Contributed by Karlyn Benson / February’s highlights include the opening of Geary’s new location in Salisbury, Connecticut with a solo show of paintings by Alan Prazniak. On February 6, Souvenir, a group exhibition curated by Jeff Bailey opens at RUTHANN in Catskill. Numerous exhibitions are opening on February 7, including Terrestrial Extra at the Dorsky Museum, guest-curated by Alta Buden and Craig Monteith of Roundabouts Now. The same evening there are openings at Headstone (Above Board Ceramics), 68 Prince Street (Sharon Butler, Jason Travers, Kieran Kinsella, Murray Hochman, and Eileen Power), Distortion Society (Spaces Between Color) the Garrison Art Center (Stephanie Garmey and Michael Prettyman) and Buster Levi’s final show Open Ending. Another recommended exhibition is Martha Friedman, Mika Taga, and Alina Tenser, opening February 14 at SEMPTEMBER. Unfortunately, two galleries have closed: Turley in Hudson and Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh, and Monument and Buster Levi are closing in March. On a more positive note, there is a new gallery in Hudson at Creative Legion featuring the show Tethered with work by Johannah Herr, Steph Zimmerman, CJ Matherne, and Eric Ehrnschwender and curated by Tara Foley.
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 / Reception Feb 6, 5-7 pm; Artist Talk Feb 7, 4 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Martha Friedman, Mika Taga, Alina Tenser / Feb 14 – Apr 12
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / The Drawing Show: Mark Beard, Linda Newman Boughton, David Dew Bruner, Sue Bryan, Paul Chojnowski, Donise English, Kathryn Freeman, Louise Laplante, Glenn Palmer-Smith, and David Soman / Jan 30 – Mar 22
Creative Legion / 7 Fairview Ave, Hudson, NY / Tethered: Johannah Herr, Steph Zimmerman, CJ Matherne, and Eric Ehrnschwender; Curated by Tara Foley / Jan 17 – Mar 14 / Artist talk Feb 12, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Freeze Frame: Thomas Broadbent, Phil Buehler, Sasha Bezzubov, Ken Butler, Peggy Cyphers, Beth Dary, Debra Drexler, Linda Ganjian, Linda Griggs, Sean Hemmerle, Amy Hill, Stephen Mallon, Mark Masyga, Ken Ragsdale, Patricia Smith, Joanne Ungar, and Zoe Wetherall / January 24 – Feb 22
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Sita Gomez / Feb 7 – Apr 4
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Michael Howard: Visible Music, Visible Speech / Feb 20 – Mar 22 / Exhibition opening Feb 20, 6:30 pm; Talk by Luigi Morelli, Feb 27, 7 pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / We Stand On The Shoulders of Giants / Jan 17 – Feb 15
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Cherry: Josie Tolliver Shaw / Dec 4 – Feb 21 / Katharine Dufault: Where the Owl Soars / Feb 24 – Mar 14 / Opening Reception Feb 28, 3-5 pm / Deirdre O’Connell: New Portraits / Mar 16 – Apr 26 /
Opening Reception Mar 20, 4-6 pm
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / 1990 Photographs of Claudia Bruce in Performance, Photographs by Linda Mussmann / Feb 7 – Mar 8 / Opening reception Feb 7, 5-7 pm
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Souvenir: Paolo Arao, Louis Fratino, Brenda Goodman, Chris Hammerlein, Frederick Hayes, Lonnie Holley, Meg Lipke, Christian Maychack, Donna Moylan, Amy Pleasant, Paul Sepuya, Aaron Michael Skolnick, Cary Smith, Marisa Tesauro, Tamara Zahaykevich; curated by Jeff Bailey / Feb 6 – Apr 11 / Opening reception Feb 6, 6-8 pm
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / New Hudson Valley Houses / Sep 7 – Mar 31
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / All the All: 2026 Byrdcliffe Members Show / Feb 27 – April 12 / Opening reception Feb 28, 3-5 pm
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / 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 / Spot On : aka, See Spot Run: Sharon Butler, Jason Travers, Kieran Kinsella; Murray Hochman and Eileen Power / Feb 7 – Mar 8 / Opening Reception: Feb 7, 5-8 pm
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Ocean Vuong: Sống; Nona Faustine, What My Mother Gave Me; Qiana Mestrich, Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate; Jiatong Lu, Nowhere Land / Jan 31 – May 10
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Company: Contemporary Tableware and Lighting with Above Board Ceramics / Feb 7 – Mar 29 / Opening reception Feb 7, 5-8 pm
Maiden Lane Gallery / 51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / Karen Kimmel: Basket As We, Basket As Me / Nov 8 – Feb 8
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / The 3rd Story: Kevin Paulsen and Geddes Jones Paulsen / Through Feb 22
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Julie Hedrick: Temporal Motion / Through Feb 21 / Closing reception Feb 21
O+ Exchange, 334 Wall St, Kingston, NY / Don Johnson: Megaphones & Monoliths / Jan 31 – Feb 28
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / CIVIL TWILIGHT: Lauren Anderson, Jonny Campolo, Shanti Grumbine / Jan 31 – Mar 8
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT / Alan Prazniak, Earth Tones / Feb 21 – Apr 12 / Opening reception Feb 21, 4-6 pm
The Millbrook Arts Project / 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / The Color of Growth: Irja Bodén, JoAnne Lobotsky, Patrick Neal, Colin O’Con / Jan 9 – Feb 28 / Artist talk Feb 21, 2 pm
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Gilded Impermanence: Janine Lambers / Nov 8 – Feb 10
CONVEY/ER/OR Gallery, 299 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / ABOUT FACE: Art & social research, Pope Phoenix / Feb 7 – Apr 1 / Opens Feb 7, 4-6 pm
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / RiverWinds: Phyllis Chadwick, Greg Chadwick, Carl Cox, Susan DiGilio, Virginia Donovan, Mary Ann Glass, Linda Hubbard, Galina Krasskova, Carolina Leon, Ellen Metzger O’Shea, Emily Marchesiello, Allen Paiva, Mark Thibodeau / Feb 7 – Mar 15 / Artists’ reception Feb 7, 5-7 pm
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Annual Member’s Exhibit / Jan 10 – Feb 15
Pictorial Foundation / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Foundations of Practice / Feb 7 – Apr 4 / Opening Night Party Feb 7, 5 pm
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / CRAZY, curated by Jaime Ransome / Jan 10 – Feb 8 / Fernando Martinez: To(2)o Meaning; Rachel Dove and Dan Munkus: Material Systems; Small Works / Feb 14 – Mar 8 / Opening reception February 14, 6-8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Spaces Between Color: Erina Pearl, Chinatsu Nagamune, mizosasora, and Natalia Siu Munro; curated by artist Erina Pearl / Feb 7 – May 3 / Opening reception Feb 7, 7-9 pm
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / The Process: Beacon Photo Club / Jan 10 – Feb 6 / In Relation: a.herbst, Jennifer S. Blakeslee, denise deVore, Natalie Downey, Zeinat Gelli, Ronald Gonzalez, Betsy Jacks, Marin Kenny, Tom Kenny, William Loeb, Jacquelyn Martino, Lori Merhige, Andrea Moed, Laini Nemett, Camila Pombo, Skye Seymour, James Stamboni, Meghan Stanley, Diana Vidal, Avital Zemel / Feb 14 – Mar 7 / Opening Feb 14, 4 -7 pm; Artist talks Feb 27, 7 pm
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Open Ending: Ron Anderson, Rick Brazill, Ada Pilar Cruz, Jenne M Currie, Tim D’Acquisto, Lisa Diebboll, Eric Erickson, Barbara Smith Gioia, Gretchen Kane, Grace Kennedy, Bill Kooistra, Martee Levi, Maria Pia Marrella, Ann Provan, Lucille Tortora, Lauren Versel, Grey Zeien / Feb 7 – Mar 22 / Opening Reception Feb 7, 5-8 pm
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 / Stephanie Garmey, Wild Woods; Michael Prettyman, In Suspect Terrain / Feb 7 – Mar 8 / Opening Reception Feb 7, 5-7 pm
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Laurie Peek, Christine Randolph, Lynn Stein / Jan 17 – Mar 1
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Boundaries: Beth Dary, Amy Kupferberg, Rita Maas, and Mary Negro / Jan 10 – Feb 8
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Bending the Arc: Carol Bouyoucos, Austen Brantley, Kris Campbell, Chris X. Carroll, Ben Dimock, Tielin Ding, Ruth Geneslaw, Arthur Gunther, Trisha Gupta, Emily Hopkins, Valerie Huhn, Cora Jane Glasser, Elizabeth Johnson, Martine Kasmin, Dawn Kramlich, Tas Mahr, Peter Malone, Christopher Manning, James Nazz, Ivan Pazlamatchev, Jake Still, Brad Terhune, Daniel T Walworth, Xuecong Wang, Lili White / Jan 24 – Mar 22
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / 2026 Juried Photography Show: Holding It Together / Jan 22 – Feb 8
New York / Catskills
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Wintry Mix / Opens Feb 6, 4-7 pm
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Richard Barlow, Lisa Craft, and Ellen Driscoll / Jan 17 – Feb 28
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Winter Salon / Nov 1 – Spring 2026
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Mary McFerran, Sunny but Cold: Diaries of Farm Women / Jan 24 – Mar 14
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Seasonal Abstractions: Erick Johnson, Noah Post, Lynda Schlosberg, Audrey Stone, Deborah Zlotsky / Jan 24 – Mar 8
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Bruce Brodie: When I Heard at the Close of the Day / Jan 24 – Mar 15
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 / 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 / Artists Talk + Closing Reception, Feb 7, 4-6 pm / Between the Lines / Feb 14 – Mar 28 / Opening Reception Feb 14, 4-6 pm
Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / Performative Stories: Dan Hurlin, Janie Geiser, Maiko Kikuchi and Jason Gardner; Co-curated by Leslee Asch and Kate Sheridan Chung / Jan 15 – Mar 3
Mattatuck Museum / 144 West Main Street. Waterbury, CT / Mixmaster 2026, Juried Members’ Exhibition: Naomi Andrée Campbell, Jennifer Burbank, David Brewster, Becky Butler, Eric Chiang, Cynthia Cooper, Sandra Daignault, Blinn Jacobs, David Edward Johnson, Sonja Langford, Linda Lindroth, Larry Morse, Nadine Robbins, and more / Jan 18 – Feb 22
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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