Contributed by Karlyn Benson / After the busy holiday season some galleries are taking a winter break, but many others will be open this weekend. There is still time to see small works exhibitions at LABspace and Pamela Salisbury, as well as Ash Eliza Williams’ wonderful solo show at Headstone. I’m looking forward to new group shows opening this month including JANUS at Susan Eley Fine Art, Fauna, Flora and Fur at Geary, and Darkness at Bill Arning Exhibitions. It’s an exciting time for photography in the region, with the January 18 re-opening of (CPW) The Center for Photography at Woodstock at their new location in Kingston. The 6,000 square foot space includes four galleries featuring work by Mary Ellen Mark, Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon, Keisha Scarville, and For All an open call to local artists. The newly renovated building also includes CPW’s Digital Media Lab, a library, and other public facilities. The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum is highlighting photography with Lasting Impressions: Photography from the Permanent Collection and WAAM Media Annual: Photographic Currents, also opening January 18. Thanks for reading and for your support of Two Coats of Paint. Happy New Year!
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 / Opening reception: Jan 24, 6:00-7:30 pm
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Darkness: Franco Andrés, Daniella Dooling, Steven Evans, John Franklin, Kevin Tobin, and Brian Wood / Through Feb 8 / Artist Reception: Feb 3, 12-3 pm
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / SHABOOM: PRESUMED IGNORANT / Oct 5 – Jan 26
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Character: Faces of Athens, Lynda Shenkman / Through Jan 12
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
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
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 / Through Jan 15
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 / Opening Reception Jan 11, 4-6 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 / Opens Jan 18
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / HOLIDAY, group exhibition / Through Feb 23
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 / opening reception Jan 25, 3-5 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
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
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 / Opening reception Jan 18, 4-6 pm
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 / Opening reception Jan 18, 5-8 pm
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Ash Eliza Williams, History of Moonlight / Dec 7 – Feb 26
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Joseph Stabilito / Jan 18 – Feb 16
Pinkwater Gallery at Kingston Social / 237 Fair Street, Kingston, NY / By Moonlight, The Magical Landscapes of Caroline Burdett / Through Jan 7 / Helena Palazzi: Drifting / Jan 9 – Feb 25 / Opening Jan 11, 5:30-7:30 pm
Trolley Barn Gallery | 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY / Senior Project Exhibition 2024: Ava Hubner, Max Pyles, Hudson Segnit, Hannah Strano, Saoirse Blue Woods / Through Jan 10
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Fresh Start, Member Artists Group Exhibition; In Dialogue With Wood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll / Jan 11 – Feb 2 / Reception Jan 11, 6-8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Two Things Are True, group exhibition, co-curated by Sarah Hanssen and Michelle Silver / Dec 14 – Feb 1
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center / 211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY / Emil Alzamora, Irrational Experiments With Physics; Yigal Ozeri, The Truth of a Portrait; Frank Hyder: An Amazon Tale; Deb Lucke: The Year of the Rat / Through Jan 20
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY / Matthew Lusk: Encyclopedia of Light (Today in Two Parts) / Open by appointment through Jan 25
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 / Annual Member Show / Jan 11 – 26
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 / Opening Reception Jan 11, 5-7 pm
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
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 / Holiday 2024: Lynda Schlosberg, Erick Johnson, Sandy Litchfield, Linda Pochesci, and Audrey Shachnow / Dec 7 – Jan 12
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Theo Coulombe / Through Jan 19
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
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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