Jeffrey Lependorf: Training
Sept 15–Nov 13, 2026
CREATE Offsite: Hudson Amtrak Station
69 S Front St, Hudson, NY 12534
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create artworks to offer spaces for intense visual engagement and contemplation as a form of problem solving without a problem, manufacturing controlled chaos as a means of achieving order. A composer and musician by formal training, I have more recently returned to my first love, visual art, employing chance procedures toward achieving a different kind of generative anarchy. To employ chance is to refine the questions one asks and fully accept the consequences. The works here—inspired by my relatively new role guiding the legacy of multidisciplinary artist John Cage—represent my first foray into using chance, a longtime practice for me as a composer, to make works on paper. “Training” reflects my developing explorations of the possibilities for using chance in drawing while reflecting on the train routes and destinations suggested by this Amtrak train station.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jeffrey Lependorf, a composer, musician, and visual artist, makes things. In addition to his art practice, he serves as Executive Director of the John Cage Trust and directs the Art Omi: Music International Musicians Residency, a collaborative music-making program he created. He is also a certified master of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute. He has performed, and his music has been performed, around the globe—literally, in fact: a recording of his “Night Pond” for solo shakuhachi was launched into space when the shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard the Russian space station Mir. His artworks have been shown here and there. He was most recently an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity making chance-determined works on paper.
Hudson Amtrak Station
69 S Front St
Hudson, NY 12534
Free to public
