South Taconic Trail

Brace Mountain Trail is a 3.8 mile out and back trail located near Millerton, NY. It features a waterfall and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for birding & hiking and is accessible from March until November, due to steep rock faces that are most likely impassible in the icy months.

Tactic State Park

Taconic State Park is located along 16 miles of the Taconic Mountain Range, sharing a border with Massachusetts and Connecticut. Two developed areas, Copake Falls and Rudd Pond, offer an extensive trail system with terrain that varies from easy to challenging, offering spectacular views.

The Brace Mountain Trail

Chaseholm Farm

Open Days, once a month during the summer season at the Chaseholm Farm  great opportunity to see the farm from the insight, chill out have some good food and listen some live music.

Farm is located at  115 CHASE ROAD PINE PLAINS, NY 12567

Farm store open all year around on Saturdays 10am-4pm

Great Farm shop to stock up with apples, vegetables, popsicles, home made butter, milk, rose veal & Beef , eggs, cheese and other goodies! Their Garlic is as tasty as it gets.

El Anatsui

EL ANATSUI
Five Decades
May 17 – September 26, 2015

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to celebrate the first anniversary of The School with a solo exhibition of work by El Anatsui, who was just awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale’s highest honor. Five Decades is a comprehensive survey spanning the last fifty years of Anatsui’s celebrated career, from compositions in painting, wood, and clay, to the magnificent metal works for which he is renowned.

Exhibition includes his majestic metal wall-hangings for which Anatsui is best known. Meticulously assembled from discarded aluminum often sourced from liquor bottles, the recycled materials coalesce in exquisite constellations that track postcolonial exchange and global abstract traditions. Stressed World, 2011 is a quintessential example: delicate yet monumental. Hovering between sculpture and painting, the metal constructions defy categorization and have solidified Anatsui’s status as a groundbreaking visual artist of international critical acclaim.

Jack Shainman Gallery was founded in 1984 in Washington, DC, by Jack Shainman and Claude Simard. Soon after opening, the gallery relocated to New York City occupying a space in the East Village before moving to 560 Broadway in Soho and then to its current location at 513 West 20th Street in Chelsea in 1997. In 2013 the gallery added two additional exhibition spaces, one in Chelsea at 524 West 24th Street, the other a 30,000 square foot schoolhouse in Kinderhook, New York.
The focus of the gallery since its inception has been to exhibit, represent and champion artists from around the world, in particular artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America, by mounting major exhibitions of their work in the gallery, presenting artworks at important fairs, securing museum exhibitions and publishing major catalogues and scholarly essays.

Delicate Negotiations

Helen O’Leary ‘Delicate Negotiations’ at the Lesley Heller Gallery

September 9 – October 18, 6 – 8 pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 6-8pm

Artist Helen O’Leary was born in County Wexford, Ireland, and studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin before coming to the United States to continue her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 1987, M.F.A., 1989) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Penn State in 1991 and is currently a Professor of Art there.

Lesley Heller Workspace opened on the Lower East Side in 2010 with a unique program of concurrent solo and guest curated exhibitions in two separate spaces within the gallery. The gallery primarily highlights the work of emerging and mid career artists.

Deep Hollow Road

Deep Hollow Road is a 3.7 miles long walk from Wassaic, road 22 cutting through to road 44. Do not forget to add another 3.7 miles to walk back, which I did forget. It is an easy stroll most of it through the forest, but towards the end of the walk it is mostly large farm lands with less shade to hide from the sun.

The Charcoal Kilns were built in 1825 by Noah Gridle &Son Iron Works.The kilns were used in the production of charcoal, critical to the iron making process of the day. They are a very rare examples remaining from upstate NY’s 19th century iron industry. The kilns were renovated by local owner Allan Shope.

Wassaic Project

The School House

This will be my home from the 2nd September till the end of October 2015. I got selected into a two months art residency at the Wassaic Project. The Wassaic Residency  application is straight forward. Wassaic Project accept 1-6 month proposals for both winter and summer residencies. The deadline for the summer residency is January 15th and for the winter residencies is June 26th yearly. There is a minimal application fee $15 is due but comparing to the average application fees of $30-$40 is relatively affordable.  

Luther Barn

Residents are selected by a review committee composed of the board of directors and professionals in the field. There are two houses, the School House, accommodates 4 artists and The Lodge accommodates 6 artists. The studios for the summer are in the Barn and at the winter is at the Maxon Mills which is one of the most amazing place I ever seen. 

Maxon Mills

Diary of a Peripatetic Artist

What is this blog about? Its about me traveling as an artist discovering new places. Predominantly it is for myself to capture my memories of people and places. I have travelled and lived in places, since I was 18, that I regret not having recorded in some details. It was a friend of mine Erika suggested to start a blog a diary of a peripatetic artist and it struck a chord with me. I always wanted to be a traveller and I guess I am a traveller but it hard to see it that way when you are living it. I am an artist who is in search for some insight, a glance to the unknown, through residencies, places and people.

Keith Nolan Photography