Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As spring unfolds in the Hudson Valley new exhibitions are opening every weekend. On April 5 William Corwin, Things: Wheels, Ladders, Teeth, Alps, Gods, Boats, Etc. opens at Geary along with a presentation of Corwin’s work at The Re Institute, both in Millerton. On April 12 Amy Talluto and Heather Cox have solo shows opening at the Garrison Art Center, and there are openings nearby in Beacon at Bau, Super Secret Projects, and Distortion Society. Kingston has two new galleries: Roundabouts Now, which opened in March with the group show Middle Ages, and 68 Prince Street Gallery, which opens on April 26 with a solo show of paintings by Francine Tint. In addition, the River Valley Arts Collective is active again for the season with Nicki Green: Fruitful Vine at the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY (visit by appointment only).
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 / Repeat Play: The Art of Pattern, Ali Herrmann, Tara Fracalossi, Richard Garrison, Willie Marlowe, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Sara Tack, Stephen Tyson, Michael Van Winkle, Deborah Zlotsky / Through May 10
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Osi Audu: The Self in African Art / Mar 18 – Apr 19
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY / Familiar/Unfamiliar: Kevin Mosca, Matthew Bede Murphy, Sue Muskat, and Erik Daniel White / Mar 8 – May 17
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / I Was Here: Kesewa Aboah, kg, Emma Safir, Jen Simms, Odessa Straub, Amas Verdâtre / Mar 15 – May 11
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts: Erin Besler / Opened Mar 15
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / In This Moment, Members’ Exhibition / Apr 4 – 27 / Opening reception Apr 4, 5-7 pm
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / If These Walls Could Talk: Richard Britell, Kathryn Freeman, Brigid Kennedy, Glenn Palmer-Smith, Judith Wyer and Lionel Gilbert / Feb 14 – Apr 6 / Uncanny Perceptions: Ann Getsinger, Carl Grauer, India Sachi, and Dai Ban / Apr 11 – Jun 1
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Amy Hill: Light, Shade and Product Placement / Mar 15 – Apr 19 / Opening reception Mar 15, 4–6pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Wolfgang Tillmans / Mar 29 – May 18
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY / David Garland, The Behavior of Sunlight, Apr 11 – 27 / Opening reception and artist talk, Apr 11, 6:30 pm
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Rebecca Purdum, 11 Paintings / Mar 8 – Apr 6 / Elena Sisto: She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below; Elizabeth Hazon: Weather; Lothar Osterburg: At Work; Alex Cohen: Invitation to Wander; Rotem Amir: Threads and Cuts / Apr 12 – May 11 / Artists’ reception Apr 12, 4–6 pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Stephanie Rose, Seven Discourses On Post-Modernism 1982-1988 / Apr 4 – 27 / Opening reception Apr 5, 3–5 pm
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Closed until May
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / dismantle: Ana Maria Farina, Susan Lisbin, Maria Manhattan, Marianne van Lent / Curated by Liz Lorenz / Mar 6 – Apr 27
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Colleen Plumb: Prized; Diane Schaefer: Mend / Mar 2 – Apr 13
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Block Universe: Pap Souleye Fall, Owen Geary, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Timothy Hull, Steve Keister, Emily Miller, Viraj Mithani, Nereida Patricia, Ernesto Renda, faith**** / curated by Peter Kelly / Mar 29 – May 11
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Janus: A Dual Exhibition: Daniel Sierra and Mike McManus / Mar 15 – Apr 26
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Winter Garden: Charlotte Becket, Lisa Corinne Davis, Kerry Downey, Ellen Letcher, Kathryn Lynch, Caitlin MacBride, Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Courtney Puckett, Dana Sherwood, Elisa Soliven, Filiz Soyak, Amy Talluto, Julie Torres, Scott Vander Veen, Andy Van Dinh, Alona Weiss, Seldon Yuan / Feb 7 – Apr 20
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Cathy Wysocki: It has always been the mind / Mar 29 – Apr 27
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / William Corwin, Things: Wheels, Ladders, Teeth, Alps, Gods, Boats, Etc. / Apr 5 – Jun 8
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / William Corwin (A collaboration with Geary) / Apr 5 – May 17 / Opening Apr 5, 3-6 pm
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Fern Apfel: Letters Home / Through Apr 27
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / 2025 Summer Exhibition opens May 17
Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Super Cute!!! / Apr 5 – May 10 / Opening Reception Apr 5, 4-6pm
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Annual Byrdcliffe Members’ Show / Mar 1 – Apr 6 / 2025 A.i.R. Show / Apr 19 – May 25 / Opening reception Apr 19, 4-6 pm
Queen of Rogues Gallery / 2440 Route 28, Glenford, NY / The Real Ed Berkise / Apr 11 – May 3 / Opening reception Apr 11, 4-7 pm
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Lasting Impressions: Photography from the Permanent Collection / Jan 17 – May 4 / Active Members’ Spring Exhibition; Ellen Jouret-Epstein: SPACE/PLACE; Inner and Outer Worlds; Phoebe Rotter:Closer Than They Appear; Making Meaning: Artist Educators / Mar 14 – May 4
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Francine Tint: Symbolic of the Whole / Apr 26 – Jun 8 / Opening reception Apr 26
ArtPort Kingston / 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Felix Olivieri & Stefan Saffer: Musical Chairs; Celeste Fichter: Wind is in the Change / Ongoing
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, Curated by Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher; My Sister, My Self: Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon, Curated by Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg; Keisha Scarville: Recess, Curated by Marina Chao / Jan 18 – May 4
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / You, But Only Just: Marco Crocchianti & Yoonjee Kwak / Apr 5 – 27
HoloCenter / 518 Broadway, Kingston, NY / New York Holographic Artists / Through May 4
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / In Pursuit of Color: Karlos Cárcamo, Stanford Kay, James Austin Murray / Apr 19 – May 18 / Opening reception Apr 19, 4–7 pm
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / All in Together: Stephen Niccolls, Clark Derbes, Sophie Roach / Opened Mar 7
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston NY / The Middle Ages: Lauren Anderson, Nick Atkins, Ever Baldwin, Felix Beaudry, Sam Bittman, Kate Blomquist, BOBO, Justin Cooper, Corydon Cowansage, Katy Fischer, Siobhan Liddell, Caitlin MacBride, Mollie McKinley, Bruce Monteith, Megan Pahmier, Elbert Perez, Siebren Versteeg, Julia Weist, Erik White / Mar 15 – Apr 27
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: Renaissance / Mar 22 – Apr 19 / Lindsay Gwinn Parker, Thinly Veiled / Apr 26 – May 11 / Opening reception Apr 26, 5-8 pm
Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / Overwintering: Spring 2025 Intern Exhibition: Gil Dickinson, Julia Maisel-Berick, Celia Shaheen / Mar 22 – Apr 7
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / Echoes of Isolation, Art from the Pandemic / Mar 29 – Apr 19
Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / BIO-BASED: Loren Eiferman & Henry Klimowicz / Curated by Sharon Bates / Mar 31 – Apr 26 / Reception Apr 4, 6 -7:30 pm; Artist talk with Loren Eiferman and Henry Klimowicz, Apr 18, 4 pm
Convey/er/or Gallery / 297 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / This Land Ain’t Your Land: Dan Goldman / Apr 5 – Jun 1 / Opening reception Apr 5, 4-6pm
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / The Destiny…is to take root among the stars: Destiny Arianna, Vernon Byron, Cy Hinojosa, Lala Montoya, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Tony Washington / Curated by Jaime Ransome / Mar 15 – May 10
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Poetry of Place: Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs; Passages: BAU Gallery Artists; Translucent Hues, Eileen Sackman / Mar 8 – Apr 6 / The Only Way Is Through: Robin Adler; Nest: BAU Gallery Artists / Apr 12 – May 4 / Opening Reception Apr 12, 6–8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Inner Excess: Jared Freschman, Emma Jackson, Gracelee Lawrence, Sam Reeder, Kat Ryals, Colleen Rae Smiley / Curated by Evan Paul English / Apr 12 – Jun 7 / Opening reception Apr 12, 7-9 pm
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / Melissa Schlobohm: The Sandbox Chronicles / Mar 8 – Apr 5 / Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy: An Offering of Gravity and Grace / Apr 12 – May 4 / Opening reception Apr 12, 4–7 pm; additional events at supersecretprojects.com
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Field Trip: Melanie Delgado and Yoko Izu / Apr 5 – 27 / Opening reception Apr 5, 4-7 pm
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Amy Talluto: Skeleton Key; Heather Cox, Roundels: Running Together / Apr 12 – May 4 / Opening reception Apr 12, 5-7 pm; Amy Talluto artist talk Apr 26, 3 – 4 pm
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: The Wrong Side of the Brush; Reuven Israel: U.F.O. (Untitled Folding Object), Curated by Kathy Battista and Sarah Strauss; Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland: Sound Forest/Between Worlds; Alice Mizrachi: Unifying Threads of Our Evolution / Mar 8 – May 18
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / FREE STYLE, Idiosyncratic/Eclecticism / Curated by Brett DePalma / Mar 8 – Apr 20
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Hope is the Thing with Feathers / Mar 22 – May 18
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY / Sondra Gold: Some of My Favorite Things; New Artists Showcase / Mar 27 – Apr 20
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / EXIT’S TRAGEDY: Nat Drake, Joerg Medlener, Wayne Toepp / Mar 22 – Apr 27
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / Nicki Green: Fruitful Vine / Curated by Liz Munsell / Apr 6 – Jun 8 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Skin and Bone: Susan Ausnit, Steve Burnett, Chris Criswell, Sandra Finkenberg, Patrice Lorenz, Gary Mayer, Joe Miller, Jenny Neal / Mar 21 – Apr 6
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Lauren Daccache, Elizabeth Orr, Eleanor White / Mar 8 – Apr 26
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Façade: The Architecture of Home, Carrie Bobo / Mar 1 – Apr 6 / Brian Cirmo: Funny Feeling / Apr 12 – May 11
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / A/Symmetrical Worlds: Carol Levine and Helen Quinn / Through Apr 5
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Visual Verse: When Poetry Meets Paint / Mar 29 – Apr 27
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Polly Shindler / Mar 29 – May 3
Carol Corey Fine Art / 6 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Drawing to a close / Mar 29 – Apr 27
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Man’s Best Friend: Maureen Dougherty, Daniel Murray, Chad Etting, Mickalene Thomas, Peter Gynd, Susumu Kamijo, Louis Fratino, Alex Katz, William Wegman, David Shrigley and Polly Shindler / Mar 8 – May 4
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Director’s Choice, celebrating 30 years / Mar 1 – Apr 13 / Julia Whitney Barnes and Sarah Morejohn / Apr 26 – Jun 8
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Inaugural Group Exhibition / Through May 18
Connecticut – New Haven
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Tin There, Done That, group exhibition; Desire Path: Jessica Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis and Sydney Kleinrock; In Process: Amartya De; Stone Screen: Anita Maksimiuk / Mar 9 – Apr 20
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator based in Beacon, NY. She recently curated the exhibitions Second Nature at N/A Project Space in New Paltz, NY and Talking Threads at Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson, NY. From 2022 to 2023 she was the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Previously she was the gallery director at Fridman Gallery’s Beacon location and Exhibitions Director at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock. Benson was the owner/director of Matteawan Gallery in Beacon where she curated more than fifty exhibitions from 2013 to 2018.
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