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Pick a Point in a Picture: New Mind Model Works @ Uncommon Grounds, Albany. Thirty digital collages by George Guarino that are meant to serve as focal points for meditation, self-growth and insight. Guarino will be on hand to discuss his process for enhanced viewing of the artwork on Friday, May 24, 7-9pm and again on Friday, June 28, 7-9pm. (Through July 2)

Jason Middlebrook @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. For the past decade, Jason Middlebrook has been exploring the complex relationship between man and nature in his sculptures, installations, paintings and large-scale drawings. Responding to the unusual scale of MASS MoCA’s gallery, the artist will be working with planks that in some instances reach tree-like heights, while others will retain a human scale. Middlebrook will also debut a new monumental mobile that will function like a fountain within the gallery. Titled Falling Water after Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Kaufman residence, the work continues the artist’s exploration of manufactured nature while adding a twist to Wright’s notions of living in harmony with the environment. Opens May 26. (Through April 7)

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A Dream in the Dash @ The Living Room, Albany. This exhibit, the grand opening a new exhibition space at the historic St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands, will feature photography and “Dream Windows” by Albany artist Chuck Miller who has framed some of his works in actual windows removed from very old buildings. Opening reception: Friday, May 17, 4:30-6:30pm (Through July 17)

Place and Displace @ Collar Works, Troy. Works by Claire Sherwood and Ali Della Bitta that explore domesticity, industrialism, femininity, permanence, ritual and the mundane. Reception: Friday, May 17th from 5 to 9pm. (Through May 24)

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Visionaries: Outsider Portraits by Fred Scruton @ BCB Art, Hudson. Fred Scruton travels extensively throughout the country to document self-taught artists and their work, examining the vitality of visions formed outside of the artistic mainstream. This exhibition focuses on environmental portraiture within the personal worlds each artist has created. Also on view will be a group show of gallery artists, including work by Ching Ho Cheng, Frank Cresotti, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Emily Gui, Julie McCarthy, Dan Welden and others. Artist reception: Saturday, May 11, 6-8pm. (Through June 9)

The Study @ Albany Center Gallery. Works by local artists MammalSoap, Emily Dorr, ♥Neener and Patrick Picou Harrington that explore the natural world from the comfort of the home environment. Opens Tuesday, May 14. Artists reception: June 7, 5-9pm. (Through June 29)

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TreeHouse @ Courthouse Gallery, Lake George. New paintings by Melanie Kozol, a Brooklyn-based painter whose work focuses on color, light and the landscape with the Northeastern terrain – forests, rivers and oceans – as primary sites of her investigation. Opening reception: Saturday, May 4, 4-6pm. (Through June 7)

IndianInk: Iroquois & The Art of Tattoo @ The Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave. A showcase of contemporary tattoo art, both the work of young Haudenosaunee designers such as Lyle Logan and Ike Hopper and skin art selected and commissioned by others. Once widespread among Indigenous peoples of the northeast, the patterns and practices of this extraordinary tradition of body modification had declined by the mid 1800s as a consequence of Christianity, assimilation, and relocation. Today, this ancient art is undergoing a spectacular resurgence in Native and non-Native communities. Opening reception: Saturday, May 4, 3-5pm, with a presentation at 3pm by Dr. Lars Krutak, an American anthropologist, photographer and writer known for his research about tattoo and its cultural background. (Through May 24)

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A.R.T. – American Road Trip, Italy & Rock n’ Roll @ Clement Art Gallery, Troy. For over forty years, photographer Martin Benjamin has captured images, stopping time and creating a moment. He has photographed political and sporting events as a photojournalist, created photo essays of other cultures as in his trips to Vietnam and had an award-winning series of photos in Life Magazine. Martin is probably most known for his hundreds of rock photos he has taken through the years, capturing iconic musicians both on and off stage, from Dylan to Springsteen and the Clash to the Kinks. This exhibition will feature three different aspects of Martin Benjamin’s character and personality behind the camera: images from his American Road Trip series, a series of prints from a visit to Italy in 2010 and his iconic rock n’ roll photography. Opening reception: Friday, April 26, 6-9pm. (Through May 29)

Synesthesia @ Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. A collection of paintings and prints by Willie Marlowe accompanied by an evening of individual dances performed by The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company to music by Cornelius Dufallo, Brian Melick, Monica Wilson-Roach and Maria Zemantauski on Saturday, May 4th at The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. A reception will follow at ACCR for all who attended the performance. (Through May 5)

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