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“Inspired by Blue” Exhibition Opening Reception at Gallery 40

Blue represents the sky and the sea and is associated with calmness and relaxation, tranquility and stability. Paradoxically, blue is also associated with coldness, sadness and melancholy, as in “singing the blues.” It is the favorite color of both men and women and is said to represent a deep need for personal inner peace and truth. Gallery 40 is presenting “Inspired by Blue” dedicated to the spirit of Gauguin: “If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.” A pure call to imagination and distinctive style.

Juror of Selection: Sarah Fortner Pierson

Awards will be presented at the opening reception.
Voting for People choice award will be collected at reception time.

On display through January 27, 2024.

HV Art Market

The 2023 HVArtMarket is taking place on November 24-26 at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie. 

​This will be our 9th year, and we are excited to be able to have this opportunity.

As in the past, you will find only the very best in fine art, handmade and small batch products from the region.

If you are looking for a full immersion experience, tours of the mansion are available here

We are looking forward to seeing you:

Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday 10am-5pm

Sunday 10am-4pm

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FREE ADMISSION – PARKING AVAILABLE ON SITE

Holding Space for Tenderness: A Cyanotype Project by Carmen Lizardo

Are you ready to leave your mark on Kingston’s canvas? We invite you to participate in this Cyanotype Project by Carmen Lizardo, where your handprints will become a part of a unique art exhibition. Join us THIS Sunday, Nov. 12th from 2-4PM in the Reher Center Gallery as we partner with Kingston Midtown Arts District’s Pup-Up Gallery Group to transform the former Kingston Food Co-op building into a temporary Pop-Up Gallery window display! The project aims to celebrate individuality and creativity through the art of cyanotype printing, which result in beautiful, striking blue images. In this project, your handprints will serve as the canvas for your artistic expression!

How to Participate:

  • Sign up for free and drop in for this hands-on workshop!
  • Bring a significant object that fits in your hand, or a piece of writing
  • Your hands will be photographed holding your object!

Italian Movie Night at Gallery 40

Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning, Night) is an Italian film released in 2003 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The title of the feature film, Good Morning, Night, is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson.
The movie relates to an important fact in the modern Italian history: the 1978 kidnapping of Aldo Moro former prime minister of Italy and leader of the Democrazia Cristiana  party by the Red Brigades and  the consequences on the political and social life in Italy.

In Italy the 1970s were defined as the Anni di Piombo, Years of Lead because of the darkness of the political scene. For this reason, it seems appropriate to accompany the movie with Negroamaro,  meaning “black and bitter”). A red wine grape that can produce wines very deep in color. Wines made from Negroamaro tend to be very rustic in character, combining perfume with an earthy bitterness.

Movie in Italian with English subtitles: $5 suggested donation to support the program and the Pirandello School of Italian.

“The Way We See” Exhibition Opening at Gallery 40

The Way We See It features four photographers – Dan Burkholder, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Mary Ann Glass and Christine Irvin.
Dan Burkholder is a pioneer teacher and mentor for thousands of photographers by bridging the worlds of classic photography with the evolving digital era. The photos in this exhibit show how brilliantly Dan utilizes the fine art potential of capturing his images with both the iPhone and his smaller micro 4/3 cameras and then developing the image with phone apps. Dan’s poetic images show the viewer a mystical, spiritual world.
Jill Skupin Burkholder is a photographer/artist whose work includes traditional photography and photo images enhanced with cold wax, oil paint and beeswax. In the Hidden Worlds series, she set up a motion-sensitive trail camera in the Catskills to record the secret night worlds around us.
Each surveillance-style snapshot is mounted onto a wooden panel and coated with beeswax. These random compositions of nature seem to reveal a fairyland, an enchanted setting filled with light and spirit.
The Burkholders have for several years organized photography travel workshops (and continue to do so: they are going to Bulgaria and Romania next year).
Mary Ann Glass, co-curator of Gallery 40, and Christine Irvin, President of the Stamford Art Association, joined the Burkholder trip to the Peloponnese area of Greece in May, and are presenting what caught their eye during those 10 days in Greece. Using only their iPhone cameras and apps, visiting the same places at the same times, the two women’s photos demonstrate how we each inhabit our own world.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 2023 5-7 pm
On display through December 3, 2023
Hours: Weekdays 9-4pm; Saturday/Sunday 9-7pm

Community Still Life Workshop at The Trolley Barn

Create a still life of the object of your choosing at this “paint and sip”-style event! Participants will use sentimental objects to form a meaningful community tableau in this workshop led by exhibiting artist and local educator, Melissa Small Cooper. Learn more about upcoming events here.

Community members who drop off objects will be encouraged to write a description of what makes these pieces special. The Trolley Barn Gallery will document the objects, the art, and the accompanying stories as a way to preserve the living history of Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley.

No registration is required and attendance is drop-in. All art supplies will be provided.

About the Instructor: Melissa Small Cooper is an oil painter and art educator, based in the Hudson Valley. Cooper studied painting and photography, earning her BFA at Hartwick College. She earned her MFA at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Born in the Bronx and raised in Ossining, NY, Cooper lives in Beacon, NY, and teaches at Peekskill High School.

 

Leading with Artivism

Join Poet Gold as she talks with Joel Bergner, a community artist whose large-scale murals can be found in 30 countries across 5 continents, painted in his signature style combining intimate portraits of local residents, vibrant color palettes and small details that draw the viewer in to experience multiple levels of meaning. His elaborate murals weave smoothly between realism with an urban art sensibility and the raw expressions of children’s art. As a community-based artist, Joel’s work is informed by his creative projects with the world’s most vulnerable children and communities, from Syrian refugee camps to American prisons; the favelas of Brazil to an orphanage in South Africa. In each project, he guides participants through the process of exploring issues that are important to them, designing their own composition and then collaboratively painting a public mural in their community.

RSVP here!