April 5 – May 4, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, April 5, 4-6 PM
To the Bone is a photography project documenting daily life and work on a small family farm in the Hudson Valley. Emily, a single mother of nine, manages her small farm with the help of her young daughters. Sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and children roam among the detritus of farm life. The seemingly idyllic setting contrasts sharply with the gritty hard work of maintaining the farm and with Emily’s personal choice to live off the land. Emily had warned me when we met that they did not live like other families. Their openness and trust scared me, but at the same time it all seemed so oddly familiar. When I am with them, I feel surprisingly at home. Emily’s story could be my story or that of other women struggling to keep their home and family together after unexpected loss and hardship. The work was created between 2021 and 2025. —Maureen Beitler
About Maureen:
Maureen Beitler is a photographer and former intensive care nurse living and working in the Hudson Valley. Her focus is on long term projects and environmental portraiture with people and communities who live outside of expected norms, establishing relationships to which she returns regularly. Beitler has worked on projects in the US and abroad and has exhibited at The Photographic Gallery, Terrazzo Art Projects, Open Society Foundation, SLA Gallery and Chashama Art Studios. in New York City. Her photographs have been featured in The Sun Magazine and can be found on the Social Documentary Network.
Maureen Beitler was awarded First Place in the 2024 CPW Portfolio Review.
About the Community Gallery:
CPW’s Community Gallery is a new space dedicated to fostering connections between diverse local communities using photography. It will host a rotating schedule of short-run exhibitions featuring work by CPW members, local artists and students, and projects by local nonprofit organizations. CPW is committed to being a welcoming hub for critical and creative explorations of photography from varied perspectives.
