Art in Public Places

Main and Atrium Gallery Exhibitions

UPCOMING

January 10th-31st, 2026

Reception: Friday, January 10th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM 

Celebrate the amazing talent from local high school students from schools in Saratoga, Fulton, and Montgomery counties! Each year we ask high school teachers to select work from their top students who they think should be recognized for their talent and ambition. Light refreshments will be served.

February 7th-March 7th, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th, 2026 6:00-8:00 PM

Exhibition Programming:

Artist Talk with Seth Butler, Dani Ruf, Anna Pellicone, and Jess Stapf

Saturday, February 28th 12:00 PM-2:00 PM

Exhibition workshop with Jess Stapf

Collage Felting

Thursday, February 19th 6:00-8:00 PM

Register here!

Main Gallery

About the Exhibition:

Dream Logic brings together artists Seth Butler, Dani Ruf, and Anna Pellicone. The artworks in this exhibition examine landscape, home, and personal history through a fantastical, uncanny, or dream-like lens. Utilizing painting, sculpture, and drawing, the artists blur the lines between fiction and reality.

Seth Butler constructs fantasy landscapes, based on photographs of real places, often defying logical perspective. His textural brushwork evokes the sensory experience of being in nature and immerses you into another world. Dani Ruf builds miniatures of her childhood home, each sculpture creates an eerie overtone to childhood memory. Using cardboard as the exterior material they appear simple, but upon further inspection the interior is a complex diorama. Anna Pellicone’s drawings and prints explore personal history and identity through reinterpreted photographs. Her unsettling scenes alter perspective and proportions and often hint at an unseen spirit presence. 

Through each of their practices, Butler, Ruf, and Pellicone craft portals into otherworldly scenes where they contort and reenvision the reality of personal experiences and recollections.

Atrium Gallery

Artist Statement from the artist:

My artwork is an act of world-building, constructing queer, feminist spaces through textile and fiber-based craft techniques. Using symbols like windows, wooden boards, and bricks, I use rug-tufting, felting, and other fiber-based techniques to communicate themes of gender and domestic space. My work is firmly rooted in the use of craft mediums, tools, and skills.

By rendering hard objects in soft materials, distorting images, and subverting functionality, I make props and false facades that construct a theatrical space, existing somewhere between our lived reality and our dreams. My simple, bright color palette and minimal imagery indulge in the cliché. The never-changing skies feel as uncanny as they do serene. Softness is transformed into a language of its own, imbuing the work with the emotional, the comfortable, and the domestic.

Open to all mediums and artists at all stages of their career are encouraged to apply. Deadline to apply is February 13th, 2026 by 11:59 pm.  

Apply here!

About our Exhibition Programming

About our Main Gallery Exhibitions:

At Saratoga Arts, we present around 10 dynamic exhibitions each year in our Main and Atrium Gallery at 320 Broadway, right in the heart of Saratoga Springs. Our goal is to support and elevate artists from across the Capital Region by offering meaningful opportunities to exhibit and sell their work in a professional gallery setting.

Annually, we put out an open call to artists in the 11 counties of the Capital Region (Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington) to be considered for solo, two-person, or group exhibitions for our following season. 

We kick off each exhibition season with our High School All Stars show. This exhibition highlights the remarkable creativity of young artists at the local high schools. 

In collaboration with The Arts Center of the Capital Region, and Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Center, the 120 Intercollegiate rotates every three years between each gallery. The 120 Intercollegiate invites students enrolled in a college or university within 120 miles of the center to be selected to exhibit their artwork. It highlights the emerging talent and academic art programs in the area.

During the summer we have our 10 x 10 Exhibition, a show that is a celebration of our community and the arts! We invite artists of all levels and ages to submit a 10 x 10 inch artwork. It is a joyful, diverse display of art across all mediums and themes and a favorite among our community!

To close out the year, we display our Annual Members Exhibition. As a member of Saratoga Arts, you have the opportunity to show one piece in our members exhibition. This show is a rich reflection of the creativity that fuels our organization!

About Art in Public Places:

In addition to our Main and Atrium Gallery, we also offer Art in Public Places, a members-only program that gives artists the unique opportunity to showcase their work in a public venue. By partnering with seven locations in the region, we bring artwork directly to the community, allowing your creativity to reach a broader audience while transforming everyday spaces with vibrant art.

Participating venues include: Saratoga Springs Public Library, the Friends of the Saratoga Library Cafe, Saratoga Springs Visitor's Center, Country Corner Cafe, Saratoga Springs Train Station, Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library, and the Ballston Community Public Library.