Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley art scene is ramping up for the summer season with some great exhibitions opening this month. Requited Configurations opens at RUTHANN on May 1 with work by Natalie Beall, Charlotte Beckett, Damien Davis, Mark Dion, Shanti Grumbine, Nicholas Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Jessi Li, David Lukowski, Scott Penkava, Monika Zarzeczna, and Steph Zimmerman. On May 2, openings include Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo at SEPTEMBER; Katharine Umsted at Philip Douglas Fine Art; James Teschner at 68 Prince Street; Alex Cohen and Claudia Renfro at Headstone; Gabe Brown at Kenise Barnes Fine Art; Russell Floersch, Elana Herzog, and George McMahon at Catskill Art Space; and Trevor Wilson and Jim Zivic at 1053 Gallery. Friday, May 8 is the opening of Surface, Structure, String: Hudson Valley Textile Art Now, curated by Richard Saja at Hudson Hall, and UN REAL with Fern Apfel, Betsy Brandt, Monica Miller Link, Kevin Mosca, Laura Von Rosk, and Daniel Walworth at the Millbrook Art Project. On May 9, Millicent Young’s multimedia installation HOLDING LIGHT SUTRA opens at the Safe Harbors’ Ritz Theater Stagehouse in Newburgh. Across the river in Beacon, May 9 is the opening of Josué Morales Urbina at Distortion Society and Karen Allen and Soli Pierce at BAU. LABspace opens for the season on May 23 with Sara Farrell Okamura: On The Precipice, and A Line, A Shape, A Tool: Sun You, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz and William Corwin opens at Geary in Salisbury, CT. Also opening May 23 is the group exhibition Distant Lands at Ligenza Moore Gallery in Cold Spring.
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 / Advanced Study in Drawing and Painting Thesis Exhibition; Juried Fine Arts Student Exhibit / Through May 2
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 / Visual Arts BFA Exhibit / Apr 29 – May 16
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Art Explorations, Coxsackie-Athens Central School District / May 1 – 17 / Opening Reception May 1, 5-7 pm / Students and Family Celebration May 13, 4-6 pm
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Daniele Frazier, Night Writing / Apr 4 – May 30 / Slide show presentation with the artist May 16, 2 pm / Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Steadfast Study / May 2 – Jun 28 / Opening Reception May 2, 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 – May 17
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Garth Evans: Watercolors / Apr 11 – May 3 / Surface, Structure, String: Hudson Valley Textile Art Now; Curated by Richard Saja / May 8 – Jul 12 / Opening Reception May 8, 5-7 pm
36 x 28 x 18 inches
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Richard Neal: Conversations in Color; Jason Healy: Landscapes from Inside / Apr 10 – May 3 / Elizabeth Marshall, Laura Summer, Lucien Dante Lazar, Sampsa Pirtola, and Laura A. Charlton / Opens May 16 – Jun 7 / Opening reception May 16, 6 pm
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Katharine Umsted: Take Cover / May 2 – Jun 7 / Opening reception May 2, 2-6 pm
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Beyond the Pale, Jenny Snider / Apr 18 – May 17
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Interior Passages: Joan Oliver / Feb 14 – May 2
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 / Requited Configurations: Natalie Beall, Charlotte Beckett, Damien Davis, Mark Dion, Shanti Grumbine, Nicholas Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Jessi Li, David Lukowski, Scott Penkava, Monika Zarzeczna, and Steph Zimmerman; Curated by Witts / May 1 – Jun 13 / Opening reception May 1, 6 – 8 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Sara Farrell Okamura: On The Precipice / May 23 – Jun 28 / Opening reception May 23, 1-5 pm
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
The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Trash Chic! (group exhibition) / Apr 4 – May 8
The Richards Gallery at Opus 40 / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / Anne Leith / Apr 4 – May 10
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / byCONTRAST: Apparent Contradictions, contemporary artist quilts / Apr 18 – May 10
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Active Members Spring Exhibition; Small Works F-J; Love is the Revolution / May 1 – Jun 14 / European Landscapes and Landmarks from the Permanent Collection / May 1 – Aug 9 / Opening Reception May 2, 4-6 pm
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / James Teschner: The Sky, And the Light, And the Field / May 2 – 31 / Opening reception May 2, 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 / If and When Creatures Appear: Alex Cohen and Claudia Renfro / May 2 – 31
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
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Mark Hogancamp: The Catfight Club: Learning from Marwencol / Mar 14 – May 2
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / Becky Sellinger, All Best / Mar 21 – May 10
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / Spring into the Studios: Student Exhibition / May 1 – 22 / Opening Reception May 1, 5-7 pm
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
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 / Apr 11 – May 23
Montgomery Row Art Exhibition Space / 2nd Floor, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY / Mark Hopkins: The Sitting – An Exhibition of Portraits / May 12 – Jun 30 / Opening Reception May 16
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / New Hudson Valley Houses / Through May 3 / Susan Wides: An Installation / May 3 and by appointment through Jun 1
The Millbrook Arts Project / 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / UN REAL: Fern Apfel, Betsy Brandt, Monica Miller Link, Kevin Mosca, Laura Von Rosk, and Daniel Walworth / May 8 – Jun 28 / Reception May 8, 6-8 pm
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Richard Marr: Near and Far / Apr 18 – Jun 7
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Beyond Boundaries: Mary Ann Glass, Amy Silberkleit, Regina Quinn, Lois Walsh / May 2 – Jun. 14 / Opening Reception May 2, 5-7 pm
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 / Curatorial Walkthrough and Q&A with curator Edwin Torres / May 2, 2-3 pm
Strongroom Presents in partnership with Ann Street Gallery / Safe Harbors’ Ritz Theater Stagehouse, 100 Ann Street, Newburgh NY / Millicent Young: Holding Light Sutra / May 9 – Jul 12 / Opening Reception and Artist Discussion May 9, 4 -7 pm
Pictorial Foundation / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / In an Instant / Apr 25 – May 17 / CODE GIRL / May 30 – Jul 26
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 / Karen Allen: Surprise Garden; Soli Pierce: Stillness Speaks; BAU Invitational 2026 / May 8 – Jun 7 / Reception May 9, 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 / Josué Morales Urbina: Larrupin / May 9 – Jul 2 / Opening reception May 9, 7-9 pm
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
Soon is Now at The River Center / 8 Long Dock Rd, Beacon, NY / Museum of Fishes and Greens, a multimedia installation on Climate, Craft and Food in the Sundarbans, India / May 22 – Jun 28 / Opening Reception May 22, 4-7 pm / Public workshop ROOTS & RESIST: Traditional Batik with textile artists Drishti Jaggi and Disha Dhadiwal / May 23, 1-5 pm
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / The Repeal of Gravity / Apr 11 – May 2 / Marin Kenny: on building a home in a body / May 9 – Jun 6 / Opening reception 4–7 pm
Ligenza Moore Gallery / 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring, NY / Distant Lands: James Biederman, Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Ada Cruz, Leslie Fry, James Gregg Herman, Grace Knowlton, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Kevin Paulsen, Judy Pfaff, Ann Provan, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Heinrich Spillmann, Kurt Steger, Don Voisine and Stephen Westfall / May 23 – Jul 26 / Opening Reception May 23, 12-5 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 / Artist talk with Ann Wolf, moderated by Amy Talluto / May 2, 3-4 pm / Mara Baldwin / May 16 – Jun 21 / Opening reception May 16, 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 / THOSE WHO CAN, Curated by Joe Fusaro / May 16 – Jun 28 / Opening Reception May 16, 5-7 pm / GARNER Arts Festival / May 16 –17
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Alissa Leigh and Giselle Landers / Apr 25 – May 24
Lagstein Gallery / 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY / Landscape / Apr 26 – May 24
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Remaking the Landscape / Apr 4 – May 31
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Israel Acosta: Between Darkness & Light; Patricia Herz Deahl, Horizon: Precipice and Hope / Apr 9 – May 3 / Paul Greco: Immaculate Constellation; Cecily A Spitzer: Connections / May 7 – 31 / Artists Reception May 17, 2-5 pm
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Trevor Wilson & Jim Zivic: What the Eye Learns / May 2 – 31 / Reception May 2, 4-7 pm
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 / Frame of Mind: Robert Brune, Chris Moore, Alan Powel / Apr 10 – May 3
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Russell Floersch, Elana Herzog, and George McMahon / May 2 – Jun 20 / Opening reception May 2, artists’ talk 3–4 pm; reception 4–5 pm
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 / Nature’s Palette: Stephanie Anderson, Joy Taylor and Laini Nemett / May 9 – Jun 7
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT / A Line, A Shape, A Tool: Sun You, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz and William Corwin / May 23 – Jul 5 / Opening reception May 23, 4-6 pm
Jennifer Terzian Gallery / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Jenny Wu, Suspended Possibilities / Caetlynn Booth: Night and Day Dreaming / May 2 – Jun 13
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 / Gabe Brown: Closer to the Sun / May 2 – Jun 7 / Opening reception May 2, 4-6 pm
44 x 36 inches
Connecticut – Fairfield County, Hartford, and New Haven
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Chaos with a side of Spaghetti: John Dickinson, Kat Geng, Hannah Hanski, Yi Shan Li, Lucas Moran, Don Porcella, Liz Rodda, Jenna Rothstein, Ryan Scails, Emily Silver, Paul Theriault, Mark Van Wagner, Lexa Walsh, Curated by Emily Weiskopf / Apr 26 – May 24
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
Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / extraORDINARY things / May 7 – Jun 17 / Opening reception May 7, 6–8 pm
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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