Front Room Gallery

Zoe Wetherall, “Living Lines” opens today 4-6pm!!!

Thank you and Fiona Perkocha for the review of solo exhibition opening tomorrow, Saturday September 13th from 4-6pm
“It’s easy to become absorbed in our human-scale infrastructure, losing sight of the true scope of our presence and the broader reality beyond. Zoe Wetherall’s solo exhibition at Front Room Gallery, New York running from September 14 to October 13, 2024, challenges us to zoom out and contemplate the vast expanse through her striking aerial photographs.
To capture the Earth from hundreds of feet above, Wetherall ascends in a hot air balloon, giving herself only split seconds to choose the perfect scene. Her direct bird’s-eye view eliminates any sense of height in the images, allowing subtle patterns within architecture and landscapes to emerge. By compressing our intricate, anthropocentric world into two-dimensional images, Wetherall highlights the geometric patterns that arise where nature meets human influence.
…” - Fiona Perkocha read full article: https://museemagazine.com/culture/2024/8/26/front-room-gallery-zoe-wetherall

Amazing how time flies! “The Salvage of Flight 1549” opened 15 years ago today.

Check out three works by from this series, on view in “Machines and Materials” at Newark Academy

Love this piece included in “The Presence of Absence” at curated by on view through October 13th
The Presence of Absence highlights the work of 6 artists whose interpretations of the world are shaped by what is absent, what is present, and the interaction between the two. Each artist embraces these notions from different perspectives, creating work that explores the nature of experiences, materials, tools, process, forms and conceptual frameworks.

Joanne Ungar, Cynthia Reynolds, David X. Levine, Liz Jaff, Jeanne Heifetz and Anthony Amiewalan create objects that evoke associations with their presence, while conjuring associations with what is absent as well. In their work, absence is a presence with an essence of its own. When we perceive an object, we focus on its presence, but we are also aware of what is absent in that particular space or context. What is absent in these works is not invisible, it is unspoken, and also indispensable.



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Stop by today from 12-5 for a final look! “Symbolic Convergence” features works by

Amy Hill artist spotlight at
Love her “Hybird” paintings!
Stop by booth 100, the fair is open September 5th-9th with regular viewing hours 12pm-7pm

We are thrilled with the article on upcoming exhibition featured in !! A big thanks to Meer and Rosario Ana Vizioli!!
Zoe Wetherall’s solo show of photography opens September 14th at the Front Room Gallery 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.
Front Room is proud to present the photographic works of Zoe Wetherall. This is Wetherall’s 2nd solo exhibition with Front Room Gallery and her first in our Hudson exhibition space. In this exhibition of semi-abstract aerial photographs, Wetherall focuses on the geometry created when manmade and natural objects come together. From a few hundred feet Wetherall photographs straight downward, excluding the horizon, sky, or any visual reference point. Wetherall sees subtle patterns hidden in architecture and landscape. The lack of a visible horizon flattens the perspective and depth and accentuates the subtle textures, geometric patterns and hues.

Wetherall photographs from the basket of a hot air balloon, giving an element of performance to her photographs, albeit from behind the lens. This tenuous method allows her a certain amount of control of the elements around her like distance and timing. She can make decisions before and during the shooting, but she can not go back and retake a landscape that she has gently wafted over.

Wetherall’s photograph Light and dark reads like a Mark Rothko painting, with two thirds of the horizontal surface as a field of mottled brown, and one third as a light grey and beige impasto. The textures feel as if they have been scraped on with a pallette knife. On closer inspection the small rectangles and squares in the center are sheds(?) What had seemed to be a color field painting is a photograph taken from a balloon over Charlottesville, VA.

Read entire article here: https://www.meer.com/en/82010-zoe-wetheralls-photographic-works

“Symbolic Convergence” is on view through September 1st.

featuring works by

Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray.
The gallery is open today until 5 pm and next week, 12-5 Saturday and Sunday.

July 13th- September 1st, 2024

Save the date! Zoe Wetherall solo show opens Saturday September 14th, 4-6pm

On view September 14th-October 13th, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, September 14th, 4 - 6
Fri-Sun 12 - 5 & by appt

Front Room is proud to present the photographic works of Zoe Wetherall. This is Wetherall’s 2nd solo exhibition with Front Room Gallery and her first in our Hudson exhibition space. In this exhibition of semi-abstract aerial photographs, Wetherall focuses on the geometry created when manmade and natural objects come together.

Ken Butler’s “Crocodile Violin”

On view through September 1st
Symbolic Convergence”

featuring works by

Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray.

In this three person exhibition each artist has taken a different approach to the use of symbolism and collage.

A big thank you to and for the mention in their “Upstate Art Weekend 2024 Recap”
Another Dose of Art Overload” by Taliesin Thomas

“Last year was a blissed-out Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) adventure: this year I doubled down on the annual art-overdose opportunity in our region and managed to visit 25 of the 145 participant listings included in the UAW 2024 program. My three-day art-bender was fueled by an all-out obsession with the region’s cheerful art scene. How did it go?” “…From there I dashed over to Front Room Gallery on Warren Street in Hudson to encounter “Symbolic Convergence,” a group show including outrageous futuristic patterns and color combinations in paintings by Linda Ganjian, reconfigured musical instruments-as-sculpture by Ken Butler, and a series of lonely basketball court photographs by Sean Hemmerle.
….” Taliesin Thomas, Chronogram

Read the full article here: https://www.chronogram.com/arts/upstate-art-weekend-2024-recap-21294244

If you are out and about for stop by for a visit to “Room for Self-reflection” installation in our back, back gallery.

Excellent to have new works by on view in the back gallery.
Hand blown glass work, Nebula Galaxy and Nebula Smoky (hand blown glass with woven steel wire)

Stay tuned for details about Beth Darcy’s solo show at the gallery in 2025!!

Image: Beth Dary with her works, and a detail of photograph, “Weeks 297”

Ken Butler () maker of form-meets-function instruments, will be performing here at Front Room at 3pm. See you there!

Performances and Events at the Front Room this Saturday!!
This weekend celebrate Upstate Art Weekend in the Hudson Valley

Our current exhibition
“Symbolic Convergence” is on view featuring works by
Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray is on view Friday- Sunday 12-5pm

SATURDAY PERFORMANCES FEATURE

3PM: Ken Butler Live Performance of Hybrid Instruments and AXIOMATIX video projection in conjunction with works on view “Symbolic Convergence”

2PM AND 3PM “The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI”
Ursula Endlicher VR Tree Tour in Hudson

Please join us for a new round of AR walks of “The HTMLgardeness – Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI” by on Saturday, July 20th, at 2PM and 4PM at Front Room Gallery, 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534.

Very excited to extend the HTMLgardeness’ surroundings to the Hudson Valley where she’ll inhabit several new trees!

We will meet at Front Room Gallery and then venture out into the streets around the gallery at 2pm and also at 4PM! With phone and my new WebAR “bARk” in hand, we’ll explore the HTMLgardeness’ new trees, locate her portals, and discover her choreographies, while sampling tree-specific drinks and snacks during each walk!

The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI is a series of Augmented Reality walks and experiences triggered by scanning the bark of trees, a natural QR-code. A critical yet playful series it features the character of the HTMLgardeness, played by myself, reflecting on climate and systems, code and fragility, while battling with AI-generated harvest.

Join us for a live performance by legendary builder of hybrid instruments, Ken Butler this Saturday, July 20th at 3PM. Presented as part of the exhibition, “Symbolic Convergence” on view July 13th-September 1st, 2024 at the Front Room Gallery, 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.

Ken Butler is a groundbreaking artist known for pushing the boundaries of both visual and musical art. With a flair for the unconventional, Butler’s work often combines everyday objects with unexpected elements, creating pieces that are as thought-provoking as they are visually striking. His instruments are not only playable but also serve as commentary on societal norms and human experiences. Created primarily from urban detritus, the hybrid instruments express a poetic spirit of reinvention and hyper-utility with hidden meanings and associations. String instruments become body, tool, weapon, toy, symbol, machine, phallus, creature, sculpture, icon, and voice.
Instruments made by the artist
also presenting the video AXIOMATRIX

Join us tomorrow for the opening of “Symbolic Convergence”featuring works by
Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray.

July 13th- September 1st, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, July 13th, 4-6PM
Saturday, July 20th 3PM
Ken Butler Hybrid Live Performance

Image: installation of Hybrid Visions

Opening this Saturday!!! “Symbolic Convergence”
featuring works by
Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray.

July 13th- September 1st, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, July 13th, 4-6PM


Image: Melissa Murray “Before You Learned to Harness The Stars”
40in x 30in Acrylic and Gouache on Paper

Hoffman Island by Phil Buehler
Today is the final day to view, “No Man Is an Island: Poetry in the Ruins of the New York Archipelago” a solo exhibition of photographs by Phil Buehler

This exhibition includes photographs that span fifty years of work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting sites and abandoned architecture on the many islands that surround Manhattan. Including Ellis Island, North and South Brother Island, Swinburne island, Hart Island, Ex*****on Rocks, Coney Island, Staten Island, Rat Island, Hoffman Island, Liberty Island, Pollepel Island, Davids Island.

“No Man Is an Island: Poetry in the Ruins of the New York Archipelago,” on view now that the gallery.

This exhibition includes photographs that span fifty years of work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting sites and abandoned architecture on the many islands that surround Manhattan. Including Ellis Island, North and South Brother Island, Swinburne island, Hart Island, Ex*****on Rocks, Coney Island, Staten Island, Rat Island, Hoffman Island, Liberty Island, Pollepel Island, Davids Island.

Thank you very much Greta Rainbow and for the insightful article on exhibition!!!
Full article: https://hyperallergic.com/920471/phil-buehler-photographs-forgotten-islands-surrounding-new-york-city
The Forgotten Islands Surrounding New York City
Photographer Phil Buehler’s fascination with the landforms started with a canoe trip to then-abandoned Ellis Island at the age of 17.
Brooklyn-based photographer Phil Buehler has a few tips for visiting abandoned places: Enter through doors, not windows; “no trespassing” signs must be posted conspicuously to be valid; don’t carry things like spray paint; and if you get caught, come out looking sheepish and with your camera gear in hand.

“I just explain that I’m trying to rescue history,” Buehler told Hyperallergic. “I’ve always gotten off. Except once.”

Buehler is the expert — he’s been photographing the desolate and derelict fringes of urbanscapes for the last 50 years. A new solo show at Front Room Gallery in Hudson, New York compiles his documentation of the forgotten islands surrounding New York City. On view May 25 through June 23, No Man Is an Island places film photos shot in 1974 in conversation with drone footage taken earlier this year. From Ellis Island’s view of the Twin Towers to the Staten Island Boat Graveyard to the million-person cemetery on Hart Island, Buehler’s compositions are still and sometimes eerie, devoid of people but rich with fantasies of lost stories, or stories never told.
Continue reading the full article in Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/920471/phil-buehler-photographs-forgotten-islands-surrounding-new-york-city/

Phil Buehler in the New York Times!!!
Check out today’s Opinion section to see the film by Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel about Ellis Island as an abandoned space in the early 1970’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/ellis-island-immigration.html
See some of these photographs in person at the Front Room Gallery as well as a continuation of this series with images of islands around New York. On through the end of June at the gallery.

A Film from 1974 Offers a Rare Glimpse Inside an Abandoned Ellis Island
In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island.
By Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel

Stop by for a visit to “No Man is an Island” opening today!

Happy Mother’s Day!! 🌸🌹🌺🌸