What's Happening
Fine art gallery on the second floor of 162 Main St
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Anna West
paintings
July 11 to Aug 2, 2026
Installation image
Hippy House, 2005, oil on cardboard
Anna West has painted Beacon since she moved here in 2004—from prominent landmarks like Ron’s Ice Cream and Max’s on Main, to the moment a train pulls out of the Beacon station. She admires the wide variety of houses here and has painted her special favorites for years. Earlier this year, on Instagram and Facebook, she asked if any Beaconites wanted paintings of their houses, no obligation, and 18 citizens responded. This exhibit, 12508, at Hudson Beach Glass, includes paintings of these houses and other notable locations and trees in Beacon.
Anna has been an oil painter since the late '90s and before that a photographer for many years. Born in Pennsylvania, she has lived in San Francisco, New York City, and Beacon. She has exhibited locally and internationally, with her last solo shows taking place at Garrison Art Center and Art Flow in Crete, Greece.
Ron's Ice Cream, 2026, oil on canvas
Winter Train, 2024, oil on canvas
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Move Into Darkness
Jackie Skrzynski
paintings
Aug 8 to Sep 7, 2026
ARTIST TALK, later in the month TBD
Wood Ear Mushrooms, 2026, oil on wood, 14"dia
The exhibition showcases Skrzynski’s highly detailed paintings of Hudson Valley native, invasive, and cultivated plants. She writes, “The sensual, viscous, fragile, prickly, shameless drama taking place along a hiking trail or in my backyard inspires me. The value judgment placed on a chosen subject is purely aesthetic, not concerned if the plant itself is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, just visually compelling. However, each plant plays an undeniable role in the biodiversity of its ecosystem just as humans do, and that role can either help or hurt.”
Also included in the exhibit are several landscape paintings. The framed pieces depict what Skrzynski describes as a sense of “dissolving” when in the woods during the low light hours of dawn or dusk. The Recycled Landscapes are painted on plastic, metal, or cardboard salvaged from jars, boxes, and scrap. Sometimes they describe specific places, but most suggest a romantic ideal of the Hudson Valley landscape. Made using the leftover oil paint on the palette after a day of work, each surface is prepared with archival methods, varnished afterward, and ready to hang – all with recycled material.
Jackie Skrzynski has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1997. Her artwork is widely exhibited, including at Gallery Aferro (Newark, NJ), ARC Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), University of Nevada (Reno, NV), the Dorsky Museum (New Paltz, NY), and the Garrison Art Center (Garrison, NY). Skrzynski was awarded grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the New York Foundation of the Arts (SOS), and is a 4-time recipient of the Orange County Individual Artist Award. She contributed a chapter to the anthology Reconciling Art and Motherhood and has had her own artwork appear in several publications. Recent residencies include the Virginia Center for Contemporary Arts, Hortus Arboretum, and Black Rock Forest. Beyond her studio practice, Skrzynski started the Silent Walks, an immersive experience of landscape as art in which participants walk along a trail in total silence at dusk. Since 2009, she has led over 25 Silent Walks in the Hudson Valley.