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Hudson Valley (+vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: January 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / December is the month for small works and holiday group shows, such as LABspace’s annual “HOLIDAY” show featuring 400 artists and “ALL small” at Pamela Salisbury. There are a few weeks left to see Chie Fueki’s “Petal Storm Memory and Non-Objectified” at Kino Saito; “When the Spirit Moves You” and Eve Biddle’s “I have time for death and rebirth” at Geary; and “All At Once” at SEPTEMBER. December 6 is the opening of “The 5 by 7 Show” at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, marking the 25th anniversary of this popular fundraising exhibition. On December 7, Front Room Gallery celebrates their 25th anniversary with an exhibition of gallery artists. For this edition of the guide I have also included artist and maker fairs and pop up shows taking place at galleries and art spaces throughout the region. Shop local and give the gift of art this season!

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Hudson Valley (+vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: December 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / December is the month for small works and holiday group shows, such as LABspace’s annual “HOLIDAY” show featuring 400 artists and “ALL small” at Pamela Salisbury. There are a few weeks left to see Chie Fueki’s “Petal Storm Memory and Non-Objectified” at Kino Saito; “When the Spirit Moves You” and Eve Biddle’s “I have time for death and rebirth” at Geary; and “All At Once” at SEPTEMBER. December 6 is the opening of “The 5 by 7 Show” at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, marking the 25th anniversary of this popular fundraising exhibition. On December 7, Front Room Gallery celebrates their 25th anniversary with an exhibition of gallery artists. For this edition of the guide I have also included artist and maker fairs and pop up shows taking place at galleries and art spaces throughout the region. Shop local and give the gift of art this season!

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Solo Shows

Matthew Lusk: Offhand dystopia at Elijah Wheat

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Located in rough-and-tumble Newburgh beyond the pale of riverfront commercial development on a piece of land just yards from the Hudson and insouciantly flush with its waterline, Carolina Wheat and Liz Nielsen’s grandly unvarnished Elijah Wheat Showroom has the Bunyanesque vibe of a frontier museum. Then it suavely wrongfoots its patrons with the fearlessly avant-garde attitude of 1970s Soho. Matthew Lusk’s deviously clever sculptures and installations exploit and reinforce both attributes…

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This weekend: Explore 27 galleries in the Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Please join us this weekend, October 19th and 20th, for the second annual Two Coats of Paint Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl. It’s the perfect excuse to hit the road, from Nyack to Kinderhook, and explore this stunning landscape during peak fall foliage. I’ll be co-hosting this year with Two Coats of Paint founder and publisher Sharon Butler and editor Jonathan Stevenson. The 27 galleries we’ve selected feature a mix of familiar names and emerging artists, established galleries and newer spaces. In addition, there are a number of opening receptions and artist talks happening during the weekend. Please join us for the kick-off party on Friday, October 18, 5-8 pm, at Headstone Gallery, located at 28 Hurley Ave in Kingston, where maps for self-guided tours will be available. We hope to see you there!

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Alan Prazniak: Balancing the artisanal and the epicurean

Contributed by Tom McGlynn / Alan Prazniak’s paintings fall into productive intervals between landscape and still-life and between abstraction and representation. His most recent show at Geary comprises sixteen medium and small paintings (all from 2024) that are rigorously composed and wide-ranging in palette, bringing to mind the lyrical abstractions of Philip Guston and the quasi-landscape compositions of Nicolas de Staël. Prazniak has acknowledged as inspirations Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley’s groundbreaking works, which embodied similarly massed shapes in bold, contrasting colors. The modernist tension…

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Hudson Valley (+vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: August 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As the summer winds down it is a great time to escape the heat by exploring art spaces in the Catskills region, Western Connecticut, and the Berkshires. There are some notable group exhibitions opening or continuing in August including TWENTY/20 at the Athens Cultural Center, The Summer Disaster Show 2 at Private Public in Hudson, Groundswell at Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, and Back and Forth, Between Names at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh….

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Out of Town

Recommended exhibitions + events: Upstate Art Weekend, July 18-21, 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Fifth edition of Upstate Art Weekend includes over 145 participants and spans ten counties from the Hudson Valley to the Catskill Mountains. There are too many art spaces and events to mention here, so this list primarily focuses on exhibitions and programs that take place exclusively during July 18-21. Check out the Upstate Art Weekend map for additional venues in the area including museums, galleries, and non-profit spaces.

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Ying Li and Susan Jane Walp: Innovative traditionalists

Contributed by Elizabeth Whalley / Ying Li and Susan Jane Walp’s paintings on paper, on view in concurrent solo exhibitions at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, initially seemed to me to have little to do with each other given the differences in subject matter, its presentation, paint handling, and color. As I thought more about them, though, virtuous similarities emerged in my mind.

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Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: May 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Spring is in full bloom and it’s one of the most beautiful times of year upstate. I’m looking forward to Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory, curated by David A. Ross at Kino Saito in Verplanck, NY, opening May 11. Farther north there are two notable shows opening on May 18 in Kinderhook: Other Realities (Exploring Proximate Mysticisms) at Bill Arning Exhibitions and Annie Bielski, Raw Footage at SEPTEMBER. Also opening May 18 is the Wassaic Project’s summer exhibition Tall Shadows in Short Order. I recommend visiting Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson to see Lothar Osterburg’s extensive solo exhibition, A Celebration of the Small, featuring a collection of models, installations, and photogravures from the past twenty-five years. There are too many great exhibitions to mention here, so take a look at the list below and get ready for a road trip.

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Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: April 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Turley Gallery in Hudson is moving to a new space on Warren Street and opening three new shows on April 6. Other notable April openings include Becca Lowry and Ashley Lyon at Headstone in Kingston, Debra Ramsay and Leslie Roberts at the Garrison Art Center, and Susan Still Scott and Pearl Cowan at LABspace in Hillsdale. I’m also looking forward to the opening of The Re Institute in Millerton for the season with a show of new work by the space’s founder Henry Klimowicz. At nearby Geary there are a few weeks left to see Will Hutnick’s solo exhibition and on April 20 the gallery will open a solo show of paintings by ransome. Finally, I’m excited to announce the opening of Talking Threads, an exhibition I curated at Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson featuring seven artists working with textiles. The opening is Saturday, April 6. I hope to see you there!

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Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As warmer weather moves into the area many new exhibitions are opening. One of the highlights is a show of drawings and embroidered works by Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor at LABspace in Hillsdale. There are three notable exhibitions opening at KinoSaito in Verplanck, including Kikuo Saito: Unraveling, Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm, and Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise. On March 16 Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh reopens for the 2024 season with Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes, a solo show of paintings by Michael Hambouz, a Palestinian-American multi-disciplinary artist and musician. Art Omi in Ghent presents a solo exhibition of work by Olalekan Jeyifous, a Brooklyn-based artist whose work examines the relationships between architecture, community, and the environment. Finally, there is still time to visit the Wassaic Project to see their winter group exhibition I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws before it closes on March 16.

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