Kingston, NY – The Arts Society of Kingston is pleased to present three in-person visual art exhibitions in April: The Changing Climate: Coming to Terms and Finding Hope, our monthly Members Exhibition, Celebrate845, the second month of a residency by Celebrate845, and The Covid Suite and the Crossroads Series, a Solo Exhibition by Ernest Shaw. These three exhibitions will be featured at the ASK galleries at 97 Broadway in Kingston from April 2nd through May 1st, 2022.
ASK’s Members Exhibition this month is The Changing Climate: Coming to Terms and Finding Hope. Every month ASK provides a prompt for our members to respond to and this April, the theme is The Changing Climate: Our climate has changing temperatures, precipitation, and storm frequency and duration. What are we seeing and feeling? What are hopeful visions of our future? Members are allowed to display up to three pieces each month, with no charge for the first piece.
In our Front Room Gallery, ASK has invited Celebrate845 for a 10-month residency titled Celebrate845. Celebrate845 is an arts organization whose mission is to organize, recognize, & celebrate(!) marginalized creatives via pop-up events throughout New York’s Hudson Valley. Now in its 5th year, the annual Celebration by Celebrate845 champions the visual and performing arts by marginalized artists in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Our Spotlight Solo Artist for the month of April is Ernest Shaw, with dual exhibitions The Corona Suite and The Crossroads Series. For over 55 years, Shaw has made and exhibited his sculpture, paintings, drawings and photographs throughout the United States. He has work in over 50 museum, university and municipal collections, and has had numerous gallery shows and six one-person museum exhibitions of his work, including at the Williams College Art Museum. This exhibit brings together two current bodies of work. One, the Corona Suite, consists of paintings on paper, a visual ‘journal’ of some 150 works, that explore the feelings, tonalities, disrupted rhythms and emotional carnage that descended on us in the Covid years. The second, the Crossroad series, continues a four year exploration integrating photography, drawing, painting and printing around the questions of mortality, our time and place in the order of things.
The Arts Society of Kingston is a membership led, multi-arts center in Kingston, New York. All patrons must wear masks fully covering both nose and mouth, maintain a 6-foot distance between other parties, and limit their time in the gallery to 30 minutes. ASK allows a maximum of 15 people in at a time. Founded in 1995, ASK has been host to hundreds of exhibitions, performances and workshops over the past 26 years. ASK is located at 97 Broadway in Kingston, NY. The galleries are currently fully online at www.askforarts.org. For additional information please contact Brent Felker, 845.338.0333.