April 19 to August 30, 2014 an outdoor, trailside public art installation
The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Outdoor Discovery Center 100 Muser Dr off Angola Rd Cornwall, NY
Curator's Notes 6.24.14 The Artists and the Work
Art In The Wild is a dozen artists' responses to nature, to the CYCLES in nature. The works vary in scale, complexity and interactivity. What’s unusual about this is that it is outside, in nature. It is not protected. Each of these responses will change --decay perhaps-- during the time of the exhibit. At each visit, Art In The Wild is a little bit different from what it was or will be. It is meant to provoke "nature-thinking" or "organic-thinking", where the boundaries between man and nature are blurred; where things are a bit out of control; where people can be safely curious about the ambiguity found in Nature.
The other special feature of this event is its wide range of scale--from a larger-than-life bee or wand to a small stone salamander to hidden deerheads and bird baths. It invites every visitor into a Hunt, a Discovery, a series of Surprises about nature and art. About 15,000 people in the New York Metropolitan Area are estimated to see the exhibit during its four-month run.
This project is generously inspired by a similar one, now in its second year, at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, PA . Daniel Mack is involved in both projects.
Curator's Statements:
chaotic that a category can allow. And every human has an artistic relationship with nature.
“An art exhibit, outdoors at a Nature Center, is that magic combination of the man-made object in contact
with the relentless forces of weather, light, rain, animals. It takes art from the confines of the gallery and
plunges it into the turmoil of everyday life. The exhibit is never the same from visit to visit.”
Our life -- and the life the entire world around us -- is based in Cycles: We all understand beginnings, middles, ends and starting again… Cycles can be usual and regular, like breathing, the seasons and the days, but even those have surprises, accidents and coincidences that make each cycle a little different.
MID-JUNE REPORT
It's
been about seven weeks since you all installed your work at the Nature
Museum. Here’s a report as the fields, trees, shrubs are growing in and recasting the
work in dreamy ways:
10:30 and 12:30 Dancer Julie Lyon Rose: movement in nature “responses” to the Installations. A professional dancer, choreographer and vocalist, She has a private practice in Accord, NY, offering homeopathic consultation, body-centered psychotherapy and play therapy.
Press: Canvas 4/14 Cornwall Local 4/25
Events/Activities/Openings
April 19 2 pm The Stick Lopping (ribbon-cutting?) Najim Chechen, Amy Lewis, Tim Gallagher, Cary Baker,
Charnan Lewis, Riva Weinstein, Linda Byrne and Jean-Marc Superville-Sovak were there.
Julie Medwin and Philip Monteleoni were there in the morning having followed Dan's incorrect
times notices perfectly).
3 pm Riva Weinstein and Linda Byrne led a quiet walking
meditation: Walking In Circles of Art/Life/Nature
celebrating connections between art, life and nature
April 26 10-3 Hildreth Potts, Najim Chechen, Caroline Schultz, Amy Lewis,
Tim Gallagher, Philip Monteleoni and Friends of Dirt were
there. Daniel Mack guided Tours at 9, 11, 1:30.
Najim Chechen had a small visitor ride on his Emperor Bee
The Orange County Artists Open Studio Tour is scheduled around this time and we may keep the work here another week or so...
Exhibit Fades Out Monday Aug 25 Start Artwork Removal
Saturday, August 31 Artwork removal
deadline