BEFORE AFTER BETWEEN: Collage Portraits by Kendra Shedenhelm
ON DISPLAY: March & April 2025
Artist’s Statement
Before After Between is about what shifts and what fades. Memory distorts, identity changes, and time erases as much as it reshapes. Each portrait reflects transformation, history, and the traces we leave behind. Like old photographs with uncertain origins, these figures are meant to feel both familiar and distant.
Each piece is a one-of-a-kind archival transfer on birch plywood, giving the images a tactile quality that echoes the themes of impermanence and transformation. Using collage and drawing, this
series looks at the space between who we were and who we are, and the inevitable loss that comes with change.
Bio
Kendra lives in Croton-on-Hudson with her husband, their son, and two very important cats.
To find out more or to purchase, please visit kendrashedenhelm.com.
Hooked on Books
Every once in a while the Hudson River Rug Hookers, a group which has been meeting in Croton for more than 30 years, comes up with a challenge in which those who choose to participate hook a piece based on the same subject. The exhibit now at the Croton Library is the result of the subject Hooked on Books, their most recent challenge. From children’s books to classics, to current fiction and non-fiction all are rendered in hooked art by this talented group.
On exhibit in the Gallery space through the end of April
For more information contact: Helen Buerger 914-552-3975
