ART REVIEWS by David Ebony

Susan Wides: Voice of Silence at Private Public Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., through November 10. / Layo Bright: Dawn and Dusk; and Elizabeth Englander: Eminem Buddhism, Volume 3, at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, through October 27, 2024. —David Ebony

'Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art.' The sixteen artists participating in this visually and intellectually stimulating exhibition explore the cultural context of language and its attendant shifts in power and meaning. At the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, through November 3, 2024. 'Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz.' Separately and collaboratively, the artists, who share a studio, favor abstract compositions of two- and three-dimensional works, or relief sculptures that employ mostly found materials.They build upon the traditions of Arte Povera in their use of everyday, rather abject materials. At LABspace, through September 29.

George Platt Lynes: Billy at A.Therien, Cairo, NY, through September 21, ‘24. 22 underknown and rarely exhibited photos show Billy in various rather melancholy poses, each with the dramatic lighting that is a hallmark of Lynes’s work. The Source of Everything at Russel Wright’s Manitoga, Garrison, NY through August 19, ‘24. A striking array of contemporary art interspersed throughout the home and studio this season features works by Jeremy Anderson, Sam Falls, Kieran Kinsella, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Lola Montes, Roger Stevens and Sagarika Sundaram, engaged with a variety of materials and formal concerns.

The Campus, Hudson, N.Y. through October 27. '24. The latest addition to the mid-Hudson Valley’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, a collaborative project of six cutting-edge New York City galleries: Andrew Kreps, Anton Kern, James Cohan, Bortolami, kaufmann Repetto, and kurimanzutto. Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site through October 27, '24.

NINA CHANEL ABNEY: LIE DOGGO at The School, Kinderhook, N.Y., through October 5.. '24 and OTHER REAILTIES (Exploring Proximate Mysticisms), Works by artists Paula Hayes, Frederick Gladding Kahl, Justin Vivian Bond, and Jesse Bradford at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, N.Y., through June 23, '24

Lothar Osterburg: A Celebration of the Small, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., through June 9, ‘24  and Spillover and Promenade at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, through May 26, ‘24  

Upstate Diary April ‘24 Art Reviews by David Ebony. Olalekan Jeyifous:Even in Arcadia at Art Omi , Ghent, NY and Mario Schifano: Germinal at Magazzino, Cold Spring, NY.