RVAC in ArtNet

RVAC in ArtNet

August 28, 2020

“I Haven’t Felt This Optimistic for Quite Some Time’: Galleries Are Fleeing Manhattan for Upstate New York. Is It for Good? The inaugural Upstate Art Weekend is kicking off tomorrow in the Hudson Valley,” by Julie Baumgardner.

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Alyson Baker and Candice Madey curated Madness in Vegetables

Alyson Baker and Candice Madey curated Madness in Vegetables

June 15 – November 10, 2019

Alyson Baker and Candice Madey were invited to curate the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s annual summer Hudson Valley artists’ invitational exhibition. The title of the exhibition, Madness in Vegetables, cites the playful title of a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868 who is best known for his turn from the fashionable 19th c. Symbolist movement, instead drawing inspiration from the natural world and a rustic life far from the decadent center of Parisian literary circles.

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RVAC presenting at 2nd Floor Salon Sessions: Art’s Place—The Local in Global

RVAC presenting at 2nd Floor Salon Sessions: Art’s Place—The Local in Global

November 13, 2018

Hosted by Buro Koray Duman, this salon serves as a charrette for the newly established River Valley Arts Collective (RVAC) and a discussion about how scale impacts the relevance and efficacy of contemporary arts institutions in an age of mega museums, multinational galleries, and the worldwide proliferation of art fairs.

Presenters: Alyson Baker and Candice Madey, River Valley Arts Collective, Hudson Valley, NY
Moderator: Koray Duman, Buro Koray Duman

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