Linda Cassidy
& the Barrytown Invitational
(Detail) Variable Matrix: Red by Linda Cassidy
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PRESS RELEASE
Barrytown, NY - Variable Matrix, a group exhibit curated by artist Linda Cassidy will be featured at Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway, Tivoli NY 12583 from Friday, March 7 through Sunday, March 30. An Opening Reception will take place on Saturday, March 8, from 6-8 pm.
Variable Matrix, a term taken from a poem by George Quasha, is the title of her series of large paintings that Cassidy is featuring in this show. "The term equally refers to the dynamics and interactions of the artists themselves. A network of friends and colleagues in variable configurations, the group has interacted and influenced each other over many years in and around the small hamlet of Barrytown, NY. They share a deep, lifelong commitment to the ongoing creation of their work, and what emerges from this creative intimacy are individual bodies of work that are absolutely unique but mutually reflective of a tendency towards the contemplative, intuitive and deeply felt."
Artists exhibiting include Claude Carone, Linda Cassidy, Lara Chkhetiani, Jonathan Feldschuh, Janene Gentile, Arthur B. Kennickell, Barbara Leon, Siobhan Lidell, George Quasha, Susan Quasha, Charles Stein, Victoria Vesna, Sherry Williams, and Millicent Young.
Winter Gallery hours are Friday, 5:00-8:30; Saturday 12:00-8:00pm; Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 pm, and by appointment. Visit www.tivoliartistsgallery.com for more information or call 845-757-2667 to arrange a gallery appointment.
Preview Artwork
Exhibit List — Variable Matrix
North Gallery
Linda Cassidy #1-18
1. Variable Matrix: Gr & Blue, 2024, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2000
2. Mycelium, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 11 x 14, $225
3. Eagles Talking Among Themselves, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $375
4. The Stringing of the Bow, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 11 x 14, $225
5. Variable Matrix: Red, 2024, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2000
6. Throat Sounds, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $325
7. Tidal Eddies, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 11 x 14, $225
8. Penelope, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 11 x 14, $225
9. Variable Matrix: Olive & Gold , 2025, acr & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $1900
10.The Cadence of Vanishing , 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 24 x 27, $500
11. Variable Matrix: Burnt Orange, 2024, acr & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2000
12. Street in Assisi, 2024, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $325
13. Crow Sight, 2024, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $375
14. Variable Matrix: Yellow, 2024, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2000
15. Self-Dissolving Space, 2025, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 24 x 27, $500
16. Gordian Event, 2024, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $350
17. First Marks, 2024, hand-rubbed monotype on paper, 16 x 20, $375
18. Variable Matrix: Sienna & Blue, 2025, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2000
19. Untitled, Claude Carone, Casein and polymer on wood, 28.5' x 34.5”, $3500
20. Variable Matrix: Green & Yellow, Linda Cassidy, 2024, acr & mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40, $2600
21. Axial Dakini Drawing #5, George Quasha, 2024, acrylic on paper, 18" x 24”, $1200
22. Axial Dakini Drawing #1, George Quasha, 2024, acrylic on paper, 18" x 24”, $1200
23. Axial Dakini Drawing #4, George Quasha, 2024, acrylic on paper, 18" x 24”, $1200
South Gallery
24. ”... in Glory, Arthur B. Kennickell, acrylic, fabric and wine foil on watercolor paper, 31.1 x 42.2 cm , Price Available Upon Request
25. Untitled, Arthur B. Kennickell, 2022, acrylic, fabric and wine foil on watercolor paper, 23 x 30.7 cm, Price Available Upon Request
26. Untitled, Arthur B. Kennickell, 2025, 31 x 41 cm, acrylic and fabric on watercolor paper, Price Available Upon Request
27. Laura Chkhetiani, acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 30" x 40”, $1200
28. Green Particles, 2024, Jonathan Feldschuh, acrylic on panel with magnetic mounting, 8” x 8”, $1000
29. Green Particles, 2024, Jonathan Feldschuh, acrylic on panel with magnetic mounting, 11”x11", $1200
30. Green Particles, 2024, Jonathan Feldschuh, acrylic on panel with magnetic mounting, 11”x11", $1200
31. Green Particles, 2024, Jonathan Feldschuh, acrylic on panel with magnetic mounting, 18”x18”, $2100
— $4200 for group (51-54)
32.Twin Light, Barbara Leon, 2024, archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper, 11 x 14, $225
33. Heart Field, Barbara Leon, 2024, archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper, 11 x 14, $225
34. Untitled, Barbara Leon, 2022, Archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper print, 27 x 36, $1200
35. Wayward, Barbara Leon, 2022, archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper, 27 x 36, $1200
36. The Other Side of Midnight, 2023, Barbara Leon, archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper, 11 x14, $225
37. Sonata, Barbara Leon, 2024, archival giclee print on Hahnemule paper,11 x 14, $225
38. Zoic, Janene Gentile, acrylic on industrial canvas, 31" x 57”, $1600
39. Code 125, Janene Gentile, acrylic on industrial canvas, 48" x 48”, $1400
40. Canto for the Anthropene: (Aleph), Millicent Young, 2019, Lead, hair, steel, bolts, 30 x 30 x 5, $4500
41. Alien Stardust Antarctica, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
42. Alien Stardust South America, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
43. Alien Stardust Australia, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
44. Alien Stardust Europe, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
45. Alien Stardust Africa, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
46. Alien Stardust Asia, Victoria Vesna, 2025, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
47. Alien Stardust North America, Victoria Vesna, Augmented Reality Print, 7” x 9”, $700
48. Untitled III, Susan Quasha, archival photographic print, 16" x 24”, $400
49. Untitled II, Susan Quasha, photographic print, 16" x 24”, $400
50. Untitled I, Susan Quasha, photographic print,16" x 24”, $400
51. A Sacred Theory of Earth (for instance), Charles Stein, ink on paper 11” x 14, $225
52. Phylogeny, Charles Stein, ink on paper 11" x 14”, $225
53. Monolith with Entities, Charles Stein, ink on paper 11” x 14”, $225
54. Along the Way, Charles Stein, ink on paper 11” x 14”, $225
55. Lucid Vortex:Two, Sherry Williams, 2025, oil on canvas, 26" x 22”, $1100
56. Lucid Vortex:Four, Sherry Williams, 2025, oil on canvas, 26" x 22”, $1100
57. Walnuts, Siobhan Liddell, 2020, oil on linen, 14" x 18”, $14k
Artist’s Statement
I want to touch life as it is arising.
These ongoing bodies of work, the Variable Matrix Paintings and the Monotypes, have been allowing me to do so.
In the paintings, I find myself looking for a quality that hasn’t yet come into being but somehow already possesses life. There’s an initial feeling-tone, a sense of being, an inevitability that appears as soon as I begin preparing the canvas and building the texture.
To encourage it towards me I lay down marks and paint over them dozens, hundreds of times, testing and obliterating form and color relationships until the individuated glow of a life-form begins to emerge.
The process takes weeks or months and can’t be hurried. I often work for a long time without finding anything beyond an indeterminate vibration that’s far off in the distance.
Finally, if I’m lucky, a coherence emerges. The first clue is a sensation in my body, a kind of harmonic hum and sense of being drawn towards a magnetic center.
I know it’s finished when the painting begins to sing its own song and no longer needs anything from me.
The monotype process is different. I use the most primitive of techniques: painting directly onto a plexiglass plate, I hand-rub the paper over the plate. Because I’m using water-based inks which dry fast, I have to move quickly. This necessary speed creates an inner looseness which allows forms to arise unhampered by thought or conscious decision-making. I believe this is what accounts for their almost invariably organic quality.
About This Show
Before moving to Barrytown in 2019 I lived on Eastern Long Island for a long time. There was an active 2nd generation abstract expressionist art scene out there in the 70’s and early 80’s; the after-effects of the Pollack and de Kooning tsunami. Gradually that died out, leaving something slicker and more commercialized in its wake, and I no longer had the sense of living within an art community that spoke to me.
When I moved here I knew the area was artist-rich. What I didn’t anticipate was how the context change would so directly and happily affect my own art-making. Living in a place where art matters in a granular and committed way to so many of the inhabitants has given me an infusion of energy and sense of simpatico that I haven’t felt in a long time.
The guest artists in this show have inspired and fed my work directly and indirectly in countless ways and I’m personally grateful to each them.
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I discovered the term ‘variable matrix’ in George Quasha’s book of poems, Waking From Myself. It indicates to me a certain point of shifting union, a place where the uprising energies of life come together, form matrices and alliances, shift, rearrange, and most importantly, continuously and variously arise.
Linda Cassidy
March 2025
Barrytown, NY