Artist Panel: The Power of Art to Help Us Survive
April 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Join exhibiting artists Ted Dixon, Lynn Margileth, Eileen Power, and curator Stephen Olivier for a thought-provoking conversation about the creative processes behind their current exhibitions at the Arts Society of Kingston: Inner Worlds, Outer Views (Margileth, Olivier, Power) and Two Seasons (Dixon), on view through Sunday, April 26. Together, they’ll reflect on how artistic practice helps us make meaning, sustain connection, and navigate uncertain times, offering insight into the role art plays in resilience, reflection, and collective survival.
About the artists:
Ted Dixon
Born in New York City in 1953, Dixon has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1992 and in Rosendale since 2009. He studied at Fordham University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Arts. After a 25-year career as a web designer, Dixon began dedicating himself fully to his artistic practice in 2009.
His work has been exhibited at Montgomery Row Art Space (Rhinebeck), Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, ADS Gallery (Newburgh), Arts Society of Kingston, Gallery at the Rosendale Theatre, and Albany Center Gallery.
Dixon is a Black American painter working primarily in abstraction. His work explores perception and memory through layered visual compositions. “How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see?” he asks. “My paintings attempt to capture moments in time shaped by personal experience.”
Lynn Margileth
Lynn Margileth is an award-winning visual artist working across oil, acrylic, etching, encaustic, and mixed media. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and is held in public collections.
Margileth’s landscapes emerge from a deep connection to the spirit of the land. Through layered color and energetic brushwork, her paintings guide viewers through familiar Hudson Valley terrain toward moments of meditative radiance that transcend the literal landscape.
Her canvases move between vast and intimate spaces—sky, mountains, water reflections, and winding roads—inviting viewers to soar, wander, and dream. She was recently selected for an artist residency at the Colerain Art Center in Pennsylvania.
Stephen Olivier, Curator
Stephen Olivier is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and artist-run spaces across the United States and internationally. His solo exhibitions include Life, Still at Latham & Watkins, New York; Aquaculture at City Aquarium, Brooklyn; Over the Garden Wall at Subdivision Art, Long Island City; and Beforemath at the Octopus Building, Miami.
His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Let the Fur and Feathers Fly at Epperson Gallery (CA), the Texas National Competition at the Cole Art Center (TX), Big Bold Pride at the Arts Society of Kingston, and Truth Unveiled at Art League Rhode Island (all 2025), as well as exhibitions at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, KIPNZ (Walton, NY), and venues throughout New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Berlin.
Olivier was awarded a 2025 residency at NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Preparator at White Box and The Annex in New York, installing exhibitions for artists including Carolee Schneemann, Brian Maguire, Javier Téllez, Marianne Vitale, Joel Sternfeld, William Anastasi, Conrad Atkinson, and Jeff Chiplis. His sculptural work also appeared in Shelton Walsmith’s short film The Importance of Being Amber (2011).
Eileen Power
Eileen Power creates sculptures and mixed-media works from everyday materials, animating discarded objects in unexpected ways. Her work reflects a deep interest in transformation, memory, and renewal through artistic process.
A recent body of work emerged from personal loss following the death of her partner, Steve, after a long battle with cancer. Using his used drop cloths as material, Power created a series of sculptures that serve as quiet testaments to love and continuity—works in which presence endures through making.
Her sculptures have been exhibited at the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts, the 2025 Biennial Woodstock Byrdcliffe Sculpture Show, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the Kingston Design Showhouse, and Shelter, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She received the Robert Angeloch Printmaking Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2021 and the Nicholas Buhalis Award for Weaving the Woven in 2024. Her work is held in collections across the United States and Europe.
