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 whose work explores shape and pattern informed by simple mathematics, planar geometry, chance, and more recently the alphabet. She holds a BFA in printmaking from the University of Florida. In 2013 she relocated her studio from Brooklyn to the Catskills.

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Ms. Caspar exhibits nationally and internationally and has work in the collections of MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Columbus (Georgia) Museum of Art, the D’Arcy Thompson Museum in Dundee Scotland, and the New York Public Library, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. She is represented by the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY, and has independently curated a variety of group shows over the past 20 years. She is also the cofounder of ad hoc projects, a small collective of upstate New York artists who mount site-specific and virtual pop-up exhibits.