Nov 9 – Dec 14, 2024
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Artist Bios
Alan Adin
I am retired and live in Kingston, NY.
Fern Apfel
Fern T. Apfel is a Hudson Valley artist who specializes in making paintings with handwritten text.
She is a two-time recipient of the Individual Artists Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a four time recipient of a Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Award.
In 2022, Apfel received the Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award from the Woodstock Art Association and Museum which is “given to a contemporary artist who has exemplified outstanding achievement over the past year and has an overall track record of excellence.”
In 2023, Apfel had solo exhibitions at The Arts Center of the Capital Region (Troy, NY), The Woodstock Art Association and Museum (Woodstock, NY), and the Garage Gallery (Beacon, NY). In addition, Apfel’s work was exhibited at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY and The Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, NY.
Recently, Apfel was awarded the Jane Altes Award for Artist Excellence at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY.
Her pictures are in the permanent collections of The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, The Columbia County Historical Society and Museum and The Art Students League of NY, Fidelity Investments, NY, Kidder Peabody & Co., Capital Group Corporate Collection, London, UK.
Apfel has been featured on WMHT/PBS’s A House for Arts.
Onaje Benjamin
Born in 1948, the same year that the Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, Onaje Benjamin was destined to be drawn into the turbulence of activism evolving out of the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 60’s. Being of African American and Caribbean descent & raised in Harlem provided a rich cultural foundation for Onaje to develop his creative framework.
Onaje pursued a career as a community organizer, activist and social worker, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in liberal arts and social work. As a self-taught photographer, Onaje has sought to capture the complexity of lifestyles within the communities he resides and chooses to create monochromatic representations of the world he interprets through the lens.
Defining himself as a documentary/Humanist photographer, Onaje’s work has been well received. He began his photographic work in the 80’s working with film cameras. Career demands required him to suspend his photography for a number of decades; only recently returning to the field upon retirement in 2015; which required a steep learning curve in the world of digital cameras and editing software.
Onaje’s work has been well received with his work being exhibited in galleries in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New England and New York City; including a solo show at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. He has received numerous awards, including the Lelani Claire Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photography. He conducted artist talks at the Center for Photography in Woodstock.
Whether capturing the energy and action of a women’s roller derby scrimmage or professional football game, or the intricate aspects of tattooing or political protest, Onaje’s photographs reflect the shifting cultural and political landscapes which make up the communities he resides within.
Lauren Bergman
Through a language of culturally specific symbols Lauren Bergman’s paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Her paintings reside at the juncture of myth and social realism, probing the loss of societal optimism, the ongoing irresolution of feminist issues, and question the imminent future of a threatened and fragile planet. The work courts irony as her playful imagery and inner narratives confront the conflicting expectations of contemporary culture and the intricate ways in which we, as women, form our identities.
Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art courses at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York, and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York.
Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League.
Lauren now lives and paints in a barn in Saugerties, NY.
Stacy Bogdonoff
Stacy Bogdonoff is a full time artist who divides her time between her very messy studio in Kent, CT. and her neater tabletop workspace in NYC. She shows her work at galleries in New York City, New Jersey, the Hudson Valley, and New England. Bogdonoff is member of TSGNY (Textile Study Group of NY), SDA (Surface Design Association), NYAC (NY Artist Circle), WAAM (Woodstock Artists Association Museum), and The Silvermine Gallery in New Canaan, CT. She has earned several best in show awards this past two years and has just completed a solo show at The NY Public Library this past May.
Emily Carvajal
I was born in Manhattan in 1955. Both of my parents were in theater and the arts professionally. I attended public schools until high school where I attended the High School of Music and Art as an art major. I went on to major in fine arts at the City College of New York .
Over the years I worked in the restaurant business as a waitress and later as a chef. I co-owned an Italian Restaurant in Manhattan, Santerellos, and had two sons.
I relocated to Tivoli New York where I worked as a chef and attended Nursing School at CGCC in Hudson, NY. I currently live in Germantown, NY.
After Graduating I worked as a nurse in two local hospitals until I retired from nursing and jumped back into restaurant ownership with Jaeger Haus Restaurant and beer garden, which is where I am today.
Throughout my various careers I have worked steadily as a painter, although my time was limited during my children’s early years.
During the time that I was a member of the artists Co-op in Rhinebeck N.Y. I began to sell a good number of paintings including commissioned portraits. However I found the time required for a co-op situation to be more than I could handle and am at present putting all of my time into painting and Jaeger Haus.
Collin Douma
Although he lives near Woodstock, NY, Collin Douma was born in Woodstock, ON, Canada. By the age of 18, Collin was already a published poet, exhibited artist, and award-winning filmmaker. His animated film “Celebrating Us” won two Canadian Festivals and is in the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Canada. Collin never met a medium he didn’t like. His career spans fine art, illustration, animation, digital art, mixed media, and beyond.
Like most, Collin started drawing as soon as he could lift a crayon, but he never stopped. He studied traditional animation at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada, and lived in Toronto for over a decade, where he became a member of the 5 Lovely Guys artist collective. (This rag-tag group of artists numbered 30+ of all genders, including two Oscar-winning filmmakers and the director of the Toronto Santa Claus Parade!) Inspired by the group, he found a new love for art. He moved to Brooklyn for ten years and settled near Woodstock NY in 2017.
Recently, he has exhibited work across the Hudson Valley, the US, and Canada and was featured at the “Holy Art” pop-up galleries in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. In 2024, Collin had his first Solo Exhibition at the Cunneen Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie and exhibited two pieces at MOCA Hudson Valley’s WAR exhibition, amongst other places.
Das Elkin
Das grew up working in a black box theater in downtown Baltimore. There, she was afforded the opportunity to try out every job in the house – from running projections in the booth to styling wigs backstage. She learned the incredible part about theater is when the lights go down. In these moments of darkness, it’s as if the audience and actors travel through a portal. The lights return, and an imaginary universe has emerged. For Das, these formative experiences in live theater cultivated an obsession with world creation – through sight, sound, and feeling.
Das spent her twenties in New York City, moving through circles of artists, entertainers, dreamers, and eccentric characters. She dabbled in absurdist theater, burlesque, sound mediation, film production, and more. Das continues to explore diverse mediums – always letting her love of tactile material, music, and light guide the process.
Mary Elwin
Born and raised in Woodstock, New York, Mary Elwyn aspired to become an artist at an early age. She had the privilege of knowing and studying with many Woodstock painters including John Pike, Franklin Alexander, Ethel Magafan, Robert Angeloch, Lois Woolley and Zhang Hong Nian. Having worked in most every medium, her preference is oil paint. Many of her paintings focus on Hudson Valley landscapes and special objects in her environment.
She created a wholesale jewelry and tableware business, working in silver and gold, for which she has won national awards. Her metalwork has been represented in more than three hundred galleries in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Maya Englehardt
I’ve always been exposed to materials; sewing, fabrics, paint, nail polish, pencil, charcoal, paper; anything that was accessible as a child. Born to Chilean/American and Puerto Rican parents, I spent my early childhood in a colorful city among different meshing cultures, with the majority of my exposure being to fabrics/quilts. My family later moved to New York, where within my family’s business of a record store/DJ parties I was shown a broader range of creativity. Musically, but also through the community – making costumes, painting wildly and colorfully on the backyard fence which bordered the construction site, going through vintage clothing with my Aunt, and being brought to different art supply stores or museums – all greatly broadened my interests and scope of possibility.
I then moved naturally more towards drawing with graphite/charcoal on paper, but still loved collecting materials. The real work on my technical skills began in high school, after meeting a local woodworker and artist B Goode.
This, in addition to working as a metal worker’s assistant (metal casting), and around my family’s trade of music, exposed me to expression in a way that felt essential, innate, and archaic but not obsolete. Again, the scope broadened, and I began to experiment more with each stage of a piece/ material in addition to honing traditional skills to use (or reject) in my work.
After high school, I studied at FIT in illustration, where we studied anatomy, technique, the old
masters – and – digital programs, commercial applications. In addition to some graphic design/brand design work, my practice is focused on fine art – whatever that may mean as I progress. Currently I’m working on printing my work at a larger scale and moving towards a curated show of these pieces.
Maureen Gates
Maureen Gates has been a working commercial and fine art photographer creating photographic art for her clients in the Hudson Valley area and beyond since 1984. With an eye for detail, light, and shadow, she creates fine art images for personal and business use. She is best known for her contemporary approach, blending classical and modern lighting styles to create natural and emotional images. Maureen enjoys alternative processing techniques and is known for working with Cyanotype, Van Dyke, and Infra-Red.
Maureen has had a solo show at Montgomery Row Art Space in Rhinebeck. She was an active participant in Art Studio Views in the Rhinebeck area for several years. Her work has been accepted into a juried show in 2024 at the The Sketchbook Gallery, the annex to Jane St. Art Center. Two of her black and white Infra-Red art images were selected to hang in a show in September 2024 at The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College. An infra-red image art image has been selected to hang in a show at Betsy Jacaruso Gallery in October 2024.
Maureen Gates is a member of the Professional Photographers of America. She has received awards for her black and white Infrared imagery including a few years of Print of the Year. Maureen was awarded the Fuji Masterpiece Award for her black-and-white photography. She is a member of the Rhinebeck Fine Art Artists and Professional Photographers of America (PPA).
Maureen resides in the Rhinebeck area where she enjoys publishing “Living Rhinebeck” magazine, photo sessions, creating fine art images and spending time in her garden and in nature capturing beauty everyday through her lens.
Dan Goldman
Through photography and the arts, I have traveled widely, and from this experience, gained insights into other people’s lives and cultures, and an appreciation for multiculturalism in a global society. My art practice began in my early twenties when I immersed myself in photography and art history.
In 2022, I received the Richard Edelman Award for my photography at WAAM.
Having been involved in several curatorial initiatives, significant recognition was received for my management of the “Smoke Signals” exhibit at Tivoli Art Gallery. This exhibition dealt with social justice and the environmental degradation of Indigenous people’s lands. The exhibit included 22 artists from the Hudson Valley working in different mediums including photography, painting, and sculpture.
Last year, In co-curating Behind the Veil, Dan and Onaje Benjamin worked to provide a nuanced, critical examination of racism in America with a diverse range of regional contemporary artists, many of whose work represents their struggles with self, identity, and creative expression.
Dan regularly exhibits his work in the Hudson Valley, and most recently in New York. He is working to expand his reach into Manhattan and other locations around the country.
Projects for 2024 include Icons and Walking Toward Eschaton.
Josepha Gutelius
A longtime resident of Saugerties, in Upstate New York, Josepha Gutelius has had a multi-faceted career as an award-winning playwright, poet, and short-story writer. She studied art in her youth, but it was only at the age of 62 that she returned to painting full-time. Many of her paintings reflect the narrative equivalent of a setting, a sociopolitical viewpoint, and with “characters” who have secrets they’re reluctant to tell. Her realistic detailing is often off-set by abstracted layering, with shifting perspectives, visual puns, and autobiographical references. Her family members, memories, travels, home life, art history, current events, and surroundings are all drawn upon in her work.
Her exhibitions include Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany Center, Emerge Gallery, Site: Brooklyn, Opus 40 ,WAAM, First Street Gallery NYC, Barrett Art Center, Kingston Annual, the Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Her painting series “The Silence of Nowhere” was awarded a generous grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and her series “Inhabiting New Earth” was the subject of a discussion and interview on Yale University Radio.
Earlier in her career, Josepha lived in West Berlin and worked as cultural correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, where she championed the new wave of post-Expressionism; she wrote art criticism for Berliner Blaetter and forewords to artists‘ catalogues, and was a member of the now-legendary Berliner Maler Poeten, (Painters/ Poets).
She studied at the Art Students League and graduated from the Masters School, where she studied under painter Robert Arner, who became a lifelong friend and mentor and attended Bard College as an art major and switched to Comparative Literature, eventually concentrating on German literature at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich.
Appropriately enough, she met her future husband in Cadaques, Spain, at the home of Salvador Dali in 1971.
Instagram @josephagutelius
Selected published writings: https://josephagutelius.com
Published plays: http://proplay.ws/miraclemile.html,
http://proplay.ws/veronicacory.html,
http://www.stage[plays.com/products/age_of_anxietycategorycyberpresscode629
Len Jenkin
I live and make art in the country in upstate New York.
Roxie Johnson
Born and raised in a tiny suburb of NYC, I grew up a quirky, shy, pencil-thin young girl…
Learning to trust my curiosity and inner muse at an early age felt second nature to me. Hours of deconstructing and rebuilding became a favorite childhood pastime. Full circle, this remains a trademark of the work I produce today.
I remember my Dad first modeling the importance of craft and education through his work ethic. When I reflect on my own 40+ years as fine artist and teacher of the visual arts, it is clear to me how his love of learning inspired my own teaching career and the development of an ever-evolving wide range of classroom curriculum. How this helped foster emotionallystable and safe environments for young creatives became the icing on the cake.
I relocated to the Hudson River Valley in 1984 amidst the completion of an MFA, with honors, from Syracuse University. Career highlights include: National Endowment for the Humanities / grant recipient; Skidmore College / 2 summer printmaking fellowships; with additional studies conducted in Florence, Italy and Santa Fe, NM. Select awards have been received from the Palm Spring Art Museum and NAWA (National Association of Women Artists), along with recognition in the Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art for greeting card design. (Thank you, Jim Mullen!) Known widely in past years for my unique approach to the etching process, I have exhibited in juried competitions nationally as well as in galleries of the Mid-Hudson and Metropolitan area.
Chong Kang
Art shapes forms and colors, creating a narrative that resonates with everyone’s personal experience.
Chong received her BFA in painting from MICA in Baltimore, MD, and has been a muralist since the late 80s and received painting commissions from private clients throughout the United States, Great Britain, and France. She has participated in group shows from NC to NYC and solo shows in commercial spaces.
There is a relationship between the classical periods and modernity that is constantly being explored in her paintings. Chong utilizes urban and natural environments as symbolic subjects. Her exaggerated tones and neon colors document contemporary times.
Sarah Katz
A graduate of the well-respected ceramics program at The School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she completed her Associates degree, Sarah Katz went on to attend the California Institute for the Arts in Oakland, where she obtained her BFA in Sculpture. In addition, she spent a year at Philadelphia College of Art (now called University of the Arts) as an exchange student studying in the sculpture program. Since 1994, Ms. Katz has shown extensively throughout the New York metropolitan area. A member of the National Sculpture Society and the International Sculpture Society, Ms. Katz has taught pottery and figurative sculpture at the Jewish Community Center program in Tenafly, NJ and a popular class called “The Figure in Clay” at the Craft’s Students League in New York.
Publications:Sculpture News, The National Sculpture Society March April, 2014 Interview
Affiliations: National Sculpture Society, International Sculpture Society, Artist’s Space, New York Society of Women Artists. National Association of Women Artists,
Co-Editor of NAWA Now Magazine
Ms. Katz is an exhibiting member of the National Arts Club, and has won awards in sculpture from both NAWA and NAC
Suki (Shey) Kimok
As a child, my father was a painter and would let me paint murals on the walls in the garage. My mother, a professional singer, had a huge impact on me. To this day, I incorporate music into my artwork as a way of paying homage to the inspiration she gave me. I was able to work with many artists throughout my life, starting at age 14 working for painters, ceramicists, and more. In college I studied photography, sculpture and architecture. Since then I have been working in mixed media using skills from the many different mediums I’ve studied in unison.
David Klein
For 45 years David G Klein has worked for leading Newspapers, Magazines, and book publishers. Clients include NYT and the Wall Street Journal. Books he’s illustrated include the Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, the Short Stories of Mark Twain, and Sword of Shannara. David Is the co-author of the Paper Shtetl: A cutout and assemble model of an eastern European Jewish town. David worked in comics for Marvel and DC with characters like Spiderman and Batman. He is the author of his own graphic novel The Golem’s Voice.
He is a co-founder of Point Made Animation, creating animated explainer videos for marketing, professional development, and education.
Three Strikes Press published Brooklyn Rescued Bestiary, a fine art book, hand printed and bound with David’s hand-engraved illustrations, celebrating Sean Casey Animal Rescue.
David is one of the founding members of INX Newspaper Editorial Illustration Syndicate and their publishing arm, NOW WHAT MEDIA. His work was prominent in their 20 year retrospective FEVER LINES in 2001. http://www.inxart.com/inx/inxsju.html. the FEVER LINES exhibit traveled throughout the U.S. Canada and Europe.
David Klein’s book The Golem’s Voice was a part of the SERIATIM exhibit presented by the Department of Fine Arts, St John’s University 2007.
He was one of six artists featured in VISIONS: The Personal Images of Contemporary Illustrators. at Grace Institute 2011 Also: Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #21-1979, Society of Newspaper Designers Gold Award of Illustration 1980 Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #42 – 2000
dgkleinart@gmail.com
http://www.illoz.com/kleinart/
Virginia Mallon
Virginia Mallon is an artist working in paint, photography, and mixed media. Her work contemplates religious, historic, and mythological women, personal histories, the psychological undercurrents of modern society. With influences from social realism, political, and feminist art, it touches upon the angst and trauma of contemporary America, from a female point-of-view.
Mallon’s work explores painting on non-traditional surfaces, such as burlap, slate, found objects, and cigar boxes as well as oil on canvas. Recent projects use discarded roof tiles from a former state-run (1885-1996) condemned psychiatric hospital. Now a hotspot for urbex explorers, it provides a wealth of unusual poignant pieces of history on which to paint. The added symbolism using a piece of broken shelter from an insane asylum seems appropriate for our times.
Karen Maloof
Karen graduated from Syracuse University in 1977 with a B.S. in Social Work. While there, she learned black and white photographic skills at the Community Darkroom located in the basement of the Newhouse Communications School. Her love of photography continued when she moved to NYC. After her day job as a paralegal, she interned at Photographics Unlimited, a b&w darkroom and studio facility.
Becoming enthralled in alternate b&w photographic processes, her photographic work in the 80’s and 90’s, “Karen Maloof Painted Photography”, incorporated b&w printing techniques, transparent oils and color pencils to create limited editions of painted photographs. Due to the tranquil nature of the imagery, her work was published internationally by poster and greeting card companies such as Avanti, Chromaline, Catch Publishing, Portal, and others. It was included in many corporate, hospital and private collections.
In the late 1990’s, Karen and her husband left New York City to raise a family in New Jersey. She has since been painting without using a photograph as her canvas . Her serene imagery is still evident as she continues to explore the landscape around her.
Elin Menzies
Elin Menzies is a multi-disciplinary artist who studied painting at Bennington College, the University of Hawaii, the Art Students League and sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art. Her awards include the SaveArtSpace Animal Instinct Award, the Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award, The Jacobs/Towbin Artist of the year Award and Social Commentary Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and an Artists of the Northeast Award from the Silvermine Arts Center. She was also a finalist for a Gottlieb award. Menzies has participated in solo, invitational and juried exhibits at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Emerge Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Woodstock Framing Gallery, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Arts Society of Kingston, Greene County Council of the Arts, the Woodstock Artists Association, The Athens Cultural Center, and other galleries and venues regionally and nationally. A main focus of her work is on interspecies connections.
Ann Morris
I have been a multi-disciplinary artist all my life, with a 50 year ceramics practice. In the last few years, I have switched my focus from clay to collage, abstract drawing, printmaking, particularly collagraph, and encaustics.
I have studied at the Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, The Art Students League, The Woodstock School of Art, R&F Handmade Paints and with various ceramic artists in NYC and the Hudson Valley.
I have been trained as a press assistant at the Woodstock School of Art and assist at print classes and the Monothon (where I was an invited artist in 2023 and 2024.) I assist at encaustic workshops at WSA.
Susan J Murphy
All my life I have been a creative person, but never felt I had the right to call myself an artist, because I let everything else come first: marriage, motherhood, schooling, working as a professional RN, progressive activism in the movements for peace, women’s rights and the environment, and just the tasks of daily living. Every once in a while a work of art would find its way out, and people would ask “Are you an artist?” but I had to say no, I’m not.
When I reached my 70’s, now retired and my children grown, I decided to give art the time, attention and energy that I had never given it, to see if I am, in fact, an artist. The art began to flow, and now it is a strong and reliable part of my life. I am never lonely or bored or lacking inspiration, because art is my river and my boat and the wind that fills my sails.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power’s path to becoming an artist was a circuitous one. She was born and raised in New York City to immigrant parents. Though art was not a part of her education, she always believed she was an artist. It simply wasn’t possible to be one full time before having an alternate career.
After an interesting career in marketing, Eileen was finally able to leave the business environment to pursue art. In 2016, Eileen moved from New York City to Woodstock, NY to study at the Woodstock School of Art.
In her home studio, she has been creating art made from everyday objects, animating them in unusual ways. She enjoys upcycling things that others might discard into art.
Her sculptures have been exhibited at The Phoenicia Festival of the Arts, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the Kingston Design Showhouse and the “Shelter” exhibition curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Eileen received the Robert Angeloch Printmaking Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2021 and the Nicholas Buhalis Award for Weaving the Woven, from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2024.
Betsey Regan
Betsey Regan has been showing extensively throughout New Jersey and New York for more than 45 years. She has exhibited at the Morris, Monmouth, Noyes, and New Jersey State Museums, and in 1998 had a ten-year retrospective at Monmouth University, her undergraduate alma mater. Last year, she exhibited in Chautauqua in a show juried by Jerry Saltz. She received her masters from Temple University in 1989. Regan has won numerous awards including four Best of Shows at the City Without Walls, and Best of Show at the Art Alliance and the American Artists Professional League. She has won eleven other major awards. She also won a full fellowship from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, a fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and completed a series of prints at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper. She has also been awarded grants from the Joan Mitchell and Gottlieb Foundations. She is included in scores of private and corporate collections.
Regan lost her Jersey Shore house and studio during Hurricane Sandy. She became a resident at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony as a refuge, and in 2017, moved to Woodstock permanently. She continues to exhibit and receive awards in Woodstock.
Steven Rushefsky
I live in the Hudson Valley. I studied art at Binghamton University. My focus is drawing on paper. Printmaking added a sense of layering within my drawings and working in clay added a sense of texture to my drawings. I love drawing because it is intimate, informal and can retain traces of the steps used to create the drawing.
I participate in several group exhibitions each year nationwide (recently in Norfolk, VA and the NY Hudson Valley) and have had solo exhibitions in Watchung and Montclair New Jersey.
Lisa Samalin
Lisa Samalin was born in New York City in 1947 and has made art all her life – painting, interactive installations, textile design and many murals – with great joy and gratitude.
John Scribner
Born in New York City, John Scribner has over 40 years of experience as an artist participating in group and solo shows. His collage, sculpture, and mixed- media have been exhibited in New York City, Woodstock, Saugerties, and Olive, New York, in the UK, and on Dodomu, an online gallery based in Brooklyn, New York. Other online galleries include Emerge Gallery, HMVC Gallery, and Conversations With Artists. He is an Exhibiting Artist Member at The National Arts Club and has been a regular contributor to their Annual Roundtable and Exhibiting Artist Members Exhibitions. John also exhibits his work at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), where he is an Active Member.
John received a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, where he also studied Applied Art. Additional studies include The Arts Students League – where he was mentored by Ted Jacobs and Richard Poussette-Dart, The School of Visual Arts, and the Film/Video Arts School. John’s CV and work can be seen on the web: www.johnscribner-artist.com and on Instagram: @jscribner_art.
Kurt Steger
Kurt Steger has been a carpenter, woodworker, and sculptor for over four decades. He brings a high level of craftsmanship, design, and ingenuity to his creations, which in turn express his concern for the environment and humanity. His work has many influences, from Shamanism to Buddhism to Western psychology. Steger’s accomplishments include an installation in Sacramento City Hall in Sacramento, CA, a traffic circle sculpture in Grass Valley, CA, and an interactive sculpture and healing ceremony conducted at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., honoring the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. Steger’s work is in private, public, and museum collections, and he received a NYFA Sculpture Grant in 2017. He teaches woodworking to adults, and recently started a woodworking program for children in which he emphasizes the importance of working with one’s hands as a way of building positive character traits. His current and most ambitious sculptural project is the creation of his home sculpture garden, including a studio that he designed and built. Steger has lived in the Lower Hudson Valley since 2017.
David Tumblety
David Tumblety has studied sculpture and anatomy at the Arts Students League and the National Academy in New York. He is the recipient of the James C Johnson Scholarship (2014) the recipient of the Ann and Bruno Lucchesi Grant in 2015, and he won the Edmund Stewardson Figurative Sculpture competition in 2016. David resides in Millbrook NY.
Joanne Pagano Weber
Joanne Pagano Weber is a visual artist, writer, performer, and educator. She is a native New Yorker who has exhibited throughout the tri-state area. She has contributed cover art for numerous anthologies and publications. She created the first of many sets for the Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, establishing thematic set design as an integral part of the yearly event instituted by then boyfriend, now husband, Bruce Weber. She and Bruce have begun a new Extravaganza tradition upstate in Ulster County since relocating in 2018 to Saugerties, NY, and they co-curate Dialogues for the Ear and Eye, a monthly cross-disciplinary arts series. Joanne is an avid member of Shout Out Saugerties, a vibrant town arts organization that spans all creative disciplines, and includes activism. She had a long career as a textile designer in NY and has recently retired from her second career as an adjunct professor of Studio Art and Art History.
Anna West
Anna West was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, between Amish country and the coal regions. She took trains to Atlantic City and Philadelphia on her father’s train pass and mingled with nearby Pennsylvania Dutch. After graduating from nursing school and taking photography classes, she left Reading for San Francisco in 1980. While working in photo labs there, she photographed punk bands and eventually played in one herself. Late in 1984, she moved to New York City, the East Village first, then Williamsburg, where she published photographs in Brooklyn newspapers and exhibited in Williamsburg galleries. She started to paint with oils on canvas in 1999. In 2004 she moved to Beacon, New York. She paints daily, and when she travels, she paints on old book covers and scraps of canvas.
She painted with food coloring on ice and snow for 21 years, in public places in Malmo, NYC and Russia. In 2015, she love bombed Beacon on Valentine’s Day painting hearts where people asked for one. Anna started collecting old love letters and cards, transforming old love to new for someone else.
Lynn Woods
In the mid 2000s, when Lynn’s career as a business travel journalist was petering out, she began painting plein air on the streets and abandoned railways of her adopted city of Kingston, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. She showed her work at The Living Room, a gallery in Uptown Kingston, and had some success until 2008, when the economy collapsed. Subsequently she wrote prolifically for the local media; her art reviews appeared regularly in Ulster Publishing’s Almanac and she interviewed artists for Chronogram. Lynn has loved looking at painting since her mother took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art at age 4, an interest that blossomed when she earned a B.A. in art history from Barnard College, in 1978. She has visited many of the world’s top art museums and the Parthenon and in 2013 undertook a tour of Piero della Francesca’s frescoes in northern Italy.
Long summer stays at a family camp in the Adirondacks when she was growing up fostered an interest in the area’s social history that resulted in numerous articles in Adirondack Life magazine, including the first contemporary in-depth article on the 10,000-year history of Native Americans in the region. Lynn also co-wrote Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges, published by Universe Books in 2010. The streetscape of cities and the unfortunate removal of much of their historic fabric has also been an interest and culminated in a documentary film about Kingston’s 1960s urban renewal program entitled Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, which she co-produced and co-directed with Stephen Blauweiss. The film, which won several awards, was completed in 2016 and can be streamed on Amazon. And she has continued to write about visual art: In 2023, she wrote the catalog essay for exhibitions of the work of Mary Frank, Grace Wapner, and David Hornung.
But Lynn has increasingly committed herself to painting and has recently shown her work at the Upstairs Gallery at Old Dutch Church, Lace Mill Gallery, and Arts Society of Kingston, in Kingston; Emerge Gallery, in Saugerties; Gallery Lev Shalem at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation and Woodstock School of Art, in Woodstock, and Hutchinson Wielgus Gallery, in Vieques, Puerto Rico. She’s honed her craft by participating in classes at the Woodstock School of Art and in artist taught workshops. She has learned much from Andrew Wykes, at a workshop at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, in County Mayo, Ireland; from Catherine Kehoe, at Fine Arts Work Center in Province Town, Mass.; from Graham Nickson at a drawing marathon at the New York Studio School; from an online months-long workshop sponsored by the New York Studio School with Clintel Steed; and many others.
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• During opening receptions 4-7pm
Regular Gallery Hours
Thursday 12-5
Friday-Saturday 12-6
Sunday 12-5
& Showing by Appointments
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