Contributed by Karlyn Benson / December is the month for small works and holiday group shows, such as LABspace’s annual “HOLIDAY” show featuring 400 artists and “ALL small” at Pamela Salisbury. There are a few weeks left to see Chie Fueki’s “Petal Storm Memory and Non-Objectified” at Kino Saito; “When the Spirit Moves You” and Eve Biddle’s “I have time for death and rebirth” at Geary; and “All At Once” at SEPTEMBER. December 6 is the opening of “The 5 by 7 Show” at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, marking the 25th anniversary of this popular fundraising exhibition. On December 7, Front Room Gallery celebrates their 25th anniversary with an exhibition of gallery artists. For this edition of the guide I have also included artist and maker fairs and pop up shows taking place at galleries and art spaces throughout the region. Shop local and give the gift of art this season!
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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 / 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 / Dec 6 – May 10 / Opening reception Dec 6, 6 – 7:30 pm
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / The Voracious Eye: Molly Heron, Ilene Sunshine, Christopher Werner, Allan Wexler, and Nancy Shaver and Wolf; curated by Joan Grubin / Nov 1 – Dec 7
Chatham Soccer / 337 NY-295 Chatham, NY / 337 NY-295 Chatham, NY / Hagar Tenenbaum: Is it dirty / Nov 2 – Dec 14 / Open by Appointment
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Over Decades: Judy Glantzman & Stephen Lack / Oct 19 – Dec 8
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / All At Once: Anne Beresford, Diane Dwyer, Ellen Lesperance, Holly Mills, Natalie Lerner, Sacha Ingber, Sam Vernon / Oct 12 – Dec 22
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / SHABOOM: PRESUMED IGNORANT / Oct 5 – Jan 26
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / One Foot Square: ACC Members Small Works Exhibition / Nov 23 – Dec 15 / Reception: Dec 6, 5-7 pm
Artsee / 529 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Tabitha Vevers: Eye to Eye, organized by Bookstein Projects / Through Dec 27
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Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Unexpected Light: Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Harry Orlyk, Leigh Palmer and Regina Quinn / Dec 6 – Jan 26
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Wither and Bloom, Jordan Nobuko Baker and Xan Peters / Nov 30 – Jan 5
THE FIREPLACE PROJECT / 435 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / SWANS – 1, Alexandra Toledo, Cole Puetz, Curtis Kulig, Dante Cannatella, Lydia Rubio, Theodore Adams, and Will McLeod / Opens Nov 30
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / FR:25 — The Front Room Gallery’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Thomas Broadbent, Sasha Bezzubov, Phillip Buehler, Peggy Cyphers, Beth Dary, Debra Drexler, Linda Ganjian, Amy Hill, Sean Hemmerle, Lisa Levy, Sascha Mallon, Stephen Mallon, Mark Masyga, Ken Ragsdale, Patricia Smith, Zoe Wetherall, Joanne Ungar / Dec 7 – Jan 25 / Reception Dec 7, 6-8 pm
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / ALL small / Nov 30 – Jan 13
Robin Rice Gallery / 234 Warren St, Hudson, NY / Erica Hauser: No Ordinary Blue / Oct 19 – Dec 22
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Ellen Hermanos: A Retrospective, Flowers Shall Grow / Oct 17 – Dec 22
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / New Work, Linda Mussmann; Spaces in Places / Nov 23 – Dec 31
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Jesse Aran Greenberg: Counterpart; Hank Ehrenfried: Index; Heidi Norton: Scattered Sun / Nov 9 – Dec 22
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Melanie Luna: As Above, So Below / Nov 16 – Dec 14 / Artist talk: Melanie Luna & Stella Yoon in Conversation / Dec 14, 2 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / HOLIDAY, group exhibition / Dec 14 – Feb 23 / Opening Reception Dec 14, 1-5pm
Alexander Gray Associates / 224 Main Street, Garden Level, Germantown, NY / Alannah Farrell / Sep 21 –Dec 21
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / When the Spirit Moves You, curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom I have time for death and rebirth, Eve Biddle / Oct 19 – Dec 15
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Show Me: The beautiful, The ugly, Our love, Our hate, Your optimism, Your Fear (A one day Pop-up show) / Dec 7, 1 -3 pm
Archive Gallery, on the ‘T’ Space Reserve / 60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY / Gallery closed for the season, but is open for guided tours year-round. Please write to visit@smhfoundation.org to schedule a tour.
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / A Space Between Worlds: Jamal Ademola, Paolo Arao, Walker Esner, Jazmine Hayes, Regina Durante Jestrow, Mary Tooley Parker, Amira Pualwan, Dana Robinson, Judy Suh / Dec 7 – Mar 15 / Opening Dec 7, 3-5 pm / Holiday Sale for Art Lovers / Dec 14 and 15, 11-5 pm
Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Welcome Home, group exhibition / Nov 9 – Dec 14
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / The 5 by 7 Show 25th Anniversary Fundraising Exhibition / Dec 6 – 22 / Artist’s Reception & Art Sale: Dec 6, 5-7 pm
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Carole Levine: Emergence; Gratitude: Annual Members’ Holiday Exhibition & Sale / Nov 22 – Dec 29 / Masters of Divinity: Religious Art from the Permanent Collection / Oct 25 – Dec 31
ArtPort Kingston @ArtYard / 80 Smith Avenue, Kingston, NY / Artists & Makers Holiday Market / Dec 14 – 15
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Ash Eliza Williams, History of Moonlight / Dec 7 – Feb 26 / Opening Reception Dec 7, 5-8 pm
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / James Holl: Indeterminate Landscapes / Nov 2 – Dec 15
Pinkwater Gallery at Kingston Social / 237 Fair Street, Kingston, NY / By Moonlight, The Magical Landscapes of Caroline Burdett / Oct 31 – Jan 7
marathon / 6 Market St. Ellenville, NY / 99 Paintings: John C Gonzalez / Nov 2 – Dec 15
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / 33rd Annual Craft, Art and Design Fair / Dec 7 – 8
Trolley Barn Gallery | 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY / Senior Project / Dec 13 – 22; Jan 3 – 10 / Opening Reception Dec 13, 5-7 pm
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Joining Sky and Earth, Linda Lauro-Lazin and Kejoo Park; Apparitions, Pamela Vlahakis, Solo exhibition; Fishing With Matisse, Jebah Baum / Nov 9 – Dec 8 / Monochrome, Joel Brown and Onaje Benjamin; Vicennial Anniversary – BAU Gallery’s 20th Year / Dec 14 – Jan 8 / Opening Reception Dec 14
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Bradley Silver: Pink and Blue / Oct 12 – Dec 7 / Two Things Are True, group exhibiton, co-curated by Sarah Hanssen and Michelle Silver / Dec 14 – Jan / Opening reception Dec 14, 7-9:30 pm
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center / 211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY / Emil Alzamora, Irrational Experiments With Physics / through Dec 21 / Yigal Ozeri, The Truth of a Portrait, Oct 19 – Jan 20
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY / Matthew Lusk: Encyclopedia of Light (Today in Two Parts) / Open by appointment in December
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Small Works, Gallery Artists / Dec 6 – Jan 26
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Holiday Pottery Show & Sale / Dec 7 – 15 / Opening Reception: Dec 6, 5-7 pm
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / 8th Annual Member Exhibition / Nov 9 – Dec 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 / Winter Salon 2024 / Nov 22 – Jan 26
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / The Red Thread, Lisbeth Firmin, Patrice Lorenz and Angela Rose Voulgarelis; curated by Lindsay Comstock and Monte Wilson / Nov 30 – Jan 26
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Amy Masters, Family Portraits / Dec 6 – Jan 7 / Reception Dec 6, 4-7 pm
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Robin Crookall, David Storey, Lizzie Scott, and Barbara Weissberger / Nov 2 – Dec 29
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / William Abranowicz & David Graham: Fictions from the Real World, Nov 16 – Dec 22
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art/ 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Holiday 2024: Lynda Schlosberg, Erick Johnson, Sandy Litchfield, Linda Pochesci, and Audrey Shachnow / Dec 7 – Jan 12
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / SIGNALS: Danielle Tegeder / Oct 26 – Dec 8
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Hugh Kepets: New York Escapes / Nov 2 – Jan 5
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Inside for the Winter, Amanda Acker, Melanie Parke, Sally Maca / Dec 7 – Jan 26 / Reception Dec 7, 4–6 pm
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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