NADA Foreland

NADA is now accepting proposals for participation in a collaborative weekend exhibition at Foreland, featuring artwork installed in Foreland’s historic industrial buildings in the center of Catskill, New York.

In partnership with 

, this exhibition will highlight artworks from NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits, and artists, with a focus on artists working within the Upstate New York region.

In addition to NADA Foreland, we are pleased to announce the NADA Foreland Community Market. Participants can apply for space in an artist’s flea setting, to feature book sellers and publishers, art editions, objects, clothing, furniture, antiques and more.


Exhibition Dates: July 21–23, 2023.

The NADA Foreland application is open to galleries, nonprofits, and art spaces. Applicants will be notified with decisions by May 5, 2023. ALL applications must go through NADA directly.



Apply Now to NADA Foreland Community Market

Upstate Art Weekend 2023

Glass Bridge Series: Rachel B. Hayes

This June, 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! 

Foreland Pride Lawn Party

Join us on Sunday, June 4, 2023 from 11am to 6pm on the Foreland Waterfront Lawn for a day of Pride Month celebrations! 

, music, lawn games, a bounce house for the kids, and more! 

Along with pride celebrations, please join us for the opening reception of 

 and the launch of our Glass Bridge Series with an inaugural site-specific installation by the Oklahoma-based fiber and textile artist Rachel B. Hayes! 

In our galleries, exhibitions by Maddy Talias and Bennett Wood, respectively.

Free and open to the public, all are welcome. Kids and dogs included! All queer families and allies of our queer community are encouraged to come. 

Limited parking is available on site. No RSVP is required. Alcohol is available by purchase. 

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 Hodgkins, 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. We will launch this

Foreland Presents

Laughing Upon the Stretch of a Swooping Line

For the gallery’s second presentation at Foreland, 

 (Cleveland, OH) will exhibit the work of interdisciplinary artist, Benedict Scheuer. His introspective drawings invite us to witness his ongoing mental and spiritual exploration; through a unique visual language, glimpses of understanding and belonging emerge. His drawings on silk will be hung freeform on the gallery walls complimented by framed drawings on paper. With a heightened sensitivity and focus on line, these pieces include motifs from the gardens that he tends, his meditative practice and the birds that have become a signature of his work. These lines transform symbol into a personal spirituality that is as vibrant and lyrical as it is raw and improvisational.

Scheuer lives and works in Columbus, OH. He received his BA from Yale in Environmental Studies, and his MFA from The Ohio State University. Recently, he was an exhibiting artist in FRONT International at the Akron Art Museum. Other exhibitions include No Place Gallery (Columbus), the Pizutti Collection (Columbus), and the Belle Isle Viewing Room (Detroit).

The exhibition title comes from a journal entry in which Scheuer describes a recent day working in the studio. “…The silk feels radiant, powerful, wise—not contrived, earnest, gentle, kind. Quietly confident. As I came to it from a morning spent in dedication to its birth, I began with an idea of what it may become. However, as I began to draw, a vision of succinct clarity and directness began to float as a ghost between my eyes and the taut silk. At first, I questioned it. This feels unfamiliar. Perhaps a trick. That which would take me astray. I felt taken aback. In disbelief. Yet, the vision compelled something within me to follow it. I have been practicing an openness to the miracle of drawing—this was a force beyond my understanding. And, as I followed it, I fell in love with it. Laughing upon the stretch of a swooping line. Smiling. Experience of bliss, confidence, excitement." -Benedict Scheuer

Opening Reception Saturday April 29, 2023 5-8pm

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

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

Alika Cooper & Madeleine Hines

There is something surreal in manholes. In the literal sense of the French word surreal: manholes put us in touch with the “over-real,” forming a passage to that strange otherness of a reality in excess of our conscious awareness. The strange underground passageways of the real beneath the surface would remain indiscernible to the ordinary attitude of perception and the self-certainty of consciousness; however, the work creates a gateway between the waking life of the self and the intuitive “over-real” disclosed by a poetic consciousness. The surreal manholes constitute an opening between the human subject and the abyss of sensuousness and feeling that exceeds our conscious awareness. And yet, one would have to free the concept from the tradition of Breton’s surrealism; the manholes do not inhabit the dreamlike unconscious state of a psychologically isolated human nature, rather, they are orifices attuned to the constraints of the environment. The intestinal serpentine coils conjure a surreal unconscious ecology in which the human is existentially enmeshed.

Madeleine Ray Hines’ high heel paintings simultaneously evoke a scarcity of fulfillment and a critique of luxury. There is a weariness lurking in the faded beauty of high end shoes meant to elevate the wearer both in height and social status. We perceive an owner who capitulates to the canon of received femininity while inviting us to experience the melancholy engendered by her capitulation. By presenting a sole centric view, Hines allows the viewer to construct a narrative connected to the usage and life of the shoe. Lurking under these images is a scent of privilege, the theater of desire, and the lethal weaponry of the stiletto heel. High heels remain a weapon in the charade of sexuality employed by both marginalized people creating their own narratives and the mainstream consumer, connoting freedom for some and constriction for others. A  painting of fetishized Christian Louboutin red soled heels offers a frozen trope akin to the economy of a Birkin bag. Both are trophies that must be won and indicate an advanced position in the hierarchy of commodified female signifiers. Thankfully, most of the shoes in Hines’ paintings are scuffed up and had a full life, providing a viewpoint through which beauty and consumerism can be contemplated. -Text by Jo Shane

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.

Candle, 2022

"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

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 

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.

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.

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

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.

presenting works by Caitlin MacBride and Dominic Palarchio at Foreland

Reading and Making | Abattoir Gallery

Abattoir, "Reading and Making"

Abattoir at Foreland, Catskill, NY
August 6-28, 2022 

Friday-Sunday 11am-5pm and additional hours Monday-Thursday by appointment only. This exhibition is managed by Abattoir gallery, appointment and sales inquiries can be directed to 

Caitlin MacBride / Dominic Palarchio: Reading and Making For the gallery’s initial presentation in the Hudson Valley, Abattoir is excited to exhibit paintings by Caitlin MacBride and sculptures by Dominic Palarchio, two artists whose work is shaped significantly by their experience and research around labor and craft. Palarchio’s practice applies metonymy to locate where hardship lies, reminding us of economy and place–and the inevitability of our relationship with them. His work emanates from Detroit’s post-industrial condition; many of his sculptures rely on classed sources to replicate the tangible and affective efforts that define their utility. Palarchio is interested in how objects—imbued with evidence of prior ownership— evoke working conditions as inhospitable
systems that negatively shape lives lived beyond the workplace. 

MacBride studies the handmade objects and histories of the Shaker communities in the Northeast, sects which held work and workmanship
sacred to their religious worship. The parity of the sexes and independence of women featured prominently in the Shaker belief system. MacBride’s oil paintings on panel and canvas examine these histories in
works that vibrate with mystery and literary intelligence.

Palarchio and MacBride have both exhibited with Abattoir in the past; Palarchio as part of this summer’s FRONT International in Cleveland: MacBride at the gallery’s NADA Miami presentation last winter.

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

Painting People Class

Foreland is pleased to announce its first educational offering, a class called “Painting People” taught by artist Caitlin MacBride, a studio tenant within the Foreland campus. This class is open to grade school students above the age of 12, college students and adults interested in art. There is no charge for the class and all supplies are included.

Participants are asked to attend 3 of the 4 classes, minimum. If you are interested but unsure if you will be able to attend, please refrain from registering, as space is limited to 15 students.

“Painting People” will cover the basics of proportion, color mixing, and painting methods using a fun, experimental approach. Participants will work with acrylic paint and will learn about a variety of techniques and approaches including realistic, surrealist and cubist styles. Students will learn to use both observation and imagination to create a portfolio of portraits. The class will culminate with an exhibition reception showcasing participants' work in the Foreland galleries.

 to register yourself or your child before December 15, 2021.

Masks will be required for all participants.

Caitlin MacBride is an artist and educator who received her MFA in painting at Bard College and her BFA from RISD. MacBride has taught students of all ages at Abrons Arts Center, Rutgers University, Bard College, University of Tennessee, Brooklyn College Community Program, Tyler School Of Art, and public schools in 4 of the 5 boroughs of NYC. She has exhibited her work at Fisher Parrish, Heroes Gallery, Chapter NY, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Zach Feuer, Jack Barrett Gallery, Hesse Flatow and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein among other venues. Her work has been written about in 

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.”

To view the sculpture, park at 111 Water Street and walk north along the waterfront towards the artwork, situated between our buildings at 111 and 125 Water Street. Parking is free, there's no cost to visit and reservations are not required. Additional winter hours may be available based on visitor demand. Please subscribe to our emails and follow our Instagram at @Forelandcatskill to stay abreast of changes in public viewing hours.

Virginia Overton

Space is the Place | Reggie Madison

Space is the Place

 is curated by Mike Mosby. For this one-day event, artist Reggie Madison will be joined by three jazz musicians playing a Sun Ra inspired composite at Foreland. Madison has been deeply inspired by jazz from the beginning of his artistic career. 

 allows audiences the unique opportunity to see Madison's work in relation to the artform that he holds so dear.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941 artist Reggie Madison was greatly influenced by his parents’ love of jazz. The Madisons would often visit Club DeLisa in Chicago and were particularly fond of one musician named Herman Blunt, who Reggie would later know to be Sun Ra. As a child, Reggie would make frequent trips with his family to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Despite the Madison's love of arts, there were no paintings in their family home beside a lone drawing by Charles White, his aunt's schoolmate. Madison's first exhibition was in 1970 in a downtown storefront in Chicago and he later studied independently in Paris, Venice and Copenhagen. Eventually Madison settled in New York, first at a Greenwich Village studio and later in the Hudson Valley where he now calls home. Reggie Madison's work has been exhibited internationally and resides in both private and public collections both domestically and abroad.

's jazz trio is comprised of Anthony Ware, saxophonist and composer; Eric Wheeler, jazz bassist; and Jerome Jennings, drummer. All three performers have had extensive and inspiring careers that feature touring, recording, education and activism.

are $10 which will be collected at the door (cash or Venmo) and include drinks provided courtesy of Left Bank Ciders. Foreland will donate a ticket to a student in Greene County for every ticket purchased. A special food pop from Seafood Steamery will take place on Foreland's waterfront on the day of the event from 1-9pm. 

Foreland Launch Party

On August 28th we celebrated the official launch of Foreland after nearly half a decade of development. Under the watchful gaze of two inflatable queer lovers, we toasted to creating an art world that we want to live in: one filled with joy, generosity, hard work and Jell-O shots. At Foreland we believe that rigorous, culturally significant creativity doesn't require the sacrifice of space and light and natural beauty. With that in mind, we danced on the waterfront late into the night, alongside a Caravaggio model atop a Felix Gonzalez-Torres inspired platform. This party was the manifestation of weird ideas hatched once the dust and noise of the construction site settled. It was wild. It was the art party that we'd always wanted to go to.

Current

Foreland Presents

Introducing: Foreland Presents

Alika Cooper & Madeleine Hines

Chris Bogia

Candle, 2022

Upcoming

Upstate Art Weekend 2023

NADA Foreland

Glass Bridge Series: Rachel B. Hayes

Foreland Pride Lawn Party

Past

Laughing Upon the Stretch of a Swooping Line

I MISS THE FUTURE

Foreland Studio Artists Group Show

Here Goes

Foreland Presents

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

now still then

Carolyn Salas

Talking Back: Artists of the Columbia Collective

Chicane: New Work by Henri P. Broyard

Abattoir, "Reading and Making"

Foreland Artist Party

Upstate Art Weekend

FGC July Exhibitions

The Moving Picture Show

Painting People Class

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