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 […]
Walking is so enjoyable, the slow pace of it, the many colors and many shapes of nature all dancing in the same slow movement. Painting, I try to communicate this peaceful feeling and I hope someone else can enjoy it as much as I do by looking at it.
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
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.
Emily Denise is a representational artist based in Tarrytown, New York. She is a cofounder of the Main Street Atelier, where she is a principle instructor and resident artist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
This is one of the works that was in my recent show at Gallery Halmetoja in Helsinki, Finland. Like many of the works in that exhibition, this image is based on a local spot, in this case in Yonkers.
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