For those who want to skip town—and NYCs prevailing art fair frenzy—the Hudson Valley and environs beckons. With its proximity to Olana, the spectacular estate of Thomas Cole, Hudson has become the area’s own “Village”, with numerous galleries lining its main drag. But that's just the beginning! There is so much to choose from, the following is a starter. More info here. Above: Art Omni, Ghent, NY

Saturday, September 6, 2-5pm: Beth Bischoff | Photographs at Roost Arts

This solo show of Beth Bischoff’s photographs features her most recent Bodies series along with her transcendent Yucatan panoramas and Mohonk series. Her large black and white introspective photographs suggest a fusion of bodies with tree roots and flowing rivers. Her collections can be viewed at bethbischoff.com

Roost Arts Hudson Valley, 122 Main Street, New Paltz, NY Info

Saturday, September 6, 4-6pm: Patricia Smith | Seeing in Code at Front Room

Front Room Gallery is pleased to present Seeing in Code, a solo exhibition of drawings and video by Patricia Smith that investigates the symbolic language of mapping, both real and imagined. In her latest body of work, Smith moves away from her previous investigations of cityscapes to focus on smaller towns in more natural settings, with an eye toward more than what is seen, geographically, emotionally, and psychologically. The works operate as psychic maps, intertwining built environments, celestial patterns, and natural features such as rivers and floodplains. Water recurs throughout the exhibition as a potent metaphor for the unconscious, being fluid, elusive, and always in motion, suggesting the ways in which memory, intuition, and inner states are encoded within our perception of place.

Front Room Gallery, 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY Info 

Connuing: Reclamation | Lost and Found in Newburgh

This just in from Art Spiel: Reclamation was conceived around the use of found and reclaimed materials. The show brings together Hudson Valley artists who relocated from Brooklyn and New York, alongside those who remained in the city. This duality echoes the trajectory of Holland Tunnel Gallery itself, founded in Williamsburg in 1997 and expanded to Newburgh in 2018.

For curator Janet Rutkowski, the project became about relationships, reconnecting with artists from the Williamsburg and Greenpoint scene of the 1980s—many of whom she had not worked with or spoken to in decades. Above: Julie Lindell, Everything, 2025

Visitors entering the gallery are immediately struck by the large, bright space. The exhibition features works ranging from abstraction to realism, including painting, sculpture, and photography. Beyond the main gallery, the newly opened sculpture garden extends the experience with outdoor works in a variety of materials, set in a spacious, landscaped environment

.….By foregrounding reclaimed materials and reuniting artists across time and place, the show underscores the enduring value of reinvention and exchange. What began in a Williamsburg shed extended to Greece, Brooklyn staircases, and finally Newburgh. The gallery’s history, and this exhibition within it, suggest not an ending but the possibility of transformation into something new.

Holland Tunnel Revisited, 46 Chambers Street, Newburgh, NY Info

Continuing: General Condiations at Jack Shainman/The School

Bringing together work by over two dozen artists working across a wide range of media and at scales both intimate and grand, the exhibition offers a sustained reflection on the social and political climate of our time by considering how we respond—individually and collectively—when many of the most basic components of public life can no longer be taken for granted. What the variety and complexity of the works in GENERAL CONDITIONS demonstrates is that no single approach for understanding the present historical conjuncture will do. Instead, these artists provide multiple strategies that we can use to better interpret, represent and hopefully seize control of the conditions around us. Above: Work by Charisse Pearlina Weston

Featured artists include: El Anatsui, Emanoel Araújo, Shimon Attie, Shannon Bool, Diedrick Brackens, Yoan Capote, Geoffrey Chadsey, Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, Gehard Demetz, Pierre Dorion, Donyel Ivy-Royal, Hayv Kahraman, Jesse Krimes, Deborah Luster, Richard Mosse, Adi Nes, Jackie Nickerson, Gordon Parks, Mary Ann Peters, Kenny Rivero, Rose B. Simpson, Paul Anthony Smith, Becky Suss, Alina Tenser, Carlos Vega, Charisse Pearlina Weston, Deb Willis, Jaclyn Wright, and Elizabeth Zvonar.

The School, 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY Info

Continuing: Staging a Barn at Art Omni

Few structures have been as intensely labored over as the barn. From community raising weekends and feminist pedagogical projects to back-to-the-land conversions and acts of preservation, across the rural United States barns are sites where commonly held distinctions break down: between amateur participants and expert practitioners, nature and culture, individuals and collectives, manual trades and intellectual pursuits, and the discipline of architecture and the practice of building. Above: Scene from the barnraising in July

While American barns are often tied to romantic myths of isolation, self-sufficiency, and pragmatism, the collective efforts of barn raisings emphasize exchange, skill sharing, and more ubiquitous building practices. Here, catering kitchens, woodcraft workshops, and informal childcare unfold at the edges of the building process, weaving everyday life into construction. These practices challenge conventional notions of property and innovation, instead fostering systems of reciprocity and community over individualism and profit. Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts is curated by Julia van den Hout, Senior Architecture Curator, with Guy Weltchek, Curatorial Assistant, and is commissioned by Art Omi.

Art Omni, 1405 Country Road, Ghent, NY Info

Continuing: In This Here Place, We Flesh at  Gallery 495

In This Here Place, We Flesh, curated by Maty Sall, brings together three artists—Aineki Traverso, Nkechi Ebubedike, and Shiri Mordechay—who explore the human form as a mutable terrain where memory, myth, and identity converge. Echoing Baby Suggs’s words in Toni Morrison's Beloved, this exhibition centers the body as a site of transformation and reclamation, shaped by ancestral knowledge, psychic weight, and the ongoing pursuit for autonomy and spiritual wholeness. 

Across the exhibition, the body is not merely depicted—it is interrogated, abstracted, and reimagined. These artists disrupt the representations of self, proposing instead forms in constant flux: porous to history, shaped by environment, vulnerable to fragmentation, and yet resilient in their capacity to hold spirit and story. It becomes a liminal site—at once grounded and transcendent, intimate and collective, exposed and unknowable, beautiful and violent, personal and ancestral.

Gallery 495, 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY Info

Continuing: Trees Never End/Houses Never End at Sky High

This site-specific exhibition exploring the relationship between local ecology, history, and industry in the Hudson River Valley and its connection to New York City is presented in a historic apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River.

The inaugural biennial brings together more than 50 artists from around the world, including Anne Imhof, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tschabalala Self, Rudolf Stingel, Ben Wigfall and Communications Village, and Rirkrit Tiravanija to explore themes close to Sky High Farm's work at the intersection of climate, agriculture, food access and education. The artists participating in the biennial intend to donate a portion of any sale proceeds to Sky High Farms; the exhibition marks the beginning of a new chapter for Sky High Farm as we expand onto a new 560-acre farms.

In the Municipal Parking Lot at 11 Main Street, Germantown, NY Info