ARTIST STUDIOS: Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory,
8 N. Cherry Street
multiple artist studios & featured artists
Additional Featured Artists: Basha Ruth Nelson, Jeffrey Aman, Clara Rodriguez, and more
Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory is a Hudson River Housing revitalization project with a focus on food, arts, and community. The historic factory building has been associated with textile, fiber arts, printmaking, serving formerly as a leather manufactory, garment factory, and printing press. Currently, the building houses several community spaces like The Poughkeepsie Open Kitchen, PUF Studios, The Art Affect, as well as several apartments. Follow @pkunderwearfactory to stay in the loop of local businesses like Little Loaf Bake Shop, Sundaze Burgers, Sisters Breakfast, and more, along with pop up movies hosted by Story Screen Presents.
During Open Studios:
Collaborative Family Friendly Free Activities
HRH Made - screen printing (t-shirts & totes)
Collaborative relief printing
Open Press Project
Letter Press & Etching Presses
Artist Demos
The Brain and Body Coalition hosts Narcan Training on Saturday at 3pm, 4pm and 5pm. Sign up here! Thank you for offering this training!
ARTIST: PENNY DELL (she/her)
drawing, painting and printmaking
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
"I was born in Mexico City surrounded by great art —pyramids, stone carvings, murals and print. In addition to talented teachers who taught me how to draw, my father collected the works of artist Francisco DosAmantes, a member of the renowned Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP). I studied these prints intensely as I grew up, taking to printmaking like a duck to water when the opportunity finally presented. It was a workshop taught by Printmaker, Dorothy Cochran, who connected me to best practices in Printmaking and a Charles Brand press. It’s been a fascinating evolvement in technique for me— the artwork builds up in layers, often starting with a woodcut monoprint, then the application of collage elements. Charcoal, India ink, stitching, gilding and encaustic often finish off the work, giving it a translucency, saturated color and added impact.
My decades of drawing, painting and printmaking come together in works that combine all three with other adventurous mediums. Presently, I use collage, encaustic, handmade paper and gilding to layer over a print—building pattern and color. Hexagons cut from the decorative interiors of envelopes have been a driving force. I layer tirelessly and final works with very different appearance and impact are the result. My newest work is pushing to become more & more abstract as I work with the hot encaustic, the color prompts liner up to be more immediate and emotional—a struggle between plan and impulse."
What identities of yours are important to you? How have they impacted your practice?
"Gender equity has been an important issue in my life, and I have supported many organizations that strive to create opportunities for women in the arts. In 1991 I joined the National Association for Women Artists, founded in 1889 with just this mission. I was honored 2005-2007 to lead this wonderful organization as its president. Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale is another important organization in my life. Time, and uninterrupted access to Printing Presses, through two residencies in 2003 & 2008 helped me build my body of work and centered me in my own aesthetic & practice."
What to expect at Penny's studio?
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Interactive visitor experience: A selection of printing plates, and ink & materials for hand printing
ARTIST: TOM ELLMAN
computational artist, digital art
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
"I call myself a “computational artist”. Wile not commonly used, this term is broad enough to cover the range of works that I make: computer animation, interactive digital Video and generative art. In my animated and interactive work, I create 3D spaces in virtual reality. I paste images onto the surfaces of the virtual world and provide a means for a viewer to navigate through the space and view the images. The resulting work provides an unusual context for viewing the images, while the images add ambience to the virtual space. Generative art can be roughly defined as follows: The artist writes a computer program. The running program generates an image. The code usually has switches and parameters that the programmer / artist can manipulate to obtain a variety of resulting images. Thus generative art comes in families of related work. For this reason, I arrange my generated images in groups that suggest relationships among the members of a family."
ARTIST: RANDI CHALFIN (she/her)
painting, collages, watercolors and mono prints
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
"My artistic journey started at five from a brick house to NYC in the early 80s. I supported my art career predominately painting through textile design, fashion design and teaching.I moved upstate 30 years ago after living in NYC for 30 years. I taught for many years and exhibited nationally and international most recently in Hamburg,Germany in a solo show. I also do art and sand therapy."
What identities of yours are important to you? How have they impacted your practice?
"My identities that most resinate with me is place inner and outer connecting to the world of cultures and dreams from the unconscious."
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lynne has been working as a ceramic artist in Poughkeepsie for over 30 years. She creates functional stoneware and porcelain pottery as well as alternative fired work such as pit fired , salt/ soda fired and sagger fired work.
