S.C.A.P.E. | Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 2025 Bienniel Sculpture Part at Woodstock Spa

Exhibition design, banners and visual concept: Susanna Ronner Graphic Design Catalogue design: Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

2025 BYRDCLIFFE BIENNIAL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION

S.C.A.P.E. curated by Linda Dubilier and Jen Dragon

June 13 - October 26, 2025

WOODSTOCK SPA 62 Ricks Road · Woodstock, NY · 12498

Bernard Klevickas, Red Assembly

S.C.A.P.E. poster: Susanna Ronner Graphic Design

S.C.A.P.E.

S.C.A.P.E. (Sculpture, Community, Arts, Peace, Environment) is the 2025 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s biennial sculpture installation installed on the grounds of the Woodstock Spa. Curated by Linda Dubilier, owner of the Woodstock Spa, and Jen Dragon, Director of Exhibitions for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, this biennial outdoor sculpture installation showcases the innovative works of contemporary artists in a serene and healing environment. The outdoor installation features artworks that explore abstraction in various media united by their intersection of nature and artistry. Each of these accomplished artists contributes a unique perspective and style, transforming the pastures and woodlands of the Woodstock Spa into a dynamic gallery of outdoor sculpture installed within the natural beauty of the Catskills.

Known for its rich artistic heritage and cultural significance, Woodstock, NY, serves as the backdrop for this exhibition, where visitors can engage with contemporary art in a tranquil setting that fosters reflection, creativity, and a connection to the environment.

Participating 2025 artists include: Erika deVries, Stuart Farmery, Tom Gottlesben, William Greenwood, Wendy Klemperer, Bernard Klevickas, Pascal Knapp, Alex Kveton, Ian Laughlin, James McDermid, Alison McNulty, Lowell Miller, Eva Melas, Portia Munson, Eileen M. Power, Gregory Steel, Suzy Sureck, and Stephen Whisler

(left) Gregory Steel, Still Standing, 2017 | (right) Alex Kveton, Metropolis III

Pascal Knapp, (left) Swedish Stitch | (right) Osteocrat #5

Stuart Farmery, (left) Wave-Blue | (right) Yellow Grasp

(above) Tom Gottlesben, Scapes, courtesy Elena Zang Gallery (right) Erika DeVries, Beloved Community, 2015 - ongoing

Erika deVries, Beloved Community (Richard, Nelson, Conchi, Zane, matteline, Patty), 2015 - ongoing

James McDermid, Untitled, courtesy Jen Dragon

(right) Alison McNulty, Tended and Released, 2025

Lowell Miller, Flesh in Bronze

Lowell Miller, Skirt, 2025

Ian Laughlin, Flow, 2025

Ian Laughlin, Flow, 2025

Alex Kveton, (left) Nebula | (right) Moderato For Seven Players

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Wendy Klemperer, Running Wolves

Stephen Whisler, Uvula Arch, 2023 (left) | Eileen M. Power, Resistance, 2025 (right)

Bernard Klevickas, Untitled (Waveforms) photo: Linda Peckham Dubilier 2025

Opposite Eileen M. Power, Resistance, (top left); Stephen Whisler Uvula Arch (top right) Stephen Whisler Uvula Arch (bottom left); Bernard Klevickas, Red Assembly (bottom right)

Pascal Knapp, Brokecreate #3, 2025 (left) | Bernard Klevickas, UAP (Boomerang), 2024 (right)

Eva Melas, (top left) Tit Mat, 2025, (top right), Flower Necklace, 2020,(bottom) Lace, 2025

Portia Munson, Dahlia Coreopsis Target, 2011, pigmented ink on rag paper, 43 x 44 inches

William Greenwood, Scapes, Sterling silver, 2025

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Erika deVries: Erika aspires to co-create connection & thoughtful relationship across her art/life practices. Highlights include the births of her three children, a visiting artist residency at Kassel University, participation in and witness to an extraordinary lineage of teachers & makers, 14 years as full time faculty at New York University, current co-creator of an arts & social practice hub with her family, site specific sculpture collaborations with Basilica Hudson, Art OMI, Bloomingdales, and the recent installation of a large-scale public neon artwork in Kingston, NY. Stuart Farmery: Born in Münster, Germany, and educated at the Central School of Art in London, U.K., Stuart Farmery moved his studio to New York City in 1980 and later to Ghent, in Upstate New York. Farmery has exhibited extensively, most recently in the Kaatsbaan Sculpture Park, Tivoli, NY, the Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck, NY, the Byrdcliffe Colony, Woodstock, NY, and the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY. Bernard Klevickas: Bernard Klevickas is a sculptor who utilizes industrial processes in an expressionist manner to create objects of meticulous refinement with an interest in exploring the possibilities of surface. With a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bernard Klevickas has been include in numerous group and juried exhibitions in New York City, the Hudson Valley, Chicago, as well as in Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Florida, and Bermuda.

Pascal Knapp: Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, Pascal Knapp has exhibited around the world. His stone and metal creations forge a connection between the enduring and the malleable. Combining stone with the flexibility and strength of metal, leads to experimentation with form and structure, inspiring him to build unique and innovative sculptures. His artwork is intended to evoke a sense of movement and energy, reflecting a balance between tradition and modernity Alex Kveton: Originally from the Czech Republic, Alex Kveton’s work has been widely exhibited and can be found in the permanent collections of the Czech National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Art Ostrava Czech Republic, MoMA New York City, and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, GA, as well as numerous private and corporate collections in Europe, the USA, South America, Canada, and Russia. He currently lives and works in Saugerties, NY, with his wife, Barbara.

Ian Laughlin: Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Ian Laughlin graduated from Ilam University and moved to New York City in the early 1980s. Laughlin’s work brings attention to unsustainable issues and offers a constructive alternative expressed through sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, digital media, sound, and/or video. Ian Laughlin’s sonic sculptural works collaborate with musicians, most recently with the percussionist/composer David Van Tieghem on Bio-Sphere in front of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and on Flow at S.C.A.P.E.Ian Laughlin maintains a studio in Chichester, NY Eva Melas: Eva Melas works and lives as an artist and art teacher in New York City. She has exhibited in many shows in the US and abroad, including the Armory SOFA show in New York City and the Confrontational Ceramics exhibition at the Westchester Arts Exchange Gallery in White Plains, New York. A recipient of the Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry residency, Melas has also been awarded an Empire State Crafts Alliance grant. She attended Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts, where she received a BFA and has an MFA from Rutgers University.

Stephen Whisler’s Uvula Arch with visitor photo: Robert Langdon, 2025

Alison McNulty, Tended and Released, 2025 (detail) Ian Laughlin, Flow, 2025

David Van Tieghem performs on Ian Laughlin’s acoustic sculpture, Flow

continued Lowell Miller: Lowell Miller is a sculptor, poet, and conceptual artist. In his work, dry wit is expressed in ironic puns and visual paradoxes. His sculptural focus is on body energy and feelings, and seeks the continuity of inner experience since prehistoric/primal times.

Originally from Princeton, New Jersey, Lowell Miller lives and works near Woodstock, New York.

Wendy Klemperer: Wendy Klemperer received a B.A. in biochemistry from Harvard University and a BFA in sculpture and painting from the Pratt Institute. She has exhibited internationally and has attended several prestigious residencies at the Skowhegan School, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sculpture Space, and Denali National Park.

Alison McNulty: Alison McNulty is an artist, educator, curator, and gallery director based in Newburgh, NY. Her interconnected roles serve a collective spirit of community and co-mentorship that tends to the margins, values diversity and nuance, and includes the non-human world. Through ephemeral and site-responsive artwork, she reveals layered histories, ecological entanglements, beauty, violence, loss, and playful absurdities embodied in ordinary reclaimed materials and precarious places. She is Director of Ann Street Gallery and Part-Time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design.

Portia Munson: Portia Munson is a visual artist who creates maximal installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital prints, synthesizing environmental and cultural themes from a feminist perspective. Her work includes large scale installation and sculptures made of mass-produced found objects arranged by theme and color, small paintings of individual domestic objects, and photographic prints of flowers and dead creatures found near her home in upstate New York.

Eileen M. Power: Eileen M. Power enjoys experimenting across various media, ranging from monotypes to large-scale outdoor sculpture installations. Most recently, her studio practice has focused on upcycling discarded objects into art, animating them in unusual ways.

Spontaneity and response are essential elements of her work. Eileen Power lives and works in Woodstock, New York.

Gregory Steel: Gregory Steel focuses on transitional states and contemplative possibilities of Being. Steel's work explores tentative relationships with the modern world; his sculptures provide a respite from the onslaught of the media and the pressures to conform. Steel earned his B.F.A. from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and his M.F.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Steel also holds a Ph. D in philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts, Portland, ME. Steel currently lives and works in Kokomo, Indiana Stephen Whisler: Stephen Whisler’s art practice encompasses sculpture, drawings, performances, photography, furniture design, and guerrilla art actions. Working in a variety of media, Whisler employs the technique most appropriate for each project and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Stephen Whisler lives and works in Saugerties, NY.

Linda Dubilier Linda Dubilier is a dynamic force in the Hudson Valley, seamlessly blending the worlds of high fashion photography and holistic wellness. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Linda’s early career saw her capturing iconic moments for top fashion publications along side of Bill Cunningham, including Vogue, Elle, W Magazine, WWD, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her lens not only chronicled the fashion elite but also contributed to the visual storytelling of an era.

In 2003, seeking a more grounded lifestyle, Linda and her husband Bill relocated to Woodstock, New York, where they raised their two children amidst the region’s natural beauty. Their commitment to community, art and wellness culminated in 2023 with the opening of Woodstock Spa. This sanctuary offers a curated blend of services, from massage and aesthetics to fitness and alternative therapies like Reiki, Somatic healing, and Shiatsu all set within a serene, art-filled environment.

Jen Dragon Jen Dragon, the Director of Exhibitions for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, has been involved with art, artists and the arts community for over 35 years as a curator, gallerist, art writer, exhibition strategist, art installer, art advisor, artist’s agent, art marketing specialist and non-profit arts organization board member.

photo: Stephen Wechsler