ArtBeat: What To See

Differential Ratio @ Matteawan Gallery, Beacon. Steve Rossi’s recent collages address current political issues in the U.S. by juxtaposing disparate images that are associated with the left and the right. Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 6-8pm. (Through May 20)

Flat Broke @ 46 Green Street Studios, Hudson. Works by Stacy Petty. Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 5-7pm. (Through May 29)

Tranquility @ The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville. Works by JoAnn Axford, Jeri Eisenberg and Leslie Parke. Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 5-8pm. (Through June 3)

Ebb & Flow @ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. A collection of abstract works by Shawn Snow, Anne Francey, Allyson Levy, Ragellah Rourke, Bruce Murphy, Vince Vella and Gary Buckendorf that embodies the tensions present in the natural rhythm of life. Opens Wednesday, April 25. Artists’ reception: Saturday, April 28, 5-7pm. (Through June 10)

The 3rd Annual Members’ Art Show @ Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. Works in all media by over 50 Academy artists. Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 4-6pm. (Through May 13)

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The 40th Annual Photo Regional: Effects That Aren’t Special @ Opalka Gallery, Albany. Curated by Tim Davis, artist and professor of photography at Bard College, an exhibition that aims to demonstrate how photography can describe the everyday in a way that one never easily acclimates to, with works by Polly Apfelbaum, Saskia Baden, Marco Breuer, Sharon Core, Phyllis Galembo, Gregory Halpbern & Ahndraya Parlato, Justin Kimball, Chad Kleitsch, Mark Lyon, Pete Mauney, Rune Olsen, Seth David Rubin, Parker Shipp, Julianne Swartz and Sarah Sweeney. (Through April 21)

This Place @ The Tang, Saratoga Springs. A photographic exploration of Israel and the West Bank, shown concurrently at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College and at the University Art Museum, University at Albany. Each institution will present work by four of the twelve artists that make up the show: Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington and the creator of the project, Frédéric Brenner. (Through April 22)

Peculiar Rarities @ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. A wide-ranging exhibition in media from porcelain to Play-Doh and subject matter that includes icebergs, Victorian steampunk characters, conniving housewives and Judy Garland. Artists include David Halliday, Donise English, Juan Garcia Nunez, Russell DeYoung, Nick Simpson, Newbold Bohemia, Leon Smith, Paul Katz, Andrea Moreau, Fernando Orellana, Carl Grauer, David Dew Bruner and Frank Litto. (Through April 22)

Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection @ The Clark, Williamstown. An exhbititon of 150 exceptional drawings from the Eugene V. Thaw Collection, considered one of the world’s finest private collections of drawings, including pivotal works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, J.M.W. Turner, William Blake, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and more. (Through April 22)

John Lees @ John Davis Gallery, Hudson. Three decades of drawings by John Lees. (Through April 22)

Six Artists / Six Perspectives @ Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli. Works by Julia Aneshansley, C. Michael Bufi, Valerie Hoffmann, Cecelia Sinclair, Maria Kolodziej-Zincio and Karl Volk. (Through April 22)

Lost & Found @ Scarlet Seven Gallery, Troy. Works by David Austin, Jon Gernon, Steve Rein, Michael Whitney and Jeff Wigman. (Through April 23)

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Transactional Days @ Collar Works, Troy. Works that invite the viewer to engage with them through theatre, performance and installation, with performing and exhibiting artists Ed Atkeson, Lionel Cruet, Valery Jung Estabrook, Rachel Frank, Hana van der Kolk and Jack Magai. See the website for a schedule of performances and talks. (Through April 28)

Neoteric Abstract @ Limner Gallery, Hudson. A Limner’s annual group show of abstract works, in a wide variety of media. (Through April 28)

Inventing the New @ Martinez Gallery, Troy. Works by emerging artists Erin Shipley (photography) and Emily Lamb (sculpture). (Through April 30)

Back from the Brink @ The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. Photographs from Nancy Castaldo’s new book, Back from the Brink: Saving Animals from Extinction (Through April 30)

Elemental Narratives @ Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs. Works by Diane Fine, Daisy Rockwell and Oliver Schemm, each of whom aim to portray moments and events that are personally important and essential to them. (Through May 5)

Memories of Childhood @ Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. Photographs by Michal Greenboim and Kev Filmore. Also on display will be portfolio showcases by Flynn Larsen and Leslie Jean-Bart. (Through May 6)

Christie Scheele: Atlas/Hudson River Valley @ Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham. Christie Scheele brings together paintings, drawings, printmaking and mixed media to explore the personal and collective connection between our lives today and our increasingly fragile environment. (Through May 6)

Show 3: Remnants @ Lapham Gallery, Glens Falls. Works in acrylic and mixed media by Andrew Dines installation by Sharon Kingsbury and acrylic paintings by Katrin Waite. (Through May 11)

15th Annual Athens Cultural Center Members’ Exhibition @ Athens Cultural Center, Athens. Ninety works by forty-eight artists, ranging from watercolors, oils, pastels, pencil and ink on paper, photographs, ceramics, image transfer and more. Also on display is light and found, a solo show of Tina Chaden’s glowing organic forms. (Through May 12)

Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia @ Art Omi, Ghent. Works by two artists who have resided together and shared studio space for decades: Liliana Porter works across diverse media with installation, assemblage, photography, collage, theater, and public art, often employing a cast of characters that are inanimate objects, miniatures, toys and figurines. Ana Tiscornia’s practice encompasses wall works and collages composed with cutout cardboard and paper objects comprised of manipulated fragments. (Through May 13)

Stephanie Bernheim: Pixels and Particulates @ Hudson Hall, Hudson. Using glass windows, Pine Plains oilcloth, simple mechanical devices, printers and camera phones, Stephanie Bernheim has for many years explored the limits of common materials and simple mechanical devices through her work. (Through May 13)

Golden Age of New Paltz, Part 2 @ Wired Gallery, High Falls. The second installment of the group exhibition surveys artists who lived and worked in the New Paltz, NY area from the years 1963 to 1967 includes works by State University College at New Paltz professors Ben Bishop, Maurice Brown, Barbara Leoff Burge, Ken Burge, John Frank, Ken Green, Alex Minewski, Dale Stein and George Wexler as well as work by students from that era including Gary Allen, John Anderson, Donald Bellinger, Allen Bryan, Henry Cavanagh, Paul Chapman, Reno DeRosa, Jim Edwards, Denise Giardullo, Markus Heidelberg, Dick Hogle, Eric Iversen, Anthony Panzera, Theo (Teddi) Pappas, Phil Paratore, Bruce Pileggi, Roger Polansky, Ed Samuels, Susan Slotnick, Jon Ellis Stevens, Tom Stratton, Al Summ and Aletta Vett. (Through May 13)

Line and Curve @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson. The Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear Shaker collection from Shaker Museum/Mount Lebanon, with prints by Ellsworth Kelly from the 1960s through the 1980s. (Through May 13)

Puzzled @ Yates Gallery, Loudonville. Paintings by Ryan Parr. (Through May 14)

Sit-In @ September Gallery, Hudson. A group exhibition that examines the shifting framework of a borderless icon: the chair. (Thorugh May 20)

Warhol: Unidentified @ CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson. An exhibition of 83 photographs by Andy Warhol whose subjects are currently unidentified. These photographs were gifted to CCS Bard in 2008 by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program which donated over 28,500 of his photographs to educational institutions across the United States. This exhibition is part of Warhol x 5, a collaboration of five university art museums that have coordinated to present complimentary exhibitions centered around these donations: the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz; the University Art Museum at the University at Albany; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. (Through May 27)

Never Abandon Imagination: The Fantastical Art of Tony DiTerlizzi @ Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge. An exhibition of works by the #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, known for his images of such fantasy creatures as fairies, trolls, sprites and goblins. (Through May 28)

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 31)

LGBTQ @ Union, 2018: We Are ALL Union @ Wikoff Student Gallery, Schenectady. Work in drawing, painting, illustration, photography, digital art, poetry, and film by current Union College students, alumni and professors. Reception: Wednesday, May 2, 5-6pm. (Through June 18)

Disruption. The Exhibition. @ The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. Works by Verónica G Cárdenas, Orestes González, Kris Graves, GD McClintock and Griselda San Martín. Using a broad variety of narrative styles, these five photography-based artists expand their interpretations of the word “disruption” to show how the word manifests itself in the social, political and economic world we live in. (Through June 10)

Probability & Uncertainty @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. This exhibition will feature over thirty historic, scientific instruments from the Union College Permanent Collection, juxtaposed with six contemporary female artists working with scientific themes: Aimée Burg, Nettrice Gaskins, Jessie Henson, Carter Hodgkin, Kirsten Kay Thoen and Audrey Wilson. See the website for more events. (Through June 17)

Rockwell Kent @ The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls. Complementary exhibitions celebrate Rockwell Kent (1882 – 1971), the American painter, printer, and illustrator, who settled in the Adirondacks in 1928. He painted many of his works in his Adirondack studio based on drawings, sketches, and notes taken during extensive travels to Greenland, Alaska, Ireland, and other extreme locations. In addition, Curator Caroline Welsh has drawn together paintings from North Country collections, some seldom seen publicly. Opens Sunday, April 8. (Through July 22)

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 31)

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)

RAWR! A WCMA Bestiary @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. An exhibit that considers how art has helped to create arbitrary distinctions between the human and the animal, with works from WCMA’s encyclopedic collection exploring the representation of animals in art and artifacts across time and across the globe. (Through October 31)

Pitch @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. Allison Janae Hamilton’s photographs, videos, sculptures and installations feature environments familiar to the north Florida and Tennessee landscapes that are home to her family.

The Lure of the Dark @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. Over a dozen contemporary artists, including Patrick Bermingham, William Binnie, Cynthia Daignault, TM Davy, Jeronimo Elespe, Cy Gavin, Shara Hughes, Josephine Halvorson, Sam McKinniss, Wilhelm Neusser, Dana Powell, Kenny Rivero and Alexandria Smith, illustrate the ways in which the hours of darkness continue to provoke the contemporary imagination.

Natasha Bowdoin: Maneater @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. Houston, TX-based artist Natasha Bowdoin builds wall-works with words. In her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, she investigates the intersections of the visual, the experiential, and the literary, treating language and nature as kindred phenomena.

Rachel Howard: Paintings of Violence (Why I am not a mere Christian) @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. In her first U.S. solo museum show, London-based painter Rachel Howard examines human cruelty; the work’s title references both C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity and Bertrand Russell’s “Why I am not a Christian,” texts which argue respectively for and against adherence to Christianity.