Contributed by Karlyn Benson / October is the most beautiful month to visit the Hudson Valley and surrounding regions. Don’t miss seeing the brilliant foliage and enjoying cooler days and clear blue skies. Special events this month include the O+ music and art festival in Kingston on October 10-12 and the WAAM Members Open Studio Tour October 11-12. In Hudson, Farrell Brickhouse is giving an artist’s talk at Philip Douglas on October 11. Some notable exhibitions are opening in October, including Kathy Goodell at Private Public, Seeking Complexity at Bill Arning, Pam Poquette and Lawre Stone at Tanja Grunert, Alone with the Moon at RUTHANN, Douglas Navarra at 68 Prince Street, Claudia Shaldervan at Headstone, and Sharing the Space, a photography show at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. It’s the last chance to see the following shows before they close: SHELF SHOW, the quirky and fun group exhibition at Monument, the annual group show at The Campus, Ashley Garrett at SEPTEMBER, Harold Stevenson at Art Omi, Christian Marclay at Hudson Hall, The Double Portrait at The Re Institute, S.C.A.P.E, an outdoor sculpture exhibition in Woodstock, AJ Liberto & Eric White at Roundabouts Now, Gail Rothschild at Standard Space, and Mary Judge and Katrina Majkut at Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Finally, if you are looking for a Halloween adventure don’t miss The Wassaic Project’s Haunted Mill on September 24-26 and the Monster’s Ball on October 25.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Albany Center Gallery / 488 Broadway, Suite 107, Albany, NY / Loading… Art for All! / Aug 1 – Oct 25 / All Hallow E’en Art Path / Oct 1-31 / After Hours event Oct 3, 5 – 7 pm
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Sight Specific: Michael Bach, Seth Butler, Matt Chinian, Sean Hemmerle, Susan Hoffer, Maeve McCool, Rob O’Neil, Andrew Pellettieri, Laura Von Rosk / Jun 6 – Nov 8
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Compass Roses: Maps by Artists, co-curated by Nadine Wasserman and Renee Piechocki / Sep 2 – Oct 11 / The 46th PhotoRegional: Seeking New Landscapes / Oct 28 – Dec 6
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Seasons of Greene VI: Sue Barrasi, Richard Bazelow, Jay Brooks, Bruce Bundock, Jim Coe, Kevin Cook, Rosemary Hanson, Paula Heisen, Lynn Palumbo, Susan Story, Marlene Wiedenbaum, Leslie Yolen / Sep 26 – Oct 26 / First Friday Reception: Oct 3, 5-7 pm
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY / Seeking Complexity: David Becker, Deborah Bright, Jane Fine, Bo Joseph, Brian Kenny, AJ Liberto, Andy Ness, Harrison Tenzer / Oct 4 – Dec 21 / Opening Oct 4 3-5 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Psyche, Ashley Garrett / Aug 16 – Oct 18
The School | Jack Shainman Gallery / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / GENERAL CONDITIONS / May 17 – Nov 29
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy / Jun 28 – Oct 26
The Campus / 341 NY-217 Hudson, NY / 2025 Annual Exhibition / Jun 28 – Oct 26
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Objects of Affection: Alaina Enslen, David Halliday, Ash King, Jenny Nelson, and David Sokosh / Sep 26 – Nov 16
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Tom Ferris: Double Exposure / Opened Sep 27
The Fireplace Project / 435 Warren Street Hudson, NY / MI VIDA: Martin Muñoz, curated by Otto Ohle / Sep 13 – Oct 27
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Patricia Smith, Seeing in Code / Sep 5 – Oct 5 / Sasha Bezzubov: On Everest / Oct 11 – Nov 9 / Reception Saturday, Oct 11, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Christian Marclay / Aug 23 – Oct 5 / Corinne May Botz: Ghosts, Mother’s Milk, and Other Stories / Oct 11 – Nov 23 / Opening Reception Oct 11, 4-6pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Farrell Brickhouse: The Stationary Traveler / Sep 6 – Oct 19 / Artist talk Oct 11, 3 pm
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / What’s That Sound Everybody Look What’s Going Down: Richard Artschwager, Ross Bleckner, Sharon Butler, Deborah Dancy, Michael David, Astrid Dick, James Esber, Heide Fasnacht, Marvin Heiferman, Dana Hoey, Shirley Irons, Suzanne Joelson, Ellen Kozak, Stephen Maine, Donna Moylan, Michael Rodriguez, Hanneline Rogeberg, Michael St John, Viktor Witkowski, Oliver Wasow / Curated by Chris Freeman & Matthew McNamara / Sep 6 – Oct 5 / In The Darkness I See: Kathy Goodell / Oct 18 – Nov 16 / Opening Reception Oct 18, 3-6 pm
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Barbara Marks, Angela A’Court & Kate Snow / Sep 4 – Oct 19 / Sasha Hallock & Susan Lisbin / Oct 23 – Nov 30
Tanja Grunert / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Chrysalis: Pam Poquette and Lawre Stone / Oct 4 – Nov 9 / Opening Oct 4, 3-7 pm
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Everything’s Personal: Myron Polenberg / Sep 6 – Oct 5 / Mi Vida: Martin Muñoz, curated by Otto Ohle / Sep 13 – Oct 27
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Liu Kincheloe: Chirality; Davina Hsu: Heaven on Earth; Kate Stone: Heartswell / Sep 20 – Nov 2
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / In This Here Place, We Flesh: Aineki Traverso, Nkechi Ebubedike, and Shiri Mordechay; curated by Maty Sall / Through Oct 4
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Alone with the Moon: Biff Elrod, Kathryn Lynch, Enrico Riley / Oct 10 – Dec 6 / Opening Reception Oct 10, 6-8 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Susan Carr: To bring you my love / Sep 20 – Nov 16 / John Yau in conversation with Susan Carr / Oct 5, 2 pm
Sky High Farm Biennial Exhibition / 11 Main Street, Germantown, NY / TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END / Closing Celebration Oct 11, 11 am – 6 pm
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Cammi Climaco, Wild Freedom / Jul 19 – Sep 28 / God of Accidents: Tura Oliveira / Aug 16 – Oct 5 / Fun, Ethan Greenbaum and Sun You / Oct 11 – Dec 7
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / The Double Portrait: Tom Burckhardt, Stephanie Keith, Anki King, Henry Klimowicz, Alexi Worth, Curated by Joshua Rosenblatt; Odette Steinert and friends / Aug 30 – Oct 11
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / New Hudson Valley Houses / Sep 7 – through Dec
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / Haunted Mill: Oct 24, 25, 26; Monster’s Ball: Oct 25, 7 pm – late
Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Jennifer Hicks – Marking Time / Sep 20 – Oct 25
Opus 40 Gallery / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / Brian Dickerson: Constructed Paintings / Sep 6 – Oct 5 / Reception and Poetry Reading: Oct 4, 3-5 pm
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Crossing Over: Nancy Azara / Sep 20 – Oct 19 / Sharing the Space, curated by Anne Arden McDonald, Oct 25 – Nov 30 / Opening reception Oct 25, 3-5 pm
Sculpture Park at The Woodstock Spa / 62 Rick’s Road, Woodstock, NY / S.C.A.P.E: Erika deVries, Stuart Farmery, Wendy Klemperer, Bernard Klevickas, Pascal Knapp, Alex Kveton, Ian Laughlin, Alison McNulty, Lowell Miller, Eileen M. Power, Gregory Steel, Suzy Sureck, and Stephen Whisler / Jun – Oct 26
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Material Alchemy; Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent Collection; H. James Hoff: Drawn to Life; Small Works: Object Poetry / Aug 15 – Oct 5 / Sanctuary / Oct 24–November 30; Unconventional Perspective: Works by Julia Leaycraft (1885–1960), A Woodstock Artist / Oct 24 – Jan 4 / Opening reception Oct 25, 4-6 pm / WAAM Members Studio Tour / Oct 11-12, 11 am- 5pm
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Present Tense : Past Participle, Douglas Navarra / Oct 8 – Nov 16 / Opening Reception Oct 18, 5 – 8 pm
ArtYard Kingston, 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Garden of Delights: Kate Dodd, Ursula Endlicher, Erica Hauser, Kris Hauser, Sergey Jivetin, Natalya Khorover, Duncan Mackenzie, Eve Madalengoitia, Maria Markham, Ben Quesnel, Michael Rees, Margaret Roleke, Roxy Savage, Rosanna Scimeca, Suzan Shutan, Mary Ann Strandell, John Stowe, Rachel Urkowitz, and others / Jun 1 – Oct 5 / Oktoberfest: Balkan x Afrobeat Music Festival / Oct 4, 4-9 pm
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Everyday Culture: Seven Projects by Documentary Arts; Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive; Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me / Sep 20, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026
Cut Teeth / 394 Hasbrouck Ave, Kingston, NY / Richard Quintero, Where It Fell / Through Oct 11
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / The Landscape Holds Its Breath: Claudia Shaldervan / Oct 4 – 26 / Opening Reception Oct 4, 5-8 pm
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Philippe Halaburda: Geometry of Change / Sep 6- Oct 5 / Enchantment: Deborah Barlow, Alison Cuomo, Carter Hodgkin; Guest Curated by Laura Gurton and Carole Kunstadt / Oct 25 – Nov 23 / Opening Reception Oct 25, 4–7 pm
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / Shelf Show / Sep 19 – Oct 25
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston NY / Levels of Hardness: AJ Liberto & Eric White / Sep 13 – Oct 26
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Michael Dickey: Dev / Sep 20 – Oct 20
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / Water Finds A Way: Luka Carter, Kelsey Renko, and Eli Thorne, Curated by John DeSousa / Oct 4 — Nov 15 / Opening Oct 4, 4-7 pm
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / WORKSHOPPING: New Work by Emily Larned / Oct 3 – Jan 23 / Opening Celebration, Oct 3, 6–8 pm
Army of Frogs / 282 Mohonk Road, High Falls, NY / Winter Kills: Peter Benedetti, Amelia Biewald, Neal Hollinger, Jess Levey, Caitlin McCormack, Shiri Mordechay, Carlie Trosclair, and Lauren Was / Oct 11 – Nov 15 / Opening reception Oct 11, 3-7 pm
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Lane, New Paltz, NY / Current(s) of Connections / Oct 4 – 25 / Cultura Viva / Sep 27 – Nov 8
Millbrook Library / 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / WOMEN, WATER & WORK / Oct 3 – Nov 1 / Reception Oct 3, 6 -7:30 pm
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Looking: 21 Ways: Sharon Bates, Monica Church, Kirby Crone, Maxine Davidowitz, Priscilla Derven, Daniella Dooling, Debora Faccion Grodski, Lindsey B. Guile, Gretchen Kane, Zoya Lulu Kirmani, Nansi Lent, Carol Levine, Adrianne Lobel, Mya Muchineuta, Nancy O’Hara, Lynn Palumbo, Judy Pfaff, Kristen E. Rego, Amanda Russo Rubman, Hana Yoshikawa, and Mimi Young / Sep 13 – Nov 1
Palmer Gallery, Vassar College Main Building, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY / Sean McCarthy: Creature Features / Sep 11 – Oct 12 / Larissa Tokmakova / Oct 16 – Nov 23 / Opening reception Oct 16, 5–7 pm
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Interiors, Juried by Wayne Lempka / Sep 5 – Oct 26
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition: William PK Carter, Ana Maria Farina, and Bridget Vasquez / Sep 27 – Nov 23
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Joan Harmon and Aubrey Roemer: Earthly Delights; Group exhibition: Gradually, Then Suddenly; Anne Harmon: Dormiveglia / Sep 12 – Oct 5 / Eileen Sackman: Midnight Ride; Pamela Zaremba and Síle Marrinan: Unraveling Light and Time; George Kimmerling: Fractional Landscape / Opening Reception Oct 11, 6–8 pm / Gallery Discussion: “Why Landscape Now?” with George Kimmerling and Erin Barnett / Oct 16, 6 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Threads of Love: Delvin Lugo and Amber Mustafic, Curated by Beth Kantrowitz/bk projects / Aug 16 – Oct 12 / Intangible Devotions, Laura Bochet / Oct 18 – Jan 31 / Opening reception Oct 18, 7-9 pm
KuBe Art Center / Beacon, NY / Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments / Through Oct 18 / Afrofuturism: Nanette Carter, Renee Cox, Ernest Frazier, Algernon Miller, Tyrone Mitchell; Sex Education: group exhibition / Jul 19 – Dec 18
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery / 162 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Vital Matter: Richard Bruce, Evelyn Carr-White, Kathy Feighery / Sep 13 – Oct 5
Savage Wonderground Art Gallery / 139 Main Street, Beacon, NY / KaleidoSCAPE: Caroline Blum, Shawn Dulaney, Robert Kelly, Michael Schropp, Vicki Sher, Gret Sterrett Smith, Charles Spurrier / Through Nov
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Lucille Tortora, Multiples / Oct 4 – 26 / Opening reception Oct 4, 4-6 pm
Desmond-Fish Public Library / 472 Route 403, Garrison, NY / Picture Us, Patty Horing, Jordin Isip, JaFang Lu, Beverly McIver, ransome, Dylan Rheingold, Nadine Robbins, and more; Curated by ransome / Oct 25 – Mar 29 / Opening reception Oct 25, 4-7 pm
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Elizabeth De Bethune; Thomas Sarrantonio / Sep 20 – Oct 19
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / The Unknown and Its Poetics: Emanuel Tovar Andrade, Adrián S. Bará, Peter Brock, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Edgar Cobián, Juan Pablo González, Ricardo González, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Elana Herzog, Melissa Joseph, Fawn Krieger, Liza Lacroix, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Pepe López Reus, Juan De la Cruz Sánchez, Lucía Vidales, Michael Kelly Williams, and Liat Yossifor, Curated by Adrián S. Bará / May 24 – Dec 21
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Paul Kostabi, Resonance; Jo Yarrington in collaboration with John Morton, Enrichment / Sep 13 – Oct 26 / John Morton, Minisceongo Overlay / Sep 13 – ongoing
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Tricia Caracappa: Sweet Surrender / Sep 13 – Oct 11 / Jennie Carr: Scent of the Sea / Profumo del Mare / Oct 18 – Nov 15 / Opening Reception Oct 19, 4-6 pm
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Jill Hoy, Narratives of Form & Color / Oct 4 – Jan 11 / Kurt Steger, Sculpture in the Courtyard / May – Nov
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Susan Steeg: Retrospective; Wayne Bowen: A Touch of Realism / Oct 2 – 26
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / TERRAPHILIA: Christie Scheele & Lisa Lebofsky / Sep 13 – Oct 19 / Artist Talk Oct 4, 3 – 4pm
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / Linnéa Gad: Peelings, Curated by Alyson Baker / Rachel Mica Weiss: Yield, Curated by Jess Wilcox; Mikayla Patton: Holding Close / May 18 – Oct 10 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Going to Ground: Steve Clorfeine and Nat Thomas / Sep 26 – Oct 19
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / The Dick Gibson Show: Six Paintings, 2015–2021, Jeff Christensen; Bonnie Rychlak; Heidi Schlatter / Aug 30 – Oct 25
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Amy Masters: Interior Life / Sep 13 – Oct 19
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Botanical Impressions / Sep 20 – Nov 1
Leo Koenig / 11 Delaware Avenue, Andes, NY / Pizzicato: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Stan Douglas, Candida Hofer, Luisa Lambri, Brandon Lattu, Martha Rosler, James Welling, Sam Taylor Johnson / Sep 27 – Nov 9
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Return: Birds, Beasts and Other Beings: Irja Bodén and Elin Menzies / Aug 9 – Oct 4 / Holding Artemis, Jody Isaacson / Oct 18 – Dec 20
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / The Paper Chase: Susan Dory, Betsy Friedman, Mike Glier, Jessica Hess, John Lippert, Hideyo Okamura and Eric Wolf / Sep 20 – Oct 19
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Gail Rothschild, Portraits of Ancient Linen / Sep 6 – Oct 12
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Inter | States: Rick Briggs, David Kennedy Cutler, Loren Erdrich, Ashley Garrett, Kurt Lightner, Rob Ober, Janis Provisor, Nathan Ritterpusch, Carol Saft, Aaron Michael Skolnick, Mary Temple, and Ben Weiner / Curated by Michael De Feo / Sept 20 – Nov 16
Furnace Art on Paper Archive / Claudia Kaatziza CortÍnez: Salt and Bone / Sep 20 – Nov 1
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Mary Judge: Geo Thermal Borealis; Katrina Majkut / Sep 13 – Oct 26
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Summer Exhibition 2025 / Jul 26 – Oct 5
Connecticut – Fairfield County and New Haven
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Ocean in Space: Julie Durkin Marty / Sep 6 – Oct 18 / Ecosophy: Marion Belanger, Nicholas Cueva, Daisy Gesualdi, Kelsey Gilmore, Aidan Haley, Debbie Hesse, Elizabeth Insogna, Katherine Keltner, Benjamin Klein, Erika Larskaya, Rita Leduc, Maria Markham, Sabrina Marques, Donna Namnoum, Sue Muskat, Brooke Toczylowski, and Rosanne Walsh / Curated by Katerina Lanfranco / Sep 13 – Oct 18 / Dave Gesualdi, Set in Stone / Oct 25 – Nov 11
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Conceptual Romance, group show, Curated by Jared Quinton; Translating From the Edges / Sep 14 – Nov 2
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery / CSCC Manchester, Great Path, Manchester, CT / Patricia Carrigan, Paintings and Drawings / Sep 5 – Oct 6 / Remember Me: Photographs and Writing from On the Road to Infinity Palace, Linda Till Bradley / Sept 12 – Nov 12
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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