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 between two and 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, call Michael Erp at michael@lgbtqcenter.org or Tracy Bouvette at tracy@lgbtqcenter.org.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
LOS MIGRANTES
Los Migrantes Paintings by Barbara Masterson
Exhibition Details
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 4-6pm
On View: September 13 - November 15, 2025
Location: Apuzo Hall Gallery, 300 Wall Street, Kingston
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Admission: Free Entry
Light refreshments and beverages will be served at the opening reception.
About the Exhibition
From the "Hands That Feed Us" Project
Hudson Valley artist Barbara Masterson's paintings reveal the migrant workers who sustain local agriculture—individuals often invisible despite their essential contributions. Through intimate portraits that began as distant figures in her plain air work, Masterson challenges us to see both the labor and humanity of those who feed our community.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is like a serum, transforming its audience for good or ill.
Familiar shapes in fields and orchards, migrant workers toil in the Hudson Valley doing jobs most Americans won't, earning modest wages, sometimes risking deportation. Hard at work, they summon our attention and invite us to come closer, to see their labor and their humanity.
Who are they? Can you see them?
It's possible for society to confer invisibility on a group. It's convenient; if the group is invisible, we relieve ourselves of concern about health care, working conditions, pesticides, housing, lack of ability to get their own food.
What is life like for them?
What role do we play in keeping them unseen?
My work can expand our perceptions of these workers. If only by their images in my paintings, the viewer will come to see these persons for the vital role they have in our lives.
— Barbara Masterson