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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
