LIVINGSTON MANOR - Catskill Art Space announces an exhibition from Jennifer Coates and David Humphrey. Each artist will utilize their own gallery for solo presentations, with a collaborative installation from the married couple in the center gallery. The exhibition will be on view in the ground floor galleries of Catskill Art Space, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor from May 13 through June 17. Exhibition hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m, and Sunday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Both artists fuse heterogeneous ideas into a single image; crashing historical and contemporary themes into each other to draw out hidden longings, anxieties and perspectives. Each uses protagonists and locations to dramatize the vicissitudes of situated personhood.
Coates pulls figures and place from images from the canons of art history, while Humphrey finds sources on walks through urban, corporate, domestic, and rural settings that he documents with casual iPhone snaps. There is a collage sensibility at play in the artists’ work as well; sources and references from a variety of contexts and historical eras cavort and fuse in unlikely ways. Both employ many painterly schemas at the same time - using different modes of representation as protagonists in themselves.
Catskill Art Space (CAS) explores contemporary art practices of emerging and established artists. Through exhibitions, performances, classes, lectures, and screenings, CAS fosters creative community in the Catskills.
Established as Catskill Art Society in 1971, CAS reopened in October 2022 as Catskill Art Space following a major renovation and expansion of its multi-arts center, located in the picturesque hamlet of Livingston Manor in the Western Catskills. CAS presents a rotating slate of exhibitions, performances and other events featuring national and regional talents, alongside long-term installations of works by James Turrell, Sol LeWitt, Francis Cape, and Ellen Brooks. Learn more at catskillartspace.org.
