THE BARN ON BERME: FIRE will transform a 1920’s stable into a site-specific art event on a working farm in Kerhonkson, NY. Ten internationally recognized artists will collaborate to create their own solo exhibitions for this Year of The Fire Horse.
This will be the 4th time THE BARN ON BERME participates in UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, and each year we strive to make a bigger impact. Located in a beautiful rural setting, THE BARN ON BERME embodies everything the emerging art scene of the Catskills has to offer.
Throughout the weekend we will offer additional programming like musical performances.
Thursday June 25 5-8pm Opening Reception
Friday June 26 3 - 8pm
Saturday June 27 12- 8pm
Sunday June 28 12-5pm
Featured Artists:
Manju Shandler, the creator of The Barn on Berme, employs her background as a professional puppet builder to create modern fables that dissect contemporary life through a mythic lens.
Michela Martello synthesizes traditional and contemporary influences of multiple cultures, collected through extensive travel and residencies abroad, to create art in a universal language. She works in a variety of media.
Johnny Thornton has exhibited his paintings and installations widely, working both upstate and in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He is the Owner/Head Curator of Established Gallery and the Executive Director of Arts Gowanus.
Patricia Fabricant is an abstract painter and curator. Her densely layered, maximalist paintings investigate movement, pattern, gesture, and the optical vibration of color on color.
Patricia Miranda is an artist, curator, and educator. Her work uses vintage lace and textiles repurposed from women around the world, committing to the meaning and history carried in these hand-me-down materials.
Andrew Snemos is a painter and sculptor whose work utilizes sardonic humor, primitive forms, vivid colors, and cultural iconography to encourage the viewer’s inquiry.
Natale Adgnot is a sculptor who creates abstract soft sculptures and wall panels. Focusing on the connotations of her materials, she layers high- and low-brow elements to tell the story of her life.
Shiri Mordechay’s assembles ink paintings on paper into immersive three-dimensional worlds. These cinematic elements pass through time and space, creating a vacuum that sucks in information while spitting out bodily fluids, humor, horror and pleasure.
Jess Levey is a multimedia artist whose current practice involves photographic lightbox assemblages exploring the relationship between the feminine body and the landscape.
Mayrav Estrin is a recent graduate of Brown University. Through writing and filmmaking, she questions consumption, sexuality and spirituality through hilariously tragic scenarios.