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OPENINGS & EVENTS
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. Museum Day. Free admission for two with downloaded ticket. http://www. albanyinstitute.org. Museum Day is an annual nationwide event hosted by Smithsonian Magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day downloaded ticket provides free admission for two. Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, 1 Amherst St., Lake George. “Retroflection.” Paintings by Frank Owen. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday. Through Oct. 26.
The Laffer Gallery, 96 Broad St., Schuylerville. “Common Beauty.” Free. http://www. thelaffergallery.com; (518) 695-3181. Featuring the artwork of George Van Hook, David Lussier, Jim Rodgers and Liz Vigoda. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Saturday. Through Oct. 21. Rensselaer County Historical Society, 57 Second St., Troy. “When I was a Child: The Community Remembers Childhood.” (518) 272-7232. September in the City Art Fair series, Downtown Albany’s Dinapoli Park. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday. http:// www.albanyevents.org. A midday showcase for local art, music and culture, September in the City features exhibits and work available for purchase from mixed media artists and crafters.
Thompson Giroux Gallery, 57 Main St., Chatham. “Robin Whiteman: Homeostasis.” thompsongirouxgalley.com. The artist created this body of work while witnessing a parent’s struggle with dementia and the blossoming of a teenage daughter. Opening reception 4-6 p.m. Saturday. Through Oct. 28. William K. Sanford Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Road, Albany. Helen Otterness and Diane Bollman Buyer. Free. http://www.colonielibrary.org. Opening reception 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Through Sept. 30.
GALLERIES
Albany International Airport
Gallery, third floor, Albany Shaker Road, Colonie. ‘‘Above the Fray.’’ Photographs and sculptures by Hudson Valley artist Robert Hite. Through Oct. 24. Also, “Upon the Ground, Below the Water.” Artists observe features of landscape marked by human endeavor. Ends Sunday.
Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren St., Hudson. “Bejeweled “Free. http://www.carriehaddadgallery.com. Exhibit of abstract artists featuring Stephen Walling, Vincent Pomilio, Susan Stover, Ralph Stout, Sarah Berney and photography by Nancy Goldring. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Saturday. Through Nov. 4. Center Gallery of the Clifton Park Senior Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Drive, Clifton Park. Southern Saratoga Art Society: Rebecca Jenkins. http://www.southernsaratogaartist.com. Photographs. Through September. Clement Art Gallery, 201 Broadway, Troy. Harry Orlyk: Recent Paintings. http://www. clementart.com. Landscape paintings. Through Oct. 9. Columbia Greene Community College, Blue Hill Gallery, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Columbia County Plein Air Art Exhibit. 518-828-4181. The Columbia County Plein Air Artists, Volume 3 — Group Show 2018. Featured artists: Arlene Boehm, Susanna Grannis, Eden Hart, Joan Blazis Levitt, Myra Lobel, Edith Marcik, Kathie Mock, Noel Phillips, Lori Rothstein, Susan Sabino, Debbie Shaw, Valerie White and Audrey Wyman. Through Sept. 29.
Hudson Valley Community College Teaching Gallery, 80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy. “Shawn Theodore — One Leaf Does Not a Cypress Make.” http://www.hvcc.edu; (518) 629-8071. An exhibition of recent photographs by Philadelphia-based Shawn Theodore, who makes photography, sculpture, collage, performance art and installations. Through Oct. 20. Also, “Garden,” a site-specific installation by Thomas Lail.” Lail’s oversized rendering of a William Morris wallpaper pattern scales a wall of the building’s glass atrium just outside the teaching gallery, reflecting on the history of glassed-in winter gardens, cultivated nature, and the dream of utopian architectures of transparency. John Davis Gallery, 362 Warren St., Hudson. Herbert Reichert: Jock Ireland: “Student” Work. http://johndavisgallery.com. Paintings. Also, Len Bellinger: “remise”; Arnold Mesches: “Selected Works 1998-2015”; Daniel John Gadd: “Between the Tides”; Lizbeth Mitty: “Glisten.” Through Oct. 7. Mandeville Gallery, Union College, 807 Union St., Schenectady. “Jenny Kemp: Slow Grow.” https://muse.union. edu/mandeville/. Paintings. Reception 5 p.m. Wednesday. Through Dec. 9.
Opalka Gallery, Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave., Albany. Sharon Bates: Exhibit B. opalka.sage.edu. Through Oct. 13.
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 2018 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition. (518) 580-5049. Art work by Fabian Lopez, Doretta Miller, Andrea Peterson and Sarah Sweeney.
SUNY Adirondack’s Visual Arts Gallery, Dearlove Hall, 640 Bay Road, Queensbury. “What Was He Thinking? Jan Balet: Watercolors and Lithographs.” Exhibit highlight Balet’s ptions of human relationships and situations. Through Nov. 8.
Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt. “Scalar.” https://www.bennington.edu. A solo exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculptures by Torkwase Dyson. Through Dec. 15.
Thompson Giroux Gallery, 57 Main St., Chatham. “Undiscovered Country.” thompsongirouxgalley.com. Artists Marieclaude Giroux, Jim Holl and Arthur Sordillo share an interest in the inner workings of their own imagination, their wonder and wisdom. Ends Sunday. Valley Artisans Market, 25 E. Main St., Cambridge. Ann Larsen “Painting My Way from Maine to California.” Landscape paintings. Ends Tuesday.
MUSEUMS
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. “The Hudson River School.” Paintings in the Hearst Gallery on the museum’s third floor. Also, “Thomas Cole’s Paper Trail. The exhibition looks at this landscape artist mainly through the paper materials he left behind. Through Nov. 25. Also, “Birds & Beasts: The Scary, Magical, and Adorable Animals of the Albany Institute.” Also, “A Menagerie of Whimsey: The Art of William B. Schade.” Summer reception 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday.through Dec. 30.
The Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. “Portraits and Landscapes.” Pieces from the Arkell Museum Collection. Including work by Gilbert Stuart, Edward Gay, Winslow Homer and Fritz Vogt. Through December. Also, “Fine Art Animals: From the Collection of the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie.” Through Oct. 21.
American Italian Heritage Museum, 1227 Central Ave., Albany. “Members Art Show.” An eclectic exhibition featuring watercolor, oil, ceramics, photography, sculpture and acrylic pieces done by members. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second St., Athens. “Hudson Valley Landscape Painters.” Work by landscape artists of the Hudson Valley region: Sasha Chermayeff, John Kelly, Rick Leon, Gail Nicholson, Harry Orlyk, Marne Rizika, Barbara J. Sussman and Peter Homitzky. Through Oct. 7.
Bennington Museum, 75 Main St., Bennington, “Crash to Creativity: The New Deal in Vermont.” benningtonmuseum. org. Through Nov. 4. Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 W. Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, Mass. “Plant Lithographs — Exhibition.” Free. berkshirebotanical.org/ 413298-3926. Plant lithographs by abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly. Center House Leonhardt Galleries.
Chesterwood, 4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge, Mass. “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood: 40 YRS.” Co-curated by Maxwell Davidson III, president of the Maxwell Davidson Gallery, and Charles C. Davidson, partner and senior director of the Maxwell Davidson Gallery in New York City, exhibit features 12 outdoor sculptures. Through Oct. 8.
Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY Route 80, Cooperstown. “Thomas Cole and the Garden of Eden.” Fenimoreart. org. Centers on Cole’s masterwork, “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden,” lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition includes 16 original works and explores the theme of the Garden of Eden. Through Sept. 30.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs. “Give a damn.” http://www.skidmore.edu/tang. An exhibition of work from the Tang collection by artists who give a damn about the world around them and the people in it. Through Sept. 30. Also, “They’re, Their, There.” Explores visual representations of queerness. Curated by Rachel Rosenfeld. Through Sept. 30. Also, “Elevator Music 37: David Mancuso — The Loft.” Through Sept. 30. Also, “3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964–1980.” The first indepth exploration of the work of a group of artists collectively known as the Chicago Imagists. Through Jan. 6.
State Museum, 222 Madison Ave., Albany. “Enterprising Waters: New York’s Erie Canal (Phase One).” In honor of the bicentennial of its construction. Through Oct. 20, 2019. Also, “Ice Ages.” Explores landscape and animals of ice ages of New York. Through Jan. 6. Also, “Votes For Women.” The exhibit commemorates New York state granting women the right to vote. Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center, Museum Lane, Waterford. “Water & War: Waterford’s Routes and Canals Through Conflict.” waterfordmuseum. com; 518-238-0809. Explore the past of Waterford with centennial observations of the end of World War I and the opening of the Barge Canal in New York. Through Oct. 28.
EXHIBIT SPACES
Bethlehem Public Library.
451 Delaware Ave., Delmar. Photography Exhibit. 439-9314. Photographs from the Picturing Bethlehem Photography Contest.
Hudson Area Library, 51 N. Fifth St., Hudson. “Wish You Were Here: A Look Back at Life in Hudson Through Vintage Postcards.” http:// hudsonarealibrary.org. The historical exhibition features an extensive set of postcards from this river city, most from the early 1900s, that tell charming personal stories about life here 100 years ago. Love Apple Art Space, 1421 State Route 9H, Ghent. “Venus Occults Jupiter.” The exhibit uses the 2018 bicentennial of Ghent) as the jumping off point to examine artists who employ beauty and empathy as techniques to challenge the presentation and distribution of information and subvert conventional historical narratives. Uncommon Grounds, Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Eva Marie Loucks solo exhibition. 518-581-0656. Paintings; more than 80 pieces. Through Sept. 30.
Zion Luthern Church, 153 Nott Terrace, Schenectady. Southern Saratoga Art Society: Sherry Walkup and Jean Skanes. http://www. southernsaratogaartist.com. Paintings. Through October.