Art for Visiting Catskill Octagon House
Marie Catalano's Exhibition "Peculiar Manufactures" is not to be missed
I crammed too many works into this newsletter so I must keep my introduction very short and sweet. The TLDR is my friend Marie Catalano curated a sensational exhibition, Peculiar Manufactures, and the New York Times mentioned it in “New York’s Best Summer Art Shows Are Upstate” article! You will see below many of my favorite artists were included in the exhibition. I hope you delight in these discoveries and try your very, very best to see these works in person. Enjoy!
From the press release:
“‘Peculiar Manufactures’, organized by Marie Catalano for Upstate Art Weekend 2025, reimagines the Historic Catskill Octagon House through the lens of a 17th-century Kunstkammer. This varied group exhibition features a selection of makers engaging with craft and trades, the gaze and politics of display, ritual, material affect, oblique talismans, and charged domestic objects. The show takes its title from a 17th-century description of one such collection, characterized as housing “peculiar manufactures of Art.”
Elizabeth Jaeger
Giovanni Boldini, Reclining Nude, 2017
Colored pencil on archival pigment print
14 x 20 inches (35.56 x 50.8 centimeters) framed
€1,700
Elizabeth Jaeger
Henry Courtney Selous, Venus, 2017
Colored pencil on archival pigment print
14 x 20 inches (35.56 x 50.8 centimeters) framed
€1,700
Sylvie Hayes Wallace
Skin, 2022-2024
10 ft x 8 ft, variable
$16,000
Abigail Lucien
Cosmic Heart Compact, 2024
Cast iron
3 x 3 x 1 inches (7.62 x 7.62 x 2.54 centimeters)
Edition of 4
$1,500
Abigail Lucien
Looking Glass, 2024
Cast iron
Edition of 4
7 x 4 x 1 inches (17.78 x 10.16 x 2.54 centimeters)
$1,500
Hardwares LLC and Dosia Sanford
Hand-carved corner chair in solid walnut with handwoven merino wool upholstery, natural dyed with marigolds, madder and cochineal
27 ¾ x 18 x 18 inches (70.49 x 45.72 x 45.72 centimeters)
$3,500 each
Heidi Lau
Talisman I, 2025; Talisman II, 2025; Talisman III, 2025
Glazed ceramic
5 x 4 x 1 ½ inches (12.7 x 10.2 x 3.8 centimeters)
$5,000 each
Elizabeth Jaeger
Bird, 2025
Ceramic, bronze
5 x 3.25 x 2 inches (12.7 x 8.26 x 5.08 centimeters)
€4,800
Justin Chance
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1953), 2023
Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye
59 × 73 inches (149.9 × 185.4 centimeters)
$16,500
Violet Dennison
Giallo...(encrypted knot work), 2019
Aluminum, Polyethylene, Polyurethane, copper
36 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 7/8 inches (92.08 x 92.08 x 5.02 centimeters)
$10,000
Covey Gong
Untitled, 2025
Stainless steel, nylon, rayon, mother of pearl
11 x 6 x 2 inches (27.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 centimeters)
$4,000