SUmmer + fall
2025
Kaatsbaan’s programs and capital projects are made possible thanks to the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
SatURDAY
JULY 19
2025 Visual Arts Exhibition:
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND
4:00–6:00 PM
Free admission, reservations encouraged
Lobby Gallery + Grounds
During Upstate Art Weekend, the 2025 Visual Arts Exhibition is open to the public for visitors to explore our gallery and grounds. See contemporary works by acclaimed, local Hudson Valley artists as well as two, newly installed bronze works by world renowned 20th-century sculptor, Gaston Lachaise. Floating Woman (1927) and Torso of Elevation (1934) are on loan from the Lachaise Foundation in New York City.
The contemporary line-up of artists features Neil Enggist’s poetic metal paintings, Daisuke Kiyomiya's elegant stonework, Heidi Lanino’s graceful wood sculptures, Ian McMahon’s geometric wall relief, Portia Munson’s dynamic organic banner, Aurora Robson's magical found-plastic works, Jennifer Zackin’s conceptual string pieces, and unique and personal dance videos by Freeda Electra Handelsman.
Gaston Lachaise was called by ARTnews, “the greatest American sculptor of his time.” Floating Woman (1927) has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Muse d’Art Moderne in Paris. Torso of Elevation (1934) has been shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Born in Paris and relocated to New York for most of his career, Lachaise played a critical role in the birth of American Modernism, pushing the boundaries of nude figuration with his innovative representations of the human body.
Kaatsbaan presents visitors with a compelling combination of visual art from the past and our present day.
Munson, Portia, Flower Mask, 2020, Printed fabric scrim, 14.5 ft high x 16 ft wide Daisuke, Kiyomiya, Pixel, 2023, Indiana limestone, 42 x 7 ¾ x 5 ¼ in.
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 11
Conversation + Reception with Dawoud Bey
Saturday, October 11, 7:00 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Student with ID
60 minutes, followed by reception
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex
Dawoud Bey, acclaimed photographer and educator is in conversation with Sophie Landres, Curator, and Exhibitions Manager of The Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. Bey and Landres will discuss his much celebrated bodies of work beginning with the 2013 Birmingham Project up through his most recent 2025 exhibition at the Sean Kelly entitled Stony The Road. After the conversation, attendees are welcome to join the artist and curator for a reception in the Lobby Gallery with books for sale.
Groundbreaking artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and film installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Bey’s work has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, including Dawoud
Dawoud Bey, Taylor Falls and Deborah Hackworth, 2014 (From the series, The Birmingham Project). Pigmented ink photographs (Diptych). Edition of 6 plus 2 APs). © Dawoud Bey. Courtesy Stephen Daiter Gallery / Rena Bransten Gallery / Sean Kelly Gallery.
Bey: An American Project organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2020-2022), and Elegy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2023-2024) and New Orleans Museum of Art (2025-2026); and Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits at the Denver Art Museum (2024-2025). He has been the subject of several monographs, including Elegy (Aperture/VMFA, 2023), which chronicles Bey's history projects and landscape-based work. Bey is the recipient of numerous awards including five honorary doctorates, and in 2024, the artist was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bey lives and works in Chicago and New York. He is currently a Critic at Yale University, where he received his Masters in Fine Arts, and is Professor Emeritus at Columbia College, Chicago.
Sophie Landres is a curator and art historian, specializing in intermedia, critical theory, and contemporary art. She is the Curator and Exhibitions Manager of The Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY and serves as an Arts Commissioner and member of the Public Art Committee for the City of Kingston, NY. Sophie has organized exhibitions, performances, and discursive events in New York, NY, Marfa, TX, and Miami, FL and taught at Columbia University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The New School, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in Art Basel Stories, Art Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art among other publications. Sophie holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University, an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa. She is currently working on a series of essays about policing.