arrow_back Back to all stories

person Chronogram Magazine

newspaper Google News article 3 articles

12 Summer Art Exhibitions Worth the Trip in the Hudson Valley and Beyond

The article surveys 12 summer art exhibitions across the Hudson Valley and beyond, highlighting a diverse range of venues and artists. Shows include Site Seen's "Of Frame and Fallow" in a former Dollar General, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park's "Earthly Delights" sculpture exhibition curated by Hilary Greene, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's decennial survey of 40 Connecticut-based artists. Other notable exhibitions feature Uman's career-spanning show at CCS Bard, Frederic Church as a global traveler at Olana, Melora Kuhn's reimagined Persephone myth at Private Public Gallery, and E. E. Kono's egg tempera paintings at Elijah Wheat Showroom in Beacon.

Upstate Art Weekend Founder Helen Toomer Curates “Earthen Plot” in Kingston

Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) founder Helen Toomer has curated her first group exhibition for the event, titled “Earthen Plot,” on view at UAW Headquarters in Kingston through June 29. The show features 37 artists selected from the 200 participants in UAW’s recent Open Studios, presenting works in painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media that explore connections to place. Notable pieces include Manju Shandler’s oversized turtle sculpture *Tiger Woods* (2025) and ceramic works by Kathy Ruttenberg, Ashley Lyon, and others. UAW 2026 runs from June 25 to June 29.

Art Review: "The Rip in Her Sleeve" and "Iliana Arocho: Drawings" at Maiden Lane Gallery in Kingston

Maiden Lane Gallery in Kingston is hosting two concurrent exhibitions curated by Matt Moment: "The Rip in Her Sleeve," featuring pigment print photographs by Alicia Schirrmeister and Ruth Lauer Manenti, and "Iliana Arocho: Drawings," a solo show of ethereal drawings and metalpoint works by Iliana Arocho. The shows occupy two floors of a brick building that serves as an outpost for Headstone Gallery, run by Lauren Aitken and Chase Folsom, marking Moment's first collaboration with the gallery as a guest curator.

11 Art Shows to See in the Hudson Valley in May 2026

The article surveys 11 art exhibitions opening across the Hudson Valley in May 2026, highlighting a regional preoccupation with structure, materiality, and resistance to singular narratives. Featured shows include "Surface, Structure, String" at Hudson Hall, a textile survey curated by Richard Saja with artists like Portia Munson and Laleh Khoramian; "Jose Picayo: 35 Years in Photographs" at Robin Rice Gallery; "The Linda McCartney Retrospective: From the Light" at the Fenimore Art Museum; "Carol Seitz: Growth in Difficult Places" at Convey/er/or; and "Stephen Olivier: Hazmat" at ASK in Kingston, among others.

Pictorial Foundation Opens New Gallery in Newburgh with “Foundations of Practice”

Pictorial Foundation, an organization born from the international photography magazine The Pictorial List, has opened a new gallery space at 105 Ann Street in Newburgh, New York. The 1,500-square-foot gallery, located within the ADS Warehouse complex, debuts on February 7 with the group exhibition “Foundations of Practice,” featuring 19 artists whose work emphasizes process over finished results. Founder Karen Ghostlaw Pomarico, a Pratt Institute-trained artist, collaborated with her husband, architect Michael Pomarico of Pomarico Design Studio, to create a flexible system of suspended partitions that can be reconfigured for each show. The gallery grows out of a desire to move beyond the limitations of online art visibility and create a physical space for slow, thoughtful engagement with art.

Top Hudson Valley Art Exhibitions to See in January 2026

The article surveys five notable art exhibitions opening in the Hudson Valley region in January 2026, each exploring how artists connect to place, time, and memory. Shows include "Earth Endures, Stars Abide" at Carrie Haddad Gallery, featuring five painters interpreting local landscapes; "Notes from Here" at O+ Exchange, presenting intimate works by 15 O+ artists; "Wish You Were Here" at the Tremaine Art Gallery, pairing Fern Apfel and Colleen McGuire in a meditation on memory and observation; and "Connecting Emergence" at Lace Mill Galleries, showcasing Paul Keskey's layered oil paintings of nature and imagination.

Art, Music, and Poetry Converge at Rohmer Gallery

J.C. Hopkins and Linh Luu are opening Rohmer Gallery in Saugerties, New York, this month. The 500-square-foot space on Partition Street is inspired by the cross-disciplinary energy of the New York School of the 1950s and '60s, where poets, painters, and musicians like Frank O'Hara, Jackson Pollock, and John Cage influenced each other. The gallery's debut exhibition, “Look Again,” runs from June 14 to August 13 and features works by Andrea Olivia, Rina Kim, Oneslutriot, Hopkins, and ceramicist Robbie Ginsberg. In addition to visual art, the venue will host weekly acoustic performances, monthly poetry readings, and literary events tied to the couple's imprint, Eponymous Books.

Kingston’s Art Renaissance Continues: 68 Prince Street Gallery Opens with Francine Tint’s “Symbolic of the Whole”

A new contemporary art gallery, 68 Prince Street Gallery, has opened in Midtown Kingston, New York, in a former dry cleaners space transformed over six years by artists Paula and David Kucera. The inaugural exhibition, “Symbolic of the Whole,” features paintings and sculptures by New York artist Francine Tint, a former costume designer for David Bowie and Ridley Scott who turned to abstraction in the 1970s. Curated by Alan Goolman, the show highlights Tint’s rarely seen bronze sculptures alongside her canvases, while a front room dedicated to artist books and prints is overseen by book artist Maureen Cummins.