Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Every month, it seems there is one day when there are so many openings and events in the Hudson Valley that it is physically impossible to attend them all. For upstate art lovers, this challenging experience is happening twice, on both Saturday, April 4 and Saturday, April 11. The first Saturday in April brings new exhibitions at SEPTEMBER, Philip Douglas Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Headstone, Savage Wonderground, Perry Lawson Fine Art, G-Town Arts, and Bernay Fine Art. The following Friday, April 10 Spectral Resonance: Robin Kang, Lydia Kern, and Sophia Sobers opens at Maiden Lane Gallery, and on Saturday, April 11 there are openings at Hudson Hall, Ann Street Gallery, the Garrison Art Center, BAU, N/A Project Space, and The Reinstitute. See below for details about opening receptions and exhibitions this month. It’s the perfect time for a road trip to see art and enjoy the mild weather and spring flowers.
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 / 2026 End-of-Year Student Exhibits / Mar 26 – Apr 9
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
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / In This Moment: Members’ Exhibition / curated by Lucy Michener and Dandy Michener / Apr 3 – 26 / Reception Apr 3, 5-7 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Martha Friedman, Mika Taga, Alina Tenser / Feb 14 – Apr 12 / Daniele Frazier, Night Writing / Apr 4 – May 30 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 5-7 pm
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / 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 / Charles Thomas O’Neil / Mar 20 – Jun 13
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Thomas Broadbent: Shared Territory / Mar 28 – Apr 26 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Sita Gomez / Feb 7 – Apr 4 / Garth Evans: Watercolors / Apr 11 – May 3 / Reception Apr 11, 5-7 pm
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Richard Neal: Conversations in Color; Jason Healy: Landscapes from Inside / Apr 10 – May 3 / Opening reception Apr 10, 6:30 pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Paintings From The Estate of Martha Groom / Apr 4 – 26
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Deirdre O’Connell: New Portraits / Mar 16 – Apr 26
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / D. Jack Solomon: Potpourri – Seven Decades of Painting / Mar 14 – Apr 12
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Interior Passages: Joan Oliver / Opened Feb 14
Raphael Moser Gallery / 75 Bridge St., Catskill, NY / Commitments to the Monochrome in Contemporary Practice: Karlos Cárcamo, Lynne Harlow, Steve Riedell, Arlene Santana Thornton, and Jason Travers / Mar 27 – May 1
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
Jane Street Art Center / 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Matter Out of Place: Elizabeth Keithline, Rene Moncada, Christy Rupp, Suprina Troche, Christina Varga, Mimi Young / Apr 4 – May 8 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 4-6 pm
The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Trash Chic! (group exhibition) / Apr 4 – May 8 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 4-6 pm
The Richards Gallery at Opus 40 / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / Anne Leith / Apr 4 – May 10 / Exhibition Reception Apr 12, 3-5 pm
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 / FOCUS: A Feast for the Eyes; Adrian Lee: Mimetic Modes; Bruno Licamele: Ruptured Symbiosis; Three is the Magic Number / Mar 13 – Apr 26
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Paula Deluccia Poons, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Kathy Goodell, Nancy Lasar, Claire Seidl, Francine Tint, Gina Werfel / Mar 21 – Apr 16
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 / Jenny Brillhart / Apr 4 – 26 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 5-8 pm
Maiden Lane Gallery / 51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / Spectral Resonance: Robin Kang, Lydia Kern, and Sophia Sobers, Curated by Natale Adgnot / Apr 10 – May 3 / Opening reception Apr 10, 5-8 pm; Sound Bath by Robin Kang Apr 12, 2-3:30 pm
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: The Catfight Club: Learning from Marwencol / Opened Mar 14
O+ Exchange / 334 Wall St, Kingston, NY / Marielena Ferrer and Lala Montoya / Mar 14 – Apr 11
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / Becky Sellinger, All Best / Mar 21 – May 10
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / i had this dream and you were in it: Ollantay Avila Alcocer, Carissa Kolcun, and Kimberly Jo / Mar 13 – Apr 12
N/A Project Space / 137 Martin Sweedish Rd, New Paltz, NY / A FOREST: Katina Bitsicas, Abelardo Cruz Santiago, Maya Edelman, Francisco echo Eraso, Priscilla Fusco, Patrick Grady, Christy Powers, Rochelle Voyles, and Michael Watson curated by John Richey / Apr 11 – May 3 / Opening reception Apr 11, 6-9 pm (On view by appointment)
stoneware, glaze, 17 x 16 x 1/4 inches
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Mark LaRiviere, Kingsley Parker, Scott Culbreth; Estranged From The Sun: Cecilia Caldiera, Arel Lisette, Jasem Alsanea, Emily Small, Linnéa Gad, Alejandro Valencia, Natalya K Laudi, Lou Smith, Cal Siegel, Micah Angelus, Clare Koury, Ingemar Hagen Kieth, Malaika Temba, Curated by Natalya Kornblum Laudi / Opening Apr 11, 4 – 6pm
stained glass, metal, wood
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 / 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 / Through May 3
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
Troutbeck, 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / E.E. Kono: Conversant / Dec 12 – Apr 19
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Seriously Whimsical: Penny Dell, Kelly Edwards, Theresa Gooby, Jinkook Hwang / Mar 21 – Apr 26
Palmer Gallery at Vassar / College Center, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY / Studio Art Shows / Mar 22 – May 25
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Alaina Enslen: Rewilding; Flux & Form: Wax as a Material / Mar 28 – May 10
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / (your) body is a porous language : (our) embodied connections, Elizabeth Castagna, Todd Colby, Matthew Friday, Renee Gladman, Charmaine Lee & Gryphon Rue, Shanzhai Lyric, Erika Mahr, Tamalyn Miller, Gabriela Salazar, Sasha Stiles, Edwin Torres, Yara Travieso, Cecilia Vicuña, Millicent Young, Zina Zinchenko; Curated by Edwin Torres / Apr 11 – May 31 / Opening Reception Apr 11, 4 – 6 pm
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 / Closing Reception Apr 12, 3-5 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
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Robin Adler: In the Future When We Can See the Past; Bob Barry: The Past Future; Susan Ziegler: Funny Weather / Mar 13 – Apr 5 / Nate Hill: The Loop Trail; George Kimmerling: The Unfinished History of Denning’s Point; Gallery Artists: Awaken! / Apr 10 – May 3 / Reception Saturday, Apr 11, 6–8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Spaces Between Color: Erina Pearl, Chinatsu Nagamune, mizosasora, and Natalia Siu Munro; Curated Erina Pearl / Feb 7 – May 3
Savage Wonderground Art Gallery / 139 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Savage/Wonder II: Amelia Biewald, Caroline Blum, Beth Caron, Shawn Dulaney, Rory Gevis, Karsen Heagle, Gina Herrera, Robert Kelly, Sara Nesbitt, Brent Owens, David Reisman, Michael Schropp, Gret Sterret Smith, Charles Spurrier, Cathy Weiss, Auguster D. Williams / Apr 4 – Jul 5 / Opening reception Apr 4, 12–6 pm
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / In 60 Seconds / Mar 14 – Apr 4
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 – Apr 19 / Closing reception Apr 19, 3-5 pm
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Cristina De Gennaro: The Quiet Sublime; Ann Wolf, It All Counts: Painting Landscape Now / Apr 11 – May 3 / Opening reception Apr 11, 5 -7 pm
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Alison Knowles, Celebration Red: Homage to Each Red Thing and Secrets of Ordinary Things / Irina Lotarevich: Indicators; Kikuo Saito: Red Talia / Mar 7 – Jun 14
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Bill Hochhausen: Not Out of The Woods Yet; Lisa Karrer: Forest For the Trees / Mar 14 – Apr 26
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Multitudes: Anne Pollard James, Dorian Goldman, Allison Belolan, Angela Strassheim / Mar 21 – Apr 19 / Alissa Leigh and Giselle Landers / Apr 25 – May 24 / Opening reception Apr 25, 4-6 pm
Lagstein Gallery / 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY / Predrag Dubravcic / Mar 22 – Apr 19
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Caleb Weintraub: Both Sides of the Mirror / Feb 27 – Apr 26 / Remaking the Landscape / Apr 4 – May 31/ Opening reception Apr 4, 3-5 pm
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Moments of Light / Mar 12 – Apr 19
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / THREE MYSTICS: Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Apr 17 – 26
Al Held Foundation (with River Valley Arts Collective), Boiceville, NY / Koyoltzintli: How to Play a Broken Bone, Curated by Jess Wilcox / Apr 18 – Jun 5 (By appointment only)
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Work on Paper / Mar 13 – Apr 5 / Frame of Mind: Robert Brune, Chris Moore, Alan Powel / Apr 10 – May 3 / Reception Apr 10, 4-6 pm
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
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street Stamford, NY / Katherine Chwazik, Maeve McCool, and Polly Shindler: To Build a Home / Feb 14 – Apr 4 / Intimate Topographies: Robin Factor and Colleen O’Hara / Apr 25 – Jun 13
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / The Things I Never Said (group exhibition) / Mar 28 – May 23
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Jewels of Nature: Phil Knoll, Marilla Palmer and Amelia Toelke / Apr 4 – May 3
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT / Alan Prazniak, Earth Tones / Feb 21 – Apr 12
Jennifer Terzian Gallery / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Jenny Wu, Suspended Possibilities / Mar 7 – Apr 11
latex paint and resin on wood panel, 36 x 36 x 2 inches
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Portrait: Pieter Hugo, Mickalene Thomas, Catherine Opie, Alex Katz, Kehinde Wiley, Nan Goldin, Chris Levine, David Hockney, Charles Lutz, Russell Young, Alex Prager and Erwin Olaf / Mar 21 – May 16
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / New In: Matt Barter David Collins Tristan Fitch Catherine Latson, Margaret Neill, Melanie Parke, Sally Maca, Julie Maren, Eve Stockton / Mar 14 – Apr 26
Connecticut – Fairfield County, Hartford, and New Haven
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Diana Abouchacra, What Remains Tied: Bound in Belonging; Dario Mohr: Ensconced; Intervals (group exhibiton); Lauren Flaaen: small tears, cuts and scribbles / Feb 8 – Apr 12
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Charged Field: Nelleke Beltjens, Trudy Benson, John Cox, Lisa Corinne Davis, Mason Dowling, Julie Durkin Marty, Joseph Fucigna, Lisa Hoke, Jenny Kemp, Dan Makara, Karen Margolis, Stephen Maine, Holly Miller, Rob Nadeau, Andrew Schwartz, Alyse Rosner, Sarah Walker, Laura Watt, and Deborah Zlotsky / Apr 4 – May 9 / Opening Reception Apr 4, 4–6 pm
Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / Wild Leaves: Yura Adams, Katie DeGroot, Maggie Nowinski and Jacqueline Qiu; Curated by Kirsten Pitts and Isabelle Schiavi / Mar 12 – Apr 28
University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery / 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT / Interdimensional Timelines: Liz Nielsen / Mar 5 – Apr 11
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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