Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As warmer weather moves into the area many new exhibitions are opening. One of the highlights is a show of drawings and embroidered works by Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor at LABspace in Hillsdale. There are three notable exhibitions opening at KinoSaito in Verplanck, including “Kikuo Saito: Unraveling,”‘ “Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm,” and “Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise.” On March 16 Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh reopens for the 2024 season with “Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes,” a solo show of paintings by Michael Hambouz, a Palestinian-American multi-disciplinary artist and musician. Art Omi in Ghent presents a solo exhibition of work by Olalekan Jeyifous, a Brooklyn-based artist whose work examines the relationships between architecture, community, and the environment. Finally, there is still time to visit the Wassaic Project to see their winter group exhibition “I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws” before it closes on March 16.
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New York / Hudson Valley
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany NY / Cyndy Barbone,Johnathan DeSousa, Kathy Greenwood, Lori Lawrence, Joy Muller-McCoola, Mark Olshansky, Jess Stapf, Barbara Todd, Extra/Ordinary / closes May 11
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22 Ghent, NY / Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia… / Mar 16 – Jun 2
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / In the pale moonlight, Eve Ackroyd, Maria Korol, Sarah Lee, Melissa Monroe, Sarah Alice Moran, Taylor Morgan, Liliana Porter, Sonia Corina Ruscoe, Allyson Melberg Taylor, Brittany Tucker / Feb 10 – Apr 7
Bill Arning Exhibitons / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY / Winter’s Long Embrace, Nick Barbee, Sallie Barbie, Chris Bernsten, Nayland Blake, TJ Griffin, Karsen Heagle, Joe Klockowski, Philip Knoll, Scooter LaForge, Stephen Lack, Thedra Cullar Ledford, Jean Paul Mallozzi, Mark Ponder, Gerardo Rosales, Elijah Ruhala, Carol Saft, Michael St John, David Sokosh, Michael Walden / Closes Mar 9
Presentational: Jean-Paul Mallozzi, Donna Moylan, Kevin Sabo / Mar 16 – May 11
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Tangled Up in Blue: Julia Whitney Barnes, Linda Newman Boughton, Donise English, Owen Mann, and James O’Shea / Mar 1 – Apr 21
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Mary Breneman, Michael L. Simpson, Emily Ritz, Daniel Clurman, and Zach Neven, Winter Show / Jan 27 – Mar 31
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Sean Hemmerle, Hoops / Feb 17 – April 7
Hudson Hall / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / E(n)ternal Lighf: The Eternal Ecosystem Exposed, Ntangou Badila, Reggie Madison, Tyrone Mitchell, Lala Montoya, Tshidi Matale / Curated by Ntangou Badila / Mar 9 – Apr 14
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Lois Dickson: Everyone Loves A Sunset / Feb 3 – Mar 3 / Lisa Ivory: The Boss of Parties; Chris Bartlett: 1980s Street and Landscape Photography / Mar 9 – Apr 7
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Breakfast: David Becker, Hugh Biber, Jim Denney, Bruce Edelstein, Chris Freeman, Christopher Grith, George Lawson, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Frank Tartaglione, Stephen Whistler / Mar 16 – Apr 6
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Heather Boose Weiss, Carolyn Monastra, Leah Oates, Landscapes of Transcendence: Part II – Scenes of Ethereality / Feb 1 – Mar 24
Turley Gallery / 98 Green Street, Hudson, NY / Kevin Ford and Daniel Herwitt, you think, you know; Mark Joshua Epstein, Burgers for Breakfast / Feb 10 – Mar 17
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Karina Sharif: A Dream Embodied / Feb 10 – Mar 30
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Will Hutnick, SATELLITE / Feb 24 – Apr 7
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Allyson Mellberg Taylor + Jeremy Seth Taylor, One Day All Of This Will Be Yours / Mar 2 – 31
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Gabrielle Banks, Natalie Baxter, Alexandra Borovski, Gherdai Hassell, Davina Hsu, Padyn Humble, Ayumi Ishii, Alex Jackson, Katie Kaplan, Susan Klein, SunYoung Park, I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws / Dec 9 – Mar 16
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / Geometric Abstraction / Jan 19 – Apr 14
ArtPort Kingston / 108 East Strand, Kingston, NY / Poetic Gestures: Julia Elsas, Kathie Halfin, Cody Healey-Conelly, Barbara Owen, Margaret Roleke, Susan Scott, Kurt Steger and Elissa-Levy / Closes Mar 10
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 474 Broadway, Kingston, NY / Levee: Photographs by Adrianna Ault / Jan 13 – Mar 17
One Mile Gallery / 75 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: Resilience / Opens Mar 23
Ann Street Gallery / Newburgh, NY / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, From the Ground UP / Dec 1 – Mar 31
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Michael Hambouz: Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes / Mar 16 – May 12
Bau Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Meg Beaudoin; Loren Eifferman & Midoru Furutate; Mary McFerran / Feb 10 – Mar 3 / Elemental: Daniel Berlin, Eileen Sackman, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Jebah Baum, Joan Harmon, Joel Brown, Karen Allen, Kelly M O’Brien, Linda Lauro-Lazin, Mary McFerran, Matthew Gilbert, Nataliya Hines, and Pamela Zaremba / Vessels: Joel Brown and guest Anita Fina Kiewra / Mar 9 – Apr 7
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Taj Campman: A Hidden Quiet / Feb 10 – Apr 6
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / 2024 Member Show / Jan 20 – Feb 4
Tatana Kellner, Sideway Glances; Stanford Kay, Painting Out Loud / Feb 17 – Mar 10
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Winter Prints: / Mar 1 – Mar 31
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: Unraveling; Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm; Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise, curated by Jess Wilcox and organized with River Valley Arts Collective / Mar 9 – May 5
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Elizabeth Hoy and Robin Reynolds, Spirit & Splendor / Jan 26 – May 10
New York / Catskills
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Hovey Brock, Daniella Dooling, and Valerie Hegarty / Mar 2 – Apr 27
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Christopher Gee: ELSEWHERE / Mar 16 – Apr 14
Connecticut / Housatonic Valley
Jennifer Terzian / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT (open by appointment) / MaryKate Maher, Night Bloom / Feb 3 – Mar 2
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, Connecticut / Chad Etting: Menswear / Feb 17 – Mar 31
Connecticut / New Haven
Ely Center for Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / One Thing Becomes Another, Patricia Carrigan, Cynthia Dobie, Ellen Gordon, Lilah Heyman; Marlon Forrester, Skyward Bound / Jan 19 – May 7
About the author: Karlyn Benson is a curator based in Beacon, NY. She was recently the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, where she curated Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun (2023) and Collective Consciousness: New Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty (2021). Benson founded Matteawan Gallery in Beacon, where she curated more than fifty exhibitions before closing the gallery in 2018.
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