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.
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.
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.
When I paint, I enjoy the process, the movement and the stillness. I like the subjects of my paintings to be natural and alive. I try to clarify, treasure and savor the elements of what I see and endeavor to communicate the inherent beauty of our natural world, albeit in the form of 3 pears.
I love painting still lifes and outdoor settings. I choose my subjects for their vibrant colors and patterns, as well as their reflective and transparent qualities. I hope my art conveys a vision of optimism and brightness. I’ve had solo shows at the Irvington Library, West Hampton Library and this November, my work will be exhibited at the Donald Gallery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My artist statement is simple. I paint what I love, what I find beautiful, what intrigues me and what makes me laugh. And then I hope for the best.
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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