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Al Gury

Al Gury is an artist, educator, and writer. He currently serves as a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America’s oldest art school and museum. As a painter, Al explores the dynamic tension between representation and the formal elements of color, composition, and content. His work…

Philippe Pittoni

Philippe Pittoni is an artist based in the Paris region, with over 20 years of experience in painting and sculpture. He is a member of the Vitriosart collective. His work is primarily defined by two major series: “The Metamorphosis of the Bouchons” and “Mental Maps.” Pittoni has a strong passion for oil painting, often blending…

Luke Baggott

Born in South Africa, Luke Baggott has been painting full time since 2014. In 2017, he travelled to NYC to study Fine Art at the New York Academy of Art. Luke has always had a love for painting the landscape and en plein air work has always played a significant role in his painting repertoire. These…

Erin Carney

Erin Carney creates color-driven landscape and abstract paintings using direct and indirect oil painting techniques. Her work explores states of being, land use, landscape, and concepts of attention and perception.   Erin Carney holds an MFA in Painting from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art, a BFA in Sculpture…

Hizawa Ryujin

Hizawa Ryujin uses art materials, techniques, and traditional methods that have been used since ancient times in Japan to depict the beautiful nature, animals, and children of Japan that still exists today. “Paintings are the mirror to the soul.” He has lived his life with paintings he has created, which so far reflect his state…

Katie Mahon Kuzin

Katie Mahon Kuzin is an abstract artist from New York City. With her unique style and innovative approach, her paintings have found homes in collections spanning the United States and abroad.  Katie focuses her efforts primarily on painting and curatorial endeavors. She previously held a position at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where…

Holly Blum

Piper Red Pearls

Geoffrey Stein

Geoffrey Stein is a former lawyer, who has been painting full-time since 2000. He received a Certificate in Painting from the New York Studio School in 2004 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2007. Stein has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries throughout the United States and in…

Martin Davis

When Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973 — setting records in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes — he became the first horse since 1948 to achieve such notoriety. While Secretariat was carving out his enduring legacy as one of the greatest race horses in history, Martin Davis was honing his talents as an artist,…

Charles Mcilvane

Charles Mcilvane works in wood fabricating shapes and forms into abstract sculptural objects. His focus is to create works of balance, fluidity and harmony in composition. He explores sculpture cutting and shaping wood from selected natural wood. The objects are constructed by repeated 3-D sketch until realizing a unified assembly. These fashioned shapes create an…

Michael Davidoff

Michael Davidoff has extended the range of water color painting, working with a controlled detailed technique. He is recognized as an adherent of “Regional Realism.” The primary theme of his paintings is rural New York State and New England, depicted by homes, barns, historic landmarks and their natural environs and by seasonal landscapes. His love…

Viviane Altman

Growing up in Glen Cove on Long Island, Vivian Altman declared herself an artist at a very young age and never looked back. As a young girl, her artistic process began with frequent excursions to New York City Art museums. She later earned her BFA in painting from SUNY New Paltz where she graduated cum…

Diego Salado

Contemporary master artist Diego Salado was born in the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He studied drawing at the School of Art in Jerez and in 1987, moved to Madrid where he established his studio until moving to New York in 1994.      Diego’s work explores the amorphous concept of form, blending sharp focus…

Gary Ampel

Gary Ampel is a wildlife painter and has been creating artwork for over 40 years. Born in New York City, he spent his summers in the Catskills where he encountered the richness of nature and the allure of wildlife. Gary went on the study art in the New York area. Gary captures on canvas the majesty…

Linda Andrei

Linda Andrei began her interest in art at an early age growing up in NYC. She visited museums as a child and had an opportunity to paint at The Brooklyn Museum as an adolescent where she participated in a life drawing and painting class with adults.  Her career in art was delayed as she pursued…

Carrie-Ann Bracco

Carrie-Ann Bracco received her B.A. from Columbia University, an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management, also from Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.    Carrie’s work has been included in exhibits at the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Arts Club,…

Jamin Cooke

Jamin Cooke is a retired Air Force veteran born in Illinois and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Until recently he was a self-taught artist, working digitally and in graphite during his free time while stationed abroad. After retirement he studied under Jesse Stern, Evan Kitson and Manu Saluja at the New York Academy of…

Julia Chen

Oil paint is Julia Chen’s favorite and main medium for her artworks.  Growing up in Taiwan, Julia was influenced by Chinese ink painting, an art form that emphasizes immediacy and mark making.  She studied Chinese calligraphy with Dr. Leon Long-Yien Chang in New York for seven years.  Using Chinese ink taught her how to appreciate…

Ivy Hickam

“My work is always in some way autobiographical.  My landscapes explore my relationship to place and time.  Some of the places I’ve recorded are ingrained in me, places I’ve gone to since I was a child. So, if I return to a place and it has drastically changed, I feel alarmed, violated.  Maybe this is…

Annie Wildey

Annie Wildey received a Bachelor of fine art from Kingston School of Art in the UK. After graduating, she moved to the USA and was a long-time resident of New York city where she worked for many years at the British Consulate-General. Deciding on a career shift, she studied for an MFA at the New…

Liza Sokolovskaya

Liza Sokolovskaya is a Brooklyn based painter and printmaker. She was born on a hot summer day in Tashkent only to end up in cold and snowy Montreal almost a decade later. Nowadays you can find her in her shared studio in Sunset Park, making a mess while her studio mate isn’t looking.  She received…

Tabitha Whitley

Tabitha Whitley is a Brooklyn-based artist who focuses on oil painting and relief printmaking. She received her BFA in Painting from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009, then went on to receive an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2011. Her work, which bridges lusciously painted portraits with chromatic…

Zane York

In Zane York’s work, focus falls mostly to oddities, animals, and entomology. They are not necessarily pretty things, not necessarily ugly things, but intensely visual things. Themes of mortality, anthropomorphism, perceived beauty, and transience always seem to be exercised. The complex and conflicting state of these subjects provide his motivation; a bird’s skull, all at…

Lisa Lebofsky

Lisa Lebofsky is a nomadic plein air painter, collaborating with nature and people. She paints the susceptibility of nature, correlating its restlessness with our own human vulnerabilities. Her direct participation with the landscape is vital to imbue a painting with the energy of a specific place, so that viewers can connect viscerally: to move, excite…

Allison Russo

Allison Russo is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Before studying painting, Allison ran a graphic design firm, Alleycat Design, Inc., specializing in book design. For the past ten years, she has been focusing on learning a variety of art genres, including painting, pottery, and digital photography. Allison holds a B.S.…

Kseniya Ostrovska

Kseniya Ostrovska was born in Ukraine and lived in various places throughout the United States before settling down in NYC to complete her studies. Originally focusing on printmaking, she developed an appreciation of line and texture in the natural world, the movement and chaos inherent in natural processes. With the start of the pandemic, Kseniya…

Joan Mentzinger

Joan Mentzinger’s interest in painting developed after high school. Born in Glen Head, NY, Joan worked as a cardiac technician at a Long Island hospital. This is where she discovered the magnificent body of work by John Singer Sargent and found herself intrigued by other painters such as John Carlson, Willard Metcalfe, Emile Gruppe and…

Sunil Howlader

Sunil’s style is semi-abstract expressionism, combining the beauty of the natural world with the expressive elements of abstraction.  This style gives him the freedom to add emotions, feelings and ideas to what he sees and express them using meaningful lines, forms and colors.  He uses bold strokes, bubbles and scribbles to represent the emotional activities of the…

Cue Gerhards

Robert Cue Gerhards has garnered a number of skills in his 40 years of being a woodworker, finisher, luthier, and musician. His impact on the arts industry can be greatly attributed to his custom-made guitars, each one being an envisioned design by himself and his customers.   “The beauty of the wood, the tones it can…

John Reinhardt

John Reinhardt was born in NYC and traveled throughout Vermont and nearby states growing up.  In the 1980’s, he settled on the N.Y. side of the Berkshires in Columbia County where he has lived ever since and has his studio. John studied art and painting techniques over the years with multiple instructors both of regional…

Christine Frisbee

“To paint is to show a secret part of who you are.” As a child, Christine Frisbee was enthralled with art. Coming from a large family, the environment in which we live and how we live our lives is of upmost importance in Christine’s mind. She is conscious of how we speak and react to…

Naomi Blum

For Abstract Expressionist painter Naomi Blum, landscapes have been the major subject of her paintings. Naomi’s inspiration stems from the natural beauty and wilderness of the Catskills. Naomi received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting and Art Education from the College of New Rochelle. Her shows have ranged from a solo exhibition at…

Barry DeBaun

Barry DeBaun was born in Brooklyn, NY, raised in Long Island and then moved to the Catskills at age ten, where he still resides. With the beauty of the mountains surrounding him and his early exposure to the ocean, his inspiration comes from his love of nature. Poetic landscapes, sensitive figures, realistically rendered still life…

H.M. Saffer II

Born in Pennsylvania, H.M. Saffer II launched his career by exhibiting his art at a public art show at the tender age of six. Upon graduation from Temple University in 1965, he traveled to Paris, France to enroll in graduate economics courses. Concurrently, HM’s path took a different twist, as he soon leveraged his musical talent…

Rinaldo Skalamera

Rinaldo Skalamera was born in Croatia. As a young artist, he began to draw and paint the picturesque surroundings of his homeland. He later moved to the United States with his family and continued to draw inspiration from the old towns and fishing boats he remembers from Croatia. In 1975, Rinaldo entered a contest and…

Loreen Oren

Loreen Oren has a fascination with patterns, unintentionally created by random forces of nature.  The pattern emerges from shadows and light reflections of winter trees on snowy ski slopes, a mirror-like effect caused by water-filled rice patties, or the rhythm of the tidal dance, carving ripples into the sand.  The repetition of lines creates a…

Deborah Wagner

Always an artist at heart, Deborah Wagner spent the majority of her professional career as a psychologist, first in research and then in clinical practice.  She is known for the authorship of her book entitled “The Fifth Decade”, a pioneering work combining the physiological with the psychological challenges women face in their 40s and 50s.…

Robert Schneider

Robert Schneider, landscape painter embodying the rich tradition of the Hudson River School, uses a traditional style acknowledging the influence of painters of the past including George Inness, Thomas Cole, and Fredrick Church. He was recognized by the Fenimore Museum of Art with a one man show in January 2016. The influences on of the…

Elissa Gore

Elissa Gore is a landscape painter who paints from both observation and memory. In her work, Elissa strives to find a feeling of the universal in the natural landscape. Sunset walks and frequent studies painted at Cooper Lake inspires many of her large works as she is influenced by water. Forty years ago, she decided…

John McNulty

John McNulty attended the Brooks School, the University of Chicago, Bennington College, and NYU Film school, where he earned a BFA. He moved to New York City in 1971, where he worked as an instructor at the LaMama theatre, cab driver, and film technician. He joined the union and rose through the ranks to Director…

Susan Cushin

Susan Cushin’s first interest in art can be credited to an art teacher who inspired her. However, painting and creating art pieces have been intermittent. Between taking time off to go to medical school and complete her residency in radiology, another visual endeavor, Cushin never forgot her passion for art. She began to paint more…

Clark Winter

Clark Winter photographs peoples’ awareness of the multiple levels of perception that accompany the passage of time and how our experiences influence our ability to see things clearly. He has used similar observations as a global investment strategist.  What the two roles have in common is the opportunity to see things as they really are, frame…

Gina Blickenstaff

Colorado fine artist Gina Blickenstaff creates artwork of figures, landscapes, and still life.  Influenced by artistic parents, art has always been Gina’s passion. As a child, Gina watched her father paint book covers.  With boundless creativity, she helped her mother create games. After attending art college in Philadelphia, Colorado became her home.  Gina’s paintings express energy,…

Ken Salaz

Ken Salaz was born in Southern California and spent his youth living in numerous locations with his family. After graduating from Cooper Union, Ken spent several years traveling the world, through Asia, Central and South America, and Europe painting landscapes and making copies of Masterworks at numerous Museums. He continued his education with artists Leonid Gervitz of the Repin Academy and…

Tatiana Rhinevault

Tatiana Rhinevault was born in Moscow and spent much of her childhood playing in Sokolniki Park, watching artists as they painted, day in and day out. Because of her exposure to Moscow’s many museums, theaters and art studios, the arts played a huge role in her early life and later on, in her paintings. Her older…

Joseph Sampson

Joseph Sampson graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1995. After OCA, he began freelancing as an illustrator while continuing to paint. Painting quickly became his sole occupation.  Joe’s portfolio is comprised of a variety of scenic imagery, and is currently focused on waterscapes. Drawn to shorelines, beaches, lakes, oceans and streams, Joe uses…

Scott Thomas Balfe

Scott Thomas Balfe is a native of Cornwall, NY. His technique harkens to traditions of the Hudson River School, relying heavily on the under-painting combined with thin over glazes. Inspired by the fathers of American Art who used anything from coffee grounds to tobacco juice glazes to give warm tones. Balfe uses a limited palette, rarely…

Satish Joshi

Satish Joshi holds an Honors Degree in painting and printmaking from the New Delhi College of Art. He settled in New York in 1969 and promptly embarked on a career as painter, printmaker and sculptor, with works in local collections and exhibitions throughout the United States. As a teacher he was a member of the…

Southampton Solitude

Alison Stager

From when she was a young child, Alison would often have a camera by her side to capture moments of her life, both of nature and those that she loved. She grew up in rural Connecticut and lived in Manhattan for 24 years where she spent her early and mid-career in advertising.  She graduated from The…

Ruby Reichardt

Born in the Netherlands, Ruby Reichardt moved to New York in 1984 to begin her journey as an artist. After attending Syracuse University and pursuing an MFA in Illustration and Design, Ruby dedicated herself to her art career. Her prowess does not lie with just one style of art; rather she works in a variety…

Lisa Battle

Lisa Battle creates a distinctive style of abstract sculptures by hand-building with stoneware clay. She explores form and line in three-dimensional space, inspired by the elements – earth, fire, water and the patterns created in nature through wind and water erosion, and the graceful arching movements of dance. “In my exploration of form, I pare down…

Adam Colangelo

For Adam Colangelo, it’s a love affair that began in his grandfather’s workshop. When Colangelo first experimented with scraps of copper during his formative years, he had no way of knowing that the medium would deeply impact his life. In the years since Colangelo has found promise in this extremely versatile medium. Colangelo’s large-scale compositions…

Leila Yassami

Leila Yassami takes us on a journey of reflective individuals and cultures. Her work brings to fore the three-dimensional effect of working with live models. Yassami has been an artist for over twenty years. She is a graduate of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, and has studied many years at the Art Student…

Sonia Schories

Sonia Schories is a native New Yorker  and now shares her time between New Jersey and Gliboa, NY. Schories, a master sketcher, captures people in motion and engaged in thought amid daily life. She uses the observational skills that she learned as an artist and an RN to go beyond the physical features to portray…

Mireille Duchesne

Mireille Duchesne sparks emotion with her earthy yet sensual glimpses of life. Duchesne was born in Normandie, the province of France so loved by the Impressionist Monet, among others. For as long as she can remember, she has had a colored pencil and a brush in her hands. However, being an artist was not accepted…

Lisbeth Firmin

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose paintings and monotypes explore the relationship between people and their urban environment, while simultaneously capturing the energy and light of a specific moment in time. Her urban landscapes, following in the tradition of earlier realists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Edward Hopper, depict a feeling…

Ricardo Arango

While steel is hard, Ricardo Arango tames it producing abstract pieces both large and small and in color, demonstrating the diversity of this powerful medium. Inspired by the sculpture of Anthony Caro, Louise Nevelson, Omar Rayo and David Smith, Ricardo Arango creates his own concepts with an underlying interest in uplifting the spirit of his…

Anne Johann

Where land and water meet is most intriguing to Anne Johann and she includes water in most every painting she creates. Her childhood was spent in New York’s Hudson Valley, and after a short time on the East End of Long Island, she returned and resides there today. In such surroundings, it was natural for…

Ekaterina Khromin

When Ekaterina Khromin arrived in the United States in 1990, the New World influenced her in ways she would have never expected before; finally she was free to express herself. She developed her artistic language as she tried to express herself in the way her feelings would lead her in a conversation with the viewer;…

Ilona Sochynsky

Sochynsky’s style progresses from hyper-realism to abstraction. Her early paintings depict recognizable single images with shiny, industrial surfaces but over time, she reconstructs her original works as uniquely abstract pieces. Sochynsky acknowledges the inevitability of reflection as a developing artist, detailing the intense scrutiny and introspection. Her current works of art represent an attempt to…

John Greene

After spending 30 years on Wall Street, John Greene retired to pursue his life-long passion of expressing himself as a painter and constructing canvases with intense depth and texture– all is about texture and the process of creating. Greene’s reality is imagined, embedded with familiar materials, and extracted to become landscapes, images and vistas that…

J.M. Brodrick

J.M. Brodrick studied painting in her youth and received her first scholarship at the age of 13. Her grandmother, a professional artist from Helsinki Finland, was an important influence: “My Grandmother helped me connect with other artists and shaped me at an early age to express myself with painting.” In the 1977 she moved to Fairbanks…

Kevin Cook

Kevin Cook is an accomplished landscape painter whose style is strongly influenced by Hudson River School artists of the nineteenth century.  He was named a Painting Fellow by New York Foundation for the arts, and has subsequently been invited to serve on NYFA’s Artist’s Advisory Committee.  He is a Guest Educator at the Samuel Dorsky…

Kim Do

Kim Do is a New York artist, focused on an observational, painterly connection to the earth, water and sky. Trained in the modernist tradition, Do incorporates abstract expressionism, interaction of color, figure and ground exchange, and a keen awareness of space in his paintings. Do paints with a full range of tones, taking the eye up,…

Mara Lehmann

“Nature is all inspiring,” according to artist Mara Lehmann. “To be in the country, among the mountains, trees, and blue sky is magnificent. It’s the beauty before me that I try to capture. Nature is my source of inspiration.” She refers to the Catskills as “a kind of holy ground for artists,” and says that…

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