Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of history, the essence of my work lies in the age-old struggle between nature and the man-made industrial world. My challenge is to convey this in a way […]
Alison Bert draws on her background in music and journalism to capture the spirit of people and places using a variety of photographic techniques. Her work has been shown in juried exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, the Upstream Gallery in Hastings and the Garrison Art Center. She does her own printing using archival inks on fine art paper.
I explore the relationship between photography and the expressive gestures of hand-etched lines and fields of tone. Printing on an aluminum base, etched lines erode the print surface and reveal reflective metal , utilizing light to deepen the perceptual sense of touch. Collections include the Smithsonian, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Park Service, & Library of Congress.
Walking is so enjoyable, the slow pace of it, the many colors and many shapes of nature all dancing in the same slow movement. Painting, I try to communicate this peaceful feeling and I hope someone else can enjoy it as much as I do by looking at it.
Art gives me the canvas … the voice, the potential and possibilities to speak my truth … to write it … to paint it … to draw it … to move with it and beyond it. Perhaps … that which is my vision can make some difference in the larger world of our common humanity. To create is to heal. Mixed-Media Paintings, Encaustics. Drawings, Poetry Books, Jewelry
I work with wool in many different forms: I felt, weave, braid, punch needle, appliqué and sew. I also make small sculptures from found objects along my travels.
My landscapes of the East End are a play on color and shape creating an atmosphere as I see it on that particular day. Mood, color, and texture are my primary focus. My paintings capture spatial design stretched out before me as horizontal planes with the horizon line as the place holder or anchor.
Emily Denise is a representational artist based in Tarrytown, New York. She is a cofounder of the Main Street Atelier, where she is a principle instructor and resident artist.
My paintings, drawings and collages are made using a quasi logical process balancing simple shape, form, color and texture. A leftover cut out shape becomes a skirt, the skirt becomes the head of a proud tulip and the conversation keeps going. The work is quirky and graphic and longs for an audience so, hope you can come by.
I find inspiration for my work in the garden and familiar landscapes. Ideas and images develop in reverie and on the page. I am moved by color and light, organic composition and growth – and by surprises of medium and process. Sharing studio space (Collective Art Space) adds a rich dynamic to work and life. […]
Exploring personal relationships through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia, my work encompasses collage, mixed media, and printmaking. Current pieces use transparent layers of color in acrylic and image transfers to create depth and complexity, enhancing the sense of memory altered, distorted and rewritten through the passage of time.
EB Gregor has painted since she was a child and chose to become an architect because of her appreciation of art. Her source of inspiration and favorite subject is landscape. Immersion in the landscape is essential to journeys towards happy places and moments of peace. Including works inspired by walks through near and far places, EB reflects on our surroundings.
My art is shaped by curiosity, wonder, and the beauty found in the ordinary. Composing art is a contemplative practice. I live in that reflective process. It is the action of making that feeds me, and the finished work forms a tangible result of the process. I intend for the viewer to find a peaceful meditative calm through my work.
A former Teacher and Translator, Kristin is an improbable Mosaic Artist. What began as an exploration of her Italian heritage has become a way to express profound emotion. Initially self-taught, she has grown through study of Classical and Modern Mosaic techniques. Her Mosaics are born from memory and develop through a meditative and painstaking process over weeks or months.
Neil Lavey was born in New York City in 1958, and grew up in Dobbs Ferry N.Y. He graduated Cooper Union 1981. Works shown in NYC & Massachusetts & The Edward Hopper House in Nyack N.Y. ,The Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers N.Y., and the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, The Bethany Art Center, St. Mathews Church Bedford Hills.
I am a Hudson Valley painter of raw landscapes rendered in a moody, earthy, figurative-expressionist style indebted to Courbet, Van Gogh, and Bellows.
Wendy Naidich is showing at the James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Catrin Perih’s paintings are based on the idea of memory. Much of her work is inspired by old family photographs growing up in Wales. The images she creates are mostly figurative, however they include elements of abstraction and ethereal components with more detailed images of shapes or figures, alluding to the fact that memories can be vague or surprisingly clear.
I am dedicated to exploring the possibilities of three-dimensional shapes formed from straight lines. Symmetry makes it easier to suspend a form in midair as the forces pull it in all directions equally. I often concentrate on the creation of shapes that appear to float in space. My recent work has been acrylic but I’m back to working in wood.
My work can be described as surrealistic photo-montage or collage. It’s a commination of photographic images put together seamlessly to create a new image. It represents dreamlike scenes of odd juxtapositions and fantastical worlds. Some of my work also includes surrealistic engagement with current issues such as environmental causes.
Creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world fascinates me. Because of this, I have composed studio images of deceased insects, birds and small animals assembled with botanicals. These images speak to the the precarious state of our world. Inspired by Memento Mori, I am honoring and memorialize my subjects whose decline makes their recognition important and poignant.
Madge Scott is an international award-winning folk and portrait artist working in oils and mixed media, including wood carvings, drawings and fabrics. She is of Jamaican heritage and creates historical paintings and drawings in various media, especially inks.
Monica Shulman is a self-taught artist whose brand of gestural abstraction is a form of story-telling. She is known for her elaborate impasto technique that creates heavily layered and sculptural surfaces. Exploring themes of the human condition, identity, and self-reflection, her intuitive work is process-oriented and she learns through experimentation. Her world is best described as colorful and rhythmic.
I am a fiber artist, and my main medium is wool felt making ranging from wearable art to home décor in the form of wall panels and vessels, and small rugs. I also study and practice the Korean art form Bojagi as well as Japanese shibori dyeing techniques, and frequently create wearable art using these […]
Marisa Gonzales Silverstein has worked since 2013 as a paper sculptor, creating designs that are meditative and mathematical but that demonstrate the interplay of light and shadow. Marisa received a Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2016. She shows her work in galleries in New York City, Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties.
My work in all mediums is shaped by love of natural forms, surfaces with history, creating windows of remembered experience, weather, and light. I earned a BFA Rhode Island School of Design, worked Fresco Decorative Painting in NYC. Currently I balance nurturing my family and growing my studio art practice here in Westchester.
My artist statement is simple. I paint what I love, what I find beautiful, what intrigues me and what makes me laugh. And then I hope for the best.
This is one of the works that was in my recent show at Gallery Halmetoja in Helsinki, Finland. Like many of the works in that exhibition, this image is based on a local spot, in this case in Yonkers.
Donna Thompson is a multi-faceted artist and spiritual explorer. While pursuing her metaphysical studies, she became intrigued with the medium of collage as a form of spiritual practice. In 2015 she published her first book- Collage Quest: Ancient Roots of Paper Co-Creations. As a workshop facilitator Donna shares her love of collage as a form of questing and healing.
I’m a self taught artist. Painting and photography provide an inner peace and allow me to quiet myself and communicate in a new way in a digital age. My art is driven with a powerful force of curiosity filled with a synergy of freedom. I hold an M.A. from Manhattanville College and B.A. from SUNY Purchase. I teach and create.
Vicky is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University, Pleasantville campus, where she has taught ceramics since 2011. As a Professional Teaching Artist through ArtsWestchester she conducts ceramic arts residencies in schools, community sites and through Arts Mobile. She also teaches adults and children at Clay Art Center and through RiverArts.
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