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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wendy Naidich is showing at the James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
