Art at The Farm
At Goshen Green Farm we love to share this inspiring space with other artists. One way that manifests is using the farm as a gallery, presenting artists of diverse backgrounds and media, in events like Upstate Art Weekend (July17-21) and Orange County Arts Month (July24-Aug18) through the Orange County Arts Council.
The Farm has proudly participated in Upstate Art Weekend for the past 4 years and anticipate another inspiring event this year! At the farm, artists exhibit both in and around the original 1860’s copper-roofed barn and greenhouse, creating a truly unique environment for a broad range of artistic genres. This historic Hudson Valley Permaculture farmstead, situated on 180 acres, also provides an idyllic backdrop for outdoor works on the lawns and woodland trails. The property includes a growing collection of permanent outdoor installations showing year round, along with the pieces offered by 2025’s participating artists.
Check out the artists for this year, 2025, below
A. Jena Argenta is a language-based artist, writer & cultural entrepreneur. Her work is socio-sculptural, exploring an expanded sense of communication through calligraphic sensibilities, but she doesn't consider herself a calligrapher. Themes of legacy, loss, intimacy, illegibility & the physicality of gesture & presence permeate her works. Her project “How do you write a love letter in American Ink?” received an Arts Mid-Hudson regrant in 2024.
As the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Goshen Green Farm, she is helping to define this new offering at the farm.
B. Corinne Beardsley creates sculptures, environmental installations, and performance. The transformative processes of her materials reflect on our fragile relationship with the environment, and how we are shaped by technology.
Corrinne is one of 2025’s SAP (Sustainable arts Program) Grantees through the Orange County Arts Council. She has traveled the world for teaching, residencies and exhibitions and is currently based in Hudson Valley, NY.
C. Merry Breden-McLoryd’s recent works have explored the intersection of movement with unexpected objects in unexpected places. Creating mobiles and installations that play with balance, light and movement. The combination of unusual materials - vintage crystals, mirrors, found objects, driftwood, scraps of metal and drawings, creates moving sculptures that interact with both the viewer and the environment. Merry is one of 2025’s SAP (Sustainable arts Program) Grantees through the Orange County Arts Council.
D. Kris Campbell is a conceptual artist who uses cross-stitch embroidery as a powerful metaphor to explore the soul, the separation of souls, and the complex relationship between the soul and the body.
This weekend, she will embark on a new creative experiment, using the unique setting of the Farm to reinterpret and expand this idea in an unexpected direction.
E. Deric Carner In the peculiar world of Deric Carner's creation, each being birthed is a marvel of nonchalance and ambiguity–tickling, teasing, and triggering embarrassment and delight. These manifestations, the progeny of a fertile and impish mind, are created with such sensuous empathy for the inanimate that they seem to have willed themselves into existence on their own. They are escapees of the collective modern psyche–bizarre-yet-humdrum, irrational, crossbred, blobular, ambiguous, kinky, and mischievous.
F. John Carro
Based in Livingston Manor, Western Catskills NY, John works primarily with locally sourced, indigenous wood. He creates hand made, painted carvings and frames that are primitive in style with a ‘pop art’ sensibility through the expansive, and often playful, use of color.
G. Mark DeMaio’s works on paper, explore the fluidity and spontaneity of water-based media with an innovative, avantgarde approach. He has a global collector base, selling works across the US, Europe and Asia.
Mark has been selected for the prestigious International Watercolor Masters exhibition in the UK, scheduled for May 2026
H. Lotus Do is a visual artist, poet and yogi. As a life long formal artist/ educator ; Lotus’s work explores the elements of composition and how they affect the viewer. In her photographic work look for the visual state of the ethereal. The exaggerated size of her Polyphemus moth sculpture explores visual literacy in the natural world .
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I. Robb Gomulka's artistic passion for creating flows directly from his imagination. Character development and love of wildlife shines through his work artwork. His strong conviction in the power of art within the community shines through his work, reflecting a deep-rooted passion for creativity and visual storytelling.
J. Susan Hillary is thrilled to be once again be hosting Upstate Art Weekend at Goshen Green Farm. During Upstate Art Weekend 2024 she began a work-progress which evolved each day - now it is on display in the barn. She incorporates recycled materials, windows, screens, window shades, car doors, old fences, used plywood ramps, shipping boxes, and used billboards into her work.
K. Rio Hito specializes in functional ceramics – pendant lights, tables and clay sculptures. Wood firing gives his pieces a natural, aged look adding character and imperfections. His work is a blend of traditional and innovation.
Instagram.com/riohito
L. Nicole Hixon is a public and installation artist whose sculptural practice holds space for the duality between the industrial and the organic. Her work exists in two distinct forms: living installations sustained by natural systems and symbolic sculptures built from reclaimed manmade materials. Both reflect on life cycles, impermanence, and the human experience within a greater ecological context. Rooted in her mixed heritage and shaped by personal experiences of motherhood and loss, Hixon’s work centers transformation and resilience. Through this duality, she invites viewers to contemplate their place in the world and the materials that shape it. Current Warwick Artist in Residence, and 2 year Grantee of the Sustainable Arts Program through the Orange County Arts Council
M. Joy Hyman works with fabrics, natural pigments, silversmithing, and other diverse techniques to create pieces which are innovative, functional and playful. You will find her set up near the greenhouse in her vintage VW '“Westie” campervan showcasing her latest works!
N. Sharon Klein, a veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 80s and 90s, has had a lush and varied musical life. Deeply personal, edgy and often funny, Klein’s songs and finely crafted guitar playing hits the right notes in many different musical genres.
Sharon will be performing live at the Farm Saturday July 19, 1-2PM
O. Beth Klingher, a lifelong artist and educator, creates mosaic landscapes – both realistic and abstract – to reflect or make sense of the world as she sees it. Her abstract geometric designs portray undulating landscapes and playful patterns of color. In addition to her smaller-scale artwork, Beth has created large mosaic murals that can be seen at hospitals, schools and in communities throughout the Northeast.
P. Eileen MacAvery explores our relationships with memories, family, community, spirituality, nature, and the environment. The interaction of these elements, and the sometimes unlikely pairing of them, is what interests her.
Q. 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.
R. LotuZ is a Multidisciplinary “Artivist” who uses her art to uplift marginalized voices and advocate for systemic change. Through her "creationz," she sparks connection, reflection, introspection, and dialogue- breaking down barriers along the way, challenging perspectives, creatively amplifying the voices of those often unheard, inspiring change and empowerment.
LotuZ is one of 2025’s SAP (Sustainable arts Program) Grantees through the Orange County Arts Council. She will be performing live at the Farm Sunday July 20 - 1PM at or near the barn.
S. Aurora Robson is a visual artist known predominantly for her innovative, meditative work intercepting the plastic waste stream. Robson has developed numerous techniques for sculpting with plastic debris, including fastening, weaving, sewing, threading, ultrasonic and injection welding, and most recently, 3-D printing.
T. Susie Sugarman Lampert’s magical, small scale, mixed media pieces evoke an otherworldly sensibility, with Intricate designs allow us to visit the sensitive space that is Susie’s inner world
U. 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.
V. June Lee Van Dunk is a self-taught, multi-media artist, a tribal member of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation.
Her art brings awareness to what we stand to lose if we don’t continue trying to save our beautiful mountains, endangered wildlife, clean water and sacred sites.
W. Kevin Van Aelst is a New Haven-based artist known for reimagining familiar objects to explore the relationship between the material world and our inner curiosities, fixations, and fears. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and his editorial photographs appear regularly across a variety of publications. Inside the Gold Star Fridge pop-up gallery on a white kitchen fridge, the contents have come to life as a tiny world—transforming an every-day appliance into a stage for surprise, humor, and imagination.
Over 16 Artists showcased 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.
2024 UPAW ARTISTS
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.
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”
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Bethklingher.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/
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/
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.
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
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.
Megan Sweeney is a ceramicist and educator whose 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.
https://www.agrisculpture.com/
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James Tyler – American artist best known for his colossal ceramic ‘brickhead’ sculptures and life size ceramic figures. Brickheads can be seen in parks and sculpture gardens throughout the United States.
Goshen Green Farm is blessed to have one of these “Brickheads” gracing our herb circle. This piece evokes the ethereal nature of time as stylized portraits of everyman and everywoman.
https://www.instagram.com/tylersculpture/
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