OPENINGS & EVENTS
Albany Center Gallery, 488 Broadway, Albany. 2022 Mohawk-hudson Regional Invitational. albanycentergallery.org. Featuring the work of 7 regional artists Donnabelle Casis, Ann Ledy, Laura Moriarty, Huê Thi Hoffmaster, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Hanna Washburn and Wendy Williams. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday. Through June 4.
Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany. “The Life Around Us.” Recent paintings by Ashley Norwood Cooper and Heidi Johnson, as well as a new site specific installation, “Stream” by Laura Moriarty. Opens Saturday; reception 3-5 p.m. May 14. Through Aug. 29.
Art Associates Gallery, 21 Railroad Ave., Albany. “Firehouse Artists Spring Show.” 518-4591307. Showcasing the work of 14 area artists in a wide variety of mediums, styles and subject matter. Opens Friday. Through May 28.
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River St., Troy. “Esmé Stories: A Magical Journey.” artscenteronline.org. When offered the chance for a Make-a-wish wish, Esmé Ann Savole expressed her desire to create an “Esmé Museum.” The result is an exhibit, created by local artists, drawing on inspiration from stories penned by the 11-year-old from Troy who lives with significant medical complexity that inhibits her ability to speak, walk and eat. She uses eye gaze technology to create the short stories that have been transformed into this multimedia exhibit. Opens Saturday with a celebration at 2 p.m. Through June 4.
Pamela Salisbury Gallery, 362 1/2 Warren St., Hudson. “Jeanne Silverthorne: Sculpture.” pamelasalisburygallery.com. Also, “Richard Bosman: Selected Work,” “Willard Boepple: Towers and Tablets,” “Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte: tête-à-tête: Works on paper,” “Don Voisine: On Point” and “Kamilla Talbot: Works on Paper.” Opening reception 4-6 p.m. Saturday. Through June 5.
MUSEUMS
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. “The Four Elements of Leigh Li-yun Wen.” albanyinstitute.org. The artist explores elements of western cosmology — earth, air, fire and water — in monumental paintings, prints, ceramics and fabrics. Also, “You Are Here: Mapping Our World.” Seventeen maps from Michael Insel’s (1947-2017) collection are included in this exhibition, along with maps, globes, books, and historic objects that were already part of the Institute's collection. Through Oct. 23. Also, “The Hudson River School: Landscape Paintings from the Albany Institute Collection.” Ongoing. Also, “Nineteenth-century American Sculpture: Erastus Dow Palmer and His Protégés Launt Thompson, Charles Calverly, and Richard Park.” Ongoing. American Italian Heritage Museum, 1227 Central Ave., Albany. “Everything Italian.” The Schenectady Art Society will show and sell its original artwork depicting “Everything Italian,” landscape, Mediterranean seascape, food, family and music is fair game as subject matter so long as it reminds the artist of Italy, its people or culture. Through May.
Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. “What Do You See? Portraits from the Arkell Museum Collection.” Features visitor favorites, rarely exhibited pieces and stellar examples from the permanent collection. Also, “New York State Grange Photographs by Andrew Baugnet.” The exhibit examines the history, cultural importance, and legacy of New York State granges. Through Aug. 21.
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, “Tara Fracalossi: Postcards to Myself.” artscenteronline.org. Through May 31.
The Clark Art Institute, 25 South St., Williamstown, Mass. “As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War.” clarkart.edu. Spanning European and American art from 1520—1920, the exhibition of prints, drawings and photographs shows how artists have portrayed periods of military conflict, bringing war off the battlefield and into the homes and lives of those often at a far remove from the scene. Through May 30.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Art Gallery,124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie. “Mastery and Merit: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection.” vassar.edu. The collaboration among three prominent college art museums — Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, T. Barton Thurber of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and Pamela Franks of the Williams College Museum of Art — includes an array of visually stunning thangka paintings and other pieces of Tibetan art from the Jack Shear Collection. Through July 31.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. “Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science.” Historical artifacts and contemporary art that demonstrate the ways in which fiber craft techniques and materials have influenced and impacted scientific fields like mathematics, digital technology, medicine and neuroscience. Through June 12. Also, “Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler — New Patterns.” skidmore.edu/tang. A solo exhibition, including new relief paintings, site-specific line sculpture and functional sculpture. Also, Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting. Kelley, an artist and curator, reshapes and combines meditations on travel with snapshots of everyday life in her drawings, sculpture and stop-motion animation videos. Through Sept. 10, 2023.
Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 33 Garden Road, Annandale-onhudson. “Interference.” ccs.bard.edu. Fourteen new exhibitions and curatorial projects that probe the hybrid conditions, change and adaptation that have defined life and, in turn, contemporary art and curatorial practice, since the start of the pandemic. Through May 29.
The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren St., Glens Falls. Georgia O’keeffe: Pattern of Leaves. hydecollection.org. On loan from The Phillips Collection, the exhibit celebrates O’keeffe’s long association with Lake George and the Adirondacks. Through May 29. Also, Here @ The Hyde: Featured Objects from the Permanent Collection. Through May 29. Iroquois Museum, 324 Caverns Road, Howes Cave. “Material Shift.” iroquoismuseum.org. A showcase of work by Haudenosaunee artists who employ toys, food containers, bike reflectors, CD discs and other unconventional materials to create traditional cultural objects and concepts and those who, conversely, use traditional materials such as ash splint, corn husk and antler to create popular (not necessarily functional) everyday items such as watches, day packs, toothbrushes and cellphones. Through Nov. 27.
MASS MOCA, 1040 MASS MOCA Way, North Adams, Mass. “Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind.” New and recent work by the French-moroccan artist. Through May 2023. Also, kellie rae adams: Forever in Your Debt. “Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow.” The exhibition, featuring a series of immersive installations, reflects on the legacies of two “Bloody Sundays” in order to explore the global interdependence of social justice. Also, James Turrell: C.A.V.U. Thirty years in the making, Turrell’s largest free-standing circular Skyspace measures 40 feet in diameter and 40