Opening Reception • Notes to Self: Natasha Sweeten & Michelle Weinberg
July 16–September 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 16, 3–5pm
CREATE Offsite: The Wick
41 Cross St, Hudson, NY
Free to public
CREATE Council on the Arts and The Wick, Hudson are pleased to present Notes to Self, a two-person exhibition of work by Michelle Weinberg and Natasha Sweeten, curated by the artists.
Please join us on Thursday, July 16, from 5 to 7 pm for the artists’ reception!
The drawings of Natasha Sweeten and Michelle Weinberg are collected here as Notes to Self, eccentric internal memoranda, prompts to activate and to remember.
Both artists make drawings that embrace an open-ended inquiry. Their works on paper map pathways of experience, making thoughts visible. Sharing a collage aesthetic, they employ idiosyncratic marks and gestures that feature smudges, fringes, masking, seams and patches in spontaneous and intuitive ways.
Weinberg’s drawings excavate the structure of a painting or stretcher bars in the artist’s studio. The blank canvas is a container for Weinberg to divide, adorn, dissolve, layer and populate with figures pasted on its surface and lodged in its interior. Her works vibrate on the edge between abstraction and representation, using both linear and painterly marks.
Sweeten’s works on paper from her “Warm Up” series capture a frenetic sensibility somewhere between childlike joy and stressed-out citizen. Different paper pieces find their way to others as she cuts, glues and reworks in an effort to find harmony amidst chaos, making visual trains of thought with paint, marker, pen and pencil.
A combination of individually framed work (Weinberg) will alternate with Sweeten’s arrangements of several drawings mounted beneath larger sheets of acrylic. Notes to Self will unfold for viewers as intimately scaled episodes, a journey of intensity, humor and surprising possibilities.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Michelle Weinberg is the recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation Award (2025), Pollock-Krasner (2025 and 2016), NYSCA Support to Artists Grant (2025), LES Printshop Keyholder (2024-25), Yaddo (2024), NYSCA/NYFA (2023), LMCC, MacDowell, Millay, SouthFlorida Cultural Consortium, State of Florida Individual Artist, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, homesession and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, 100W Corsicana in TX, Studios at MASS MoCA and more. Exhibitions: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, SanArt, Brooklyn, Studio 502/ArtBridge, Project: ARTspace, LES Printshop, High Noon Gallery, Charles Moffett Gallery in NYC, ArtPort in Kingston, NY, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, Pulp Holyoke, MA, La Plataforma in Barcelona and Edge Zones, Outer Space Miami, MiFA Gallery, Collective 62, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University and Frost Art Museum in Miami. Commissioned: murals, tiles, terrazzo, mosaic works for facebook, Miami-Dade County AiPP, Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Miami International Airport and more. Currently her mural “River Semaphore” is installed at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. Her hand-knotted rugs are produced in collaboration with CariniLang in NYC. Weinberg works in NYC, Miami, FL and in Sharon Springs, NY.
The daughter of an immigrant, Natasha Sweeten was born in Kentucky and considers her youth a navigation between belonging and being an outsider. She grew up in college town suburbia and attended high school in rural southern Indiana, where her first job was on a U-Pick-It farm, sweeping parking lots and leading school children on apple orchard tours. She studied painting and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and painting at Bard College, supporting herself in New York City by working at art galleries and as an artist assistant.
Sweeten’s work has been included in various solo and group exhibitions, including at Edward Thorp Gallery, Satchel Projects , BravinLee (all NYC) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America and the Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She is the recipient of a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and a PS 122 Space Fellowship, as well as several artist residencies at MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo.
Primarily a painter, Sweeten at times collaborates with fellow artists in various media, including painting, sculpture, installation, collage and film. In 2024, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting, she collaborated with Ithaca-based architects Ballman Khapalova to create an homage by cutting her upstate garage in half. Sweeten also curates exhibitions and writes art reviews for the blog Two Coats of Paint. She lives and works in Germantown, NY.
For inquiries, please contact gallery@createcouncil.org