"Earthly Delights" Opens at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli

Pictured: Honey Moon in Blue (2025), Digital video by Virginia L. Montgomery. Photo provided to Kaatsbaan courtesy of the artist.

Opens Saturday, June 6, reception 2–4pm | Tivoli, NY | Free

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park opens its sixth annual Visual Arts Exhibition on June 6 with an afternoon reception, launching "Earthly Delights" —a group show curated by Hilary Greene featuring nine contemporary artists working with planets, plants, insects, and biological forms in dialogue with Kaatsbaan's 153-acre landscape.

The show spreads across the full bucolic former horsefarm property. Aurora Robson, returning from a previous Kaatsbaan show, has installed a new tree-climbing sculpture made from recycled plastic called "Gypsy Moths"—her practice centers on intercepting plastic waste before it reaches the ocean and transforming it into large-scale works.

Ian McMahon's geometric relief is mounted on one of the barns; Portia Munson, whose work is also currently on view at Hudson Hall's "Surface, Structure, String" exhibition, contributes a mystical banner. Virginia L. Montgomery's sensorial video work is mounted inside the Stanford White Barn.

The six new artists in the show work across a wide range of media. Thea Berman brings figurative oil paintings; Sharon Broit shows biological abstracts. Laura Battle's ceramic clouds, Kris Perry's machine creatures, and a spiritual carving by Nadia Yaron extend the exhibition into the landscape. The show also continues Kaatsbaan's long-term loan of two bronzes by Gaston Lachaise, the French-American sculptor whose monumental female figures have been among the defining works of 20th-century American sculpture — his "Standing Woman" is in the permanent collections of the Whitney, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kaatsbaan primary focus, as always is the art of dance but since it's founding in 1990 the venue has grown into a full-spectrum cultural park offering residencies, performances, and education programs across dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. It provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, lodging, an indoor theater, and two outdoor stages. The annual visual arts exhibition has become one of the more distinctive recurring shows, partly for the quality of the work and partly for the setting.