BAU Gallery is pleased to announce Drift, the gallery’s open-call exhibition of work selected by independent curator Ellen Hawley. The exhibition, installed throughout the entire BAU gallery space, showcases the diverse practices of 54 artists.

BAU's annual open call is a key part of the gallery’s efforts to create a space in which artists at any stage in their career can gain visibility for their work and exhibit in a well-established art venue in the Hudson Valley. The artist-run BAU Gallery opened in 2004 and was named Best Art Gallery and Best Arts Organization in the 2026 and 2025 Chronogram Readers' Choice Awards.

The Drift artists are: Tomoko Abe, Anne Ackerson, Ellen Alt, Julia Arstorp, David Barnett, A. Bascove, Ilene Bellovin, Allison Belolan, Carol Bouyoucos, Brandon Brown, Jennifer Burbank, Ai Sogawa Campbell, Naomi Campbell, Jeff Carpenter, Tracy Finn, Heide Follin, Donna Forma, Anne Gabriele, Carla Goldberg, Susan Hensel, Deborah Hesse, Helen Kauder, Brigid Kennedy, Jaimie Krankel, Kellie Kottmann, Linda Kourkoulis, Oxana Kovalchuk, Aimee Mower Lally, Dulce Lamarca, Rita Maas, Julie Durkin Marty, Susan Murray, Lisie S. Orjuela, Daniel Pailes-Friedman, Patricia Pardini, Alison Pasquini, Laurie Peek, Tad Philipp, Clarissa Pollack, Anna Pratt, Monique Robidoux, Catherine Caulfield Russell, Susan Sancomb, Sarah Sczepanski, Clarice Shirvell, Joseph Squillante, Christopher Steiner, Rebecca Steiner, Marc VanDermeer, Richie Vicencio, Patricia Vinyard, Belinda Yang, Nanxi Yang, and Tamar Zinn

About Juror Ellen Hawley: Ellen Hawley is an independent curator whose experience bridges art, marketing, and architecture. At the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT., she has curated exhibitions for more than a decade, including extraORDINARY things, Biophilia, Home Sweet Home, GLOW, Hazardous Beauty, and Heidi Johnson: Animal Attraction; while also organizing independent curatorial projects, such as the recent Twist and Shout at Metro Art Studios, Bridgeport, CT. She has a degree in Art History from Syracuse University, with a concentration in Architecture for non-majors, and a minor in Advertising. After living and working in New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, she settled in Cos Cob, CT.