Art Gallery
The Gallery at Apuzzo Hall provides the space to showcase work featuring the LGBTQ+ community and issues important to us.
Each year, the Community Center launches up to four shows. These exhibits feature the work of LGBTQ+ artists, highlight the diversity of our community and offer an opportunity to draw attention to themes and issues that matter to our community.
The Gallery, which is coordinated by a small team of staff and volunteers, also provides an important venue for young and emerging queer artists, and an opportunity to both show and sell their work.
If you are interested in volunteering with Gallery or would like more information about how to submit your work for consideration, contact Michael Erp at michael@lgbtqcenter.org or Tracy Bouvette at tracy@lgbtqcenter.org.
Gallery Mission
The goal of the Apuzzo Gallery is to feature the work of queer and trans artists, as well as artists who are allies and whose work is relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. The gallery is particularly focused on artists living and working in the Hudson Valley. We seek to explore issues that impact our community and act as a hub to activate and inform. We believe that we are all artists at heart and that discussion, learning and healing can occur through creation, display and engagement with the arts. As part of this, we strive to look at art as a means for uplifting historically marginalized groups by incorporating an intersectional lens in the curation of art exhibits and related programming.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Parts and Pieces: A Conversation in Collage, Pottery, and Memory
January 24–March 14, 2026 | Apuzzo Hall Gallery
About the Exhibition
Parts and Pieces: A Conversation in Collage, Pottery, and Memory examines how fragments become whole. Three Hudson Valley artists explore assembly as both an artistic practice and a metaphor for the LGBTQ+ community itself.
Like the works presented here, the LGBTQ+ community is built through gathering. We assemble our histories from fragments others tried to erase. We piece together chosen families. We reconstruct belonging from what we’ve been told doesn’t fit. Each story, each voice, and each creative practice is essential to the whole. This exhibition honors that work of assembly and celebrates what endures when we create spaces where every piece matters.
Exhibition Details
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 4–6pm
Meet the artists and celebrate the opening of this special exhibition.
On View
January 24–March 14, 2026
Closing Reception
Friday, March 14, 2026, 4–6pm
Location
Apuzzo Hall Gallery
Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center
300 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401
Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Saturday: 11am–7pm
Sunday: 2–4pm
Admission
Free
Art Sales
All work is for sale with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Center's programs.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Nathan Gwirtz creates ornate decorative pottery featuring florals, animals, and the male figure. A graduate of Hampshire College with a concentration in Social Theory of the Built Environment, Nathan has been making ceramics since 2001. His coffee mugs, cups, plates, bowls, vases, and planters are individual works of art that, on a table, complement and play off of each other. You may know Nathan from Key of Q concerts at the Community Center, where he greets guests and collects donations alongside his husband, a longstanding member and soloist with the chorus.
Pat Horner's practice spans writing, photography, collage, and abstract painting. At the heart of this exhibition is her 2023 book Loving Scott, which pieces together the life of her son Scott Andrew, drag performer "Misdemeaner," who died at age 50. Through Scott's performance garments, photographs, and celebrated makeup designs for international magazines, Pat gathers fragments of memory into tribute. Her work shows us that piecing together a life, even after loss, is an act of love.
Robert Ohnigian, a Woodstock-based artist and Pratt Institute graduate, creates collages that transform found materials into new forms, honoring their past while reimagining them. His work has been shown in NYC at Cordier and Ekstrom, Kouros Gallery, and Davis & Langdale gallery and has had many one-man shows.
Former co-owner of Clouds Gallery with his late partner Robert Orsini, he teaches collage at the Woodstock School of Art.
