Art at The Farm
is an ongoing, ever evolving creative process.
When farmers happen to be artists, “art” tends to insinuate itself into all kinds of unexpected places and activities.
Esthetics unassociated with agriculture may hold sway in the decision making process. A particularly elegant vegetable may distract from the job at hand because it absolutely must be photographed, painted, drawn, shared! Never mind the weeding, look at this!
At the Farm we love to share this inspiring space with other artists. One way that manifests is our annual participation in UPSTATE ART WEEKEND.
2024’s event had more than 16 artists showing, with many leaving their work on view beyond the official “weekend”. Pieces by James Tyler, Lou Fatta, Eric David Laxman, Stephen Hoey and Nicole Hixon are now graciously on loan year round, seeding the farm’s growing sculpture gardens along with resident artists Susan Hillary and Rio Hito
2025’s UPAW dates have been set and we are looking forward to another amazing show! Check back to meet our artist lineup for 2025. See you July 17-21, 2025!
Over 15 Artists will be showcasing their work inside & outside the copper-roofed barn, in the field, along the trail to the greenhouse, around the outdoor eating area and in the farm market.
This self-directed, accessible event connects tourists and locals alike with art and the outdoors, celebrating the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York.
Permanent installations are available to view year round
Mark Attebery is a sculptor, flutist and composer based in Nyack, NY. He has received numerous music commissions from dance companies, theatre, video and visual artists.
2024 UPAW ARTISTS
Vivien Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist, whose current practices includes large-scale site-specific sculpture installations at sculpture parks and museums. Her irreverent playful approach, focusing on urban architecture and energy has led to a dialogue with environment and public sculpture.
Susan Hillary has a love of nature, plants, color, light, perspectives, patterns, movement, all inspire her. She enjoys playing with recycled materials i.e. old windows, car doors, discarded wood, window screens and shades to create paintings and prints.
Nicole Hixon has a deep curiosity about existence and value. Her sculptures challenge viewers to explore the materials she uses and to consider the parallels between those materials and their own lives. Her works inspire reflection and connection, promoting a deeper understanding of our place in the world.
Lynn Isaacson has been working in clay for the past 20+ years while also teaching art in New York City. She mixes and experiments with glazes and firing, with gas, wood, and salt. Her work has been exhibited in New York City and is in corporate collections in the US and Canada. Her Painting was featured in the movie Wall Street.
Newprospectpottery.com
Heidi Lanino is a visual artist working across a range of mediums and materials. Gestural movement is a constant in her process and artistic practice which includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics. Her work is intuitive and characterized by expressive lines and shapes, and the combination of both figurative and abstract elements. Her most recent works explore the folded figurative form in various materials. @heidilanino
https://www.instagram.com/heidilanino/
Merry Breden McLoryd mobiles and installations play with balance, light and movement. Finding the process and the end result meditative, she combines unusual materials - vintage crystals, mirrors, found objects, driftwood, scraps of metal - creating inventive moving sculptures that interact with the viewer and the environment.
Rosanna Scimeca creates pieces of variable scale that are deteriorating and industrial, ephemeral and static. She uses industrial, durable materials such as metals, stone, wood and glass in combination with bio-materials.
James Tyler’s special Brickhead continues to bless Goshen Green Farm’s herbal circle. This piece evokes the ethereal nature of time as stylized portraits of everyman and everywoman.
https://www.instagram.com/tylersculpture/
Kris Campbell is a conceptual artist focused on color, surface and soul. Inspired by the balanced beauty of the land, she crafts portraits using floating white pavers that interact with expansive fields. The final images reflect the cross stitched patterns in her new series “Land+Marks”
Lou Fatta works in steel using a variety of welding techniques, mainly oxytocin acetylene for cutting silhouetted shapes of cars, crows, ravens, songbirds, ants, and city skylines, along with images of vines and weeds that infiltrate the city structure. His work involves the automobile and its destructive impact on nature as well as our individual and collective lives. @Loufatta
Rio Hito specializes in clay and foam sculptures, as well as functional ceramics – tables and pendant lights. He wood-fires to give. His pieces have a natural, aged look, adding character with imperfections.
His work is a blend of tradition and innovation. @riohito
Stephen Hoey and Kristy Rosen are visual artists and co-founders of Raven Lake Studio, a renowned art fabrication shop in Warwick, NY. Specializing in open studio collaboration and fabrication. They utilize cutting-edge industrial equipment such as lasers, CNC, and UV printing to create breathtaking works of art.
Ravenlakestudio.com
Beth Klingher
An artist and educator all her life she is intrigued with the textures and patterns, the intricacies of creating a work of art one tiny piece at a time. Mosaic landscapes – both realistic and abstract – reflect or make sense of the world as she sees it.
As one reviewer stated: “Each of her imaginative mosaic constructions is a symphony of visual and tactile materials– glass, ceramic, stone, and pottery. This lively exhibit of abstract geometric designs, stunning undulating landscapes and playful patterns of color is a joyful concert for the eye that is not to be missed.” Bethklingher.com
Eric David Laxman is an internationally exhibited artist who creates unique metal and stone sculptures that are one-of-a-kind collectables in art and furniture. His philosophy integrates functionality with aesthetics. His work is a unique synthesis of traditional hands-on sculpture and state-of-the-art methods of fabrication.
https://www.ericdavidlaxman.com/
Aurora Robson is an award winning internationally recognized artist who has been working with plastic debris for sculpture for 20 years. She is a certified metal welder. She is the founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers and architects also innovating with plastic debris for art and design applications. Aurorarobson.com www.projectvortex.org
Megan Sweeney clay work features animals and humans expressing the humor inherent in both species. Using earthenware clay, she created colored flower pots, which are both functional and expressive.
Amy Lewis Sweetman founding artist AGRISCULPTURE is to create metal sculpture informed by nature and farm equipment, to restore the Earth by foraging abandoned agricultural machinery as media and to teach environmental awareness - giving free youth / public workshops involving recycled materials and the creative process of adaptive reuse
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Meet the 2023 Artists
(2024 Artists TBA)
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Mark Attebery
Mark Attebery is a sculptor, flutist and composer based in Nyack, NY. He is on the sculpture committee for Rockland's Art in Public Places and advisor for Upper Nyack's River Hook sculpture trail. He has received numerous music commissions from dance companies, theatre, video and visual artists. He is currently involved in several music groups in the Lower Hudson Valley.
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Kris Campbell
Kris Campbell is a conceptual artist focused on color, surface and soul that will be showing 8 outdoor cross stitched tapestries series #iamCOLOR.
A stepping stone installation inspired by cross stitch, and a current large tapestry that is in progress.
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Vivien Collens
Vivian Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist, whose current practices includes large scale site specific sculpture installations at sculpture parks and museums.
Her irreverent playful approach, focusing on urban architecture and energy has led to a dialogue with environment and public sculpture
http://www.viviencollens.com/index.html
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Lou Fatta
Lou Fatta works in steel using a variety of welding techniques, mainly oxytocin acetylene for cutting silhouetted shapes of cars, crows, ravens, songbirds, ants, and city skylines, along with images of vines and weeds that infiltrate the city structure. His work involves the automobile and its destructive impact on nature as well as our individual and collective lives. His work represents car shapes as archetypes and totems that work to atone themselves with through their own deterioration.
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Susan Hillary
Susan Hillary’s love of nature, plants, color, light, perspectives, patterns, movement, inspire her. She enjoys playing with recycled materials, i.e. discarded windows, car doors, window screens and shades to create images
http://www.susanhillary.com/
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Nicole Hixon
Nicole Hixon has a deep curiosity about existence and value. Her sculptures aim to challenge viewers to explore the materials she uses and to consider the parallels between those materials and their own lives on this planet. With her art, she hopes to inspiregreater reflection and connection among viewers, promoting a deeper understanding of our place in the world.
http://nicolehixonart.com/
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Joy Hyman
Joy Hyman’s inspired by textures, fabrics, playfulness, and natural pigments, she incorporates mixed mediums, silversmithing, and diverse techniques to create exquisite pieces. She is a member of the Goshen Green team.
https://www.instagram.com/joybirdworkshop/
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Heidi Lanino
Heidi Lanino is a visual artist who lives and works in Upstate, New York. Movement is a constant in her process and product, woven into her artistic practice which includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics. Her work is intuitive and characterized by expressive lines and shapes, influenced by various cultures, and the combination of both and abstract elements.
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Merry McLoryd
Merry McLoryd's mobiles play with balance, light and movement. She incorporates detailed pen and ink drawings with found objects, crystals, driftwood, metal scrapes and mirrors to make stunning and inventive mobiles.
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Mae Shore
Mae Shore is a master printmaker, painter and owner of Cheymore Gallery in Tuxedo Park. Mae has a history of working with images, matching intriguing color with moments in our memories- her works are compelling and evocative, as they are both calming and exciting.
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James Tyler
James Tyler’s Brickhead installations are unique colossal heads that invite us identify with the world’s ceramic heritages, yet are clearly contemporary, relics of a civilization not yet past. The ponderous weight of the brick constructions is juxtaposed with the ethereal nature of time are stylized portraits of everyman and everywoman