“Basking in Reflected Glory” is a solo exhibition by Inna Babaeva. The show features Babaeva’s newest body of work placing hand-blown glass sculptures of organic shapes and colors beside mass-produced objects widely available for purchase. As with her previous work, this exhibition balances aesthetics of synthetic and organic, engaging with themes of commercial production and uniformity with playful absurdity.
I have been one of the Six female artists for King Features’ “Six Chix” since 2000. On Mondays, I create silly drawings about every day life with a twist. I use pen and ink and a tablet and stylus. I also like to paint landscapes around the Rivertowns using watercolors.
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist and wannabe spy. With backgrounds across architecture, craft, and the humanities, she often uses discarded materials to tell stories of places—especially places underneath and in between. Jess crafts books, quilts, maps, and other tactile devices under the name B-PLOT and is also the co-founder of STUDIOOSS Applied Arts Collective.
Life in a small town provides a plethora of material for the imagination of artist Lisa Carlyon. Drawing upon experiences and colloquial expression, Lisa enjoys telling stories through still life and narrative. Interpreting and arranging the threads she’s pulled from the fabric of life, she endeavors to bring meaning to a work by including the elements that support her story.
Monica Carrier primarily works in drawing with ink on paper, moving between the figurative and abstraction. She is a founding director of PeepSpace Contemporary Art Project Space in Tarrytown, NY and holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work is regularly exhibited in the NYC area, the wider US and abroad.
When I paint, I enjoy the process, the movement and the stillness. I like the subjects of my paintings to be natural and alive. I try to clarify, treasure and savor the elements of what I see and endeavor to communicate the inherent beauty of our natural world, albeit in the form of 3 pears.
My work reflects the natural world and its relationship with what is man-made. Each can appear vivid and real, yet evolve into something new based on context and perception — often blurring (even blending) parameters between reality and imagination. I am particularly drawn to changes that occur through incidental “lenses” such as clouds, water, shadows, […]
I love painting still lifes and outdoor settings. I choose my subjects for their vibrant colors and patterns, as well as their reflective and transparent qualities. I hope my art conveys a vision of optimism and brightness. I’ve had solo shows at the Irvington Library, West Hampton Library and this November, my work will be exhibited at the Donald Gallery.
Nature delights and inspires me. Botanical Illustration demands observation and accuracy. Watercolors allow me to capture the translucency of a flower’s petals and the magic of light on the leaves. I paint plants that I love. They could be red roses or blue chrysanthemums that capture my attention, but they could be simply weeds or dried autumn leaves.
The ideas for many of my bronze sculptures come from dance movements. I abstract the dancer and emphasize the movement. The Triangles are an additive process, beginning with two and adding until the sculpture is complete. In all my work, I’m alert to the relationships of planes, line, negative spaces and viewpoint. Envisioning this interaction is what makes it exciting.
My work takes inspiration from the human figure, the natural world, and the written word. I create mixed media pieces incorporating pen and ink, pastel, watercolor and acrylic. I paint and teach privately out of Main Street Atelier in Tarrytown, New York.
Sonika Gupta focuses on oil and acrylic paintings, exploring a range of expression that forms her journey to wellness. She finds that the creative process of art and the act of viewing it have healing power for both the creator and the viewer. Sonika’s inspirations include places she’s visited, people she’s seen or interacted with, and renowned works she’s studied.
I studied 5 years as an audit student in the Art Practice program UC Berkeley. My work is very eclectic wandering between abstract, abstract figurative renderings, acrylic to oil to mixed media on canvas, cardboard and wood. I have been in juried shows and donated a large body of work to nonprofit organizations including hospital waiting rooms.
career: school counselor, family therapist, health educator and special education chairperson. When I retired I studied art at UC Berkeley and spent time with clay artists in Floyd Virginia. I started working on the wheel ( bowls and mugs and plates) and moved to hand building. I loved making “ceramic paper dolls” but also do plates, bowls and abstract pieces.
Ted and Nune. Photographic team whose images document the grandeur and scars of the man-made world. Seeking out the spiritual dimension in monumental human constructions, they journey to remote lands to make studies of architecture and industry, bringing a joint male-female point of view to their shared vision. Both photograph, edit, and print. They do not sign their works individually.
Peilin Kuo is a filmmaker who also does fine arts such as painting, drawing and calligraphy.
Jane Kang Lawrence received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Following painting residences in Italy she continued to dovetail art making with teaching by pursuing her Masters from the School of Visual Arts. Jane is a founding director of Peep Space (Tarrytown, NY) and maintains a studio in New York.
Bonnie Levine is a clay artist who makes functional bowls and sculptural forms. She experiments with various clay bodies and firing methods which have been an integral part of her creative process. The plasticity of the clay, the mood of the moment, the moisture in the air and other variables converge to produce objects that hold space for beauty.
A deep love of color, pattern and nature are the foundation of Jennifer’s work as an artist, illustrator, author. Her joyful gouache paintings of flowers, random objects, people and occasional meditative abstract musings open a colorful and enticing window onto a detail of the day one might ordinarily overlook. She recently has been exploring abstract […]
Michael Lewis is a practicing architect and painter who emerged in the 80’s with East Village and Soho solo exhibitions at the M-13 and Howard Scott Galleries. His work is in corporate and private collections, as well as the Connecticut Museum of Contemporary Art permanent collection. Currently, Lewis’s painting and architecture studios are both located in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
MacDougall’s work transcends the physical. Led by the desire to capture the potential for movement in the objects around us and influenced by the world as seen through the lens of the microscope, Macdougall creates sculpture which leads the imagination to touch the sublime.
Learn more about MacDougall’s work and meet the artist at a special Artist Conversation on Sunday October 17. Details and tickets: https://riverarts.org/event/artist-conversation-with-malcolm-d-macdougall/
Hastings-on-Hudson based artist Jamie Kay MacKenzie is known for her ethereal figurative paintings. She is interested in exploring the emotional and spiritual lives of her subjects, and forging a psychical connection to their past. Each piece serves as a kind of vessel for the collective unconscious, combining the poignantly personal with an inclusive universality.
Movement, color and a lyrical fun vibe would describe this piece. Most of my work has a certain raw but refined way about them. Sound design, no pun intended. A fan of abstract expressionism and pop art, I try to engage the viewer to see what they want in my work.
A graduate of Parsons School of Design, I had a long career in advertising as an art director. In 2000 I moved to Westchester County where I started a small garden. Since then I have been cultivating and studying flowers. After taking botanical illustration courses at the NYBG, I am now deeply committed “to represent beauty in nature”.
Flower Power is an exhibition of constructed photography from Janine’s archive of personal photographs. Playing with scale and angle of view, Janine’s photomontages breakdown the boundaries between time and place. The recurring floral motifs mimic objects of magical beauty that, when placed with opposing imagery, create new visual information and narratives in a blend of significance and whimsy.
I’ve been doing mosaic art for a number of years, working in many different mediums- glass, smalti, found objects and ceramics. I enjoy learning new methods and working with new materials.
My monotypes are modern interpretations of the figure. Highly abstracted, somewhat ambiguous and often provocative, my art blurs the line between how we see ourselves versus how others see us. While there are accepted notions of beauty and form, to my eye, there are infinite numbers of ways to represent the power, strength and spirit of women.
My sculpture begins by investigating the physical properties of materials and finding ways to join, combine or assemble them. I seek forms that convey moods, gestures or concepts and develop them through variations, exploring different alternatives for their interaction and scale. My art is a constant reflection on the character of materials and the possibilities for transforming them into sculpture.
Katie Rubright (she/her) is originally from Williamsburg, VA and based in the Hudson Valley, NY. Her work forges new alliances between abstract and figurative, pattern and experimentation, looseness and refinement. Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout NYC. Katie holds a BA in Art History from JMU and a BFA and MFA from Hunter College.
Artist and art teacher at the Art Academy of Westchester (Dobbs Ferry). I prefer oils but I often explore with other mediums such as charcoal, graphite, pastels, acrylics and ink. I also like to experiment on genre. My studio is a laboratory!
I make mixed media pieces on plexiglass. Each piece can be installed in different ways, such as hung from a wall, a ceiling, in front of a window or in a light box. I also work in photographic series to further my ideas about the blending of visual and conceptual boundaries.
Camie Isabella Salaz is a classically trained painter in oils. She exhibits her work at William’s Fine Art in Boston and The Salmagundi Club in NYC. She is a professional painter residing with her family in the Hudson River Valley and is co-founder of Main Street Atelier in Tarrytown: a school for classical drawing and painting.
Nancy Zallo is an artist residing in Tarrytown, New York. Her photographs, paintings, and drawings are often inspired by textures found in nature, architectural curiosities and urban landscapes with hidden stories to tell. Her work has been exhibited throughout the New York area, as well as privately collected. Her interests include music, birdwatching, corvids, books, old maps, and poetry.
Monika Zarzeczna works in abstract sculpture, collage and installation. Zarzeczna’s work stems from an exploration of materials, objects, forms and their perceived purpose, intent and history, depicting ideas of transition, loss of function and in-betweeness. Zarzeczna has shown in Europe, Canada, David Castillo Gallery in Miami and NYC’s SculptureCenter, Lesley Heller Gallery and Spencer Brownstone Gallery, among other venues.
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RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by support from The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.
