Hammond Artist Members Directory
Listed alphabetically by first name
Countries Represented: Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, England, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, USA, Wales
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Amy Zhang
Andrea Bonfils
Andrew Zelman
Ann Mallory
Ann Tetelman
Anna Rose Holmer
B
Baltasar Samper
Barbara Fish
Bert Rechtschaffer
Brandur Patursson
C
Carol Flaitz
Cassandra Hall
D
Donald Schwartz
E
Elizabeth Digiorgio
F
G
George-Ann Gowan
H
Hannah Rosenstein
Hildreth Potts
I
J
Jessica Rechtschaffer
Jo-Ann Brody
John Gibson
Joy Brown
Judith Wyer
K
Katherine Forrestal
Ker Berdimurat Beckley
Kristjana Samper
L
Larry Dell
Leslie Connito
Leslie Hardie
Linda Kuehne
Lisa Fuge
M
Marilyn Richeda
Maya Matheis
Maya Rau Murthy
Michelle Cooke
Monroe Hodder
N
Nalla Wollen
Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
O
P
Piedmont Blūz
R
Resa Gibbs
Robin Adler
Roni Sherman Ramos
S
Samuel Farrell
Sharon Fishel
Sheilah Rechtschaffer
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V
Y
Z
Aisla
Painting, Acrylic, Resin, Wire on Wood Panel, Canvas, Murals
Born in London, Aisla's artwork has been featured at National Trust Sites in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Paris, London, Boston, San Francisco and New York City. Aisla was raised in the American Southwest, in a city with the natural border of the Rio Grande which has a varied and rich cultural history. Aisla has participated in individual and community mural projects throughout the United States. Her music, art and jewelry creations have been featured at the DeYoung, SF MOMA, and SOMArts Galleries, as well as public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Aisla's artistic creations illustrate the alchemy of science, engineering, nature, culture, language, music, literature and the expressive arts.
Websites: aisla, artspan.org
Alice Harrison
Mixed Media
Working in layers, technically, intellectually and spiritually I create images and sensations of movement, color, harmony and joy. Much of my work is inspired by the various materials I have collected, as well as by traditional materials in my studio.
My work encompasses a variety of mediums – oil, acrylic, water, prints, found papers and objects, image transfer and encaustic. In each artwork there may be one medium, two or many media combined in one piece. Inspiration comes from the inside – based on my personal distillation of the external world.
Website: alicenharrison.com
Instagram: alice_blum_harrison
Allan Cyprys
Collage, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture
The Asian culture has always fascinated me. My philosophy of “less is more”, has guided me in the kind of artwork that I create. In 2009, I received a NYS Council on the Arts grant from ArtsWestchester for my project, “Westchester’s Fantasy Landscape in the Year 2059”. The subject was my concerns of maintaining a balance between conservation and development that will sustain the county into the future.
I’m also intrigued with buildings that are created by combining traditional materials (metal, glass, stone, brick, etc.) with the new, (plants, recycled materials and lighting.) Wanting to capture some of these unique visual properties I began to alter and intensify the image’s color while using Photoshop. This enables me to use a more intense color palette. I work in an intuitive way. One step leads to another until the whole image comes into focus. I find the process magical.
Website: 14sculptors.org
Amy R Farrell
Printmaking / Mixed Media
My Art making is inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the natural world. The vistas, flora and fauna are frequent subjects of my prints and paintings. The challenge, complexity and hands on involvement of the creative process bring me comfort and joy. It is the deep respect I feel for our fragile environment that I wish to share and encourage in others.
Website: amyrfarrellart.com
Asra Rán Björt
Poet, Writer & Graphic Designer
Asra grew up in Iceland. She moved to Tokyo to study Japanese Literature and Art History where she currently works as a graphic designer with a Japanese company. Her independent work is writing, through which she aspires to explore and reevaluate human behavior, and the various vast surroundings around us.
Instagram: asraran
Barbara Masterson
Oil Paint on Canvas and Wolff Pencil on Illustration Board
Art is like a serum, transforming its audience for good or ill. As I paint, the play of light has taken my breath away.
Migrant workers came into view. They have transformed my vision.
Familiar shapes in fields and orchards, migrant workers toil in the Hudson Valley doing jobs most Americans won't, earning modest wages, sometimes risking deportation.
Hard at work, they summon our attention and invite us to come closer, to see their labor and their humanity.
Who are they? Can you see them?
It’s possible for society to confer invisibility on a group. It’s convenient; if the group is invisible, we relieve ourselves of concern about health care, working conditions, pesticides, housing, lack of ability to get their own food.
What is life like for them? What role do we play in keeping them unseen? My work can expand our perceptions of these workers. If only by their images in my paintings, the viewer will come to see these persons for the vital role they have in our lives.
Website: barbaramasterson.com
Bärbel Thiel
Drawing, Etching, Woodcut, Silkscreen, Spraying, Collage
Growing up in and with nature shaped me as a person and an artist. Nature gives me power and inspiration. I’ve always drawn as long as I can remember. I try to tell stories. My favorite subjects are animals, especially birds. My preferred techniques are drawing, etching, woodcut, spraying, and silkscreen. All of these techniques are also combined in my collages.
Instagram: baerbeltberlin
Basha Ruth Nelson
Sculpture, Mixed Media, Installations, Commissions
My work is intuitive. Whether sculpture, construction or installation, the hallmark is the creation of unity between form and space in which my pieces live. My sculptures, constructions in paper, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper, engage the viewer through surface and scale, looking at ordinary materials in a new way. Currently, I create interactive installations and performances as part of my ongoing Freedom Project.
I received my Master of Arts Degree from New York University (NYU). Public and private collections include: Riverfront Green Park, Peekskill, NY; Hammond Museum; Woodstock Artists Association and Museum; Brooklyn Art Library; US Embassy, Nassau, Bahamas; among others.
Website: basharuthnelson.com
Instagram: basharuthnelson
Beth Barry
Acrylic Paints
When I first flew in an airplane, I was struck by the color and shapes created by the light from the sun. It influenced everything, infusing the palette of the landscape with what felt like a supernatural light. As the plane moved, the images moved too, bouncing and swaying in their own rhythmic way. This was exciting to me and has informed my artwork. Light, color, and movement are basic elements of my paintings. My work has also been influenced by the coastline of Massachusetts and the beauty of the beach. My paintings are places of happiness.
Website: bethbarry.com
Instagram: bethbarryartist
Beth Haber
Mixed Media, Assemblage on Mylar and Landscape Installations
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I have a persistent interest in the co-tenancy of text and image in its multiple conveyances as scroll, book, screen or “reading” the natural world. As language itself migrates from the analog to the digital, I look to reconcile the earlier meanings with the present tense where attachment still signifies human connection and space remains open between imagination and description.
Website: bethhaber.com
Bibiana Huang Matheis 黄家璧
Artist. Curator. Photographer. Pianist.
Bibiana is a board member of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden. She is the originator and curator of the Virtual Exhibit and a frequent curator for the Hammond Museum. She has curated more than 60 major exhibitions over the last decade for art institutions and galleries in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her own work has been displayed in galleries in the US and Europe, including in permanent collections, such as in the National Museum of African American History and Culture – Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Her photography has been published in major magazines. Her current long-term project is the installation art “Heart@Heart” – Putting love in public spaces, by visualizing the international symbol for heart, using natural or recycled materials found in that locality. The symbolism of the Heart universally expresses love. The Heart is individually interpretative, but it cuts across all cultural, ethnic, religious and social separation. It is a symbol of love and unity. Her effort is to put love into everything she does, in every project, including the Virtual Exhibition of the Hammond.
Website: bibiphoto.com
Instagram: bibimimimondaymemo
Brian Sheridan
Acrylic, Charcoal, Clay, Digital, Found Objects, Graphite, Oil, Pastel, Photography, Prints, Watercolor, Wood
I live and breath in a realm where the ephemeral dance with rigid bodies to the whim of chance, exposing conflicted harmonies and circumstance.
Website: briansheridan.com
Instagram: brian_sheridan
Bridget Pavalow
Digital Artwork
Bridget Pavalow is a Fashion Institute of Technology Alum with five years of freelancing. Past projects include being a character designer for a comic and a caricature artist for various clients. Her work explores diverse characters in fantastical worlds.
Website: bridgetpavalow.com
Byron Keith Byrd
Painting
My inspiration is derived from numerology, archaic symbols, and rhythmic, primitive petroglyphs. While I may be considered an abstract expressionist, my goal is to create work that transpires any given time-frame.
Some of my canvases may conjure elements of prehistoric cave markings while others hopefully transport ones thoughts or emotions into a world yet comprehended.
Website: ByronKeithByrd.com
Carla Goldberg
Mixed Media Artist and Independent Curator
Carla Goldberg is from Palm Springs, California but has made the Hudson Valley her home since the early 90’s. She is a mixed media artist and independent curator, past Director of Beacon Artist Union and Skylight Gallery NYC in Chelsea. She has curated exhibitions in NY, CA, Sweden, South Africa and Germany. Her most recent curation in Berlin, Germany in June of 2018 garnered positive reviews by Barbara Hopp of Feuilletonscouts and pick of the week in Art Life Berlin. Carla has shown her artworks in over 300 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries. Her sculptural paintings and drawings bring to mind dreamy memories of water in moments of movement. She is the winner of the 2014 Connecticut “SeaGrant”, a partnership between the University of Connecticut and the nation’s primary ocean agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for her Sea Foam Sculptural drawings.
Website: carlagoldberg.com
Carla Rae Johnson
Sculpture, Drawing, Performance, Installation, and Conceptual Art
My work is directly connected to ideas and often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural import. A 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Drawing, a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture, and a 1990 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, I have exhibited in museums and galleries locally, nationally, and in New York City.
Website: carlaraejohnson.org
Carol Oster
Sculpture/Installation, Mixed Media, Archived Materials
This body of work explores the notions of permanence/impermanence, materials/memories, and deterioration/resurrection. The materials used are excavated from the artists’ cupboards, threads from a child's blanket, toys, photos, rubbings, charred 4th of July sparklers, letters sent from a war. These are the physical vestiges gleaned to be reimagined in sculptural form referencing the artist as a child growing up with a prisoner of war. Growing up in a railroad apt where one room was a pathway to another room, finding a private place was a challenge. Every loose floorboard and tile a hidden space to harbor scribbled secrets and drawings. Knowing that they existed where others walked unaware of their existence, bestowed a power in a child’s world where there is none. Hiding objects in plaster, wood or twine remains a way to commit an act of creation as well as sharing the discovery.
Website: caroloster.com
Instagram: carol.oster.nyc
Carol Radsprecher
Digital Prints Drawn and Colored in Photoshop. Oil on Canvas
Carol Radsprecher’s images combine figurative and abstract elements. She earned her MFA in painting from Hunter College, CUNY (1988) and her BFA in painting from Hunter (1985). A longtime painter, she discovered the wonders of digital image-making and found that media well-suited to her need to make a succession of rapidly-evolving narrative images based on distorted representations of the human body, especially the female body. Her work has appeared in several solo shows and numerous group shows, and has been published in print and/or online publications.
Website: carolradsprecher.com
Instagram: cradsprecher
Carole Bonicelli
Paint, Pastels, Clay and Glass
There’s no one material that is specific to the imagination and I am an artist who is inspired by different media. I love to push the boundaries between paint, pastels, clay and glass. However varied my tools, my art is conceptually unified in exploring the bond between the spiritual and the material life that I find in nature and in human culture. I have found inspiration in the ordinary and the extraordinary and have been the recording artist on scientific expeditions around the world. Examples of my work can be found on my website.
Website: carolebonicelli.com
Carolyn Oberst
Oil on Canvas and Paper, Watercolor on Paper
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with various media, currently concentrating on the directness of oil paint on canvas. No matter what the medium, my image making always begins with drawings that are modified and changed as the work evolves.
My latest inspirations come from our contemporary culture. Figures play with how profile, contour, posture, and gesture have the ability to communicate traits about anonymous subjects. Combining them with shapes set in and through abstracted spaces creates a way of visualizing the internal impulses of the mind. While suggestive, these are not narratives, allowing viewers to make their own connections.
Website: carolynoberst.com, carolynoberst.tumblr.com
Instagram: oberst.carolyn
Catherine Vanaria
Analog and Digital Photography
Catherine Vanaria is a photographer, master darkroom technician, and educator. Her work is included in many private collections and numerous group shows throughout the northeast United States including the Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT). Her photographs have been published in XTC: Song Stories (Hyperion, 1998), Exposure: Special Edition, extended booklet accompanying Robert Fripp's re-release (Discipline, 2006), Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen (Smithsonian Books, 2017) and This is Pop, a documentary on the band XTC (2017).
Catherine is Chair of the Department of Art and Associate Professor of Photography at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.
Website: cavanaria.com
Instagram: catherinevanaria
Cathey Billian
Etched Photography on Metal and Installation Sculpture
Cathey Billian’s current artistic practice is etched photographics on metal, and environmental installations. Commissions/installations include Future Antiquities -the Whitney Museum Sculpture Court-NYC, YIELD -Yellowstone National Park, & BiPlanar Arrival , -for a Phoenix airport.
Collections owning her work include the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Park Service, and the collection of Vice-President Al Gore. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, & residencies/awards 6 from the National Park Service, the New York/NJ Port Authority, the Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, & 4 NY State Council on the Arts Project grants. She is a recently retired full Professor from Pratt Institute, where she earned her Masters with highest honors.
Website: Billianstudio.com
Ceci Cole McInturff
Sculpture, Hand-Formed Paper, Book Objects
Ceci Cole McInturff works in sculpture, hand-formed paper, narrative installation, and book objects. Drawn to a wabi sabi-like, less-impacted beauty, she often nontraditionally combines plant and animal material to achieve an intimate, hand-formed quality and honor the wisdom and cyclical lessons of nature.
Founder of former 87FLORIDA non-profit exhibit and performance space and current studio member of the Otis Street Arts Project, both in Washington DC. MFA in Art and Visual Technology from George Mason University; completed two years of MA/Art and the Book at Corcoran College of Art+Design; former executive with the CBS Television Network; mother of two sons.
Website: 87-FLORIDA.clickbooq.com
Instagram: artistcecicolemcinturff
YouTube: Healing, Wabi Sabi, Ascent, Epitome
Charles Daviet
Photography
Photography is always all about the light. That magical, moody, mysterious thing that scientists still have trouble explaining. I see my work as a connection to others, a gift that teaches the pleasures of patience, of lingering in the present moments, nourishing all the senses. My art has been shown at the Hammond Museum, the Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park, the Gallery in the Park in Pound Ridge Reservation, the Exposures Gallery in Sugar Loaf Village, the Northern Westchester Hospital, Westchester Medical Center, the Rotunda in New Rochelle City Hall, and Sotheby’s in Montclair, NJ, among others.
Website:charlesdaviet.com
Chia-Hui Luo 羅嘉惠
Mixed Media
Born in Taiwan. My art was inspired by Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffe's focus on process and materials. I am fascinated by the way the plaster, cloth and all these rough materials can become mix media art. In my art works I try to present specific things in life by past memories – to reflect inner self naturally. In the transformation of natural materials, I reveal my angle to reality. Therefore, my art works have not only subject but also object and it is not just an abstract expression, not only focus on its purely visual aspects but its narrative content or its relationship to the world. My art works usually appeared a memory with a beauty of sediment and flake and I think it is a beauty that covers generations with nature, genuine and unpretentious.
Website: luochiahui.wix.com
YouTube: 系Ⅲ 20190619—情(Complex)
Chris Farrell
Musician, Composer
Chris Farrell is a composer and performer of contemporary spirituals and meditative piano music. He believes mindful music has healing qualities that are beneficial for both listeners and performers alike. Mindful, intentional music restores and energizes our natural tendency to move toward a state of harmony and balance.
Website: soundsofpeace.com
Christina Saj
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Egg Tempera and Mixed Media, Installation
My paintings betray a fascination with geometric abstraction, a preference for modernism and an awareness of historical context. There is no doubt that my rich cultural background has broadened my perspective and every generation searches for its own vocabulary. I feel that one must assimilate knowledge of the past in order to elucidate the present. It is my aim to create a synthesis of familiar images and meaningful symbols in order to develop a new ideal and a recognizable aesthetic that can resonate with the viewer, delight and inspire.
Website: christinasaj.com
Instagram: christinasaj
Chuck von Schmidt
Sculpture, Printmaking
I have degrees from Cooper Union and, Brooklyn College, and, was on faculty of both institutions. Earlier, I was an assistant to a student of a student of Rodin. I have been visiting lecturer at RISD, and recently, an Adjunct at NJCU.
I am included in the Brooklyn College Art Department Print Portfolio, which is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Neuberger Museum. In January 2005, I was honored to personally present a sculpture, which had been commissioned by Pave The Way Foundation as a presentation gift to Pope John Paul II.
A 1968 sculpture commissioned by actor Murphy Dunne was used in the Haskell Wexsler film “Medium Cool”. I have shown at the Anchorage Museum of Art; AnnMarie Sculpture Garden (a Smithsonian affiliate); Athens Institute for Contemporary Art; the Nassau County Museum of Art; the Islip Museum of Art and the Hammond Museum (permanent collection).
Homage to other artists is a recurring theme of mine.
Website: chuckvonschmidt.com
Clara Joris
Acrylic
Born in Málaga, Spain.
She earned her degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Since 1998 she has resided in Berlin, Germany
Starting from an acrylic base, Joris uses a figurative and poetic language; sometimes threads cross or embroider the surface of the painting. She works on different supports such as wood, linen or Japanese paper. Each created image represents a new world, that before it was conceived existed only as a soft shadow of blurred contours, like the impression of a déjà vu.
Website: clarajoris.com
Instagram: clarajoris
Connie Freid
Acrylic
I am a storyteller. My paintings are usually based on images from the news, magazines or photos that I take. Something about the image catches my eye - a gaze, pose, setting. Often, it's just watching someone interacting with another person or their surroundings. Although many of my subjects are strangers, my paintings become psychological studies, pushing the boundaries beyond traditional portraiture.
The intimacy and humanism of studies of ordinary people by Goya and Rembrandt inspire me. In my own work, I often paint isolated figures with a haunting gaze, suggesting the current of anxiety that exists in today's world.
My moody and mysterious portraits evince strength, vulnerability and emotion while questioning popular ideas about gender, race and beauty.
Website: conniefreid.com
Crystal Marshall
Oil on Paper, Mixed Media on Paper. Oil on Steel & Digital Photography/Photography
My work explores the use of narrative to evoke emotional connections that reference all aspects of life. Through symbolism and allegory I refer to what lies beneath the surface. Through the use of varying imagery of my choosing, it allows me to explore imaginative realms that defy logic but are directly influenced by life's experiences. I also investigate different themes that affect people from all walks of life, concerning life's trials and tribulations, which include hostility, victimization, exclusion, oppression and withdrawal, all of which I believe ties into spirituality.
Website: crystalamarshall.com
Instagram: crysart1983
In Other Words essay: The Emancipatory Dreamscapes of Crystal Marshall
Daniel Kabakoff
Watercolor
Currently, I am painting at home. I have exhibited at various venues in Westchester County including the Woman Clubs of White Plains and Dobbs Ferry. I also have been accepted to many juried exhibits. I am currently a member of the New Rochelle Artist Association and have exhibited with them this past year.
I illustrated two books with a friend Alizah Teitelbaum who wrote the stories. The books are now on Amazon and Amazon Kindle as paperbacks and digital downloads. The titles of the two books are “The Taming of Wolf" and “The Cosmos Song!”.
Instagram: dankab777
David Skora
Sculpture, Painting, Graphic Design
I grew up in South Western Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan where I was influenced by the woods, the fields and the beauty of Lake Michigan. Growing up in that environment, shaped the way I perceived the world and allowed me to develop my interest in art and creativity. I received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 1989. In 1991 I accepted a teaching position at the University of New Haven and taught there while I pursued my fine art career. By the late 1990's I took it upon myself to learn how to weld. Once I accomplished that, I began to make large metal fabricated sculptures. Currently, I continue to teach as a full-time Professor of Graphic Design at Western Connecticut State University and I paint, sculpt, and design. I live with my family in Litchfield county in the beautiful Northwest Hills of Connecticut. My artwork has been shown extensively and can be found in many public and private collections throughout the United States.
Website: davidskora.com
Douglas Newton
Oil on Canvas
I work mostly in contemporary still life, painting in oil paint on canvas. I like to explore light on everything from household objects to food, candy, toys or anything else that visually intrigues me. I paint directly from life, not using photographs. The main subject is light itself, as it reveals texture, structure, translucency and color. Subjects include glass, marble, feathers, ribbons and tissue paper, all ways to explore the effects of light on the things around us.
Website: douglasnewtonpaintings.com, tablarasagallery.com, 1stdibs.com
Instagram: dnewton456
Douglass Ridgeway
Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Writer
Each month Douglass creates the video montage for the Hammond's virtual exhibitions. He is also the technical guru/mastermind controlling all the behind the scenes telecommunications that make the live monthly artists' receptions possible. He is thrilled to be Hammond Museum's webmaster and to sponsor the Artist's Directory page. Douglass is an avid photographer and sometimes poet.
Douglass Ridgeway is the head of the web design firm, RAW Design Lab. He has more than 15 years of web and graphic design experience. Douglass has a master's degree in communication design from Pratt Institute, NYC.
Website: rawdesignlab.com
Instagram: douglassridgeway
Bēhance: DouglassRidgeway
Dustan Osborn
Photographer
As a practicing medical oncologist, an ongoing challenge is to make patients feel more comfortable in an environment that is often intimidating. Fear, uncertainty and a sense of loss of control of one’s life are universal for someone dealing with cancer. Attempting to create a more humane environment, I use photographs displayed in the clinic and hospital where I practice to engage both patient and family in a way to put them at ease, to be more comfortable opening up about any number to topics, and to soften the anxiety of the white coat syndrome. A combination of images of people, places and things are used to engage the viewer. If someone looks at a picture for more than seven seconds, probably it is a success. How many times have you watched viewers in a museum barely break stride? To actually stop and look says something. For me, compelling reasons to look include mystery, irony and simplicity. There is so much around us that can be enjoyed by engaging the mind as well as the eye: a child at play, a broken cup, shadows on grape leaves, a precarious stack of old books. I try to portray the familiar with enough nuisance and subtlety that the viewer stops, looks, thinks of something of their past or says, “yes, life is worth living.”
Instagram: dustanosborn
Flickr: Dustan Osborn
Eileen Hoffman
Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Textiles
Eileen Hoffman is a textile sculptor and installation artist whose use of non-traditional materials acts as a bridge between past traditions and contemporary approaches. Her art involves making the undervalued and unseen culture of women's work visible.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows throughout the United States and internationally including the Denise Bibro Gallery, The Morris Museum, the Noyes Museum, and the Bishkek Collection, Russia. Her outdoor installations include the Connective Project Installation, Art In Odd Places and Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress. Her work is also featured in Surface Design Journal’s annual International Exhibition in Print, 2018, UPPERCASE Magazine, and numerous blogs. Hoffman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Website: eileenhoffman.com
Instagram: eileen.hoffman
Eileen Weitzman
Sculpture, Works on Paper, Painting
I create sculptures, stitched paintings and drawings which are abstract and figurative, engineered and organic, while exploring contemporary issues of global concern with a smattering of psychological insight. The serious issues they tackle such as feminism, racism, and capitalism are humorously contrasted with fabric and paint made of lively colors, patterns and textures. Recently I find myself making my sculptural pieces flatter and my flat pieces more sculptural. Open and dynamic, hanging from the ceiling and walls, in addition to occupying the floor, my animated pieces uses their strong bodily references to assert their presence and power in this world.
Website: eileenweitzman.com
Instagram: eileenweitzmanartist
Elaine Forrest
Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil Pastel, Collage
Having lived in California for many years I bring to my work the bright light and luminous colors of the California sun. Everyday objects and materials that have had another life inspire me. I am influenced by what I see and use every day.
I received a BFA from Boston University and a degree in Medical Illustration from Harvard Medical School.
While living in California I was active in the Los Angeles County Art Rental Gallery, exhibited often and was active with the Venice Family Clinic. I now reside and have my studio in the Financial District of Manhattan. I am a member of the NohoM55 Gallery and the New York Artists Circle.
Websites: elaineforrest.net, nohogallery, nyartistscircle.com
Instagram: elaineforrest100
Eleanor Goldstein
Watercolor, Pastel, Oil, Monoprints, Solar Etching, Mixed Media, Sculpture
My work encompasses an enormous range of subjects drawn from striking industrial landscapes and transcendent forms of nature. I am interested in the cyclical relationship of decay and rejuvenation in all my surroundings.
My current series, Requiem/Night Shadows, stems from my recent travels to Greenland. The works have an elegiac quality which evokes the tragic loss of these icescapes due to climate change.
Eleanor Goldstein is a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Upstream Gallery in Hastings, NY, a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, and a member of the New York Artists Circle.
Website: eleanorgoldsteinart.com
Instagram: eleanorgoldsteinart
Eleanor Wong
Ink & Watercolor
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Eleanor Wong is an aspiring artist who enjoys drawing and painting nature.
Elisa Pritzker
2D, 3D, Installations
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Artist’s Portrait by Warren Cosgrove.
Elisa Pritzker exhibited at MoMA, Queens Museum, Dorsky Museum, Skirball Museum, Espronceda Barcelona, K-Salon Berlin, in large and small group exhibits.
Among solo exhibits, her art was shown at HVMOCA [formerly HVCCA Museum], Hammond Museum, Saletta Kinzica Art Gallery-Italy, Casa Argentina-Jerusalem, Galeria ArtexArte/Luz & Alfonso Castillo Foundation, Buenos Aires.
Her art is in permanent collections including Jean Cherqui Art Collection, Paris, France/New York; Brooklyn Art Library; Dorsky Museum; Hammond Museum; Jerusalem Biennale; Iceland Art Biennale.
Pritzker was featured at PBS Channel, CNN-in Spanish, Huffpost [Huffington Post], Chronogram Magazine, Hyperallergic and her "Eclectica Store" was showcased in the New York Times.
Website: elisapritzker.com
Instagram: elisapritzker
In Other Words essay: The Mysterious Metaphysical Art of Elisa Pritzker
Elizabeth Bryan-Jacobs
Oils, Watercolor, Mixed Media including Collage, Found Wood, Cast Bronze
“Nature always wears the color of the spirit.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The abiding interplay of nature and the human body informs my art. Tree limbs appear as arms and legs; the internal workings of the body fuse with the terrain in a continual flow of imagery. Negative space offers guidance while all of life’s colors, contours and transitions become interchangeable with my own.
Website: ElizabethBryanJacobs.com
Elizabeth Hasegawa Agresta
Acrylics and Oils
Elizabeth is a third generation artist whose family history includes award-winning kimono design, Japanese ceramics, classic wooden yacht design, culinary arts, photography, painting, writing, and poetry.
Elizabeth paints landscapes in her studio and en plein air. Studies made outdoors inform subtle departures from reality in her studio work. With a dichotomous take on landscapes, the soothing powers of nature are expressed with smooth, flowing strokes of the brush. Cityscapes, in conveying the sensations of urban grit, noise, smells and energy, are painted into solvent-damaged, dripped, sprayed and slashed substrates. Two types of landscape; two types of treatment.
Website: agresta.us
Instagram: agresta.us
Ellen Pliskin
Watercolor
Ellen Pliskin’s landscapes reflect the luminous colors in land and sky, dramatizing their appearance by simplifying forms and emphasizing the relationship between light and shadow. As part of the United States Department of State’s “Art In Embassies Program”, her works have been exhibited in six United States Embassies. Her works are currently on view at the United States Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei and Ouagadougou, Burkino-Faso. Her paintings are in the collections of Pfizer, The Federal Reserve Board, The University of New Mexico, The United States Department of State and the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Instagram: ellenpliskin
Erla Thórarinsdottir
Painting, Oil Colors, Oxidations, Photography
Erla Thórarinsdottir is born in Reykjavik. She grew up in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden. She studied at Konstfack in Stockholm and Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Erla works with space, time and processes where memory, human context and scale is integrated. Within her paintings she has used sheets of silver, building light sensitive bodies and structures which exposed to light and time and whatever is in the air, oxidize and transmute according to circumstances on site. In her art the archaic is present, so is congeniality, and there is a need to communicate contemporaneously to the west and the east. Her practice incorporates painting, meditation, photography, textile design, stone works and installations.
She has worked and exhibited in Scandinavia, North Europe, USA, China and India.
Website: erlathor.org
In Other Words essay: Erla Thórarinsdottir’s Majestic Forms of Endlessness
Franc Palaia
Photo-Sculptural Works
My photo-sculptural works are primarily color photographs culled from urban walls from numerous countries, mounted on large slabs of Polystyrene with paint, found objects, collage and spray incorporated onto the surfaces, making the pieces look like urban masonry torn from buildings. The images are murals, graffiti, street art, signs and posters.
Website: francpalaia.com
Frank Matheis
Writer. Photographer. Producer.
Contributing writer to the Hammond Museum, Frank Matheis, is a music, visual arts and culture writer and photographer. His latest project was the book ‘Sweet Bitter Blues’ co-written with National Heritage Fellow Phil Wiggins (University Press of Mississippi,2020). His Hammond Museum column ‘In Other Words’ features member artists in all disciplines. He is also a contributing writer to ArtsWestchester, Living Blues magazine (Center for Southern Culture Studies) and thecountryblues.com. Frank was formerly an award-winning radio and music producer and he has curated photo exhibitions.
‘In Other Words’@ Hammond Museum: hammondmuseum.org/in-other-words
ArtsWestchester concert column: artswestchester.org/art-matters-category/franks-picks/
Acoustic Roots & Blues articles and podcasts: thecountryblues.com
Django Reinhardt radio documentary: djangodocumentary.com
The book: sweetbitterblues.com
Fred Levine
Poetry Films
This project includes 9 poems which I wrote, and for which I composed and recorded musical accompaniment; the spoken readings are by my wife, Penelope Levine. I edited archival film footage to accompany the readings and music. While I did not come from a place of intentional, explicit thematic unity, I think and hope that these works communicate a trajectory toward transcendence and ultimate reality; this should be especially clear when they are experienced in the order in which they appear in the project. The poems are central; the music and film make them manifest.
Vimeo: FORM WITHOUT MATTER and other songs
Gretchen Hoffmann Abene
Watercolor, Gouache, Pen and Ink, Pastel, Oil and Acrylic
Watercolor was my first medium of study in the classes offered for young people at the Cincinnati Art Museum and it has remained so. Gouache, Pen and Ink, Pastel, Oil and Acrylic are other mediums that I choose. Find my work on Facebook as Gretchen Hoffmann Abene, Instagram as hoffmannabene.
Instagram: hoffmannabene
Harriet Forman Barrett
Oil on Canvas, Bronze Sculpture, Sterling Silver Wearable Art
My life work of 50 years has always been about our spirituality and the feminine. I’ve always worked to provoke conscious thought of our struggles and dualities. To find balance so that we may honor the divine within. I’ve been graced with always trying to work with faith, hope even through dark times. To find the light, the connection of who we are in our strength as spiritual warriors to empower us forward. Each of the paintings, sculptures, wearables represent all of the elements encompassing our struggles and power.
Website: hformanbarrett.com
HEGO
Painter. Musician.
"HEGO" is a pseudonym – derived from the first two letters of his first and last name (Heinz Goevert). A longtime drummer in the rock- and rhythm ‘n blues scene in Dortmund, Germany, he recently published a book about those years. HEGO’s works express primordial feelings controlled by reason. His materials vocabulary is just as eclectic, often incorporating sand, marble dust, twine, denim and copper into his paintings. He’s been publicly juried into the top 10 twelve times in the “Saatchi Showdown" Gallery, which receives over 40 million hits per day. HEGO's works were shown in exhibitions in New York, Cape Town, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Malta, Orewa (NZ), and in Cologne, Hagen and Witten, Germany. HEGO has works in private collections all over the world.
Website: hegoart.wordpress.com
Heidi Lewis Coleman
Mixed Media, including Acrylic, Pastel, Kozo Tissue, Cut Plywood, Cut Steel
Heidi Lewis Coleman is an abstract artist whose Dreamscape Series reflects an exploration of imaginary landscapes inspired by the ancient lands of mythology and cultural lore, whether historical, fictional or fantastical. The artist creates her mixed media pieces using thin washes of acrylic paint and pastels, building up layer after layer of artwork that embodies an atmospheric, ephemeral quality.
Website: heidilewiscoleman.com
Hilda Green Demsky
Oil Paint
The inspiration for my paintings comes from places I’ve been and thoughts I have about nature. I feel energized when I see water. I grew up on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The constantly changing movement of water, reflections and color inspire me.
I enjoy working in a variety of materials, but my preference has always been oil paint. I love its fluidity and depth of color. My water paintings are metaphors for life flowing unceasingly, running its course, urging us to take the time to enjoy the beauty surrounding us.
Website: Hildademsky.com
Howard Goodman
Photography
For hundreds, if not thousands of years it has been said that all art is a reflection of a society or culture. Because there is more than enough bad news and misery in our world, the great challenge of the artist is to not simply join in and say "look how horrible this is", but to see and express beauty that uplifts the spirit in the face of adversity. It is the artist's job to portray what is wondrous and inspiring about the human experience. The common thread in my photography is how an everyday object can reveal our humanity.
Website: howardgoodmanphotographer.com
Ilham Badreddine Mahfouz
Acrylic Painting
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I am an artist citizen of the world , Born in Syria , living in Michigan USA , Graduate of Eastern Michigan University B.F.A had 13 solo art exhibits , participated in 103 group exhibits , received awards in art, my art work on display in Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Mi , also in New Art museum in Armada Mi, also in Cell amnesty international museum H.R.F. in Denmark.
I believe in humanity , love and help each others to live in peace and harmony . we are all the children of Adam & eve , we are all one big family Human race . embrace each others for a greater future in peace and harmony.
Website: artistilham.com
Ilse Schreiber-Noll
Mixed Media: Woodcuts, Artist's Books, Paintings and Installations
In recent years the artist returned to painting, installations, and making unique Artist’s Books. She creates densely painted surfaces with the addition of collage elements: wire, wood, photos, and books that give a strong sense of physical presence. Much of her work depicts the terrors of war and the threat of ecological disaster. While her work is less concerned with beauty than with ideas, it transmits an undeniable sense of poetry and lyricism.
Website: ilseschreibernoll.com
In Other Words essay: The Vulnerable Empathy of Ilse Schreiber Noll
Inka Juslin, PhD
Acrylic Painting and Photography
Inka Juslin is a Finnish artist and PhD living in New York City. Her focus is in painting and photography, while her background is in multidisciplinary arts. Inspirations behind her work are philosophy and nature. Juslin has created works in collaboration with other artists, using live performance, video, photography, architecture, and installation to create visual storytelling. She has exhibited in group and solo shows.
Website: inkajuslin.com
Irene Osborn
Clay
My sculptures deal with insights into the human condition. My pieces reflect attitudes, states of mind, and flashes of insight. They are influenced by my growing up in post war Germany and coming of age during the second wave of feminism during the 60‘s and 70‘s. While my sculptures reflect this background, they do not need the feminist lens to be understood. They are figurative without being overly realistic. My goal is to capture universal emotions, thoughts, and feelings in my clay.
Website: IreneOsbornsculpture.com
Jackie Merritt
Color Pastel on Paper, Oil on Canvas
As an Artist and Musician/Songwriter, I am by nature a storyteller. It doesn’t matter if my story is told on canvas or in song. Whether it’s intentional or not, ideas overlap and influence each other during the process of creating.
I’m a painter. I prefer working with color pastel on paper and or oil on canvas. I love the intimacy of the chalk in my hands, the quickness of application when applying oil, the vividness of color and the enjoyment of working and reworking the painted surfaces…I embrace the journey.
Websites: fineartamerica.com, acousticbluesmsg.com
Jane Dell
Acrylic, Watercolor Inks and Collage on Canvas and Mylar
Jane Dell is a native New Yorker, Brooklyn born artist that is currently living and working in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her love of art and painting started in grade school and has been a continuous thread and drive throughout her artistic career. Dell’s vivid imagination and an attraction to all types of painting and mixed media mediums have encompassed a number of themes from environmental, animal fantasies, hybrids and the effects of lunar phases on the earth. The love of painting and creating worlds of fantasy are her main focus.
Websites: janedell.com, nyartistscircle
Instagram: janedell
제뉴어리 조 윤 - January Yoon Cho
Photography, Video, Drawing and Performance
Cho’s work examines the relationships with our environments. She exhibited at Hammond Museum; Islip Art Museum; Austin Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee; Korean Consulate General NY; The Croton Free Public Library; Dallas Center for Contemporary Art; Centro de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona; and Imago Mundi, a Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Beinnale, Italy. Cho was a visiting artist at Ringling College and received Barbara Deming Memorial Funds and Puffin Grant. Collections of her work includes Luciano Benetton Foundation, Italy. She has a BFA from RISD and a MFA from Parsons. She was born in Seoul, Korea.
Website: yooncho.com
Instagram: yoonchoart
Jenna Lash
Acrylic and Oil Paint
Jenna Lash’s art focuses on the highly charged iconography of global currency. Lash’s painted images, sourced from international currency, explore the philosophical and political ideas of how value is assigned and how that may become a reflection of worth. She varies her use of images as a metaphor to provide a visual framework focused on different countries and societies. Her re-interpreted images of currency encourage the viewer to reflect on connections and conflicting perspectives concerning our world. Today’s global culture, represented here through the prism of Lash’s money-art, emphasizes humanity’s challenge to live and work together.
Website: jennalash.com
Instagram: artistjenna
Jennifer Cadoff
Ink on Watercolor Paper
My drawings are composed freehand, using a limited array of marks (small circles, lines, stippling, scribble), slowly revealing their finished form, each unique, always a surprise.
Website: jennifercadoff.com
Jennifer H. Pien
Writing, Literary Media
Jennifer Pien, MD is the Editor-In-Chief of the Pegasus Literary Review and is an affiliated Clinical Assistant Professor in narrative medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. In addition to her clinical duties,she is the Assistant Director for the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford. For the last nine years, she has specialized in caring for individuals with developmental disabilities. Her writing has appeared in Boston Poetry Magazine and the East Coast Literary Review. Jennifer is working on her first novel set in historical Hong Kong.
Website: jennpien.com
Jennifer Woolcock Schwartz
Oils, Pencil and Pastels
My goal is to present a purely visual space in which color, the language of emotion and energy and the defining element in my work, combined with lines or geometric shapes create an illusion of movement and rhythm that envelop the viewer, eliciting a visceral response.
Website: jenniferwoolcockschwartz.com
Jill Parry
Oils, Acrylic, Charcoal, Fiber
Jill is an artist who was born in Wales and spent ten years in Papua New Guinea before moving to the United States. Her involvement in the arts spans artist residencies, curating, arts education and running her studio in Mamaroneck, New York. She was awarded ArtsWestchester’s 50 for 50 award for her contribution to the arts. Jill’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally.
“In my current work I am concerned with the concept of reflections. Recent paintings are a series of abstractions based on trees and their reflections on water”
Website: jillparry.com
Instagram: jillparrystudio
Joan Blazis Levitt
Etching, Acrylic and Oil Paint
I received my MFA at Lehman College in NYC, studying under noted painter and printmaker, Arun Bose. I have been in the art making business for 30 years. Etching has been my main medium for a good part of that time but currently I mostly paint. My time is split between New York and Arizona and my subject matter leans towards rural settings, animals, nature and the southwestern landscape.
Website: joanetcher.com
Juliet Martin
Fiber Art
I craft satiric memoirs by combining weaving, sewing, and illustration. Sometimes I weave and then sew. Sometimes I sew and then draw. Bringing together my sculptures is an integrated process. Free associating, I weave colors, patterns, textures. The loom is a blank canvas, with no model. I’m not drawing figures, I’m capturing feelings.
I weave most of my fabric, focusing on aesthetics instead of patterns. My improvisational style forces me to find a distinct voice. If there are no rules, no mistakes, how do I know what NOT to do?
I am not always funny, but I am always sincere.
Website: julietmartin.com
Instagram: remotelyjuliet
Karen B Allen
Oil, Acrylics, Pastels and Mixed Media Paintings
My paintings are figurative abstractions. I am looking to preserve the initial figurative trigger that inspired the work and to visually refine an essence of the feeling or “inner tug” that led me to that image. For me, creating art is a contemplative process as well as a physical action. Underlying is what I call my “second truth”. That is, the positive and regenerative life force that resides in the universe we inhabit. I believe the act of creation by artists has something to do with our deepest calling to be whole.
Website: karenallenartist.com
Instagram: karen.allen.artist
Karen Fitzgerald
Painter (Oil Paint, Precious Metals and Venetian Plaster)
Roundness is indispensable to my visual thinking. Energies within our physical world are interconnected; I make them visible through references to the natural world. The restless shifting of light and energy embodies that which carries us to the delineation, and unification between matter and spirit.
Website: fitzgeraldart.com
Instagram: kbfitzgeraldart, splicedconnector
Karen LaFleur
Digital Artist, Writer and Animator
Karen LaFleur is a digital artist, writer and animator. Her artwork explores the interplay between interior and exterior worlds with a focus on adaptability. By combining surface beauty with the artwork’s inner voice, she reveals vulnerability in complex structures and highlights the resiliency of the human heart to survive within these ever-shifting landscapes. She began her career as a fine artist, storyteller and observer of human nature. Since 1981 she has used the computer to channel these common interests into an all-inclusive medium and she remains an avid user of digital art technology today. Her artwork borrows across genres merging elements of fine art expression, the graphic novel’s dramatic layout perspectives, micro-fiction’s consolidation of emotion, and the freedom of improvisational dance movement. The result is a visual art that gives the viewer access to the artwork's inner world.
Website: lafleurartworks.com
Instagram: lafleurartworks
Karen Starrett
Oil, Acrylic, and Mixed Media
I stand before the canvas with no plan or knowledge of what I’m going to paint. I start drawing random lines-horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvy, zigzag, wipe parts of them away, redrawing and wiping again and again. Different linear elements clash and struggle to be together - to make sense together. This process continues until the lines create forms that connect to a feeling or resonate with an experience I recognize. In making these random gestures, a silent conversation begins with the canvas, a conversation that continues throughout the painting’s creation; a conversation that is a give and take. This conversation is important to what I paint. The paintings mirror what I’m feeling even when I'm not sure of what I am feeling. I seek a connection between the invisible feelings and the external imagery. When the synthesis is achieved, the conversation is over until a new conversation begins in another painting.
Website: karenstarrett.com
Instagram: karenstarrett_artist
Kathleen Migliore Newton
Painting and Drawing
I draw and paint the human figure in the urban environment because I am passionate about New York City’s diversity. I observe how we maintain our privacy in public spaces or discover ways to connect. I work from photographs to capture the movement and gestures of an individual.
I have exhibited in one person shows and many group shows. Influenced by the feminist art movement to find my voice, I began doing mixed media art based on clothing. My pieces were shown at the Art Rental Gallery of the Los Angeles County Art Museum and The New Museum. I became enamored with the challenge of painting and the exterior world of the urban environment. The pace and dance of figures across the geometric landscape became my inspiration. One-person includes The Hudson Opera House, in Hudson, NY, Gallery 10 in Washington, DC, and The NuHotel in Brooklyn. Some of the group shows were at Denise Bibro Fine Arts, Hammond Museum, The Painting Center, CB Richard Ellis through New York Foundation for the Arts, Theresa Maloney Gallery at the College of St. Elizabeth, PS 122, and the Henry Street Settlement, Homework (a traveling exhibit organized by CAPS and several venues, curated by Harmony Hammond). I have also exhibited through the Art in the Embassies program in Djibouti, Africa and Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Websites: urbanpaintings.com, nyartistscircle.com
Instagram: kmigliorenewton
Kazaan Viveiros
Acrylic Painting on Panel, Paper, and Canvas
Kazaan Viveiros earned a BA with distinction from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has since exhibited work in the U.S. and Europe, including solo shows in New York, SanFrancisco, Berkeley, Scottsdale, AZ, Richmond, VA, Savannah, GA, and Rome, Italy.
Viveiros’s paintings have been collected by a wide array of corporations, including eBay and Capital One Bank, as well as by individuals such as novelist Danielle Steel. Five of Viveiros’s paintings were purchased by the Art in Embassies Program and are permanently installed in the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
She was a 2011 Bethesda Painting Awards semi-finalist, was twice chosen as a visiting artist in residence at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA, and has also been an artist in residence at Weir Farm, Dorland Mountain ArtsColony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Website: kazaan.com
Kenneth Sean Golden
Digital Printmaking & Archival Pigment Ink Jet Prints
Kenneth Sean Golden’s education and teaching have been based in photography and alternative processes. This allows him to meditate on his identity in the context of the larger world and other concerns. He takes on the challenge to explore how we can have these identities and co-exist in a community.
Website: westbeth.org
Khadija Zizi, PhD
Acrylics and Mixed Media
Khadija Zizi is a Moroccan artist. Her cross cultural background, world travel, and love of music inspire her. Her approach is eclectic as she loves mixing acrylics with sand, fabrics, and yarn. She holds a Ph.D. in Education. She teaches English at ISIC, Rabat.
Website: khadijazizi.com
Krisztina Asztalos
Painting on Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylics, Ink, Watercolor
Krisztina Asztalos has been painting since 1989, graduated with honour as drawing and visual communication teacher (BA/BVA) specialized on painting in 2001. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and international group shows in Europe, Asia, Africa, United States. 5 elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space - most depicted elements of her artworks, inspired by eastern calligraphy, nature and human nature and urban life. Her large 2- 3 m long ink paintings ”Aqua” series are bringing the certain feeling of great dimensions. Urban series are depicting the multicolor vibration of metropolises with humour and a bit of sarcasm, personal responds for happenings of urban society. Each piece of element paintings are like a part of mosaic, depicting macro (earth- fire-air-water-space) and micro elements (human and urban life ). Her aim is to depict the fabulous diversity and profusion of our universe. Krisztina's artworks were chosen to be published internationally in 10 different artbooks. Krisztina's artworks are verified by Verisart.
Blog: krisztinaasztalos.blogspot.com
Kyra Hazou
Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic, Oil
My early artwork was primarily abstract based on colours that often appeared in nature. More recent artwork is still influenced by nature, often by the Alpine colours and scenes in France where I often paint. The goal is to convey a feeling of atmosphere rather than a realistic portrayal of a scene, and colour, always colour. I also have begun working in mixed media, often using rejected plastic found on beaches throughout the world sewn onto a painted canvas.
Website: kyrahazou.com, saatchiart.com
L. Brandon Krall
Concept Art, Painting, Sculpture, Work on Paper, Film/Video, Writing
L. Brandon Krall portrait by Peter Moore circa 1981
Because all art is conceptual I refer to the range of my works using that term… those who deny that conceptual content is in their work are making decisions and choices... The mind has two hemispheres which mirror each other; the right is thought to be logical/language and intellect driven and the left creative, spatial, experiential…. My work has always included objects and installations… I have been filming as an art form and as a professional for the last 40 years… I am a practitioner of Chanoyu and keep canaries and finches free flying… All aesthetic expression is important…
Websites: mon-oeuvre.net, mediatriangle.com, literalfiguratives.net
Vimeo: Portrait of the artist as, CHANGEchance
LaThoriel Badenhausen
Mixed Media
I make art to satisfy my impulse to bring discordant things together to stage a dialogue not possible with a lone item. I seek to find satire and humor in the new dialogue. I use found objects, domestic goods, feminine products and traditional art supplies. I sew, cut and paste, build, destroy and rebuild.
Website: LaThoriel.com
Instagram: lathorielbadenhausen
Laurie Sheridan
Sculpture, Printmaking
Laurie Sheridan is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her art is grounded in the belief in a universal energy running through all things. Her sculptures, drawings and monotypes explore the relationship between primordial energy, the collective unconscious, and the natural world. She strives to make the invisible visible with her cast-resin and mixed media forms; they are like an ancestral sap containing a life-force. Many pieces are lit from within; others are translucent and conduct light naturally. The placement of deceased endangered insects in these works serve both as preservation, and a willingness for them to re-animate. Her works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and sculpture parks internationally.
Website: lauriesheridan.com
Leonie Castelino
Textile Fiber Art
I am an American Contemporary Fiber Artist creating art in Textiles. Paintings or Hangings float off the wall, or Aerial Sculptures move with a passing breeze. Installations involve hangings, sculptures & mobiles, a commentary on social issues. I show in International Museums & Juried Exhibitions.
Website: leoniecastelino.com
Instagram: leoniecastelino
Leslie Pelino
Mixed Media
Pelino creates a world steeped in memory and nostalgia. Each element of salvaged material has been handled and passed down, interweaving memories, materials and space, down to the antique loom on which the artist shuttles and collapses time. Scraps evolve into visual stories rich in imagination and tailored for individualization. “This is beauty with a twist of the grim, humorous while empathic, playful yet grounded, soulful while dour, frenetic yet narratively rich and awesomely silent.”
Website: howlingspiders.com
Linda Filley
Mixed Media
Linda Filley has been making her paper creations for over 12 years. They grew out of display work she was doing for a store in the Hudson Valley. Like the signature Paper Dresses she created for the store’s front window, the Shoes are a transformation of everyday materials. Cardboard, brown paper, wallpaper, old maps, and sheet music, sometimes new and sometimes vintage. Her work speaks to many themes: recycling, history, and nature with an eye to fashion and whimsy.
A self-taught artist who was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Montreal, Canada, Linda currently lives in the Hudson Valley.
Website: lindafilleypapershoes.com
Instagram: lindafilleypapershoes
Linda Stillman
Collage, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Installation
Linda Stillman is a New York artist who works in various media, investigating concepts of time, memory and nature. Stillman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA). Her work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the country. Stillman’s art work has been reviewed in numerous publications and is included in many private and public collections.
Website: lindastillman.com
Instagram: linda_stillman
Lisa Breznak
Fired Clay Surfaced with Paint, Varnish, and/or 22k Gold Leaf and Carved Polystyrene Relief Panels
Working most often in palm sized miniatures, playing with the power of scale, and referencing body language, architecture, ritual, and costume, Lisa Breznak anthropomorphizes abstract forms. There is a lot of social commentary in these little pieces. With beauty, humor, and irony, the works tell cautionary tales and illustrate the fables and foibles of contemporary life and human nature. Breznak holds degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Plattsburgh, and Goddard College, with post graduate study at Parsons School of Design.
Website: lisabreznak.com
Lisa D'Amico, PhD
Artist. Curator. Educator.
Every new painting is a deep breath. A new beginning to tell a story using color and creativity. Translating and provoking human emotions are the primary focuses of my artwork. I strive to reproduce the varied facets of feelings through my deep fascination with color, shape and composition and the struggles that occur between them.
Website: lisadamico.net
Lisa K Rosenstein
Drawing, Sculpture
I think a lot about the transitory nature of life, we are here, and then we aren’t. In between we have the gift of living on this beautiful planet. As an artist I find ways to use discarded materials to visually express my thoughts and feelings about the joy and grief of existence, our interconnectedness with the natural world, and with each other.
Life is chaotic, complex, noisy, and at times painfully full. I make art that provides a space for contemplation, solitude, and a visual opportunity to slow down.
Website: lisakrosenstein.com
Lise Prown
Ceramics and Fiber Arts
Lise Prown has recently been focusing on colorful, well designed, ceramics and fiber arts. These works explore the intersection of art, design history, craft and information graphics. The goal with this craft based work is to reach as broad a cross section of viewers as possible while creating useful items that are intellectually rigorous and artistically engaging.
Website: liseprown.com
Lois Sylvia Bender
Watercolor, Printmaking Mediums, Pastel, Drawing
I work simultaneously in several distinct bodies of work from watercolor to printmaking with vibrant themes of nature. In my “plant, pond, poem” works on paper series, I imagine graphic aquatic pools of reflections. I love the abundant variety of visuals of a “seeing” pond, flowing or still, mirroring the plants and sky above. Water’s fluid transparency from depths to surface is similar to the lucidity in reveries, daydreaming and states of creativity. Ponds: waters, textures, lushness and sounds entice me to muse and paint this flowing lyrical world. Layers of pentimenti fuse in a visual poetry of figuration and abstraction.
Websites: LoisBender.com, GardenSpiritsNY.com
Instagram: loisbenderart, gardenspiritsny
Luz Castaneda
Painting
I am a Brazilian Painter, self-taught artist and PhD in Genetics. My research and artwork are a combination of my artistic soul and scientific mind with my free spirit to combine the two. Since 2009 I have become a researcher of the Afro-Brazilian traditions and have developed a series of work dedicated to this expression. The enchantment of nature, whether through science or through spiritual traditions based on nature, has been the source of inspiration for my creations. In 2019 my series Rebirth won an award from the Queens Consul of the Arts.
Website: luzcastaneda.com
Instagram: luzcastaneda
Lynette Charters
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Board and Fabric
Our verbal and visual communications present a predominantly white, heterosexual, cis-male perspective. An overwhelming difficulty for a woman, is owning her body, without it seemingly on display for male appreciation.
The Missing Women Series hopes to address this problem by using public galleries as a setting to highlight how women are presented, but not represented in art, history and society; how our accomplishments are uncompensated, unrecorded and frequently appropriated. The area of the bodies from the original painting is replaced with bare wood. They ‘stare’ back at you, observing. Our minds project a sexuality, then questions how appropriate that is.
Website: lcharters.com
Instagram: lynettecharters
Marcy B. Freedman
Video and Performance Art, Painting and Drawing, Collage, Digital Collage, Small Sculpture
Marcy B. Freedman is an artist and art historian, with a focus upon modern and contemporary forms of expression. She has worked in a wide variety of mediums and addressed a diverse range of topics. Often, but not always, her goal is “to please the eye and tease the brain.”
Website: marcybfreedman.com
Margarita Nuller
Pianist
Ms. Nuller graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. Since her arrival in the United States in 1990, she has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in the New York metropolitan area and in New England, as well as in Brazil, Russia, Spain, and Portugal. She has been a soloist with the Arkansas Symphony, Danbury Symphony (CT), Klassika Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia), Orchestra Temple Beth El (CT), and Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico. Ms. Nuller played her debut recital at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a winner of the Artist International Auditions. Her CD of Russian music was released on L’Art label in 2003. She has attended many summer festivals including the SIPO in Óbidos (Portugal), the Shandelee Festival (NY), and Music in the Palaces Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia). She has taught at the University of Hartford (CT), the Moussorgsky College of Music (Russia) and the Connecticut Conservatory in New Milford, CT. Currently, Ms. Nuller has a busy teaching studio in New Fairfield, CT and is on the faculty of the Kent School (CT). She is the organist at the First Church of Christ Scientist in Ridgefield, CT and a regular accompanist at Camerata d'Amici.
Marjie Zelman
Sculpture in Clay and Stone, Drawings and Paintings in Mixed Media, Digital Collages of my Paintings and Photos
My paintings begin as a kaleidoscope of color and movement. This interdependent of my conscious and unconscious creates a mood where abstract and figurative continue to mesh, separate and finally merge. Even when I hope to end a painting abstractly, my involvement with people and their stories has its way with me as I watch these figures emerge out of the mist onto my canvas.
That process was my gift for forty-two years ago. Eight years ago, I could no longer stand and paint. Fortunately, I was exposed to Adobe Photoshop on a Mac, twenty years ago. It was mesmerizing. I knew I would dabble in it. I never imagined that it would become a full time occupation. For the last eight years, I have taken multiple works and recreated my paintings, sculptures and photos into digital collages. Combining the old to create the new has been my artistic salvation.
Marlene Siff
Painter
My paintings, works on paper and sculpture depict imagery of personal and global events and psychological issues. They are a reflection of the world we live in, expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges and movement, each interplaying with one another engaging the viewer to participate.
The multi-dimensionality and multi-layering of my work reference what one must uncover to penetrate the illusions of reality in order to reach the mystery and essence of the soul.
Website: marlenesiff.com
Marlow Shami
Digital Photographic Composite, Writer
Like words used to build a story, sensory attractions create my experience as an artist. I wait, listen, pause, trust, pause, listen, stop, and - begin again, to collect, compose, wonder, experience. This art-making process is that of tiny precious steps, all needing attention, and care. Translating via camera and digital paintbrush communicates the essence of my collaboration with the natural world.
Website: marlowshami.com
Mary McFerran
Textiles, Embroidery and Multi-Media
Blending materials from different sources and recombining them to make new meaning is the impulse that guides my work. By touching, cutting, sewing, and marking the material, I start to own it. This process leads me into a personal journey with myself. My approach is mostly intuitive with a vague idea that gets me started. The idea could be a family story, experience, or an item from the news. My preference is to include both contrasting color and discordant elements that set up puzzles to be solved. Embroidery stitching or funky trims are often the finish of the work.
Website: marymcferran.com
Mei Wang / 王槑
Fiber Art, Water Colour Painting
Mei Wang was born in Beijing, China, graduated from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.
In 2004, She immigrated to Canada and studied fine art at Emily Carr University. Mei loves painting and has been engaged in fiber art creation, watercolour painting for more than 10 years.
Instagram: yanw3000
Melinda Green Tepler
Writing, Painting, Print and Sculpture
Melinda Green Tepler was born in Germany and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Yale University in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and an interest in the relationship between word and image. Ms.Tepler is the author of two children’s books, Bembelman’s Bakery and Rachel’s Recital. She has created artwork for theater posters and online publications. Her paintings, prints, and sculptures have been exhibited in New York and Connecticut, and in private collections around the country.
Website: melindagreentepler.com
Instagram: melindagreentepler
Michael Abene
Musician
Michael Abene is a renowned Pianist/Composer/Arranger/Educator/Author. He was the Chefdirigent (Chief composer/Arranger), of the WDR BIG BAND, Cologne, Germany(2004-2014). His arrangements are played worldwide. Michael held the Chair for Jazz Ensemble Conductor, KUG Jazz Institute, Graz Austria.
Website: michaelabene.com
Michael Gellatly
Photography, Painting, Drawing, Illustration
Gellatly’s a maker, and where it comes to his art practice, his hands are in everything. He continues to develop new iconography for every step he takes. As a teacher, he’s written across his classroom wall - ‘In order to live in a new world, we must speak in a new language’. His art moves in this model. His process is cyclical - moving organically from form to form, medium to medium, fiction to nonfiction, round and round and... and in so doing, allows himself to enter this wheel, his process, with tools in hand, at any contextual point and method of making.
His current constructions at once ephemeral and concrete, are made on tabletop, somewhat diorama settings, small and intimate, scaled to the economical proportions of his space, time, and materials at hand. These building sites are filmic in nature, each becoming sculpture, theatrical stagings for photo, documentation, become shifting sets with mercurial narratives, all in an ongoing play.
Websites: theispot.com, mgellatlyillo.com, mgellatlyart.com
Mimi Czajka Graminski
Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media
Graminski juxtaposes unusual materials with traditional handcrafts bringing new meaning to both. She has shown her work at, and created site specific installations for museums, galleries, public and alternative spaces. She has exhibited work nationally at venues that include the The Hyde Collection, Pratt/ Munson Williams Proctor Gallery,
The Hammond Museum, Abecedarian Gallery, Seligmann Center for Surrealism, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Islip Museum, Katonah Museum, Sam Houston University Gallery. She has also shown at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Exit Art, Lubbock Fine Arts Center and The Haggin Museum. Her work was highlighted in the New York Times for her work in For the Love of Art at The Hat Factory and at the Akin Museum.
Website: mimigraminski.com
Instagram: mimigraminski, bibimimimondaymemo
In Other Words essay: The Delicate Boldness of Mimi Czajka Graminski
Mireya Samper
Sculpture, Installation,Two Dimensional Works and Land-Art
Mireya shows internationally, she works parallel in two and three dimensions for museums or in-situ. She creates poetical minimal works that are either ephemeral or carved in stone. Pulling together primamatera into concepts of time and space her oeuvres create connections between the natural elements of water, light, wind, stone and consciousness.
Website: mireya.is
Instagram: mireya.samper
In Other Words essay: Mireya Samper’s Elemental Forces of Nature
Mitchell Lewis
Mixed Medium on Canvas
Born in The Bronx, NY in 1947, Mitch Lewis’ involvement with art began with his father, whose sign painting, in addition to supplementing the family’s income, influenced his love of art. Having attended public schools in New York City, Lewis worked toward a BA and MA in Art at Hunter College, where he was inspired by the work of Abstract Expressionists/Minimalists, Ralph Humphrey, Robert Huot, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolf Gotlieb and Tony Smith. Although his paintings approach an intended moral and spiritual milieu, their implications exist only in terms of the language of expression. He distributes paint purposely, while bringing a vigor and expressiveness to each of his canvases. Powerfully intense, the forms, lines, shapes and color are unexpected, surprising, sexy, fun and sometimes aggressive. Lewis has been exhibiting his paintings in New York City since completing graduate school. His work is in several collections in the U.S. and the U.K. From 2012 to the present his work has been represented by The Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea New York.
Website: mitchlewispaintings.com
Mitchell Visoky
Monotype, Collage, Encaustic, Mixed Media
Whether working with printmaking, collage, encaustic painting, or using a collaboration of materials, my goal is to capture timeless images that reflect a place or moment in the past or the present.
Inspiration comes from many arenas. It can be from a reflection of nature, in its many states, and man-made forms like architecture that include land formations, patterns, textural objects, and surfaces and spatial barriers. In a world that holds many contradictions, I explore the interplay of congruent and disparate relationships while delving into concepts of space, time, layering shapes and colors.
My process involves an intuitive dialog with the materials, between the intentional and unplanned marks and shapes, giving way to developing relationships between the conscious and accidental.
Website: visokyart.com
Instagram: visokym
Miyuki Kido, 城戸みゆき
Installation
Main field of my art work is installation. I always pick my materials up from my ordinary life. We can discover a new world lurking beneath the surface of our daily lives by paying attention to the things we see every day but miss. I’d like to create landscape that has functions to transform our daily life slightly but surely.
Website: miyukikido.work
Moira Trachtenberg
Sculpture, Photography, Poetry
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Moira Trachtenberg is a visual artist and poet. Juried photo exhibits in 2019-2020 include Fragile Waterways at Teatown Lake Preserve and SNAP photo exhibit at Rockefeller State Preserve. Her sculpture has been exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Arts Tri-State Exhibition. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Kyoto Journal and won Carve's Premium Edition Contest (2016). Her writing has been showcased in “Writing the Walls” at Hudson Valley MOCA and performed at the Emotive Fruition theater collaborative in NYC. She is an interdisciplinary Teaching Artist with the Community-Word Project and is a past President of the Katonah Poetry Series.
Instagram: flyingmtn
Monique Allain
Painting, Photography, Video, Intervention, Installation, Performance
Born in São Paulo from French/Mexican parents, I live in NY since 2018. Roots and ties are in these places. Fractals, Dynamic Systems, and Chaos Theory are sources of inspiration. I became a biologist until I realized life was to be lived with poetry. Since 2000 I've been creating. After a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts (2007), an art residence at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2008), I’ve got a Master’s degree in Visual Arts (2011).
I live and produce in search of my place and peers. The artworks are experimental and procedural, with frequent improvisation and public participation. They investigate identity and its dynamic relation with space, time and otherness. Performances, urban interventions and video installations with hybridization of diverse media, such as video, photography and painting are offered, to obtain perceptual situations of encounter and exchange, in which a present continuous time can be experienced and shared.
Websites: moniqueallain.com, nyartistscircle.com
Instagram: moniqueallain
Videos: vimeo
Nalini Rau, Ph.D
Classical Dance, Story Telling, Poetry
Photo credit: Rob Reynolds
Dr. Nalini Rau is a leading dancer and choreographer of Bharatanatyam in New York. Dr. Rau explores contemporary issues melding theater, dance and poetry. Since 1993, she has delighted in her roles as a director, teacher and story teller to students in Natya Anubhava Academy.
Website: nalinirau.com
Nancy Egol Nikkal
Collage and Painting
My work is described as lyrical abstraction. My primary studio practice is mixed media collage with painting, drawing, printmaking and found paper media. My work is tactile and about the sense of touch. I see and feel the ways papers and paint are in relationship and balance each other with subtle tension, see two recent series – Curvy Geometric and Metro.
Website: nikkal.com
Blog: The Art of Collage
Instagram: nancynikkal_artist
Nancy Tucker
Composer. Lyricist. Guitarist. Humorist.
Nancy Tucker is a gifted musician who “inhabits an off-beat alternative universe that inspires music to tumble into riotous abandon” says the Los Angeles Times. Her delightful spontaneity honors the playful side in each of us and offers a pathway for rediscovering the jubilance of life.
She is an accomplished guitarist, composer, lyricist and humorist with a lifelong career of live performance and recording for both children and adults. Her music features melodic finger-style compositions, inventive percussion-isms, moving string-quartets and lyrical ingenuity. Her recognitions include: A Gold Parents’ Choice Award, Grand Prize Winner/Connecticut Comedy Festival, Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award/Connecticut Song Writers Association.
Website: nancytucker
Naomi Teppich
Ceramic Mixed Media Sculptures, Ferro-Cement Sculptures
Looking at plants, shells, sea creatures, fungi, bark, and cacti inspire my art. I build small to medium-sized ceramic mixed media sculptures, and also large public ferro-cement sculptures. My materials for these large shell sculptures are stoneware fired in several different kilns. I use hand and electric tools to design my works. My pieces are filled with textures, glazes, and clay colors.
My surrounding environment inspires my ideas. I am influenced by rural settings and observations from my travels. The challenge of almost duplicating these organic forms that I find in nature or in photos is enjoyable for me.
Website: naomiteppichsculpt.com
Instagram: ntsculpt2016
Niki Ketchman
Sculpture, Inkjet Prints, Drawings, Paintings
I have had many one person exhibitions including at The Katonah Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. My work has been reviewed in many publications including the New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine. The collections at the New Britain Museum of American Art, The DeCordova Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, to name a few, include my work.
Website: nikiketchman.com
Norma Greenwood
Oil Painting, Collage, Watercolor
Looking at plants, shells, sea creatures, fungi, bark, and cacti inspire my art. I build small to medium-sized ceramic mixed media sculptures, and also large public ferro-cement sculptures. My materials for these large shell sculptures are stoneware fired in several different kilns. I use hand and electric tools to design my works. My pieces are filled with textures, glazes, and clay colors.
My surrounding environment inspires my ideas. I am influenced by rural settings and observations from my travels. The challenge of almost duplicating these organic forms that I find in nature or in photos is enjoyable for me.
Websites: normagreenwood.com, nyartistscircle.com, bricartsmedia.org
Instagram: normagreenwoodart
Osiris Munir
Multi-Medium Including Oil, Acrylic, Pen, Pencil, Crayon, Markers and Ink
When there is a canvas, piece of wood, brick, or even flat paper, it feels as though I am touching a living breathing entity. When I close my eyes, I see a plethora of color, patterns, and designs while moving my hands simultaneously. Using pencils, pens, markers and both acrylic and oil, (with a preference for oil) I simply move brushes, palette knives, and at times fingers, based on the sensation that I feel through my fingers and the colors that I see with my eyes. Usually a piece will come to life once my hands touch a surface.
I am always inspired by what others see, feel, or experience upon viewing my work.
Instagram: Express in Abstract
Pam Smilow
Mixed Media on Canvas or Paper, Printmaking (Linocut, Monoprint)
I have always had trouble writing about my art. I can say it much better in paint. I can, though, describe my process, which I consider close to that of a jazz musician improvising. I do not hear a symphony in my head and then put it down. Instead, I build on every stroke I do, starting with the gesso and building up layer after layer after that. My surfaces are defined by and reflect the thickness of that build up. For my vocabulary, I draw heavily on childhood memories, on many personal experiences throughout the years, and my travels. Nature continues to be one of my biggest inspirations.
When I make a painting, I seek to create a little piece of beauty and a refuge from our busy and chaotic lives, an inspiration to bring a little bit of joy into the universe through color, composition and content. I see each piece of my work as one step on a continuum, each painting not precious unto itself but as an ongoing journey. I consider myself very lucky to get up every day and enjoy what I do.
Website: pamelasmilow.com
In Other Words essay: The Sophisticated Innocence of Pam Smilow
Pamela Benham
Acrylic on Canvas, Ink and Charcoal on Paper
Pamela Benham studied painting in New York City at the Art Students’ League under a Ford Foundation Grant and a Reginald Marsh Scholarship, and she graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art with a BFA. Moving to Paris, she studied at the Ecolé des Beaux-Arts for two years with Pierre Carron. Other influential teachers were Robert Beverly Hale, Wolf Kahn, Dory Ashton, Paul Resika, Leland Bell and Stephen Posen.
Benham is a recipient of an ARTIST SPACE Grant and an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant. She was also awarded artist-in-residencies at the Skowhegan School in Maine, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Parson’s Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic, and Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
She has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and has had over twenty solo exhibitions in galleries in New YorkShe has now established her West Coast painting studio, the Art House Studio, in Santa Barbara, California.
Website: pamelabenham.com
Instagram: pamelabenham1
Paola Bari
Overglaze on Porcelain, Ceramic
After ending her technical career, Paola devoted her time to porcelain painting. Paola learned to love ceramics as a young girl in Italy and traveled all over to learn different techniques. Born in Italy, Paola worked for IBM in Milano until 1996, when she crossed the Atlantic. Paola's porcelain works appeared in exhibitions at prestigious galleries, including Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Byrdcliffe Barn Pottery, and James Cox Gallery, in NY. Paola is a member and a certified artist with the International-Porcelain-Artists-and-Teachers. After concluding her career with IBM Paola has been dedicating her time to conservation. She is currently a trustee of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, located in Namibia.
Website: paolabari.com
Instagram: pbaristudio
Patricia Stuart
Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media, Inks, Oil, Colored Pencil, and Fibers
Being raised by immigrants has taught me the value of life and people. Art allows me to express what's important to me. I'm inspired to paint the faces of African American women, men, and children because they are so essential to our world! My art is uniquely inspired by my own personal story, and the stories told to me by my grandmother. I enjoy using color and design as a way to bring strength and dignity to my subject. My art evokes hope, strength, and it will make you think, and it may even make you smile.
Website: patriciastuartoriginals.com
Instagram: artist_patricia_stuart
Phil Wiggins
Musician, Writer
Blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins is a 2017 National Heritage Fellow and multiple W.C. Handy blues award winner. With more than 40-years experience, including a dozen critically acclaimed albums (Flying Fish and Alligator Records, among others) he has appeared in numerous films and staged productions. Phil’s credentials as harmonica player, songwriter and bandleader have been honed over more than 40 years of playing with some of the greatest names in the blues. He spent 32 years in the great Piedmont blues duo of Cephas & Wiggins. He has performed on every continent except Antarctica; and, in the White House, Carnegie Hall, Prince Albert Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. He is co-author of the book ‘Sweet Bitter Blues– Washington DC’s Homemade Blues’ with the Hammond Museum contributing writer Frank Matheis.
Websites: philwiggins.com, sweetbitterblues.com
Poet Gold
Poet, Author, Performer, Songwriter, Community “Artivist” and Speaker
A rare talent who grabs you by the heart and says “Recognize” – Bettina “Poet Gold” Wilkerson is pushing the boundaries of poetry and the spoken word. Living with a chronic illness since childhood, Poet Gold, or as she is affectionately known as “Gold”, brings a soul-searching insight about the human existence, love, dreams, challenges, and triumph.
Appointed the 2017 and 2018 NYS Dutchess County Poet Laureate, Poet Gold is the recipient of numerous awards. With countless recitations, she has opened for Grammy-nominated artists and has spoken at renowned organizations such as Omega Institute and Self Employment in the Arts.
Poet Gold’s speaking engagements and non-traditional poetry workshops engage audiences in understanding the direct connection between literacy, goal setting, and the achievement of their dreams. Presently she is the co-host for the iHeart Radio podcast “Finding Out with Pete and The Poet Gold”. Her distinct voice will be heard, playing the role of God, in the upcoming animated short film “The Creation” poem by James Weldon Johnson, directed by award winning animated film maker, Steve Leeper.
Poet Gold is an activist of the heart. Her words inspire to explore the essence of humanity.
Instagram: _poetgold_
Podcasts: iheart.com/podcast/481-peter-and-the-poet-gold-
Prem Singh
Oil on Canvas
Art for me is one of the vital means of seeking relationship with the people . My paintings reflect on playful , and prayerful , moments that I experience through my dialogue with the manifest and the unmanifest in Nature . What I seek in my artistic expressions is silent activity not easily discernible to the eye but can be experienced in contemplations . In such moments of creativity my whole being is transformed into a plant that grows every minute by remaining firmly rooted to the soil . This feel of eternity and silent activity gives wings to my imagination . And that inspires me to tune the rhythmic visual voice and its subtle nuances in consonance with my heart beat . An organic feel of the silent activity of nature , intensive chirping of the birds in the low light of morning and evening , the transcendental music of light - all this and much more is an integral part of my creative quest ..
It is my humble accept at ‘ grasping ‘ joy and life as they fly
Website: canvasview.com
Priya Tambe
Mixed Media (Encaustic Painting and Paper Sculpture)
I am inspired by natural imagery to create work that is beautiful and timeless; that is both familiar and mysterious at the same time; that evokes imagination, passion, and awe. Through my art, I seek to uncover the deepest emotions in people and their interaction with the natural environment.
Website: priyatambe.com
In Other Words essay: Priya Tambe’s Portal of Nature
Regina Silvers
Watercolor, Pen & Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick, Gouache, Graphite, Colored Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, Crayon
Like a visual diary, my work naturally follows my interests and concerns. I have always loved to draw, and my larger studio work is based on my in-situ sketches - i.e. at a jazz jam session, or from photos I take at a political rally.
Painting rapidly, I make many large studies to arrive at the dynamic I seek. I bear witness, to capture the mood, intent, and energy of a situation or place, encouraging the viewer to share, and identify with, my experience. My political work is especially gratifying, enabling me to address and express my aesthetic and social concerns.
Websites: ReginaSilvers.com, nyartistscircle.com, Saatchiart.com
Rita Leppiniemi
Mixed Media, such as Photo, Video, Animation, Text and Sound
Rita Leppiniemi is an active and dedicated visual artist, living in Helsink, Finland. She is interested in new and experimental art forms and she has been arranging and co-producing various projects and events. She is using different media in order to explore the relationship between reality and fiction.
Websites: leppiniemi.net leppiniemi.net/portfolio
Riva Weinstein
Installation, Performance, Mixed Media Assemblage
I walk. I find. I make. I make meaning. Using found and collected materials, I create site specific performances and installations that contemplate and celebrate life to engender intimate appreciation for the natural world. My artistic practice is grounded in walking. The number 18 and the circle form – symbols of life - are fulcrums for my work.
Website: rivaweinstein.com
Robin Kline
Ceramics
Clay has a life of its own and I love to interact with its vitality, striving to maintain a sense process in the finished pieces.
Challenged to describe my work in five adjectives I arrived at these: 1-Function - the work is meant to be used. 2-Instinctive - coming from within me in an instinctive way. 3-Organic - relating to natural patterns and biologic rhythms. 4-Exuberant - full of joyous enthusiasm to reflect the I feel in making them. 5-Audacious - I fearlessly take chances in making my pottery. I hope each piece reflects that verve and originality.
Website: klineware.com
Instagram: klineware829
Rosalind Schneider
Digital/Fusion Paintings, Video
I seek to create work that transcends its source to form a new reference to a visionary landscape. The power of the natural environment is a continuing source of inspiration. I create layered landscape images with multiple realities that progress from the real into abstraction and a fusion of the two. They are expanded visions of the earth. I seek sites that carry a primeval power. Although images are site specific, they must also speak to a greater vision of place. Digital Fusion paintings resulting from the capture of a video frame use computer technology as a starting point and are realized through hands on manipulation. The surfaces are transformed by drawing, acrylic and glass particle collage resulting in a luminous translation that speaks to its moving image origin. I am most interested in the quality of light as a structural element. The paintings are a fusion of multiple realities that are birthed from video.
Website: rosalindschneiderart.com
Sachiko Miki 三木 サチコ
Sculpture, Drawing
Sachiko Miki is a Japanese sculptor residing in Japan. She teaches sculpture at Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo and drawing at a professional design school. Her works resemble otherworldly anime characters, but she visually represents the inner essence of human beings. She exhibited widely in Japan and abroad.
Website: mocomimimi.wixsite.com/sachikomiki
Instagram: hl=ja
Sally Aldrich
Painter, Sculptor, Teacher
Working in two spontaneous, wet media – watercolor and clay – and most recently in acrylics, I like to search for the essence of things, whether it is in an animal or landscape. With watercolor, I soak 300lb Arches paper with water, letting the color speak to me as abstract shapes take form. Often a landscape emerges or a simple rock form, which I hint at definition with a few lies with the brush, stripping away non-essentials, expressing the simple beauty I find in a bold way.
When I work in clay or paint, I try and feel the gesture of the form, drawing or shaping it without excess. When I struggle with it, it loses life. When I allow it, the piece speaks to me, and intuitively I see a fresh design more exciting than one planned in advance. Bouncing ideas off each other in these different media in a playful way becomes an interplay revealing the landscape of my mind.
Website: sallyaldrichart.com
Sarah Haviland
Sculpture, Installation, Drawing, Collage
Sarah Haviland’s abstract-figurative sculptures, installations, and collages have been exhibited in galleries, parks, museums, and educational settings. Awards include a US Fulbright Fellowship in Taiwan for 2018-2019, an NEA Creativity Grant, fellowships from the NY and NJ State Arts Councils, and residencies at Sculpture Space, Skowhegan, and Yaddo.
Website: sarahhaviland.com
Sascha Mallon
Installation (Ceramic and Wallpainting), Sculpture, Drawing
I make ceramic sculptures representing female figures, plants, and animals and group them mostly on the wall in site-specific installations and freestanding sculptures combined with Wallpainting. My work is predominantly about the cycle of life, and within that context my sculptures serve as pictograms, carriers of hidden messages, and memento mori. I create dreamlike worlds whose narratives illustrate relationships, transitions, and dichotomies such as life/death. My approach to making work is intuitive and spontaneous, and my inspiration comes from the world around me as well as from my thoughts and memories.
Website: saschamallon.art
Instagram: saschamallon
SG Schuman
Acrylic, Collage, Mixed Media
I am a graduate of SUNY Purchase, School of Visual Art / BFA.
Although I have a few different visions, they all have one thing in common; they are inspired by the natural world, ancient cultures, and landscape. Sometimes I will work more gesturally, and other times, more direct.
I spend a lot of time outdoors, and some of my views are a culmination of what I see, along with my memories. I also devise works that arrange shapes and silhouettes.
Website: sgschuman.com
Shelley Parriott
Powder Coated Perforated Aluminum and Mixed Materials
Magical transparencies: a surprising visual phenomenon transforms heavy gauge industrial material into airy fields of color. Parriott’s large-scale installations are exhibited and collected in New York City, throughout the USA and Europe.
Website: ColorFieldSculpture.com
Shira Toren
Painting: Mostly Venetian Plaster, Pigment, Graphite on Canvas
Shira Toren is an American-Israeli artist. Born in Tel-Aviv, She received her BFA from the Pratt Institute and currently working in Brooklyn NY,
My work is to make unconscious emotion visceral. I implement a process-oriented approach in my practice, which uncovers the works' themes as much as establishes them. I apply Venetian plaster, graphite powder and mineral pigments, accumulating these materials to achieve a nuanced sense of texture. Layers of material converge in abstract monochrome forms, creating a liminal space where pigments build and collapse. The various built surfaces in my work seemingly excavate elusive memories and their very nature. The final compositions embody this subtle conflict: a latent tension lingering between presence and absence, the rigid and the malleable.
Website: shiratoren.com
Instagram: shiratoren
Shoko Miki 三木祥子
Photography
In the the field of “Environmental Art”, I’ve kept on installing installations of the photos of flowers, for people all over the world who have suffered diverse catastrophe. I’d like to continue to do this art project as one of my life’s works to “pray” whenever “COVID-19” has been settled.
Website: shoko-miki.com
Shreya Mehta
Canvas, Paper, Watercolor, Charcoal, Glass, Oil, Golde Leaf. Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures
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Within the human subconscious mind lies a world of experiences; a wealth of memories and connections that are built layer upon layer. It is my personal journey to rediscover the spiritual dialogue between the mind, body, soul, and actions. I render these ideas that have been ignited by my curiosity and inspirational quotations, into visual images. These images are woven and encapsulated with the essence of line and of beauty.
Websites: artshreya.com
Instagram: artshreya
Siena Gillann Porta
Installation Artwork is Multimedia; Paintings are Acrylic Pigment on Canvas and Watercolor on Paper
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Siena Gillann Porta, born in Manhattan, attended the Art Students League at 15, then The School of Visual Arts and The New School, earning a BS in Studio Arts from Brooklyn College, CUNY while studying with Philip Pearlstein, Lee Bonticou, Lennart Anderson, and Sylvia Stone, later receiving an MFA in Sculpture on a Full Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from Penn State. Currently her work is represented by 14 Sculptors Gallery Inc. NY, NY, The New York Society of Women Artists and The National Association of Women Artists.
Websites: sienaporta.com, 14sculptors.com, newyorksocietyofwomenartists.com
Instagram: sienagillannporta
Solveig Umbach
Artist, Weaver, Painter
My inspiration comes from my immediate environment as well as what is going on in the world when I can express an idea in colour. I learned weaving in Sweden and studied art at The New School in NYC and SUNY Purchase.
Recent exhibit: One woman show at the Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick, NY.
Sondra Gold
Metals, Sculpture
When I first saw the sculptures of Brancusi at MOMA I was captured by his total comprehension of the subject and being able to relay it using the simplest form. Since then finding the essence of the subject has engaged me.
I am also interested in dance and many of my sculptures grow out of dance motions. I abstract the body, leaving the motion.
The advantage of bronze is its ability to hold the weight of a piece on a small footing and its long lasting beauty. With bronze you can make shapes that start as sharp and become round, a straight line can curve and solids can turn into negatives. I can decide the outcome.
I also work in steel sheets and here the material dictates what I can do. I have at times limited myself to only using triangles. Two triangles are welded together and then I add others until the shape of the sculpture is completed. The decision on the finish, color or rust comes next.
Attention is paid to the way the positive and negative spaces slide into each other and change places as the piece is turned. The shadows it casts become part of the sculpture.
Website: sondragold.com
Stacie Flint
Oil and Acrylic Paintings and Commissioned Portraits on Canvas
What is most notable about my oil or acrylic paintings and portraits is the vibrant color and energy. I use imagery of people, places and objects from life and imagination and reinvent them through the creative process alive in me as
a joyful expressionism. The mood may be quirky, laugh-out-loud funny, or harmonious. I want to contribute to upliftment in the world, and I call it Love Through Art.
Website: stacieflint.com
Instagram: stacie_flint
Susan Hennelly
Watercolor and Collage
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Susan Hennelly received her BFA and BS in Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She earned 12 credits at University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Susan was one of 12 featured artists in the Arts-Mid- Hudson gallery exhibit “inspired by Plein Air” this year. Other juried exhibitions include “Meeting Past” at Akin Library and Museums, Pawling, NY; “National Women’s History Month featuring Women Artists of the Hudson Valley” at Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY and “Victory for Tyler” at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA. She received Honorable Mention at Sharon Historical Center, Sharon, CT and 1st Prize at the Friends of the Great Swamp Celebration.
Susan has had Solo exhibitions at Millbrook Free Library, Millbrook, NY; Dover Plains Library, Dover Plains, NY; Thalheimer Hall of Maplebrook School, Amenia,NY and North End Trilogy, Barnegat Light, NJ.
Website: arteastdutchess.com
Instagram: susanhennelly10
Susan Miiller
Oils on Canvas
Susan Miiller has participated in television interviews, lectures and seminars and has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Her work is included in many important public and private collections.
"My paintings explore artistic transformation and ways of making the landscape genre fresh and original.” Susan Miiller received an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from the Univ. of No. Texas in 1992 and a B.F.A in painting from SUNY New Paltz in 1988. Miiller has been faculty at SUNY since 1999.
Website: susanmiillerart.com
Instagram: susanmiiller3
Susan Walsh
Photography, Drawing, Sculpture
The consistent theme of my work is marking time though observable changes in natural phenomena. I use charcoal powder, gouache, paint, nails, and graphite as collaborative materials with wind, rain, sea waves and sun/shadow. The final works are drawings and sculptures.
Website: susanwalshstudio.com
Suzy Sureck
Drawing, Writing, Video, Projection, Sculptural Installation, Textile
Suzy Sureck is a multi-media artist whose sculptural installations, videos and drawings involve physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, light, shadow, and the poetics of luminosity. Fluidly cross-pollinating disciplines, she merges technology and traditional media. Working in an expanded field of experiential interaction, she draws with light through projection and spatial layering. Merging aerial views of rivers, branching systems of the human body, bee colonies or microscopic images of plant cells, her works applaud the interdependence of our diversity, earth’s inherent complexities and cycles, and acknowledges the increased vulnerability of our planet and ourselves.
Website: suzysureck.com
Instagrams: suzysureck, cellular.wear
Tanya Kukucka
Mixed Media Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics
Tanya Kukucka draws on deep worlds of the unconscious and the fantastic. She dwells within a place of fears and dreams, nightmares and touches of reality. Her work reflects upon Death and Rebirth, as she incorporates both feelings of sadness and grace.
Symbolism is important, from butterflies representing the Soul to ancient texts depicting Shamanistic stories.
Her work is cathartic, as she believes that she is purging her soul as she creates, which becomes a cleansing and healing process.
Instagram: troutybean
Terri Tibbatts
Book Artist, Photographer, Printmaker and Calligrapher
Terri Tibbatts is a book artist, photographer, printmaker and calligrapher. She is a student of Japanese brushwork and book arts, and has exhibited her work exclusively and in private and university collections across the U.S. Her commercial work includes Shoji Shades, a specialty design business producing custom window shades made from Japanese papers. Her calligraphy and artist’s books are featured in the book collections of a number of American colleges and universities.
Website: territibbatts.com
Theresa DeSalvio
Painting, Video
Theresa DeSalvio is a visual artist whose images are rooted in everyday life, memory and the natural world. She has extended her work to include narrative videos using her paintings, photography, music and narration. Her film Visit to Thailand – Land of Smiles won numerous awards at the Tagore International Film Festival including best travel film.
In 2019, DeSalvio relocated to the Hudson Valley, NY. She holds a MFA from CUNY Hunter College (1982) and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1976).
Website: theresadesalvio.com
Tilly Strauss
Tilly Strauss Works in Acrylics and in Digital Formats on Her iPad
I think Time is my inspiration. I didn’t grow up in one home. Instead I shifted with the rhythms of seasons and vacations that repeated over Time. My body and my thoughts react to Time. I am a lot in the past and the future. It is hard for me to stay in the present UNLESS I am making art. That is why, since 2006, I have kept a daily drawing or painting practice.
Website: tillystudio.com
Instagram: tillystrauss
Traci R. Meitzler
Acrylic, Marker, Charcoal, Spray Paint, Modeling Paste
As an artist I work hard to develop art that speaks both to me and to others about my emotions and frame of mind while creating.
I would classify my style as chaotic architecture. I enjoy the juxtaposition of straight edges with organic curves. I believe that a painting or any design cannot have just one element, but that each exists in harmony because of the other.
I work mostly in acrylic mediums along with other materials such as marker, charcoal, spray paint and modeling paste. I like to add non-standard items as well to create texture, such as clear acrylic sheets, textured wall paper, and coarse sand.
Website: mad7studio.com
Instagram: mad7studio
Veronica C. Wilkinson
Mixed Media, Paint, Collage, Clay, Textiles, Etching, Woodblock, Experimental Materials, Writing
My floating world was spent aboard various classes and sizes of cargo ships at sea accompanying my husband, a master mariner (Captain) for over twenty years as we traveled around the world. My inspiration is drawn from nature and natural light and I have drawn, painted and written since I can remember to express a need to record in a reassuring practical way.
Yvette Cohen
Graphite, Acrylic, Oil, Collage with Wood Dowels and Canvas
My background is in drawing and painting, but I think sculpturally. The shapes are canvas under wooden dowels, or simply canvas pieces, that mount flat on the wall. The space surrounding the pieces is no less important than the pieces themselves. Brushstrokes, and underlying brushstrokes, reveal themselves. It’s not perfect. The work keeps on growing.
Website: yvettecohen.com
Instagram: yvette.cohen
Zena-Marie Lopez
Contemporary and Digital/Media Art
I am a multi-dimensional, contemporary collage artist, storyteller and student of the profound human spirit. No matter the medium my art has always been the manifestation of the collective experience. I share my perspective with the world in the hopes of inspiring a deeper connection that may bridge the spiritual and material worlds. Discover the depths pertaining to the meaning of life on earth, and experience true freedom. I create art to encourage people to live deeply, love endlessly and motivate dynamic thought.
Website: zmlartforeveryone.com
Instagram: zmlartforeveryone
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