Dale Stewart reports from Hudson.A little rain can't keep a good art show down. This was evident at New Art Dealers Alliance 2012 Art Fair at the Basilica Hudson and at pop-up galleries and exhibitions up and down Warren Street and all around town on Saturday, July 28, where more than 50 galleries staged site-specific installations. This is NADA's second year in Hudson; a notable change from last year was the addition of the Hudson Independent Artists Trail and Open Studios, a community-based project that capitalized on the timing of the two-day fair. Nearby Olana offered shuttle service to its Frederic Church-designed hilltop mansion and grounds; Stair Galleries hosted a two-day art-centered auction, and many shopkeepers commemorated the event with storefront window displays. The Henry Hudson Studios' "Native Hill: Artists of the Valley" was a standout attraction. A site-specific exterior installation by Polly Apfelbaum (pictured left with Arlene Shecket and Apfelbaum's husband, Stan Allen) wrapped around the building, and well-known area artists and up-and-comers showed work in the rough interior pop-up space. How rough? Building owner Henry Haddad stopped mid-renovation to facilitate the show, leaving the artists with a relatively raw exhibition space.
Cara Turett, Basilica Hudson's graphic designer, with co-creative director and musician Melissa Auf der Maur; Megan Kane and Noah Fischel with Pilates Hudson owner Nicole Meadors.
Furniture designer Rob Williams with wife Sanne Ameln; artists and personal chefs Dawn Breeze and Gianni Iacono.
Artist David Franck with curator Richard Roth; NADA exhibiting artist and musician Kris Perry with Basilica co- creative director Tony Stone.
Architects Kathleen Triem and Peter Franck with gallerist Amir Mortazavi and artist Chris Fraser; artist Anna Casper with KK Gile.
NADA artists Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron had to ground their artsy balloon rides due to inclement weather.
Chef David Chicane and Hudson shopkeeper Jocie Sinauer; artists Mary Ann Strandell and Michael Rees came up from Manhattan for the day.
Marie Balle with antiques dealer Terri See: musicians Tommy Stinson and Steve Durand at Henry Hudson Studios.
Sadie Mechling with her mother, artist Monica Mechling; Kingsley Parker and graphic designer Bob Mechling.
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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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