S.C.A.P.E. - 2025 Byrdcliffe Biennial Sculpture Exhibition

Erika deVries 

Erika DeVries is a visual artist, arts educator, mother of three boys, seeker, fairy tale reader, and believer. She is currently working in her studio and with her partner, Matt Dilling, on the larger visionary art project, Sacred Space, 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 included 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 extensively around the world as the creator of the original CowParade templates. Known as the largest and most successful contemporary street art fundraisers around the globe, Knapp created several cow-shaped sculptures to provoke laughter and bring communities together. Apart from cows, Knapp works abstractly in stone and metal, and maintains his studio in Upstate, New York.

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 David Van Tieghem in front of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. 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 where she was born. 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. 

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 embraces the non-human.

Portia Munson

Portia Munson is an American visual artist who works in sculpture, installation, painting, and digital photography. She focuses on themes related to the environment and feminism. Her work includes large-scale agglomerations of mass-produced plastic found objects arranged by color, small oil paintings of individual domestic found objects, and digital photographs of flowers, weeds, and dead animals 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's uses welded metal to capture and eternalize movement. Long interested in metaphysical ideas, Steel earned a Doctorate in Philosophy and employs a variety of materials and techniques in his art, including video, object making, digital imaging, book publishing, installation, performance, and innovative technology, as well as traditional sculptural methodologies. Gregory Steel is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and New Media at Indiana University, Kokomo.

Suzy Sureck

is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist whose drawings, writing, sculpture, and video installations explore the physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, and the poetics of shadow and light. Cross-pollinating disciplines, she merges traditional media and technology to bring nature’s wisdom to audiences experientially through text, image, audio, and video.  Suzy Sureck lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley and is an educator at Pratt Institute and DIA.

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.