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The Alice and Horace Chandler Purchase Award
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is pleased to announce that Rhinebeck-based artist Audrey Francis ’06g (Painting & Drawing) is the recipient of the 2025 Hudson Valley Artists Purchase Award.
The Dorsky will acquire Francis’s oil painting on canvas, “Witnesses (Leda)” (2021), which was exhibited in the recent Hudson Valley Artists 2025: Movement exhibition.
“’Witnesses (Leda)’ is an excellent example of movement on a two-dimensional surface,” says guest curator ransome. “I am thrilled that Audrey Francis is the recipient of the Purchase Award. She is an amazing painter, and it is great to see her honored in this way, especially by her community.”
Francis is one of 38 artists featured in Movement, this year’s installment in the annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition of new work from regional artists.
Movement was the first in a new artist-curated model of this series: Past Hudson Valley Artist exhibitor and Purchase Award winner ransome considered the theme of movement through lenses including migration, immigration, place, political displacement, social change, isolation and physical motion.
