Grace Knowlton

BUILDING BLOCKS
Several pieces, up to 8' x 2'x 3' each (approx)
Iron, rusted
2005

These pieces were made from styrofoam, with student help, at Louisiana State University where I taught for a term. We staged an Iron Pour on campus, at night, which was very dramatic and exciting!

Grace Knowlton
845.359.4737
graceknowlton@earthlink.net

www.graceknowltonart.com

Kirsten Kucer

BRAIDING THE HILLSIDE
99ft x 46 ft
Field Grasses
2007

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Much of my work concerns itself with uncovering and then bringing to light objects, forms and ideas that have been quieted. Samuel Beckett said, “I make a play to find out what it is about.” I have followed in his footsteps, and I have responded to this hillside in the same manner. Thoughts and feelings of slavery, field workers, searing heat and back pain, tending, nurturing, discouragement, disappointment, and handiwork passed through me as I worked hour after hour, day after day. And towards the end, the biggest feeling was a complete surprise.

kkucer@optonline.net

Kevin Laverty

NEST
12' X 4'
Chrome coated steel rods, re-bar, wood, stones, lag screws, acrylic paint.
2007

My work is ostensibly inspired by landscape, although my focus is not
a representational depiction of nature. Implicit in my work is the
impact that science has had upon our perception of nature. Of equal
importance to my work is the experience of directly encountering the
natural world.

Kevin Laverty
307 East 84th Street #5RW
New York NY 10028
646.249.4164
kevinlaverty@mac.com

http://www.KevinLaverty.com

Eric Laxman

STANDING WAVE
156"H X 30"W X 30"D
Steel and Stainless Steel
2007
For the Saunder's Farm Project, I was primarily interested in creating a flowing sculpture that would be visible from a distance and would relate to the rolling hills and gentle landscape. The sculpture is called "Standing Wave" and makes reference to the physical phenomenon in which a vibrating string or air column reaches a state of resonance or equilibrium. It is meant to evoke a sense of energy and movement.

eric david laxman
Garnerville Art and Industrial Center
55 W. Railroad Avenue, Bldg. #4
Garnerville, NY 10923
P 845.304.7615 F: 845.429.4454
eric@EricDavidLaxman.com

www.EricDavidLaxman.com

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Jim Lloyd

FERROSYNTHETIC CREATURES
spanning about a half acre
Welded steel
2007

Ferrosynthesis is the product of intelligent design and natural selection. Natural selection comes first in that Iron is the most stable of all atomic nuclei and that's why there is so much of it in the universe. Then intelligent people use this most useful material to design myriad things that are in fact beautiful, if by accident. Natural selection comes in again as they corrode and fall into my hands. My further intelligent (?) design and the application of heat enables these cast off elements to assume their destiny for as long as natural selection will allow.

jrlloyd@vinfiz.net
914.962.4157

www.ferrosynthesis.com

Keiko Miyamori

KOKO to SOKO -Imagine Here and There
charcoal rubbing on Japanese hand-made 100% tree fiber paper
2007

I have been doing nature based works for many years. For this piece I have made a number of charcoal rubbings from the forest in Japan (my native country) and will wrap trees in Saunders Farm with the rubbings.

keiko miyamori
miyamorik@aol.com
215.888.3245

www.princewoods.com

Michael Natiello

THE SCRATCHING POST: SAUNDER’S FARM REDOUBT
8 foot cube
wood, found objects, latex house paint,

The Scratching Post: Saunders Farm Redoubt makes reference to the Revolutionary War defensive fortifications found near Saunders Farm. The Scratching Post is also informed by Japanese Tea Rooms, Native American Hogans, Sweat Lodges, Sabbath Day Houses, pre fabricated structures and white cube galleries.

The Scratching Post houses a collection of “garbage mandalas”, the most notable of which is The Saunders Farm Mandala – This piece is site specific and created entirely from found objects discovered on the farm and from elements related to the construction of the Scratching Post.

Michael Natiello
khamaidesign@yahoo.com
845-788-3810

Michael Poast

SOUND SCULPTURE
7’ x 10” x 4’6”
Painted Steel
2000
MUSE III
7’4” x 38” x 30”
Welded Steel
2007

To twist, spread, and bend the rigid steel made malleable by heat, Michael Poast sculpts a dialogue between the materials of space and steel. Poast’s cut searing edges of metal release violent emotions against a contrasting beauty of smooth linear steel I-beams. Bridged together sections and charged sweeping forms evoke expansive spatial confrontation. color adds an element of unfolding time.

Michael Poast
(718) 721 0423
poastv@stjohns.edu

Sheilah Rechtschaffer

GOD ISN’T WATCHING
Mixed media and found objects
2007

For this exhibit I have chosen to wrap four trees along a rough road
as visual reminders of the devastation of loss, death and destruction.

Roadside memorials are a way of commemorating death and memory

Each tree expresses four different events of loss.

Accident is dedicated to the memory of a little girl who was killed on the road I travel each day. The others entitled War in Iraq; The Next War: Iran and Demolition of Palestinian Homes refer to continuing tragedy.

Sheilah Rechtschaffer is a landscape painter. Most of the time, she goes to beautiful places and draws or paints what’s there, exploring an inner landscape of specific place. She is also a political activist. In this work, the landscape reveals a theme of opposite thought.

Sheilah Rechtschaffer
845.424.3287
sheilahfresco10@msn.com

www.sheilahrechtschaffer.com

Herman Roggeman

Cassandra Saulter

Fred Schlitzer

Kevin Stapp

UNTITLED
manilla rope, tree in its natural setting
2007

It is quite a hike to get to this tree of trees. Archetypical in its imageness. Such raw landscape and climate reminds me of the hills above my family's home when we lived in Scotland. I won't bring anything object-like to this place.

I'll use what's here and what happens in real-time but freeze it. An increment of wind, weather and storm. This world has too many objects.

sans@nycmail.com

Alex Uribe

RHYTHM STICKS

Carl Van Brunt

MUSE
24 x 66
Steel
2007

This is my first sculpture in many years and is directly related to the my recent digital paintings. The figure is derived from a software program called "Poser," which I have used extensively to create characters for my wall work. Ironically, in my paintings the figures are "dimensional," occupying a complex virtual space. "Muse" which occupies "real space" is completely flat.

I could offer some thoughts on the meaning of this work, but the ideas that occur to you as viewer are the most interesting ones to me. If you would like to engage in a little dialogue about "Muse" please send me an e-mail, give me a call or drop by our gallery in Beacon.

I wish to thank Kirsten Kucer for encouraging me to create something for this show, Jan Roggerman and his staff for doing a nice job of fabricating the piece, Thomas Huber for helping with installation and Nancy Bauch for putting together this great blog.

Carl Van Brunt
carl@vanbruntgallery.com
845.838.2995

www.vanbruntgallery.com/vanbrunt.html

Max Yawney

SPINNING CLOWN HEAD / BLACK FLAGS
Approximately 12 feet tall by 22 feet long
Acrylic on wood and canvas

The interest is in developing disjunctive poetic situations. This is achieved by using 2 elements and the distinctions between the elements provide the solutions. This work places a spinning clown head adjacent to large black flags. The referents in this case are clothes lines,black flags, amusement parks, signage, architectural spaces and scarecrows. The intention here is to allude to the landscape as well as the mischievous and matter of fact nature of the cows, while allowing a poetic resonance with anything else.

Max Yawney
646.258.9052
maxyawney@yahoo.com

www.maxyawney.com

William Zingaro

LANDSCAPE COMBINE
12' x 6'H x 2'
aluminum, wood, polyfoam
2005, 2007

One in a series of metal landscapes depicting the topography
of the Hudson Valley.

William Zingaro
45 Fair St Cold Spring NY 10516
wzingaro@verizon.net
845.265.6127

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