Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Hudson Valley residents have been eagerly awaiting March and it’s promise of milder weather. With longer days come exciting new exhibitions throughout the region. On March 7, SPIRIT IN THE FLESH: Courtney Puckett, Ben Pederson, and Saul Chernick opens at Utopia in Kingston, The Dark Abyss of Time opens at Holland Tunnel Revisited in Newburgh, and solo shows by Daniel Giordano, Davana Robedee, and Kathy Ruttenberg open at CAS in Livingston Manor. On March 14, D. Jack Solomon: Potpourri – Seven Decades of Painting opens at TSL in Hudson. Plastique opens on March 17 at Opalka Gallery with work by Ellen Driscoll, Twyla Exner, Natalya Khorover, Niki Lederer, Steve McPherson, Portia Munson, and others working with plastic. On March 21, 68 Prince Street’s new exhibitions feature paintings by Paula Deluccia Poons, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Kathy Goodell, Nancy Lasar, Claire Seidl, Francine Tint, and Gina Werfel. If you haven’t been able to visit galleries recently because of the snow, there’s still time to see Yura Adams’ solo show at WAAM, Between The Lines at G-Town Arts in Georgetown, CT, Sharon Butler and Jason Travers at 68 Prince Street, CIVIL TWILIGHT at Roundabouts Now, and the wonderful ceramics show Company: Contemporary Tableware and Lighting at Headstone.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
The Teaching Gallery, Hudson Valley Community College / 80 Vandenburgh Ave (Administration Building, Room 013), Troy, NY / Uprooted: Studies in Fragility and Loss, Claire Sherwood and Lawre Stone / Feb 5 – Mar 7
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 / Plastique: Ellen Driscoll, Twyla Exner, Natalya Khorover, Niki Lederer, Steve McPherson, Anna Mein, Pamela Moulton, Portia Munson, Anne Percoco, Aurora Robson, Tyrome Tripoli / Curated by Aurora Robson / Mar 17 – Apr 18 / Tour + Reception Mar 20, Curator Tour 5:30-6 pm; Reception 6 -7:30 pm
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Confluence / Convergence: Dan Bridge, Bruce Byers, Ellen Mahnken, Nancy Meissner / Mar 6-22 / First Friday Reception: Mar 6, 5-7 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Martha Friedman, Mika Taga, Alina Tenser / Feb 14 – Apr 12
Basilica Back Gallery / 110 South Front Street, Hudson NY / Genève Brossard, Left to Glimmer / Mar 12 – 22 / Opening reception Mar 13, 6-8 pm
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 / Four Painters: New Works by Julia Whitney Barnes, Joan Hanley, David Konigsberg, and James O’Shea / Mar 27 – May 17
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
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 – Mar 14 / Closing reception Mar 14, 4-6 pm
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
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Dan Rice, New York Paintings 1959-1976 / Feb 21 – Mar 15
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Katharine Dufault: Where the Owl Soars / Feb 24 – Mar 14 / 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 / D. Jack Solomon: Potpourri – Seven Decades of Painting / Mar 14 – Apr 12 / Opening Reception Mar 14, 2–4 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
Montgomery Row Art Exhibition Space / 2nd Floor, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY / Exalting the Doodle: Vera Kaplan, Nansi T. Lent, and Joel Kaplan / Mar 2 – Apr 26 / Opening Reception and Rhinebeck Art Walk Mar 7, 5–7 pm / Artist Talk & Closing Apr 26, 4:30–5:30 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 – Apr 12
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 – Mar 8 / FOCUS: A Feast for the Eyes; Adrian Lee: Mimetic Modes; Bruno Licamele: Ruptured Symbiosis; Three is the Magic Number / Mar 13 – Apr 26 / Opening Reception Mar 14, 4-6 pm
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 / Paula Deluccia Poons, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Kathy Goodell, Nancy Lasar, Claire Seidl, Francine Tint, Gina Werfel / Mar 21 – Apr 16 / Opening Reception Mar 21, 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
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / Valerie Piraino / Opened Feb 27
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: The Catfight Club: Learning from Marwencol / Opens Mar 14, 6-8 pm
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / CIVIL TWILIGHT: Lauren Anderson, Jonny Campolo, Shanti Grumbine / Jan 31 – Mar 8
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / SPIRIT IN THE FLESH: Courtney Puckett, Ben Pederson, and Saul Chernick / Curated by Saul Chernick / Mar 7 – 28 / Opening Reception Mar 7 4–7 pm / Closing Reception with sound by OCON: Saturday, Mar 28 5–7 pm
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Imagined Realities: Pulse and Pattern, Sabri Sundos, Shannon Carroll, and Sophie Kitching / Feb 21 – Apr 12
CONVEY/ER/OR Gallery, 299 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / ABOUT FACE: Art & social research, Pope Phoenix / Feb 7 – Apr 1
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
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / George Hayes and Gene Bove / Feb 21– Mar 22
Holland Tunnel Revisited / 46 Chambers Street, Newburgh, NY / The Dark Abyss of Time: Corinne Beardsley; Jeffrey Benjamin and his University of Maine, Orono students; Alison Owen; Greg Slick; Michael Tarbi; and Susan Walsh / Curated by Greg Slick / Mar 7 – Apr 12 / Opening Reception Mar 7, 3-6 pm
Pictorial Foundation / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Foundations of Practice: Aleksandra Scepanovic, Eva Neukum, Jared Oswald, Jessica Baker, Jill Enfield, Kathleen Mcguckin, Kiera Stuart, Kristopher Johnson, Luis Fonseca, Madison Pomarico, Magda Macias, Marieken Cochius, Mary Ann Glass, Midartz, Negin Daneshvar-Malevergne, Olympe Gautier, Paola Pomarico, Philip Demartino, Suprina Troche / Feb 7 – Apr 4
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BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Fernando Martinez: To(2)o Meaning; Rachel Dove and Dan Munkus: Material Systems; Small Works / Feb 14 – Mar 8 / Robin Adler: In the Future When We Can See the Past; Bob Barry: The Past Future; Susan Ziegler: Funny Weather / Mar 13 – Apr 5 / Opening reception Mar 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
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / 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
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 / Closing reception Mar 22, 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 / SITE – School Invitational Theme Exhibition / Mar 14 – 29
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Laurie Peek, Christine Randolph, Lynn Stein / Jan 17 – Mar 1 / Julie Mauskop: Surveilling the Subliminal / Curated By Jonathan Shorr / Jan 17 – Mar 5 / Bill Hochhausen: Not Out of The Woods Yet; Lisa Karrer: Forest For the Trees / Mar 14 – Apr 26 / Opening Reception Mar 14, 5-7 pm
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Multitudes: Anne Pollard James, Dorian Goldman, Allison Belolan, Angela Strassheim / Mar 21 – Apr 19 / Opening reception Mar 21, 4-6 pm
Lagstein Gallery / 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY / All About Color: Fractal, Remix Chelsea Bonosky and Kurt Steger / Feb 15 – Mar 15
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 / Moments of Light / Feb 12 – Mar 8
New York / Catskills
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Wintry Mix: Elizabeth Dimon, Jerry Gallo, Christine Hughes, Patrice Lorenz, Gary Mayer, Michael Milton, John Phillips, Margaret Still and Laura Taylor / Feb 6 – Mar 8
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Daniel Giordano; Davana Robedee; Kathy Ruttenberg / Mar 7 – Apr 25
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Spring Salon: Rich Cali, Anthony Chase, Joe Concra, Ashley Norwood Cooper, Caroline Fay, Don Freeman, Amy Masters, Michael McGrath, Melissa Murray, Jeff Quinn, David Storey, Trevor Wilson / Mar 14 – May 10 / Opening Reception Mar 14, 1-5 pm
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
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT (new location) / Alan Prazniak, Earth Tones / Feb 21 – Apr 12
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 / New Work / Mar 14 – Apr 26
Connecticut – Fairfield County and New Haven
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Between The Lines: Fern Apfel, Joe Amrhein, Cat Balco, Libby Boyd, Dan Cameron, Cynthia Cooper, Vincent Dion, Madge Evers, Paul Gillis, John O’Connor, Sue Muskat, Bob Marty, Margaret Roleke, Rita Valley, and Sally Van Doren / Feb 14 – Mar 28 / Artist talk Mar 1, 11:30 am / Closing reception Mar 28, 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 / Wild Leaves: Yura Adams, Katie DeGroot, Maggie Nowinski and Jacqueline Qiu / Curated by Kirsten Pitts and Isabelle Schiavi / Mar 12 – Apr 28
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator and consultant based in Beacon, 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. She assists artists with writing, promotion, studio administration, and exhibition planning.
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