Fiona Breslin reports from Hudson. More than usual, art lovers were out and about on Saturday, July 28, as NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) brought a swarm of contemporary artists and creative minds to the city for its second annual Hudson art fair. Galleries along Warren Street propped their doors open late, inviting visiting and local connoisseurs to explore new work in various media and to engage with artists at intimate receptions. The evening also marked the debut of Galerie Gris at 621 Warren Street, the new art space run by Steve Isoz and Todd Gribben, proprietor of GRIS antiques and interior design. The gallerists threw a party to open their venue and its initial exhibition, Electric Blossom, new large-scale, fluorescent-hued images of flowers by photographer Torkil Gudnason. (Above, Gribben and Isoz flank Jessica Gudnason and artist Torkil Gudnason.) Electric Blossom remains on view through August 24th.
Surgeon Mark Reiner and journalist Dyan Machan; Joan Rose and Galerie Gris' Thomas Malic.
Jessica Gudnason with Galerie Gris co-owner Todd Gribben; Linda Reiner and Galerie Gris co-owner Steve Isoz.
Cookbook author Susan Simon and photographer Torkil Gudnason; Jody Rome Thompson with photographer Kate Sterlin.
Cynthia Lathrop chats with friend Debra Gallo; Juan Camacho and Kenth Andersson.
Designer Mitchell Motsinger and Joan Rose; photography student Camille Breslin and writer Dan Heching .
Photographer Torkil Gudnason with Simon Horobin and Rob Van Dorssen.
At Columbia County Council on the Arts: Sarah Becker with photographer Arlene Becker in front of her collage Time and the City; The Columbia County Council on the Arts board president Jan Grice and board member Kenneth Young.
At Limner Gallery: photographer Mia Hanson and her husband, painter Hawk Alfredson, in front of his work; Mira and David Francis.
At Davis Orton Gallery: Hudson Music Fest's Chad Weckler with illustrator Cheryl Lickona and writer Faheem Halder; writer Dan Heching and artist Nadine Boughton, in front of her work.
Musicians Max Scheinin and Marilu Donovan with filmakers Otto Stockmeier and Derek Van Gorder.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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