ATELIER
JULY 2025
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND
THURSDAY 17TH -
MONDAY 21ST
- 7-9 Liberty Square Ellenville, NY 12428
EVENT OVERVIEW
CONTEXT BRINGS CONTENT
SCUPLTURE GARDEN EXPERIENCE
In the context of the property of the original Way Side Inn of Ellenville, that was lost in the 1960s to a fire and never rebuilt; an indoor atrium still stands and now serves as an Art Co-op + Wellbeing space for the community for intergenerational programming which is now called ‘Inn Way Art-Coop’ by Sqrypt Atelier. We will be showcasing an Immersive Sculpture Garden Outdoor Experience with 4 large scale sculpture artists comprised of Windows, Modular Box Frames, Stair Edges, Spirals & Twists. The materiality will be diverse in aluminum, stone, wood, concrete, & resin. Through phenomenology of light and sound, the expression of these legacy projects that inspired each individual piece will be woven together as a narrative to express the journey of life and how we weather the metaphorical storms of reality to recalibrate our energy current through meditation and movement. This in conjunction with intergenerational workshops inspired by the process of each artist will be an integral part of the experience from July 17th – 21st, 2025
Founder & Creative Director, Robyn Squires, of Sqrypt Atelier + Rysq Design Collective, also the Curator for INNWAY ART CO-OP will be leading the ‘Context brings Content’ experience for ‘BOX 18’
Thinking out of the Box.
- Does the water wash over our idea?
- How will they weather the storms?
- Until the boxes are planted elsewhere.
- Only then will the textures reveal themselves.
- Wash. Soak. Rinse. Repeat
Infused with textures of light + sounds and textural interventions by local artists highlighted by a tea house module as the culminating component; These wooden modular boxes will be 8′-0″ cubes stacked to an overall composition of 60′-0″ and 18′-0″ high outdoors in the rear yard and scaled 50% indoors for a local mixed media artists experience with intergenerational workshops..
Janela will be in the fenced back yard, a large vertical sculptural piece by Scott Assumpcao-Thomson. Janela embodies the intricate tapestry of my life, experiences, love, creativity, compassion, joy, grief, validation, violation, acceptance, converge within this piece. As you open the window and mind, let go of what no longer serves you and embrace the freedom to “Dance in the wind”.
Exit Plan 2025, An Aluminum Sculpture by Gabrielle Shelton will be showcased in the front yard along side a Stone + Driftwood composition entitled Spirals & Twists by Tyler Borchert of StoneStyling.
These 4 core sculptors will create the context to set-up the foundation for this immersive sculpture garden
Scott Assumcao-Thomson
Janela
Wood + Metal
[email protected]
IG: @assumpcoart @theupstatefarm
Janela, which translates to window in Portuguese, represents my most personal and expansive creation to date. Over a period of one and half months I envisioned and created Janela. Janela embodies the intricate tapestry of my life, experiences, love, creativity, compassion, joy, grief, validation, violation, acceptance, converge within this piece. As you open the window and mind, let go of what no longer serves you and embrace the freedom to “Dance in the wind”.
This work is dedicated to all the remarkable women I have lost on life’s journey.
Open your mind, liberate your spirit, and “Dance in the wind”. Janela has become a wonderful energy source for both mediation and physical expression.
Gabrielle Shelton
Exit Plan 2025 Aluminum
My work explores the intersection of form, function, and movement through stair-themed sculptures that conceptually engage with the principles of communication. Stairs are architectural elements and metaphors for progress and transition. I am curious about how implied and actual function interact with form in the modernist pursuit of efficiency, innovation, and aesthetic clarity.
Influenced by Bauhaus ideals, I emphasize clarity of design, material integrity, and the dynamic relationship between structure and space. My sculptures strip stairs down to their essential geometric forms, playing with repetition, asymmetry, and balance to evoke both the rational and the poetic.
Working primarily in metal, I engage in a dialogue between industrial precision and the organic tactility of the material as it patinas from the elements. My sculptures aim to challenge perspectives, sometimes appearing functional yet defying usability, existing in a realm between architecture and abstraction.
Tyler Borchert
Spiral & Twists 2024 DriftWood + Stone
The sculpture, Big to Small with a Bit of a Twist, symbolizes the growth of the human body and the journey of life. The stones, arranged from large to small and twisting throughout the sculpture, represent the twists and turns of our existence, reflecting how we grow and evolve through life’s challenges. The wooden base and top of the sculpture symbolize the human body, with the base starting solid and transitioning into hollowness, illustrating the departure of the soul from the body. This transition signifies how, after death, we are left as an empty shell. The twisting stones echo the ups and downs of life, showing our growth from birth to death, and ultimately, returning to the earth. I don’t know if I captured it or not. Let me know if I did or what I’d need to tweak
Sqrypt Atelier - Innway Art Co-op
Robyn Squires
IG: @sqrypt_atelier
BOX 18
2025
Wood + Concrete + Textile + Resin + Light + Sound
www.rysq.com/innway-co-op
Box 18 provides the contextual architectural backdrop to choose one’s own adventure. It is a sculpture that Robyn has been exploring the opportunity to scale ever since the first 4’-0” prototype of the concept in steel a decade ago. Walking through the experience of Box 18 is intended to create a moment that one can build memories with. Slow down, be present. Take a breath. Meditate. Before moving onto the next experience.
ABOUT BOX 18
Inviting local artists from the community to have the opportunity to scale ideas in half the boxes, Robyn reached out to inspiring energy she crossed paths with in the village. The current venue for this experience is serving the community as an art co-op and a wellbeing space on a shoestring budget. With that in mind, she hopes that the local community will be inspired to roll up their sleeves to contribute to this installation. From a textile artist that weaves incredible textures from her home studio, to a professional climber who showed up during the soft opening in late fall and inadvertently launched the ‘overheard innway’ phrase series saying …’’if i walked into an Art Co-op and it was too finished and polished … I’d be concerned.” that was the best compliment she heard during a holiday market she put together and truly struck a lasting cord. I kept in touch with Chad and reached out recently to see if he’d be interested in being one of the first artists to be part of bringing content into one of the boxes. He was honored and humbled and excited and said…i’ve been wanting to do this for a long time…now i have a goal to get it done. But if you don’t mind i don’t really want to sell it. When the event is over, i’d like to take it home with me. He nailed it. Exactly the energy i was looking for. Its about the experience, not about selling. The opportunity to network, to share ideas, to take a risk out of ones comfort zone to build something bigger than you’ve done before.
A couple of boxes are being reserved for close family to hopefully contribute as a leading part of this art co-op experience since at the core it is truly about legacy projects and themes inspired by the creative energy of our family history.
Robyn personally tried to build these boxes before, waiting for the right hotel commission to come through with a lucrative art show…and realized…why wait? Just find a way to build them on a shoestring budget and make it happen. A year ago she met someone who said to me ‘actions speak louder than words’. Stop waiting for things to happen to you, and just go after the things you want to happen to you. That seemingly simple flip of a switch in thinking has restructured my overall approach to scaling ideas from the art to architectural realm. For decades i’ve been working to scale and build other peoples agendas …when in reality i could be the developer of the context to produce the content where other art can thrive. Produce the architecture and curate the art. Through the lens of art and architecture – i hover between those worlds consistently.
Shortly after building the prototype in Japan this April, she realized filling 36 boxes with experiences would be a lot to take on. She have boxes and boxes of ideas and prototypes of projects she would like to display from archives in some of the boxes … but not that many…so she truly was inspired by the idea of other artists having the context of this open frame … to scale their own concept. Without too many rules ofcourse. There are limits to the size within the box …and for most this is a larger context than they have ever tried to scale an idea. She is truly smitten by the idea that she can give the community this opportunity to build the memories. Walking through the experience of BOX 18 is intended to be a meditative experience that captures different textures of light and sound infused with fresh ideas is the only way this can evolve into what it should be. It’ll take a village of ideas to scale and make this truly meaningful as a sculpture garden.
We are looking forward to seeing how this art co-op will evolve this spring / summer as a result.
More behind the scenes, inspiration, and schedule coming soon
BOX 18 - History and Background information
2014 - 2021
