Tag: Upstate Art Weekend

Gallery Guides Hudson Valley & Vicinity Gallery Guide

Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, July 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The art scene was buzzing in June for Upstate Art Weekend, and it’s not slowing down in July. New exhibitions are opening throughout the month, starting on July 4 with  Todd Stong: This World May Never Change at Headstone. On July 11, notable openings include Jason Middlebrook at LABspace, Reginald Madison at SEPTEMBER, Holly McCabe at Distortion Society, Going Upstate: The Avery Family in New York at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, and CANTILEVERS: Katy Fischer and Marie Lorenz at Roundabouts Now. If you are interested in collage, don’t miss the series of ten exhibitions organized by Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley, including Uncollage – Seamless Unison at Dutchess Community College; Shapeshifters: Collage to Form at Palmer Gallery, Vassar College; PLACE / MEANT at Millbrook Arts Project; and more. Finally, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States, One Mile Gallery in Kingston presents A Complicated Union: Art & Protest at America’s 250th Anniversary with a reception on July 18.

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Conversation

Painters in conversation: Jeanette Fintz and Stephen Westfall

Contributed by Sharon Butler / At 68 Prince Street Gallery, a spacious new gallery in Kingston, now featuring Jeanette Fintz’s paintings alongside Monika Zarzeczna’s architecturally oriented work in “Elusive Thresholds,” Fintz engaged in a freewheeling conversation with noted painter Stephen Westfall. I was fortunate enough to get hold of the recording and here try to distill some wisdom. Both artists are geometric abstractionists, and they discussed the evolution of Fintz’s artistic practice from cubist-influenced studies in the 1980s to her current explorations of the environment through geometry, touching on philosophical and technical considerations underlying contemporary abstract painting.

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Art Fairs Interviews

Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida: The ZERO interview

Contributed by Adam Simon / This year’s Upstate Art Weekend (July 19 – 21) included a most unusual venue. The Zero Art Fair exhibited the work of over seventy artists in a barn in Elizaville, New York, owned by Manon Slome. All the work was available to take home and none of it was for sale once the fair began. Surprisingly, or not, many of the artists that were included normally sell their work for prices that would have been out of the question for most browsers at UAW. Yet here those browsers were taking art home for free. The Zero Art Fair was scheduled to last for three days but by the end of the second day almost nothing was left. The following is a Two Coats of Paint interview with Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, the two people primarily responsible for the Zero Art Fair.

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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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