Alan Goolman has curated two strong exhibitions in Kingston, NY. The first, “Putting It Together,” at The Lockwood Gallery is the gallery’s second exhibition focused on collage. With work by 27 artists, it’s a wonderful display of the versatility of collage, from the rhythmically colored cut-paper of Andrea Burgay to the inventive sculpture formed from debris found on the NYC streets by Carol Diamond, from the quiet collages of colored paper cut into lightly skewed rectangles by Laura Hart to the bursts of brilliantly colored translucent layers by Marianne van Lent, from the evocations of abstracted atmospheric landscapes of Barbara Rosen to the airy dances of tiny food labels by Kristen Rego, from Cathy Diamond 's very open images suggestive of her complex landscape-inspired paintings to the dense overlaps by Ann H. Morris, to so many other exciting artists. At the second exhibition, in an impressive space of two rooms at The Artists Society of Kingston, Goolman has curated a large exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by David Kucera. Made from repurposed blown-up pigmented concrete blocks reassembled with wire and other materials, much of the sculpture seems to suggest figures dancing, gesticulating, performing exaggerated/caricatured skits of just being human. The huge paintings and smaller easel-size drawings are atmospheric abstractions, apparently made by “compositional string masks to project abstract subjects into dense grounds of color.” These evocative works, each displayed behind a sculpture, take on a counterpoint harmonic to the sculpture, as if the sculpted figures emerged from the atmospheric paintings, as if the string marks in the paintings are the wires in the sculptures, as if somehow the solidity of the concrete was formed from the colored nebula of the paintings, as if the physical and metaphysical are in dialogue with each other. Though the Lockwood Gallery exhibition has just closed, the Artist Society show remains up through May 28.