Contributed by Karlyn Benson / In addition to the usual gallery openings, there are a number of festivals and special events in October including O+ in Kingston, Soon is Now in Beacon, Hudson Valley Pottery Tour, the WAAM Members Studio Tour, and Wassaic Project’s Haunted Barn and Monster’s Ball. Starting on Saturday, October 3, notable openings include Tender Ground at Gaa in Catskill; Tanya Marcuse and Pixy Liao at CPW; Ash Eliza Williams at Headstone; akeylah wellington and Liz Nielsen at the Wassaic Project’s Gridley Chapel; Julia Whitney Barnes at Tyte Gallery; Courtney Puckett and Reeve Schley at Geary; and Will Hutnick and Ruth Freeman at 1053 Gallery. October 10 openings include Laleh Khorramian: AFTEREYES at SEPTEMBER; Melissa Stern at 68 Prince Street; Lois Dickson at Time & Space Limited; Peekaboo! at Distortion Society; and Nansi T. Lent; Síle Marrinan; and Linda Lauro-Lazin at BAU. On October 17, openings in Hudson include 50 Years of PUNK at Hudson Hall; The TV Glow Sees Me, a group show at Ipso Facto referencing Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 film I Saw the TV Glow; and David Becker, Field Notes at Philip Douglas Fine Art. Also on October 17, Mothlight: Trevor King and David McDonough opens at Utopia in Kingston. October 24 is the opening of Jennifer Zackin: Mapping The Sawkill Watershed Project and Z Behl: The Mule’s Vision at WAAM. Z Behl’s work is inspired by a recent 30-day canoe journey up the Erie Canal with collaborator Kim Moloney.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Opalka Gallery / Russell Sage College, 140 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY / Light and Transient Causes: Meztli Castro Asmussen, Deborah Dancy, Sky Hopinka, Weihui Lu, Paul Akira Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Liz Roberts, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Millicent Young; Curated by Marisa Espe / Sep 1 – Dec 5
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Super-Natural, Berly Brown, Ginger Ertz, Andrea Hersh, Jenny Hutchinson, Mara Lefebvre, Wendy Bodenstab Lynch, Pete Mauney, Charles Steckler, Ann Wolf / Jun 5 – Nov 7
Ten Barn Farm (The Kitchen) / 1142 Co Rte 22, Ghent, NY / Ecstasy in the Barn: Gabriel Martinez, Marc Adelman, Henry Klimowicz, Fred Kahl, Dan Devine, Brigitte Varadi, and Matthew Gilbert; Curated by Bill Arning / Sep 3 – Oct 4
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Seasons of Greene VII / Aug 21 – Oct 11
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Laleh Khorramian: AFTEREYES / Oct 10 – Dec 20 / Opening Reception Oct 10, 5-7 pm / SEPTEMBER SOMETIMES, 2nd floor / RE-SCRIPTING: Mara Baldwin, Jane Bustin, Nicole Cherubini, Taylor Davis, Shanekia McIntosh, Cauleen Smith / Aug 29 – Oct 18
charcoal, oil stick, gouache, gold leaf, watercolor paper, 67.5 x 26 inches
The Campus / 341 NY-217, Hudson, NY / 2026 Annual Exhibition: Hurvin Anderson, Miguel Calderón, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Roe Ethridge, John Giorno, Lee Godie, Keith Haring, Lothar Hempel, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Özgür Kar, Oliver Lee Jackson, Gabriel Kuri, Siobhan Liddell, Phillip Lai, Duane Linklater, Sarah Lucas, Matthew Monahan, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Kayode Ojo, Pat Oleszko, Tony Oursler, Virginia Overton, Clare Rojas, Tschabalala Self, among others / Jun 27 – Nov 1
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Fertile Ground / Sep 4 – Oct 18
Fireplace Project/ 435 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Luka Carter: Desire Lines / Sep 11 – Oct 11
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Reginald Madison: Caravan; Curated by SEPTEMBER / Jul 18 – Oct 11 / 50 Years of PUNK, Curated by Ki Smith and John Holmstrom / Oct 17 – Nov 29 / Opening Reception Oct 17, 5–7 pm
Ipso Facto / 362 1/2 Warren St. Hudson, NY / The TV Glow Sees Me: Caslon Bevington, Jackson Daughety, Mina DeVore, Jesse Morsberger, and Allyson Packer / Opening reception Oct 17, 4-8 pm
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY / Rick Harlow, David Garland, Leif Garbisch, and Peter Elsner / Sep 18 – Oct 25
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Donna Moylan, Works on Paper / Sep 12 – Oct 11 / David Becker, Field Notes / Oct 17 – Nov 14 / Opening reception Oct 17, 1-5 pm
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Judy Pfaff & Michael David / Sep 19 – Oct 17
Tanja Grunert / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Owen Barensfeld and Guy Walker / Sep 26 – Oct 25
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / ON FIRE: Paintings by Jim Denney, Sculptures by Dennis Gordon / Sep 5 – Oct 4 / Forty Years Of Painting: Lois Dickson / Oct 10 – Nov 8 / Opening Reception Oct 10, 3-5 pm
Gaa Catskill / Foreland, 111 Water Street, Catskill, NY / Tender Ground: Travis Boyer, Angelina Gualdoni, Lexia Hachtmann, Mevlana Lipp, Krzysztof Strzelecki / Oct 3 – Nov 15 / Reception Oct 3, 4-6 pm
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / HOLDING: Kerry Downey + E Tubergen / Oct 9 – Dec 4 / Opening Oct 9, 6 – 8 pm / Performance at 6 pm
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Susan Carr: Sick of the devil / Sep 19 – Nov 1
Mendes Wood DM / 10 Church Ave Germantown, NY / Anna Livia Taborda Monahan, Tideline / Sep 19 – Nov 8
Available Items / 64 Broadway, Tivoli, NY / Chris and Nino Mottalini: Nino + Dad (Home Studies) / Oct 9 – Nov 15
Jane Street Art Center / 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Iain Machell: Second Nature / Sep 19 – Oct 24
The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Pass The Salt: An Abstract Exhibit by ransome / Sep 19 – Oct 24 / Josh Kramb: What We Carry / Oct 31 – Dec 6 / Opening Reception Oct 31, 4-6 pm
The Richards Gallery at Opus 40 / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / SELDOM SEEN II: Historic Works by Woodstock Artists, Dorothy Andrews, Robert Angeloch, Marianne Appel, Anton Refregier, Konrad Cramer, Eugene Ludins, Cathalene Crane Chase, Fletcher Martin, John Nathaniel Fenton, Frances Serber, and more / Sep 10 – Nov 1
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Going Upstate: The Avery Family in Woodstock, Milton Avery, Sally Michel, March Avery, Philip G. Cavanaugh, Sean Cavanaugh, Delilah Cavanaugh; curated by Bruce Weber / Jul 11 – Oct 25
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Ted Dixon: Two Friends [Playing]; In Process: Studies and Sketches from the Permanent Collection; Artist’s Choice; Collective Perspective / Aug 14 – Oct 4 / Jennifer Zackin: Mapping The Sawkill Watershed Project; Z Behl: The Mule’s Vision / Oct 23 – Nov 29 / Feathered Friends: A Woodstock Aviary / Oct 23 – Jan 3, 2027
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Melissa Stern: Some Assembly Required / Oct 10 – Nov 8, Opening reception Oct 10, 5 – 8 pm / Artist talk Oct. 24, 2-4 pm
Apuzzo Hall Gallery, Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center / 300 Wall St, Kingston, NY / Trust the Universe: Jennifer Zackin and Scrap Wrenn / Sep 19–Nov 21
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Tanya Marcuse–Woven | Deer: An Ecological Tapestry; Pixy Liao: Relationship Material / Oct 3, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027 / Closeness: A PHOCUS Exhibition / Oct 3 – Nov 1 / Opening reception Oct 3, 5-8 pm
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Ash Eliza Williams: Dreams of a Night Beetle / Oct 3–25 / Opening Reception Oct 3, 5-8 pm
Maiden Lane Gallery / 51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / Jordan Artim & Fabienne Lasserre: Loop of a Stem; curated by Chrissy Scolaro / Sep 12 – Oct 4
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Ben Sloat: Prayer Can’t Just Be Asking / Sep 12 – Oct 10 / Dirty Words and Other Things: Gang of Three (William H. Dodge and Lincoln Hancock) / Oct 17 – Nov 7 / Opening Oct 17, 5–8 pm
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / Escape Hatch: Felix Beaudry, Samantha Bittman, Chris Edwards; co-curated by Samantha Bittman / Sep 5 – Oct 25
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / Trevor King and David McDonough / Oct 10 — 29 / Opening Reception Oct 17 4-7 pm
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / Maria Molteni: Cosmic Queer / Oct 2 – Dec 5 / Opening Reception Oct 2, 6-8 pm
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Lane, New Paltz, NY / Triennial: Art, Land & Future / ongoing / Arrivals & Afterlives: Esperanza Cortés, Marielena Ferrer, Virginia Lavado, Camilo Rojas, Cesar Kastro / Sep 4 – Oct 17
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Dark Whimsy ? or Not !: Kathleen Vance, Claudia Renfro, Kate Hamilton, Betsey Regan, Dee Shapiro; Spilled Milk: Sascha Mallon; Bean: Marion West Jenna Litton, Iris Salin / Aug 22 – Oct 11 / knee deep in this body of water: Madeline Eldridge, Christian Crowley, Michaela Navin, Macguire Nelson, Moshopefoluwa Olagunju, Jess Vaughn, Elise Dean Wolf / Sep 5 – Oct 11
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / Threads: Anne Lindberg + H. L. Hix / Sep 6 – Dec 13
The Millbrook Arts Project / 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / The State We’re In: Brian Cirmo, Collin Douma, June Glasson, Jeff Wigman and Yu Yan, curated by Sharon Bates / Aug 28 – Oct 17
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Julia Whitney Barnes: Cyanopaintings and the Botanical World; Curated by Wayne Lempka / Oct 3 – Nov 22 / Opening Reception Oct 3, 5–7 pm
Fine Art Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching Paper
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Road, Amenia, NY / Delano Dunn: Echoes in the Margin; Curated by Mickalene Thomas / Jun 1 – Nov 29
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / akeylah wellington: nineties resolving power and aughts resolving power; and Liz Nielsen: Crystalline Resonance / Opens Oct 3 / Special events (reading, artist talk, and more) Oct 3, 1:30 – 8 pm / Haunted Mill and Monster’s Ball / Oct 23-25
CONVEY/ER/OR / 299 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY / Elizabeth Keithline: We Belong Together / Oct 10 – Nov 29 / Opening Oct 10, 4-6 pm
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / All GOOD Things: Malgorzata Oakes and Steven Dana / Sep 5 – Oct 11
Palmer Gallery at Vassar / College Center, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY / Joyce Polance, The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist / Sep 17–Oct 10
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival 2026 Exhibition / Oct 11 – Nov 8
Ann Street Gallery/ 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Tales from the Penumbra: Elena Kalkova, Duncan Richards, and Luis Mercedes Winter / Sep 19 – Nov 22
Holland Tunnel Revisited / 46 Chambers Street, Newburgh, NY / Unframed: Tom Benson, Paul Chidester, Emily Hopkins, Nancy Manter, Mitch Markowitz, Michelle Marozik, Kendall Munk, Itty Neuhaus / Sep 12 – Oct 11
Pictorial Foundation / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Oculus Obscura: Jill Enfield, Chris Peregoy, Dale Rio, Heather Palecek, Sharon Harris, Tricia Rosenkilde, Donna Bassin, Cynthia Karalla, Anne McDonald, Jack Platner / Sep 12 – Nov 1
positive – negative film, archival digital print 13 x 19 inches
Tooker Gallery / 195 Front Street, Newburgh, NY / Daniel Georges: THE PITCH / Aug 30 – Oct 11
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Philozoic Gestures: John Cote, Alison Palmer, and Eileen Sackman; Landforms: Joel Brown and Joseph Squillante / Sep 11 – Oct 4 / Nansi T. Lent, A Thread of Longing: Works From 1976–2026; Síle Marrinan, Remnants I: Photography and the Nature of Remembering; Linda Lauro-Lazin, Early Works: Arches Series / Oct 9 – Nov 8 / Opening Reception Oct 10, 6–8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Holly McCabe: Beg to be Loved, Beg to be Touched; Curated by Jaime Ransome / Jul 11 – Oct 3 / Peekaboo!: Natale Adgnot, Traci Johnson, Lala Abaddon, Lu Walstad, Song Watkins Park / opening reception Oct 10, 7-9 pm
my arrival of self, 2025, yarn on faux fur, mirror, 5.8 x 4.6 feet
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 133 Main St, Beacon, NY / Ascension Symptoms: Caroline Larson, Chris Watts, Monica Lorraine Bernal, Ryoko Fujuwara, and Sage Tucker-Ketcham / Sep 19 – Oct 24
Soon is Now / Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park and River Center, 8 Long Dock Road, Beacon, NY / Placing Water: Jeremy Dennis, Mary Mattingly, Renee Royale, Steve Rossi, Sarah Sunde, SPURSE, Robbie Wing / Oct 17 – Nov 22 / Reception Oct 17, 5-7 pm / Soon is Now Annual Festival Oct 17, 1 – 7 pm
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / a.herbst: SERIALITY and denise deVore: though your mind may wander / Sep 12 – Oct 3
Desmond-Fish Public Library / 472 Route 403, Garrison, NY / ROOTS, a collaborative juried printmaking exhibition / Jun 25– Oct 25
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Susan Stover: Piecework; Jing (Ellen) Xu: I Do Have Choices/ Sep 12 – Oct 4 / INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE, works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation; smallWORKS: Looking Out from Within / Oct 17 – Nov 22 / Opening Reception Oct 17, 5 – 7 pm
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake; All Day Long: Clement Greenberg, Elizabeth Hazan, Jilaine Jones, Dorothy Knowles, Larissa Lockshin, Michael Mangino, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Naofumi Maruyama, John McAllister, Marina Rheingantz, Trevor Shimizu, and Jack Arthur Wood; Jongil Ma: The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap / Through Dec 20
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Becoming Earth, Becoming Cosmos: Bel Falleiros, Koyoltzintli Miranda, Jessica Maffia, Hanae Utamura; Julia Norton: Both, Curated by Bel Falleiros / Sep 12 – Nov 1
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Traces of the Infinite: Helena Palazzi, Soli Pierce, and Lara Saget / Sep 12 – Oct 18 / Life Still: Noa Charuvi, Allison Green, Marie McNicholas, Lily Morgan, Sophie Reisz, and Lindsey Cherek Waller / Oct 24 – Nov 29
Peep Space / 92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown, NY / Natale Adgnot: Reined In / Sep 19 – Nov 1, / Divination / Oct 10 – Nov 15 / Opening reception Oct 10, 6-8 pm
shirt, reclaimed kimono silk, thermoplastic, leather, horsehair, 17.5 x 14 x 12 in. (Image: Trevor Baca)
Lagstein Gallery/ 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY / Ray Lagstein: Whirlwind / Sep 26 – Nov 8
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Ben Schonzeit: A World Elsewhere / Sep 19 – Nov 8
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Phantom Buzz: Will Hutnick and Ruth Freeman / Oct 3 – Nov 22 / Opening Oct 3, 4-7 pm
Al Held Foundation (with River Valley Arts Collective), Boiceville, NY / soaring as survival, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo / Sep 5 – Oct 18 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Don Freeman / Oct 2 – 25 / Reception Oct 2, 4-6 pm
Bushel / 106 Main Street in Delhi, NY / Mend & Jest, Jaclyn Guido and Corinne Beardsley / Sep 26 – Nov 7 / Roundtable Discussion with artists and writers / Oct 4, 3–5 pm
Catskill Art Space (CAS)/ 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Brett De Palma, RM Fischer, and Judy Glantzman / Sep 5 – Oct 24
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Luke Dougherty: fable / Sep 19 – Oct 18
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street Stamford, NY / Everybody’s Art: Paul Adamo, Normandy Alden, Amanda Cheung, Nancy C Connolly, Anne DeSimone, Elizabeth Dimon, Denise Giardullo, Anne Gohorel, Annie Hayes, Scott Keidong, Kaitlyn Lanza, Joanne Lentner, Renee Lewis Stanley, Jon McCormack, Mary McFerran, Janell O’Rourke, Donna Maria Ramirez, David Schaengold, Anne Smith, Barbara A Smith, Chris Vollor, Siyan Wong / Sep 5 – Oct 31
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Richard Barlow: Flowing Branches/ Sep 26 – Dec 19
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Sandy Litchfield: Mountains and Lakes / Sep 19 – Oct 18
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT / Courtney Puckett: The Elementals; Reeve Schley: Interiors and Still Lifes / Oct 3 – Nov 22 / Opening Reception Oct 3, 4-6 pm
and mineral pigment, 68 x 38 x 10 inches
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Colleen McGuire: Inside Out / Sep 26 – Nov 14
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / My Heart Like a Kick Drum: Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks / Sep 19 – Nov 1
Jennifer Terzian Gallery/ 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Aliza Morell: Streamers / Sep 5–Oct 10 / By appointment only
Connecticut – Fairfield County, Hartford, New Haven, Stonington
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Acquiescence — Shadows, Fruit, Metal, Salt: Georgina Arroyo, Elizabeth Hatke, Cait McCormack, Jenna Ransom, and Lindsey Sorge / Aug 30 – Oct 4 / Between Worlds, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah / Sep 27 – Dec 6
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Joseph Fucigna: In Process…; Material Culture: Lisa Barthelson, Cadence Giersbach, Laura Moriarty, and Susan Stover/ Sep 5 – Oct 3 / In The Round: Jaynie Crimmins, Vincent Dion, Molly Gambardella / Oct 10 – Nov 7
Heather Gaudio Fine Art / 382 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT / The Late Summer Show: Sophie Kitching, Jae Ko and Matthew Shlian / Aug 22 – Oct 3 / Ian McKeever: Going Forth / Oct 10 – Dec 5 / Oct 10, 4-6 pm
Stonington Gallery / The Velvet Mill, Suite 4, Bayview Avenue, Stonington, CT/ New Abstraction, Sharon Butler, Xanda McCagg, Pamela Marks / Sep 18- Nov 10
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. Previously she was the owner/director of Matteawan Gallery in Beacon. She assists artists with writing, promotion, studio administration, and exhibition planning.
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