A Gathering: Ellenville, NY
Material Projects Space
17 — 21 July 2025
Choro, Lydia Halcrow, Kelly M O’Brien, Soli Pierce
curated by Judith Rodgers
A Gathering of Unasked Possibility, Material Projects Space July 2025. Featured artists: Choro Leslie Meyers, Lydia Halcrow, Kelly M O’Brien, Soli Pierce
Pierce/Odland, Torso Totem Wood, encaustic, natural elements, sound. 75 x 20 x 11 inches. 2025
Soli Pierce, Mushroom Mandala Encaustic, wood, fungi. 8 x 8 inches. 2025
Soli Pierce, Between Worlds Encaustic, wood, natural elements, 6 x 6 inches. 2025
Choro, Maps. Ink, shimmer homemade ink, Fabriano watercolor paper. 34 x 58 inches. 2024
Choro, Maps (detail). Ink, shimmer homemade ink, Fabriano watercolor paper. 34 x 58 inches. 2024
Lydia Halcrow, From Here to There. Unique drypoint etchings, typed text. Dimensions variable by installation. 2025
Lydia Halcrow, From Here to There. Unique drypoint etchings, typed text. Dimensions variable by installation. 2025
Kelly M O’Brien, Amber Rising. Cast bioplastic. 144 x 40 x 5 inches. 2025
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Invited artists for A Gathering: Ellenville
Lydia Halcrow engages deeply with materiality in response to human traces in our landscapes, decay of post-industrial structures, and coastal erosion. The work spans print, drawing, installation and painting, made through repeated walks in fragile environments, which are rapidly flooding and eroding into rivers and seas https://www.lydiahalcrow.com/
Choro (clear dew) Leslie Meyers is a practitioner of Zen Buddhism and deeply connected to the natural world. Cultivating stillness, looking deeply into the nature of things, and living a life of non harming provide the landscape of Choro’s life. Meticulous and pain-staking abstract drawings with handmade natural inks on paper are the core of their practice https://choroartxx.com
Kelly M O’Brien explores themes of care and repair related to climate change and biodiversity. The materials O’Brien works with—plant-based and biodegradable—are at the heart of her practice. Kelly’s work draws out themes around ecological uncertainty and relational entanglement, navigating and holding complex ideas lightly and nimbly https://www.kellyobrien.art
Soli Pierce’s interdisciplinary practice is informed by shape, line, and light. Her current collaboration with sonic composer Bruce Odland, Sound Forest, has recently been installed at KinoSaito, Janet Langsam Vault Project ArtsWestchester Gallery, and the Hammond Museum https://www.solipierce.com
Judith Rodger’s curation brings together and explores entanglements. She is passionate about engendering new possibilities and perspectives, holding space for inquiry, ritual, and hospitality https://www.judithrodgers.co.uk
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ABOUT Material Projects Space https://www.instagram.com/material_projects
Material Projects Space (MPS) is a small pop-up gallery and test space at 6 Market Street in downtown Ellenville, NY. Nestled in the burgeoning downtown culture quarter, the space is open to the public through planned events