ArtBeat: What To See

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Garden Gone Wild @ 510 Warren Street, Hudson. An exhibit of Nina Lipkowitz’s recent watercolor paintings. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 3-6pm. (Through November 29)

Quasibotanics: From Apocalypse to Now @ Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. A collection of abstract paintings by Charles Geiger that reference botanical imagery. Artist’s reception: Thursday, November 5, 5pm. (Through November 30)

2015 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition @ Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs. Works by John Galt, Doretta Miller, Lauren Sandler and Peter Stake. Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 5:30-7pm. Gallery Talk: Wednesday, November 11, 4:30-5:30pm. (Through December 13)

Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students @ Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge. An exhibition celebrating the art and legacy of American illustration master Harvey Dunn. A brilliant and prolific illustrator of America’s Golden Age, Dunn was a prodigy of legendary artist Howard Pyle, and an admired teacher in his own right. Opening reception: Saturday, November 7, 6-8pm. (Through March 13)

Love a Vet: Honoring Our Veterans @ Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge. An exhibition that honors the sacrifices of veterans, calling attention to the struggles that many face upon their re-entry into civilian life and featuring paintings, drawings and prints by Gail Anderson, Scott Bakal, Jim Bennet, Steve Brodner, Joe Ciardello, Dennis Dittrich, Jeff Fisher, Stephen Gardner, Bri Hermanson, Victor Juhasz, David Keefe, Tina LeMay, William Low, Angela Martin, Melanie Reim, Edel Rodriguez, Yuko Shimizu, Mike Wimmer and Jime Wimmer. (Free admission tickets for U.S. veterans and active military are available at any Berkshire Bank branch, through the run of the exhibition.) Opening reception: Saturday, November 7, 6-8pm. (Through March 13)

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Many Rivers: Black Dimensions in Art @ Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs. A showcase of established and emerging artists from the USA, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, with works by Marcus Kwame Anderson, Betty Blayton, Aleathia Brown, Stanwyck Cromwell, Avel de Knight, Francelise Dawkins, Mikel Elam, Herbert Gentry, Daesha Devón Harris, Robert Charles Hudson, Femi Johnson, Hollis King, Jacqueline Lake-Sample, Eugene J. Martin, Carlton Murrell, Clifford Oliver, Andre Rochester, Stephen J. Tyson, Takeyce Walter, Frank Wimberley and Elizabeth Zunon. (Through November 7)

Bits and Pieces and Remastered Portraits @ Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon. Laura Gurton’s Bits and Pieces consists of compositions created from the photographs that have been manipulated to alter the colors and compositions and then recombined with bits and pieces from other manipulated photographs to form new works. Sydney Cash’s Remastered Portraits executes patterns in oil paint on top of prints of historical portraits and contemporary photographs to radically alter the images and change our perception – even as they retain their instant familiarity. (Through November 8)

Lee Marshall @ John Davis Gallery, Hudson. Six solo shows: in the main gallery, watercolors by Lee MarshallJan Abt and in the carriage house, sculpture by Erin Walrath and Nandita Raman and paintings by Ying Li and Elisa Jensen. (Through November 8)

Mouthful of Memory @ Spectrum 8 Theatres Art-Space, Albany. New digital collage works by George Guarino leave the construction of memory to the viewer. (Through November 9)

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TELLING @ Albany Center Gallery, Albany. Works by Jane McCambley, Theresa McTague, Josette Pastore and Alana Sparrow. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8pm. (Through November 13)

A Stitch in Time: The Fiber Show @ Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson. A showcase of works related to the fiber medium: knit, crochet, woven, spun, knotted, felted, riveted and tatted. (Through November 14)

Uncommon Beauty @ The Foundation Gallery, Greenport. Photographer Chad Weckler seeks the extraordinary in the ordinary in these urban environmental portraits. (Through November 14)

Color Theory @ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. A group exhibition of works by Vincent Pomilio, James O’Shea and Stephen Brophy that examine the shift in painting from the naturalistic into abstraction. (Through November 15)

Keepsakes @ Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. Solo shows by Gail Samuelson and Sharon Arnold. Also on display are portfolio showcases by Ellen Cantor and Norm Diamond. (Through November 15)

Dancing with Colors @ Good Purpose Gallery, Lee. Paintings by Olga Gernovski, a classically trained artist born in the Ukraine, and Margaret Buchte of Great Barrington, a self-taught artist who draws her inspiration from the beauty of the Berkshires and beyond. (Through November 17)

A Show of Heads @ Limner Gallery, Hudson. The gallery’s annual portraiture exhibition, featuring works in a wide variety of media. (Through November 21)

Michael Boroniec @ Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. A solo exhibition of complex ceramics, including the sculptor’s signature spiral vases and work from his series built on casts of human skulls. (Through November 22)

Remnants @ BCB Art, Hudson. New work by Lynn Itzkowitz including wall drawings which explore the space between reality and illusion. Also on view: work by John Foxx, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Lynn Itzokwitz, Musho Rodney Alan Greenblat, Richard Butler, Gmily Gui and others. (Through November 22)

Fur. Fin. Feathers. @ Spencertown Academy Gallery, Spencertown. The second annual regional exhibition, juried by gallerist Carrie Haddad, includes 56 oil paintings, watercolors, engravings, monoprints, mixed media assemblages and photographs by 27 local artists. (Through November 22)

Drawing on the Past Through the Future @ Clement Art Shop, Troy. An exhibition of works by printmaker Steven Hazard focusing on his drawings and sketches that serve as the basis for his copperplate etchings. (Through November 25)

Members Exhibit @ Second Floor Gallery, Glens Falls. North Country ARTS’ second annual members exhibition. Reception: Thursday, November 19, 5-7pm. (Through November 27)

Ion Codrescu: Haiga Painting @ Mandeviklle Gallery, Schenectady. An exhibition, held in conjunction with Haiku North America, of Ion Codrescu’s haiga paintings, is a unique genre of art that combines painting, poetry (haiku), and calligraphy. (Through November 29)

3rd Annual Upstate Invitational @ The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville. Works by Mary Ellen Riell, Chad Smith and JoAnn Axford. (Through November 29)

David Shaw: Dear Everything @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson. An exhibition of new sculpture by David Shaw, who mixes the natural and the manufactured as he combines wood, glass, steel and rope with holographic laminate, paint and fake moss. (Through December 6)

Zero Eyes @ The Esther Massry Gallery, Albany. Janet Werner’s odd, elusive and sometimes grotesque figure paintings reveal her continued fascination with fictionalized portraiture and mostly female representation. (Through December 6)

Bordering Utopia: Sculptures by Brian Tolle and Oded Hirsch: Three Videos @ University Art Museum, Albany. Featuring highly-crafted sculptures that combine detailed historical research with the latest techniques of production, Brian Tolle’s work explores America’s utopian quests from colonial times through the postwar era. Oded Hirsch’s videos feature a group of workers, cast against form formidable landscapes, who perform strenuous tasks across sea and land with anti-climatic results. (Through December 12)

From Concept to Console: Art and Aesthetics in Video Game Design @ Opalka Gallery, Albany. An exhibit focusing on the artist’s inspiration and process from early concept art to final in-game imagery, including works by the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula, Skylanders: SWAP Force, The Dream Machine, The Unfinished Swan, Transistor and Tengami. (Through December 13)

Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument @ Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. An exhibition focusing on Gordon Parks’ 1948 photo essay in Life magazine covering Harlem’s gang wars, featuring 45 prints alongside contact sheets, issues of the original publication and related ephemera that both contextualize the images chosen for the story and suggest the ways in which the editorial process shapes the narrative arc. (Through December 13)

Traces @ Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. Mixed media artists Mary Pat Wager and Rachel Baxter collaborate on this exhibition focused on intuitive responses and transformation of materials and objects. (Through December 20)

Profound and Poignant @ Dyson Gallery, Schenectady. An exhibit that examines the lives of Union alumni and others from the College who were key witnesses and makers of history in the Civil War era, including two secretaries of state, military leaders, Medal of Honor recipients and the man who failed to prevent Lincoln’s assassination. (Through December 31)

Transitional Interpretation: American Roots Music By Five Photographers @ The Folklife Gallery, Guest curator and photographer Andrzej Pilarczyk, along with four of his colleagues (Joseph Deuel, Enid Farber, Bryan Lasky and Lawrence White), provides a look at an insider’s view of the dramatic worlds of live music performance. (Through December 31)

Clifford Ross: Landscape Seen & Imagined @ MASS MoCA, North Adams. This major mid-career survey documents Clifford Ross’s longstanding project to reconcile realism and abstraction. The exhibition takes place throughout two buildings, six galleries and an exterior performing arts courtyard and includes a 24’ high x 114’ long photograph on raw wood that spans the length of MASS MoCA’s tallest gallery and an immersive installation of animated video on twelve separate 24’ high screens. A second phase of the exhibition, launching June 26, features an immersive outdoor video installation and an augmented reality experience accessible through the viewer’s smartphone.

Affinty Atlas @ The Tang, Saratoga Springs. An exhibition of works by contemporary artists that draws inspiration from the last work of the pioneering art historian Aby Warburg, who from 1925 to 1929 (the year of his death) undertook an ambitious cataloguing project — a visual compendium of his life’s research. Forgoing the customary art historical narrative, Warburg instead chose to illuminate his scholarly research through a constellation of some 2,000 images, which he pinned onto a series of room-filling black panels. (Through January 3)

Audrey Flack: Heroines @ The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls. This exhibition features the contemporary artist Audrey Flack, a pioneer in photorealism and a nationally recognized painter, printmaker and sculptor. The subjects of the drawings and prints on view highlight women neglected or demonized by history. (Through January 3)

Linear Element and Reframing Nature @ Art Omi, Ghent. Two new exhibitions at the the Charles B. Benenson Gallery and Visitors Center: Linear Elements is a two person show focusing on recent sculptures and drawings by Alain Kirili and James Siena. Opening alongside this exhibition is Reframing Nature, featuring the work of Allan Wexler. (Through January 3)

Greatest Photographs of the American West @ Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. A dual exhibition that includes National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West, featuring photography from the last 125 years, and Go West, which features objects, artwork and interactive stations. (Through January 3)

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints @ The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls. Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothy Dehner, Jim Dine, Richard Estes, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Ann Ryan, Andy Warhol and Grant Wood are a few of the artists represented in this exhibition of fifty works covering fifty years of growth in the popularity of printmaking among artists. (Though January 10)

#schenectadydoesntsuck @ Mabee Farm, Rotterdam. A new exhibit exploring all things that make Schenectady awesome. (Through January 16)

Muse @ Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox. Works by Ormond Gigli, Greg Gorman, Eric Korenman, Hildy Pincus Kronen, Anne Mourier, Pops Peterson, Jack Radcliffe and Kevin Sprague. (Through January 31)

David Austin: Wild Strawberries @ Esther Massry Gallery, Albany. Paintings by David Austin, inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film, Wild Strawberries, which tells the story of an older professor’s nostalgic visit back to where he spent his childhood, inspiring a parallel journey for the artist. Also on display: Paintings by Ginny Casey and Steve Pearson and sculpture by Patrick Cuffe. (Through February 21)

No Place to Hide @ The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs. Works by three contemporary artists who all address the impact of “being watched:” Hasan Elahi confronts the FBI after being mistaken for a terrorist, Addie Wagenknecht shows how our devices are constantly sending out information to the “cloud,” and Aaron Zinman elegantly reveals just how easy it is to find information about yourself. Artist’s talk and reception: Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm. (Through February 21)

Episodic Drift #8 @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. A large-scale installation by Jennifer Williams, who explores the concept of the ladder as thought pattern, life path and problem solver. (Through March 31)

Winter in America @ The School, Kinderhook. A multimedia group exhibition with works by John Ahern, Ghada Amer, Shimon Attie, Radcliffe Bailey, Glenn Brown, Yoan Capote, Geoffrey Chadsey, Gehard Demetz, Eric Fischl, Vibha Galhotra, Leon Golub, Betty Goodwin, Barkley L. Hendricks, Todd Hebert, Eva Hesse, Magdelana Jetelova, Hayv Kahraman, Titus Kaphar, Tallur L.N., Annette Lemieux, Eric Mack, Kerry James Marshall, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Richard Mosse, Adi Nes, Jackie Nickerson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, Beverly Pepper, Raymond Pettibon, Claudette Schreuders, Claude Simard, Michael Snow, Nancy Spero, Bob Thompson, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems and Hank Willis Thomas. Also on display: Room With View featuring the sculpture and drawings of Mark di Suvero and photographs and ephemera from the Black Panther archives, including works by Margaret Bourke-White, Francis Mitchell, Flip Schulke, Stephen Shames, William Werrbach and Allen Zak. (Through March)

The Capital Region in 50 Objects @ Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany. 50 objects to chosen represent the diverse history of The Capital Region over the past four hundred years. (Through April 3)

An Eye for Excellence @ The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. As the Clark Art Institute celebrates its sixtieth year, this exhibition aims to demystify why and how the Clark collects works of art, as well as examine the growth of the museum’s collection over the past two decades. (Through April 10)