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 […]
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.
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.
I am a Hudson Valley painter of raw landscapes rendered in a moody, earthy, figurative-expressionist style indebted to Courbet, Van Gogh, and Bellows.
I’ve been doing mosaic art for a number of years, working in many different mediums- glass, smalti, found objects and ceramics. I enjoy learning new methods and working with new materials.
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.
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 412-5120 | info@riverarts.org
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.
