An Illinois native, born in the town of Rushville in 1976, Aaron Seckman has studied art his entire life. It is a passion and a vital driving force sustaining his spirit and fueling his growth as a human being. Aaron is working to develop his unique point of view as a representational artist by building […]
SATURDAY only The subject of my work – the architecture and landscape of the urban/suburban environment – is for me a potent reflection of the lives we live. Much of what I depict is in plain sight, but it is often deliberately or unconsciously overlooked. I work only from direct observation, usually doing watercolors, drawings […]
CANCELLED Classical Narrative Painter Camie Salaz lives in Tarrytown with her husband, a fellow painter, and their two sons. She exhibits her work in Boston and New York and creates large paintings as Public Works for Arts, Community and Cultural Centers. Exhibitions 2017 – Booth Gallery, The New Baroque, […]
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” Marc Chagall I took a 34 year break from art as I pursued a successful career as a corporate executive. I returned to painting in 2010. As I picked up my paintbrushes again, I realized that my art was not […]
Recent work focuses on my childhood in Wales. My paintings play around with the concept of memory and how it is captured, represented and viewed. http://www.catrinperih.com James Harmon Community Center 44 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY
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 that sense of conflict […]
My work can be described as surrealistic photomontage..It is a combination of photographic parts from several different photographs put together seamlessly to make a new image. It represents dreamlike scenes populated with odd juxtapositions and fantastical worlds. I print my own work on archival papers. http://davidrabin.deviantart.com 47 Lincoln […]
My mixed media work explores and creates connections between objects and images, focusing on actual and imagined links between place, past and present. Using traditional and innovative techniques in my painting, I juxtapose oils and wax on wood or canvas surfaces with found remnants. These artifacts of personal histories are essential to my artistic process, and […]
Much of my work is painted on site in the spirit of Courbet and Van Gogh. The larger studio pieces are contemplative visions of river waters nourishing and flushing human infrastructure, with river creatures mirroring our physical and psychological health. I’m trying to foster wildness in the late industrial age. I live in Hastings-on-Hudson and […]
I move from a moment in nature to the back-story of cities dying and being reborn, to faces/people in the middle of their personal stories. In all instances, if it touches me I need to catch it and express it. And as for my choice of medium, I select each one for how it moves […]
Elizabeth de Bethune is a figurative/representational (sometimes) painter/drawer/printmaking, who frequently works back and forth between media and materials. Much of her work combines collage as well. Although mostly “realistic”, her work plays back and forth between illusion and surface. A recent series involves images of people looking at art, painted upon heavily collaged surfaces. The […]
My interest in movement and background in dance led me to explore various methods of expressing kinetic energy in still photographs. Recently I’ve used a moving camera and long shutter speeds to create images using various light sources and subjects. I strive to create work that conveys vitality, joy and transcendence. After dancing with ballet […]
Emily Denise is a student at the Grand Central Atelier, where she is receiving a rigorous training in figurative drawing and painting. She is a life long lover of art, and has additionally taken classes at the Arts Student League of New York, SUNY Purchase, and Westchester Community College. She has also pursued the mentorship […]
Gabrielle Burger is a painter and designer living in Tarrytown, NY. Her paintings focus on floral still lives, serene landscapes, and the beauty of everyday objects. Nature plays a meaningful role in her art, offering respite from the monotonous confines of cubicles and screens. Merging the natural world with detailed and fabricated settings, she finds […]
Jeff is constantly carrying a camera and a sketchbook, searching for inspiration everywhere, with a strong connection to sunlight, trees, and the streets. He works as the Studio Manager and in-house photographer/videographer for MAC Group US. When he gets back to his home studio, he compiles small artist books, collages, and photographs that have made […]
My work in all mediums is shaped by love of natural forms, surfaces with history, observed expression and spontaneous line. I work by painting, drawing, print making, and putting things together to solve something. Art making is work, and play. It is serious exploration and always a collaboration of materials and ideas. I attended Rhode […]
Jennifer is an artist, illustrator and author who works in a lovely attic studio perched atop a very colorful house right outside of New York City. She has been obsessed with painting from an early age, and was always making art and creating something new. She is known for her daily sketchbook paintings which she […]
John Maggiotto’s work has been exhibited nationally and is in major collections on both coasts. He moved his studio to Dobbs Ferry in 1993. Currently his imagery follows the heights our society has reached in technical achievement and then abandoned, making large black and white prints of the Space Shuttle and Supersonic aircraft. His still-lifes […]
Serious figure skater in my youth and early adulthood. Took up drawing and painting to replace skating as I got older. Studied at the Art Students League and the New York Studio school. Showing in the Rivertowns since 2003 with several solo shows. Artist statement: As a painter, I focus on discovering relationships between colors, […]
I am interested in visual subjects exploring authenticity and identity, feminism and destruction. I am curious about the constructs of creativity in bilingual cultures and the limits of language in different cultures. I am disturbed by injustice, and my response was to create a depiction of language’s potential ambiguities. Language is power, and lack of […]
Kaya Deckelbaum is a sculptor whose use of wire-mesh and light enables her to create dynamic shadows in her four dimensional sculptures. Kaya’s work evokes the inherent coexistence between past and future, reality and mysticism. Kaya is influenced by her Bulgarian, Canadian and Israeli heritages. She is the recipient of Lorenzo Il Magnifico sculpture award […]
UPDATE: SUNDAY ONLY: 11AM-3PM Ken Salaz was born in 1970 in southern California and spent his youth living in numerous locations with his family including Mexico, the Southwest United States and the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia. His ancestral heritage is a rich blend of Native American and Irish. As a child and […]
I strive to express what is within each sitter and to create a portrait that a viewer can feel. I was trained at the Art Students League of New York where I received a certificate of completion in Painting. kumikobuller.com Irvington Historical Society, 131 Main Street, Irvington, NY SaveSave SaveSave
Madge Scott is an award-winning Artist of International History and Folk Art. Living in Hastings on Hudson for almost a decade and a half; she began the first steps to drawing and painting in 1997 and had her first gallery show in October of 2005. She’s purely a self-taught artist who was once a wood […]
Illustrator/author Marcie Chambers Cuff has spent many years inspiring a life-long love of art and wildness. Her old-school pen-and-ink drawings evolve from intense observation of found objects, experimentation of scale, and nuanced use of crosshatching and mixed ink techniques. Her artwork reflects her love of the outdoors and the genius of everyday things. She addresses […]
As an artist, I’ve always found myself split between two disciplines: photography and mixed media. My photographic images reflect what I see in the world around me. They are my eye looking outward. My mixed media work, on the other hand, is my eye looking inward. In my photographic work, I look for compositional elements of […]
For 40 years, a painter fascinated by the subtleties of color and light, interested in conveying more than what is apparent on the surface. Shown in museums and galleries. A literary press has published a book of her poems about the process/emotions of creating: available on Amazon or finishinglinepress.com, search for Meg Lindsay: A PAINTER’S […]
My work explores dreams, memories and the passage of time using found images and thin transparent layers of acrylic paint. Distorted, altered and rewritten is how I prefer to approach the past; time always changes our perceptions of life. Collage has been a favorite medium of mine for forty years. Using fragments of images from […]
Nancy Zallo is a writer, painter, and photographer, and has been a resident of Tarrytown, NY for more than 25 years. Her work is inspired by textures found in nature, architectural curiosities, and industrial landscapes with hidden stories to tell. Her photography has been exhibited throughout the New York area, as well as privately collected. Most […]
Neil Lavey was born in New York City in 1958, and grew up in Dobbs Ferry N.Y. He graduated Cooper Union 1981; He worked in advertising for 12 years before returning to fine art. His mediums include drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and Photoshop. He has had some great teachers and mentors over the years; including […]
Stone and ceramic sculptor Stone carving instructor for the visually impaired Relationships and communication are my deepest passion and throughout my life’s journey they have always been my core focus. I spent many years as a health care provider and family therapist in Germany, and most recently I taught stone sculpting to visually impaired youth […]
“In 1975 I began working in Cass Corridor, a tough but culturally significant district of Detroit, shaping and assembling discarded motorcycle and salvaged steel parts. The process has evolved into acetylene and electric welded constructions. I still choose to use discarded mechanical artifacts because I find them singularly precious and beautiful. Though I’ve lived in […]
After painting in Central Park, at the South Street Seaport, and doing copies and gallery scenes in the Metropolitan Museum, I came up to the Rivertowns and fell in love with them. My art technique is traditional oil painting with an emphasis on color, light, and emotional nuance. I studied painting at a variety of […]
My world is of earth and spirit. Nature is at once a deep source of inspiration, and a comforting healer. More than anything, the quality of light which radiates from and about the subject is what I am moved to capture. I try to express the essence – the spirit of a place, a person, […]
It’s been two years since my last studio tour and during that time I’ve continued to paint improvisations, some more figurative than others. I’ve also revisited sculpture with a series of small scale works, often humorous. In addition I continue to fabricate woodworking projects for fun and profit. This year Jazz Forum will be hosting […]
An award winning artist, Saavedra holds a MA from New York University and a BA from UMASS Boston. He attended the Sorbonne and the IEP in Paris and is currently an Art Faculty member at The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry. He has been exhibiting in Westchester and Manhattan since 1999 and has been teaching since […]
Since 1991 Upstream has been a unique community of arts professionals whose members work together cooperatively to maintain a unique exhibition space. Artist members look to Upstream as a venue for experimentation, mutual support and artistic growth. The gallery embraces all fine arts media and all styles from realism to abstraction. Upstream is an established […]