RVAC participates in panel discussion at NADA Miami 2022

RVAC participates in panel discussion at NADA Miami 2022

December 2, 2022

Continuing the conversation: Upstate of Mind

For this panel, we have gathered representatives from across the Hudson Valley art scene to discuss its growth and future ideals.

Panelists:
Heather Hubbs, New Art Dealers Alliance
Jayne Johnson, JDJ
Nora Lawrence, Storm King Art Center
Helen Toomer, Upstate Art Weekend & STONELEAF RETREAT

Moderated by Sophie Landres, River Valley Arts Collective

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RVAC’s Sophie Landres curates exhibition and serves as guest juror at The Hyde Collection

RVAC’s Sophie Landres curates exhibition and serves as guest juror at The Hyde Collection

October 22 - December 31, 2022

Split and Becloud
The 2022 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson regional juried show

From the twenty-four artists selected for this exhibition, two motifs emerge. One is characterized by partition, the other by conglomeration. Although these motifs seem to move in opposite directions, they are two sides of the same coin. Through division or overlap, each motif renders compositions at odds with gestalt principles. By disorienting or clogging the field of vision, they deliver images that are discontinuous or designed to overwhelm. Split and Becloud is thus a zeitgeist show. It asserts two prevalent and complimentary ways of seeing the state of things: broken and brought together in a confounding new form.

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RVAC’s Sophie Landres curates exhibition on view at KinoSaito

RVAC’s Sophie Landres curates exhibition on view at KinoSaito

July 8 - September 4, 2022

XYZ: Alphabetical Ruptures and Reformations
with work by Tauba Auerbach, Dexter Sinister, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, and Caroline Kent

This exhibition considers how letters signify when estranged from literal signification. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and experimental typography, the artists in XYZ approach alphabets as unstable systems rife with ambiguity, which nonetheless organize our consciousness. In aggregate, they demonstrate the paradoxically restrictive yet infinitely generative form and function of alphabets.

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