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. With the advent of this new space in 2005, 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.
Current Exhibition
Benjamin Swett Route 22 June 2010 - January 2011 Route 22 is a 350-mile highway that connects Manhattan and Montreal along the eastern border of New York State. One day, while driving along it, photographer Benjamin Swett started thinking about the contrast between the landscape he could see through his car window and the more romantic one he remembered from his childhood. Without any particular plan, he set out to discover how the pristine wilderness celebrated by James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and Antonin Dvorak has evolved into a place marked by the
human dramas of post-industrial urban and rural life frayed by decades of tough economic times. He met painters, historians, mechanics and students, and became strongly attached to the places and people of this historic road. The result of his exploration is this group of evocative photographs - a deeply personal meditation on a complicated and beautiful landscape.
Black Locusts, West Chazy, March 25, 1999 Gelatin Silver Print, 2004	Daphne Kingsley, Turnpike Road, Whitehall, August 7, 1998 Gelatin Silver Print, 2004
Ferry to Vermont, Essex, October 7, 2000 Gelatin Silver Print, 2004	Bronx River South of East 180th Street, Bronx, July 27, 1998 Gelatin Silver Print, 2004
Past Exhibitions
The Best of SUNY 2009 January  - June 2010 Since 2002, The Best of SUNY Art Student Exhibition has showcased the most compelling works of art made by students attending State University of New York campuses. Each piece was originally selected by the student's art department and then chosen for the Best of SUNY exhibition by a panel of arts professionals throughout the SUNY system. New York State has, for decades, been a leader in both the nation and the world in tis support and appreciation for the visual arts. Its galleries, museums and educational institutions spur the visions of young artists, and attract the patrons, dealers, tourists and curators that make up a thriving, international arts community.
Surface Tension June 2009 - January 2010 Artists: Jeanette Fintz David Miller Victoria Palermo Wendy Ide Williams
What shape is thought? What color is memory? What contours describe delight? The paintings and sculptures featured here were made with attention to the way that layers of marks and forms relate to one another and evoke associations with things and events in our lives. With a balance of intuition and intention, paint is poured, brushed, and drawn onto paper and wood; it rolls around, drips down, meanders and disappears; bubbles up, shifts and flickers with fragments of reality. The two sculptures in this exhibition were created with the same spirit - their glossy, tightly wound, oozing forms are playfully delectable and yet goopily repellant. The surface of these works is where the action lies - thickly detailed here and sparsely minimal there, with brushstrokes now hasty and then deliberate. The surface itself holds meaning - a richly composed plane of texture, movement and interrelationships. And just below that surface, rising up to meet it, are the perceptions, recollections and decisions of these four artists.
Joy Taylor: Drawings January - June 2009 As in nature, these drawings begin with a single element and proliferate with lush abandon. The germination of each shape yields a dizzying swarm of new growth, and the resulting layers teem with the energy of life unfolding. Taylor begins these pieces by dipping a finger tip in powdered graphite and applying it to frosted polyester film using stencils hand-cut from the same smooth, translucent material. By repeating a single shape and its slight variations, Taylor superimposes form upon form, and sometimes combines pages of the film itself. Areas of rich complexity recede while others are brought into sharp, impenetrable focus.
Scene/Reseen July 2008 - January 2009 Artists: Russell DeYoung Gail Kort Robert Moylan Harry Orlyk Leigh Palmer
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 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.

Sharon Bates, Director
Art & Culture Program
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