HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

The 2008 Peekskill Project:
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art will launch the 4th annual Peekskill Project, a citywide site-specific exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary art, beginning the weekend of September 13 - 14, 2008 from 12-6pm. Selected works will be on display until November 23, 2008. The public arts festival presents a wide variety of painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video and performance art by national and international artists selected by a juried committee of renowned curators.

This year's edition will feature fifty artists who concentrate on the dualistic nature of man's relationship to the earth. This exhibition will focus on indoor and outdoor site-specific works which use environmental and organic based materials in order to communicate this tumultuous marriage between humans and their habitat. Using Peekskill as a stage, artwork will be sited throughout the city. The project utilizes Peekskill's train station and waterfronts, Annsville Circle, St. Mary's Cathedral Chateau Rive, and Peekskill's historic commercial district, as well as the HVCCA.

The Peekskill Project has become an anticipated annual event, attracting thousands of visitors each year as it offers children and adults alike the opportunity to explore Peekskill's social, cultural and geographic history. The Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art launched the project with the goal of bringing contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. "Contemporary art can challenge, inspire and inform. It shouldn't be confined to just museums and galleries, By bringing art to where the people live their daily lives, we hope to connect with as wide an audience as possible", Livia Straus, President and co-founder of the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art.

The Peekskill Project is open to the public, free of charge, beginning the weekend of September 13-14 with selected artwork on display through November. Free trolley service will be provided by the City of Peekskill for the duration of the opening weekend to and from exhibition sites. Festival maps will be available at numerous locations.

This event is made possible by the support from the City of Peekskill, Ginsburg Development Corporation, Peekskill Business Improvement District, Peekskill Arts Council, local residents and businesses throughout the city. The project is also made possible by all the participating artists and curators.

2008 Participating Curators:
Ombretta Agro’Andruff, Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox from Gallery Aferro, Michael Foley for Foley Gallery, Priska Juschka from Priska Juschka Fine Arts, Kelly Lindner from George Adams Gallery , Michael Natiello from Collaborative Concepts, Joyce Manalo, Thomas Werner from Parsons the New School of Design, and Livia Straus from the HVCCA.

2008 Participating Artists: (final list thus far)
Emil Alzamora, Grimanesa Amoros, Bajo, Brendan Ballengee, Karen Beall, Al Bersch, Gail Biederman, Jo Ann Brody, Ryan Brown, Charles Butterly, Stefano Cagol, Alana Celii, Zachary Clement, Andrea Cote, Dana DeVito, Lorenz Estermann, Deborah Fisher, Marcy B. Freedman, Asha Ganpat, Johannes Girardoni, Leslie Grant, Joan Harmon, Alexander Harrington, Sarah Haviland, Vandana Jain, Carla Rae Johnson, Yael Kanarek, Matt Kinney, Grace Knowlton, Miwa Koizumi, Cal Lane, Liz Magic Laser, Stephanie Lempert, Eva Mantell, Maslen/Mehra, Almagul Menlibayeva, Tony Moore, Joel Morrison, Angelo Musco, Michael Natiello, Nick and Keegan, Pamela Sunstrum Phatismo, Michael Peterson, Carolyn Salas, Ryan Schroeder, Gregg Segal, Adam Parker Smith, Christine Tarkowski, Jade Townsend, Ted Victoria, Allison Warminger, Andrew Wilkinson, Grant Willing and Brian Wondergem.

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