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 […]
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.
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.
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/
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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
