Longyear Gallery Upcoming News and Events

TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS:

“DRAWING – TAKE A LINE FOR A WALK” and “MEMBERS’ GROUP EXHIBITION”

LONGYEAR GALLERY, MARCH 20^th – APRIL 19^th, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MARCH 21^st from 3-5 p.m.

Longyear Gallery of Margaretville is pleased to announce the opening of two new concurrent exhibitions: “DRAWING – Take A Line for a Walk” and “Members’ Group Exhibition.” Opening on Friday, March 20^th, these exhibitions will run through Sunday, April 19^th with the Opening Reception for both on Saturday, March 21^st from 3-5 p.m.

Longyear Gallery’s new exhibition “DRAWING – Take a Line for a Walk” includes works in a series informed by a special theme chosen annually by Longyear members. This year’s exhibit includes Marion Behr’s black and white drawings using a rapidograph or a Farber pen; Temma Bell’s five black and white self-portraits using ink on paper; Neil Driscoll’s acrylic on canvas color painting; Gail Freund’s India ink on paper black and white flowers and landscapes; Ron Macklin’s black and white city watercolors; Anthony Margiotta’s ink and gouache along with black and white ink drawings; Sheila McManus’s six abstract ”February Lines” using gouache on paper; Wayne Morris’s “Bovina Mountain View,” using graphite on Strathmore; Alan Powell’s color details from video installations; Deborah Ruggerio’s black and white ink on paper drawings of local landscapes; Victoria Scott’s black and white drawing using ink on Arches watercolor paper; Michelle Spark’s acrylic and oil on paper dreamy drawings; and Sara Stone’s color drawings using watercolor on paper along with the works in series of member artists Hedi Kyle, Linda Lariar, Mary McFarren, Richard Kirk Mills, Bonnie Mitchell, and Gerda van Leeuwen.

            Longyear Gallery’s newest spring “Members’ Group Exhibition” includes a Robert Axelrod black and white landscape etching, Joanne Barham’s multimedia art on canvas, a Robert Buckwalter oil painting, Marcia Clark’s cityscapes in oil, Ray Curran’s watercolors on linen, an Ann Lee Fuller oil painting, Irina Grinevitsky’s art, Robin Halpern’s two portraits in mixed media, Margaret Leveson’s art, two black and white cloudscape archival photographs by Helane Levine-Keating, Patrice Lorenz’s painting using Fasche paint on paper, Lesley A. Powell’s paintings using encaustic or oil, Ros Welchman’s ceramics, and two still life oil paintings by Lynn Woods.

            “Rust Cabinet,” the gallery’s newest Cabinet of Curiosities, curated by Longyear Gallery Members Hedi Kyle, Gerda van Leeuwen, and Mary McFerran has been installed in time for the opening of these two new exhibitions. It is on view just outside the gallery in the interior display in the Commons hallway.

Future 2026 Longyear Gallery exhibits feature a Members’ Group Show running from Friday, April 24^th through Sunday, May 24^th, 2026 with the opening reception on Saturday, April 25^th from 3-5 p.m., followed by two solo featured artists exhibitions by Neil Driscoll and Lesley A. Powell, running from Friday, May 29^th-Sunday, June 28^th with the opening reception on Saturday, May 30^th from 3-5 p.m., accompanied by a Members’ Group Show.

Longyear Gallery is located Downstairs in The Commons, 785 Main Street, Margaretville. The gallery will be open from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. For information, please see Longyear Gallery’s website, email the gallery at info@longyeargallery.org, or call 845.586.3270 during gallery hours.