In the past several years, a tide of creatives and professionals have relocated to Ellenville from New York City to start families or lower living costs or simply to get a view of the horizon. In 2019, artists Paul Villinski and Amy Park packed up their lives in Long Island City and joined the northbound current, moving full-time to their weekend house in Ellenville so that their son could attend High Meadow School.
“The problem was we didn't have a proper work space up here,” Villinski says. For a while, he went back and forth to his studio in Queens, which proved neither enjoyable nor sustainable. Finally, in January 2021, the couple was able to close on a retail storefront on Market Street in Ellenville that Villinski spent the last year renovating. “The building was really a mess,” Villinski says. “One of the themes in my work is taking cast-off and apparently worthless materials and transforming them into something with aesthetic value, so this building has been a large-scale expression of that.”
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