Albany International Airport Gallery
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The Albany International Airport Gallery, a dedicated 2500 square foot space, has become a destination for more than 150,000 visitors annually and one of the premier exhibition venues in the Capital Region, Southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts.
Since its inception in 1998, the Art & Culture Program director and staff have curated exhibitions that are wide-ranging in thematic content and appeal, provide a rewarding experience for people of all ages and background, and have gained a reputation for excellence among travelers and the regional arts community. The Program, and the Gallery in particular, has been recognized in local and national publications for the innovative content and quality of its exhibitions. |
Highly attended public receptions are hosted to mark the opening of each exhibit and catalogs are produced for many of the contemporary art presentations. Gallery exhibitions are designed with great attention to visual detail and to upholding professional standards of security and object integrity.
Artists interested in learning more about exhibition opportunities should go to the Opportunities for Artists section of this website for further information. Located before the security checkpoint, the Gallery shares the third floor with the Observation Area and is conveniently accessible to travelers and non-travelers alike. Gallery hours are 7:00 am - 11:00 pm daily. |
Current Exhibition
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Out of This World
Transcending the terrestrial in contemporary art
June 26 - November 29, 2009
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Within this world and all around us march the familiar products of manufacture, interceded by the tenacious sprouting of life in all its variability. By entangling the stuff of industry with elements in nature, artists are often able to describe territories that are unearthly. The seven artists featured in this exhibition tap the reservoirs of our known world to create forms that we feel both acquainted with and transported by.
The fundamental usefulness of plastic dishware, pipe cleaners, pom-poms, fake flowers, spools of thread, pencils and cut cloth is playfully and beautifully subverted as these everyday items undergo a transformation. Through the artists' alchemical manipulations, we find ourselves inhabiting a world populated by shiny, prickly, furry figures to which we can feel only remotely akin.
Through the paintings in this exhibition, we are shown domains thick with nebulous matter through which vessels move and hover. Forms both geometric and organic congregate in clusters, their linear bodies occupying some curious ecosystem.
In other works, the mundane spaces and fragments of
our daily life - tree stumps, sewer grates, a staircase -
are recast as wondrous blasts of color, soft and yielding in contrast to the original wood and steel. And the iconic pop culture figures of the Starship Enterprise, who truly occupy this world and so many others, are depicted in all of their masculine importance by the meticulous placement of both chenille stems and spools of thread. |
| Artists: Betsy Brandt, Susie Brandt, Ginger Ertz, Chris Harvey, Jennifer Maestre, David Miller and Devorah Sperber |
Left to Right: Stupa, Chris Harvey; Midnight in the Garden of the Sea, David Miller |
Hand hooked rugs from the Stumps and Drains Series,
Susie Brandt |
Left to right: Shell, Ginger Ertz; Mystery of the Sea Series, David Miller |
Spock 3, Devorah Sperber |
Seven Columns of Commerce and Pleasure, Chris Harvey |
Left to right: Imp, Jennifer Maestre, Akin, Betsy Brandt
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Past Exhibitions |
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A Remarkable Past
Objects of Outlandish Purpose
and Astonishing Configuration
October 4, 2008 - May 30, 2009
This region is home to dozens of museums whose preservation and interpretation of the past is vital to the understanding of the world in which we live. In celebration of the Art & Culture Program's own historic achievement - a decade of presenting public art - we have amassed a group of extraordinary artifacts from twenty-five area museums.
Participants: Adirondack Museum, Albany County Historical Association/Ten Broeck Mansion, Albany Institute of History & Art, The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Bennington Museum, Berkshire Museum, Chapman Historical Museum, The Clark, Chesterwood, A National Trust Historic Site, Columbia County Historical Society, Hancock Shaker Village, Historic Cherry Hill, The Hyde Collection, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, New York State Museum, Old Fort Johnson, The Pember Museum and Library of Natural History, Rensselaer County Historical Society, Saratoga County Historical Society at the Brookside Museum, The Saratoga Springs History Museum, Schenectady County Historical Society, Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Shaker Museum and Library, Slate Valley Museum, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
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Locally Grown
April 25 - September 7, 2008
An exhibition of contemporary art commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Art & Culture Program featuring artists from the past decade of exhibitions.
Artists: Scott Brodie, Terry Conrad, Jeanette Fintz, Torrance Fish, Allen Grindle, John Hampshire, John Hanson, Larry Kagan, Anima Katz, Paul Katz, Jude Lewis, Harold Lohner, Paul Mauren, Edward Mayer, Portia Munson, Michael Oatman, Gina Occhiogrosso, George Simmons, Devorah Sperber, Karin Stack, Laura Von Rosk, Deborah Zlotsky
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Farsighted
October 26, 2007 - March 30, 2008
This exhibition featured artists who traversed countries from Morocco to Iceland, Cuba to India, Belize to the Czech Republic, and combined photographic prints, projections and field recordings, sculpture and travel ephemera that resonated with the lure of distant lands, people and cultures.
Artists: Craig Barber, Martin Benjamin, Kevin Bubriski, Donna Fitzgerald, Phyllis Galembo, Kristina Kwacz
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2007 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Juried Exhibition
May 24 - September 30, 2007
Albany International Airport Gallery hosted the 71st annual exhibition, which has become a barometer of contemporary art as well as a means of support for emerging and established artists in our community. Juried by Leah Douglas, Director of Exhibitions at Philadelphia International Airport.
Artists: Ford Bailey, Martin Benjamin, Arlene Birch, Roger Bisbing, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, David Brickman, Allen Bryan, Lorraine B. Chesin, Brian Cirmo, Terry Conrad, Colleen Cox, Peter Dellert, Russell DeYoung, Ginger Ertz, Ray Felix, Torrance Fish, Jim Flosdorf, Richard Garrison, Kyle Greene, Michael Gwozdz, Frank Jackson, Suzanne Kawola, Steven Rolf Kroeger, Naomi Lewis, Harold Lohner, Ingrid Ludt, Warren MacMillan, Doretta Miller, Mark Miller, Laura Moriarty, Michael Oatman, Gina Occhiogrosso, Ryan Parr, Madeline Silber, George Simmons, Aimee Tarasek, Peter Taylor, Barbara Todd, Joseph Yetto and Deborah Zlotsky
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Natural Selection
November 20, 2006 - April 22, 2007
An exhibition that took a step back in time through an early twentieth century collection of specimens and curiosities from The Pember Library and Museum of Natural History, together with works of contemporary art that reflected a fascination with observing, preserving and reinventing the natural world.
Artists: Sam Easterson, Eckhard Etzold, Laura Moriarty, Leslie Parke, The Playful Maidens of Spray and Eric Slayton
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Michael Oatman's Model Citezens: Giant Size
August 11 - October 22, 2006
Model Citizens was an exhibition and documentary video that united artists, model makers and hobbyists in the vicinity of four urban centers: Cambridge, MA, New Haven, CT, Bellows Falls, VT and the Capital Region of NY. Curator Michael Oatman developed Model Citizens while questioning what prompted others to work long hours on complex and patience-trying work.
Participants: The American Precision Museum, Gregory Bartlett, Bill Brown and the Studen Interns of the Eli Whitney Museum, Roger Bisbing, George Bossarte, Jeff Brower, Stephanie Cramer, Peter Edwards, Joe Fig, Jim Finn, Daniel Fokine, Dick Freeman, Jim Gallagher, Danny Goodwin, Andy Gray, Erin Hennessy, Kristina Killar, Henry Quinn, Ken Ragsdale, Randy Regier, The Rensseler Model Railroad Society, Karin Stack and Mark Williams
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Saving Troy
January 15 - February 19, 2006
An exhibition of photographs taken by author William B. Patrick diring the year he spent documenting the Troy, NY Fire Department for his book, Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City.
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Now You See It
August 16, 2004 - February 6, 2005
This exploration of our fascination with magic, illusion and transformation was presented in colaboration with members of a local chapter of the Society of American Magicians. Finely crafted artifacts and apparatus that were used by conjurers, psychic mediums and fortune tellers for more than a century came to life through video performances. Historic lithographic posters from the New York State Museum and works of contemporary art were also included.
Artists: William R. Bergman, Aaron Holz, Steve Hollinger, Larry Kagan, Michael Oatman and Janet Sorensen
Collections: Bob Connors and the New York State Museum
Performances: SAM members Vinny Grosso and David MacDonald, also Krista Fragos
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Artists in the Studio: 30 Years at the Millay Colony for the Arts
January 26 - August 1, 2004
The Millay Colony for the Arts was founded in 1973 on the estate of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY. This juried exhibition represented a selection of 45 visual artists, writers and composers who were former Colony residents. Thirty years later it is considered to be one of the most important artist communities in the country.
Artists: Scott Edward Anderson, Robin Arnold, Jill Bauerle, Sarah Brenneman, Elizabeth Brown, Andrea Clearfield, David Cleary, Gloria Coates, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Susan Spencer Crowe, Ann Darby, Linda Dennis, Marilyn Duckworth, Jessica Dunne, Paul Farinacci, Laurel Farrin, Jeanette Fintz, Richard Fox, Garth Freeman, Andrea Fuhrman, Linda Griggs, Colette Inez, Patricia Spears Jones, Tamiko Kawata, Sybil Kollar, Kate Kretz, Debby Mayer, Sarah McCoubrey, Jennifer Militello, David Morse, Gina Occhiogrosso, Diana Puntar, Eléna Rivera, Bertha Rogers, Marilyn Schechter, Monique Silverman, Hester Simpson, Samantha Simpson, Robert Stern, Carolyn Stoloff, Randall Stoltzfus, Naoe Suzuki, Elaine Terranova, Sophie Wadsworth and Deborah Zlotsky
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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
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