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Steven Siegel has been making large scale, sited sculpture since the 1980’s. He has installed dozens of pieces throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. His current work reflects an expansion of his studio practice into photography and film, first with the monumental “Biography” (2008-2013) followed by two award winning shorts, and most recently with “No Wall….”, which is a giant collage, book and movie. A consistent theme is our species’ place in both the landscape and deep time.

Siegel has won awards from the NEA, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and Gunk Foundation among others. His work has been shown at many museums and Marlborough Galleries, among other places. He is currently in the proposal stage for projects in New York City and Switzerland.

Website: www.stevensiegel.net

Instagram: SSiegelStudio FB: Steven Siegel Site and Studio

Bottles With Handle 2017 Astana, Kazakhstan plastics

Tanya Marcuse is an American artist most known for her large-scale photographs investigating the imperiled natural world in elaborately constructed tableau. She studied Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin and earned her MFA from Yale. Tanya’s photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the George Eastman Museum. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter S. Reed Grant, two MacDowell Fellowships and an American Scandinavian Fellowship. Tanya’s books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies, (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Press, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press (2021) and Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024). Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. She is based in the Hudson Valley, NY and teaches Photography at Bard College.

Website: www.tanyamarcuse.com

IG @tanyamarcuse

Nº 10b Book of Miracles (Part I, Kingdom) 62 x 124"

Ruby Palmer was born in 1969 in Boston, MA and grew up in rural Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Her work includes work on paper, painting, sculpture, installation, and wood constructions.

She received a BA in Painting and Drawing at Hampshire College (1988-92). She started experimenting with sculpture and installation in 1998 at the School of Visual Arts (MFA 2000) as a way to work larger and directly with the architecture of the room. In 1999 she was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors.

Ruby has just completed and installed a 16’ x 20’ wall sculpture commissioned by Southwest Air for display at the Albany International Airport. She also has an exhibition of paintings and work on paper at Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY. During summer 2024, she showed work at Onna House in East Hampton, NY. She has exhibited work at Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC (2004, 2014, 2021, 2023). In 2022, she exhibited a site-specific installation and drawings of imaginary places at Turley Gallery. Her work was included in the Mohawk Regional Juried Exhibition at Opalka Gallery 2021, and she was awarded the Chet and Karen Opalka Award. Her work has been shown at the Albany International Airport, Opalka Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, LABspace, The Foundation Gallery at Columbia-Greene Community College, Jeff Bailey Gallery, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, Page Bond Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Instar Lodge, Smack Mellon, Exit Art, and Kendall Art and Design, among others.

Ruby was interviewed by Art Spiel in 2023, and her work has been discussed in reviews by The Albany Times Union, Daily Gazette (Albany), House Beautiful, Roll Magazine, and ArtForum. One of her site-specific installations was featured in the NY Times.

Her work is in many private collections as well as the corporate collections of Fidelity Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Capital Group.

From 2016-2020, Ruby ran ARTalks, an artist lecture series held at the local library in Rhinecliff, NY, which featured two contemporary Hudson Valley-based artists presenting their work. Ruby has lived in Rhinecliff, NY since 2010 with her husband and twin daughters. Her studio is nearby in Red Hook, NY.

Website: www.rubypalmer.com

IG: @rubypalmerstudio

Mid-Hudson River Valley Artists