Community Gallery Exhibits

Faculty, Student, and Guest Artists

See also Visiting Artists & Larry Berk Artist-in-Residence Programs

FUTURE VOICES: Art From Ulster County High School Students

April 5 - April 19, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 2024
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

This annual exhibition features artwork from Ulster County High School students. Participating schools include Saugerties, Onteora, Rondout Valley, Kingston, Coleman Catholic, and Ellenville. This event is free and open to the public.

STUDENT ART EXHIBITION

May 3 - May 18, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2024
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

This annual exhibition features artwork from SUNY Ulster's art students.

Art Events & Exhibitions in the Gallery Fall 2022

MARIEKEN COCHIUS

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Exhibition dates: October 7th - November 29th Tuesday 
Artist Reception - Friday November 4th, 4-6pm
Artist talk with students

Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist whose work is meditative and intuitive and often explores growth forms, movement of light and wind, root systems, and animal architecture. She is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. In 2021 Cochius received an NYSCA Decentralization Grant for an Individual Artist Commission. She is a 2020 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund grant. In 2017 Cochius completed a public sculpture commission for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY made possible by a grant from the Hudson River Foundation.

STATEMENT

I am fascinated by growth-forms, root systems of plants, movements of microscopic organisms, seedpods, and animal architecture. In these I see a sensitive unpredictability that both contains and propels the origins and energies of life. 

My sculpture, drawings, and paintings capture such fleeting moments in an organic world dominated by chaos and change. The energy that natural forms temporarily contain yet inevitably transform particularly inspires me. Evoking the mystery and power of nature through intensely materialist and tactile forms and imagery, my work explores the porous boundary between what is seen and felt, where perception and experience merge. 

I aim to create a mesmerizing effect of movement;, something that looks familiar, but that you cannot exactly define. Every inch of my work is as important as the whole, like fractal dimensions, seen through a microscope or a telescope.

Past Events & Exhibitions

Fall 2019 | Fall 2018 | Spring 2018 | Fall 2017 | Spring 2017

COLLECTIVE EXPEDITIONS

Friday, November 8 – Friday, December 13 Opening Reception: 

Friday, November 8 

5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Muroff-Kotler Gallery

The International Society of Antiquaries is a league of artists who are bound by a desire to look back in order to look forward. Collective Expeditions is their inaugural show and features painting, works on paper, sculpture, and installation. Although the artists have diverse practices, their work fits together in complex and interesting ways that speak to the importance of understanding our past—sometimes as far back as prehistory—in order to comprehend who we are as a species and where we are going. “Individually and collectively our work references tribal, shamanic, ancestral, as well as contemporary art; esotericism; anthropology; and archaeology in various direct and indirect ways.”

Participating artists

• Kyle Cottier
• Olivia Baldwin
• Elisa Pritzker 
• Greg Slick

 Spring 2019

HAMMER DANCE: New Works by Chris Victor

February 8 – March 29

Chris Victor is a visual artist working primarily in repurposed and commonly available materials. For this exhibition, Chris has created a body of abstract, wall-based works inspired by his desire to return to painting, but using the materials, processes and methods of making things. The works reveal his curiosity and dexterity while exploring improvised making techniques inspired by the inherent qualities of the materials he is working with. This improvised method creates the works’ formal elements, with each piece developing from its own particular invented process. As the artist puts it, his aim is “to create works which are completely open about their own process of becoming.” Chris’s work has been in numerous shows including The Grand Rapids Public Museum, the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, and The Samuel Dorsky Museum. Chris has been a resident at the Wassaic Project artist residency and was awarded an NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture in 2014. This event is free.

STUDENT WORKS 

April 24 - May 18, 2019
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

This annual exhibition will bring together the creative work of students in the Visual Art, Design and Fashion Design programs for a lively interaction of diverse media. This event is free.

FUTURE VOICES: HIGH SCHOOL ART FROM ULSTER COUNTY 

May 30 - June 13

This annual exhibition features artwork from Ulster County High School students.
Participating schools include Saugerties, Onteora, Rondout Valley, Kingston, Coleman Catholic, and Ellenville.

This event is free.

 2018

The Form of Shadows

Recent photography by Ernest Shaw
Friday, November 16 – Friday, December 14, 2018

Local resident Ernest Shaw will be exhibiting recent photography in his show, THE FORM OF SHADOWS. This exhibit is primarily focused on photography, a "new" medium in his 50 year career with sculpture, paintings, and drawings. The photographs integrate his lifelong concerns with mortality, the nature of the "self" and shadow, and the relentless search for integration and wholeness, particularly in the consequences of action and gestures, of moments and eons. One of these series, "Are we flesh or wood?" explores our fundamental unity and relatedness with the natural world, of life with death. The photographs, primarily visual, are also deeply grounded in our psychological condition, our relationship to ever changing time and place. These themes resonate with Shaw's other career as psychiatrist, psychotherapist and long-time teacher of mindfulness meditation practices. As Shaw has written, "articulate compassion is common ... silence is the dialogue of centuries". This body of work asks, "are we one, or two ... or none? This event is free and open to the public.

Hers & His: 25 Years of Art & Marriage

A Selection of Works by the Artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano

Friday, August 31 – Friday, September 28, 2018

For over 25 years of marriage, Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano have been making art and yet their only collaborative works are their son and daughter. In 1999 they moved to the rural forested area of Stone Ridge. Since that time they have become fascinated with nature and plants. A life immersed in nature’s cycles and growing plants has dominated both of their art for the last 18 years. Plants are the sources of inspiration and are used directly in paintings as art materials.

They collected so many diverse plants that they started a Botanical Garden called ‘Hortus Conclusus’ that is classified as a a level II Arboretum.

Allyson Levy (left) and Scott Serrano (right)