Big Works in the Big Room-"If Andy Goldsworthy has Nightmares..."

If Andy Goldsworthy has nightmares, they probably resemble Harry Mathews’ The Greene Man, a contemporary homage to the eponymous fertility figure of pagan mythology (eponymous, that is, except for that last “e” in “Greene,” which localizes this particular nature spirit in Greene County). Painstakingly constructed of intricately interwoven bits of driftwood – sticks, roots and branches – that the artist culled from his creekside property in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the stick figure seems to embody both the benign and chaotic aspects of nature, possessing a fierce, almost menacing quality that stands (or in this case, sits) in direct contrast to the patient skill of its making.-Mikhail Horowitz writing in the Woodstock Times, 2015.