I was invited by curator Sasha Louis Bush along with five other photographers to photograph the former home of artists, Nancy Willard and Eric Lindbloom in Poughkeepsie, New York. My images below were created for the project. A Feel for the Place, exhibition and artist talk are online at The Nancy Willard and Eric Lindbloom Archives.
Curatorial Statement by Sasha Louis Bush
A Feel For The Place features the work of six photographers: Sara Adriani, Christine Callahan, Jesus Emmanuel, Sadia Rashid, Joanne Valeo and Arecis Tiburcio Zane, and is curated by our director, Sasha Louis Bush.
A Feel For The Place celebrates the one year anniversary of The Nancy Willard And Eric Lindbloom Artist-Run Project Space, in Poughkeepsie, New York, in July 2022.
Sit with Nancy’s ‘creatures’ as she referred to them, placed in the front yard and throughout the house. Notice the golden star with a burgundy dress climbing a wooden ladder made of thin branches. Enjoy the late afternoon sun as it illuminates Nancy’s mural, painted on the peach colored walls that lead up to the second floor. With a broad range of pastel colors, Nancy’s creation depicts a row of houses, neatly stacked, one next to the other, in angular, geometrical squares and rectangles. Observe the humming energy of Eric’s darkroom, overflowing with boxes of negatives, scrawled notes and prints tacked to the black-and-white checkered walls.
A Feel For The Place pairs pictures made by recent high school and college graduates alongside long-time practitioners of photography in an intergenerational conversation. Collectively, these six artists observe Nancy and Eric’s home, the site of our Project Space, with startling candor, celebrating both artists’ individual artistic legacies and their lives together. Reflecting Nancy and Eric’s spirit of communal generosity, these photographs observe our Project Space as it has changed, grown, and supported dozens of artists throughout the year.