24 x 40 x 12 inches
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley is finally thawing out after a cold, icy February. At the same time, a number of art spaces are opening again after a winter break. There are a lot of openings this month, starting March 1 with Michael Fortenberry at Headstone and a group show of monoprints at The Lockwood Gallery on March 2, both in Kingston. On March 8, Kino Saito in Verplanck is opening for the season with four new exhibitions, and across the river in Garnerville there is an opening at the Garner Art Center. Farther upstate there are openings on March 8 at Susan Eley Fine Art, Private Public, and Pamela Salisbury in Hudson; Artyard Kingston; and Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor. On March 15 notable shows are opening throughout the region at SEPTEMBER, Art Omi, Front Room Gallery, Gallery 495, WAAM, and Ann Street Gallery. It’s going to be geographically challenging to see everything, but it will be fun to try!
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 / Opening Reception, Mar 15, 5-7 pm
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts: Erin Besler / Raising Supper opening celebration Mar 15, 1-3 pm
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Beams of Light: Natalie Boburka, Chris DeMarco, Carole Krinsky, and Enrico Scull / Mar 7 – 23 / Opening reception Mar 7, 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
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Linda Griggs: Comfort and Loss / Feb 8 – Mar 9 / Amy Hill / Mar 15 – Apr 19 / Opening reception Saturday, Mar 15, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Michel Goldberg: Solo Exhibition / Feb 1 – Mar 23
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 / Rebecca Purdum, 11 Paintings / Mar 8 – Apr 6
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Fred Mitchell: Works From The Estate 1948-1997 / Feb 28 – Mar 23
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / REPRIEVE, right when you really need it: Lydia Gladkova, Michael David, Janet Biggs, Kylie Heidenheimer, James Casebere, Richard Bosman, Kathy Goodell, Tad Wiley, Melora Kuhn, Amy Yoshitsu, Peggy Cyphers, Howard Schwartzberg / Mar 8 – 23 / Opening reception Mar 8, 3-5 pm
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 / dismantle: Ana Maria Farina, Susan Lisbin, Maria Manhattan, Marianne van Lent / Curated by Liz Lorenz / Mar 6 – Apr 27 / Opening reception Mar 8
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Colleen Plumb: Prized; Diane Schaefer: Mend / Mar 2 – Apr 13 / Opening reception Mar 2, 6-8 pm
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
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 / Opening Reception: Mar 29, 1-5 pm; Closing Reception: Apr 27, 1-5 pm
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 / Afi Nayo: Love Suite Series / Feb 22 – Mar 23
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Fern Apfel: Letters Home / Through Apr 27
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 / Full Bloom-In Our Fifties (photography exhibition) / Feb 28 – Mar 30 / Reception Mar 8, 3-6 pm
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Annual Byrdcliffe Members’ Show / Mar 1 – Apr 6 / Opening reception Mar 2, 2-4 pm
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 / 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 / Opening reception Mar 15, 4-6pm
on vellum, 40 x 28 inches
ArtYard Kingston / 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Felix Olivieri & Stefan Saffer: Musical Chairs; Celeste Fichter: Wind is in the Change / Ongoing / Opening reception Mar 8, 3-5 pm
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 / The Accessible Instrument: Michael Fortenberry with sound design by Michael Simonelli / Mar 1 – 30 / Opening reception Mar 1, 5-8 pm
HoloCenter / 518 Broadway, Kingston, NY / New York Holographic Artists / Through May 4
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Mono – A – Mono / Mar 1 – 30 / Opening reception Mar 2, 4-7 pm
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: Renaissance / Opening Mar 22
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / You’re Breaking Up; Elizabeth Keithline: Breaking Broken / Feb 1 – Mar 8
Convey/er/or Gallery / 297 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / ransome: Dark was the Night / Jan 18 – Mar 30 / Artist talk Mar 22, 4-6 pm
16 x 12 inches
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 / Opening reception Mar 15, 6-8 pm
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Briana Babani; Irja Bodén and Choro Leslie Meyers; Reframing Memory: Pamela Vlahakis and Síle Marrinan / Feb 8 – Mar 2 / Poetry of Place: Karen Allen and Jenn Wiggs; Passages: BAU Gallery Artists; Translucent Hues, Eileen Sackman / Mar 8 – Apr 6 / Opening reception Mar 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 / Feb 8 – Mar 29
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / Currents of Love / Feb 8 – Mar 1
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Grace Kennedy: Colorforms / Mar 1 – 30 / Opening reception Mar 1, 5-7 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 /
oil on panel, 8 x 8 inches
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: The Wrong Side of the Brush; Reuven Israel: U.F.O., 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 / Opening reception Mar 8, 5-7 pm
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Emerging Visions / Feb 1 – Mar 16
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY / Soundscapes / Feb 27 – Mar 23 / Opening reception Mar 2, 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 / 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 / Opening reception Mar 1, 2-5 pm
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / EXIT’S TRAGEDY: Nat Drake, Joerg Medlener, Wayne Toepp / Mar 22 – Apr 27 / Opening Mar 22, 4-7 pm
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 / Visual Verse: When Poetry Meets Paint / Mar 29 – Apr 27
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Melinda Hackett, Hydroglyphs / Feb 1 – Mar 9 / Polly Shindler / Mar 29 – May 3
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Christine Romanell, Cyclical Universe / Through Mar 2
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Director’s Choice, celebrating 30 years / Mar 1 – Apr 13 / Opening reception Mar 1, 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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