In August many Hudson Valley museums, galleries, and non-profit art spaces opened to the public after being closed since March. The month ended with UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, which was a great way to experience the amazing variety of art being made and exhibited in the Hudson Valley. If you missed the event last weekend, read more about it here. September will bring more new exhibitions and spaces reopening, including notable exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. There are several events happening this month, including The Hudson Eye arts festival, Byrdcliffe artist residents open studios, and D-CELL (dance and visual art performances) at PS21 in Chatham. You can also look forward to Newburgh Open Studios, which returns this year on September 26 and 27. Please visit each institution’s website for hours, COVID-19 safety precautions, and reservation policies. Be aware that many art spaces are open by appointment only. 

Closing soon

11 Jane Street Art Center at the J.J. Newberry Building, Saugerties, NY
Read to Me
August 1 – September 6
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
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
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. 

Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY
Homemade
July 9 – September 7
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.

Now open

11 Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
Jan Harrison: ANIMULA – big little soul
August 29 – October 4
An exhibition of paintings and an installation of over 250 tiny porcelain sculptures. Also included is a video of a performance, Animal Tongues, with accompanying sound installation by Gary Weisberg.

Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NY
Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
August 14 – November 8
The artist’s first exhibition with the gallery features new 2020 acoustic panel paintings that further expand on the artist’s research into the sonic, honing her use of materials and approach to color and form.

Art Omi, Newmark Gallery, Ghent, NY
Howardena Pindell
July 18 – November
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.

ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
Altered Presence
August 29 – October 3
Group exhibition with work by Sophi Kravitz, Suzan Shutan, Mary Ann Strandell, Roxanne Faber Savage, Stefan Saffer, Jordan Tinker, Susan Jennings, Susan Rowe Harrison, Karlos Carcamo, Dan Devine, Michelle Weinberg, Melinda Hackett and others.

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Pattern Play: Donise English, Bruce Murphy, Vincent Pomilio, Susan Stover, & Stephen Walling
August 12 – October 11
An exhibition that examines a range of gestural and graphic pattern variations in abstract painting & sculpture. 

Collaborative Concepts, Brewster, NY
The Farm Show 2020
September 5 – October 31
Annual outdoor sculpture show, this year in a new location at Tilly Foster Farm in eastern Putnam County.

Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY
Ongoing
Exhibitions on view include Mel Bochner, Carl Craig: Party/After-Party, Sam Gilliam, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, and Marian Zazeela.  

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
September 5 – December 13
Exhibition of retablos spanning the twentieth century that were offered by Mexican migrants and their families to commemorate the dangers of crossing the border and living in the United States.

JDJ, Garrison, NY
Noel W. Anderson: Papers of the Archive
August 29 – October 11
Using a variety of materials, predominantly textiles and experimental printmaking processes, the artist explores the evolving makeup of black male identity as seen through the lens of American media.

Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY
Anne Lindberg: cycles of seeing 
On view with tour participation through November 9
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
British composer Pete M. Wyer created an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation in Manitoga’s woodland forest.

Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Don Voisine: Time Out
September 4 – October 4
Recent paintings and works on paper that reflect the artist’s restrained but highly poetic compositions.

Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY
Lois Dodd and Shara Hughes
August 15 – October 25
Recent paintings by contemporary artist Shara Hughes alongside a selection of paintings by Lois Dodd dating from 1966 to 1988.

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.

River Valley Arts Collective/Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY
Laura Kaufman: Tension Bridge
August 30 – October 18
New work by Beacon-based artist Laura Kaufman, including sculptures that incorporate diverse media such as linen, willow sticks, ramie, wool, paper, and steel.

Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, NY
Kiki Smith River Light
July 15 – November 9
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
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.

Tanja Grunert Salon, Princess Beatrix House, Hudson, NY
Donna Moylan: Take Shelter
September 5 – October 5
An exhibition of new paintings that deal with coping with the Covid-19 pandemic and some of the changes happening in the world.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild – Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Zulma Steele: Artist/Craftswoman
August 21 – October 11
Ceramics, furniture and furniture designs, paintings, works on paper, and notebooks from Zulma Steele, one of Byrdcliffe’s earliest artist residents.

Opening soon

BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
Lukas Milanak: Allegory and Apparatus
September 12 – October 4
Using mundane objects, Milanak builds complex systems that, when taken as a collective exhibition challenge our notion of the common.

Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Illuminate: Works on Paper by Meg Hitchcock
September 19 – November 8
Works on paper that represent the artist’s lifelong interest in religion, literature and psychology.

LABspace, Hillsdale NY
Susan Carr: In My Room
September 12 – November 8
Solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture.

Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
finally golden: Brian Belott & Bridget Caramagna
September 12 – October 25
A two-person exhibition of recent work.

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Opening September 12:

Dos Mundos:(Re)Constructing Narratives
Curated by Juanita Lanzo and Stephanie A. Lindquist
September 12 – November 22
Photographs of 12 artists of color who are recipients of En Foco’s Photography Fellowships.

Hudson Valley Artists: New Folk
Curated by Anna Conlan
September 12 – October 25
Group exhibition featuring 29 local artists whose work explores craft, cultural heritage, and the communities we create together.

Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place) (Reopening)
Curated by Hanna Maria Sawka, MFA and Dr. Frank Boyer
February 8 – November 22
This exhibition features paintings and etchings that illuminate Sawka’s visual explorations of the phenomenon of memory and works whose subject matter is the landscape of the mid-Hudson Valley.

We Wear the Mask: Race and Representation in the Dorsky Museum Permanent Collection
Curated by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
September 12 – November 22
Taking its title from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask stages the contradictions inherent in representations of race and in American culture as a whole, as exemplified by the Dorsky Museum Permanent Collection.

Events

Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
Byrdcliffe 2020 Resident Open Studios
September 5 – 6
5-month and yearly resident artists will be showing their work around the AIR cabins and Byrdcliffe grounds.

The Hudson Eye, Hudson, NY
August 28 – September 7
An artist-driven 10-day public program and urban showcase, with a focus on dance, music, performance, film and visual art.

Performance Spaces for the 21st Century (PS21), Chatham, NY
D-CELL: an Exhibition & Durational Performance
September 6 – 12
Conceived and directed by multi-disciplinary visual artist David Michalek, D-CELL presents an encounter with deceleration in both dance and visual art. The project, a hybrid between an exhibition and a performance, is comprised of two distinct but related works: SlowDancingLive1 (2020 premiere) and Portraits in Dramatic Time (2010)

Newburgh Open Studios, Newburgh, NY
September 26 – 27
Celebrating its 10th year, Newburgh Open Studios fosters artistic expression, civic participation and the economic growth of Newburgh’s diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture and by celebrating the livelihoods of working artists in our region.

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Christy Chan: All is not lost
Friday and Saturday evenings from August 21 – October 24
A six-story outdoor video projection of a waterfall flowing backwards on the side of the Maxon Mills building.

Top image: Meg Hitchcock, I Shall Be Released, 2020, Letters cut from the Bible, paint, thread, gold leaf, 14 x 11 in. On view at the Garrison Art Center.