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SUMMARY:Alaina Enslen: Rewilding
DESCRIPTION:Alaina Enslen: Rewilding\nMarch 28 – May 10\, 2026 \n\nMy newest body of encaustic and textile collages embraces a wilder\, more untamed energy. By deconstructing fabric—fraying\, pulling\, and cutting apart—I allow it to shed its fixed function and become something more vital\, raw\, and expressive. Wax holds these fragments in tension: preserving looseness while amplifying texture\, gesture\, and movement. \n  \nHudson Valley artist\, Alaina Enslen\, merges fiber and encaustics to explore the poetics of memory\, identity\, and transformation. Rooted in personal narrative\, her work engages the tactile and symbolic potential of cloth\, wax\, and paper—materials that carry both cultural significance and intimate resonance. \n\nEnslen has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally to include museums\, galleries\, universities\, and academic conferences in Lisbon\, Porto\, Rio de Janeiro and at other major cities. Enslen is currently represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson\, New York.  \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, March 28\, 3 – 5 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Alaina Enslen\, The Unfurling of a Wild Thread\, encaustic and textile\, 12 x 12 in.\, 2025
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/alaina-enslen-rewilding/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Flux & Form: Wax as a Material
DESCRIPTION:Flux & Form: Wax as a Material\nCurated by Alaina Enslen \nMarch 28 – May 10\, 2026  \n\nThis group exhibition brings together contemporary artists working with wax as a primary material\, many drawing from the ancient encaustic tradition. One of the oldest known painting methods\, encaustic has been used for centuries\, yet continues to evolve through contemporary practices. Inspired by the natural world\, the works in this exhibition explore wax’s capacity to preserve\, transform\, and record time\, bridging historical technique with present-day material inquiry. \nExhibiting artists: Regina Quinn\, Allyson Levy\, Christina Brady\, Michele Randall\, Lorraine Glessner\, Dietlind Vander Schaaf\, Sally Hootnick\, Teri Yacovelli\, and Laura Martinez Bianco. \nThis exhibition is organized by Alaina Enslen and runs concurrently with her solo show\,  Rewilding. \n  \nHudson Valley artist\, Alaina Enslen\, merges fiber and encaustics to explore the poetics of memory\, identity\, and transformation. Rooted in personal narrative\, her work engages the tactile and symbolic potential of cloth\, wax\, and paper—materials that carry both cultural significance and intimate resonance. \n\nEnslen has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally to include museums\, galleries\, universities\, and academic conferences in Lisbon\, Porto\, Rio de Janeiro and at other major cities. Enslen is currently represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson\, New York.  \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, March 28\, 3 – 5 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artists and view the works; light refreshments will be served.\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n  \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Regina Quinn\, A Deceptive Beauty\, encaustics and oils with wax on panel\, 12 x 16 in.
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/flux-form-wax-as-a-material/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTSTAMP:20260501T191652
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SUMMARY:Janine Lambers: Reaching Across
DESCRIPTION:Janine Lambers: Reaching Across\nMay 16 – June 22\, 2026 \n\nIn this time of growing division and discontent I’d like to focus on reaching across perceived boundaries. Perceived because most of the time they are creations of our biases and delusions rather than reality. In my experience\, while these notions are part of life and help us navigate our mundane existence\, they are insignificant in the bigger picture of life. The deeper\, more mysterious quest is finding the way home to unity or paradise / nirvana. All my work comes from a spiritual source teaching love\, goodwill\, peace\, harmony and stillness.  That is the mindset I work in while creating. That is the reality I want to create. \n  \nJanine Lambers is a German born artist working from her studio in Beacon\, NY. Trained under the auspices of the German Guild Academy she graduated as a gilder and during the course of her career developed into an artist. With a deep reverence and understanding of her craft she started to create her art. Over the years Lambers has exhibited her work on occasion but mostly works on commissions such as an 18ft gilded wall mural for a private super yacht and triptychs to national and international clientele. \n\nArtist Statement:\nI started making art in my mind as long as I can remember. Yet\, the path to making ‘real’ pieces was a long one. My upbringing put emphasis on learning a skill that would guarantee a solid basis for life; and I am immensely grateful for my apprenticeship as a gilder as it has awarded me exactly that. Immigrating to the US and more specifically NYC landed me in the world of high end homes and clients that appreciate fine objects. This brought me in contact with incredible art over the years. The inspiration I feel from that is intensifying with each piece of art that springs from my mind. They express a combination of my lived experiences and learned wisdom with the ancient techniques I have honed for many years in new ways. In my ‘living paintings and living objects’ work I explore impermanence by challenging my concept of solidity and permanence. What I perceive to have a solid core or an identifiable form changes with closer inspection. What I see as a solid mass has merely a higher density. This density varies and opens up to where boundaries interweave and connect – where the different forms obscure\ninto one another. \nImpermanence is shown through the choice of different karat gold / precious metals and silver leaf. The more pure the gold leaf the less it will change its color\, the more silver content in it the more it will darken and tarnish over time. Gold symbolizes purity and eternity. Silver symbolizes the decaying aspect of nature. Some of my works are deliberately left unvarnished to allow them to continue to ‘live’ and thereby change their character. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Janine Lambers\, Untying Knots\, mixed media
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/janine-lambers-reaching-across/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Sarah Fortner: Weeds
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fortner: Weeds\nMay 16 – June 22\, 2026 \n\nNothing is more beautiful and alien than a close-up view of a plant. Spots and hairs\, oddly shaped caverns\, unexpected streaks of color; even the humblest daisy reveals itself as a spiral of miniature flowers\, moving from tight green buds at the center through powdery pollen to frayed brown seeds at the edges. An entire life cycle is visible in what we call a simple flower. \nBotanical studies have been a constant in my practice\, a source of both inspiration and renewal. This exhibition continues that exploration\, but focuses on the plants we’ve learned to ignore: the wild flora that populate ditches\, vacant lots\, and forest edges in Orange County\, New York.  Instead of focusing on showy flowers\, I explored the resilient\, unloved\, everyday plants we call weeds.  Rendered as oil paintings\, these plants demand the attention we typically reserve for the rare and precious.  \nAs I began photographing and drawing wild plants for this body of work\, I was dismayed to discover that a large part of my studies were of plants that were not native\, even though I had seen them my entire life.  Some\, such as purple loosestrife and Norway maple\, are considered invasive\, disrupting ecosystems and displacing species that evolved here over millennia. Still\, others\, like white clover and dandelion\, are ubiquitous and naturalized but originally came from across the ocean.  I found a new appreciation for native mountain laurel\, milkweed\, and ephemeral trout lilies\, but inevitably\, my enjoyment of the wild became more tempered.   \nThe presence of non-native plants raises uncomfortable questions. If a plant is harmful to the ecosystem\, does depicting its beauty become complicity? At what point are these plants considered part of the landscape? Are attempts to control their spread futile? I’ve turned a critical eye to my own backyard and have begun replacing ornamentals with native plants.   \nThe work focuses on intimate views of common wild plants\, exploring stems\, flowers\, seeds\, and decay with equal interest. Each work notes whether its subject is native\, naturalized\, or invasive. These weeds are everywhere\, thriving in the margins we often overlook. They’re beautiful. They’re problematic. They’re persistent. I remind myself that a weed is simply a plant deemed unwanted. \n  \nAbout the artist:  \nSarah Fortner is a multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator residing in Orange County\, New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area\, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice from the University of California\, Berkeley\, graduating with Highest Honors in 2000.  She relocated to New York City in 2001 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College. Since 2008\, Fortner has been based in Orange County\, New York\, where she founded the Washingtonville Artist Collective in 2014. From 2018 to 2024\, she served as Executive Director of the Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, a nonprofit arts organization in Montgomery\, NY. She currently serves as Chair of the Kurt Seligmann Art Committee at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf\, NY and works as a grant writer for SUNY Orange in Middletown\, NY. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nArt receptions and the galleries at WRCA are free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Sarah Fortner\, Milk Thistle\, oil on canvas\, 24 x 18 in.
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/sarah-fortner-weeds/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\, A Regional Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\nA Regional Exhibition Juried by Janine Lambers\nMay 16 – June 21\, 2026 \n\nCall for entries – submissions due April 20\, 2026 \nPROSPECTUS \n  \nIn addition to Janine Lambers solo show Reaching Across\, Lambers will jury a companion exhibition\, BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\, featuring botanical inspired artworks which will be on view concurrently in the Patchett Gallery. \nAbout the Juror: Janine Lambers is a German born artist working from her studio in Beacon\, NY. Trained under the auspices of the German Guild Academy\, she graduated as a gilder. During the course of her career\, with a deep reverence and understanding of her craft\, she started to create her own works of art. Lambers exhibits her work internationally and has received numerous commissions including site-specific works such as an 18ft gilded wall mural for a private super yacht. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artists and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nArt receptions and the galleries at WRCA are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n 
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/botanical-observations-a-regional-juried-exhibition/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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