Since The Lodge at Woodloch’s inception in 2006, Kiesendahl + Calhoun Fine Art has been curating seasonal art exhibits in our Gallery Hall that feature approximately fifty works by two artists. The gallerists choose work that evokes tranquility, joy, and contemplation; lush landscape paintings, exuberant abstract art, expressionistic portraits, photography, and collage.
Stephen Geldman has a BA in art from Cal State Los Angeles, and a MA from UC Irvine. Early influences include the feminist artist Judy Chicago, the painter Peter Krasnow and the sculptors Peter Alexander and Masami Teraoka, who showed with him at Space Gallery. He participated in many West Coast gallery exhibits. In 1980 he won the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship in the annual competition and was chosen by Robert Motherwell to spend a year at the American Academy in Rome. The artist currently lives in New York City and along the Lackawaxen River in Pennsylvania. In 2009 he had a solo show at the Philip Alan gallery in the east Village, and in 2012 he showed at PaPa arts in hitemills, PA. Over the years Stephen has shown four times here at the Lodge at Woodloch with Kiesendahl+Calhoun. The exciting vertical painting by the fireplace outside Tree Restaurant is one of Stephen’s works, a permanent part of the Lodge’s art collection.
After many years the artist has developed a sense of what he wants from a painting, coherence of the visual elements, while playing with an abstract pattern of paint strokes to engage and surprise, facilitating another way of seeing. Geldman's interchange of undulating light, form and color draw us into his personal landscape. Observing, we enter a scintillating, harmonious, connected place that envelops us. Even his urban landscapes look alive, as if a kind of city woodland scape.
Carey Weiss, an environmental scientist and fine arts photographer, is based in the Delaware River Valley of New Jersey. Her work is in many private collections. In her creative arts endeavors she works primarily in medium format photography to produce silver gelatin darkroom prints with high resolution, rich tonal depth and smooth tonal gradients. Her imagery contrasts urban world themes and human emotions with the lush greenery of forests and rivers. The sharp juxtaposition of one world vs.the other – and the complete dependence of the human world on the natural environment – is the subject of much of her photography.
As an environmental scientist Carey spent her career immersed in studies, data, facts, and figures. Yet, she has found these tools less effective at inspiring stewardship of the planet’s natural resources than art and imagery, which speak directly to the heart. As forests grow increasingly endangered and species decline at an alarming pace, the challenge is to use both science and art to move people to action. The rhythm of the artist’s subjects, and of course her trees, branch out like veins and tributaries that reveal a deep understanding and reverence for the vital flow of our infinitely interconnected world……
Carey’s images in the Lodge at Woodloch Fall 2026 show were printed by Steve Rifkin of Hank’s Photographic Services in New York. Steve is universally regarded by top-tier photographers, museums, and galleries as a master printer noted for an intuitive ability to listen to photographers, interpret intent, and execute precise technical decisions regarding contrast, tone, and mood. His print studio utilizes exclusive high-standard fiber-based papers and meticulous processing that meets or exceeds strict museum guidelines. Frames and mats were created by hand in the studio of Roger Burdick of Fencefield Frames in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Norman Seider says: “I am at heart a storyteller affected and attracted by mystery, by antiquity, by echoes of the past; by forms and shapes and empty places, by people in their everyday moments. My world is defined best in shades of black and white and grays. Throughout my life I have been intimately involved with motion pictures; they are part of my being. My grandfather and my father were pioneers in the motion picture industry, connected with cinema from its birth. I have been a producer-director, a motion picture industry executive, a university film educator and a documentary filmmaker. Not until I was 55 years old, did I turn to still photography as my art form. Those years when I was immersed in and in love with all aspects of cinema inevitably led to the developing and refining of my vision as a photographer. So I think of my photographs as cinematic….”
Jean Claude Lemagny, Director, Department of Photography, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris wrote: “Norman Seider's work has a European and American sensibility. There are stories and ghosts within each image. His light is mysterious. There is poetry and there are things to discover in the photographs which are very black and white."
The artist’s work can be found in permanent collections, at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Galerie Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, The Ann Tucker Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of The Rhode Island School of Design, Newport Museum of Art, Rhode Island, Leica Camera Museum. Wetzlar, Germany, Museum of Art, Asheville, N.C., The United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He has had group exhibits at the Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art, NY, PBS, Boston, Leica Corporate Gallery and Leica Gallery, New York, and solo shows in Germany at the Leica Corporate Gallery and others. His publications of black and white photographs include Odyssey, Patagonia to the Antarctic and Opening Scenes and others.
| Any questions or interest, please contact: Kiesendahl+Calhoun Fine Art, Ltd. www.kiesendahlcalhounart.com 914 325 5496 Nancy Bloch 914 844 6296 Camilla Calhoun |