Myron Polenberg: Red Flag Project
Window on Hudson curator Jeremy Bullis and artist Myron Polenberg
Artist Myron Polenberg, at the opening reception on Thursday, March 23rd at Window on Hudson, told me, "I'm scared of the government. They are not bashful, but the people I favor are timid." The "Red Flags" are a warning for us all, from climate change to reproductive rights, "If you're a liberal, and you don't have a gun, buy one."
From Window on Hudson: Polenberg is not a doomsayer, but like many of us, he is frustrated. It seems that more than ever we are dangerously close to crossing a point from which we will not be able to return - now is the time to raise a red flag, sound the alarm, and with united effort prevent disaster. Over the course of a 40 year career as a Fine Artist and Designer, Myron Polenberg has created a significant body of work that addresses important issues of our time and uses a variety of mediums including paint, sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, installation and film, among others. Regardless of the medium, Polenberg’s work retains as its core a concern with information; in particular, the gap between the remains of information and the information that remains; information as artifact; questions about impermanence and the manner in which information is processed, obscured, revealed and destroyed. All of this is done in the context of a historical continuum that coincides with the events, histories and social narratives that Polenberg has been witness to in his lifetime. Themes that emerge time and again in Polenberg’s work include justice, inequality, power, war, gender and sexuality. Such are the concepts that continue to remind us of our own humanity, and historically, the incidences that cause us to question it altogether. Polenberg’s lengthy career in Advertising and Design was also consumed by the conveyance of information, including designing the first line of Swiss Army watches by the brand. Where Polenberg’s Design career was preoccupied with a very direct manner of information transmission for the consumer market, his Fine Art often ruminates, sometimes remaining intentionally elusive, preferring suggestion to statement; other times relying on provocation to compel a response. In every case, Polenberg is reacting to or against personal experiences from a lifetime lived in the midst of historic cultural shifts and dramatic social change. “Red Flag Project” will be on view 24/7 through April 9th, 2023.-
March 23 Thursday
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All Day
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43 South 3rd Street
MARINE PENVERN: Body & Soul: On ViewRepeating Event
Featuring: Ed Cherry – guitar Kyle Koehler – keyboard “To me, jazz represents pure freedom and opportunity, and my artwork is an expression of that freedom” – Marine Penvern From her earliest days as a scenic painter frequenting NYC jazz clubs to paint the artists to her practice as a prêt-à-porter clothing designer, French-born, Hudson-based artist and fashion designer Marine Penvern has been inspired by jazz. Her solo exhibition Body & Soul features paintings, textiles, and clothing design that seek to convey the soul through the expression of the body with the spirit of jazz improvisation and collaboration. On View until April 2nd
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March 28 Tuesday
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9:00 am 5:00 pm
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327 Warren Street, Hudson NY
Adult Spanish ClassesWeekly
This free virtual program emphasizes conversational Spanish skills in fun and friendly classes for both “Complete Beginners” and “Advanced/Intermediate” learners. To learn more, click here. Space is limited and registration is required. To register, email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org Date/Time: Tuesdays, February 7 – April 11 Complete Beginners class: 5 – 6pm Advanced/Intermediate class: 6 – 7pm
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March 28 Tuesday
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5:00 pm 7:00 pm
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Zoom
Blue Velvet: Hosted by The Hudson Wail
Tickets: $5 If you live in Hudson, you will have found yourself laughing out loud in inappropriate places following the irreverent @thehudsonwail on Instagram. In this special inaugural Movies on Mainstreet screening, The Hudson Wail and Husdon Hall collaborate to present David Lynch’s seminal small town mystery thriller, Blue Velvet.
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March 29 Wednesday
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7:00 pm 9:00 pm
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327 Warren Street, Hudson NY
On View: Form UndoneRepeating Event
Susan Eley Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by Josh Meillier and Carlos Puyol at its Upstate Gallery. Entitled Form Undone, this two-person exhibition will be on view at SEFA Hudson from February 23 through April 9, 2023.
There will be an opening reception to celebrate the artists on Friday, February 24th from 5 to 7PM.
Before “form” can be “undone,” form has to be mastered—before compositions can be interrupted, before materials can merge, before layers can be unraveled, before color can be exploded, before grids can be fractured, before borders can be broken. The artist must have a mastery of all such aesthetics and techniques in order to move beyond them, to create beyond them.
In Form Undone, the paintings of Josh Meillier and Carlos Puyol exemplify these skills. The artists have mastered a number of painting approaches—from sewing their works together into canvas amalgamations, to taping the backgrounds of their pieces to obtain precise lines, to appropriating photographic source materials.
The exhibition at SEFA Hudson will pair the largely monochromatic works of Meillier with the colorful abstractions of Puyol. Both artists can fall into the larger category of “abstraction,” yet their methodologies and influences are unique. Meillier’s often minimalistic black and white geometries will mingle with Puyol’s colorful acrylic paintings that encapsulate every hue of the rainbow. Both artists embrace a mixed-media approach and play with negative spaces within their compositions.
Form Undone is the first major exhibition at SEFA Hudson with emerging artist Josh Meillier, who the Gallery initially found through a student submission process for a SEFA NYC show in 2021. Form Undone includes fourteen of Meillier’s recent paintings, as well as a portfolio of drawings. In his works, the artist breaks our ideas of Minimalism and Abstraction. He employs the grid, but disrupts it with highly naturalistic elements, such as photographic transfers on his screen prints. His sources here are sometimes his own pictures or are pulled from online—the ambiguity of the images intended. This tendency for “pulling together while breaking apart” can also be witnessed in Meillier’s use of materials. The artist also uses pumice, glass beads and glass powder.
These are frequently construction materials that produce the “shimmer, a silky grit” we see in the paint of crosswalks, for example. Meillier enjoys the “smoothness and the roughness” that is inherent in this substance.

The exhibition at SEFA Hudson will feature paintings from three series: “Screens,” “Still Life” and “Site.” Each series shines individually and has been intricately constructed materially. “Screens” have bright flashes of golden pigment amongst black and white backgrounds. They have been built up with transfers of newsprint, totaling at least twenty-five layers in a single work. The “Still Life” series includes Xerox transfers of photographs. Here, Meillier can showcase his interest in plants, in fracturing the grid and in the ambiguity of digital imagery. The works from the “Site” series are the most minimal of the group, as well as the newest, completed in 2022 and 2023. The artist notes that he enjoys “watching the layers build up and how previous layers impact the printing process, preferring things that are not perfectly legible.”
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March 30 Thursday
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11:00 am 5:00 pm
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433 Warren Street
Dark Cabaret at Colony Woodstock – Frenchy & the Punk + Dust Bowl Faeries, Thur. March 30
Frenchy and the Punk & Dust Bowl Faeries bring blissful and maniacal Dark Cabaret music to Colony Woodstock, Thursday March 30th, 8pm, Woodstock NY. Prepare yourselves for dancing and magical happenings! Frenchy and the Punk An unorthodox, evocative Electro-Acoustic Dark Cabaret Post-Punk duo based in the Hudson Valley. Their exotic melodies and European-inflected percussive textures invoke a dark carnival of two that they take on the road both across the US, UK and in Europe. French-born singer Samantha Stephenson sings with a gothy heft and authority that may remind one generation of Siouxsie Sioux and another of Grace Slick. Guitarist, live looper, and former punk bass player, Scott Helland weaves dark riffs and layers of spidery melody in an acoustic/electric tone that is entirely his own. ------------ Dust Bowl Faeries “Americana by way of pagan cabaret” A faerie-tale fusion of dark cabaret, delirious polka and gothic spaghetti western music, Dust Bowl Faeries is a dark-carnival band from the New York Hudson Valley. The band's eclectic repertoire of songs draw inspiration from circus songs, murder ballads and Eastern European folk tunes. Accordion, singing saw and acoustic guitar combine to create the Dust Bowl Faeries otherworldly sound. The band was founded by Ryder Cooley (faerie queen) and her taxidermy spirit animal, Hazel the Ram. Ryder and Hazel are joined by Jon B. Woodin (rocket faerie), Liz LoGiudice (river faerie), Andrew Stein (time faerie) & Rubie LaRue (feisty faerie). "You can almost smell the gas lamps in the street & the absinthe being poured" - Americana Highways
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March 30 Thursday
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8:00 pm 11:00 pm
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Woodstock, NY
EXPERIENCERepeating Event
We are very excited to invite you to the very first, Robin Rice Gallery “E X P E R I E N C E” in Hudson NY, at the Hudson Milliner Art Salon, 415 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. We will be here through April 28, 2023.
Fridays 2pm to 6pm. Saturdays 10am to 6pm. Sundays 11am to 5pm. Mondays 12am to 5pm. Tuesday closed. Wednesdays + Thursdays most likely I will be here I live around the corner. Or by Appointment 917 375 6660 or email at robin@robinricegallery.com
Carefully curated works by Rice’s gallery artists, including fine art photography, painting, lighting, and sculpture, that work together seamlessly in her signature Salon style installations. This exhibition, much like her own life, is about more than just looking at art, as she has a knack for organically bringing people together, adding a real social element to their experience.
Robin Rice + Robin Rice Gallery
“Shortly after I moved to Hudson, NY, in December of 2021, I met Charlotta and Shannon at The Hudson Milliner Art Salon on Warren Street. That night we spoke about doing a collaboration in their lovely space.
In 1990 she opened the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th , New York, NY. As a photographer, Rice is has been shooting photography with her first camera at the age of 11.
“I love the moment when the viewer is first drawn to an image. Sometimes it’s indefinable; a moment when the viewer not only shares but also reconnects to an experience remembered. When that moment comes, I’ll do whatever I can to make it possible for a client to have the art that moves them...” With her expert placement and collaborative work style, the Gallery helps privately owned homes as well as commercial spaces reach their visual potential.
The Hudson Milliner Art Salon is a creative and collaborative art space featuring art and performance as well as the intersection of the two. In 2013 The Hudson Milliner is the project of Shannon and Charlotta, two artists from Brooklyn who bought the building in search of an upstate abode they could escape to.
Charlotta Janseen is a painter & restauranteur, who grew up in Iran and Germany. Her paintings on the cusp of black & white and color, explore the past and inform the now. A recent project, inspired by police mug shots of heroic Bus Boycotters and Freedom Riders from the '50's and '60's currently tours the States. Her restaurant Chez Oskar is located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Shannon Greer is an advertising and art photographer from New York City, who challenges big waves, plays street basketball and studies jiu jitsu whenever he isn't making photographs or renovating gorgeous buildings.
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March 31 Friday
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10:00 am 6:00 pm
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415 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, USA
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents: Why Look? by Xan PetersRepeating Event
In Why Look?, Xan Peters asks the viewer what we can learn about our natural world when it comes to us as an artistic expression, free from the detachment of science.
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March 31 Friday
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12:00 pm 5:00 pm
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409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534
On View: Unraveling the Journey X 3Repeating Event
New paintings by Chimba (Chiarra Hughes), Itefayo Cobbins, and Virginia Dow. Fridays 2-7 pm Opening: March 18: 6-8 pm To Appear Then Reappear Adapting to the Changes in Our Lives. Transforming into our Being The Development of who we are Noticing the Ties That Bind Us Releasing the Flow Of Imagery of Imagination.That Connects the Dots To Create Our Flow that whispers off the Canvas.
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March 31 Friday
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2:00 pm 7:00 pm
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743 Columbia Street
Book Talk: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Join Cary Institute for an in-person and virtual book talk featuring author Leila Philip. In conversation with Cary President Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, Philip will discuss her new book: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America. In Beaverland, Philip reveals the profound ways in which one animal and the trade surrounding it have shaped history, culture, and our environment. And she tells the ecological story of how this unusual rodent, once trapped to the point of extinction, has returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the twentieth century. This event is free and open to all. Please register via Eventbrite. The in-person portion of the event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium. Registration is required. Books will be available for purchase from Merritt Bookstore.
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March 31 Friday
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7:00 pm 8:00 pm
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2801 Sharon Tpk. Millbrook, NY 12545
ALONE: STORIES FROM EDGAR ALLAN POERepeating Event
The horror, the horror! Show #4 in Bridge Street Theatre’s SOLOFEST, a festival of original one-person performances, is “Alone: Stories From Edgar Allan Poe”, created and performed by Daniel Hall Kuhn. Poems and tales from America's master of the macabre come thrillingly to life in this one-man show created and performed by a masterful actor audiences will recognize from his previous performances at BST in “Lewiston” and “Shelley's Shadow”. “Alone” will play March 31-April 2 for three performances only – Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:00pm – at Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY. Tickets, including four-show Festival Passes, can be purchased by visiting bridgest.org/alone-tickets/.
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March 31 Friday
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7:30 pm 9:00 pm
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44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY 12414
Beth Gill: Nail BiterRepeating Event
The second Fisher Center LAB commission from acclaimed contemporary choreographer Beth Gill, Nail Biter, moves the viewer through portals of myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror. Characters emerge as a collection of representations of our collective unconscious.
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March 31 Friday
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7:30 pm 9:00 pm
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Fisher Center at Bard, Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
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March 31 Friday
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8:00 pm 10:00 pm
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743 Columbia Street
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March 31 Friday
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10:00 pm 1:00 am
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99 S 3rd St, Hudson, NY, USA