Contributed by Karlyn Benson / It’s been a rough few weeks on many levels, from the fires in Los Angeles to the drastic policy changes taking place in Washington. It can be hard to stay focused and motivated. If you need to feel uplifted and inspired, I urge you to visit a gallery or museum this weekend. There are dozens of exciting shows to see and new spaces to visit, including The International Museum of Dinnerware Design and the HoloCenter located around the corner from the newly reopened Center for Photography (CPW) in Kingston. One of my favorite things about the Hudson Valley is finding art in unexpected places. Fern Apfel has work on view at Troutbeck, an estate hotel in Amenia (organized by the Wassaic Project), with a reception on February 21. Repeat Play: The Art of Pattern (organized by Opalka Gallery) is on view at the Pine Hills Branch of the Albany Public Library, and there is a show of Bridget Caramagna’s abstract works on paper at Changolife Arts in the KuBe Art Center in Beacon. See the websites listed below before visiting, as some spaces may not have regular hours.
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 / Screenprint Biennial 10th Anniversary, Jan 24 – Mar 1
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Darkness: Franco Andrés, Daniella Dooling, Steven Evans, John Franklin, Kevin Tobin, and Brian Wood; Gerardo Rosales: Shape Shifting Landscape / Through Feb 8 / Artist reception with performance by Kevin Tobin: Feb 2, 12-3 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 / Artist reception Feb 15, 5-7 pm
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Linda Griggs: Comfort and Loss / Feb 8 – Mar 9 / Opening reception Feb 8, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Michel Goldberg: Solo Exhibition / Feb 1 – Mar 23 / Opening reception Feb 1, 5-7 pm
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Jennifer Coates: Reliquary; Joseph Yoakum: Works on Paper / Feb 1 – Mar 2 / Z Behl: Stand in My Danger / Feb 1 – Mar 30 / Artists’ reception Feb 1, 3-5 pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Dan Rice: Fourteen Oils 1959-2001 / through Feb 16
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / JANUS: Idil Barkan, Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Brantner DeAtley, Katharine Dufault, Kiki Dufault, Patricia Fabricant, Guzman, Ellen Letcher, Maggie Mailer, Henry Murphy, Tess Recordon, Noah Schmitz, Denise Sfraga, Julie Torres, Curated by Katharine Dufault / Jan 9 – Mar 2
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Gracelee Lawrence and Ruby Palmer: giving me life; Michael Cuadrado: Faint Impressions; MATERIAL GIRLS: Far Point / Feb 8 – Mar 23 / Opening reception Feb 8, 3–5 pm
Foreland / 111 Water St, Catskill, NY / Greater Valley Artist: Anne Schaefer / Through Feb 16
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Brett Miller: Please touch / Through Feb 22
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 / Opening February 7, 6-8 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / HOLIDAY, group exhibition / Through Feb 23
LABspace: Hanna Washburn, Sure-Footed, 2024, ceramic, recycled textiles, thread, 7 x 10 x 5 inches
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Fauna, Flora and Fur: Jennifer Dwyer, Nic Dyer, Rachel Frank, Christy Gast, Greer Howland Smith, Linda Stillman, KT Taylor, Erik Daniel White / Jan 25 – Mar 23
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.
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Fern Apfel: Letters Home / Through Apr 27 / Reception Feb 21, 5–7 pm
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
Queen of Rogues Gallery / 2440 Route 28, Glenford, NY / The Divine Feminine: Amanda Russo Rubman, Eileen Power, Elissa Bromberg, Gülnar Babayeva, Joan Ffolliott, and Mimi Young / Jan 24 – Feb 15
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / My Sister, My Self: Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon; Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe; and Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn / Curated by Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg / Through Feb 23
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / WAAM Media Annual: Photographic Currents / Jan 17–Mar 9 / Lasting Impressions: Photography from the Permanent Collection / Jan 17 – May 4
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Free, For All: An open call to local artists / Jan 18 – Feb 16 / 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 / Ash Eliza Williams, History of Moonlight / Dec 7 – Feb 26
HoloCenter / 518 Broadway, Kingston, NY / New York Holographic Artists / Through May 4
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Joseph Stabilito / Jan 18 – Feb 16
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / You’re Breaking Up; Elizabeth Keithline: Breaking Broken / Feb 1 – Mar 8 / Opening reception Feb 8, 4–6 pm
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Fresh Start, Member Artists Group Exhibition; In Dialogue With Wood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll / Jan 11 – Feb 2 / Briana Babani; Irja Bodén and Choro Leslie Meyers; Reframing Memory: Pamela Vlahakis and Síle Marrinan / Feb 8 – Mar 2 / Opening reception Feb 8, 6-8 pm
Changolife Arts / KuBe Art Center, 211 Fishkill Avenue, Room 308, Beacon, NY / Bridget Caramagna: Selected Works on Paper 2012-2025 / Jan 25 – Mar 1
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / The Evolution of Mark Making: Kipton Hinsdale / Opens Feb 8
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / BLACK & WHITE / Feb 1 – 23 / Opening reception Feb 1, 3-5 pm
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Greg Slick: Depth Perception / Home Is Where the Heart Is: Amy Cheng, Erik Schoonebeek, and Zac Skinner / Feb 8 – Mar 9
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Paper: Sharon Falk, Anne Fine Foer, and James McElhinney; Joan Harmon, Chaos/Light, Curated by James Tyler / Jan 11 – Feb 23
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Emerging Visions / Feb 1 – Mar 16 / Reception Feb 1, 2-4 pm
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY / Anaphora, Juried Photography Show 2025 / Feb 6 – 23 / Opening reception Feb 9, 2-5 pm
New York / Catskills
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Rand Hardy, Lisa Hoke, Buzz Spector / Jan 18 – Mar 1
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art/ 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Wild Wonders: An Artistic Safari, Stephanie Anderson, Alyssa Fanning, Phil Knoll and Zohar Lazar / Through Mar 2
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Melinda Hackett, Hydroglyphs / Feb 1 – Mar 9 / Opening reception Feb 1, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Christine Romanell, Cyclical Universe / Through Mar 2
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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