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In the exhibition Pixerina Witcherina Magisterium, curator Julie Heffernan brings together the work of Joan Bankemper, Ruth Marten and Jenny Lynn McNutt in the abundant pleasures of "too muchness”. Based on the playworld of children, Pixerina Witcherina captures the whirlwind of rich tapestries, humorous profiles, and abundant colors of fantasy worlds. ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Joan Bankemper - Joan Bankemper received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Upon moving to NYC she radically challenged her academic training to site specific installations using vegetation and the community as her primary medium; her ‘social practice’ was fully incorporated in her art making. Bankemper has shown with Creative Time, Inc., NY; The New Museum, NY; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY. Bankemper received grants from The George Sugarman Foundation and the NEA. The McColl Center of Visual Arts awarded her the Gabi Award.
Ruth Marten - Formerly a book and fashion illustrator as well as a tattooist in her early years, Marten brings a consummate artistry to her drawings, with such polished rendering skills that whatever transformations she makes to the original print are effectively invisible to the viewer. One gets the sense that the original print is finally actually finished with Marten’s maneuvers. An ease and suppleness characterize her linework, lifting the original print to another plane of beauty, according to the delight one feels in the company of an absurdist’s wit or encountering a trompe l’oeil surprise.
Jenny Lynn McNutt - Jenny Lynn McNutt is a visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing and ceramic sculpture. Originally from Tennessee, McNutt has spent the past 30 years living and working in Brooklyn, NY, and recently set up a studio in an old church in upstate NY as well. McNutt earned an MFA from Yale School of Art and was a Fulbright fellow to West and Central Africa. For her documentary work in West Africa she received an Eastman Foundation grant. McNutt has shown her work both nationally and internationally, including North Africa and China. In 2019 her ceramic sculptures were included in the American Academy of Arts & Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. Other recent exhibitions in NYC include: Ceramics + Drawing into Sculpture, Anthro-Shift, and Cosmophilia. Her work will be featured in an upcoming group show entitled Biophilia at Pamela Salisbury in Hudson, NY, and in 2025, a solo exhibition of her work will be presented at the New York Studio School, where she currently teaches.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Julie Heffernan - is an American painter whose painting reflects on environmental, (art) historical, feminist, literary, social, and political subjects. Heffernan was raised in Northern California, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from University of California at Santa Cruz, and earned a Master of Fine Arts at Yale School of Art. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University and Co-founder of the journal Painters on Paintings.
About the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild:
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is a regional center for the arts located in Woodstock, New York. From its 250-acre mountainside campus and its arts and performance center in the village of Woodstock, Byrdcliffe offers an integrated program of exhibitions, performance, classes, workshops, symposia, and artists’ residencies. Byrdcliffe embraces all disciplines of artistic endeavor in a collaborative spirit, and seeks creative partnership with other not for profit and educational entities in order to leverage its unique resources for the benefit of the cultural life of the Hudson Valley region. Byrdcliffe was founded in 1902 and has operated as a nonprofit organization since 1938.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498-1233, United States,Woodstock, New York
