Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Spring is in full bloom and it’s one of the most beautiful times of year upstate. I’m looking forward to Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory, curated by David A. Ross at Kino Saito in Verplanck, NY, opening May 11. Farther north there are two notable shows opening on May 18 in Kinderhook: Other Realities (Exploring Proximate Mysticisms) at Bill Arning Exhibitions and Annie Bielski, Raw Footage at SEPTEMBER. Also opening May 18 is the Wassaic Project’s summer exhibition Tall Shadows in Short Order. I recommend visiting Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson to see Lothar Osterburg’s extensive solo exhibition, A Celebration of the Small, featuring a collection of models, installations, and photogravures from the past twenty-five years. There are too many great exhibitions to mention here, so take a look at the list below and get ready for a road trip.
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New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Extra/Ordinary, Cyndy Barbone, Johnathan DeSousa, Kathy Greenwood, Lori Lawrence, Joy Muller-McCoola, Mark Olshansky, Jess Stapf, Barbara Todd / closes May 11
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Olalekan Jeyifous, Even in Arcadia… / Mar 16 – Jun 2
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Annie Bielski, Raw Footage / May 18 – Jul 7
Bill Arning Exhibitons / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Presentational, Jean-Paul Mallozzi, Donna Moylan, Kevin Sabo / Mar 16 – May 11 / Other Realities (Exploring Proximate Mysticisms), Justin Vivian Bond, Jesse Bransford, Lionel Cruet, Paula Hayes, Elizabeth Insogna, Fred Kahl / May 18 – Jun 23
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / All Figured Out: Mark Beard, William Clutz, Robert Goldstrom, Carl Grauer, Lauren Hamilton, ransome, and Caitlin Winner; Encaustic Paintings by Alaina Enslen / Apr 26 – Jun 16
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / First Light, Plein Air Paintings by Craig Hood / May 4 – Jun 3
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Peggy Cyphers: Passages / Apr 13 – May 19 / Phil Buehler, No Man is an Island / Opens May 25
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Talking Pictures / Apr 20 – Jun 2
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Lothar Osterburg, A Celebration of the Small / Apr 13 – Jun 9 / Phoebe Helander, In Plain Sight / May 18 – Jun 16
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Chad Weckler’s Creative Exposure: Portraits of Hudson, NY / Apr 20 – May 4
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Talking Threads: Eozen Agopian, Melissa Dadourian, Ana Maria Farina, Courtney Puckett, Padma Rajendran, Richard Saja and Hanna Washburn / April 4 – May 12 / Barbara Strasen and Liz Rundorff Smith / May 16 – Jun 30
Susan Eley Fine Art: Padma Rajendran, Mastheads and Mountains, 2022, felted wool and silk, 16 x 14 inches
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Joey Parlett, Foregrounds and Horizon Lines; Montgomery Smith and David Woodward, an elegance; Nick Hobbs, Many Worlds / Apr 6 – May 12 / Jenny Kemp, Cory Siegler, seamlessness; Raymond Zarnowitz, Ether / May 25 – Jul 7
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Light Beings / Apr 12 – May 25
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / GUZMAN: Family/Values, Recent Photos and Kurt + Courtney / May 4 – Jun 30
Alexander Gray Associates / 224 Main Street, Garden Level, Germantown, NY / Bethany Collins, Years / Apr 5 – Jun 16
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / The Bitter and the Sweet: ransome / Apr 20 – Jun 2
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Julia Kunin, Barbara Zucker, Meg Lipke, Catherine Hall, Joanne Howard / May 4 – Jun 15
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Equity at WAAM: New York Artists Equity Association Exchange Show; Kelsey Renko, you and me / Apr 19 – Jun 2 / Circa 1969: Selections from the Permanent Collection / Apr 19 – July 28
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / AiR 2024: Annual Artists-in-Residence Exhibition / May 4 – Jun 9
ArtPort Kingston / 108 East Strand, Kingston, NY / Serendipity Sky, Lauren Cohen, Kellianne McCarthy, Katie Ford, Santina Amato, Pin Hsin Chu, Remy Sosa, Martine Kaczynski, Elise Church, Marianna Peragallo, Tom Fruin, Todd Frankenfield / Apr 27 – Jun 2
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 474 Broadway, Kingston, NY / Counter Histories: Tamara Abdul Hadi, Alan Chin, Naomieh Jovin, Billy H.C. Kwok, and Qiana Mestrich / Mar 23 – May 26
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / David Garland, Abundant Sunshine / May 4 – 26
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Tony Thompson, Double Landscapes / Apr 20 – May 18
One Mile Gallery / 75 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / M/othering, Jayne Matricardi, Katie Roberts, Kirsten Stromberg, Tereza Swanda, Angela Rose Voulgarelis / May 11 – Jun 2
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Tall Shadows in Short Order / May 18 – Sep 14
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Michael Hambouz, Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes / Mar 16 – May 12
Analog Diary / 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY / Charles Ross: Star Songs / Apr 13 – May 12 / Beatrice Modisett / May 18 – Jun 16
Bau Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Jebah Baum, Guardians Against Evil Dreams; Steven Takasugi and Jebah Baum in the Beacon Room / Apr 13 – May 5 / Daniel Berlin, Brief Lives & Other Ruptures; Joan Harmon, Animal Dreams / May 11 – June 2
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Nico Mazza, Swan Song / Apr 13 – Jun 1
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Ada Pilar Cruz, Arctic Kelp Mappings / May 5 – Jun 2
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Debra Ramsay & Leslie Roberts; M Pettee Olsen / Apr 13 – May 5 / Werner Sun, Rose Window ; Margaret Lanzetta, Niki Lederer, & David Packer, Travelers, Liars, Thieves / May 25 – Jun 23
Red Fox Contemporary / 55 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, NY / Table Talk: Colleen Franca, Wendy Klemperer, Margaret McCann, Jesse McCloskey, Allison Meyler, Patrick Neal, Cathy Nan Quinlan, Marcy Rosewater, Rachel Youens, Curated by Cecilia Whittaker-Doe / May 19 – Jun 23
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: Unraveling; Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm; Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot / Root-Rise, curated by Jess Wilcox and organized with River Valley Arts Collective / Mar 9 – May 5 / Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory, Curated by David A. Ross / NON Objectified, Curated by Kathy Battista / May 11 – Dec 15
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Preeti Varma, Maelstrom of Memory / May 3 – Jun 16
PeepSpace / 92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown, NY / Brain Candy / Apr 7 – Jun 9
New York / Catskills
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Lenore Malen, Samantha Modder, Debra Pearlman, Amy Yoes / May 4 – Jun 22
ASSEMBLY / 397 Broadway, Monticello, NY / Johnny Abrahams and Alma Allen; Davide Balliano and Alma Allen; Bernar Venet; Bosco Sodi: Studio Remix / Apr 13 – Nov 30
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Ariel Bullion Ecklund, Breathing Room / Apr 20 – May 19 / Gonzalo Pita, Paisaje / May 25 – Jun 23
Connecticut / Housatonic Valley
Furnace – Art on Paper Archive / 107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT / Spring Selections from the Flat File 2024 / Contact gallery for dates
Jennifer Terzian / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT (open by appointment) / Kirsten Lamb: Woods / Apr 27 – Jul 15
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Every Love Has Its Landscape, Kyle Nilan and Katherine March Driscoll / Apr 6 – May 5 / Hurricane Becomes a Cloudy Day, Danielle Klebes / May 25 – Jun 30
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / David Shrigley, The Animals / April 6 – Jun 2
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / KK Kozik, Miracle Island / Mar 30 – May 12 / Jackie Battenfield and Margot Glass / May 18 – Jun 30
Southern Connecticut / New Haven
Silvermine Art Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT / Slipstream, Elizabeth Gilfilen; Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero / Apr 13 – May 16
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 / Nua Collective: BLACKOUT; Think About Water: Exquisite River; Water Women: Flood 2.0; Yvonne Shortt and Rebecca West, Shedding My Toxic Core Part III; Sariah Park: Embedded Memory; Kevin Hernandez Rosa: Based Kevin / Apr 14 – Jun 2
About the author: Karlyn Benson is a curator 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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Thank you for the listing Sharon! 🙏❤️