SARIAH PARK is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator whose mixed race and Indigenous ancestry has helped inform her questions regarding consumerism, post colonialism and societal waste. At four years old Sariah learned to sew from her mother and grandmother. Years of experience working with fiber, print and fashion design give her a unique perspective as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. She studied textiles and fashion at the Parsons School of Design where she has been teaching art and design for twelve years. Directly out of school her BFA thesis collection was bought by Barneys New York. She has won the prestigious Gold Thimble Award for her screen-printed and handwoven designs. In 2019 she won a Pollock- Krasner Fellowship. She has been featured in many magazines, including Vogue, Elle, and the Wall Street Journal and collaborated with retailers like Neiman Marcus, Barneys Japan and United Arrows, including a signature printed apparel line produced for Anthropologie. Her work has been in traveling exhibits and is included in private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Her most recent body of work features the up-cycling and re-purposing of dead stock and damaged printed textiles into new forms and printing with waste to create large-scale works on paper. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable land based practices for textile production and Indigenous studies, creating a narrative of inclusion beyond whiteness. This summer Sariah attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnston, Vt. She returned home to the Hudson Valley with a prodigious amount of glorious work, exhibited here the first time at The Lodge at Woodloch.

RAUL VEGA uses a rich mixture of layered paints that are often applied with both brushes and pallet knives to create textured canvases. His aim in developing a dimensional effect is optical intrigue. The artist sits for long periods of time quietly contemplating his subjects in tropical and temperate places. With plants and water serving as his muse, in his imagination, he breaches the boundaries of the physical world around him, digging deep inside and down to the invisible subatomic level where all things flow and interconnect. Many of his works are purposefully abstracted patterns, deconstructed designs to recall and explore nature. Raul also creates rich, sensual portraits of recognizable plants and flowers that he loves, capturing color, light and lush textures from his visits around the world and in the wondrous garden just outside his home in Hawley, Pennsylvania.

Raul, who grew up in Puerto Rico, studied art at the College of Mayaguez, University of Puerto Rico, and Catholic University of Puerto Rico and at Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been shown in the Bluestone Gallery in Milford, Pa, ArtHouse429, at the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach. Raul’s work has been acquired by the Coral Springs Museum of Art and the Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts. We are excited to welcome Raul, who lives in nearby Hawley, Pa, to exhibit with us for the first time at The Lodge at Woodloch Gallery.