Contributed by Karlyn Benson / A few Hudson Valley galleries are taking a break this month, but many are opening exciting new shows. Highlights include solo presentations by Women’s Studio Workshop co-founder Tatana Kellner at the Garrison Art Center, Sean Hemmerle at Front Room Gallery in Hudson, and Will Hutnick at Geary in Millerton. A notable group show, In the pale moonlight, opens at SEPTEMBER in Kinderhook. At Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak continues his Artist Researcher in Residence project From the Ground UP, featuring collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground.” Wes Anderson fans will want to visit Opalka Gallery in Albany to see Carl Sprague: Setting the Stage, featuring Sprague’s designs for numerous films including Asteroid City and The Grand Budapest Hotel. And finally, don’t miss the final two weekends of HOLIDAY at LABspace in Hillsdale.
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New York / Hudson Valley
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany NY / Cyndy Barbone,Johnathan DeSousa, Kathy Greenwood, Lori Lawrence, Joy Muller-McCoola, Mark Olshansky, Jess Stapf, Barbara Todd, Extra/Ordinary / closes May 11
Opalka Gallery at Russel Sage College / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Carl Sprague, Setting the Stage / Jan 23 – Feb 24
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / In the pale moonlight / Feb 10 – Apr 7
Bill Arning Exhibitons / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Winter’s Long Embrace, Nick Barbee, Sallie Barbie, Chris Bernsten, Nayland Blake, TJ Griffin, Karsen Heagle, Joe Klockowski, Philip Knoll, Scooter LaForge, Stephen Lack, Thedra Cullar Ledford, Jean Paul Mallozzi, Mark Ponder, Gerardo Rosales, Elijah Ruhala, Carol Saft, Michael St John, David Sokosh, Michael Walden / Jan 6 – Mar 9
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Mary Breneman, Michael L. Simpson, Emily Ritz, Daniel Clurman, and Zach Neven, Winter Show / Jan 27 – Mar 31
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Sean Hemmerle, Hoops / Feb 17 – April 7
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Lois Dickson: Everyone Loves A Sunset / Feb 3 – Mar 3
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Heather Boose Weiss, Carolyn Monastra, Leah Oates, Landscapes of Transcendence: Part II – Scenes of Ethereality / Feb 1 – Mar 24
Turley Gallery / 98 Green Street, Hudson, NY / Kevin Ford and Daniel Herwitt, you think, you know; Mark Joshua Epstein, Burgers for Breakfast / Feb 10 – Mar 17
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Karina Sharif: A Dream Embodied / Feb 10 – Mar 30
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Will Hutnick, SATELLITE / Feb 24 – Apr 7
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / HOLIDAY / Nov 25 – Feb 11
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Gabrielle Banks, Natalie Baxter, Alexandra Borovski, Gherdai Hassell, Davina Hsu, Padyn Humble, Ayumi Ishii, Alex Jackson, Katie Kaplan, Susan Klein, SunYoung Park, I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws / Dec 9 – Mar 16
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM): By A Thread and Onaje Benjamin, Storytelling in Black and White / Jan 19 – Feb 25 / Geometric Abstraction / Jan 19 – Apr 14
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild: Hayoon Jay Lee, Doug Navarra, Xuewu Zheng, Ordinary Alchemy / Jan 13 – Feb 25
Headstone Gallery / 28 Hurley Avenue, Kingston, NY / Gretta Johnson & Christine Silver, Rumor Mill / Dec 2 – Feb 25
Ann Street Gallery / Newburgh, NY / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, From the Ground UP / Dec 1 – Mar 31
Bau Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Mary McFerran, Cords and Knots; Works by Bau Gallery Artists / Jan 13 – Feb 4 / Meg Beaudoin; Loren Eifferman & Midoru Furutate; Mary McFerran / Feb 10 – Mar 3
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Winter Show / Jan 6 – Feb 28
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / 2024 Member Show / Jan 20 – Feb 4
Tatana Kellner, Sideway Glances; Stanford Kay, Painting Out Loud / Feb 17 – Mar 10
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Elizabeth Hoy and Robin Reynolds, Spirit & Splendor / Jan 26 – May 10
Connecticut / Housatonic Valley
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Matt Barter, Joan Linder, Mary Tooley Parker, & Polly Schindler, Cool & Collected ’24 / Jan 6 – Feb 18
Jennifer Terzian / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT (open by appointment) / MaryKate Maher, Night Bloom / Feb 3 Mar 2
Connecticut / New Haven
Ely Center for Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / One Thing Becomes Another, Patricia Carrigan, Cynthia Dobie, Ellen Gordon, Lilah Heyman; Marlon Forrester, Skyward Bound / Jan 19 – May 7
About the author: Karlyn Benson is a curator and writer based in Beacon, NY. She was recently the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, where she curated Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun (2023) and Collective Consciousness: New Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty (2021). Benson founded Matteawan Gallery in Beacon, where she curated more than fifty exhibitions before closing the gallery in 2018.
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