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Land Marks
November
1
–
December 1, 2024
RECEPTION:
November 1, 2024
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4–7pm
24-09
About the exhibition
Robin Factor and Mary McFerran have come to a deep appreciation of the Catskills and as artists, have found ways to interpret landscape through their art, each in their distinctive way. Multidimensional pieces, earthy color palettes, and found materials weave a contemporary vision of the beauty and fragility of planet earth.
Factor explores interior and exterior landscapes, and the uneasy duality between viewing and memory to form fragments of our own internal landscape. These deconstructed landscapes are her way of creating a conversation between formal elements as they respond and react to each other, and between the viewer and the piece as they explore their own landscape point of view.
McFerran gathers plants and rocks from her home landscape and creates eco dyes on repurposed fabric. She also prints with rusted objects and assembles sculptural combinations with the elements. The works are often bound together with twine in order to connect them physically and symbolically. Culled directly from earth’s bounty, these forms remind us of our interdependence with the environment.
Art Talk
Robin Factor and Mary McFerran
November 23, 2024
2–4pm
Artists Robin Factor and Mary McFerran will host an engaging Artists Talk on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 2-4 pm. Through this conversation, they will share the inspirations and techniques behind their unique interpretations of the Catskills landscape, blending multidimensional approaches and found materials. Attendees will gain insight into how their work reflects both the beauty and fragility of the environment, as well as their personal artistic processes. This event offers a rare opportunity to connect with the artists and their creative visions.
About the Artist
Robin
Factor
I love the thrill and power of creating environments with total autonomy—directing all the characters in my universe, whether a character is a pencil line, piece of thread, or a mark of raw umber. How do they interact, do they love each other or resist, can they handle a third element, and how does that change the dynamic in their space—can they stay? And most importantly, how can they become more than their parts and take on meaning to transcend their physicality?
These pieces focus on our changing landscape and my response to our changing environment, calling attention to its overwhelming beauty, its power, and its heartbreaking fragility in the 21st Century. I started to look at the elements of landscape and pull them apart, deconstruct them—but I also wanted to put them back together, reconstruct them in a way to help me understand what it was we were losing, and to place myself in the world we had created and were destroying. These mixed media collages are my way of creating a considered dialogue with our surroundings.
Mary
McFerran
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.
