George Kimmerling's latest project explores the cultural landscape of Denning’s Point, a 64-acre site on the Hudson River in Beacon. Now a state park, Denning’s Point has a complicated—and distinctly American—history. Once owned by Dutch enslavers, Denning's Point is indelibly marked by racial and class conflict, unbridled industrialism, and environmental degradation. This exhibition includes new black-and-white landscape photographs, works based on archival materials, and studies for new historical markers. Kimmerling hopes the project begins to express a more holistic, inclusive, and complex understanding of this and similar sites as deeply contested and embedded in the social structures that have shaped them and that lie at the core of U.S. history.

About the artist: George Kimmerling's work has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and numerous galleries and nonprofit spaces across the U.S. and internationally. He has a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MFA from RISD. He attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and has had residencies at the PS1/MoMA National Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony. His work is represented in both public and private collections, including at the New Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art archives, and West Collection. He has taught/lectured at the University of Chicago, Syracuse University, RISD, Hunter College, and McMaster University.