March 4, 2023
cassandra massa (they/them) has been living and working in the Hudson/Catskill area for the past 12 years, mostly enjoying slow hikes and staring at the ground looking for mushrooms and rocks.
They approach their work with a deep appreciation for the power of ritual and transformation. cassandra’s work often includes self-portraiture within surreal and vibrant natural environments. Through fever-dream explorations of introspection and isolation, they examine the coping mechanisms that we develop as individuals, highlighting the messy existence that is being a deeply flawed and fully human being living on this planet.
Pam Poquette (she/her) is an artist, educator, and arts administrator, who lives and works in the Hudson Valley of New York.
In Pam’s words: “consolations” is a newly developing body of work investigating and documenting how I occupy spaces and voids with my body following seismic shifts in my life.”
Her work ranges from wall-scale paintings and stuffed handheld sculptures, to intimate works on paper. Pam paints using the language of embroidery, both in thread and in paint, to bind these objects together. She employs electric colors, emulating blooms, to celebrate all that makes her human - the hard, scary, and imperfect spaces and voids. Pam aims to create comfort in the uncomfortable.