SHOW OPENINGS + EVENTS
Talk Series: Zines, Comics, & Interplay of Words
Zines, Comics, & Interplay of Words
Explore storytelling through zines, comics, & photography with 4 dynamic artists sharing process, insight, & creative sparks.
Our first talk brings together four multifaceted artists—Sal Aguilera, Lee Dean, Simon Keough, and L Nichols—for a dynamic conversation on zines, comics, and the interplay of words and images. Through storytelling, photography, and graphic novels, these artists explore personal narratives and creative expression in print form. Expect an evening of insight, inspiration, and connection.
Letting Go of Perfect: An Immersive Drawing Workshop
As part of the workshop, artist Elizabeth Castagna (elizabethcastagnafineart.com) will bring her practice of body-led drawing into the space, demonstrating complete immersion within the movement of the body and the marks made on paper. Her approach highlights the connection between internal sensation and external form, deepening the experience of intuitive drawing.
Together, we will cultivate a space for reflection, connection, and healing. Whether you're an artist or a creative seeker, this is an opportunity to let go of perfection, embrace imperfection, and rediscover drawing as an intuitive and meditative act.
No prior experience is needed—just a willingness to experiment!
Materials are included. Space is limited—reserve your spot!
Closing Performance & Artist Talk
JOIN US & experience the closing performance by this Solo Show’s artist, Elizabeth Lindy! After the performance, there will be a walkthrough of the show with Elizabeth speaking to her work and will answer any questions about her show and process.
Painting with Dead Things: A Hands-On, Natural Dye and Paint Workshop
Discover the art of making inks and paints from natural organic materials. From the earliest cave paintings to medieval manuscripts, artists have long relied on pigments derived from plants, minerals, and animals. In this session, we’ll revive these historical techniques and experiment with organic color-making.
Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy will demonstrate how to create inks and paints using natural sources such as flowers, fruits, and earth pigments. We’ll also review pigment binders like gum arabic for watercolor, beeswax for encaustic, rabbit skin glue for distemper and egg for tempera.
This workshop is perfect for artists and creative enthusiasts alike—No prior experience is needed—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to experiment! Materials are included. Space is limited—reserve your spot!
Monthly Artist Social
Our monthly Artist Social Night is a gathering where artists and art enthusiasts come together to engage in lively discussions, exchange ideas, and present their work to others. Many artists work in solitude, so this monthly meeting provides them with the opportunity to receive feedback and have others interact with their work. Whether an experienced artist is looking to share their latest work or seeking inspiration, everyone and every medium is welcome!
Water & Light on Easter: Ritual Gathering & Performance
APRIL 20th: Find Elizabeth along the beach off the Riverfront Trail in Long Dock Park, Beacon, NY. Join her by the river for a brief ritual of release and renewal—an offering of remembrance and transformation through water, gesture, and communal presence. Witness a paper body carried into and out of the Hudson, marking our own reflections with stones, and share sweet bread, a gesture of shared sustenance and sweetness of the sun.
All are welcome.
Ghost Prints: A Hands-On Monotype Workshop
Discover the art of monotypes, a printmaking technique that produces one-of-a-kind images through ink transfer. Unlike traditional printmaking, monotypes create unique, painterly impressions rather than repeatable editions. In this workshop, we'll explore ghost prints—the second, more delicate impression left behind after the initial image is transferred—revealing subtle textures, echoes of past marks, and layers of transformation.
Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy will guide participants through the process, demonstrating how to use found objects, shapes, textures, and expressive mark-making to create abstract positive and negative images. Using acrylic paint on various plate surfaces, you'll experiment with different effects and techniques before pressing your own prints.
This workshop is designed for artists and beginners alike—no prior experience is needed, just a sense of curiosity and a willingness to explore. Materials are included. Space is limited—reserve your spot!
Opening Reception: Solo Show Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy
Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy | AN OFFERING OF GRAVITY AND GRACE
Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy's work embodies the tension between fragility and strength in the physical, emotional, and spiritual body—particularly the resilience of the female body as a vessel for grief and care. In her first solo exhibition, Lindy invites viewers into a quiet space for contemplation, offering a place to hold the layered emotions that accompany care, loss, and transformation. The works on view—artifacts of her performative ritual—trace the cyclical nature of grief and the ephemeral imprint of presence. Through this gathering of forms, she offers a moment of pause—an opportunity to acknowledge grief in its many manifestations, from personal and collective sorrow to the uncertainty of change.
Artist Walkthrough + Closing
THE SANDBOX CHRONICLES’ is a solo show by Melissa Schlobohm!
This is a show chronicling Melissa’s process through various sculptural mediums throughout the last decade.
Come and ESCAPE!
Portfolio Review Night
Art Review Night : a night of art + one-on-one feedback!
Join our Art Review Night for a unique portfolio/artwork review opportunity to have your work reviewed by experienced Hudson Valley based artists and curators. Limited spots available for your personalized feedback and artistic growth.
Artist Social Night
The monthly Artist Social Nights are gatherings where artists and art enthusiasts come together to engage in lively discussions, exchange ideas, and present their work to others. Many artists work in solitude, so this monthly meeting provides them with the opportunity to receive feedback and have others interact with their work.
One Page Zine - Mini-Workshop
This mini-workshop will include:
🔹 LEARN: 1-page zine creation
🔹 PROVIDED: Paper, scissors, markers, adhesive, pencils, and some beverages.
🔹 BRING WITH YOU: Any additional supplies you’d like for your zine + BYOB!
THIS IS A SLIDING SCALE EVENT.
In an effort to make our workshops/events accesible to more people, this event will be pay-what-you-can. (Note: A portion of ticket sales will go to operational costs of the gallery.)
Spend your THURSDAY hanging out with other creatives, try something new and make something fun.
Currents of Love
Super Secret Projects 2025 Invitational Exhibition
Artist Reception, February 8th, 3-6 PM
Artists have long turned to their mediums to express love in its many forms-be it for a person, a place, a memory, or even an idea.
Currents of Love celebrates adoration as not only an emotion but also a process: the devotion to an artistic practice, the exploration of a theory, or the pursuit of a belief system.
Curated by Super Secret Projects, this invitation-based exhibition highlights artists we admire for their ability to convey the depth and vulnerability that love inspires. In dialogue with the artists of the gallery, these works offer a glimpse into the layered ways emotion shapes, transforms, and its transformed by art.
The gallery is open Thursday - Monday, 11am -6pm
484 Main St, Beacon, NY
Artist Social Night
The monthly Artist Social Nights are gatherings where artists and art enthusiasts come together to engage in lively discussions, exchange ideas, and present their work to others. Many artists work in solitude, so this monthly meeting provides them with the opportunity to receive feedback and have others interact with their work. With each Artist Social Night the gallery invites the artist of the current solo exhibition for an Artist Talk. This month’s artist talk is by Emma M Diamond, artist of the solo exhibition,The Thief.
The Thief: A Solo Exhibition by Emma M Diamond
Super Secret Projects presents The Thief, a solo exhibition by Emma McDonald Diamond. Through Emma’s recent work, she is unpacking the labyrinth of emotions that accompany the transition into parenthood. She reflects on what is lost: spontaneity, independence, and sense of self, as they dissolve into the all-consuming demands of care giving.
In the delicate balance of fragility and resilience, Emma has discovered grace in the struggle. This imagery speaks of the silent battles waged within, the triumphs of survival, and the quiet moments of healing. Through layered textures, light, and imperfections, she evokes the dualities of motherhood: its tenderness and exhaustion, its clarity and confusion. This series is both deeply personal and universal. It is an ode to caretakers everywhere—those who create, nurture, and persevere through the quiet unraveling of their own stories.
Form + Dysfunction: A Solo Show by Laura Holmes McCarthy
Super Secret Projects presents Form + Dysfunction, a solo exhibition by Laura Holmes McCarthy, showcasing her continued exploration of the limits of functionality through sculptural ceramic vessels.
In Form + Dysfunction, vessels express maladaptation like bodies holding physical memory, informed by McCarthy’s personal history of engaging with productivity as a means of disengaging from grief. Straddling the line between sculptural art and functional objects, each vessel subverts the conventional concept of ‘good design’—which extols a frictionless merger between form and function resulting in objects that succeed in their failure to draw attention to themselves—by purposefully introducing formal disorder as a means of actively forcing the user’s attention. As functional design, they are not so much high-performing as they are high-functioning in spite of their dysfunction. As sculptural pieces, they ask us to interact with the way in which our bodies–often seen as disposable resources within a larger economic framework–cannot escape their innate humanity; revolting through breakdown and reactive adaptation to force us back into acute awareness of our most fundamental self
Work will be on display at the Super Secret Project speakeasy-style gallery, located at 484 Main St, Beacon NY, behind the Hyperbole shop.
Personal Protest
Personal Protest: A Community Group Exhibition
As an artist-run gallery, we aim to create exhibits that are innovative and that gives a place for artists to experiment and create a space for artists to meet and share. As we grow as a collective, we find ourselves yearning to give as many opportunities to our fellow artists in the community as possible. This is why we are calling for more community art to fill our walls with the theme: Personal Protest. Personal Protest is on view from September 14th to October 3rd.
Personal Protest, will come to an end on October 3rd. We encourage you to check out the exhibition as there are works in various disciplines. These pieces explore not only the nature of protest as a political act beyond its utility , but also as a personal interrogation of our reaction and resistance to the moral, practical, and spiritual condition that challenge our very core of our personal values.
Solastagia: A Solo Exhibition by Kohar Minassian
Super Secret Projects presents Solastagia, the debut solo exhibition by Kohar Minassian, showcasing the artist’s exploration of analog photography processes, including cyanotypes, anthotype, and lumen prints.
Solo Show Opening - Tom Stringer
Opening Reception: June 8th, 6-9pm
Through the Diamond Window
Exhibition Statement:
Through the Diamond Window invites the viewer to peek behind the ramshackle plywood barrier and witness the world in production. With this series of images, Beacon based photographer Tom Stringer reflects on three years spent working on commercial construction sites, where he witnessed the beauty and strength of the collective. The photos celebrate the comradery of the work site. Teams arriving with only their purpose in mind are inevitably weaved into a web of trust. The chaotic fabrication always boils down to a meticulously cohesive design greater than the sum of its parts. Everyday people erecting towers that touch the sky.
Collage Workshop: Surreal Realities
Join multi-media artist + co-director of Super Secret Projects, Diana Vidal for a unique Collage Workshop using Vintage National Geographic magazines and images giving participants the opportunity to create truly one of a kind art with rare collage materials provided.
Workshop info
2 Hour Hands-on Workshop covering:
Sourcing materials and overview of tools
Overview of techniques + tips
Prompts & inspiration
Ability to make 1 or several collages throughout the workshop with materials provided
Materials to prep your collage to frame. A mat, backing and archival bag will provided for your work.
Feel free to bring anything you’d like to work with!
At the end of this workshop, everyone will have created at least one totally unique, fine art collage piece, and learn how to preserve their artwork.
Collage Workshop: Surreal Realities
Join multi-media artist + co-director of Super Secret Projects, Diana Vidal for a unique Collage Workshop using Vintage National Geographic magazines and images giving participants the opportunity to create truly one of a kind art with rare collage materials provided.
Workshop info
2 Hour Hands-on Workshop covering:
Sourcing materials and overview of tools
Overview of techniques + tips
Prompts & inspiration
Ability to make 1 or several collages throughout the workshop with materials provided
Materials to prep your collage to frame. A mat, backing and archival bag will provided for your work.
Feel free to bring anything you’d like to work with!
At the end of this workshop, everyone will have created at least one totally unique, fine art collage piece, and learn how to preserve their artwork.
Solo Show Closing - Diana Vidal
Closing: October 8th
Forgetting
Exhibition Statement:
Step into my world after an epileptic episode, where memory dances on the edge of illusion and a warped reality seems true. These experiences have brought me face to face with the delicate threads of time and how memory can unravel or disappear altogether.
These experiences leave me questioning: What is existence if you can’t remember it? Where do those lost memories go?
In "Forgetting," I explore the transient nature of time, memory and existence. Through videos, collaged imagery, and an artist book, I offer the viewer an opportunity to experience a distorted reality that I often visit. With each episode, there are large holes in my memory with flashes of images or memories surfacing weeks later.
Along with video and imagery pieces, this show’s accompanying book stands as a tangible embodiment of my experience—a collection of textures, gaps, and imprints that echo the very essence of memory's ephemerality. As memory intertwines the past and present, my work weaves a narrative that asks viewers to confront the mysterious and ethereal nature of memory and the distorted experiences that create a person.
Solo Show Opening - Diana Vidal
Opening Reception: September 9th, 6-9pm
Forgetting
Exhibition Statement:
Step into my world after an epileptic episode, where memory dances on the edge of illusion and a warped reality seems true. These experiences have brought me face to face with the delicate threads of time and how memory can unravel or disappear altogether.
These experiences leave me questioning: What is existence if you can’t remember it? Where do those lost memories go?
In "Forgetting," I explore the transient nature of time, memory and existence. Through videos, collaged imagery, and an artist book, I offer the viewer an opportunity to experience a distorted reality that I often visit. With each episode, there are large holes in my memory with flashes of images or memories surfacing weeks later.
Along with video and imagery pieces, this show’s accompanying book stands as a tangible embodiment of my experience—a collection of textures, gaps, and imprints that echo the very essence of memory's ephemerality. As memory intertwines the past and present, my work weaves a narrative that asks viewers to confront the mysterious and ethereal nature of memory and the distorted experiences that create a person.
Solo Show Opening - Alyssa Follansbee
Alyssa Follansbee’s Solo Show - Opening reception July 8 from 6-9pm
Show title: Interior
Exhibition Statement:
This show is about traveling inward to find inspiration. I am at a phase in my life where I tend to be home a lot, either with my young children or working on my art. I’ve really valued the peace, privacy, and solitude, and this work draws on the beauty I have discovered in this interior life. Consisting of various self portraits, these paintings explore the profound connection between the intellectual pursuit of knowledge and the sanctuary of personal space.
As a woman relatively confined to my domestic space the past few years, I’ve spent alot of time imagining those who have come before me- particularly women who have an urge to create art. The urge is not eclipsed by the relentless responsibilities. Instead, my imagination has shifted to fill and expand the space I inhibit. Intellectual pursuit does not need a passport, and seclusion has allowed me mental growth and stimulation in a way I would not have anticipated. What do we decide to share with the outside world? What do we keep just for ourselves, and why?
All of the work here was created from photos of myself and my family in my actual home. These paintings serve as a visual metaphor for my interior life- my daydreams, my observations, my boundaries, my cycling thoughts. My tribute to the countless artist mothers of the past who never stopped creating and intellectually exploring.
Perspective
A Super Secret Projects group exhibition. Opening reception April 8 from 6-9pm.