Storm King to re-open after $53 million expansion
Kevin Beasley, PROSCENIUM | Rebirth / Growth:The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection, 2024–25. Courtesy the artist, Casey Kaplan, NewYork, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Installation view at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins.
“In response to growth,” on Wednesday, May 7, the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor will re-open to the public after a fresh $53 million in upgrades with new installations and amenities across the 500-acre art center.
Visitors will see the upgrades immediately – with streamlined parking, accessible amenities, new welcome pavilions, new restrooms, and more gathering spots for groups. Upgrades also feature the art center’s first on-site building dedicated to the conservation, fabrication and maintenance of the artwork in Storm King’s collection.
Two former parking lots inside the art center’s grounds have also been reclaimed to create five acres of additional art installations and programs.
“This project has resulted in thoughtfully designed spaces that elevate and enhance what Storm King does best – provide people with a singular experience of art in nature,” said Storm King Executive Director Nora Lawrence.
Pictured, above ©Richard Barnes
In addition to $11.3 million in funding provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and Empire State Development, the capital project at Storm King received $600,000 in funding through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Building Cleaner Communities Competition for implementing sustainable building practices such as heat pumps, roof mounted solar and infrastructure for 12 electric vehicle charging stations.
Pictured, above: Sonia Gomes, ÓAbre Alas, 2025. Courtesy the artist, MendesWood DM, and Pace Gallery. Installation view at Storm King ArtCenter, Mountainville, NY. Photo by Jacob Vitale courtesy of StormKing Art Center
Series of firsts to be exhibited at Storm King
Along with the new amenities, installations opening on Wednesday include multidisciplinary artist Kevin Beasley's largest work to date – and the first work to be displayed in Tippet’s Field, the former parking lot turned exhibit space. The site-specific installation, according to the art center, “frames and reflects the surrounding landscape, engaging you in a fully embodied experience of place.”
In the first solo institutional exhibition of celebrated Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes, Gomes will present her first site-specific outdoor installation, "Sonia Gomes: Ô Abre Alas!," in which sculptures rich with color and rhythm are suspended from the branches of a tree on Storm King’s Museum Hill. Inside the galleries, a survey of sculptural works spanning the artist’s career will reflect the depth and evolution of her creative practice.
The opening will also feature Dionne Lee’s first-ever outdoor work, a site-specific installation entitled "between the falling leaf and the surface of rock." Using stones sourced from Storm King’s landscape, the artist will coat each with a cyanotype chemistry, which, when exposed to the sun, will turn shades of deep blue. Lee manipulates photographic conventions as a means of reframing our relationship with nature.
Advance tickets are recommended to visit Storm King. General admission is $25. (Members visit without a reservation, any time during open hours.) https://stormking.org/visit/
Free admission to Storm King is offered to:
Orange County students up to 21 years old
SNAP participants/EBT cardholders via Museums for All
Active military and their family via the Blue Star Program
Members of the Whitney Museum of American Art (Dual level+)
Members of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Family level+)
Qualifying members of museums in the Modern and Contemporary Reciprocal Program (Mod/Co)
Individual members of the American Association of Museums (AAM)
Individual members of the International Committee of Museums (ICOM)
Staff of other museums
See more at https://stormking.org/tickets/
Pictured, from top: Kevin Beasley’s PROSCENIUM | Rebirth / Growth:The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection, 2024–25. Courtesy the artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Installation view at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins.
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