A series of open fires made as part of Patrick McGuan's ongoing project at the park. Photograph by Ellery Bryan
May 31 - August 16 - Schweinfurth/Stone Quarry Collaboration
We are pleased to announce a trio of solo exhibitions by artists Ellery Bryan, Patrick Costello, and Patrick McGuan in collaboration with the Schweinfurth Art Center.
This collaboration grew out of our organizations’ shared commitment to broadening public access to the arts and increasing opportunities for artists in our region and from around the world.
Each of these exhibiting artists has recently made work with and amidst Stone Quarry’s 104-acre grounds.
Ellery Bryan's (2024-25 Affiliate Artist) film Fossil Memory traces history and memory through geology and astrometry. Patrick Costello’s (2023 Visiting Artist) large-scale drawing and site-specific performance, After Flowers, takes inspiration from a Jacquard woven coverlet, produced in 1838 by the incarcerated weavers at Auburn State Prison. Patrick McGuan’s (2025 Visiting Artist) new work, Songs from the Sky, employs a meadow, text, and multimedia sculpture to explore utopian and apocalyptic thought in colonial America and the legacy of these attitudes in the climate crisis. Through this collaborative partnership, the Schweinfurth invites these three artists, whose diverse aesthetic approaches share a common vein of intellectual inquiry with respect to the ways art, landscape, and natures both wild and cultivated interact, to extend their landscape-driven explorations into the gallery setting. The exhibitions run from May 31- August 16 at the Schweinfurth, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY.
Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY