ArtBeat: What To See

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To Attract Bees @ Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham. Recent paintings and sculpture by Peter Acheson that examine systems found in nature. Artist’s reception: Saturday, January 14, 4-6pm. (Through March 26)

Reflecting on Race @ Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. A photography exhibit featuring work by the local community that reflects their personal experiences with African-American history and race, as well as historic images. Opening reception: Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther ‌King Day), 1-3pm. (Through March 31)

En Mass: Pushing the Boundaries of Graffiti @ Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge. Works by three Massachusetts artists: Farce Ged, Limer YL and Wayne Cod. Opening reception: Saturday, January 14, 6-9pm. (Through February 27)

5×5: Participatory Provocations @ Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. An exhibition featuring models by 25 young American architects as a response to issues including immigration, a growing income gap and globalization as well as technology’s impact on our lives, surveillance and power. Opening reception: Saturday, January 14, 2-4pm. (Through March 12)

No Parking: The Alleys and Garages of Hudson @ Hudson Opera House, Hudson. Images of those small streets that run parallel to the larger thoroughfares in Hudson, dating back nearly two decades, from local artists Lisa Durfee, William Hellermann and Peter Spear. Artists’ reception: Saturday, January 14, 5-7pm. (Through February 19)

Ron Ronan @ No. Six Depot Cafe, West Stockbridge. Photographs by Ron Ronan, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s lyric, “There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.” from his song Anthem. Artist’s reception: Saturday, January 14, 4-pm. (Through January 31)

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State of Disobedience @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. An exhibition that brings together works in a range of media that speak to the power of art to provoke unexpected and contradictory responses, including works by Matthew Ronay, Barkley Hendricks, Mary Ellen Mark, Patty Chang, Glenn Ligon and others. (Through January 15)

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Winter Exhibit @ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. An exhibit of both large scale fabric installation and finely detailed drawings, painting and collages, offering unique commentary on the political, personal and environmental observations of what it means to live in a global community today, with works by Kate Hamilton, Allyson Levy, Laura Von Rosk, Louise Laplante, Andrea Moreau, Elizabeth Coyne and Eileen Murphy. (Through January 22)

Beneath the Surface @ Sohn Fine Art, Lenox. A group exhibition of photography that explores the element of water featuring John Atchley, Peggy Braun, Denise B. Chandler, Pauline Chernichaw, George Diebold, Holger Eckstein, Aldara Ortega Cassandra Sohn and Matthew David Wachsman. (Through January 23)

3rd Annual Winter Salon @ Clement Art Gallery, Troy. An annual show of small works in a variety of media featuring art by Elizabeth Apgar-Smith, Robert Bootier, Tom Clement, John Connors , George Dirolf, Susan Lunlow, Jon Gernon, Mara Lehmann, Bob Moylan, Susan Story, Takeyce Walter, Marlene Wiedenbaum, Kristin Woodward and others. (Through January 23)

Broken America @ 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson. A solo exhibition of works by George Spencer, a filmmaker, poet and visual artist working with found and traditional art-making materials. (Through January 29)

Shapes Effect @ John Davis Gallery, Hudson. A solo exhibition of paintings by Katherine Mojzsis. (Through January 29)

The Gift Show @ Lisa Vollmer Photography Studio + Gallery, Great Barrington. Photographs by Carolina Palermo Schulze, Thatcher Hullerman Cook, Tom Zetterstrom, Lisa Vollmer and Sabine Vollmer von Falken. (Through January 30)

Photography and Discovery @ The Clark, Williamstown. When photographs were first widely produced and distributed during the second half of the nineteenth century, they offered viewers new ways to discover unknown people, places, and things. This exhibition explores how photographers considered these subjects during the medium’s first seventy-five years. (Through February 5)

Being the Measure @ Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. David Zink Yi’s first museum exhibition in the United States brings together his work in sculpture, photography, music, and video. Marking his foray into live performance, it fuses his interests in Afro-Caribbean music and cephalopod mollusks. (Through February 12)

Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron @ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany. An exhibition taken from Capital region resident Patrick Harbron’s body of concert and portrait photography of influential musicians and groups of the 1970’s and 1980’s, captured at pivotal moments, such as Blondie, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Elvis Costello. He followed these artists to prominence and others that were already well known including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Queen, The Who, Genesis, KISS, U2, Aerosmith, and Prince. The exhibition will include Harbron’s collection of posters and ephemera gathered throughout his career along with guitars borrowed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Through February 12)

Abandoned Luncheonette @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson. Works by Conor Backman, Lisa Beck, Francis Cape, Jennifer Coates, Adriana Farmiga, Frederick Hayes, Richard Klein, Tracey Miller, Walter Robinson, Nancy Shaver, Amy Talluto and Tony Thompson. (Through February 26)

The Art of Photography @ Art DeCure, Albany. Works by 11 artists and photographers. (Through March 3)

Gravity & Light @ Opalka Gallery, Albany. Stone sculpture by Caroline Ramersdorfer. (Through March 5)

Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science @ The Tang , Saratoga Springs. An exhibition of contemporary and historical art, artifacts, and material culture exploring the human desire to use and create pattern to understand the world around us. (Through March 12)

By the Patterns @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. Kira Nam Greene, the fourth featured artist in the gallery’s Art Installation Series, has installed her patternist collages. (Through March)

Andres Serrano: Selected Works 1984-2015 @ The School, Kinderhook. Works by the noted photographer; included in this exhibition are selected photographs from various series including America (2001-2004), a panorama of American society; The Morgue (1992), an investigation of death; History of Sex (1995-1996), graphic images which have been taped to repair previous vandalism; and Torture (2015), his most recent work. Serrano has also photographed numerous other subjects including the Ku Klux Klan, the homeless, and bodily fluids. Also on display: Home Room, a multimedia group exhibition featuring works by Huma Bhabha, Nick Cave, Turiya Magadlela, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Claudette Schreuders, Laurie Simmons, Michael Snow, Becky Suss and Carlos Vega.

Japanese Impressions @ The Clark, Williamstown. An exhibition of more than a century of Japanese printing traditions represented by seventy-three color woodblock prints, including works by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Itô Shinsui, Kawase Hasui, Yoshida Hiroshi and Kiyoshi Saitô . (Through April 2)

Active Turn: The Devil’s Wheel @ Art Omi, Ghent. Photographers Kahn + Selesnick have created a new work for use in Freya Powell’s zoetrope. (Through May 28)

Hanna-Barbera: The Architects Of Saturday Morning @ Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge. The first museum exhibition on the world’s most successful animation partnership, providing a glimpse of the extraordinary story of how two astute businessmen reacted to a dying film animation industry and revolutionized a new format for their product, while hiring the best talent in the business, and exploring how their product transformed over the years. (Through May 29)

Concinnitas Portfolio @ Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady. A portfolio of ten fine art aquatint prints featuring equations, expressions or formulas transcribed by ten notable mathematicians and physicists, in response to the prompt to record their ‘most beautiful mathematical expression.’ Each image was hand-drawn by each of the following participants: Sir Michael Atiyah, Enrico Bombieri, Simon K. Donaldson, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Karp, Peter Lax, David Mumford, Stephen Smale and Steven Weinberg. (Through August 2018)