Gallery
Open 12-4 pm Tues. - Sat. All are welcome. Free Entry. Wheelchair Accessible.
KAC Member Show
December 7th - January 11th
Opening Reception: Sat. Dec. 7th, 1- 4 pm
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An annual exhibit devoted to works in any medium created by artists who are members of the KAC!
We will be accepting artwork submissions Monday Nov. 25th - Wednesday Nov. 27th during office hours!
Upcoming Exhibitions
Lost Faculties: A Cazenovia College Diaspora
January 25th - March 1st
Opening Reception: Sat. Jan. 25th, 1 - 4 pm
Kim Waale, Jen Pepper, Sarah Cross, Jo Buffalo, Paul Pearce, Sharon Souva, and Anita Welych
Kim Waale (sculpture)
Paul Pearce (photo)
March 22nd - April 26th
Opening Reception: Sat. March 22nd 1 - 4 pm
Jessica Warner, Vesselina Traptcheva
Vesselina Traptcheva
Jessica Warner
May 10th - June 14th
Opening Reception: Sat. May 10th, 1 - 4 pm
Sharon Souva, Sarah Sczepanski, Jill Ziccardi
Sharon Souva
Sarah Sczepanski
Jill Ziccardi
June 21st - July 19th
Opening Reception: June 21st, 1 - 4 pm
Anne Faber
Just Add Water XI
Aug. 2nd - Aug. 30th
Opening Aug. 2nd, 1 - 4 pm
11th Annual Community Art Project
To participate pick up a free Golden Paint Watercolor Palette and Paper and return it with your finished work!
Consisting of donated watercolor artwork using Golden Paint Palettes and one other medium. All ages are welcome to submit up to 4 pieces of artwork.
Online Gallery Opens for Viewing and Purchase on Aug. 4th at 4 pm
There is one of each original pieces of artwork, each being sold for $25
September 6th - October 11th
Opening Reception: Sat. September 6th, 1 - 4 pm
Ramiro Dávaro-Comas
October 25th - November 29th
Opening Reception: Sat. October 25th, 1 - 4 pm
Meagan Smith and Moe LaLonde
Meagan Smith
Moe LaLonde
Previous Exhibitions in the KAC Gallery
Ink on Paper
Olga Nenazhivina and Iain Machell
October 19th - November 23rd
Opening Reception: Sat. Oct. 19th, 1 - 4 pm
Olga Nenazhivina
Iain Machell
Although the artists’ works could not be more visually different from each other – lyrical, delicate, figurative vs. tough, dimensional, abstract – each artist shares an affinity for materials, textures, processes, and above all, close observation of their world.
Venn: Creative Intersections
September 3 - October 5
Opening Reception Sat. Sept. 7th, 1 - 4 pm
Venn Collective
Steven Specht with Anthony Morgan and Tony Thompson
David Rufo
Painter and Utica University assistant professor David Rufo and Venn Collective artists include Utica University psychology professor Steven Specht, Elizabethtown PA master chef Anthony Morgan, and well-known Utica artist Tony Thompson.
Whether viewers focus on the image or the mark, the works featured in Venn: Creative Intersections will surely evoke highly personal responses. Come see what narratives you can tell yourself at the Kirkland Art Center!
Just Add Water
10th Annual Community Art Project
Consisting of donated watercolor artwork using Golden Paint Palettes and one other medium. All ages are welcome to submit up to 4 pieces of artwork.
Exhibition Opening: July 27th from 1 -4 pm | Online Gallery Opens for Viewing and Purchase on July 29th at 4 pm
There is one of each original piece of artwork, each being sold for $25
July 27th - August 24
Visions of the Human Condition
June 8th - July 13th
The busy environment and cheery colors crowding the gallery belie the underlying theme of artists Terry Slade and Ron Throop – their individual responses to the collective anxiety and concern facing humanity. In post-Covid America, over 20% of adults live with anxiety, so it’s no surprise that the work of these artists reflects a certain state of angst. As Terry Slade remarks of his semi-abstract, sculpted heads, “Each figure appears lost in thought and alone, but each one is also collectively and relentlessly staring into a future fraught with the unknown.”
Self-taught Oswego painter Ron Throop, in embracing the principles of the British Stuckist movement, has unselfconsciously created the paintings exhibited as a sort of psychological self-portrait, a “neurotic’s journal” as he terms his current body of work. Stuckists believe that painting in this way enriches society by “giving shared form to individual experience and an individual form to shared experience.” (Stuckist Manifesto) His paintings are left unframed to reduce the arrogance of formal presentation and to keep them affordable both for the artist to create and for the viewer to take home.
Sculptor Terry Slade, professor emeritus of Hartwick College, has long been influenced by ancient monuments as a way to understand how humans exist in their environment. An exhibition of Roman marble heads placed on thin columns inspired the grouping of Slade’s heads, creating community within isolation.
Ron Throop- Paintings
Terry Slade - Sculptures
Stephen Aifegha
Howard Skrill
Chaotic Memory
Artist Talk with Howard Skrill:
Friday, April 19, at 1 pm in the Gallery
April 20 - May 25, 2024
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.
Circulatory System
Exhibition of collaborative work by students of Hamilton College under Professor Grace Sachi Troxell
March 30 - April 14, 2024
Public Reception: Sat. March 30th, 1 pm - 4 pm
All three pieces were created by over 30+ Hamilton College students each contributing to a part, together creating the whole piece.
OPTICAL SENSIBILITY
Frank Viola
October 21st – December 1st, 2023
Public Reception: Sat, Oct. 21st,
1 pm - 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 on 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 at 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 5th to October 7th
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.
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.
Exquisite Corpse
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.
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.
Handle With Care
3/19 - 4/30
Featuring artists Eric Shute and Collin Blackmore.
Abstractions of Nature
Activist Stitches
Quilts by Thomas Knauer
1/22/22 - 3/5/22
Activist quilts by local fiber artist Thomas Knauer.
2021 Exhibitions
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
