Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The first weekend of May is packed with shows opening and closing around the region. On Friday, May 2, “The River That Flows Both Ways: Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson” opens at RUTHANN in Catskill. On Saturday May 3, Hudson-based Italian artist Lucio Pozzi opens at Philip Douglas Fine Art in Hudson, and “Ellon Gibbs: The Color Blue is Warm” opens at Gallery 495 in Catskill. Nearby in Hillsdale, LABspace opens two solo shows, Susan Meyer and Carlton Davis. In Kingston, “More Than Any Mirror” with Benjamin Herndon and Adie Russell opens at Headstone, and in Cold Spring, an exhibition of landscape paintings by Lisa Diebboll opens at Buster Levi. In the Catskills, Wade Kramm, Howard Schwartzberg, and Susan Silas are opening at Catskill Art Space, and a group show “Feeding Our Demons” opens at 1053 Gallery. Also on May 3, “Nature Reimagined” blooms with Rachel Burgess, KK Kozik, F Lipari and Warner Friedman opens at Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington, MA. In Kent, CT, Carol Corey Fine Art will host an exhibition of works by legendary New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast for the gallery’s final show. Sunday, May 4 is the last chance to see three excellent exhibitions at CPW in Kingston: Mary Ellen Mark’s “Ward 81, My Sister, My Self;” Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon, and Keisha Scarville in “Recess.” Sunday is also the last day for Amy Talluto’s solo show at the Garrison Art center. A new gallery, Ligenza Moore Gallery, is opening in Cold Spring on May 24 with a group show featuring work by Katherine Bradford, Don Voisine, Judy Pfaff, Chris Martin, Meg Hitchcock, and others.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Albany Center Gallery / 488 Broadway, Suite 107, Albany, NY / Memories in Motion: Kathy Greenwood, Susan Myers, and Linda Stillman / May 2 – Jun 6 / Artists’ Reception May 2, 5-8 pm
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 / Art+Design BFA Exhibition / Apr 30 – May 17
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 / A Familiar Type of Magic: Daniella Dooling, Matthew Gilbert, Phil Knoll, Gabriel Martinez, Susan Ottaviano, Rafael Santiago, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens / May 24–Jul 6
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
The School / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / GENERAL CONDITIONS / May 17 – Nov 29 / Public reception, May 17, 1–6 pm
The Green Lodge / 80 Center Street, Chatham NY / AGITATION: Allison DeBritz, Tara Holmes, and Owen Barensfeld / opened Apr 26
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts, Erin Besler / Mar 15 – Jun 7
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Art Explorations: Coxsackie-Athens Central School District Exhibition / May 2 – 18
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Uncanny Perceptions: Ann Getsinger, Carl Grauer, India Sachi, and Dai Ban / Apr 11 – Jun 1
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Ekaterina Vanovskaya, New Work / Apr 19 – May 26
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Stephen Mallon / Apr 26 – May 18 / Linda Ganjian / May 24 – Jun 15 / Opening reception May 24, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Wolfgang Tillmans / Mar 29 – May 18
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY / Gerard Wagner / May (dates TBA)
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Elena Sisto: She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below; Elizabeth Hazon: Weather; Lothar Osterburg: At Work; Alex Cohen: Invitation to Wander; Rotem Amir: Threads and Cuts / Apr 12 – May 11 / Lisa Corinne Davis: Adjustments; Lisa Hoke: upENDed; Mark Milroy: A Colorful Universe; Mary Temple: Rough in the Distant Glitter; Shari Mendelson: Ancient Rhymes / May 17 – Jun 15
repurposed plastic, hot glue, resin, acrylic polymer, mica, 20 x 7.5 x 17.5
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Lucio Pozzi, New Work: The Overlap Paintings / May 2 – Jun 1 / Opening Reception May 3, 3-5 pm
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Michael David: The Navigator / May 31 – Jun 29 / Opening May 31, 2-5 pm
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / springburst: New Abstractions by Friederike Oeser & John Vitale / May 1 – Jun 8 / Opening reception May 3, 4-6 pm
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Decades: Donna Moylan / Apr 19 – May 18
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Block Universe: Pap Souleye Fall, Owen Geary, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Timothy Hull, Steve Keister, Emily Miller, Viraj Mithani, Nereida Patricia, Ernesto Renda, faith**** / curated by Peter Kelly / Mar 29 – May 11 / Dana Piazza: Elaborations / May 24 –Jul 12 / Opening reception May 24, 3–5 PM
CREATE Council on the Arts / 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Comfort in Numbers: Angela Gaffney Smith, Bryan Zimmerman, Irja Bodén, Linda Stillman, Margot Becker, Ruby Silvious, Sarah Mijares Fick, Victoria van der Laan/ Co-Curated by Monika Zarzeczna and Stella Yoon / Unseen Light: Spotlighting Stories Beyond Stigmas, Curated by Lizbette Martinez / Apr 18 – Jun 1 / Opening Reception Apr 18, 5-7 pm; Comfort in Numbers artist talk May 17, 2 pm
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Ellon Gibbs: The Color Blue is Warm / May 3 – Jun 28
Foreland, 111 Water ST, Catskill, NY / Greater Valley Artists: Fern Apfel / Mar 5 – May 25
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / The River That Flows Both Ways: Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson / May 2 – Jun 29 / Opening Reception May 2, 6-8 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Susan Meyer: Group Chat; Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty / May 3 – Jun 29 / Opening Reception: May 3, 1-5 pm
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / William Corwin, Things: Wheels, Ladders, Teeth, Alps, Gods, Boats, Etc. / Apr 5 – Jun 8
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / William Corwin (A collaboration with Geary) / Apr 5 – May 17 / Brigitta Varadi and Amy Podmore; Nate Millstein and friends / May 24 – Jul 5 / Opening reception May 31, 3-6 pm, followed by a potluck
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Alexis England, Nature in Pieces / Opens May 16 / Opening reception May 16, 5-8 pm (RSVP)
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / So It Goes, 2025 Summer Exhibition: May 17 –Sep 13 / Opening reception May 17, 4–6 pm
Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Super Cute!!! / Apr 5 – May 10
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / 2025 A.i.R. Show / Apr 19 – May 25
Queen of Rogues Gallery / 2440 Route 28, Glenford, NY / The Real Ed Berkise / Apr 11 – May 3
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / 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 / Paola Bari: Nature, Revisited; FOCUS: In Flux / May 9–Jun 22 / Recent Acquisitions / May 9–Aug 10 / Opening reception May 10, 4-6 pm
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Francine Tint: Symbolic of the Whole; Andrea Burgay; Maureen Cummins / Apr 26 – Jun 8
ArtPort Kingston / 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Garden of Delights: Ben Quesnel, Britta Riley, Erica Hauser, Jess Stapf, John Stowe, Kate Dodd, Kris Hauser, Lady Labor: Roxanne Faber Savage & Cystal Hedin, Margaret Roleke, Maria Markham, Natalya Khorover, Rachel Urkowitz, Rosanna Scimeca, Sergey Jivetin, Suzan Shutan, Tatiana Arocha, Ursula Endlicher, and others / May 31 – Oct / Opening reception May 31, 3-5 pm / Flagpole Project / Ongoing
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 / Developing Visions, Place Corps Kingston Fellowship exhibition / May 24 – Jun 1 / Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy, Curated by Lucy Sante; The Rose, Curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao; Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present, Curated by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich / May 24 – Aug 31 / Opening reception May 24, 5-8 pm
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / More Than Any Mirror: Benjamin Herndon and Adie Russell / May 3 – Jun 1 / Opening Reception May 3, 5-8 pm
HoloCenter / 518 Broadway, Kingston, NY / New York Holographic Artists / Through May 4
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / In Pursuit of Color: Karlos Cárcamo, Stanford Kay, James Austin Murray / Apr 19 – May 18
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / Claire Whitehurst, Over Under / Apr 11 – May 11 / Virginia Shelpley, Energies and Openings / Opens May 16 / Opening reception May 16, 6-9 pm
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston NY / Liquefier: Meg Lipke and Jeff Williams / May 10 – Jun 21 / Opening reception May 10, 4-7 pm
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Lindsay Gwinn Parker, Thinly Veiled / Apr 26 – May 11 / Muddy Music: Graham Collins, Sean Downey, Ben Estes, Katy Fischer, Robert Gluck, Jennie Jieun Lee, Jordan McDonald, Kevin McNamee-Tweed; Curated by Ben Estes / Opens May 17
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / Landmarks & Water Traces, Suzanne Stokes / Apr 11 – May 3 / Careful Parsing / May 9 – 10 / Opening Reception May 9, 3-5 pm
Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / A Storied Past: Scott Brodie, Andrea Burgay, Steve Rein / Curated by Sharon Bates / May 5 – 31 / Opening Reception May 9, 6–7:30 pm
Convey/er/or Gallery / 297 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / This Land Ain’t Your Land: Dan Goldman / Apr 5 – Jun 1 / Artist talk May 18, 2-4 pm
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
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Compact, Relaxed & Intact, Millicent Young & Virginia L. Montgomery; Girls at the End of the World, Jessica Hargreaves / April 19 – Jun 29
charred cedar saplings, pine lumber, rope, clay, 106 x 93 x 37 in.
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / The Only Way Is Through: Robin Adler; Nest: BAU Gallery Artists / Apr 12 – May 4 / Daniel Berlin: Swallowing the Sun ; BAU Gallery Artists: In This Place ; Iain Wall: Precious Stones / May 9 – Jun 8 / Opening Reception May 10, 6-8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Inner Excess: Jared Freschman, Emma Jackson, Gracelee Lawrence, Sam Reeder, Kat Ryals, Colleen Rae Smiley / Curated by Evan Paul English / Apr 12 – Jun 7
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / Melissa Schlobohm: The Sandbox Chronicles / Mar 8 – Apr 5 / Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy: An Offering of Gravity and Grace / Apr 12 – May 4 / Diana Vidal, The Hard and Soft of It, Opens May 10 / Opening reception May 10, 4-7 pm
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Lisa Diebboll, Between Observation and Abstraction / May 3 – 31 / Opening reception May 3, 5-7 pm
Ligenza Moore Gallery / 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring, NY / Destination Earth: Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Meg Hitchcock, Simeon Lagodich, Cal Lane, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Helen O’Leary, Judy Pfaff, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Kurt Steger, Don Voisine / May 24 – Jul 27 / Opening Event May 24, 12–5 pm
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Amy Talluto: Skeleton Key; Heather Cox, Roundels: Running Together / Apr 12 – May 4 / Jeremy Dennis, Rise: Scenes of Resistance / May 17 – Jun 22 / Opening Reception May 17, 5-7 pm / Artist Talk May 17, 3-4 pm
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: The Wrong Side of the Brush; Reuven Israel: U.F.O. (Untitled Folding Object), 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 / The Unknown and Its Poetics, Curated by Adrián S. Bará / May 24 – Dec 21
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Franc Palaia: Urban Archeology; Edward M. O’Hara: Echoes of Grass / May 3 – Jun 15 / Opening reception May 4, 3-5 pm / GARNER Arts Festival May 17-18
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Hope is the Thing with Feathers / Mar 22 – May 18 / Kahori Kamiya: Sacred Threads / May 24 – Jul 13
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY / Jo Zalon Meer: Atmospheric Disturbances and Eleanor Goldstein: Transitions / Apr 24 – May 18
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Feeding Our Demons: Eva Davidova, Sarah Grass, Alexandra Hammond, Abigail Simon and Marina Zurkow, curated by Hovey Brock / May 3 – Jun 15 / Opening reception May 3, 4-7 pm
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / Nicki Green: Fruitful Vine, Curated by Liz Munsell / Apr 6 – Jun 8 / Rachel Mica Weiss: Yield, Curated by Jess Wilcox / May 18 – Oct 10 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Look, Look Again: Barbara Taff / Apr 11 – May 4
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Wade Kramm; Howard Schwartzberg; and Susan Silas / May 3 – Jun 21 / Artist talk May 3, 2-4 pm; Reception 4-5 pm
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Brian Cirmo: Funny Feeling / Apr 12 – May 11 / Laura Taylor: Another Way of Looking at Love / May 17 – Jun 22 / Reception May 17, 2-6pm
Roxbury Arts Center and Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Emerging Artists 2025 / Apr 11 – May 10 / Kathleen Green and Oneida Hammond / Apr 26 – Jun 14
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Nature Reimagined: Rachel Burgess, KK Kozik, F Lipari and Warner Friedman / May 3 – Jun 1 / Reception for the artists May 3, 4-6 pm
rose gold leaf, 57 x 72 inches
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Polly Shindler / Mar 29 – May 3 / Stephan Sagmiller: LAWNS / May 17 – Jun 22 / Opening reception May 17, 4:30-6:30 pm
Carol Corey Fine Art / 6 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Roz Chast: May 3 – Jun 8 / Opening reception May 3, 4-6 pm
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Man’s Best Friend: Maureen Dougherty, Daniel Murray, Chad Etting, Mickalene Thomas, Peter Gynd, Susumu Kamijo, Louis Fratino, Alex Katz, William Wegman, David Shrigley and Polly Shindler / Mar 8 – May 4
Furnace Art on Paper Archive / Selections from the Flat File / Opening May 10
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Julia Whitney Barnes and Sarah Morejohn / Apr 26 – Jun 8
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Inaugural Group Exhibition / Through May 18
Connecticut – New Haven
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Ashton Phillips: Prey Drive; Old in Art School / May 4 – Jun 22 / Opening Reception and Sharon Louden, Last Artist Standing Book Launch & Panel Discussion, May 4, 1-4:30 pm
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator based in Beacon, NY. In 2024 she 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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