Upstate Art Weekend

Summertime Hues, a Pop-Up Group Exhibition associated with Upstate Art Weekend, Lemon Sky Projects, Kingston NY. July 22-24, 2022

Commemorating the 3rd annual Upstate Art Weekend, lemon sky projects is presenting a pop-up exhibition whose theme embraces a joie de vivre, with most of the artists spending significant time of living in the Hudson Valley. The show engages in a vibrant dialogue-- rough hewn bricolage approaches, counterbalancing more refined techniques--an explosion of color and textures to lift the spirits.

Artists: Jesse Bransford, Judith Braun, Colby Cannon, Susan Carr, Chris Costan, Anne Devine, Louis Constant Duit, Phyllis Galembo, Tommy Grenas, Clarity Haynes, Lisa Kirk, Anne Leith, Carmen Lizardo, Dylan Musler, Michael Rodriguez, Karen Schifano, Melissa Stern, Diane Tenerelli, Jonathan Williams.
66 W Chester St
in the back garden
Kingston NY

Hours:
Friday, July 22 noon-7pm
Saturday July 23 noon-7pm
cool off —-at a cold beverage reception—-: Sat July 23 5-7pm
Sunday July 24 noon-5pm

Painting at Night at Collar Works, Troy, NY, artists selected by Judith Braun

Painting at Night

Selected by Judith Braun, Costan is included in the exhibition Painting at Night. The theme was developed during an episode of Artist/Mother Podcast. Allison Reimus recalls the time she read a statement in a New York Times article about how “You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist. It doesn’t work that way.”In true Artist/Mother fashion, this seemed like a great statement to respond to for a group show, as an act of resistance and rejection. To imply that good art cannot be made in domestic spaces, or that a person cannot claim the title of artist without meeting arbitrary requirements is a patriarchal myth, one that artists who are mothers have been resisting for decades.

Exhibition Dates: May 27 - July 31, 2022
Location: Collar Works, 621 River St, Troy, NY