Artist Statement
Upstate New York is an opulent landscape, immortalized by the Hudson River painters, containing mills and factories abandoned in the aftermath of waning industrialization, and residents struggling with gentrification. As a resident, I am interested in, and regularly confronted by, this dichotomy. I paint images gleaned from Hudson River School pieces, and then intermix, within and over those scenes, contemporary convenience store-inspired imagery. Collectively titled “Dollar Tree,” the interplay of these two types of imagery suggests the visual confusion of our social media saturated world.
This project is made possible with funds from Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts
with support of the office of the Governor and the
NYS Legislature administered by CREATE Council on the Arts
Many thanks to Time & Space Ltd as the OSH 2024 fiscal sponsor and their past partnerships. We could not have done this without your support!
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Open Studio Hudson is grateful to be the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts 2024 Grant, facilitated by Create Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul.
Many thanks to Time & Space Ltd as the OSH 2024 fiscal sponsor and their past partnerships. We could not have done this without your support!
