Gallery
Located in the dynamic West End district of Beacon's Main Street, this historic brick storefront currently houses a gallery, a Hudson River bookstore and gift shop and Beacon Institute's administrative offices. The Gallery features photography, artwork and other exhibitions illustrating life along the Hudson River.
(Please note: We occasionally close the space for special meetings.)
March 9—October 6, 2013
How Industry Has Changed the Water of the World
March 9 through October 6, 2013
Gallery at 199 Main Street
Photographer Robin Dana captures the lush colors, abstract beauty and surreal forms that emerge from a 'new nature' created by industry's relentless pursuit of natural resources, with images of Hudson, Potomac and other watersheds around the world.
Past Exhibits
Linda T. Hubbard | As the Crow Flies
December 8, 2012 through March 2, 2013
Photographer and arts advocate Linda Hubbard’s exhibit, As the Crow Flies, presents a compelling aerial perspective of the Hudson River from Bear Mountain to Kingston, through photographs taken in 2007 during three flights in an R22 helicopter.
Harnessing the Hudson: Waterwheels to Turbines
March 10 through December 3, 2012
This exhibit, on loan from the Chapman Historical Museum in Glens Falls, NY, contains a collection of archival photos with accompanying descriptive text that tells a dramatic story of the power of water, which inspired the early innovations that created turn-of-the-century renewable energy.
Ted Spiegel | The Hudson's Seasons & Spans
October 8, 2011 through March 4, 2012
Ted Spiegel, an accomplished photojournalist with more than 50 years of experience, has covered assignments across the globe, but like the 19th-century artists of the famed Hudson River School, he's made the Hudson River Valley the focus of much of his life's work.
Eric Lind | Revealed: Hidden Lives of the River
March 12 through October 2, 2011
Eric Lind, photographer and Director of Constitution Marsh Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Garrison, NY, developed his photographic collection Revealed: Hidden Lives of the River, to bring to light some of our region's lesser-known and inconspicuous wild residents.
October 9, 2010 through March 6, 2011
Russell Cusick, Hudson Valley photographer and mixed medium artist, presents his exhibit of Hudson River inspired art and photo acrylic panoramas, works reflecting Bear Mountain Bridge to Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge.
Hudson River artists explore the ubiquity of water
March 13 through October 3, 2010
Joel Adas | Peter Brauch | Erica Hauser | Laura Moriarty | Richard Sigmund | Shawn Snow | Ian Wickstead
Water is in our existence everyday; it runs through our pipes, fills our drinking glasses as well as our bodies, and is a prominent feature in the Hudson Valley landscape.
Linda Cross | Reflections on the River
Paintings exploring the Hudson River
November 14, 2009 - March 7, 2010
Cross’ work “delivers an interpretation of more than river, more than that which lies below the water or between its shores.” The new relief landscapes, made from paper pulp formed around shapes, are tactile abstractions of temporal reflections in the river.
Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy
May 9 - October 4, 2009
Courtesy of The Center for Land Use Interpretation
This exhibit is a portrait of the Hudson’s shores, focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river’s banks.
Top to Bottom -- The Hudson River
Photographs by Ted Kawalerski, October 4, 2008-April 26, 2009.
Sleepy Hollow photographer Ted Kawalerski shares with viewers his deep personal connection to the Hudson River and the multicultural diversity of people who live along its banks.
Leigh Wen's oil painting, etchings and ceramic pieces portray the powerful forces of water and nature on a grand scale.
March 8—September 29, 2008
The Hudson and Beyond: Photographs from Around the Bend and Across the Sea
Photographs by John Fasulo, October 13, 2007-March 3, 2008.
The Hudson & Its Watershed: The Making of a Map
An original commission—a hand-drawn, 4' x 6' map by Redstone Studio's Connie Brown to commemorate the Hudson River Watershed's rich biological and cultural heritage. March 10, 2007-October 7, 2007.
Wetlands & Bodies of Water
Paintings by Richard Bruce, September 16, 2006–March 2, 2007.
Dave White: The World of a Hudson Riverman
Photographs by William Swan, May 13–September 9, 2006.
Hudson: The Story of a River
Paintings by Thomas Locker, April 2005–April 2006. The paintings, which became illustrations for a children's book, depict 16 scenes that tell the story of the Hudson River and its rich history.
Don Nice: Hudson River Fish
Paintings of native fish on anodized aluminum by Garrison artist Don Nice. August 13–September 24, 2005.
Shad in the Shadow of Skyscrapers
A rare exhibit of the March 1947 National Geographic photo essay "Shad in the Shadow of Skyscrapers" by celebrated photographer Luis Marden. July 2004–May 2005.
The Hudson River: A Visual Voyage
A series of photographs of the Hudson taken over 25 years by local photographer Joseph Squillante. February–July 2004.
