Hudson Valley Artists 2022: The Material, The Thing

Curated by Nicole Hayes

June 22 – November 6, 2022
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery

Monica d. Church, Gold Swift Phymatopus Hecta, 2019, courtesy the artist

The Material, The Thing, the 15^th annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, considers how artists understand and reimagine the material culture in which we live. Featuring twenty-six artists who live and work in the Hudson Valley, the exhibition includes work that investigates materials and their physical and cultural properties. Through a wide range of artistic practices, the artists consider the inherent beauty of physical materials and create work that questions or champions the things produced by our culture. 

 
Ashley Lyon, Diviner, 2021, courtesy the artist

Curator Nicole Hayes writes: “Every time we walk into a big box store we are inundated by meaningless disposable things. We have collectively lost an understanding of the materials that make the things we live with. Who even knows how plywood is made, or what microcrystalline cellulose is, but we all have it in our homes.” In this cultural moment marked by climate change, supply chain issues, and economic uncertainty, artists and artisans become essential conduits to understanding the materials and the things in our society. 

Adam Chau, Swipe, 2019, 
courtesy the artist

Meg Hitchcock, Countless Forms, 2022, courtesy the artist