Contributed by Karlyn Benson / September shows no sign of slowing down in the Hudson Valley, with numerous noteworthy exhibitions opening this month. I M A G E A F T E R a solo show of photo-based projects, sculpture, and drawing by Susan Magnus opens September 21 at the Garrison Art Center. On September 28, Susan Wides: Voice of Silence, opens at Private Public Gallery in Hudson. I’m looking forward to Understory: Snakes, Snails, and the Forest Floor at Pamela Salisbury in Hudson, opening August 31. This group exhibition includes contemporary depictions of woodland life by nearly 60 artists. Another group show Lull, curated by Willy Somma, opens September 14 at Gallery 495 in Catskill. Also on September 14 there will be a closing event for Tall Shadows in Short Order, the Wassaic Project’s 2024 Summer Exhibition, including artist talks, open studios, and a film screening. At the end of the month don’t miss Newburgh Open Studios on September 28 and 29, which features a walkable tour of dozens of artists studios, exhibitions, and related events.
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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 / In Residence: Albany Barn at APL, Ashley Busby, Paula Drysdale, Frazell, Lexi Hannah, Lori Kochanski, Amanda Moore, James Paulsen, Megan Ruch, Kim Tateo / Jun 7 – Nov 8
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Painting at Night: Joey Barrett, Rachelle Beaudoin, Renée Bouchard, Emeline Brulé, Nyasha Chigama, Monique Crabb, Justine Di Fiore, Johanna Evans, Emily Gherard, Raul Gonzalez, Shanti Grumbine, Jodi Hays, Will Hutnick, Nosheen Iqbal, Jo Lobdell, Katrina Majkut, Padma Rajendran, Florencia Rothschild, kaory santillán bueno, Melissa Wang, Xin Xin, and more / Curated by Sean Desiree & Alisa Sikelianos-Carter / Sep 3 – Oct 12
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / TWENTY/20 with Laura Battle, Jesse Bransford, Donna Dennis, Julie Evans, Elliott Green, Valerie Hammond, Carter Hodgkin, Geoff Howell, Kahn & Selesnick, Ellen Kozak, Melora Kuhn, Portia Munson, Purgatory Pie Press, Christy Rupp, Edward Rothfarb, Margaret Saliske, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Kiki Smith, Corrine Spencer, Liza Todd-Tivey, and Katherine Umsted. Curated by Carrie Feder / Aug 2 – Sep 8 / Felix Beaudry, Soft Simulation / Sep 11 – 29
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die! / Jul 6 – Sep 3
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Taylor Davis: Until The Sun Goes Dark / Jul 20 – Sep 28
The School / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / Nina Chanel Abney, LIE DOGGO / May 18 – Oct 5
Bill Arning Exhibitons / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Other Beings: Hannah Barrett, Richard Butler, James Esber, Cruz Ortiz / Aug 16 – Oct 13
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Lull: Victoria Bartlett, Francesca Di-Mattio, Zhivago Duncan, Sylvia Estes, Neal Hollinger, Kieran Kinsella, Alyssa McClenaghan, Tyrone Mitchell, Joan Oliver, Laurie Olinder, Aurora Pellizzi, Brett Miller, Tschabalala Self, Kate Steciw, Katie Stout, Caroline Woolard; Curated by Willy Somma / Opens Sep 14
The Campus / 341 NY-217 Hudson, NY / 2024 Inaugural Exhibition, Curated by Timo Kappeller, Jun 29 – Oct 27
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Understories: Anne Francey, Allyson Levy, Eileen Murphy, Rinal Parikh, Ragellah Rourke, and Annika Tucksmith; David Konigsberg / Aug 17 – Oct 6
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Emily Ritz: Habitual Soothing / Jul 27 – Sep 1 / Mother Should I Run For President, Daniel Robin Clurman / Sep 14 – Oct 13
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Symbolic Convergence: Ken Butler, Linda Ganjian, and Melissa Murray / Jul 13 – Sep 1 / Zoe Wetherall / Sep 14 – Oct 13
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Hans Frank: Cosmic Art, Curated by David Ebony and Jan Orluck / Aug 3 – Sep 22
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Understory: Snakes, Snails, and the Forest Floor / Aug 31 – Oct 6
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / The Summer Disaster Show 2: James Casebere, Jim Denney, Carter Hodgkin, Janet Biggs, Kylie Heidenheimer, Alexander Ross, Marcy Rosewater, Melora Kuhn, and others / Aug 3 – Sep 8 / Susan Wides: Voice of Silence / Opens Sep 28
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Ted Dixon: Eighteen / Aug 22 – Oct 13
tANJA gRUNERT Princess Beatrix House / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Susan Jennings: Out of Body; Dan Devine: Pulse / Aug 10 – Sep 22
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / David Deutsch: Colorama / Jul 27 – Sep 1 / Karen Schupack, Arlene Santana Thornton, and Olan Quattro / Sep 7 – Oct 6
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Edward Merritt: The Long Season; Evan McGraw, ambush; Mollie McKinley: Lustrous Descent; and Liu Kincheloe / Jul 19 – Sep 1 / Evan Halter, Specificities; Kristen Mills, Seats for Everyone / Sep 14 – Oct 27
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Elevation / Aug 17 – Sep 29
Alexander Gray Associates / 224 Main Street, Garden Level, Germantown, NY / Alannah Farrell / Sep 21–Dec 21
Mother-in-Laws / 140 Church Ave, Germantown, NY / Dani Klebes: A Dyke Cabin of One’s Own, curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom / Jul 18 – Sep 22
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Takuji Hamanaka / Aug 3 – Sep 29 / Potions, Alan Prazniak / Aug 3 – Oct 6
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / FAMILY EYE: Adolph Rosenblatt, Eli Rosenblatt, Joshua Rosenblatt Eileen Coyne, Caitlin Harris, Emily Clark, Jon Millstein, Nate Millstein, Mara Manning, Kiefer Waterman, Frank Jackson, Amy Podmore, Ruby Jackson, Donald Fabricant, Gwen Fabricant, Jonathan Fabricant / Aug 10 – Sep 14 / Kathleen Kucka, Janis Stemmermann / Sep 21 – Oct 26
Archive Gallery, on the ‘T’ Space Reserve / 60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY / James Casebere, Shou Sugi Ban Sculptures / Jul 20 – Oct 13
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Tall Shadows in Short Order / May 18 – Sep 14
Jane Street Art Center / 11 Jane St, Suite A, Saugerties, NY / Elizabeth Keithline: Breaking Broken / Aug 10 – Sep 14
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Works by Ford Crull, Curated by Carter Ratcliff / Aug 17 – Sep 29
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Sydney Cash: Being Seeing / Aug 16 – Sep 22 / Purely Aesthetic: Non-functional Ceramics from the Permanent Collection; WAAM Regional: Spirit of Woodstock / Aug 16 – Oct 6
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 474 Broadway, Kingston, NY / Pride and Protest: Photographs by Fred W. McDarrah / Jun 1 – Sep 1
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Jeanne Quinn & Linda Sormin / Sep 7– 29
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / The Phantom City, A Collaboration between author Carey Harrison and painter Mark T. Kanter / Opened Aug 24
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Palmer-Smith / Aug 24 – Sep 14 / If I Had a Hammer: Political Protest Posters, Mike King / Opening Sep 21
Merge Stoneridge / 178 Schoonmaker Lane, Stone Ridge, NY / Alchemy of Color: Eva Lundsager, Patricia Sonnino, Janine Wong / Aug 24 – Sep 15
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Annual Juried Show 2024: The Shape of Things, Juror Mikiki Ino / Aug 10 – Sep 8 / Karen Allen, Rainbows and Dust; Bob Barry, Florescence / Sep 14 – Oct 6
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Memor: Frances Segismundo / Aug 10 – Oct 5
Ethan Cohen Gallery at The KuBe Art Center / 211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY / Out of Africa: Seminal Works of Contemporary Africa and Its Diaspora; Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments / Jul 19 – Sep 28
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Emerging Artist Fellowship exhibition / Opens Sep 28
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Ron Anderson: Recent Work / Aug 9 – Sep 1 / Martee Levi / Sep 6 – 29
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Jackie Skrzynski: Natural Selection; Looking Back: Portraits by Joseph Radoccia / Aug 24 – Sep 15 / Susan Magnus, I M A G E A F T E R / Sep 21 – Oct 20
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 / Layers in Motion: Alyce Gottesman, Lotte Petricone, Mary Ann Strandell / Aug 9 – Sep 29
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / A Song to Follow: Michael McGrath & Ken Hiratsuka / Aug 10 – Sep 22
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / On the Grounds 2024: Natalia Arbelaez, Nicole Cherubini, Re Jin Lee, and Katy Schimert / May 11 – Oct 13 / Michelle Segre: Der Wolley Eulb 07 / Jul 19 – Oct 13 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Jerry Gallo and Barbara Herzfeld, ENDLESS SUMMER / Jul 5 – Sep 1 / Catching the Light / Aug 30 – Sep 29
ASSEMBLY / 397 Broadway, Monticello, NY / Johnny Abrahams and Alma Allen; Davide Balliano and Alma Allen; Bernar Venet; Bosco Sodi: Studio Remix / Apr 13 – Nov 30
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / James Esber, Jane Fine, Tracey Goodman, and Jim Lee / opens Aug 31
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Anthony Chase: Patina / Aug 3 – Sep 1 / Christopher Burk: There’s a Light Somewhere (with guest artist Melissa Murray) / Sep 7 – Oct 6
Roxbury Arts Center / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Plant Matter: Richard Barlow, Marieken Cochius, Margot Elizabeth Glass, Elaine Grandy, John Hudak, Megan Irving, Emily Johnston, Alethea Maguire, Amy Masters, Lukas Milanak, Carol Rudowsky, Jackie Skrzynski, GG Stankiewicz, Linda Stillman, Holly Sumner, Kamilla Talbot, June Tyler, Gerda Van Leeuwen, Susan Weisend, and Amy Wilson. / Aug 17 – Oct 19
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art/ 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Stop Making Sense: Noah Post, Deborah Zlotsky, Will Hutnick and Kit Warren; Stoneware by Katia Santibanez / Aug 17 – Sep 15 / Lines and Colors: John Franklin, Jenny Kemp, Ellie Kreischer, and Diane Ayott / Sep 21 – Oct 20
Furnace – Art on Paper Archive / 107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT / Under the Sun, Selections from the Flat File: Leora Armstrong, Yvonne Estrada, Zachary Keeting, Stephen Maine, Bill Schuck, Kim Uchiyama, Rebecca B. Ward / Aug 31 – Oct 5
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / This World: John Frederick Walker and Jeff Joyce / Aug 30 – Oct 6
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Alex Katz, A bit of everything / through Oct 5
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Slipping Glimpser: Susan English, Julie Gross, Audrey Stone / Aug 31 – Oct 13
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 2022-2023 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. In 2013 Benson founded Matteawan Gallery, where she curated more than fifty exhibitions before closing the gallery in 2018.
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Thanks for including the ‘Plant Matter’ show at Roxbury Arts Center!