Relational Landscapes
An exhibition and series of accompanying programs exploring land as a relational space, where notions of natural beauty are shaped by intertwined histories of migration, ecology, aesthetics, and cultural complexities.
Curated by James Voorhies
Spritz3000 at Foreland
Catskill, NY
Oct 4–Dec 13, 2025
Colin Brant, Simone Forti, Josephine Halvorson, Sky Hopinka, Bill Jacobson, Wilhelm Neusser, Carrie Yamaoka, John Yang
Spritz3000 was a temporary curatorial studio at Foreland in Catskill, New York, organized around Relational Landscapes, an exhibition and program of talks, readings, and discursive formats.
In Poetics of Relation, the late Martinique-born writer and thinker Édouard Glissant presents land not as fixed territory but as a space continuously shaped through memory, exchange, imagination, and lived experience. Relational Landscapes draws on this view to explore how artists engage with land in all its expansive connotations as a site of connection, beauty, and layered presence.
Rooted as we are in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains, the exhibition departs from a longstanding tradition of landscape art in the region—to portrayals by the nineteenth-century Hudson River School to contemporary artists working further afield in more expanded notions of landscape. Yet, like their predecessors, the artists draw on landscape’s atmospheric qualities—its surface, light, and surroundings—not to idealize, but to underscore the ongoing fragilities and inherent contractions of place.
Relational Landscapes brings together work by artists who treat landscape less as static terrain or aesthetic object than as a layered field of memory, encounter, resistance, and poetics. Inspired by Glissant’s call to imagine land as a space of relation—shaped by migration, history, ecology, and cultural multiplicity—this exhibition reframes landscape as something fundamentally in flux—inherently entangled and radically opaque—where beauty inherently coexists with impermanence.
Programs
Oct 12, 2025
a conversation with painter Wilhelm Neusser, whose imagined landscapes engage the legacy of German Romanticism and respond to the precarious conditions of the present
Oct 24, 2025
a walkthrough of the Relational Landscapes with curator James Voorhies
Oct 25, 2025
a talk with Maggie Dimock, Associate Curator, The Olana Partnership, reflecting on curating amidst the legacy of Frederic Church’s Olana, in Hudson, New York
Nov 15, 2025
a conversation with designer and musician Naomi Yang on the photographic legacy of her late father, John Yang (1933–2009), whose contemplative black-and-white photographs document architecture, landscape, and the overlooked poetry of everyday environments at Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York
Dec 6, 2025
a conversation with photographer Bill Jacobson, celebrating the release of the limited edition publication when is a place with texts by Wayne Koestenbaum and Marvin Heiferman
Booklet
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