Grounds of Memory

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Grounds of Memory, a new exhibition by Alcides Rivas, explores the intimate relationship between memory, place, and identity through the artist’s enduring connection to the coffee farm where he grew up.

Raised among coffee trees, seasonal harvests, and the rhythms of agricultural life, Alcides draws on the landscape of his childhood as both subject and material. Across the exhibition, coffee and the farm appear in direct and indirect forms—through organic textures, earthy colors, recurring forms, fragments of botanical imagery, and materials that evoke the sensory experience of the land. What emerges is not simply a portrait of a particular place, but an exploration of how a place becomes embedded in memory and continues to shape us long after we have left it.

The title Grounds of Memory carries a double meaning: the physical ground of the coffee farm and the emotional grounds upon which memory is formed. For the artist, the soil, coffee plants, tools, harvests, and landscapes of his childhood are inseparable from the stories, relationships, and sensations that have shaped his artistic practice.

Rather than presenting the coffee farm as a nostalgic image of rural life, the exhibition considers it as a living archive. The works revisit the farm through memory—sometimes recognizable, sometimes fragmented or abstracted. Familiar elements are transformed, allowing personal recollection to become a broader meditation on ancestry, labor, belonging, and the passage of time.

Throughout Grounds of Memory, the artist moves between the tangible and the remembered. Coffee becomes more than a crop: it becomes a visual and emotional language. The recurring presence of coffee and the landscape points to the ways ordinary materials and places can carry extraordinary personal histories.

The exhibition invites viewers to consider their own relationships to place and memory. In the artist’s hands, the coffee farm becomes both a specific landscape and a metaphor for memory itself—something cultivated over time, rooted deeply, and continually transformed by experience.

Grounds of Memory

October 17 - November 29, 2026
Opening Reception: October 17, 2026, 5-7pm – Free and open to the public

Gallery Hours: Open daily 9am-4pm and by appointment

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Circular Logic

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Circular Logic, a solo exhibition by Emily Nomer. The exhibition brings together a new body of patterned artworks that explore repetition, rhythm, and the intricate systems that shape both natural and human-made environments.

Through meticulously constructed compositions, Circular Logic investigates the relationship between order and complexity. Repeating motifs, geometric structures, and evolving patterns serve as visual metaphors for cycles of thought, behavior, and connection. The works invite viewers to consider how meaning emerges through repetition and how seemingly simple forms can generate unexpected depth and movement.

Drawing inspiration from architecture, textiles, and organic growth systems, Emily creates immersive visual fields that oscillate between precision and intuition. Each piece functions as both a self-contained structure and part of a larger conversation about interconnectedness, perception, and the ways we navigate recurring patterns in daily life.

Through layered surfaces, intricate mark-making, and dynamic visual rhythms, the artworks encourage prolonged looking and contemplation

Circular Logic

October 17 - November 29, 2026
Opening Reception: October 17, 2026, 5-7pm – Free and open to the public

Gallery Hours: Open daily 9am-4pm and by appointment

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Made of US

A Journey of Collage & Sculptural Mix Media by Elizabeth Arnold and Antonio Ingenito

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Hallway Art Space is pleased to present Made of Us, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Hudson Valley artists Antonio Ingenito and Elizabeth Arnold. 

Made of Us brings together two distinct artistic practices connected by an exploration of identity, memory, ancestry, transformation, material, place, and the often unseen forces that shape who we become.

Through found objects, reclaimed materials, natural elements, collage, sculpture, symbolism, and layered environments, Ingenito and Arnold each examine the fragments from which individual and collective identities are constructed. Their work moves between the deeply personal and the universal, considering what we inherit, what we carry, what we transform, and how our relationships to family, culture, history, nature, community, and place continue to define us.

Made of Us ultimately asks viewers to consider what makes each of us who we are. We are fragments. We are history. We are connection.
We are made of us.
 

Gallery Hours: Open daily 9am-4pm and by appointment

Opening reception: Saturday August 22, noon-2pm