LIVINGSTON MANOR — Catskill Art Space will open a three-person exhibition May 2, featuring the work of Russell Floersch, Elana Herzog and Ian McMahon.
The show, on view through June 20, brings together artists working across painting, sculpture and installation, each examining how memory and meaning are embedded in physical materials. An artist talk is scheduled from 3 to 4 p.m. opening day, followed by a reception.
Floersch’s small-scale paintings draw on analog technologies — cassette tapes and film — to explore the fragility of recorded experience. His work incorporates relief elements and recurring motifs, including broken chairs, evoking loss, absence and the degradation of image and sound.
Herzog approaches material culture through textiles, using found fabrics to construct dense, site-responsive installations. Her work, often described as a form of domestic archaeology, examines histories embedded in cloth while probing themes of migration, labor and cultural memory.
McMahon creates large-scale, temporary installations that blur the boundaries between sculpture and architecture. Built for specific sites, his environments emphasize sensory experience and impermanence, transforming exhibition space into immersive, stage-like settings.
Together, the exhibition frames material not as static object but as a carrier of history — shaped by time, use and perception.
For more information visit catskillartspace.org
