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SUMMARY:Arts Society of Kingston May Exhibitions Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\nMedia Contact:\nAmy Poux, Executive Director\nArts Society of Kingston\n97 Broadway\nKingston, NY 12401\n(845) 389-5889\namy@askforarts.org\nwww.askforarts.org\nPress private viewing: Saturday May 2, 2 PM or by appointment.\nArts Society of Kingston Announces May Exhibitions\nExhibition Dates: May 2 – May 31, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday, May 2 at 3:00 PM\nLocation: Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY\nThe Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) is pleased to present three new exhibitions opening May 2 and on view through May 31. The exhibitions feature Hazmat, a solo presentation by artist, Stephen Olivier, alongside the Retrospective exhibition by artist Fran Sutherland, and the members exhibition Petals & Pollinators: Illustrating between the bees.\nSpotlight Gallery\nHAZMAT by Stephen Olivier\nOlivier’s current body of work includes paintings and sculptural work, that emerge from the collision of biography and belief – a reckoning with the self, built from Catholic guilt, queer identity, and a lifelong quest to resolve the unfinished career of his father.\nAbout the artist\nStephen Olivier is an award winning artist whose work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and artist-run spaces across the United States and internationally. Olivier was awarded a 2025 residency at NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Let the Fur and Feathers Fly at Epperson Gallery in California, the Texas National Competition at the Cole Art Center in Texas, Big Bold Pride at the Art Society of Kingston, and Truth Unveiled at Art League Rhode Island. Additional exhibitions include the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, KIPNZ in Walton, NY, and venues throughout New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Berlin. Olivier’s solo exhibitions include Over the Garden Wall at Subdivision Art in Long Island City, and Beforemath at the Octopus Building in Miami.\nOlivier’s sculptural work has also appeared in film, including creating thirty resin sculptures for Shelton Walsmith’s short film The Importance of Being Amber. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Preparator at White Box and The Annex in New York, where he installed exhibitions for artists including Carolee Schneemann, Brian Maguire, Javier Téllez, Marianne Vitale, Joel Sternfeld, William Anastasi, Conrad Atkinson, and Jeff Chiplis.\nFront Gallery\nTWO SEASONS\nFRAN SUTHERLAND\nFrom the oil paintings created in 1958 at SUNY New Paltz until the mixed media art works of 2025, this retrospective features the landscape and bridges of the Hudson Valley inspired by abstract representations of native American (Lenape) sacred stories.\nFran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a painter, teacher and restorer of historic homes. Strongly influenced by Eastern aesthetics, Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. The chosen media and techniques express personal ideas, which is especially evident in her textural compositions emphasizing oil and acrylic resist techniques.\nMembers Gallery\nPetals & Pollinators: Illustrating between the Bees \nThis exhibition features work that examines the beauty, fragility, and interdependence of ecological systems from the intimate exchange of pollen to the broader environmental narratives of climate change, habitat loss, and biodiversity. Through all visual mediums, artists are interpret “between the bees” expansively: as a literal space of ecological exchange, a metaphor for collaboration and community, or a meditation on the delicate balance that sustains life.\nFeatured member artists: Larry Arvidson, Bob Barnes, Lawrence Bush, Michael DiPleco, Stacie Flint, Melissa Forbes, Terry Haas, Tom Hackett, Emeline Hastings, Laura Helfant, Kim Henry, Barbara Holt, David Holt, Carrie Hotz-Barth, Locke Johnston, David Joseph, TomLooney, Joel Mandelbaum, Debbie Martin, James McCann, Carol McCarthy, Julie Michels-Ruiz.\n\n
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