New York's Upstate Art Weekend has grown in leaps and bounds since its founding by Helen Toomer in 2020. The sixth edition, running July 17 through July 21, features 158 participating art organizations-up from just 23 that first year-scattered across the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley. It's also the perfect excuse to escape the city and see some art this weekend. You can tour the offering via Google Maps, but we've also put together a list of the shows we're most excited about. Enjoy!
"Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun" at the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center
June 20-October 5
Tomokazu Matsuyama's joyously colored works, layered with a sense of stillness and solitude, make him a compelling artist to pay tribute Hopper, the master of the isolated figure. Here, Hopper's 1952 masterpiece Morning Sun takes the spotlight, as does Matsuyama's meditative response, titled Morning Sun Dance, a large, densely detailed painting that captures a contemporary form of introspection. Process drawings and smaller paintings included in the show further show how the Japanese artist has engaged with Hopper's treatment of light, space, and figuration-a quality, said Matsuyama, that "continues to influence my own thinking about isolation as well as my approach to painting." -M.C.
The Edward Hopper House is located at 82 North Broadway, Nyack, N.Y.
