“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 am a Hudson Valley painter of raw landscapes rendered in a moody, earthy, figurative-expressionist style indebted to Courbet, Van Gogh, and Bellows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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