Gallery Open 12-4 pm Tues. - Sat.
All are welcome. Free Entry. Wheelchair Accessible.
Current Exhibition
Chaotic Memory
A Public Reception will be on
Saturday, April 20, 1 - 4 p.m
April 20 - May 25, 2024
Artist Talk with Howard Skrill:
Friday, April 19, at 1 pm in the Gallery
Featuring the work of artists Stephen Aifegha and Howard Skrill.
The work of both artists explores issues of identity, both personal and societal.
Stephan Aifegha, born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, creates paintings with embedded newsprint and African fabrics. These additions serve as indicators of pan-African identity and post-colonial social commentary. Aifegha sees his work as a form of social activism, fomenting discussion and awareness of the lingering problems caused by colonialism in Africa.
Howard Skrill is a Brooklyn-based artist whose recent works on paper are based on monuments, particularly a Civil War monument. His study of these sculptural forms explores how monuments can manipulate memory and identity.
Howard Skrill
Howard Skrill
Stephan Aifegha
Previous Exhibitions in the KAC Gallery
OPTICAL SENSIBILITY
Frank Viola
October 21st – December 1st, 2023
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21st
from 1 pm to 4 pm
“For more than 50 years, Frank Viola has refused to be artistically pigeonholed. Expressing his artistic range through a variety of different media and found objects, Viola’s work encompasses painting, collage, sculpture, photography and mixed media. As an award-winning visual artist, Viola has explored the gamut of modern art movements, in particular those based in geometric abstraction such as op art, minimalism and pop art. An incessant and inquisitive creator, Viola works daily in his Utica-based studio.
Viola has had a long and storied career in both museum administration and education, starting in the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo. Later he served as an adjunct instructor at both Syracuse University and Herkimer Community College in museum management, and spent 20 years teaching in the Utica City School District, retiring in 2012.
Viola will exhibit primarily new work at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY, where he also serves on the exhibition committee. Please join us at the opening reception on Saturday October 21, from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. and engage with the artist, who is as colorful as his imagery!
HUMINT
Portraits
John Bentham, Michael Goe, Gregory Lawler
September 5 to October 7
Opening Reception Saturday, September 9 from 1 pm to 4 pm.
We are delighted to present an exhibition of portraits in photography, drawing and painting by artists John Bentham, Michael Goe, and Gregory Lawler. Its title, HUMINT, means human intelligence; while often used as spy terminology, the broader meaning of HUMINT is "human intelligence gathered by means of human sources and interpersonal contact." The definition can be applied in this case to the careful observation of artists as they create portraits of both themselves and other humans.
Poetic Personage
Heidi Brueckner
June 3rd to July 15th, 2023
The Kirkland Art Center will host a free reception on Saturday, June 10 at 1 pm for a solo exhibition by award-winning visual artist Heidi Brueckner. In the exhibition Poetic Personage, the California-based artist presents large-scale portrait paintings that she considers to be “individualistic narratives which explore personage through self-presentation, facial expressions, and gesture. The work often inspects the under-revered, and appreciates the subject’s presence and dignity, giving pause to honor the person.” The exhibition runs from June 3 through July 15.
Experimenting with the texture and surface of her large paintings, Brueckner integrates recycled materials like fabric, buttons, and beads and she often uses pieced-together bubble mailers and paper bags as her canvas. In representing humanity, she uses color to push her audience to abandon naturalism in skin color as a metaphorical “hope that society aspires to, and achieves equality among races and other kinds of human differences.”
.The Gallery is free and open to the public. Wheelchair Accessible
UCP’s Pieces of HeART
April 1st to April 22nd, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1st, 1-4pm
The Kirkland Art Center is thrilled to host Pieces of HeART in our gallery this April. We look forward to inviting the community in to experience the colorful artwork of UCP's multitalented artists—a celebration of spring and our common goals of self-expression. Pieces of HeArt is a creative art expression program of Upstate Cerebral Palsy, featuring artistic works in a variety of media.
Free. Everyone welcome. Wheelchair Accessible
Witness to Captivity
Kay Reese
February 4th to March 18th, 2023
In her solo exhibition at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton on Saturday, February 4th from 1 pm. In the exhibition, Witness to Captivity, award-winning visual artist and photographer Kay Reese visualizes “the African Holocaust using abstraction as the narrative structure of this global historical and social phenomenon.” Using photographs, objects and collaged digital and mixed media strategies, Reese explores difficult truths and engages her audience in those explorations through her imagery. She will speak about her work at 2 pm during the free opening reception on February 4th.
Reese describes her work in Witness to Captivity as “a story told from the point of view of brutally captured Africans. Many were thrown overboard; many more committed suicide by throwing themselves overboard, fearing death less than losing their languages, cultures, gods, identities, and free wills; their fundamental human rights against degradation, despair, and spiritual death in human captivity.”
.The Gallery is free and open to the public. Wheelchair Accessible
2022 KAC Member Show
December 10, 2022 - Jan 14, 2023
This exhibition is a gallery favorite! It is devoted to works in any medium created by artists who are or who wish to become KAC members. With many artists participating, the show will include a diverse array of styles and themes and will allow the public to enjoy the work of artists they know as well as to discover new artists — and to shop for unique holiday gifts.
We welcome submissions from KAC members and encourage other artists to become members of the KAC and submit their work and enjoy the perks of membership — just click here.
Exquisite Corpse
10/29/22 - 11/26/22
30 artists played the old game of working alone and then combining their pieces to create surreal and fantastic works of art.
The Central New York Watercolor Society’s 2nd Signature Member Exhibition
9/23/22 – 10/22/22
Over 25 works from this area’s top watercolor artists. The Central New York Watercolor Society encourages the study of watercolor and fosters awareness of the application with watercolor and water media through exhibitions and educational opportunities. To find out more about CNYWS please visit: centralnewyorkwatercolorsociety.org
Special Free Event
Performance art with the INSCAPE Collective.
October 1st, 2022
Timothy Parker and Abbie Cianfrocco appeared with the Inscape Collective in the KAC Gallery Inscape is a free multimedia experience that Parker and Cianfrocco have performed – or “canvased” as they call it – at Sculpture Space, Munson Williams Proctor Institute and other galleries, with upcoming performances planned at museums and galleries throughout the area.
BIG PRINTS at the KAC
7/30/22 - 9/3/22
As part of the MWPAI summer arts festival, TWENTY-FIVE ARTISTS plus volunteers made large relief prints under the drum of a 9-ton construction roller from Oneida County Department of Public Works.
JUST ADD WATER
7/9/22 - 7/23/22
Our eighth year of JUST ADD WATER in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors of New Berlin. This has become one of our most popular community events of the year.
Handle With Care
5/21/22 - 7/2/22
Anne Clarke's knitted rug series is influenced by the intersection of past and present, informed by the experiences of her mother's life and her changing relationship with time. I refer to the series as History Lessons. All are connected by the use text, readable and not — a found letter, old study notes and archived images of papers from historic figures long gone — juxtaposed with figurative images from past and present.
Abstractions of Nature
3/19 - 4/30
Featuring artists Eric Shute and Collin Blackmore.
Activist Stitches
Quilts by Thomas Knauer
1/22/22 - 3/5/22
Activist quilts by local fiber artist Thomas Knauer.
2021 and Earlier
Small Works
11/20/21 – 1/8/22
Pieces of hEART
10/16/2021 – 11/11/2021
Art of the Vote
9/15/2021 – 10/7/2021
Ways With Wax
7/24/21 – 9/4/21
60 Years of Art
6/8/2021 – 7/8/2021
