A closing reception of Works on Paper by Alastair Gordon, with an artist’s talk at 7pm. Gordon’s work involves simple markings with ink and (sometimes) gouache, a kind of long-hand calligraphy, without words. The process is slow, repetitive and contemplative. What begins as a written text, might turn into an abstract “emergence”. The larger pieces take several months to complete.
The FarNear is a durational performance exploring intimacy through reading, writing, and shared authorship. Tethered to each other by a 25-foot clothesline, the artists send edible notes back and forth, creating and consuming poems that transform language into physical points of connection and separation. Drawing from love letters between women artists and writers, the piece invites reflection on how intimacy and boundaries evolve, reshaping identities, words, and space in an ongoing dialogue.
Like the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi, Adam Lovitz, Stuart Shils, and Misha Wyllie issue pronouncements – via visual utterances – that open into the spacious and unfamiliar. Hear from the artists, as they guide us through the work. “The Delphic” is the first exhibition at The Ruffed Grouse Gallery for these three Philadelphia-based artists and features new paintings, ceramics, and works on paper.
Ways of Getting There is an immersive sound installation featuring music by Baxter Ellard and Solomon Hendrix. Exploring patterns of growth and evolution across organic and inorganic systems, this piece invites reflection on how human structures—emotional, cultural, political, and social—mirror the same cycles of change found in ecosystems, environments, and stars.
This piece will play on a continuous loop throughout Saturday and Sunday. We invite you to step into the experience, interact with the sound, and inhabit a space designed in collaboration with Susan Mendoza of the Chi Hive, featuring contributions from other local artists.
Part of Deep Water Lab, an initiative supporting local early career artists.
“100 Pink Smoke flares (twice)”, by Raphaele Shirley is an ephemeral installation created with 200 pink smoke signal flares. The flares, lit simultaneously, build a wall of smoke that temporarily masks the landscape behind it. This ephemeral mass of color marks the appearance and disappearance of natural and urban settings as they are transformed my man’s hand. “100 Pink Smoke flares (twice)”, offers a reflection on nature’s beauty and timelessness, landscapes in distress, as well as it underlines their state of emergency in our current age of Anthropocene. The artwork oscillates between abstraction and figuration referring to romantic era landscape paintings and minimalistic language simultaneously. A musical procession leads viewers to the site before the remotely triggered flares ignite. From this initial gathering through the smoke’s final dispersal, the complete experience unfolds over 30-40 minutes.
In association with Catskill Art Space.
David Dann’s “The Clock” explores time’s irreversible march toward an existential terminus. A functional wooden clock, its hands turning backward and forward, anchors the work, flanked by Rodin-inspired figures (Adam and Eve) and a drive weight shaped like the forbidden apple. Twelve framed Hours—short stories spanning a century—line the walls, tracing a universal protagonist’s journey. Inspired by Howard Pyle’s The Wonder Clock and a family heirloom, the paused mechanism invites reflection on metamorphosis as both rupture and reckoning. Wine will be served.
In association with Catskill Art Space.
“The garden is a metaphor – the garden brings hope, life, dreams met, dreams lost…essentially transcendence” MayerWasner will host a group show, over the course of the festival of three remarkable textile artists; Rebecca Levi, Jann Chefitz and Christi Johnson, curated by Pam Mayer.
Jann Cheifitz found salvation during covid when the world was unraveling by stitching together loose threads into fantastical security blankets, to ward of despair, offer a sense of perseverance and hope. Christi Johnson is a stitch sorceress, imbuing her work with symbolism and meaning, turning to the celestial bodies for inspiration and as a partner in the creative process. Rebecca Levi’s Flower Beards series uses traditional flower motifs of embroidery, knotted with blooms, colors and petals to create utopian stitched portraits that explore queer identity and gender expression.
The show will run all weekend, with a cocktail viewing on Friday 6/21 from 5pm.
“At the End of the Apocalypse, We Fruit,” is an audiovisual installation exploring how mythology and story shape our relationship to self, landscape, and the earth. Interdisciplinary artist and environmental scientist Willow Gatewood brings you on a journey with story, song, visuals, and music made in collaboration with plants and fungi through a process called biopsonification. How do we reclaim hope for the future from classical narratives of shame, isolation, end? How do we relate to our bodies and the other life around us?