Albany Center Gallery

Albany Center Gallery

Inside Albany Center Gallery
Established 1977
Location 39 Columbia Street, Albany, New York
Director Tony Iadicicco
Website http://albanycentergallery.org

Albany Center Gallery is a nonprofit art space located in downtown Albany, New York.[1] Supported by city, state, corporate and foundation funds, as well as fundraisers, individual donations and memberships, the Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of regional artists within a 100-mile radius of Albany, and building a strong, knowledgeable audience for the visual arts.[2] Serving the art community and the general public, all of Albany Center Gallery’s exhibitions, receptions, and artist interviews are free and open to the public. The gallery presents at least seven major exhibitions a year in the main gallery, including the Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational,[3] an annual exhibition featuring selected artists from the previous year’s Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region exhibit.[4]

History

Founded in 1977 by Leslie Urbach,[5] Albany Center Gallery has exhibited thousands of the area’s finest contemporary artists working in the following media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, fiber arts, digital art, video, mixed media, artist books, and installation. Notable exhibitors over the years include Leigh Wen,[6] Scott Nelson Foster,[7] T.E. Breitenbach,[8][9] Jenny Kemp,[10] Ed Cowley,[11] Thom O’Connor,[12] Richard Garrison,[13] Scott Brodie,[14]Betty Warren,[15] Willie Marlowe and Erik Laffer.[16]

The Capital Region's Times Union named Albany Center Gallery the best art gallery of 2012,[17] also receiving the same honor in the 2015 Metroland Readers Poll.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Albany Center Gallery - Downtown Albany BID".
  2. ↑ "About Us". Albany Center Gallery.
  3. ↑ Amy Griffin (1 April 2015). "Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational highlights three artists". Times Union.
  4. ↑ "2014 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region".
  5. ↑ "Leslie Urbach, Advocate Of Upstate N.y. Artists". tribunedigital-chicagotribune.
  6. ↑ "Artist Leigh Wen". The Daily Gazette.
  7. ↑ "J2333". NY State Senate.
  8. ↑ Amy Griffin (21 May 2014). "Artistic homecoming". Times Union.
  9. ↑ "Stuff to do this weekend". All Over Albany.
  10. ↑ "Art Exhibit: Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational 2015 - Downtown Albany BID".
  11. ↑ "On exhibit: Ed Cowley at Albany Center Gallery". Times Union. 22 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "On exhibit: Thom O’Connor’s prints at Albany Center Gallery". Arts Talk.
  13. ↑ "Albany Center Gallery’s Artist of the Year named".
  14. ↑ "Nippertown!".
  15. ↑ "The Daily Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
  16. ↑ "Albany Center Gallery's Winter Gala". Albany.com.
  17. ↑ "Best art gallery". Best of 2012.
  18. ↑ "Metroland".

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