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Headstone Gallery, 28 Hurley Avenue, Kingston, NY (2025)

02/24/2025

We are thrilled to open our 2025 Season with a solo exhibition by Michael Fortenberry, The Accessible Instrument. Sound and programming by Michael Simonelli.

Join us for the opening reception this Saturday, March 1st, 5-8pm.

Michael Fortenberry is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator based in NYC. He received his BFA at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and his Master of Fine Arts at SUNY New Paltz with an emphasis in sculpture. His research explores the intersection of art with our sensory-somatic systems to ease the rise of collective anxiety through body movement and engagement. Michael has exhibited work throughout the United States with works in private collections on display in Washington, Colorado, and New York. Recently, he completed a residency at Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab, culminating in a permanent outdoor installation, and his work was featured in Art in Art in America Guide in the spring of 2022. Michael has exhibited at the Dorsky Museum, Historic Byrdcliffe, Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Unison Art Center, and the Kaatsbaan Cultural Center among others.

Michael T. Simonelli is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, sound designer, and audio consultant working in and around New York City. His recent compositions explore generative instruments as a means of producing and iterating raw material and ways of processing these collected sounds into constructive narratives. Two recent albums Umori (2024) and Heart Hz (2022) exemplify this approach. In addition, Michael leads the Audio Engineering team at Charts & Leisure, a collective of internet-native strategists, where he’s written music for Chanel, The Future of Storytelling, The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, The American Chemical Society, The Markup, Longreads, and IMDb among others. He has appeared on numerous albums over the past decade both as a producer and multi-instrumentalist and is a graduate of Hamilton College (B.A. in Music) and UMASS Amherst (M.M. in Music Theory and Composition).

02/19/2025

Headstone is delighted to launch our 2025 Exhibitions with a solo exhibition of somatic sculptures by Michael Fortenberry titled, The Accessible Instrument; sound design and programming by Michael Simonelli. Please join us for the opening next Saturday, March 1st, 5-8pm.

Fortenberry desires an experience for this work that parallels the material and its process: haptic and conscious. Using wood sourced from Accord, New York- just a few miles from the gallery, he carefully cut, carved, and steam-bent each part of the sculptures, intentionally revealing the trees’ history- its rings, scars, and potential. Sound designer and programmer, Michael Simonelli, collaborated with Fortenberry to create a seamless, ever-changing composition that allows anyone to make music. When desired, a viewer can curiously begin to move a sculpture and by doing so, stimulate sound only possible by their distinct touch; a connection is born. Solace and peacefulness grow closer in the interaction of Fortenberry’s work, ushering a collective calm akin to a group meditation.

Considered one of the grandfathers of ambient sound, William Basinkski creates noise using old cassette tapes of piano music, removing the magnetically coated film, cutting it up, and then mindfully piecing it together for an entirely different experience. The result can be jarring and meditative depending on where the musical notes cross. Fortenberry’s transformations of material and mind empower a self-discovery beyond the physical realm. Like Basinski, the experience becomes entropic, inducing and fueling new directions to self. Influences within Fortenberry’s practice include Pamela Z, Martin Pureyor, Lygia Clark, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

For full press release, visit our website via link in bio. DM for inquiries.

02/09/2025

Gooooo Ash!!

We rescheduled Ash Eliza Williams’s artist talk for next week! Join on Sunday, February 16th at 3pm for a conversation with Ash and a short Q&A to follow regarding their recent show at Headstone, History of Moonlight.

Ash Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwestern Virginia. Ash is a painter and sculptor making work about quiet creatures, new languages, and methods of connection. Ash has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Wasserman Projects, Kunstmuseum Hersbruck, Bennington Museum, UMass Amherst, The University of Virginia, and The New York Hall of Science. In 2025 - 2026, Ash will be an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Foundation RAiR. Ash was a recent Massachusetts Fellow at MassMoCA Studios and the 2023 Lucille Walton Fellow at UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station. They often work with scientists including at Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Museum of Comparative Zoology, and McDonald Observatory.

Image by Cortney Dudley

01/23/2025

You asked for it and it’s finally here! Headstone is excited to announce another of our Winter Workshop Series, 2-Day Introduction to Mold-Making and Slip Casting with Wynn Bauer

We are so thrilled to welcome Wynn Bauer back to the studio to teach this workshop. Wynn will be offering the following weekends here at Headstone:

SATURDAY and SUNDAY February 1st and 2nd from 9am - 4pm

Or

SATURDAY and SUNDAY February 8th and 9th from 9am - 4pm

$450 per student and includes demos / instruction / lecture / materials and lunch both days.

This course requires no previous experience with mold-making and slip-casting. It will cover the basics for working with plaster for sprig and 2-part molds. Students will have the opportunity for one-on-one assistance and guided step-by-step instruction on understanding and creating molds for maximum efficiency and seamless results. Bring in three objects and we will select one to make the mold.

· Learn how to mix, measure, and use plaster for casting with slip or clay
· Learn how to make a two- part mold using specific tools and methods
· Learn how to use these molds for press and/or slump application
· Learn step by step instruction on cleaning up your forms
· Learn how to apply casting techniques to your studio practice
Sign up by emailing us [email protected] or on our website.

FROM WYNN: Let’s bring together some objects that make us curious. How was this made? Sometimes it isn’t obvious. Knowledge of a two-part mold adds to one’s understanding of prototyping ceramic forms and one way they come to exist in multiples. Mugs, toilets and figurines are commonly produced in factories. We will be creating negative space with plaster that will allow you to make a ceramic positive. Replicating consistent precise shapes, complex forms, with or without intricate patterns and detail are possible. These additionally can be used for press and slump molding with the same clay for throwing or hand building. Familiarity with plaster measuring and mixing comes with this class, everyone will experience this process at least twice during the weekend. I will be making while you are making.

01/23/2025

Looking to hone new skills this winter? Introducing Headstone’s Winter Workshop Series for the month of February.

We are offeringThrowing Off The Hump Workshop with the talented, Ben Suga. Class sizes are very small and include all tools and materials! More information below and sign up through the link in our bio ❤️

THROWING OFF THE HUMP 1 Day INTENSIVE with Ben Suga

SATURDAY February 15th 9am - 3pm
SUNDAY February 16th 9am - 3pm

$250 per student and includes demos / instruction / lecture + coffee/tea and light morning snacks. There will be an afternoon break for lunch.
· Previous throwing experience is required
· Students will be guided on centering larger amounts of clay
· Learn how to center and throw multiple objects from one piece
· This is a great class for anyone wanting to learn an approach for production pottery and functional form development
· One on one assistance and guided instruction
Sign up by emailing us [email protected] or on our website.

FROM Ben: This class will lay the foundational techniques and methods for throwing off the hump as taught within the Karatsu tradition of northern Kyushu, Japan. Without the right map, this method of throwing can prove to be quite frustrating, but with the help of a traditional approach that emphasizes the repetition of particular forms, progress is steady and fulfilling. Students will be given a window into the first few months of a traditional apprenticeship through story and direct experience of hands on clay.

01/22/2025

FINAL WEEK! Sadly, this is the last week of our current exhibition, History of Moonlight, a solo exhibition by Ash Eliza Williams. Please join us this Sunday, January 26th at 3pm for an artist talk and short Q&A with Ash.

Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm.

Image by Courtney Dudley.

01/20/2025

LAST week of Ash Eliza Williams’s solo exhibition, History of Moonlight. Join us this Sunday, January 26th at 3pm for an artist talk with Ash. Q&A to follow 😊

Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment. DM for inquiries or email us using link in bio.

Image by Courtney Dudley

01/17/2025

Ash Eliza Williams
Convergence II
oil on panel
24” x 24”
2016

Emerging out of their previous show in 2022 are larger, more detailed depictions from their ‘Pollinator’ series - now ‘Dreams of House Centipede’ and ‘Ghost Moth.’ These works are the impetus for the “invisible cities’ as Italo Calvino might call them. One of the precious components of Williams’s illustrative documents is their recollection of how the being in front of us might remember their own experiences- a centipede milling over their life’s moments over the course of 3 - 7 years or the fact that they clean every single leg and antenna on a daily basis, like a cat.

Williams has an affinity for information - how it is disseminated, its sound, smell, taste, color, design, texture, and all the assumptions and fictions that come with curiosity and world-building. It is in this exhibition they give us everything - a spectrum of two dimensional fantasy to three dimensional relics. Williams is what one could call a slow burn artist- someone who recognizes their potential and longevity, pursuing a multifaceted career as a thinker, artist, and scholar. Their oscillatory practice provides that range, leaving us to desire more, craving what newness looks like to them.

For full press release, visit our website. DM for inquires.

History of Moonlight is up through January 26th.

01/15/2025

Ash Eliza Williams
Hum
Oil on canvas
24” x 18”
2018

History of Moonlight by Ash Eliza Williams is up through January 26th, 2025

Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment. DM for inquiries.

Image by Courtney Dudley

01/14/2025

Our current exhibition, History of Moonlight, by Ash Eliza Williams is up through January 26th.

Join us Sunday, January 26th at 3pm for a n artist talk with Ash followed by a short Q&A.

Gallery Hours are Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment.

DM for inquires or email us using the link in bio. Image by Courtney Dudley

01/13/2025

Ash Eliza Williams
Trace Elements
oil on panel
24” x 18”
2016

Join us Sunday, January 26th at 3pm for an artist talk with Ash Eliza Williams. Their solo exhibition, History of Moonlight, is up for a TWO more weeks! Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment

Ash Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwestern Virginia. Ash is a painter and sculptor making work about quiet creatures, new languages, and methods of connection. Ash has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Wasserman Projects, Kunstmuseum Hersbruck, Bennington Museum, UMass Amherst, The University of Virginia, and The New York Hall of Science. In 2025 - 2026, Ash will be an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Foundation RAiR. Ash was a recent Massachusetts Fellow at MassMoCA Studios and the 2023 Lucille Walton Fellow at UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station. They often work with scientists including at Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Museum of Comparative Zoology, and McDonald Observatory.

01/11/2025

Install image of Ash Eliza Williams solo exhibition, History of Moonlight. Up through end of January.

Join us Sunday, January 26th at 3pm for an Artist Talk with Ash about their practice and current show at Headstone.

DM for inquires or email us via link in bio.
Image credit by Courtney Dudley

01/10/2025

We are BACK! OPEN today and all weekend, 12pm - 5pm.

History of Moonlight, a solo exhibition by Ash Eliza Williams, is up through January 26th.

DM for inquiries or email us using the link in bio.

Image credit: Courtney Dudley

01/08/2025

Join us THIS WEEKEND, as we reopen for 2025! Our current exhibition, History of Moonlight, is a solo show by the incredible Ash Eliza Williams.

We are here all weekend, Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment. History of Moonlight is up through Sunday, January 26th.

History of Moonlight is a retrospective of Williams’s observing light as a painter and Earth being. The exhibition slowly strips away our understanding of physics in the natural world. Williams borrows from those factoids and produces their own magnetism - a bear paw delicately enjoying the company of a moth or a hovering rock that is peculiarly normal. Delightfully, we witness their paintings vividly illustrating a perpetual stream of consciousness. These nonverbal encounters are moments that inch closer and closer to what one must feel is a shared sense of awe and in time, belief in the expanded field of love.

Emerging out of their previous show in 2022 are larger, more detailed depictions from their ‘Pollinator’ series - now ‘Dreams of House Centipede’ and ‘Ghost Moth.’ These works are the impetus for the “invisible cities’ as Italo Calvino might call them. One of the precious components of Williams’s illustrative documents is their recollection of how the being in front of us might remember their own experiences- a centipede milling over their life’s moments over the course of 3 - 7 years or the fact that they clean every single leg and antenna on a daily basis, like a cat.

For full press release, visit our website using link in bio. DM for inquiries or email us at [email protected]

Image credit: Courtney Dudley

01/01/2025

Happy New Year, folks!! Very happy to share this recent post by the fabulous 🥰

Congratulations to you, on another incredible exhibition with us at Headstone. You always deliver. ❤️

History of Moonlight is up through January 26th. We reopen the gallery next weekend, January 10th. Do not miss this show.

Dm for inquiries or email us using link in bio.

12/23/2024

Happy Holidays from Headstone. Thank you to our artists, Kingston, and the Hudson Valley for another fabulous year. We have much in store for 2025 and excited to share come January. Stay tuned and be well 🥰

Gallery is closed thru December and will reopen Friday, January 10.

Thank you to .the.sun for his exquisite photoshop skills. Seamless indeed ❤️

12/19/2024

Ash Eliza Williams
detail of Moth and Bear
oil on paper, gouache, wood
24” x 12”
2024

Join us this weekend before we close for the holidays! Open this Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm.

Emerging out of their previous show in 2022 are larger, more detailed depictions from their ‘Pollinator’ series - now ‘Dreams of House Centipede’ and ‘Ghost Moth.’ These works are the impetus for the “invisible cities’ as Italo Calvino might call them. One of the precious components of Williams’s illustrative documents is their recollection of how the being in front of us might remember their own experiences- a centipede milling over their life’s moments over the course of 3 - 7 years or the fact that they clean every single leg and antenna on a daily basis, like a cat.

Williams has an affinity for information - how it is disseminated, its sound, smell, taste, color, design, texture, and all the assumptions and fictions that come with curiosity and world-building. It is in this exhibition they give us everything - a spectrum of two dimensional fantasy to three dimensional relics. Williams is what one could call a slow burn artist- someone who recognizes their potential and longevity, pursuing a multifaceted career as a thinker, artist, and scholar. Their oscillatory practice provides that range, and therefore leaves us desiring more, craving what newness looks like to them.

For the full press release, visit our website. DM for inquiries or email us at [email protected]

12/13/2024

Ash Eliza Williams
Dreams of a House Centipede
Oil on paper
30” x 22”
2023

Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening last weekend! History of Moonlight is up this weekend and next, thru January 26th.

Join us today - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm or by appointment. Gallery will be closed for the holidays December 23 - January 9th, 2025.

For full press release, visit our website. DM for inquires or email us at [email protected]

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