Tanya Marcuse's "Woven | Deer: An Ecological Tapestry" Opens at Center for Photography Woodstock

Key facts

• Tanya Marcuse's Woven | Deer: An Ecological Tapestry is on view October 3, 2026 through January 17, 2027 at the Center for Photography Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York.
• The exhibition brings together eight large-scale photographs from Marcuse's series Woven: An Ecological Tapestry.
• The Woven photographs measure up to five feet high and 10 feet wide and resemble elaborate, fantastical gardens viewed from above.
• Marcuse constructs each scene by hand, gathering, arranging, painting, burning, and transplanting materials over weeks or months.
• The series draws from medieval hunting and falconry tapestries, translating their dense, all-over compositions into photographs.
• For Woven No. 31, made during winter with ice and snow, Marcuse had to finish within four days before a temperature spike caused melting.
• CPW debuts Deer, an 11-minute film made with collaborator Ben Stechshulte, who worked on editing, animation, and sound.
• Marcuse completed Woven in 2020; her practice then shifted toward transformations between ground and sky, land and water, and catastrophe and renewal, developing into Book of Miracles.