Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Happy New Year! January is a quieter month in the Hudson Valley, but there is still plenty of great art to see around the region. From north to south, Barbara Todd: Undoings opens at Opalka Gallery in Albany on January 20. Three solo shows open at Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor on January 17: Richard Barlow, Lisa Craft and Ellen Driscoll. Yura Adams’ solo exhibition Marvel’s Cabinet opens at WAAM in Woodstock on January 23. At the Millbrook Library The Color of Growth with Irja Bodén, JoAnne Lobotsky, Patrick Neal, and Colin O’Con opens on January 9, and on January 10, a two person show with Susan English and Laura Moriarty opens at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and CRAZY, a group show curated by Jaime Ransome opens at BAU in Beacon. Also on January 10, Boundaries: Beth Dary, Amy Kupferberg, Rita Maas, and Mary Negro opens at Yellow Studio in Cross River, NY. Stay tuned: Geary Contemporary is moving from Millerton, NY, to a new space in Salisbury, CT. Look for their inaugural show in February.
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 / Countenance: The Contemporary Portrait: Nuveen Barwari, Judith Braun, Maggie Halloran, John Hampshire, Phil Knoll, Mark McCarty, Philip J. Palmieri, Winosha Steele, Felicia van Bork, Oliver Wasow / Dec 5 – May 9
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Barbara Todd: Undoings / Jan 20 – Feb 28
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Thierry Casias: Esperanza, Hope: Portraits of Migration and Change in Athens, NY / Dec 20 – Feb 15 / Receptions: Jan 2 and Feb 6, 5-7 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Dogs & Cats: Adriana Farmiga, Alexander Deschamps, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Anna West, Ashley Garrett, Audrey Francis, Brenda Goodman, Brian Wood, Claudia Renfro, Deb Lucke, Hannah Barrett, Jeffrey Morabito, JJ Manford, Kate Gilmore, Laleh Khorramian, Mary Temple, Phil Knoll, Sascha Mallon, Sarah Alice Moran, Valerie Hammond, Zach Seeger,
Zohar Lazar, and more / Nov 1 – Jan 3
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine / Nov 15 – Feb 1
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Earth Endures, Stars Abide: An exhibit of Hudson Valley Landscapes / Nov 21 – Jan 18
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Beth Dary: Notions / Nov 15 – Jan 11
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Ninetta Sombart; Eloise Avery: Divine Destiny / Dec 12 – Jan 11
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / The Landscape Is A Conveyor: Jim Denney and Jennifer Wynne Reeves / Nov 8 – Jan 11 / We Stand On The Shoulders of Giants / opens Jan 17
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Kylie Heidenheimer / Nov 29 – Jan 25
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Cherry: Josie Tolliver Shaw / Dec 4 – Feb 1
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / SHEBANG!: Linda Mussmann / Jan 3 – Feb 1 / Opening Reception Jan 3, 5-7 pm
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Push the Envelope / Dec 13 – Jan 24
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / New Hudson Valley Houses / Sep 7 –Mar 31
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Unconventional Perspective: Works by Julia Leaycraft (1885–1960), A Woodstock Artist; Gratitude: Annual Members’ Holiday Exhibition & Sale; Karen Whitman:Cityscape Noir; Omnium Gatherum, student work from the sculpture program at SUNY New Paltz; Small Works: Textures and Tactility, Juried by Susan Eley / Through Jan 4 / Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: A Survey from the Permanent Collection / Jan 22 – Apr 26 / Yura Adams: Marvel’s Cabinet; WAAM Media Annual: Waxworks; Rethink Everything: A Survey of 20th Century Art Movements; Eclipse / January 23 – March 8
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Closed in January / Sharon Butler and Jason Travers opens February 7
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 – Jan 11 / Time Between Photographs: Art of the Photobook / Nov 29 – Jan 11
Cut Teeth / 394 Hasbrouck Ave, Kingston, NY / Open Arms: Alana Zack, Nine Stories, Audra Wolowiec, Paul Tucci, Lauren Hirsch, Craig Kaths, Julian Gilbert-Davis, Overt Cove, Kieran Kinsella, Jared Alon Design / Opened Dec 6
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Under Panther Mountain, Michael McGrath / Dec 6 – Jan 25
Maiden Lane Gallery / 51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / Karen Kimmel: Basket As We, Basket As Me / Nov 8 – Feb 8
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Julie Hedrick: Temporal Motion / Through Jan 17 (by appointment) / Closing Party Jan 17, 3–6 pm
O+ Exchange, 334 Wall St, Kingston, NY / Notes from Here: Bill Brovold, Joe Concra, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Erika DeVries, Sophie Eisner, Lara Giordano, Casey Inch, Don Johnson, Grace Lang, Reyna Martinez, Adam Mastropaolo, Thomas Sarrantonio, Saidee Sonnenberg, Thorneater, and Lindsey A. Wolkowicz / Dec 19 – Jan 24
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / WORKSHOPPING: New Work by Emily Larned / Oct 3 – Jan 23
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / A Gnawing Thought: Natalie Beall, Todd Bourret, Kerry Downey, Georgia Elrod, Rachel Jackson, Jenny Kemp, Elisa Lendvay, Cotter Luppi, Rita MacDonald, Adrian Meraz, Valerie Piraino, Padma Rajendran, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, Michelle Rosenberg, Adie Russell, Nancy Shaver, Amy Talluto, Christina Tenaglia / Dec 6 – Jan 17
Millbrook Library / The Color of Growth: Irja Bodén, JoAnne Lobotsky, Patrick Neal, Colin O’Con / Jan 9 – Feb 28 / Opening reception Jan 9, 6:30 – 8:00 pm; artist talk Feb 21, 2:00 pm
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Gilded Impermanence: Janine Lambers / Nov 8 – Jan 10
CONVEY/ER/OR Gallery, 299 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Loren Eiferman: A Gathering of Sticks / Through Jan 19
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Nautical Wheeler: Monica Church; Reimagine an Image: Sylvia Mueller / Dec 6 – Jan 4
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Annual Member’s Exhibit / Jan 10 – Feb 15 / Opening Reception Jan 10, 3-5 pm
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY / Unfixxxed: Alex Yudzon, Ana Mendieta, Azikiwe Mohammed, Gordon Matta-Clark, Heather Renee Russ, Jackie Furtado, Johannah Herr, Jon Verney, Lauren Silberman, Liz Nielsen, Marlos E’van, Michal Rovner, Shirin Neshat, Tianyi Zhang and Young Sun Han / Through Jan by appointment
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Ilse Schreiber-Noll: Letters to a Troubled Planet / Messages in Silence; Joel Brown and Alaina Enslen: Structure; Linda Lauro-Lazin: Legacy: My Teachers and Students / Dec 13 – Jan 4 / CRAZY, curated by Jaime Ransome / Jan 10 – Feb 8 / Opening Reception Jan 10, 6–8 pm / Zine-Making Workshop & Music Exchange Jan 24, 4–7 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Intangible Devotions, Laura Bochet / Oct 18 – Jan 31
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Ada Pilar Cruz: Kelp Cartography / Dec 5 – Jan 4 / Grey Zeien: The Last Round-up / Jan 10 – 31 / Opening reception Jan 10, 6-8 pm
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Desmond-Fish Public Library / 472 Route 403, Garrison, NY / Picture Us: Alia Ali, Esperanza Cortés, John Ebbert, Patty Horing, Jordin Isip, JaFang Lu, Beverly McIver, Michael Pribich, ransome, Dylan Rose Rheingold, Nadine Robbins, and photobooth portraits from the collection of Oliver Wasow; Curated by ransome / Oct 25 – Mar 29
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / 2026 Member Show / Jan 10 – 25 / Opening reception Jan 10, 5–7 pm
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Laurie Peek, Christine Randolph, Lynn Stein / Jan 17 – Mar 1 / Opening Reception Jan 17, 5-7 pm
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Boundaries: Beth Dary, Amy Kupferberg, Rita Maas, and Mary Negro / Jan 10 – Feb 8 / Opening reception: Jan 10, 4-6 pm; Artist talk Jan 31, 2 pm
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Jill Hoy, Narratives of Form & Color / Oct 4 – Jan 11
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / 2026 Juried Photography Show: Holding It Together / Jan 22 – Feb 8 / Opening Reception, Jan 25, 2-5 pm
New York / Catskills
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Wanted / Dec 19 – Jan 11
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Richard Barlow, Lisa Craft and Ellen Driscoll / Jan 17 – Feb 28 / Artist talk Jan 17, 3–4 pm; reception 4–5 pm
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Winter Salon / Nov 1 – Spring 2026
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Community Photo Show / Nov 22 – Jan 31
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Mary McFerran, Sunny but Cold: Diaries of Farm Women / Jan 24 – Mar 14 / Artist reception Jan 24, 3-5 pm
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Creative Cheer – A Celebration of Art & Light: Katharine Dufault, Catherine Howe, F. Lipari, Sandy Litchfield, Linda Pochesci and Joy Taylor / Dec 13 – Jan 19
Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken RD, Lakeville, CT / Wish You Were Here: Fern Apfel & Colleen McGuire / Nov 4 – Jan 25
Jennifer Terzian Gallery / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Jessica Smolinski: Mom / Nov 22 – Jan 10 / Open by appointment only
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Alex Katz: The Adas / Nov 22 – Jan 11
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Smoke Signals in Sunlight: Susan English and Laura Moriarty / Jan 10 – Feb 8
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Winter Exhibition 2025 / Dec 20 – Feb 15
Connecticut – Fairfield County and New Haven
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Infused: Boryana Alexandrova, Kathy Coe, David Cramer, Sonja Czekalski, Roya Farassat, Piet Mura, Enne Tesse, and Julia Whitney Barnes / Nov 28 – Jan 3 / Into the Looking Glass: Kathy Coe, Rosemary Cotnoir, Ed Gendron, Dave Gesualdi, Leslie Giuliani, Julie Heffernan, Bob Keating, Katerina Lanfranco, Brigid Kennedy, Benjamin Klein, Ruth Marten, Margaret McCann, Sue Rollins, Cindy Ruskin, Sage Tucker-Ketcham, Lydia Viscardi, Virginia Wagner, Lisa Warren, and Jessica Weiss / Jan 10 – Feb 7
Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / Precisely.: Sarah Walker, Nate Ethier, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll; Co-curators Chris Joy and Francene Langford / Nov 20– Jan 6
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator and consultant based in Beacon, NY. She assists artists with writing, promotion, studio administration, and exhibition planning. 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 Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz where she curated Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun. Previously she was 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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