. Participating artists include: Ephraim Asili, Cecilia Aldarondo, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger)*, Goss&Gitlin, Maggie Hazen, Laleh Khorramian, Les LeVeque, Keith Sanborn and Carolee Schneemann. 

Open hours are Saturday & Sunday from 3-7pm. THE GALLERIES ARE CLOSED SATURDAY MARCH 12TH DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!

An opening reception for the artists will be held on February 19th from 5-7pm.

Upcoming additional programming includes: Live music from artist Ephraim Asili & Norman The Poet, March 13th at 7pm.

This event, a listening party for the Measuring Time vinyl EP and a live music set featuring Ephraim Asili on Electronic devices and Norman Douglas reading poems, is a celebration of the publication of Ephraim Asili's book/vinyl record Measuring Time. A limited number of copies will be for sale at the gallery.

Ephraim Asili’s artist book Measuring Time (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2021) is a collection of Polaroid portraits depicting independent and avant-garde film luminaries and traces the freeform way Asili documents the people and places that have marked the recent years of his life. Included with the book is a 7 inch vinyl record Addendum of the artist's Hip Hop inspired audio journal recordings. A uniquely poetic work in its own right, the book and record document the expansive cosmos around Asili's critically important films

*eteam collaborated with the following artists for their work in the 

 Miguel Gutierrez, Ama Birch, Jean Carla, Sheryl Cheung, Nick Flynn, Guy Barash, Kathleen Supové, Albrecht, Enrique Maitland, Bobby Previte, Sonia Calico, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Temple Rat, Marianne Shaneen & Zach Layton

Foreland Fellowship

The Foreland Fellowship provides a free 1,000 square foot studio at Foreland to an exceptional artist who identifies as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI or as a person of color. Foreland acknowledges that structural barriers exist to make participation in the art world more difficult for artists of color. We are striving to develop a community that looks like the world we want to live in: strongly diverse, mutually supportive and culturally significant. The Fellowship studio is located within our campus comprised of 31 artist studios, exhibition spaces, event spaces and a café. In addition to the studio, this fellowship includes professional development opportunities such as studio visits with curators and/or galleries; exposure to the network of prestigious artists who base their studio practice at Foreland; and access to Foreland’s ancillary initiatives including events, programs, fairs, and exhibitions. **Please note that this opportunity does not include housing or supplemental funding.**

The Fellowship runs from June 1 to November 30, 2022.

-Applicants must identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI or as a person of color

-Applicants should live full or part-time within 60 miles of Catskill, NY, or be willing to relocate near the opportunity for the timeline awarded. (Housing is not included with the Fellowship.)

-Students are not eligible for the Fellowship

-Artists working in any visual medium may apply

-Artists who have a sustained practice of working in a collaborative partnership of up to two people may apply together (please submit a single application)

The Fellow will receive a free 1,000 square foot studio for six months from June 1 to November 30, 2022. The studio is fully private, with multiple windows, fiber optic internet, a utility sink and individual temperature control.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel including Ebony Haynes, Director of 52 Walker Street, and Ruba Katrib, Curator at MoMA PS1.

All applicants informed of their status: by March 15, 2022

Fellowship period: June 1 to November 30, 2022

Virginia Overton's Untitled (Cardinal C-80)

Untitled (Cardinal C-80)

Foreland is thrilled to present Virginia Overton's monumental sculpture, 

 is available for public view every Saturday and Sunday from 9am-6pm, October 14th, 2021 through February 28th, 2022. 

Virginia Overton was born in Nashville, Tennessee and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She creates sculpture and installation repurposing materials commonly associated with factories, farms and construction. By means of both subtle and drastic interventions, Overton re-contextualizes these ordinary objects revealing their intrinsic properties which highlights the wear accrued by passing time.

 sculpture consists of a white steel frame, previously used as a forklift glass transport rack stood on end. Within each of its many recesses Overton has fit white marble, cut carefully to size. The white monochrome has striations of grey in the marble and rust colored oxidation on the surface of the steel. The muscular structure bends outward in an L-shape, reminiscent of a screen divider, usually made of lightweight materials like paper and wood. The artwork is titled in a direct fashion, noting an industrial stencil stamped on the edge of its frame: “Cardinal C-80.”

Current

"Discover the Potential"

Lamps By Chris Beeston

Adam Parker Smith

Cupid Triumphant, 2022

Chris Bogia

Candle, 2022

Glass Bridge Series: Rachel B. Hayes

Foreland Presents

Introducing: Foreland Presents

Past

NADA Foreland

July 21-23 2023

Space End

Foreland Studio Artists Group Show

I MISS THE FUTURE

Carolyn Salas

Here Goes

Foreland Presents

Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Luís Lázaro Matos, Meg Lipke, & Claude Viallat

now still then

Talking Back: Artists of the Columbia Collective

Chicane: New Work by Henri P. Broyard

Foreland Artist Party

Upstate Art Weekend

FGC July Exhibitions

The Moving Picture Show

Foreland Fellowship

Virginia Overton

Untitled (Cardinal C-80)

Space is the Place

Foreland Launch Party

NADA x Foreland

Rachel Uffner Gallery and Mrs.

ART + NATURE + HOME

It’s Necessary to Talk About Trees

Alika Cooper & Madeleine Hines

Foreland Pride Lawn Party

Laughing Upon the Stretch of a Swooping Line