This month’s Hudson Valley round-up features a rare local presentation by Kathy Ruttenberg, whose work is as singular as it is elusive in regional exhibition rosters. At Catskill Art Space Ruttenberg joins Daniel Giordano and Davana Robedee, but her pieces—ceramic hybrids that fuse creaturely forms with landscape and mythic gesture—anchor the show with a vision both playful and profound. For readers who know her work, this is a chance to see her sculptures in dialogue with peers; for newcomers, it’s an opportunity to encounter an artist whose symbolic language refracts emotion through a universe of painted clay.
“Anki King: then and Now” at the Lace Mill in Kingston
March 7-29
Spanning more than a decade, this exhibition at the Lace Mill brings together paintings, drawings, and the first substantial presentation of Anki King’s ceramic sculptures. The work emerges through an intuitive, material-led process, with the human figure rendered as a charged, anonymous vessel. Rooted in Scandinavian psychological intensity, the spare palette and tactile surfaces explore stillness, vulnerability, and emotional weight.
“Lincoln’s Campaign to Defeat the Hudson River School” at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls
Through July 26
This exhibition at the Hyde Collection centers on six monumental woodcuts by Richard Deon, styled like 19th-century periodical illustrations and executed with sly precision. The prints narrate the absurdly convincing saga of a fictitious monument transported from Thomas Cole Mountain to New Hampshire, with Abraham Lincoln cast as a figure adrift, armed with a maxim about truth. Witty and surreal, the work probes how easily history can be staged, bent, and believed. A nearly 40-foot-wide painting extends these ideas into panoramic, destabilizing scale.
“About Face” at Convey/er/or in Poughkeepsie
Through April 1
This interactive exhibition by Pope Phoenix at Convey/er/or examines how snap judgments are formed—and what they reveal about the person doing the judging. Drawing on the artist’s background in illustration, art direction, and graphic design, the work invites participation as a way of surfacing bias, projection, and cultural conditioning. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, the show stages encounters that mirror shared life experience, using both digital and traditional media to turn observation inward and make self-reflection part of the artwork itself.
“Spirit in the Flesh” at Utopia in Kingston
March 7-28
Newly opened Kingston gallery Utopia presents “Spirit in the Flesh,” a group exhibition that treats artmaking as a form of transmission rather than self-expression. Curated by Saul Chernick, the show brings together Chernick, Courtney Puckett, and Ben Pederson, whose works move between intuition, material transformation, and speculative world-building. Puckett repurposes domestic cast-offs into symbol-laden sculptures informed by divination practices; Pederson channels sci-fi dream logic into objects that feel both playful and unsettling; and Chernick’s low-relief panels explore balance, structure, and permeability. Together, the works offer a tactile countercurrent to the noise of the present moment. Opening reception on March 7 from 4-7pm.
“The Buried Image” at the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie
Through March 5
The exhibition “The Buried Image” at Vassar’s Palmer Gallery brings together three local artists—Onaje Benjamin, Emilie Houssart, and Xuewu Zheng—in work that responds to the Poughkeepsie Journal’s photo archive and questions how visual history is preserved and remembered. Benjamin’s photographic collages pull from archival material to underscore histories of social justice in the Hudson Valley; Houssart reprints original metal plates from the archive, letting overlooked images find renewed presence; and Zheng’s installation transforms stacks of old papers into a meditation on embedded local memory. Together their pieces invite viewers to reconsider who chooses what gets recorded and what gets forgotten.
“Adrian Lee: Mimetic Modes” at WAAM in Woodstock
March 13-April 26
The solo exhibition “Adrian Lee: Mimetic Modes” at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum presents a focused body of work by New York–based artist Adrian Lee. Lee’s layered paintings and collages draw deeply from the history of representation while probing what we take as “real” in contemporary image-making. In Mimetic Modes he deploys convincing modes of depiction alongside unexpected visual motifs, inviting viewers to reconsider how realism and its conventions can conceal as much as they reveal. The exhibition is accompanied by an artist talk and an opening reception that foreground Lee’s thoughtful engagement with form and context. Opening reception on March 14 from 4-6pm.
“Onnis Luque: DOMINIO” at Art Omi in Ghent
March 21-May 31
”Dominio: An Unfinished Visual Archive of Architectural Extractivism” presents a striking photographic investigation by Onnis Luque into the overlooked origins of the built environment at Art Omi. Tracing a decade-long engagement across extractive landscapes—from sand mines to fractured hillsides in Mexico—Luque’s large-format images make visible the scars and infrastructures that supply stone, earth, and mineral to construction yet are rarely seen in architectural imagery. His work challenges the polished mythologies of architecture by foregrounding socio-ecological and ideological forces—capitalism, modernism, colonial extraction—that underlie the materials we build with. The result is a rigorous visual archive that reframes how we see what shapes our world. Opening reception March 21 from 1-3pm.
“Imagined Realities: Pulse and Pattern” at Tyte Gallery in Millbrook
Through April 12
“Imagined Realities” brings together Sabri Sundos, Shannon Carroll, and Sophie Kitching in a three-artist exhibition attentive to labor, repetition, and the slow intelligence of the hand at the Tyte Gallery in Millbrook. Working across embroidery, painting, and layered material practices, the artists explore how memory and meaning accumulate through process. Sundos’s hand-embroidered works draw on pattern and cultural inheritance; Carroll’s atmospheric paintings balance restraint and abundance; and Kitching’s layered surfaces pulse with color and gesture. Together, the works create contemplative spaces shaped by rhythm and touch, foregrounding making itself as an act of agency in environments marked by excess and control.
“Daniel Giordano, Davana Robedee, and Kathy Ruttenberg” at Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor
March 7-April 25
At Catskill Art Space, a three-person exhibition brings together Daniel Giordano, Davana Robedee, and Kathy Ruttenberg in a conversation about transformation, material intelligence, and ecological entanglement. Giordano’s sculptures fuse organic matter, industrial processes, and bodily references into objects that feel both intimate and uncanny. Robedee’s indigo works, shaped through meditative shibori techniques and homegrown pigment, hover between dream state and material fact. Ruttenberg, one of the Hudson Valley’s most searching sculptors, contributes ceramic figures and hybrid forms that merge species, emotion, and environment. Together, the artists trace how bodies, objects, and ecosystems continually remake one another. Opening reception on March 7 from 3-5pm.
“Thought & Perception: Theresia Zhang and Isabelle Coulet” at Rohmer Gallery in Saugerties
March 6-April 26
At Rohmer Gallery, Thought & Perception pairs Theresia Zhang and Isabelle Coulet in a cross-continental conversation about how meaning is built through looking. Zhang’s lush, staged paintings draw on what she calls Reversed Chinoiserie, reframing Western cultural narratives through a contemporary Chinese lens. Her scenes feel cinematic and psychologically charged, with figures suspended between desire, vulnerability, and performance. Coulet’s paintings offer a crisp counterpoint: radiant geometric compositions rooted in Hard Edge traditions, driven by light, color, and precision. Together, the works balance narrative density and formal clarity, proposing two distinct but complementary approaches to perception and presence. Opening reception on March 6 from 4-7pm.
“D. Jack Solomon, Potpourri: Seven Decades of Painting” at Time and Space Limited in Hudson
March 14-April 12
At Time and Space Limited, “Potpourri: Seven Decades of Painting” offers an expansive look at the work of D. Jack Solomon, one of the region’s quiet elders. Spanning more than 70 years, the exhibition moves fluidly between Solomon’s minimalist color grids of the 1960s and ’70s and his later collage-driven paintings, where comic figures, architectural fragments, and decorative pattern collide. Whimsical, rigorous, and often slyly humorous, the works read like visual thought experiments—formal structures loosened by cultural detritus and memory. At 92, Solomon remains actively engaged in the studio, and this show feels less like a retrospective than an ongoing conversation. Opening reception on March 14 from 2-4pm.
