Thursday, March 20, 2025
Doors at 5:30 pm. Artist talk at 6 pm.
25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY
On Thursday, March 20, please join us for a special panel discussion focused around our current exhibition, My Sister, My Self: Photographs by Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon. The panel includes the exhibition co-curators Tom Wolf, Professor Emeritus, Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College and Laurie Dahlberg, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College; Kitty McCullough, CPW Advisory Board, former Executive Director at Manitoga; Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site; Adam Giles Ryan, CPW Curator, and – a surprise addition, Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator at Thomas Cole House, our museum friends over in Catskill. Kate worked at CPW under both sisters, and will have a lot to add about these exceptional artists.
A hardcover catalog, My Sister, My Self: Photographs by Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon, accompanies the exhibition and will be available for sale at the event, or can be purchased online HERE. The catalog features text by Wolf and Dahlberg, and CPW Curator Adam Giles Ryan.
This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s YouTube page at 6pm.
Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
About the exhibition:
During the 1970s and ‘80s, photographers Colleen Kenyon (American, 1951-2022) and Kathleen Kenyon (American, 1951-2023) were part of the movement of female artists who challenged the photographic establishment with innovative approaches to the medium. Colleen Kenyon was a pioneer in using hand coloring to enhance her portraits of herself and her sister in domestic settings; Kathleen Kenyon was adept at appropriating gender-specfic images of women from the mass media to create ironic photomontages. Beginning in 1981, the two sisters also served as directors of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, where they continued to advocate for the advancement of women in the arts and for artists of color. My Sister, My Self is curated by art historians Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg. Organized by CPW, this retrospective features the Kenyons’ most iconic works, and was presented initially at both at CPW in Kingston, NY, and at the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock, NY. The Kleinert/James segment has now closed. The exhibition materials are drawn from the archives of their works now held by CPW.