Women of Rockland art installation at Garner Arts Center

Women of Rockland, a site-specific installation, returns in a newly reimagined form at the Garner Arts Festival. The work features a series of large-scale photographic fabric banners portraying Rockland County women from diverse cultural backgrounds, each embodying a sacred myth drawn from her heritage.

Originally presented as a traveling exhibition in 2010—including a monumental installation spanning a four-story atrium at the Palisades Center—this marks the first public presentation of the series in over a decade.

For its 2026 iteration, I have re-envisioned the installation for the landscape of Garnerville, suspending the banners along the Main Road Bridge and Cross Creek Road Bridge over Minisceongo Creek.

The portraits span lives both rooted and far-reaching: a humanitarian activist between Malawi and Nyack; a Jewish filmmaker from Suffern now in Israel; a Chinese American visual artist now in San Francisco; three sisters from the Sufi Mosque in Chestnut Ridge; and a French Romani singer-songwriter. Each image is paired with a written reflection at www.GoddessOnEarth.com exploring the myth each woman embodies and its relevance in her contemporary life.

Women of Rockland will remain on view through Upstate Arts Weekend-June 25-29.

Garner Arts Center, 55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY