{"id":2014462,"date":"2026-06-26T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014462"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:37:29","slug":"upstate-art-weekend-5-shows-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014462","title":{"rendered":"Upstate Art Weekend: 5 Shows to See"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tHow time flies: Upstate Art Weekend, the annual arts festival spread across the Hudson Valley, returns this weekend for its seventh edition. Since its founding in 2020, the festival has grown from 23 participants to 160, with an additional open studios event in May that featured 240 artists.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere are several additional changes for the 2026 edition. Most notably, the festival lands this weekend in the coveted post-Art Basel slot. (Previous editions were held in late July.)<\/p>\n
\n\tThere\u2019s also a new partnership with Bloomberg Connects, which offers a centralized digital guide featuring an interactive map and venue listings, plus an itinerary planner that lets users build a personalized schedule complete with estimated drive times. That last feature is especially handy given that the festival sprawls across a whopping 6,000 square miles, with suggested itineraries organized by mood, region, or focus.<\/p>\n
\n\tWith so many shows on the calendar, the weekend can be a bit overwhelming to plan. We\u2019ll assume you already know about major venues like Dia: Beacon, Jack Shainman\u2019s The School in Kinderhook, Storm King Art Center, and the Campus in Hudson\u2014here are five (or so) lesser-known shows worth the trek. Happy hunting.<\/p>\n
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Tschabalala Self & Nayland Blake at Art Omi<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Art Omi\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Address:\u00a0<\/strong>1405 Co Rte 22, Ghent, NY 12075<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile the Storm King Art Center tends to get the attention from day-trippers (and Charli XCX), Art Omi in Ghent is a sculpture center equally worth a visit. The 120-acre site has outdoor sculptures and installations from major heavy-hitters and rising stars, including Pippa Garner, Alicja Kwade, Kiyan Williams, Nancy Dwyer, Robert Grosvenor, Mary Ann Unger, and more. This year features new works from Tschabalala Self\u2014fresh off a monumental commission for the New Museum\u2019s new facade\u2014and Nayland Blake, who will be presenting his first outdoor commission, \u201cHaunt\u201d: Being the Folly of One Victorya Spectre\u00a0<\/em>(2026), which is set to be accompanied by performances, activations, and workshops this weekend and throughout its run. Blake, who has long challenged the relationship between artist, institution, and audience, will continue that interrogation in \u201cHaunt,\u201d which Omi describes as \u201cPart classroom, part lounge, part farm stand, part abandoned amusement park ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Stay Frosty at Artport Kingston<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Baloney\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Address: <\/strong>80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY 12401<\/p>\n
\n\tBack for its second edition, Stay Frosty returns to ArtPort Kingston, again blurring the lines between a site-specific exhibition, an art fair, and a trunk show. Its a weird and wild event, playful and boundary-pushing in the way that the upstate scene has the freedom to be. For this year\u2019s edition, 50 participants will set up show in Artport\u2019s parking lots, transforming their vehicles or the parking spots into mini-exhibitions, immersive experiences, sculptural installations, and more.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong the participants are the artist duo Baloney\u2014Z Behl and Kim Maloney\u2014who are presenting Car Pile Pyre<\/em>, a satisfyingly tactile sculpture of automobile bodies and tractor tires built around an outstretched hand that recalls the iconography of protests. The duo have presented large-scale sculptures at Mother-in-Law\u2019s Gallery, an experimental sculpture space in Germantown, during the previous two editions of Upstate Art Weekend, as well as solo exhibition at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson in 2025. For that last show, the duo built a monumental lace-clad harlequin that stretched three stories, from floor to ceiling of Salisbury\u2019s Carriage House, that acted as a kind of portrait of the artist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Betty Parsons, Uman, and Marilou Schultz at Bard<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Address:<\/strong> 33 Garden Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504<\/p>\n
\n\tBard College\u2019s Center for Curatorial Studies and its associated Hessel Museum of Art are reliable hotbeds for forward-thinking curation. This year is no different, as the school opens three exhibitions for the season.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe first at the CCS Galleries, \u201cBetty Parsons: An Expanded World,\u201d traces the artistic career of Parsons, who is better known as the dealer responsible for showing the \u201cFour Horsemen\u201d of Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still). This show, curated by Kelly Taxter and artist Amy Sillman, both Bard alums, centers Parsons\u2019s artistic output from 1922 to 1982, spanning early watercolors, her multicolored sculptures from the \u201960s and \u201970s, and finally her late career paintings. The show also tells the story of Betty Parsons Gallery, largely through a newly commissioned film that features reflections from Parsons and the artists she exhibited. The exhibition shows that the line between artist and dealer blurrier than most think.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cUman: In Between,\u201d curated by Hessel artistic director Lauren Cornell, acts a kind of mid-career survey that aims to shift attention from Uman\u2019s biography, which many critics have used to box her in as a \u201cself-taught\u201d or \u201coutsider\u201d artist. The Hessel show focuses instead on her use of color, her technique of eschewing the paintbrush for her fingers, and the materiality of her works, which included found fabrics and scavenged junk.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe last show opening at Bard is \u201cReplica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz,\u201d which surveys the practice of Schultz, an acclaimed Navajo\/Din\u00e9 weaver and mathematics educator. While Schultz\u2019s weavings display expert skill, her practice has renewed relevance as she uses it to reflect on contemporary digital technologies and culture. In 1994, Schultz was commissioned by Intel to create a woven replica of its Pentium chip, and there are numerous recent works that extend that motif, allowing her to interrogate the aesthetics of computer chips, and its resonance with older forms of patterning.<\/p>\n
\n\tThroughout the weekend, Bard will be hosting a series of talks with the artists and curators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Delano Dunn at Troutbeck & Wassaic Project<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Joshua Simpson Photography\/Courtesy Wassaic Project\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Troutbeck<\/strong>Address: <\/strong>515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY 12501<\/p>\n
Wassaic Project Address: <\/strong>37 Furnace Bank Rd, Wassaic, NY 12592<\/p>\n
\n\tOne could drive to Amenia for the views alone. The bucolic farming community, which has seen a renaissance in recent years, sits on the Connecticut border with stunning views of the Taconic Mountains. But head to the historic estate hotel Troutbeck for \u201cEchoes in the Margin,\u201d a new exhibition of works by artist Delano Dunn, presented by nearby Wassaic Project through an ongoing partnership. The show has been curated by Mickalene Thomas, with whom Dunn studied at the School of Visual Arts. <\/p>\n
\n\tWhile the show features work across Dunn\u2019s practice, a new series of large-scale experimental portraits interrogate and complicate our understanding of Black identity. In one typical example, Clarence X<\/em> (2025), Dunn paints Clarence Thomas in a dandy-ish suit, and then obscures his face and hands with a mix of shoe polish and resin melted and burned into the portrait. At a talk on Wednesday at Wassaic Project, who is presenting the exhibition through a partnership, Dunn explained that he \u201cveils\u201d his subjects in the hopes of forcing the viewer into a confrontation with the portrait, pushing them to interrogate their own assocations with the figure in question.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor the show, paintings are hung in-situ around the hotel, which hosted the the Amenia Conferences of 1916 and 1933, important early NAACP gatherings, as well as serving as a meeting point for major black figures like Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. That history, lovingly restored by owners Anthony and\u00a0Charlie Champalimaud over the last decade, shines in the juxtaposition with Dunn\u2019s paintings.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile you\u2019re in the area, head to Wassaic for their summer exhibition, the group show \u201cBecause, now is the time of monsters\u201d at Maxon Mills, the organization\u2019s 8,000-square-foot, seven-floor-grain-elevator turned exhibition space. Several works by Dunn are also in the show, like a set of incisive but playful collages of American presidents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Upstate Photography Biennial at Center for Photography at Woodstock<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy CPW and the artist\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Address:<\/strong> 25 Dederick St, Kingston, NY 12401<\/p>\n
\n\tWant to get a flavor for the practices of wide range of artists working in the Hudson Valley? This year, the Center for Photography at Woodstock\u2014which, perhaps confusingly, is located in Kingston\u2014is hosting the first Upstate Photography Biennial. 39 artists are presented in the show, all local to the Hudson Valley and many selected through an open call for submissions. There are well-known practicitioners in the bunch, including Lyle Ashton Harris, An-My L\u00ea, and Stephen Shore, among others. In a statement, Brian Wallis, CPW executive director, argued that Upstate New York \u201chas become the central node\u201d of photography in the country. The Biennial certainly supports his case. While the show opened in May, CPW is hosting a launch of the Biennial catalogue on Saturday, accompanied by an exhibition tour and launch party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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