Art IRL: August 2020 Exhibitions
Hudson Valley museums, galleries, and non-profit art spaces are starting to reopen. Here are a few recommended exhibitions. Some, like the Louise Bourgeois show at the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, have been sitting quietly for months and will now finally reopen to the public. Other exhibitions are opening for the first time. Please visit each institution’s website for hours, COVID-19 safety precautions, and reservation policies. Be aware that most art spaces are open by appointment only.
Closing soon
LABspace, Hillsdale NY
Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
LAST WEEKEND – Saturday and Sunday Aug 1-2, 1:00 – 5:00 pm.
Space Case includes work by 40 artists and 18 artist-run spaces in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Read about Space Case in Art Valley.
Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY
Hilma af Klint
Closes August 9, 2020
The exhibition includes the Tree of Knowledge series and a 34-page sketchbook on loan from the Albert Steffen Foundation in Dornach, Switzerland. Also included are botanical drawings by contemporary artists of the plants represented in af Klint’s sketchbook.
Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY
My Way: The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers and Contemporary Abstraction
Closes August 9, 2020
Quilts by 6 quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and recent works by 6 artists whose impulses and gestures similarly reflect elements of storytelling and abstraction rooted in the history of Gee’s Bend quilts.
SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
Ashley Garrett: Aegis
Closes August 16, 2020
Includes 16 of Garrett’s smallest oil paintings and one of her largest works at a towering 94 x 57 inches. Garrett’s two scales mark the physical extremity of her practice, demonstrating the adjustments of perception that she exercises in her process.
Reopening and closing soon
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Opens August 8 and closes August 16
This exhibition focuses on prints and textile works the artist made in her eighties and nineties.
Now open
11 Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
Read to Me
August 1 – September 6, 2020
Group exhibition of art that tells a story. Includes sculpture, painting, installation, prints, and poetry by Tracey Cockrell, Brier Eckersley, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, William Greenwood, Jennifer Hicks, Traci Horgen, Iain Machell, Norm Magnusson, Michael Pope, Jillian Rose, Joseph Zito and poet Will Nixon.
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Influenced by Nature
Curated by Kirsten Kucer
July 18 – September 5, 2020
Featured artists include Gabe Brown, Deborah Davidovits, Laura Gurton, Allyson Levy, Scott Serrano, Jackie Skrzynski, Holly Summer, Kazumi Tanaka. In the Project Room: Itty S. Neuhaus video installation In-Touch: Handwashers’ Prayer.
Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY
Coming Soon
August 1 – September 6, 2020
Artists that will have exhibitions with the gallery in 2021, including Reed Anderson, Peter Bradley-Cohen, Ruth Freeman, Ghost of a Dream, Joan Grubin, Leah Guadagnoli, Will Hutnick, Meg Lipke, Ryan McPhail, Zach Neven, Liz Nielsen, and Dana Piazza.
Art Omi, Newmark Gallery, Ghent, NY
Howardena Pindell
July 18 – November 2020
An exhibition of photo collage and video art. Pindell’s extensive body of work addresses political themes, including racism, physical trauma, memory, and the human experience.
Art Omi Sculpture & Architecture Park
Ongoing
The full exhibition season features sculpture by Bianca Beck, Dan Colen, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Anna Sew Hoy, Will Ryman, and Agustina Woodgate. Art Omi: Architecture presents new pavilions by Steven Holl, Wendy Evans Joseph, and Cameron Wu.
Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY
Anne Lindberg: cycles of seeing
On view with tour participation through November 9, 2020
In her two-part drawing series cycles of seeing, Lindberg’s palette of thousands of colored parallel lines will transition from cool to warm as summer becomes fall at Manitoga, reflecting concerns of time, sequence and causality.
Pete M. Wyer: iFOREST
On view with select tours and events July 10 – September 28, 2020
British composer Pete M. Wyer created an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation in Manitoga’s woodland forest.
Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY
Homemade
July 9 – September 7, 2020
New work created by eight New York-based Italian artists during the global quarantine: Alessandro Teoldi, Andrea Mastrovito, Beatrice Scaccia, Danilo Correale, Davide Balliano, Francesco Simeti, Luisa Rabbia, and Maria D. Rapicavoli.
The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
Together in Isolation
Ongoing
Intended as an ongoing record of these difficult times, this large group show features artworks in small boxes that have been buried throughout the grounds of the 32-acre farm/alternative gallery. Works can be viewed through windows placed atop the illuminated boxes.
Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, NY
Kiki Smith River Light
July 15 – November 9, 2020
For this exhibition Kiki Smith has created a new collection of flags whose unpredictable, ever-changing movements mimic the ebb and flow of water in a river.
Outlooks: Martha Tuttle
July 15 – November 9, 2020
Tuttle will place some 80 hand-crafted glass and marble stones on top of and around large boulders from Storm King’s site.
StrongRoom, Newburgh, NY
Azikiwe Mohammed: New Davonhaime Flag
Ongoing
Created in 2017 as part of Azikiwe’s ongoing New Davonhaime series of artworks, actions, and installations, the flag represents a safe place for Black communities in America. The flag is flying on the flagpole of the historic Liberty Street School in Newburgh.
Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, NY
Azikiwe Mohammed: A Place To Sit With Magnolias
July 22 – August 30, 2020
Features an installation by Azikiwe Mohammed entitled A Place To Sit With Magnolias in conjunction with Strongroom’s presentation of New Davonhaime Flag in Newburgh, NY.
Tanja Grunert Salon, Princess Beatrix House, Hudson, NY
Susan Jennings: To Be the Waves and The Ocean
July 31 – August 31, 2020
New sound paintings and sculptures by artist and musician Susan Jennings. The exhibition’s title references sound waves and the ocean of sound which have collected in the universe, dissipating but never truly disappearing.
Opening soon
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY
Opening August 7, 2020
Exhibitions on view include Mel Bochner, Carl Craig: Party/After-Party, Sam Gilliam, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, and Marian Zazeela.
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Jill Shoffiett: Bridges, Battlegrounds, and Swimming Pools
August 8 – September 13, 2020
An exhibition of watercolor and ink landscapes and interiors that explore the human psyche through themes of survival, decay, identity, tragedy, and triumph.
Pam Marchin: Monkey Bars
August 8 – September 13, 2020
An installation of clay and mixed media sculptures and works on paper that represent a commentary on human frailty and the balancing act that is life.
Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
Chie Fueki |Mother Altar
May 22 – August 30, 2020
Open to the public on August 8 and 29 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm and August 30 from 12:00 – 9:000 pm.
Mother Altar was created as a way for the community to remotely gather, communicate, and build while enduring isolation imposed by the global pandemic. Mother Gallery sent out a call for contributions to build this work in early May and they received over 100 works to include in the installation.
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild – Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Zulma Steele: Artist/Craftswoman
August 21 – October 11, 2020
Ceramics, furniture and furniture designs, paintings, works on paper, and notebooks from Zulma Steele, one of Byrdcliffe’s earliest artist residents.
Events
Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Cuizinestand
August 1-2, 8-9 & 15, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
This pop-up newsstand features about 30 print publications that thoughtfully explore food, art, wine, culture, farming, and hospitality. Ten percent of all sales go to food justice organizations and local farms.
Top image: Installation view of Homemade at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York. Photo by Alexa Hoyer.
