Jill Duffy's Farm-Made Paintings at Farm & Field

June 25–29 | Chatham, NY | Free

Farm & Field, the 210-acre working farm and studio that Jill Duffy stewards in the Punsit Valley outside Chatham, opens for Upstate Art Weekend with "Tracing Paths," an exhibition of her oil and cold wax paintings installed in the hayloft of a 200-year-old dairy barn. The show, curated by Linda J. Park, runs alongside open studio hours, a working pigment lab, self-guided trails, a farm store, and several free public programs across the five days.

Duffy's paintings emerge directly from the land they're made on. Walking is central to her process—she returns to and retraces the same paths in walnut ink and wild vine charcoal made from materials she forages on those walks, then processes using traditional pigment-making techniques. The resulting work treats color as a kind of memory: each painting is keyed to the farm's seasonal rhythms, carrying traces of movement and history embedded in the literal earth and plants that produced the pigment. The landscape isn't just what's depicted, it's what the paint is made of.

Also on view: neo-expressionist work by artist-in-residence Reinhardt, shown alongside Duffy's.

Visitors can also step into Duffy's adjacent studio and pigment lab to see the full arc of the process, from raw plant and earth material to finished paint, and wander marked self-guided trails through fields, pigment gardens, meadows, and along the creek.

The farm store sells eggs, seasonal produce, and flower bouquets from the Hudson Valley Flower Collective. Special programming includes a Thursday opening reception with natural wine, a Friday guided color foraging walk, a Saturday artist talk, and a Sunday pigment and ink demonstration using seasonal botanicals—all free and open to the public.

Farm & Field, 338 Punsit Rd., Chatham, NY (Spencertown). Thursday 11am–8pm, Friday–Saturday 11am–5pm, Sunday 11am–3pm, Monday by appointment. RSVP encouraged at farmandfieldny.com.