Art Gallery

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.

Best of Hudson Valley call to artists

 

 


Art Events & Exhibitions in the Gallery Fall 2022

Marieken Cochius

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 2018Spring 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


floor necklance

 

floor necklance

 


 

 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.

image of man in art studio with arms resting on desk

 


 

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.

scull-head quilt image

 

 


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.

surreal beach


 

 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.

dyptich of abstract images


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.

two paintings
Allyson Levy (left) and Scott Serrano (right)


 Creative Arts Showcase


Friday, January 26 – Friday, February 23

This exhibit featured the creative work of non-art teaching faculty and staff,
ranging from musical performances and readings to photography, sculpture and jewelry.

mixed media wasp nest

 

 


Kerhonkson Fashions

Friday, March 9 – Friday, April 13
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9

Kerhonkson Fashions presented the clothing collection of local luminary Verna Gillis. Highlighted was her vintage clothing, world costumes, and upcycled fashions for her label Kerhonkson Fashions. This exhibition was of special interest to students of the fashion design and theater programs.

black sheer dress

 


Student Works 2018

April 25 - May 19

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

student drawing of a scene from the movie 'Psycho'

 

 

 

 


Future Voices 2018: High School Art from Ulster County

May 31 - June 14

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

self portrait collage artwork


 2017

Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York Council on the Artsabstract painting with floral  and spiral designs  

New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowships Featuring 25 Artists From Ulster County

Friday, September 8 - Friday, October 20

The exhibition brings together 25 artists presently residing in Ulster County who have received one or in some case numerous New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships during the past 30 years. This show takes place in conversation with concurrent celebratory shows at SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Orange, and SUNY Dutchess.

“Artists as Innovators” celebrates NYSCA and NYFA Fellowships, which has supported more than 4,000 in visual, literature, and performance arts. “This is a highly competitive program, and we are so fortunate to live in a county teeming with so many talented and accomplished artists”, says gallery coordinator Suzy Jeffers. The show will display extraordinary examples in various visual arts disciplines, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, book arts, electronic and digital arts.

Artists included in this exhibit include Talya Baharal, Joan Barker, Jamie Bennett, Daniel Berlin, Mariella Bisson, Sydney Cash, Amy Cheng, Tricia Cline, Francois Deschamps, Christopher Gallego, Kathy Goodell, Judith Hoyt, Tana Kellner, Carmen Lizardo, Carol March, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Judith Mohns, Douglas Navarra, Jill Parisi, Emily Puthoff, Marian Schoette, Vincent Serbin, Kaete Brittin Shaw, Patty Tyrol, and Chris Victor.

The New York Foundation for the Arts was founded in 1971 to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. Each year it awards $650,000 in cash grants to inpidual artists in all artistic disciplines, through a sponsorship program that is one of the oldest and most reputable in the country.

 


Whales in Space Mural

Installation in Vanderlyn Hall

Whales in Space Mural

 

Fine Art majors and SUAA (SUNY Ulster Art Association) members have finished the whale mural in Vanderlyn lobby. They designed and painted it.

Amanda Tulacz (has entered the BFA program at Montserrat College of Art nr. Boston)
Jack Pierce
Monica Krajcovic (has also entered the BFA program at Montserrat College of Art nr. Boston)
Sam Leiching (has entered the BFA program at SUNY New Paltz)
Andrew Rider
Katie Ambrose
Jillian Lewis
Dino Rende
Doug Doyle

Stop by and see it!


Future Voices 2017: High School Art from Ulster County

future voices


June 2 - 15

This annual exhibition gifted up-and-coming artists from Coleman, Ellenville, Kingston, Onteora, Rondout, and Saugerties High Schools.

 

 

 

 

Spring Fashion Show Flyer 2017

Spring Fashion Show

Friday, May 19, 7:00 p.m.
Quimby Theater, Vanderlyn Hall

Come see the design collections of the first graduating class of SUNY Ulster’s Fashion Design Program! This fashion show demonstrates the mastery of skills and knowledge in design, pattern-making, draping, and sewing that have prepared these graduating students for transfer to four-year colleges and future success as professionals in the fashion design industry.

$5.00 suggested donation.

 

 

 

 


Student Works 2017 poster with text and image of scorpionStudent Works 2017

April 26 - May 24 
Opening Reception Wednesday, May 3, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

This annual exhibition features work created by SUNY Ulster students in the Fine Art, Design, and Fashion Design programs, as selected by instructors. Always a highlight!

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

mixed media abstraction

an eye, open

Works by Petra Nimtz and Jessica Poser


January 27 – February 17

Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Petra Nimtz is a German-born painter residing in Woodstock, NY. She states, “The paintings are an exploration of intuitive abstraction…they document visual diaries of my inner world. By using my left (non-dominant) hand, I am able to avoid preconceived notions and create works that are
fresh and imaginative.”

Jessica Poser creates mixed-media works that explore the psychodynamic intersections of natural and built environments and forms. Her work investigates the aesthetics of craft and the handmade as a means with which to draw connections between psychological and material processes. 


 

 


 

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