S.C.A.P.E Sculpture Park

About the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild provides a vibrant center for arts and crafts in the beautiful and

unique rural community of Woodstock, NY, while preserving the historic and natural

environment of one of the earliest utopian arts colonies in America. It offers a unique and

inspiring combination of residency, exhibition, and performance programs that encourage

creative collaboration among a diverse array of artists, students, arts professionals, and the

public

S.C.A.P.E. Exhibition Brings Contemporary Art to Woodstock, NY

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is thrilled to announce the opening of

S.C.A.P.E. (Sculpture, Community, Arts, Peace, Environment.) Curated by Linda Dubillier and

Jen Dragon, this biennial outdoor sculpture installation showcases the innovative works of

contemporary artists in a serene and healing environment. This year’s exhibition will take place

at the picturesque Woodstock Spa at 62 Ricks Road, adjacent to the historic Byrdcliffe Colony.

The opening reception is scheduled for **Friday, June 13, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM**.

S.C.A.P.E. will feature a diverse range of sculptures that explore themes of abstraction and the

intersection of nature and artistry.

Each of these accomplished artists will contribute their unique perspectives and styles,

transforming the Woodstock Spa into a dynamic gallery of outdoor sculpture that invites visitors

to experience contemporary art within the natural beauty of the Catskills.

The vibrant community of Woodstock, NY, known for its rich artistic heritage and cultural

significance, provides the perfect backdrop for this exhibition. Attendees will be able to engage

with the sculptures in a tranquil setting that promotes reflection, creativity, and connection to the

environment.

Join us in celebrating the opening of S.C.A.P.E. and immerse yourself in the transformative

power of contemporary art. We invite art enthusiasts, families, and community members to

experience this extraordinary outdoor sculpture exhibition and to enjoy an evening of art,

conversation, and inspiration.

**For more information about S.C.A.P.E., please contact The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at

845-679-2079 or jen@woodstockguild.org.

Participating Artists

  • Eileen M Power with her piece Resistance

    Eileen M. Power

    Eileen M. Power has had a lifelong studio practice working with tactile materials. Spontaneity and response are important elements of her work, which ranges from monotypes to large-scale outdoor sculptural installations. Raised by immigrant parents, Eileen M. Power lives and works in Woodstock, NY

  • Stephen Whisler with Uvula

    Stephen Whisler

    Stephen Whisler's art practice consists of sculpture, drawings, performances, photography, furniture, and guerrilla art actions. Working in a variety of media, Whisler uses the technique that is most appropriate for a particular project and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Stephen Whisler lives and works in Saugerties, NY. 

  • Untitled (waves)

    Bernard Klevickas

    Bernard Klevickas is a sculptor who utilizes industrial processes in an expressionist manner to create objects of meticulous refinement with an interest in exploring the possibilities of surface. With a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bernard Klevickas has been included in many group and juried exhibitions in New York City, the Hudson Valley, Chicago, and in Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Florida, and Bermuda.

  • Pascal Knapp

    Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, Pascal Knapp has exhibited extensively around the world as the creator of the original templates for the CowParade. Known as the largest and most successful contemporary street art fundraisers in the world, Knapp created several cow-shaped sculptures to provoke laughter and bring communities together. Apart from cows, Knapp works abstractly in stone and metal and maintains his studio in Upstate, NY.

  • Alex Kveton

    Originally from the Czech Republic, Alex Kveton’s work has been widely exhibited and can be found in the permanent collections of the Czech National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Art Ostrava Czech Republic, MoMA New York City, and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, GA, as well as numerous private and corporate collections in Europe, the USA, South America, Canada, and Russia. He currently lives and works in Saugerties, NY, with his wife, Barbara.

  • Lowell Miller

    Lowell Miller is a sculptor, poet, and conceptual artist. In his work, dry wit is expressed in ironic puns and visual paradoxes. His sculptural focus is on body energy and feelings, and seeks the continuity of inner experience since prehistoric/primal times. Originally from Princeton, NJ., Lowell Miller lives and works near Woodstock, NY.

  • Stuart Farmery

    Born in Munster, Germany, and educated at Central School of Art, London, U.K., Stuart Farmery moved his studio to New York City in 1980 and later to Ghent, in Upstate New York. Farmery has exhibited extensively, most recently in the Kaatsbaan Sculpture Park, Tivoli, NY, the Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck, NY, the Byrdcliffe Colony, Woodstock, NY, and the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY. 

  • Erika deVries 

    Erika DeVries is a visual artist, arts educator, mother of three boys, seeker, fairy tale reader, and believer. She is currently working in her studio and with her partner Matt Dilling on the larger visionary art project that is Sacred Space in Kingston, NY.

  • Wendy Klemperer

    Wendy Klemperer received a B.A. in biochemistry from Harvard University and a BFA in sculpture and painting from the Pratt Institute. She has exhibited internationally and has attended several prestigious residencies at the Skowhegan School, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sculpture Space, and Denali National Park.

  • Ian Laughlin

    Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Ian Laughlin graduated from Ilam University and moved to New York City in the early 1980s. Laughlin's work brings attention to unsustainable issues and offers a constructive alternative expressed through sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, digital media, sound, and/or video. Ian Laughlin's sonic sculptural works collaborate with musicians, most recently with the percussionist David Van Tieghem in front of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Ian Laughlin maintains a studio in Chichester, NY.

  • Suzy Sureck

    is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist whose drawing, writing, sculpture, and video installations involve physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, and the poetics of shadow and light. Cross-pollinating disciplines, she merges traditional media and technology to bring nature’s wisdom to audiences experientially through text, image, audio, and video.  Suzy Sureck lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley and is an educator at Pratt Institute and DIA.

  • Gregory Steel

    Gregory Steel's uses welded metal to capture and eternalize movement. Long interested in metaphysical ideas, Steel earned a Doctorate in Philosophy and employs a variety of materials and techniques in his art, including video, object making, digital imaging, book publishing, installation, performance, and innovative technology, as well as traditional sculptural methodologies. Gregory Steel is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and New Media at Indiana University, Kokomo.

  • Portia Munson

    Portia Munson is an American visual artist who works in sculpture, installation, painting, and digital photography. She focuses on themes related to the environment and feminism. Her work includes large-scale agglomerations of mass-produced plastic found objects arranged by color, small oil paintings of individual domestic found objects, and digital photographs of flowers, weeds, and dead animals found near her home in upstate New York.

  • Alison McNulty

    Alison McNulty is an artist, educator, curator, and gallery director based in Newburgh, NY. Her interconnected roles serve a collective spirit of community and co-mentorship that tends to the margins, values diversity and nuance, and embraces the non-human.