Exhibition
May 18 – October 10, 2025
Al Held Foundation
Boiceville, NY
On the Grounds 2025
Lauren Anderson, Linnéa Gad and Rachel Mica Weiss
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River Valley Arts Collective is pleased to announce solo commissions by Lauren Anderson, Linnéa Gad and Rachel Mica Weiss to be presented as part of On the Grounds 2025. Conceived as distinct projects, the outdoor installations will actively engage the natural and built environment that surrounds the Al Held Foundation studio complex.
About the artists:
Lauren Anderson (b. 1983 Portsmouth, VA) works in expanded notions of painting and sculpture. Observant in how objects, ideas, and images get from Point A to Point B, how perspectives are established, and the scope of forms, substrates,and xportals get them there. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include The Middle Ages, Roundabouts Now, Kingston NY (forthcoming); 48 Hour Biography, Paradise Projects, Philadelphia, PA (2024); Talk Shop, VERSE Workshop, Red Hook, NY (2023); The First Show, CooCoo Barn, Hudson, NY (2020); Lax Attitude, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA (2018); among others. She has been awarded fellowships at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson) and Ox-Bow (MI). Anderson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in Printmaking and received an MFA in Painting from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is currently an Artist-In-Residence at Bard College and lives and works in Kingston, NY.
Linnéa Gad is a visual artist from Stockholm, Sweden who works in sculpture, painting, performance and writing. Her art reflects an interconnected ecosystem, with works in cardboard, metal, bark, and porcelain, all embodying protective shell materials and calcification processes. Her practice is cyclical, with materials and motifs recurring as ideas reappear and transform across mediums, forming an interconnected web that gains depth with each iteration. Gad received her MFA from Columbia University in 2022. Her solo shows include Return of The Mollusk at Astor Weeks in New York (2024), Erratics at Spencer Brownstone in New York (2019) and Luster Pit at RØM in Copenhagen (2018). She has participated in group shows at The Jewish Museum in New York (2022), The Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York (2021) and SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen (2021). The artist has also recently exhibited at Ceysson Bénétière in New York, Beau Travail in Stockholm, Half Gallery in New York and Issues Gallery in Stockholm. In 2023, Gad presented her first public artwork, Shoals, two large-scale sculptures installed in Nolan Park on Governors Island in collaboration with the Billion Oyster Project. She is the recipient of multiple grants from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022.
Rachel Mica Weiss (b. Rockville, MD, 1986) is a sculptor and installation artist based in Gardiner, NY. Her sculpture and large-scale installation work creates a discourse about human boundaries and limits, ranging from the architectural to the topographical, to our own formless psychological constructs. Employing a wide range of materials, Weiss’s work draws attention to the constraints within our physical and psychological spaces, asking us to reimagine those so-called barriers as flexible, passable, porous. Weiss earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College and an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of an Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments (2020) and a San Francisco Foundation Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship (2011). Funded residencies include: Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL (2020); 100 W Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Corsicana, TX (2020); Lux Art Institute Residency, Encinitas, CA (2018); and Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, VT (2015), among others. Weiss has been the subject of eight solo exhibitions sited across the United States, and has created public artworks for venues worldwide, including for the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Airbnb, Seattle, WA; and The Pittsburgh International Airport. Recent projects include: a solo presentation of sculpture for The Armory Show; The Wild Within for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA; and Boundless Topographies, her largest permanent installation to date, funded by the Gates Foundation for the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle. Weiss is represented by Carvalho Park New York.