UP & COMING:
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a-Historical Landscapes at Loeb Art Center
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College has recently acquired two "a-Historical Landscapes"; "Am I Not a Man?" and "Between Hell and Hell on Earth", currently on view in the museum's Hudson River School Collection, the collection of works acquired by Matthew Vassar in dating back to the museum's founding in 1864. |
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"Blauvelt Blues: Afro-Dutch Voices of Rockland County"
Rockland County Art in Public Places contract awarded for permanent outdoor public sculpture installation at Cropsey Community Farm in New City, NY Opening Spring 2023 |
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Thomas Pomplin Memorial, Piermont, NY
Public Sculpture commissioned by Piermont Fire Co. #13 Thomas Pomplin (1826-1854), a Black man born one year before the conditional abolition of slavery in New York State was also the Piermont Fire Company's first Line of Duty Death (LODD) and was posthumously recognized for his sacrifice 168 years after the fire that ultimately consumed his life. I was commissioned by Chief Dan Goswick to create the sculpture of Thomas Pomplin, which is based on the only known photograph of Pomplin, pictured without a uniform. His recognition as a firefighter, a citizen and a hero is now recorded in Rockland County's Legislature and the monument to him stands proudly at Flywheel Park in Piermont for all to see. |
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Olana and the Color of Freedom
A discussion with Myra B. Young Armstead, Professor of Historical Studies at Bard College and author of Freedom's Gardener, considering how the timeline of Church’s site-specific masterpiece, Olana, runs concurrent to the experiences of men and women born into slavery in the Hudson Valley. |
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"Always Present, Never Seen" by Editor Chip Rowe.
"a-Historical Landscapes" featured in Highlands Current article on Black history in the Hudson Highlands "Always Present, Never Seen" by Editor Chip Rowe. "The exclusion is reflected in recent artwork by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, who has a studio in Beacon. In a series of prints, a-Historical Landscape, he took idyllic 19th-century landscape engravings typical of the Hudson River School and inserted images from anti-slavery almanacs and abolitionist tracts of the same period. “What makes these works so American, I think, is not what is depicted but also what’s missing,” he says." |
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"7 Emerging Hudson Valley Artists to Watch"
by Carl Van Brunt "Black Artists in the Hudson Valley" A selection by Chronogram staff |
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Scenic Hudson's Hudson Valley Viewfinder
Scenic Hudson recently acquired the site of the former Empire brickyard, located in Stockport, NY and the source for many of my "Empire Brickwork." It is now the Charles Flood Wildlife Management Area at the Empire Brickyard. |
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