Posts in Artists In the Studio
Required Reading: Winter In the Studio Wrap Up
Feb 24, 2014
It’s been a snowy, bitter winter here in the Hudson Valley, and our artists-in-residence have been creating up a storm inside the workshop, too. In case you’ve missed anything from the In the Studio series this winter, here’s your required reading to catch up on before spring starts peeking around the corner. Hudson Valley-based artist Lindsay Stern worked… View Article
Merike van Zanten: Thinking Outside the Book
Feb 13, 2014
Holland-born book artist Merike van Zanten loves a good challenge. So after a career in business and banking, she “came to her senses” and pursued a fine art education—at age 42. “I was twice the age of everyone else,” she says. “I was like everybody’s mother!” After a year of foundational coursework to learn basic… View Article
Twentysix Plants: Susan Mills in the Studio
Feb 03, 2014
In Susan Mills’ newest artist’s book—comprised of 26 sheets of paper hand-made from 26 different fibers—no two pages are alike. Some sheets are coarse, like peony; others, like rhubarb and leek, are smooth and even. Burdock resembles a healthy smoothie stippled with variegated greens, while kenaf has delicate hairlike fibers running throughout. Susan spent her Artist’s… View Article
Mirabelle Jones & the Artist’s Book as Activism
Jan 16, 2014
In 2011, workspace resident Mirabelle Jones began collecting the stories of 22 anonymous survivors of sexual assault. She broke the narratives down into three parts, keeping each part in a colored glass jar. In a green jar: the beginning of each experience. In a red jar: words and phrases describing the assault. In a blue… View Article
All in the Details: Devra Fox in the Studio
Jan 01, 2014
For workspace resident Devra Fox, sitting perched on a stool in our etching studio, spending hours cutting out intricate shapes with an X-Acto knife is all in a day’s work. A handful of feathers printed on translucent paper sit next to her as she traces along the labyrinthine lines of what looks like a bit… View Article
Blue Velvet: Kat LiBretto in the Studio
Dec 18, 2013
Workspace Resident Kat LiBretto might be going through her blue period. Two of her 30×22” screenprints are hanging side by side on the wall in our silkscreen studio. At a distance they look like meditations on indigo and cerulean, evocative and abstract. “I’m not sure what it means that I’m using so much blue,” she… View Article
Lindsay Stern on Piecing it All Together
Dec 11, 2013
About a year ago, Lindsay Stern was shocked to discover she’d been awarded WSW’s Ora Schneider Residency for regional artists—initially because it would be her first residency, but also because she was 10 weeks pregnant. The symbiotic relationship between herself and her son Henry, now a flirtatious four month old, has come to quite literally… View Article
Required Reading: Fall In the Studio Wrap Up
Dec 04, 2013
Since launching our In the Studio series this autumn, we’ve been delivering glimpses into our resident artists’ projects and processes. With winter approaching, here’s a fall In the Studio wrap-up in case you’ve missed anything: Cheryl Paswater, a New York City-based painter by training, discovered that chine colle was the secret to translating her bold,… View Article
Alison Byrnes’s “Scientific Theories”
Dec 02, 2013
This is the second of two posts about our Art-in-Education book resident Alison Byrnes’s project Scientific Theories Once Widely Believed, Since Proven Wrong. If you missed our first post, catch up here. “Einstein was either right about being wrong, or wrong about being right, or partially right, or right at the wrong time,” writes Alison Byrnes… View Article
Katrina Kiapos & the Photographer’s Hand
Nov 20, 2013
Katrina Kiapos works caffeinated and alone in the dark for several hours each day. It’s a bit of a lonely and antisocial way of working, but for Katrina it’s the way things have to be. During her four-week Workspace Residency Katrina has set up shop in our darkroom formulating her own emulsion, liquefying it, and… View Article