BILL ARNING Exhibitions

Bill Arning Exhibitions & Ten Barn Farm

September 3–October 4, 2026

Ecstasy in the Barn at Ten Barn Farm

Open for viewing: Friday evenings / Sunday 9AM–2PM

Come enjoy their celebrated seasonal Ten Barn Kitchen cuisine while viewing

For the second Bill Arning Exhibitions project at Ten Barn Farm, Ecstasy in the Barn explores the enduring dream of finding liberation, communion, and transcendence within one of the Hudson Valley's most iconic spaces: the barn. Inspired by the communal experiments and back-to-the-land movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition examines the many ways people have sought connection through landscape, sex, creativity, spirituality, pleasure, and collective living.

The project is grounded in one of the Hudson Valley's enduring paradoxes. Farms have traditionally represented hard work, self-sufficiency, and often socially conservative values. Yet these same rural landscapes also became sites of counterculture, free love, spiritual experimentation, queer communities, artistic communes, and alternative ways of living—made possible by the privacy and freedom found far from cities and conventional career paths.

The participating artists will explore both the promises and contradictions of these utopian aspirations through works created or adapted for this singular environment, where art exists in dialogue with weather, animals, meals, performances, and the daily rhythms of farm life.

Dan Devine, Milkmaid of Bourdeux, 2008, Color photograph, 37.5 x 27.5 in

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Ali Alamdar
Reed Anderson
Polly Apfelbaum
Franco Andres
Tod Bailey
Hannah Barrett
David Becker
Uta Bekaia
Justin Vivian Bond
Roddy Bottum
Caleb Brown
Richard Butler
Elijah Burger
Richmond Burton
Christopher Cascio
Carter Ernst
Dan Devine
Johnny Defeo
Alexandria Deters
Daniella Dooling
Mark Doty
Colton Dowling
Enid Ellen
James Esber
Eric Hibit
Steven Evans
Russell Etchen
Jane Fine
Gail Fitzgerald
Jeff Fleming
John Franklin
Tara Fracalossi
Betsy Friedman
Janice Freeman
Meghan Gerety
Matthew Gilbert
Daniel Gibson
Judy Glantzman
Mike Glier
Jim Goss
TJ Griffin
Oliver Halkowitz
Karen Heagle
Daniel Heidkamp
Shirley Irons
Elizabeth Insogna
Allison Hunter
Wes Holloway
Rinaldo Hopf
Scott Hunt
Bo Joseph
Roberto Juarez
Alyssa Kazew
David Kelley
Matt Knife
Phil Knoll
Wayne Koestenbaum
Kevin Larmon
Michael Lazarus
David Le June
Jill Levine
Chris Lively
Ario Elami
Jean-Paul Mallozzi
Joe Mama-Nitzberg
Mark McCray
Douglas Melini
Charles Merward
Andy Ness
Ariel Isaac Norman
Kate Mulholland
Matthew Bede Murphy
Robbie Moore
Cobi Moules
Donna Moylan
Mark Ponder
Cory Perry
Enoc Perez
Denise Prince
Preetika Rajgariah
RABIT
Rajab Ali Sayed
Luke Rose
Henk Rossouw
Kevin Sabo
Don Shewey
Jason Schneiderman
Laurel Sparks
Allison Schulnik
Ellen Siebers
Paul C. Smith
Stephen Truax
Gerardo Rosales
Elijah Ruhala
Michael St. John
Joseph Staley
Eric Stefanski
Lina Tharsing
Harrison Tenzer
Terry Suprean
Kevin Tobin
Harper Walters
Oliver Wasow
Michael Walden
Susan Wides
Eric Wolf
Brian Wood
Joachim West
Jade Yumang
Daniel Zamora