About Jeff Barnett-Winsby

Jeff Barnett-Winsby (Wassaic Project Founder and Co-Executive Director) is an artist and community organizer with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Photography. He has exhibited internationally and his second book, Mark West and Molly Rose, was published in 2010 by J&L Books. His solo show Nothing Ever Happens is on view at Troutbeck through July 7th.

ABOUT GHOST OF A DREAM

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom founded in 2007. Ghost of a Dream’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (Arlington, VA), MassArt Art Museum (Boston, MA), Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, NC), Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (Colorado Springs, CO). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville, AR), Courtauld Museum (London, UK), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN), The Telfair Museum (Savannah, GA), Frist Center for Visual Arts (Nashville, TN), The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), and The Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, CA) among other venues. They recently finished a monumental public work at Penn Station (NY, NY). Ghost of a Dream is represented by GEARY GALLERY.

ABOUT THE WASSAIC PROJECT

The Wassaic Project is a hybrid community development organization and emerging artist incubator based in the small hamlet of Wassaic, NY. In the past 15 years, our supporters have helped us grow from a scrappy art festival into a mainstay of the upstate New York cultural landscape, featuring world-class contemporary art exhibitions, vitally important education programs, and an internationally respected artist residency.

This all springs from our relationships with artists. Our residency and exhibitions give emerging artists time and space to experiment and grow their practices. Again and again, we see that support pay off down the line: in the past few years our artists have shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the MoMA, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the International Center of Photography, the Schlossmuseum, the Children’s Museum of the Arts, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Wave Hill, Times Square Arts, Rockefeller Center, MASS MoCA, the Aldrich, Jeffrey Dietch, Morgan Lehman, Brookfield Place, James Fuentes, Hesse Flatow, Thierry Goldberg, Miles McEnery Gallery, and Savage X Fenty—and we’re probably forgetting a few.

The future of culture starts here.

Photo Credits
Lead Image
Wassaic Project © Wassaic Project
Grid, clockwise
Wassaic Project © Daniel Carello
Ghost of a Dream Studio Portrait courtesy Wassaic Project
Ghost of a Dream "and if the ground's not cold...", 2022. Iceberg images found taken from online news sites, arranged and layered to create a portrait of the melting polar ice. Printed and mounted on diabond. 53 1/2 x 48 inches.
Jeff Barnett-Winsby, The site of my first tattoo, 2015, Framed Photographic Print, 30 in x 49 in, Edition 1/5.
Troutbeck Picnic Lunch © Jim Henkens