With light streaming from windows overlooking the busy airfield, Concourse A boasts 130 linear feet of wall space that functions as an auxiliary exhibition area to the third floor Gallery. In order to provide additional opportunities to regional artists and present more contemporary art to the traveling public, the Art & Culture Program, in January 2005, reappointed this corridor as Gallery A. With the advent of this new gallery space, the Program broadened its ability to showcase the work of regional artists in biannual one person and thematic group shows as well as exhibits from other regional art centers and galleries. The Art & Culture Program encourages and handles the sales of artwork in Gallery A, and has been pleased with the response of travelers, who upon connecting with a work of art are able to purchase it as a lasting memento, as well as a valuable investment.
Current Exhibition
Scene/Reseen July 2008 - January 2009 In 2008, as Albany International Airport's Art & Culture Program marks its tenth year of presenting exhibitions, we honor the artists who have made our region a culturally vibrant one. And how better than through the works of painters whose subject is our local landscape? The geography of this area has been celebrated by painters for generations, beginning with the Hudson River School artists, who established the first uniquely American painting tradition in the mid 19th century. Much of what compelled these artists to depict the splendor of the Hudson River Valley, the Adirondacks, Catskills and other features of this region is also what motivates artists to do so today. The artists included here, Russell DeYoung, Gail Kort, Robert Moylan, Harry Orlyk and Leigh Palmer observe what is particular to this landscape - its rolling farmland, dense, rocky woodlands and wide river valley. While each offers us a different lens through which to view our world, each in turn shows the reverence, the wonder and the call to attention that has been the hallmark of our region's most significant artistic tradition.
Russell DeYoung, Waterfall, Oil, wax on panel, 2004	Leigh Palmer, Kingdom, Oil on canvas, 2005-2007
Robert Moylan, View Toward Valley Falls, Gouache on paper, 2007
Harry Orlyk, Behind the Courthouse, Oil on linen, 2008	Gail Kort, Albany, Schenectady and Troy from Thatcher Park - Big Fall, Oil on canvas, 2004

Sharon Bates, Director
Art & Culture Program
Albany International Airport Gallery hours:
7:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. daily.
For additional information phone: 518.242.2241 or email arts@albanyairport.com