Hudson Valley Artists 2025: Movement
Guest-curated by the artist ransome, the 2025 iteration of the Dorsky Museum’s annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition explores the theme of “Movement” from multiple perspectives including migration, immigration, place, political displacement, social change, isolation, and physical motion itself.

What makes someone leave family, friends, and a familiar way of life behind? What would it take for you to say goodbye to the people you love and embark on a journey to a place you have never seen, many miles from your home? The decision to leave can be both the most frightening and the bravest step of a lifetime. Often such moves are seen as taking steps to improve one’s circumstances. Yet, for many people, the decision to relocate is often made because one’s survival depends on it. In those instances, our bodies carry us forward—our small steps, the breath rising and falling in our chests, build into a journey of significance. These physical movements can ultimately reverberate over generations, altering the fabric of societies, creating new communities, and melding cultures.  

Hudson Valley Artists: Movement features Fern Apfel, Joan Barker, Peter Bynum, Elizabeth Castagna, Jennie Duke, John Ebbert, Jill Enfield, Audrey Francis, Richard H Franklin, Samantha French, Joanne Gelb, Matthew Gilbert, Carl L Grauer, Aaron Hauck, Ali Herrmann, Candice Ivy, Carole Kunstadt, Elizabeth Livingston, Annie Lewis, Joel Longenecker, Norm Magnusson, Jason Mitcham, Emmanuel Ofori, Franc Palaia, Cate Pasquarelli, Gina Palmer, Beverly Peterson, Alex W Rader, Susanna Ronner, Aleks Rosenberg, Richard T Scott, Carla Shapiro, Rebecca Shippee, Ben Sloat, James Stamboni, Suprina, Daniel Venture, and Erik Daniel White

Quiet Observations

 It is exciting to announce a new series of work, A Qu(i)e(t)er Interior, to be exhibiting at Carrie Haddad Gallery in a group exhibit titled Quiet Observations starting April 21 through June 11. An opening reception will be held at the gallery in Hudson, NY from 5 to 7pm Saturday, April 22nd.  Other artists exhibiting include Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Regina Quinn, and Judith Wyer.

This new series of work is based mostly on the interior. It references the concepts of time, space, ritual, and mortality. I observe the space in which I and my husband exist and a perspective that tracks varied points of view, and how the light is experienced. In this work, A Qu(i)e(t)er Interior, I create perceived emotions among materials, beings, and the light that is cast among them. Inspiration has come from queer aesthetics, material culture, mortality, and the modern interior.  I look forward to sharing this new body of work as it has deep meaning to me and the time spent reflecting upon it this past year. I hope you may join in viewing it at Carrie Haddad Gallery or online.

April 21, 2023 through June 11, 2023

 "120 MINUTES" is a comprehensive exhibition of portrait artist Carl Grauer's series of over 300 Two Hour Portraits being exhibited at The Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery on the Dutchess Community College Campus February 22, 2022 to March 18, 2022 with an artist talk on March 17, 2022 at 1pm.

To schedule a sitting with Carl during the exhibit you may register by clicking here. 

Carl Grauer has expanded his Two Hour Portrait series as a way to create connection and mark this time during an increasingly isolating and fraught moment in our world’s history. He has so far completed more than 300 portraits, and more than 100 from across the globe, during quarantine over video conference since March of 2020.  The full exhibit will feature this comprehensive collection of portraits of the past 10 years. Since 2012, Grauer has set out to paint portraits within the time frame of two hours. It is an ongoing portrait of a group with whom Carl has interacted; thus, as much as it is a portrait of a group, it is a portrait of his progression as an artist. 

Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to present “Fragments of Time and Space” an exhibit of paintings by Anthony Finta, Ginny Fox, Carl Grauer, Joseph Maresca, and abstract wall sculpture by Dai Ban. The artists in this show react to constantly changing elements such as light and shadow, nature’s seasons, or height and depth perceptions. Using abstracted observations, as well as more literal depictions, the works on view challenge our relationships to time and space. “Fragments of Time and Space” will be on view September 29th – November 21st with a reception for the artists on Saturday, October 2nd from 5-7pm.

The 14th annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, is curated by Helen Toomer. Artists were invited to submit artwork that deals with the challenges of the past year and the re-imaginings of years to come, responding to the question “Who really cares?” asked by Marvin Gaye fifty years ago on the monumental album, “What’s Going On.” 27 artists were chosen from over 385 submissions. Who Really Cares?  promises to be a great exhibition that showcases the diverse and dynamic art practices of emerging and mid-career artists in the Hudson Valley.

Fridman Gallery is pleased to present Time Lapse, a group exhibition of artists living and working in the Hudson Valley. This is the second exhibition at the gallery’s Beacon location.

Time Lapse looks at memory as a parallel dimension, in which it is possible for objects, events, and stories to travel through temporal and physical spaces, to a setting where they are perceived in a different light. The artists in Time Lapse recontextualize and reimagine relationships among materials, beings, and environments, elucidating the liminal threshold between the existence of a thing and its perception.

Sunrise Sunset features work by 46 artists and runs from May 15-August 30, 2021. The show is in the airport’s new redeveloped pre-security Gallery and in the post-security Concourse A Gallery.

In the spirit of the Hudson River School of art tradition, the HVAA Annual Exhibition jurors will showcase original representational images that display aesthetic appeal and technical skill.

Up Close and Personal invites you to engage with the age-old notion of getting up close and personal. The exhibition will feature a diverse array of media, including ceramics, digital media, film, graphic art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, video and installation art. Up Close and Personal will be exhibited at The Trolley Barn in Poughkeepsie, an industrial gallery space and is the hub for the area’s thriving arts scene.

This Spring we will be presenting a select group of 24 recognized Hudson Valley artists who will be stationed along the Testimonial Gateway Trailhead and along the Pin Oak Allee, located at 35 Route 299 near Gatehouse Road. This trail features the historic Testimonial Gateway Tower, circa 1907, which served as the entrance to the Mohonk Mountain House until 1945. Wide views which include Humpo Marsh, an important wildlife area, historic farms and fields along the Ridge and segments of the Preserve’s carriage road system are inspiring to artists and visitors alike.

Each artist will create one or more works in the medium of their choice, on site in plein air. The theme is nature and the outdoors. The process and finished artworks will be photographed throughout the day and will be included in an online auction through Mohonk Preserve’s online auction platform

INTERIORS can mean various things to different people. It can be a representational viewpoint from inside a home, workplace, studio or cafe - often it can have a nostalgic sensibility or invoke a feeling of security. A person might identify with a place of worship, or even a forest, to express their internal self. Internalized feelings and emotions may resonate within an artwork. How would you express the concept of interior?

Cape Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA 02638

508-385-4477

Time: the continuum of experience in which events pass from future to present to past. How does one experience TIME? A particular occasion, a good time, a bad time, history, events of the day, visionary future, an instance of something happening or being done, mark making, measuring, movement… Interpretations are only limited by your vision of the theme “TIME”

Juror : Elizabeth Heskin

Carl Grauer Pays Tribute to 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Rebellion with New Exhibit

Fine artist Carl Grauer’s upcoming exhibit entitled “The Lavender Temple of Their Most Fabulous” opens at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York on Wednesday, June 12th.

Envisioned as a tribute to the Stonewall Rebellion that occurred in New York City in 1969, the show features portraits of 15 figures who have impacted the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The intention of this exhibit is at once celebratory and educational; serving as an acknowledgement of the pivotal events that emboldened the gay rights movement in the United States, while also highlighting other important figures who have contributed to LGBTQ+ visibility and equality before or since the events of June 1969.

A new series of paintings celebrate and ‘sanctify’ these torchbearers through works that reference religious iconography to spark a conversation surrounding art history, LGBTQ+
history and cultural responses.

Showing as well, Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to present Mortals, Saints & Myths, an exhibit that explores the idolized and idealized figures that preoccupy our realities- both real and imagined. This special group of Hudson Valley artists are best known for their representation of the figure via painting, photography and installation. Featured artists include Mark Beard, Carl Grauer, Juan Garcia-Nunez, Kahn & Selesnick, John T. Unger, and David Sokosh. On view June 12 – July 28 with a reception for the artists on Saturday, June 15th from 5-7pm. All are welcome to join us!

For more information click here!

Cocoon Theatre Visual Arts Initiative at Cunneen Hacket Art Gallery presents a solo show of oil paintings by Carl Grauer.

Please join for an opening reception April 5 from 5 to 8pm. I will be presenting a large exhibit of portraits and work that centers around Judy Garland and the Wizard of Oz! It will be showcased in the front parlors of the Vassar Brothers Institute at 12 Vassar Street in Poughkeepsie!

The Other Art Fair is back in Brooklyn on November 8-11, 2018. I will be showing for another time showcasing live painting of my Two Hour Portraits.

Presented by the world's leading online art gallery Saatchi Art, the Fair showcases work by 100 talented emerging artists, each hand picked by a Selection Committee of art world experts. Art lovers can visit the fair with the confidence that they are buying from the very best and most promising emerging artists in a unique and immersive experience.

“Overflowing with creative talent” 
Time Out

"The Other Art Fair's got hipster credentials, but it's serious about nurturing talent too."
Telegraph Luxury

A two day self guided tour of local artist's studios, art exhibits, and activities in the historic neighborhoods of Poughkeepsie, NY the weekend of June 16-17, 2018.

This is an opportunity to interact personally with artists who live, work, or teach in our area, and to find out more about their inspirations, their creative processes, and the types of media they employ. While in the area, take time to experience the rich history and the broad cultural diversity of our community.

Poughkeepsie Open Studios is hosted by the Barrett Art Center, home of the Dutchess County Art Association, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of arts in the Mid-Hudson valley through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations. This event is produced by an all-volunteer committee, partnering with our local artists, arts organizations, art galleries, and businesses.

https://www.poughkeepsieopenstudios.org

For over twenty-seven years, Carrie Haddad Gallery has prided itself on exhibiting some of the finest artworks in the Hudson Valley, from breathtaking Hudson River School-style landscapes to intense and unforgettable abstract-expressionist works. Now, it’s time for something a little different.

“Peculiar Rarities”, an exhibition set to run from March 7 to April 22, with an opening reception on March 10 from 5 – 7 p.m., is exactly what it sounds like. The exhibition will include media from porcelain to Play-Doh, and subject matter that includes icebergs, Victorian steampunk characters, conniving housewives, and Judy Garland. From the moment you walk through the door, each space will house its own experience: here, spectral and Seuss-like; there, off-kilter and gritty, all of it richly blending beauty with provocation.

Frequent visitors to the gallery are likely to recognize many familiar names, such as David Halliday and Donise English, but may be surprised to find that these artists don’t stray far from their tried-and-true techniques. Halliday creates quirky variations on his characteristic still-life photographs, while English brings the unpretentious motifs and palettes of her usual work into the third dimension. Fans of each artist will delight in these odd treasures, which serve as proof that talent transcends tradition.

In addition to Halliday and English, exhibited artists will include Juan Garcia Nunez, Russell DeYoung, Nick Simpson, Newbold Bohemia, Leon Smith, Paul Katz, Andrea Moreau, Fernando Orellana, Carl Grauer, David Dew Bruner, Robert Gulley, and Frank Litto.

Open Daily, 11 am to 5 pm
Sunday, noon - 5 pm

http://carriehaddadgallery.com

622 Warren Street
Hudson, NY. 12534

Tel. 518.828.1915 

The Other Art Fair is thrilled to make it's debut in the creative heart of Los Angeles at The Majestic Downtown on March 15-18, 2018. I will be showing for another time showcasing live painting of my Two Hour Portraits.

Presented by the world's leading online art gallery Saatchi Art, the Fair showcases work by 100 talented emerging artists, each hand picked by a Selection Committee of art world experts. Art lovers can visit the fair with the confidence that they are buying from the very best and most promising emerging artists in a unique and immersive experience.

“Overflowing with creative talent”
Time Out

"The Other Art Fair's got hipster credentials, but it's serious about nurturing talent too."
Telegraph Luxury

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510 Warren Street Gallery will be featuring the Two Hour Portraits Series. Being the first time this entire series will be exhibited all at once, it would be my absolute honour to have you come take a look.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 6 from 3 - 7pm
510 WARREN STREET GALLERY

510 Warren Street Gallery is a cooperative gallery that is artist owned and operated.  Grauer has recently joined and will be showing continually through 2016 and into 2017.  The Gallery hosts an opening reception every first Saturday of the month.  

Other artists showing will include Carol Brody, Denise B. Chandler, Nancy Flecher, Nancy Ghitman, Kate Knapp, John Lipkowitz, Nina Polk Lipkowitz, Hannah Mandel, Peggy Reeves, Karen Roth, Mary Carol Rudin, George Spencer, H. David Stein, ceramics by Ben Evan.      

OPENING TIMES

Friday and Saturday 12 - 6pm
Sunday 12 - 5pm
Mon-Thurs by appt.

ADDRESS

510 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534

http://www.510warrenstreetgallery.com

518 - 822 - 0510

Carrie Haddad Gallery presents “Americana”, an exhibit that stages concrete and abstract symbols of American values. A striking selection of ballpoint pen drawings, wood and cardboard constructions, painting and photography recall contemporary ‘artifacts’ relating to American history, culture and tradition defined by previous centuries. The exhibit opens January 25th and remains on view through March 12th. All are welcome to join us for an artists’ reception on Saturday, January 28th, 5-7pm.

Open Daily, 11 am to 5 pm
Sunday, noon - 5 pm

http://carriehaddadgallery.com

622 Warren Street
Hudson, NY. 12534

Tel. 518.828.1915 

Emerge Gallery & Art Space is pleased to present "Petit: A Group Exhibition of Smaller Art." The exhibition includes artwork sized under 16" x 20" of various mediums including oil, acrylic, collage, mixed media, fiber art, sculpture, photography and more. The work represents various styles from artists nationally and internationally. Join us for an opening reception in person on November 4, 2016, from 5-9 PM EST as part of Saugerties First Friday. We will also be live on Facebookthroughout the evening. Artwork will simultaneously be available on-line for viewing and purchasing at www.emergegalleryny.com. 'Petit" will be on exhibit through November 28, 2016. 

Emerge Gallery & Art Space
228 Main Street, Saugerties, New York 12477

The Salmagundi Club is pleased to announce its annual Non-Members Painting and Sculpture Exhibition. The exhibit will be on view July 18 - 29. Weekdays 1-6pm, weekends 1-5pm.

This competitive fine art exhibition includes works by painters and sculptors from all over the country. The show features both realistic and abstract sculpture ranging in subjects and mediums from animals and busts in wood and clay to figures and expressionistic forms in stone and bronze. The paintings consist of original works in oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and mixed media. The subject matter is wide and ranges from nudes and still lifes to landscapes and portraits.

This annual show allows both well-known and up-and-coming artists to exhibit their work in the Salmagundi Club's prestigious Upper Gallery. In addition, artists who participate can win cash prizes and may be eligible for possible membership at the Club.

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

Salmagundi Club

47 Fifth Avenue @ Twelfth Street | New York, NY 10003 | (212) 255-7740 

Open to the Public: July 18 - 29, 2016. Weekdays 1-6pm, weekends 1-5pm.

This Spring, Point Gallery of Denver, Colorado will be hosting Carl Grauer's first solo show.  Recollections, a series that plays with the tension between memories, the “return to home”, and the actual experienced past, is an idea that I explore through the renderings of the family unit.  With source imagery of found slides and photos of people he finds at flea markets, secondhand stores or from friends or his own family’s collection, Grauer changes elements to signify specific moments that could be seen as memories, remembered or forgotten.  He aims to represent nostalgic scenes that may relay a tension, sorrow or humor that could be constructed memories or actual experienced events. 

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

POINT | Gallery

765 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, Colorado 80204

www.pointgallerydenver.com

OPENING: Friday, 3 June 2016, 6:00 - 9:30PM

Open to the Public: June 3rd - 28th 2016

The main exhibition is formed of about 200 works and is in two parts: a cohort of work by distinguished members and works by non-member artists who have successfully competed to be included in the show, including a work painted by myself. The exhibitions aims to include the best of a wide variety of styles in painted and drawn media and is a significant gathering of the best of recent portraits.

http://www.therp.co.uk/society/exhibitions/

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

The Mall Galleries

The Mall, by Trafalgar Square, London.

Open to the Public:

05 May 2016, 10am to 5pm

Closes: 20 May 2016

What does it mean to be a woman in the twenty-first century? How are we representing the realities of contemporary women’s lives and issues? How are we engaging with historic ideas of femininity? The media would have us believe that gender is more fluid than ever, but does this fluidity—at least as it plays out in the mainstream media—actually represent a real challenge to stereotypical gender norms that many feel hemmed in by? Feminists have increasingly grappled with the ways that intersectional identity complicates notions of femininity, inflecting the way in which women continue to fight to make diverse voices heard. This exhibition presents artworks that engage with these questions and seek to explore diverse ways of being a woman in the twenty-first century. Participating artists include: Allison Baker, Margarita Correia, Barbara Lekus, Jesse Harrod, Laura Kaufman, Khanh Le, Spooky Boobs Collective, Sidney Mullis, Cigdem Slankard, Malena Barnhart, Eunsu Kang, Carl Grauer, Veronica Casado, Lara Nguyen, Ayana Evans. More to be announced!

University Gallery, Fulton Hall 109

Salisbury University Art Galleries
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, MD 21801
galleries@salisbury.edu

Carl Grauer has been selected as one of the finalists for the WAC 2015 Open Call Exhibition. The WAC Awards is an open competition for contemporary visual art that is gaining praise and respect in Britain and abroad. It was established only four years ago by a group of artists and their friends in Wells, the cathedral city in South-West England. But a notion that came to life around kitchen and dining tables has already established a strong presence in the London artworld and is drawing artists from places as diverse as Australia, Azerbaijan, India, Italy, Korea, Japan and the United States, as well as all over Britain. The most cited reasons for this rapid success are the quality of the artists who enter, the prestige of the judges and the attraction of the prizes.

JURY

Mariele Neudecker
Sculptor and multimedia artist

Donald Smith
Director of Exhibitions,
Chelsea Space

Richard Wentworth
Sculptor and conceptual artist

All works will initially be viewed anonymously, online by the three judges. The resulting shortlist will then be reviewed by the 45 Park Lane Artists* who will have the option to revisit all the submissions. Out of this process will emerge the final choice of the 100 works selected for the Wells exhibition. The prizewinners are agreed after the selected works have been curated.

*The 45 Park Lane Artists are Sir Peter Blake, Brendan Neiland, Bruce McLean, Christian Furr, Joe Tilson, Martin Fuller, Patrick Hughes, Brad Faine, Donald Smith, and Tom Phillips.
The curator is Roy Ackerman.

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

WELLS & MENDIP MUSEUM

Cathedral Green
Wells
Somerset
BA5 2UE

http://www.wellsmuseum.org.uk/

Open to the Public:
09 - 25 October 2015

The main exhibition is formed of about 200 works and is in two parts: a cohort of work by distinguished members and works by non-member artists who have successfully competed to be included in the show, including a work painted by myself.  The exhibitions aims to include the best of a wide variety of styles in painted and drawn media and is a significant gathering of the best of recent portraits.

http://www.therp.co.uk/society/exhibitions/

Exhibition Details:

The Mall Galleries

The Mall, by Trafalgar Square, London.

Open to the Public:  

16 April 2015, 10am to 5pm

Late nights on Tuesday (7pm).

Closed for the day on Sunday 26th April – London Marathon

Closes: 1 May 2015