Sharon Core's debut of Understory - Live View, a live stream video projection

"Live View is a departure from the still images and has grown out of my intense observation of the world inside the dome and its changes from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, season to season and year to year. Here the viewer is presented with a simulcast view of the environment to observe. One might see a turtle or praying mantis move into the frame or barely perceive the tendrils of a vine reaching to climb higher or none of these things. Live View asks the viewer to imagine what might exist outside of the human ability to perceive. Just as the light of day is continuously shifting just beyond our awareness, so do all elements in the natural world constantly move and change in a cycle of growth, decay, and regeneration." - Sharon Core

Understory - Live View, live stream projection, 2017

Exhibit Opening: Saturday September 30th 6-8pm 

Open for Viewing: September 31, 12-6 pm and October 7-9th, 12-6pm 

"Land and Memory is a multidisciplinary group exhibit curated by artist Caitlin Parker. The title is a response to Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory. Schama presents landscape as an Arcadian and largely masculine concept projected onto the natural world, in contrast to land, earth and raw matter. Contemporary artists, particularly women artists, are taking a more visceral and immersive approach to exploring the land around them. For these artists, landscape isn't something "other" to be observes from on high and imbued with Edenic mythology. For them, the depiction of "landscape" is less a static ideal then a living, transformative nature. It is the dirt itself, it's death and rot, the tiny vibrant colors and life we overlook, the polluted sites we live alongside and the ways we interfere with nature and nature's unstoppable resistance to our aggressions, both large and small. 

All of the artists included in the show are women making work about the natural world. Most are in the Hudson Valley full or part time, allowing for dialogue with the Hudson River School painters. For some of the artists, the raw materials are foraged from the ground directly. For others, their work is exploring our complicated and decidedly unromantic relationship with the land, investigating the damage we do. The work exhibited is a mix of painting, photography and textile art."