INAUGURAL EXHIBIT

Mary McFerran is a new resident in the Catskills. She is adjusting to the saturation of nature and beauty surrounding her. Eco dyeing local plants has helped her to acclimate.

McFerran has degrees in Fashion, Art Education, Printmaking, Expanded Arts, and Educational Technology. She shows her work in NYC, the Hudson Valley and the Catskills.

In this series, I gather plants and rocks from my home landscape and create eco dyes on repurposed fabric. I also print with rusted objects and assemble sculptural combinations with the elements. The works are often bound together with twine in order to connect them physically and symbolically. I am interested in the way these forms are culled directly from earth’s bounty and remind us of our interdependence with the environment.

Beth Caspar is a multidisciplinary artist based in upstate New York. She attended Pratt Institute and later the University of Florida, where she received a BFA in printmaking. She is the co-founder of ad hoc projects, a small collective of upstate New York artists who mount site-specific and virtual pop-up exhibits. She has also independently curated a variety of group shows over the past 20 years. Caspar exhibits nationally and internationally and has work in the collections of MoMA, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Columbus Museum of Art, GA; the D’Arcy Thompson Museum in Dundee, Scotland; and the New York Public Library. She also has work in numerous corporate and private collections. Caspar is represented by the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY, and Geoform, a virtual gallery.