ArtBeat: What To See

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Happy Medium @ Hudson Opera House, Hudson. Recent works in ink and gouache on handmade abaca and cotton paper by master papermaker Ken Polinskie, whose work uses nature as a metaphor to represent complex predicaments of the human condition, and animals, plants, and figurative subjects to create a personal visual folklore that examines myth, passion, puns and self-reflection. Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, April 23, 5-7pm. (Through May 29)

Clay to Bronze @ Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuylerville. Works by noted sculptor Ed Smith. Opening reception: Saturday, April 23, 5-7pm. (Through June 5)

Nature’s Wonders @ The Georgi, Shushan. Paintings and illustrations by H. Wayne Trimm, the feature artist and art director for the NYS Conservationist Magazine for 30 years. At age 93, he is the last living founding member of the Alan Devoe Bird Club. Artist’s reception: Thursday, April 28, 7pm. (Through May 7)

Greene @ Athens Cultural Center, Athens. The Center’s 13th Annual Members’ Exhibition features works in a wide variety of media on the theme of “Greene” – Greene County, the color green, or going green with recycling. Artists’ reception: Saturday, April 23, 6-8pm. (Through May 28)

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New Ground @ Foundation Gallery at Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. Paintings and drawings by Christine Hughes. (Through April 22)

Ladies, Babies and Hades @ Collar Works, Troy. An exhibit that harnesses the power and force of femininity, featuring the works of Beverly Acha, Monica Bill Hughes, Luna Furtwangler, Sierra Furtwangler, Sophia Narrett and G.G. Roberts. (Through April 22)

Shirt Factory, Glens Falls. Works by Betsy Brandt, Russell Serrianne, Dolores Thomson and Laura Von Rosk. (Through April 23)

Every Which Way @ The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. Abraham Ferraro’s continuing and ever-growing series of mail-able sculptures complete with mailing addresses, postage, shipping labels, and installation directions on the sculptures which are exhibited exactly as they were mailed. Also on display is Hudson Valley Seed Packets, Art of the Heirloom featuring a number of regional and national artists selected to design art packs for heirloom seeds. Artist’s talk and reception: Sunday, April 24, 1 pm. (Through April 24)

What’s Next? @ MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams. Recent works by Karen Moss that examine societal problems using pop imagery, delicate line, humor and fantasy. (Through April 24)

Jane Culp, Slipping and Sliding in the Anthropocene @ John Davis Gallery, Hudson. Jane Culp’s recent paintings, based on the deserts and mountains of the California wilderness. (Through April 24)

Symbiosis: Jon Segan & Janet Sorensen @ Clement Art Gallery, Troy. Assemblages by Jon Segan and paintings by Janet Sorensen. (Through April 27)

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Scenes and Variations: Unconventional Interpretations of Landscape @ Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs. An exhibition of works by Christian Carson, Terry Conrad, Gina Occhiogrosso, Ken Ragsdale and Jake Winiski, regional artists who use the conventional theme of landscape in unconventional ways. (Through April 30)

Nuyorican Pilgrimage @ Martinez Gallery, Troy. Paintings by Latino artist Armando Soto, whose work helped shape the Nuyorican movement.

ArtZoo @ @ Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. A menagerie of creatures portrayed in photography, painting, sculpture, ceramic, video and more, including a stunning 7-foot rhinoceros head, cast in bronze by award-winning French artist Quentin Garel, and vivid images of gorillas, giraffes and lions in the wild by award-winning wildlife photographers Sally Eagle and Dan Mead. (Through May 1)

Nina Lipkowitz: Glyphs & Squiggles @ 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson. iPad paintings shown on paper as limited-edition, archival-pigment prints. (Through May 1)

The Interiors Show @ Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli. A group show of furniture and furnishings by artists. (Through May 1)

Anne Diggory: On Location in Keene Valley and Lake George @ Kelly Adirondack Center, Niskayuna. Works by Saratoga Springs-based painter Anne Diggory, known for her combination of expressive painting, accurate detail and Strong abstract structure. Meet the artist: Saturday, April 2, 2-4-pm. (Through May 6)

Space & Time @ Lapham Gallery, Glens Falls. Works by James Mullen, Paul Rothenstein and Benjamin Schwab that illustrate the passage of time or explore the structure of an imagined space. (Through May 6)

Neoteric Abstract IV @ Limner Gallery, Hudson. A large group show of abstract works in a variety of media. (Through May 7)

women, guns x internet and New Small Works @ LABspace Hillsdale. Two solo art exhibitions: Laura Stein’s women, guns x internet and Joseph Stabilito’s New Small Works. (Through May 7)

August Ventimiglia: Drawings @ Matteawan Gallery, Beacon. A solo exhibition of recent drawings by August Ventimiglia. The exhibition features work from Islands and Breath Rivers, two new bodies of work that continue to explore the artist’s interest in process, chance and drawing. (Through May 8)

Susanne Kühn @ Art Omi, Ghent. Four large-scale works by the contemporary German artist Susanne Kühn in the Visitors Center and Gallery. (Through May 15)

Kayla Corby @ Good Purpose Gallery, Lee. Works in oil, charcoal and mixed media by Kayla Corby. (Through May 17)

Point of Intersection @ Carrie Haddad Galllery, Hudson. A group exhibit featuring selections of abstract paintings by Christopher Engel, new minimalist wall sculptures by Dai Ban, photo-realist watercolors by Scott Nelson Foster and mixed media constructions by Paul Chojnowski. (Through May 22)

The Gun Show @ Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs. More than a dozen artists, writers, historians and community groups from the Capital Region and beyond who offer a broad range of experience and responses to the topic of guns. (Through May 28)

Elevator Music 30: Critter & Guitari @ The Tang, Saratoga Springs. This installation in the Tang’s elevator will include a variety of small musical instruments by Critter & Guitari’s founders, Owen Osborn and Chris Kucinski, which visitors are invited to play. Also installed will be video synthesizers and monitors so that visitors will be able to see the sounds they make. (Through June 5)

Alma Thomas @ The Tang, Saratoga Springs. Vibrant, colorful paintings by Alma Woodsey Thomas, a black woman who grew up under the racial violence of Jim Crow, experiencing the Civil Rights Movement firsthand, and did not seriously pursue an artistic career until her retirement at age 69. (Through June 5)

Liminal Artifacts: Recent Paintings by Joe Goodwin @ Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. A solo show of atmospheric abstract paintings by the Berkshire-based artist. (Through June 19)

Society After Revolution: Kian Kowrouzi @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. Working in the medium of black and white digital photography, Union College senior Kian Nowrouzi captures human emotion and a diversity of culture within contemporary, post-revolutionary China and Cuba. (Through August 7)

Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection @ The Tang, Saratoga Springs. An exhibition celebrating the major gift of over 500 photographs donated to the Tang by photographer, curator and collector Jack Shear and presenting a visual history of photography from its inception in the 1840s to the present day. (Through August 14)

Not Theories but Revelations: The Art and Science of Abbott Handerson Thayer @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. Works by Abbott Handerson Thayer, renowned twentieth century painter of ethereal angels, landscapes, and delicate flowers, was at the center of a raging debate around Darwin’s theories of evolution. As much a scientist as an artist, Thayer’s study of the visual world expressed itself in articles published in major scientific journals, an epistolary debate with Theodore Roosevelt, and in the development of the first prototype of military camouflage. (Through August 21)

African Art Against the State @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. An exibition examining the history of activism, intervention and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art-making from prehistory to the present, including works by Lalla Essaydi, David Goldblatt, Fathi Hassan, Fabrice Monteiro, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi and Yinka Shonibare as well as sculptures by the Yoruba People and masks by the Igbo People. (Through August 28)

Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. Nonas has created a major new sculptural work specifically for Building 5, and will also install a selection of existing sculpture.

Masterworks: 225 Years of Collecting @ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany. An exhibition commemorating the Institute’s 225th anniversary that highlights works from its diverse collections, including paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, sculpture, prints and more. (Through September 4)

Both Sides Now: Lexa and Dan Walsh @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. The first-time creative collaboration by sibling artists Lexa and Dan Walsh. Dan, a minimalist abstract painter, and Lexa, a socially engaged artist, come together to merge their practices around a shared interest in perception and encounters among objects and people. (Through September 25)

Slippery Slope by Georgie Friedman @ Peter Irving Wold Center, Schenectady. A site-specific video installation piece by interdisciplinary artist Georgie Friedman. (Through November 30)

By the Patterns @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. Kira Nam Greene, the fourth featured artist in the gallery’s Art Installation Series, has installed her patternist collages. (Through March 2017)