LAND! from the post on the prairie
May 17th - June 30th, 2008

LAND! referring to the idea! From the Post on the
Prairie - the vast expanse of the imagination - the
time and space that any creative person occupies while
in search of new ideas, new territories.

A group of Hudson Valley Artists are using the
American Frontier, the West as a starting point - a
Post on the Prairie - from which they can travel,
survey, study and begin to make connections between
our past and present.
Aesthetic connections between the handmade,
contemporary art of the present and the handmade (very
often homemade) functional objects of early American
life. Sociological and historical connections about
American expansionism from Frederick Jackson Turner's
'Frontier Thesis' of 1893 to our present day
challenges of open space, development and the
enviornment.

Rosendale sculptor and printmaker Laura Moriarty,
Glenford sculptor and furniture designer Jonah Meyer,
Rosendale painter and musician Wayne Montecalvo,
Esopus collage artist Judith Hoyt, Catskill painter
Sarah Conrad Ferm and Rosendale painter Sean Sullivan
have taken on the task of expanding into a new
frontier, both literal and figurative. Their responses
will be on display at Kerhonkson General from May 17th
til the end of June.

www.lauramoriarty.com
www.waynemontecalvo.com
www.servcestation.com/
www.judithhoyt.net
www.no-space.com/sullivan