EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING
ON THE GROUNDS 2024 | Al Held Foundation, curated by Alyson Baker & organized by River Valley Arts Collective, May 11 - October 13, 2024.
On the Grounds 2024 includes the work of four artists: Natalia Arbelaez, Nicole Cherubini, Re Jin Lee, and Katy Schimert who are each presenting multi-part installations within the landscape that surrounds the Al Held Foundation studio complex. Although conceived and presented as discrete, independent projects, they are united by material, context and distinct interpretations of what can be considered totems.
All four artists are working with clay but with very different approaches, forms, and intentions. Their works are framed by a landscape created by Al Held over a period of 40 years and they respond to, and are to be viewed within, this shared site that they reinterpret and recast for their own purposes. They do not hide or blend in with their surroundings but rather actively engage features of the natural and built environment, collaborate with the plants and animal life that inhabit the property, and employ site lines and visual relationships that enhance their particular meaning and convey specific intent. As objects crafted by artists within a landscape created by an artist, they exist as iconic and highly evocative symbolic structures in conversation with the site they occupy.
River Valley Arts Collective has been proud to partner with the Al Held Foundation on a series of outdoor installations on the foundation's grounds as well as exhibitions presented in Al Held’s former drawing studio and, more recently, performances staged in Held's painting studio.
On the Grounds 2024 is organized by Alyson Baker in collaboration with the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY.
PAST
Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
IN BLOOM | Arden + White Gallery, curated by Cas Friese, March 16 - April 30, 2023
Deviating from Lee’s popularized geometric stacked and abstract forms, the artist’s playful collection of unique plant-like sculptures addresses her connection to nature through clay. The botanical shapes are potted in a common form as it relates to the material.
THE SUBLIME | Arden + White Gallery, curated by Cas Friese - June 3 - August 10, 2022
A two-person exhibition with Cleveland, OH-based artist Laura Naples and Pound Ridge, NY-based sculptor Re Jin Lee. Together the artist’s works coalesced, transcending the viewer into an ethereal sanctuary, simultaneously enveloped by gentle geometric forms emerging from both mediums.
FORMED | Arden + White Gallery, formerly CAS Gallery, Fall 2021
This two-person show combines photography by Cas Frieses, capturing nature’s dynamic artwork, alongside fluid sculptures, by Re Jin Lee shaped by hand using the elements of nature. The raw materials surrounding the artwork carry a sense of place.
Group Exhibitions
WHERE LAND MEETS SEA | Stroll Garden, curated by Jane Yang D’Haene, August 12 - September 4, 2023
Curated by Brooklyn-based ceramicist Jane Yang-D'Haene, the exhibition showcases the work of six South Korean contemporary artists at the former home and studio of the revered American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Adolph Gottlieb – featuring over twenty sculptures by Yoonjee Kwak, Jaiik Lee, Re Jin Lee, Eun-Ha Paek, and Jinsik Yoo, as well as photographs by Peter Ash Lee.
ART + NATURE + HOME | Upstate Diary at Foreland, curated by Kate Orne, May 29 - June 13, 2021
Featuring furniture, design, functional sculpture, and art — all created from natural materials such as wood, clay, wool, and stone. Many of the objects were created exclusively for the exhibition by a select group of inspiring artists and artisans including Jeremy Anderson, Paula Greif, Paula Hayes, Kat Howard, Christina Kruse, Kieran Kinsella, Jonathan Kline, Christopher Kurtz, Re Jin Lee, Chris Lehrecke, Jonah Meyer, Jason Middlebrook, John-Paul Philippe, Martin Puryear, Kentaro Takashina, Nicola Tyson, Joshua Vogel, and Nadia Yaron.
PICTURES AND VESSELS | Keystone Gallery, curated by Rami Kim, May 28 - June 9, 2015
Featuring the work of 5 Photographers and 6 Ceramicists: Chantal Anderson, Debbie Carlos, Ja Soon Kim, Ye Rin Mok, Hae Ran, Jessica Hans, Re Jin Lee, Maryam Riazi, Pilar Wiley, Bari Ziperstein, Rami Kim