Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As the summer winds down it is a great time to escape the heat by exploring art spaces in the Catskills region, Western Connecticut, and the Berkshires. There are some notable group exhibitions opening or continuing in August including TWENTY/20 at the Athens Cultural Center, The Summer Disaster Show 2 at Private Public in Hudson, Groundswell at Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, and Back and Forth, Between Names at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh. Later this month I’m looking forward to the opening of Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Elevation at LABspace in Hillsdale and solo shows at the Garrison Art Center featuring paintings by Jackie Skrzynski and drawings by Joseph Radoccia. I also recommend visiting Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson to see solo shows by Anina Major, Valerie Hammond, Holly Hughes, Kathy Osborn, and Geoffrey Young.
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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 / In Residence: Albany Barn at APL, Ashley Busby, Paula Drysdale, Frazell, Lexi Hannah, Lori Kochanski, Amanda Moore, James Paulsen, Megan Ruch, Kim Tateo / Jun 7 – Nov 8
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / TWENTY/20 with Laura Battle, Jesse Bransford, Donna Dennis, Julie Evans, Elliott Green, Valerie Hammond, Carter Hodgkin, Geoff Howell, Kahn & Selesnick, Ellen Kozak, Melora Kuhn, Portia Munson, Purgatory Pie Press, Christy Rupp, Edward Rothfarb, Margaret Saliske, Jean-Marc Superville Slovak, Kiki Smith, Corrine Spencer, Liza Todd-Tivey, and Katherine Umsted. Curated by Carrie Feder / Aug 2 – Sep 8
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die! / Jul 6 – Sep 3
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Taylor Davis: Until The Sun Goes Dark / Jul 20 – Sep 15
The School / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / Nina Chanel Abney, LIE DOGGO / May 18 – Oct 5
Bill Arning Exhibitons / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Other Places: Neither Here nor Now, Ario Elami, Tara Fracalossi, Eric Hibit, Jeff Fleming, Roberto Juarez, Cobi Moules / Jun 29 – Aug 11
The Campus / 341 NY-217 Hudson, NY / 2024 Inaugural Exhibition, Curated by Timo Kappeller, Jun 29 – Oct 27
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / The Summer Show: Shawn Dulaney, Joseph Maresca, Bruce Murphy, Bill Sullivan, Stephen Walling / Jun 21 – Aug 11 / Understories: Anne Francey, Allyson Levy, Eileen Murphy, Rinal Parikh, Ragellah Rourke, and Annika Tucksmith; David Konigsberg / Aug 17 – Oct 6
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Emily Ritz: Habitual Soothing / Jul 27 – Sep 1
The Fireplace Project / 435 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Dante Cannatella / Jul 20 – Aug 12
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Symbolic Convergence: Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray / Jul 13 – Sep 1
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Hans Frank: Cosmic Art, Curated by David Ebony and Jan Orluck / Aug 3 – Sep 22
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Anina Major, All Us Come Across Water / Jun 22 – Aug 25 / Valerie Hammond: Dreamers Awake; Holly Hughes: Salad Days; Kathy Osborn: Tight Quarters; Geoffrey Young: Panegyrics / Jul 27 – Aug 25 / Understory: Snakes, Snails, and the Forest Floor / Aug 31 – Oct 6
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / The Summer Disaster Show 2: James Casebere, Jim Denney, Carter Hodgkin, Janet Biggs, Kylie Heidenheimer, Alexander Ross, Marcy Rosewater, Melora Kuhn, and others / Aug 3 – Sep 8
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Simple Gifts, Rachel Burgess / Jul 5 – Aug 18 / Ted Dixon: Eighteen / Aug 22 – Oct 13
tANJA gRUNERT Princess Beatrix House / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Russell Steinert, Current Work / Jun 29 – Aug 4 / Susan Jennings: Out of Body; Dan Devine: Pulse / Aug 10 – Sep 22
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / David Deutsch: Colorama / Jul 27 – Sep 1
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Edward Merritt: The Long Season; Evan McGraw, ambush; Mollie McKinley: Lustrous Descent; and Liu Kincheloe / Jul 19 – Sep 1
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / João Salomão: Circo De Visões (Circus of Visions), Jun 1 – Aug 10
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Pauline Decarmo: ins and outs and ups and downs / Jul 13 – Aug 11 / Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Elevation / Aug 17 – Sep 29
Alexander Gray Associates / 224 Main Street, Garden Level, Germantown, NY / Groundswell: LaKela Brown, Teresita Fernández, Anders Hamilton, Kat Lyons, Donald Moffett, Katie Stout, Alexandria Tarver, and Eva Watson-Schütze / Jun 28 – Aug 31
Mother-in-Laws / 140 Church Ave, Germantown, NY / Dani Klebes: A Dyke Cabin of One’s Own, curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom / Jul 18 – Sep 22
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Potions, Alan Prazniak / Aug 3 – Oct 6
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Itty Neuhaus, Bill Schuck / Jun 22 – Aug 3 / FAMILY EYE: Adolph Rosenblatt, Eli Rosenblatt, Joshua Rosenblatt Eileen Coyne, Caitlin Harris, Emily Clark, Jon Millstein, Nate Millstein, Mara Manning, Kiefer Waterman, Frank Jackson, Amy Podmore, Ruby Jackson, Donald Fabricant, Gwen Fabricant, Jonathan Fabricant / Aug 10 – Sep 14
‘T’ Space Gallery / 125 1/2 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY / PAINTING / SCULPTURE, Peter Halley and Steph Gonzalez-Turner / Jun 2 – Aug 18
Archive Gallery, on the ‘T’ Space Reserve / 60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY / James Casebere, Shou Sugi Ban Sculptures / Jul 20 – Oct 13
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Tall Shadows in Short Order / May 18 – Sep 14
Jane Street Art Center / 11 Jane St, Suite A, Saugerties, NY / Erick Montes/Danceable Projects, Cuerpo Esoterico, featuring collaborations by Karla Carballar & Marlon Barrios Solano / Jun 29 – Aug 3 / Elizabeth Keithline: Breaking Broken / Aug 10 – Sep 14
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Pixerina Witcherina Magisterium: Joan Bankemper, Ruth Marten and Jenny Lynn McNutt, Curated by Julie Heffernan, Jun 29 – Aug 4 / Works by Ford Crull, Curated by Carter Ratcliff / Aug 17 – Sep 29
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Kathy Greenwood: Catch, Cover, Carry; Far & Wide; Circa 1969: Selections from the Permanent Collection / Through Aug 11 / Sydney Cash: Being Seeing / Aug 16 – Sep 22 / Purely Aesthetic: Non-functional Ceramics from the Permanent Collection; WAAM Regional: Spirit of Woodstock / Aug 16 – Oct 6
ArtPort Kingston / 108 East Strand, Kingston, NY / Game On: Lucid Dream Mini Golf, Suzan Shutan, Freedom Baird, Lynn Herring, Lake Heckaman, Clementine Williams, Dustin Schenk, ArtPod Collective, Stefan Saffer, Yin Mei, Matthew Schlanger and others / Jul 18 – Aug 25
ArtPort Kingston Midtown / 80 Smith Avenue, Kingston, NY / How Did We Get Here? (group exhibition from New Haven’s Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECOCA) / Jul 19 – Aug 10
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 474 Broadway, Kingston, NY / Pride and Protest: Photographs by Fred W. McDarrah / Jun 1 – Sep 1
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Michael Royce: Rabbit Bouquet / Jul 6 – Sep 1
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / The Librarian: The Life and Times of a Special Collections Library Curator, Andrea Burgay, Sydney Cash, Marieken Cochius, Anthony Finta, Willie Gary, Leslie Giuliani, Stanford Kay, Carole Kunstadt, Heidi Lanino, Vincent Pidone, Claudia Renfro, David Schaengold, Greg Slick, Mimi Young / Jul 13 – Aug 11
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Neal Hollinger: House, featuring additional works by Galen Green, Cotter Luppi and Kieran Kinsella / Jul 27 – Aug 17 / Palmer-Smith / Opens Aug 24
Merge Stoneridge / 178 Schoonmaker Lane, Stone Ridge, NY / Alchemy of Color: Eva Lundsager, Patricia Sonnino, Janine Wong / Aug 24 – Sep 15
marathon / 6 Market St. Ellenville, NY / Passing Through: Erin Juliana and Adam Murray / Jul 20 – Aug 25
Analog Diary / 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY / Indivi Sutton + Edith Baumann / Jul 19 – Aug 11 /
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / BAU Gallery Artists, Juncture and Rift; Ceramics Group Exhibition, Get Stoked! / Jul 13 – Aug 4 / Annual Juried Show 2024: The Shape of Things, Juror Mikiki Ino / Aug 10 – Sep 8
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Sunlight through our eyes, Gemma Bailey / Jun 8 – Aug 3 / Memor: Frances Segismundo / Aug 10 – Oct 5
Ethan Cohen Gallery at The KuBe Art Center / 211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY / Out of Africa: Seminal Works of Contemporary Africa and Its Diaspora; Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments / Jul 19 – Sep 28
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Back and Forth, Between Names: An exhibition about bodies of water, Rachel Olivia Berg, Eliza Evans, Matt Frieburghaus, Koyoltzintli, Carmen Lizardo, Lauren Rosenthal McManus, Renana Neuman, Jaanika Peerna, Valerie Piraino, Adie Russell, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Suzy Sureck / Jul 6 – Aug 25
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Jenne Currie/pat hough 2024 / Jul 12 – Aug 4 / Ron Anderson: Recent Work / Aug 9 – Sep 1
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Jackie Skrzynski: Natural Selection; Looking Back: Portraits by Joseph Radoccia / Aug 24 – Sep 15
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: Summer Song / 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 / Summer Salon 2024 / Jun 21 – Aug 4 / Layers in Motion: Alyce Gottesman, Lotte Petricone, Mary Ann Strandell / Aug 9 – Sep 29
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / A Song to Follow: Michael McGrath & Ken Hiratsuka / Aug 10 – Sep 22
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / On the Grounds 2024: Natalia Arbelaez, Nicole Cherubini, Re Jin Lee, and Katy Schimert / May 11 – Oct 13 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Jerry Gallo and Barbara Herzfeld, ENDLESS SUMMER / Jul 5 – Sep 1
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
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Mary Lucier / Jun 29 – Aug 24
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Anthony Chase: Patina / Aug 3 – Sep 1
Roxbury Arts Center / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Plant Matter: Richard Barlow, Marieken Cochius, Margot Elizabeth Glass, Elaine Grandy, John Hudak, Megan Irving, Emily Johnston, Alethea Maguire, Amy Masters, Lukas Milanak, Carol Rudowsky, Jackie Skrzynski, GG Stankiewicz, Linda Stillman, Holly Sumner, Kamilla Talbot, June Tyler, Gerda Van Leeuwen, Susan Weisend, and Amy Wilson. / Aug 17 – Oct 19
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art/ 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Summertime: Joy Taylor, Janet Rickus, Jason Middlebrook, Lawre Stone / Jul 13 – Aug 12 / Stop Making Sense: Noah Post, Deborah Zlotsky, Will Hutnick and Kit Warren; Stoneware by Katia Santibanez / Aug 17 – Sep 15
Reed Anderson Projects / 80 Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA / Return Again: Michael Wetzel, Mark Olshansky, Keith Boadwee, Daniel Davidson, Rainen Knecht, Katya Kirilloff, Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey, Miles Shelton, Adriane Colburn, and more / Jul 5 – Aug 25
Furnace – Art on Paper Archive / 107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT / Kim Schmidt Fine Art at Furnace Art on Paper Archive featuring works by Tania Alvarez, Louise Belcourt, Louise Bourgeois, Tony Cragg, Stacey Davidson, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Estes, Kiki Smith, Valerie Hammond, Anne Lindberg, Kathy Moss, Jean Pagliuso, Cate Pasquarelli, Sandy Skoglund, Clive Smith, Pat Steir, and Wayne Thiebaud among others / Jul 13 – Aug 10
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Joshua Frankel, One and the same body / Jul 13 – Aug 18
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / New Flora: Alex Katz Shira Toren, Steven Haas, Chad Etting, Mio Akashi, Jeff Wallace, Thomas Fuhs and Michael De Feo; sculpture by Megan Bogonovich / Through August 4
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Octopus’s Garden: Peter Hamlin, Michiyo Ihara, Catherine Latson, Julie Maren / Jul 13 – Aug 25
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 2022-2023 she was the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, and in 2021 she was the gallery director at Fridman Gallery’s Beacon location. In 2013 Benson founded Matteawan Gallery, where she curated more than fifty exhibitions before closing the gallery in 2018.
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