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 […]
ARTIST’S STATEMENT I believe in art for everyone and not just for the critic. An image which does not require a description to be understood. An image which will stay with you, which has many layers, that you keep coming back to. I believe in a pursuit of excellence, in the traditional craft of painting. […]
Alison draws on her background in music and journalism to capture the spirit of people and places, distilling her subjects to convey the most striking elements. She started photography 10 years ago as a reporter for The Journal News and continued as a photojournalist for AOL Patch Media. She has been displaying her work in […]
“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 […]
I’m a clinical psychologist by profession. My passion has been to explore people in their natural environments, people and families struggling with emotional conflicts and behavioral deficits. When I inherited the role of family photographer—my husband, a perfectionist with the camera and not quick enough to capture the moment, my preferred m.o.—a new passion emerged […]
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 […]
Don fell in love with art, age 3, when he and his Dad drew “horsies” and wagons, on shirt card boards. He continued drawing and paint- ing through his years at Columbia. Working at The Met for 2 years as PR director, he was fascinated by the subtleties of Asian painting for the first time. […]
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 […]
I love to paint. I am drawn irresistibly to the landscape, to its forms and colors and particularly its light, which varies so dramatically throughout the day and throughout the seasons. Beauty is always an important consideration. I cannot paint a subject unless I see something beautiful in it, something that makes me grateful to […]
BA and MA in Art and Education from Brooklyn College. Post graduate studies, N.Y.U, The Art Students League, and The Pastel Society of America. Taught Art in Cincinnati, NYC and Westchester Pubic Schools. Teaching painting and pastels to retired NYC teachers since 2010. Founded and directed The River Gallery, Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. from 1974 to 1989. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SATURDAY only My recent work is a series called Dialogues of Color, which looks at the relationships of colors and emotions. From an early age we develope color preferences, formed by personal experiences and cultural norms. We feel and react to color. Our color associations can sustain throughout our lives. I hope you visit my […]
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, […]
I paint in an unheated studio which at night takes on the atmosphere of a space capsule. I am alone and would like to have something outside myself draw the marks that open a portal. The important part is letting the mind submit and the body direct the marks being made inside each layer of […]
Susan Richman Photography “I am an interpreter of what surrounds me”, and the camera is my instrument of choice. It affords a unique way to see my world and to reveal what is found in my imagination. Both in my series Ephemeral and my yet-to-be- titled latest series are created using unorthodox materials that are […]
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 […]
Victoria Bugbee has been working on paper either drawing, writing or taking her visual exploration into performance based work since 1976. For the 25th RiverArts Studio Tour Bugbee is mounting a retrospective of her drawings upon which her in-situ performances and plays are based. Works on paper include “The Music Series,” “Le Pavillion Hotel Series,” […]