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
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.	Joy Taylor, Installation view
Some of these compositions recall closely held views of fields or fallen leaves - the strata of a garden or forest path. Others reflect the explosive geometry of fractals unfurling in their precise, mathematical beauty. In her work, Taylor instills a tenuous balance of order and chaos, bringing us to the verge of pure pattern and abstraction, and then back again to the elemental fragment from which all else emerges.
	Past Exhibitions
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
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