VERSE Work/Shop hosts curated exhibitions throughout the year, partnering with renowned regional artists and makers.
Inaugural Exhibition
Talk Shop
On View Sunday, March 12th - Sunday, May 14th
Talk Shop is the inaugural exhibition at the new Red Hook village storefront VERSE Work/Shop, co-curated by visual artist Beka Goedde and Work/Shop Founder Vanessa Shafer.
In this first exhibition in the space, co-curator Beka Goedde notes that the artists she selected for the show all live and work in the Hudson Valley — a group of women-identified artists whose work is wide ranging in materiality but unified in its non-hierarchical qualities. Described as “objects for looking” by Goedde, the pieces in Talk Shop include ethereal ceramics; wall-mounted, two dimensional collage; wood-driven sculpture, and more.
Objects for looking are paired with objects for living, from the scale of a ring to a vast walnut dining table. All are made by hands of the Hudson Valley and/or of materials forged in it.
Talk Shop is on view through May 14th.
Email info@verseworkshop.com
Featured Artists
Lauren Anderson is a painter and sculptor who has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Austin. She is a Daedalus Foundation nominee in painting and a contributor to DOMINICA Scene Report. Anderson holds a BA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Bard College, where she currently teaches and manages ceramics facilities.
Woodstock based artist Katy Fischer is best known for her abstract paintings, ceramic installations and large scale public mosaic projects. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the recent solo exhibition Finders, Keepers, Losers and Weepers in Los Angeles and Script, a site-specific ceramic installation at NADA Governors Island in New York.
Beka Goedde lives and works in Tivoli, NY. She is Artist-in-Residence at Bard College, where she teaches printmaking and drawing. Goedde’s prints and sculptures have been included in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, upstate New York, New Mexico, and elsewhere internationally. She will be an artist in residence at Interlude in Hudson, NY and at Obracadobra in Oaxaca in 2023.
Caitlin Lightfoot is an artist of meditative adornments and contemplative jewelry designed of hand gathered stones from the shores of the Hudson River. The collection on exhibit evolves from her instinct to gather. It harkens back to humanity’s hunter gatherer roots and enables Caitlin to connect with personal, natural landscapes. Gathering imbues the work with a sense of place, and affects her experience of and response to it. Lightfoot is drawn to the relationship between water flow and land, through time, and the stones this interaction creates.
New York Heartwoods is a women owned and operated bespoke furniture fabrication studio located in a 100% solar-powered workshop in Accord, NY. Their practice is deeply committed to sustainability and to the life cycle of the creation of their pieces. Often they work with fallen lumber or wood they are intimately involved in the milling of. Their furniture is designed to create solutions to a changing climate and honor the natural beauty of Hudson Valley.
Lisa Sanditz lives and works in the Hudson Valley. Her recent solo exhibitions include Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans. Sanditz was a participating artist in the 2021 online exhibition “From Morning Til Night, We Should Never Rely on a Single Thing,” at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles. Sanditz is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Bard College.
Traci Pinczes of Swish & Hammer is a textile artist and jewelry designer. Pinczes often works with hand dyed recycled silks to create dense tapestries in muted, natural tones, as well as, intricate beaded jewelry, and hand soldered goods. With a sincere dedication to hand-made craft and recycled materials, each piece profoundly captures the organic perfection of imperfection and a gratitude for craft.
Allison Toepp is an artist and farmer. The objects she creates are functional works of art, handmade from materials that are dear to her. This is her way of celebrating Allison’s cows and her community.
Withers Studio (Formerly Withers & Grain) is a design build company founded in Brooklyn. Today, they fabricate their highly crafted custom furniture in their Red Hook work studio. Their pieces are modern, yet, timeless with a deep understanding of the materials involved. Their exquisite level of craft is uncompromised by handling their own production. Withers & Grain work exhibits that the details of construction and means of making it are an inherent part of design itself.
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