Pocantico

The American Artists’ Hand Archive Holds Court at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center

By
W.B. King
Published On
October 15, 2023
In The Media

Photo by Margaret Fox.

Thomas Don­ahue and Vanessa Ho­heb pose in front of James Hart, Bronze on view in Portraits of Process at the DR Center gallery at Pocantico. 

Whether through the medium of sculp­ture, paint­ing, film or other cre­ative ve­hi­cles like mu­sic and po­etry, artis­tic ex­pres­sion, when con­tem­plated by the pub­lic and fel­low artists, is sub­jec­tive. There is, how­ever, a uni­ver­sal com­mon de­nom­i­na­tor among nearly all artists: they cre­ate won­der­ment with their hands.

To bet­ter un­der­stand these “agents of cre­ativ­ity,” Vanessa Ho­heb be­gan the Amer­i­can Artists’ Hand Archive in 2010. Along with artis­tic di­rec­tor Thomas Don­ahue, the pro­lific team is cur­rently of­fer­ing an in­ti­mate ex­pe­ri­ence to view 34 ex­pertly crafted bronze life cast­ings of Amer­i­can artists’ hands at the David Rock­e­feller Cre­ative Arts Cen­ter at Pocan­tico, the com­mu­nity-fac­ing ex­ten­sion of the Rock­e­feller Broth­ers Fund (RBF).

 

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