UPSTATE ART WEEKEND -2025
Gallery & Pop-Up Exhibitions

  @GARNER Arts Center
55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY

Make a day of it!

Enjoy world-class dining options on-site with Hudson’s Mill Tavern and Round Table Brewing’s La Redonda Tavern.

Open for brunch, lunch and dinner - also taking reservations!
Monday: 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Tuesday - Thursday: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Friday - Saturday: 12:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Sunday: 11:30 am - 9:00 pm

La Redonda Tavern:
Thursday: 4 - 10pm
Friday: 4–11pm
Saturday: 12 - 11pm
Sunday: 12 - 7pm

Gallery Exhibitions:

GORDON FEAREY
Lucretius
Building 35 - Main Gallery
Gallery Hours: Friday 2-5pm
Saturday 1-5pm | Sunday 1-5pm

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GARNER Arts Center is proud to present “Lucretius,” a solo exhibition of new large-scale paintings by the New York-based and GARNER Historic District resident studio artist Gordon Fearey. Inspired by the Roman philosopher Lucretius, Fearey’s latest body of work, to be exhibited in the Main Gallery at Building 35, meditates on the elemental tension between the finite and the infinite, inviting the viewer into a contemplative space where presence and absence meet.

ARDEN KLEMMER &
PAUL CHRISTOPHER CONTICELLI
Gonna Build a Heaven From a Little Hell
Building 35 - Main Gallery
Gallery Hours: Friday 2-5pm
Saturday 1-5pm | Sunday 1-5pm

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GARNER Arts Center is proud to present “Gonna Build a Heaven From a Little Hell,” a multidisciplinary two-person exhibition by GARNER Historic District resident studio artist, Arden Klemmer, and colleague, Paul Christopher Conticelli, to be on view this summer in the Ned Harris Gallery at Building 35.

With “Gonna Build a Heaven From a Little Hell”, Arden Klemmer and Paul Christopher Conticelli envision a future of hope rising above despair, beauty overtaking destruction, and liberation born from entrapment. Thematically, the exhibition grapples with juxtaposing natural and artificial visions of the world, from dystopia to utopia.

Pop-up Exhibitions:

Building #4A
Gallery Hours:
Friday, July 18th 2 - 5p
Saturday & Sunday, July 19th & 20th - 1 - 5pm

Curated by Jonathan Shorr

SUSAN SABISTON
Between Worlds

GARNER Arts Center is pleased to present a selection of watercolor paintings by Susan Sabiston. Susan’s transcendent landscapes bring you to other places, Between Worlds. She is exploring, in narrative and technique, forms that are unprotected by rules and history. Language has its own special nature, its own conventions and communal ideas. But if language doesn’t change, if it seeks refuge in those conventions and if the communal ideas reflect only the past, language dies. Susan’s paintings reach possibilities that go against ingrained habits and familiar assumptions, and are taking us to different places, to fictitious situations.

It has been written that, “she is exploring the terrain between the material, spiritual, and technological. Rooted in the occult and attuned to the unseen, her practice summons visions from the edges of consciousness, where myth, memory, and mystery converge. Her art serves as a space where the veil thins and the echoes of lost paradises stir. Drawing from sacred iconography, occult and esoteric traditions, each piece becomes a portal, some reaching backward toward buried Edens, others pointing toward possible transcendence.

Sabiston holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a Master of Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Her multidisciplinary background informs a visual language, conjuring landscapes where gods once walked and where they might yet return. Through painting, animation, and curatorial projects, she reclaims the mythic and the magical offering an invocation.

Her work has been exhibited at Pari Passu Gallery (NY), Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY), Anna Nova Gallery (St. Petersburg, RU), and in numerous underground and artist-run spaces. She has contributed artwork and animation to Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and other collaborations with Flat Black Films, Public Art Fund, Shelter Press, and (in)Sect Records.

Sabiston calls forth the spirits of matter and memory, crafting offerings to the eternal, inviting a return to sacred spaces where the self, the cosmos and the divine may meet again.”

ROSALIE SMITH
Kaleidoscopic Intestine

GARNER Arts Center is excited to present transformative new work by Rosalie Smith. Rosalie is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with found materials. She uses “science fiction narratives of her own invention as part of the invisible architecture that guides the forms she builds.”

Rosalie says it best in her own words:

My sculptures imagine a post-human world in which the 99% of us have devolved into growths upon piles of often tech-related trash, after the 1% have jetted to Mars. I seek to depict an unsexy singularity between humans and technology; i.e., microplastics magnified to macroplastics, like an old phone receiver grafted into flesh. Each sculpture reflects the present and future pervasiveness of waste collected within, and representational of, our landscape. With a whimsical, absurdist tilt, my sculptures are inspired by the notion of navigating ecological crises with assemblage gadgets and vehicles.

I think of an artist as a digestive tract. We are tasked to hungrily consume visual information that surrounds us, and eject it into a new form. The stages of digestion—ingestion, breakdown, absorption, and assimilation—mirror the artist’s journey. Ingestion corresponds to the initial encounter with artworks, texts, and the broader world, where visual impressions and contextual information are collected. Breakdown occurs as artists (sub)consciously analyze and deconstruct these elements, identifying underlying themes and influences. Absorption involves integrating these insights into frameworks of understanding, while assimilation reflects the creation of new, synthesized forms that, ideally, advance the discipline. I base my practice upon this supposition, and feel it is my duty as an artist to be ecstatically observant of the world around me. As a found object artist, I take this role literally; assembling and transforming discarded materials en masse.

My collection process is passive, in that I rarely go out of my way to collect materials. Rather, I find them as I make my daily commutes, while walking my dog, or traveling outside the city. Sometimes, the objects are things I own but no longer have use for. While perhaps symptomatic of my own lethargy, I believe this mode of acquisition lends itself conceptually to the work. The objects I collect document my movements through a primarily urban landscape, acting as a diaristic form of temporal and geographical research. I find this practice reflected in an avian companion.

As a gesture of interspecies goodwill, crows will bring humans who feed or protect them trinkets, bits of trash, and shiny things that they perceive to be of value. Different collections express a personal taste, some crows preferring buttons, bits of glass, acorns, etc. For example, green BuzzBallz are a recurring motif (see Elevated Dish Rack I, Nursing Unit, and SH.18 Communication Receiver), almost all of which I have collected at intervals from the intersection of Church and Canal St. in Tribeca. From which, I deduce, that there is someone regularly hanging out on that corner that is particularly fond of green BuzzBalls, above all other flavors.

And I, like a crow and a particularly appealing button, am drawn repeatedly to their ornament-like form and color. I develop symbiosis with this unknown person as I harvest them radioactive waste-tinted shells of their happy hour. They haven’t left any in the past few weeks, and I am wondering if they gave up drinking for lent.

Outdoor Installations:

CRISTINA BIAGGI
The Nest
Creekside Sculpture Trail
(Open Dusk - Dawn Every Day)

Outdoor Film Night

STOP MAKING SENSE

A Film by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads

Saturday, July 19th
Doors Open: 8pm
Film Begins: 8:30pm

A unique open-air film screening experience. Join us for a special screening of STOP MAKING SENSE by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads. Co-presented by Rivertown Film.

Outdoor Sculpture:

The GARNER Historic District is a visual feast for lovers of historic architecture and outdoor sculpture. Visit our Creekside Sculpture Trail to see the stunning Stone Head creations of Ted Ludwiczak. Walk the grounds and encounter works by GARNER studio artists, James Tyler & Mouise Nezer and others from our surrounding community, incl: Eric David Laxman and several more!

OUTDOOR SCULPTURE @ GARNER Arts Center

BRICKHEAD Come and Gone, James Tyler ‐ Brick Alley
ELEMENTAL I, Mouise Nezer ‐ Bldg #34
THE DESTROYER: TAMED, Mouise Nezer‐ Bldg #25
Donated by family of Michael Callaghan,
UNTITLED, Mouise Nezer ‐ Bldg. #35 (front)
ORACLE, Eric David Laxman ‐ Creekside Sculpture Trail
UNTITLED, Linus Coraggio ‐ Creekside Sculpture Trail
TOPSY TURVY, Eric David Laxman ‐ Creekside Sculpture Trail
STONEHEADS, Ted Ludwiczak ‐ Creekside Sculpture Trail
BRICKHEAD HOMINID, James Tyler ‐ Bldg #10
ELEMENTAL II, Mouise Nezer ‐ Gabian Dock

*All OUTDOOR SCULPTURES are not included in this list. We encourage visitors to explore the complex and discover more art!