ArtBeat: What To See

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The Impressionist Line @ The Clark, Williamstown. This exhibition showcases the hallmarks of the “Impressionist line,” including drawings by Claude Monet, color woodcuts by Paul Gauguin, etchings by Édouard Manet, pastels by Edgar Degas and color lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Opens Sunday, November 5. (The Clark offers free admission on the first Sunday of the month from October to May) (Through January 7)

Charles Steckler: On Building A Language @ Carmen’s Cafe, Troy. A solo exhibition of dioramas and assemblages by former Union College professor Charles Steckler. Opening reception: Thursday, November 2, 5:30-8pm.

Gone Here @ September Gallery, Hudson. Sheila Gallagher’s meditation on healing and haunting includes a shrine, videos, plastic paintings, lace drawings and 789 anatomical fragments. Opening reception: Saturday, November 4, 6-8pm. (Through December 23)

Influences and Next Steps @ 510 Warren Street, Hudson. Paintings by Karen Roth. Opening reception: Saturday, November 4, 3-6pm. (Through November 26)

Of Earth & Stone @ Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, Rhinebeck. Works by multimedia artist Kat Katomski. Opening reception: Nov. 4 from 5-7 p.m. (Through November 26)

Winners’ Show @ Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. Works by Amelia Toelke, the winner of the Center’s 2016 Regional Juried Show, and Linda Horn, the winner of the Center’s recent Juried Photography Show. Opening reception: Saturday November 4, 4-6pm. (Through November 12)

Work of Art @ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany. A cocktail party and art auction to benefit the Institute, this year’s event honors Tony Iadicicco, Executive Director of Albany Center Gallery. Thursday, November 2, 5:30-8pm.

Intangible Roots @ Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs. Works by Kevin Cieplensky, Greg Cuda and Andrew Dines,, based on architectural and geometric forms, that aim to examine the complicated relationships a culture has with the infrastructures it creates and leaves behind (Through November 4)

Indigo: The Seventh Color @ LABspace, Hillsdale. A group exhibition of works on indigo paper, curated by Lorrie Fredette and Brece Honeycutt, featuring Christine Aaron, Beth Dary, Grace DeGennaro, Lorrie Fredette, Valerie Hammond, Jeanne Heifetz, Lotta Helleberg, Brece Honeycutt, Patricia Miranda and Paula Overbay. (Through November 4)

Fragments Remnants Leftovers @ Matteawan Gallery, Beacon. A solo exhibition of drawings and site-specific installation by Björn Meyer-Ebrecht. (Thorugh November 5)

La Wilson: Constructions @ John Davis Gallery, Hudson. Also on display: sculpture by Brandt Junceau, paintings by Brian Rego, Tine Lundsfryd and Priscilla Derven and photographs by Paul Hamann. (Through November 5)

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A Show of Heads @ Limner Gallery, Hudson. The gallery’s annual group exhibition of portraits, in a wide variety of media. (Through November 11)

Making: Then and Now @ Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield. An exhibition of contemporary works that explore the connection between artists today and an historic utopian movement in the Berkshires, featuring artworks exhibited in the Village’s historic spaces by Gregory Crewdson, Don Gummer, Stephen Hannock, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin and David Teeple. (Through November 12)

Lumen @ Art Omi, Ghent. An immersive, interactive installation by Jenny Sabin that evolves over the course of the day, with responsive textiles that display subtle color in sunlight and emit glowing light after sundown. (Through November 12)

Selected Paintings & Sculpture @ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. Abstract paintings by James O’Shea as well as paintings by Adam Cohen and Ginny Fox, encaustic pieces by Susan Stover and wall sculptures by Dai Ban. (Through November 12)

Scout/Pines @ 2 Depot Square, Chatham. Scout/Pines, known for his stencil-based street art, turns his attention to folk-art portraits of individuals whose stories haven’t been told often enough, such as Henry Johnson, a heroic soldier in the first African-American unit of the U.S. Army to engage in World War I combat. Although Johnson’s name is attached to a boulevard and charter school in Albany as well as a monument in the city’s Washington Park, few people are aware of the extent of his heroics. (Through November 12)

Real and Surreal @ Good Purpose Gallery, Lee. The art of JD Logan and Dorothy Sabean. (Through November 13)

Accordion Space @ Feigenbaum Center for the Visual Arts, Schenectady. A group exhibition featuring works by Aschely Cone, Doron Langberg, Susan Lichtman, Sangram Majumdar, Claire Sherman and Didier William, six painters who challenge the classical idea of figure-ground, expanding and compressing space in unpredictable ways. Reception: Friday, October 20, 5-7pm. (Through November 14)

Best of Both Worlds @ Clement Art Gallery, Troy. Elizabeth Apgar-Smith’s paintings of Troy’s cityscapes and architectural details, plus a selection of rural landscapes. (Through November 18)

Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project @ MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams. Artist Setsuko Winchester carted 120 bright yellow ceramic tea bowls to the sites of the Japanese internment camps – yellow, to represent the “Yellow Peril” and tea bowls, to represent man’s humanity. Artist’s talk: Thursday, October 12, 5pm. (Through November 19)

360 Moons @ BCB Art, Hudson. Photography, sculpture and wire drawings by Eric Rhein, whose artwork embodies themes of love, sexuality and identity through his ever-evolving experience of HIV. (Through November 19)

Catherine Howe: Monoprints @ Inky Editions, Hudson. An exhibition exploring the artist’s recent collagraphic monoprints and the objects that they’ve inspired. (Through November 19)

Loving Beauty More Than Efficiency @ Scarlet Seven, Troy. Works by Niki Haynes, Audrie Sturman, T.Klacsmann and Jon Segan, four artists who explore consumerism, environmentalism, animal activism, grace and symmetry. (Through November 19)

STORIES @ Wikoff Student Gallery, Schenectady. What would you talk about if asked to tell a story? Sophie Rosen asked that question to over twenty friends and classmates to create this series of expressive photographs. (Through November 22)

Elizabeth King: Radical Small MASS MoCA, North Adams. A solo exhibition combining small sculptures and large videos, by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Elizabeth King.

35 Pieces @ Cynthia Reeves Gallery, North Adams. Steven Siegel’s site-based installation of mixed media panels with an accompanying film of the same title. (Through November 25)

Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham. A solo exhibition of paintings by Joseph Yetto. (Through November 26)

Life’s Rich Pageant @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson. A group exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs with works by: Black Lake, Jesse Bransford, Julie Evans, Danny Ferrell, Louis Fratino, Chris Freeman, Chie Fueki, Jim Gaylord, Brenda Goodman, Elliott Green, Lonnie Holley, EE Ikeler, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Haley Josephs, Seth Koen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Cotter Luppi, Martin McMurray, Benny Merris, Andy Mister, Bob Mizer, Donna Moylan, Ruby Palmer, David Pappaceno, Amy Pleasant, Jim Richard, Alyse Ronayne, Alexander Ross, Pete Schulte, Jered Sprecher, Marc Swanson, Don Voisine and Evan Whale. (Through November 26)

Remembering Marvin Hamlisch, The People’s Composer @ Hudson Hall, Hudson. Portraits by photographer Len Prince chronicling the life and work of the legendary conductor and composer. (Through November 26)

5th Annual Upstate Invitational @ The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville. Works by regional artists regional artists Andrea Hersh, Regis Brodie and Christopher Murray, winners of the Best in Show award at last year’s “5th Annual Upstate Artists” show at the Gallery. (Through November 26)

Babs Owen – Vivid Forms: Cut Paper and Installations @ The Teaching Gallery, Troy. Barbara Owen’s brightly colored, cut paper works and installations explore the intersection of painting, sculpture, color and abstraction. . (Through December 2)

Sparky Campanella @ Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham. An exhibit of photographs of urban landscapes by Sparky Campanella. (Through December 2)

Laini Nemett: When We Lived Here @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. Working with cardboard models, collage, and large-scale oil paintings, Laini Nemett creates architectural environments that explore the idea of home. (Through December 3)

Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler @ Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. This traveling exhibition features almost 30 prints made from a diverse range of techniques from the acclaimed abstract expressionist. (Through December 10)

Paper Is Part of the Picture: Strathmore Paper and the Evolution of American Graphic Design @ Opalka Gallery, Albany. An exhibition about the evolution of paper promotion over the course of the past 125 years as seen through the archives of the Strathmore Paper Company. Curator’s talk with Paul Shaw: Thursday, October 26, 6:30pm. Exhibition tour with Chris Harrold : Friday, November 3, 6:30 pm. (Through December 15)

When We Were Young: Rethinking Abstraction from the University at Albany Art Collections (1967-present) @ University Art Museum, Albany. An exhibition that shines a fresh light on late-Modernist abstraction as it relates to current trends in contemporary art; artists include Josef Albers, Max Bill, Jack Bosson, Chryssa, Gene Davis, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Michael Kidner, Kim Lim, Luis Molinari-Flores, Henry Pearson and Peter Taylor among others. (Through December 16)

So It Would Seem @ The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. Works by Laura Christensen, Steve Rein, Robert Guille and Anthony Pezzula. (Through December 27)

Other Side: Art, Object, Self @ The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs. Artworks from the Tang Collection by Willie Cole, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tim Hawkinson, Zanele Muholi, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Yinka Shonibare MBE, among others, that examines ways in which artists use materials, found objects, or even their own bodies to explore questions of national, cultural and self-identity. (Through December 30)

Birthing Bodies @ The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs. An exhibition that explores childbirth through a feminist lens, examining ideas of autonomy, power, and liminality, featuring works by Janine Antoni, Andrea Bowers, Stan Brakhage, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero and Kara Walker. (Through December 30)

Jideka Akunyili Crosby’s large-scale paintings have garnered international attention for their investigations into the confluences, contact zones, and third spaces of culture in her work. The paintings represent a fusion of her Nigerian upbringing, her immigration to America, and her subsequent marriage to a white Texan. Her artwork also plays with and subverts preconceived notions of Western art history by including portraits of her African family, material references to her Igbo tribe’s customs, and images of Nigeria’s British colonial past. (Through December 31)

Charles Clough @ Art Omi, Ghent. Works by Charles Clough including a large-scale participatory painting project. Also on display: Works by Galia Solomonoff as part of the Art Omi: Architecture indoor gallery series. (Through December 31)

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America @ The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls. More than sixty works made between 1800 and 1925 by regional artists who were either self-taught or had received minimal formal training. (Through December 31)

Cuba y Puerto Rico Son…de un pajaro las dos alas @ Martinez Gallery, Troy. Perspectives of both islands, from outside and within, with paintings by Roxanna Melendez and photographs by Marie Triller. (Through January 26)

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. Sixty works by Barbara Takenaga, made over two decades, that combine aspects of Japanese printmaking and Tantric painting, as well as modernist developments such as Op Art; this first in-depth assessment reveals how Takenaga’s work has enriched the languages of abstraction. (Through January 28)

Nature Culture Clash @ Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. A solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Berkshire-based artist Morgan Bulkeley offers compelling scenarios where humans are pitted again nature, with nature holding the advantage. (Through February 4)

Chasing the Tale @ Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany. Works by artists engaged in a pictorial expression of storytelling that crosses personal mythology with collected narratives from historical, folk and popular culture, featuring Jason Blue Lake Hawk Martinez, Kenny Harris, Ira Marcks, Fernando Orellana, Amy Podmore, Jeff Starr and Gerda van Leeuwen. (Through February 26)

Spotlight: Albany & Anti-Suffrage @ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany. In the years leading up to 1917, not every woman wanted the right to vote. In fact, Albany was considered a stronghold of the anti-suffrage movement. This exhibit tells the story of the women who first met in 1894 before the New York Constitutional Convention convened, organized the Albany branch of the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, lobbied to make their views heard in 1915, and lost their fight in 1917. (Through March 31)

Branding the AfroFuture @ Schaffer Library Learning Common, Schenectady. Works by Stacey Robinson that explore ideas of “Black Utopias” as spaces of peace away from colonial influence by considering Black protest movements and the art movements that document(ed) them. (Through March, 2018)

Downtown is Pawsome Garden Party @ Tricentennial Park, Albany. Celebrating a local landmark and American icon, regional artists have customized twenty 3-foot-tall sculptures of Albany’s famous canine resident Nipper. The painted pups will grace various locations in downtown Albany throughout the next year. Proceeds from the Garden Party will benefit programs of the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, as well as the continued revitalization of downtown Albany. (Through May, 2018)

Concinnitas Portfolio @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. A portfolio of ten fine art aquatint prints featuring equations, expressions or formulas transcribed by ten notable mathematicians and physicists, in response to the prompt to record their ‘most beautiful mathematical expression.’ Each image was hand-drawn by each of the following participants: Sir Michael Atiyah, Enrico Bombieri, Simon K. Donaldson, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Karp, Peter Lax, David Mumford, Stephen Smale and Steven Weinberg. (Through August 2018)

Building 6 Grand Opening @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. MASS MoCA doubles in in size beginning May 28, with an all-day celebration featuring a members’ preview, a Soundsuit performance and a concert with veteran rockers CAKE. The galleries will feature long-term exhibits of works by Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson and Gunnar Schonbeck. Additional artists to be shown in Building 6 include Spencer Finch, Dawn DeDeaux, Lonnie Holley, Mary Lum, Barbara Ernst Prey, Janice Kerbel, Joe Wardwell, Sarah Crowner, Richard Nonas and the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio.

Liz Glynn: The Archaeology of Another Possible Future @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. Los Angeles-based Liz Glynn will present her largest and most ambitious project to date in Building 5, MASS MoCA’s largest gallery — a sprawling multi-sensory sculptural experience of sight, sensation, sound, and scent stretching nearly a football field in length. The exhibition expands Glynn’s interest in the rise and fall of empires, labor, and shifting cultural values, in order to speculate upon our uncertain future. (Through Labor Day 2018)