Past Programs — Spritz3000

of the conclusion of Relational Landscapes

Join us for the finissage of Relational Landscapes

Date
Sat, Dec 13

Time
12–5 pm

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

The studio will be open throughout the afternoon for informal viewing and final conversations with Spritz3000 founder and curator James Voorhies.

Stop by to revisit works in the exhibition and reflect on the season.

with Bill Jacobson on his photography and new book

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

Date
Sat, Dec 6, 2025

Time
4 pm

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

Capacity is limited—RSVP is required.

This event will not be seated. It will be a guided discussion around displays of books and photographs.

In the early 1990s, photographer Bill Jacobson gained recognition for his defocused images of the human figure— soft, shadowy silhouettes that challenge conventions of portraiture and clarity, instead privileging perception and emotion. Over the years, Jacobson has turned his lens outward with photographs that reflect his ongoing interest in the built environment and the experience of space—landscape.

Jacobson will talk about his work from the series when is place featured in Relational Landscapes and included of the new limited edition book published by Some Planes Press.

Jacobson will be joined in conversation by artist, poet, and critic Wayne Koestenbaum, and curator and writer Marvin Heiferman, contributors to Jacobson’s book.

Conversations is a series of talks with artists, writers, and curators related to the work on view and themes explored in the exhibitions.

with Naomi Yang on the photographs of John Yang

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

Date
Sat, Nov 15, 2025

Time
4 pm

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

In the 1980s, photographer John Yang turned his lens toward Innisfree Garden, a distinctive landscape in Millbrook, New York, rooted in the mid-century aesthetics of Chinese garden design and American modernism. Yang’s black-and-white photographs capture the garden’s atmospheric qualities—mist rising from the lake, sculptural rock placements, and the quiet drama of shifting light. His images emphasize the meditative spirit of Innisfree while documenting the ways in which nature, architecture, and human intervention coalesce.

A visual artist, designer, and musician based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Naomi Yang will talk with curator James Voorhies about John Yang’s photographs of Innisfree and his contemplative approach to documenting landscape and architecture.

Conversations is a series of talks with artists, writers, and curators related to the work on view and themes explored in the exhibitions.

with Maggie Dimock on bridging Frederic Church’s legacy with contemporary art

a program with Maggie Dimock, Associate Curator, The Olana Partnership, reflecting on curating amidst the legacy of Frederic Church’s Olana, in Hudson, New York

Date
Sat, Oct 25, 2025

Time
4 pm

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

Maggie Dimock will discuss her curatorial work within the unique context of Olana as both home and work of art, and how Frederic Church’s legacy continues to shape the cultural identity of the Hudson Valley and beyond. Her talk will focus on Frederic Church: Global Artist, Olana’s forthcoming 2026 exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of Church’s birth. The project situates Church within a global network of art, travel, and artistic exchange, while examining his pivotal role in shaping the American idea of landscape painting and its relationship to place.

She will also reflect on What’s Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape—on view through November 2—an exhibition of site-specific works by Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar that reimagine Olana’s history through lenses of environmental change and archival absence.

Conversations is a series of talks with artists, writers, and curators related to the work on view and themes explored in the exhibitions.

with James Voorhies on organizing Relational Landscapes

a walkthrough of the inaugural exhibition Relational Landscapes with curator James Voorhies

Date
Fri, Oct 24,

Time
5 p.m.

Spritz Hour to follow walkthrough

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

Relational Landscapes is a group exhibition that draws on Édouard Glissant’s notion of land as a space of relation—shaped by intertwined histories of migration, ecology, aesthetics, and cultural complexities.

Curator James Voorhies will host a 45-minute walkthrough of Relational Landscapes, examining the works on view and the ideas that inform them, from the atmospheric legacies of the Hudson River School to the ecological and poetic contradictions of contemporary landscape further afield.

Guests are invited to stay for Spritz Hour, an open studio with light aperitivo and continued conversation.

Introductions are curator-led walkthroughs of exhibitions offering background and context on the works on view.

with Wilhelm Neusser on the legacy of Romantic landscape painting

a conversation with painter Wilhelm Neusser, whose imagined landscapes engage the legacy of German Romanticism and respond to the precarious conditions of the present

Date
Sat, Oct 11

Time
4 p.m.

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

Wilhelm Neusser’s atmospheric paintings explore how land continues to register the sublime—not as heroic grandeur, but as a fragile, shifting presence shaped by ecological uncertainty and perceptual complexity.

Originally from Cologne, Germany, and now based in Somerville, Massachusetts, Neusser’s paintings draw from both memory and imagination instigating reflection on how beauty, landscape, and time interweave in an era of environmental change.

Neusser will be in conversation with James Voorhies, founder of Spritz3000 and curator of Relational Landscapes.

Conversations is a series of talks with artists, writers, and curators related to the work on view and themes explored in the exhibitions.

of the opening of Spritz3000

a daylong vernissage celebrating the launch of Spritz3000

Date
Sat, Oct 4

Time
12–7 p.m.
toast and welcome at 5 p.m.

Location
Spritz3000 at Foreland
12 Factory Street, #2F
Catskill, NY

Open Day inaugurates the launch of Spritz3000 and the opening of Relational Landscapes, a group exhibition exploring land as a relational space shaped by history, memory, migration, and ecology.

Guests are invited to view the works, explore the studio, and speak with the curator and artists throughout the day.

Light aperitivo will be served.