Michael Gaillard (Stanford BA ’03 and Columbia MFA ’10) is a lens-based artist who lives and works in New York. Employing an 8×10 film camera and a Phase One technical camera in tandem, the resulting precision allows Gaillard to reproduce his images at tremendous scale without compromising clarity, producing subtle, poetic, and deeply evocative imagery.
576 Warburton Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson
As an artist, Mary always found herself torn between two mediums: Photography and Mixed Media. Her photography work represents her vision looking outward at the world. Her mixed media work represents her vision as looking inward, inspiring visual narratives that are both relics of personal memory and symbols of the universal human experience.
145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry
Stephanie Buck’s world is of Earth and Spirit. She is always moved to capture the light that radiates from a person, a place, a moment. During these last several years which, indeed have “tried our souls.” She is moved to express her fears, beliefs, and hopes for a kinder world: believing that the creative process is a healing process.
1 North Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Alison Marra is an abstract painter and mixed media artist. By exploring natural shapes and instinctual mark-making, her work considers the themes of cultural femininity and our human relationship to the world. She has previously designed and taught workshops on accessing the personal creative voice. Alison lives with her partner and two daughters in Yonkers, NY.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Anne-Marie McIntyre’s ceramics are done in conjunction with her drawings and both are based in material exploration. The unusual techniques found in her work have been developed over years of studio practice. These include hand mixed glazes, drawing with wax resist and developing work over multiple firings.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 339, Dobbs Ferry
“Inciting Joy, Discovering Delight” : Sleepy Hollow’s 2023 Community Art Exhibit co-sponsored by the Village of Sleepy Hollow and the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective.
W.L. Morse School, 30 Pocantico Street
Bonnie Levine is a long time clay artist. Her one-of-a-kind pieces are influenced by the mood of the moment, the plasticity of the clay, and the moisture in the air. These variables converge to produce pieces, that reference the natural world and which embody the human form. Throwing lines, finger marks, and dents are celebrated and integrated into the design.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
This year Vincente has been busy with with watercolor and ink sketches from Italy as well as figurative work and small oils.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 401, Dobbs Ferry
John Maggiotto is an exhibiting Artist for over 30 years. John is a NY Fellow in the Visual Arts and was selected as one of Westchester’s 50 Outstanding artists in 2015. He creates many one of a kind pieces on marble, and Polaroid film as well as many new works taken from his kayak on the Hudson River. See more works such as the Monopoly vintage game pieces on his website.
90 Cochrane Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson
Neil Lavey was born in 1958, He graduated Cooper Union 1981. His Exhibitions include: The Leslie Lohman gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts , The Edward Hopper House in Nyack, The Blue Door Gallery & The River Front Gallery in Yonkers, the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, and the The H Gallery in Peekskill.
60 Beechdale Road, Dobbs Ferry
David’s work consists of presenting string in 3D sculptures and mobiles. Wood or laser cut acrylic frames are designed to present the string. Many of David’s recent pieces are reactive to black light.
17 Riverview Place, Hastings-on-Hudson
Mitchell explores gay male sexuality through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia. His work encompasses collage, mixed media, and printmaking while interested in male camaraderie, desire, and loneliness, as well as emotions related to body image.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 383A, Dobbs Ferry
PvE Design began way back when, long before the internet was a place to share. Then In 2006, the first web site was created for PvE aka Patricia van Essche to showcase her artistry. The site was created by a former Rivertown resident. Patricia began to present happy painted murals, charming illustrations and print designs for fashion houses. Patricia previously spent 15 years designing for many Fashion Designers, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne. She then realized that her art focus was on her family and the playful watercolor design and whimsical illustrations she created. Many PvE devotees and Instagram followers have provided a great opportunity to create for a near and far reaching clientele. She is also a certified Pilates instructor and believes that life is to “live well, live fit and live artfully. Patricia is a longtime resident of Ardsley since 1996, and a staunch supporter of the arts and pilates community. “PvE believes that art and movement can help change people’s lives and make them smile a bit more.” She is proud to be part of the RiverArts community.
PvE Design, 15 Mountainview Avenue, Ardsley, NY
Gregory’s art work leans toward utilitarian function. He uses mixed media, found objects and repurposed construction materials to create one of a kind lighting, tables, mirrors and sculptures. Many installations have appeared in hospitality venues – restaurants, bars, nightclubs, Central Park. He favors metal and wood with a preference for colorful combinations and a stylistic range from refined to rustic.
18 Maplewood Avenue, Dobbs Ferry,
Antonia Noonan creates fun, functional, sometimes playful pieces that are one of a kind. She is inspired by her day-to-day activities which include: teaching yoga, running a small candle business, and tending to her chickens. Her work is both wheel thrown and hand-built, and is finished utilizing a variety of glaze and firing techniques.
145 Palisades Street, Studio 327, Dobbs Ferry, New York
Jan Rozene is a contemporary Hudson River painter. A student of Frank Mason at the Art Students’ League, she has masters degrees from Columbia University and Hunter College in library science and art history. She hopes to have the viewer share the emotional high she achieves when lost in meditation and engagement with nature.
1 Central Avenue, Studio 302 (Lyceum Building)
Susie Brubaker is an emerging artist who began studying mosaics and fused glass in 2016. During the pandemic lockdown she began studying acrylic painting techniques in her search for motion in art. Her work is informed by nature and her emotional response to world events. She often paints to the music of the cello.
333 Carroll Close, Tarrytown
Lindsay’s work is all about color and pattern. Working in the fashion & textile industry for 20 years, she has cultivated an understanding of successful design. Working with clay allows her to explore without distraction, cultivating mindfulness while creating. Her work is a celebration of the making as well as the beauty of the result.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 327, Dobbs Ferry
Alan use images from Google Earth to explore the geometry and color of overhead views of cities. He choose areas where the builtscape appears unorganized, but is both man-made and organic. Some of the work is representational, and some more abstract. There are usually pencil and oil studies before the final image is started.
87 River Street, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Christopher Williams creates a variety of mixed media works that include collage, drawings, paintings, graphic design pieces, puppets and masks. Williams embraces exploration, imagination and a dedication to the creative process. Williams’ personal artwork is inspired by his Catholic faith, but celebrates inclusive values, social justice, and activism. Williams teaches elementary Art and has a studio in Tarrytown.
1 Central Avenue, Suite 305, Tarrytown
Barbara King is an installation, mixed media artist. In her current body of work she traced and cut out various gender symbols to consider gender fluidity and expression. King continues to experiment with paper, fabric and other mediums and will be exhibiting this work as well as other projects in the Studio Tour.
93 Kent Avenue, Hastings, NY
A deep love of color, pattern and nature are the foundation of Jennifer’s work as an artist, illustrator, author and teacher. Her paintings explore memory, wandering, intuition and small moments. She works primarily in gouache and acrylic with other mediums added in as needed. She has countless sketchbooks filled with paintings of inspirations and current series of larger magical landscapes.
18 Croton Place, Irvington
Bruce aims to engage the viewer in both the title’s verbal association and it’s visual analogy. His hope is that the work will provide both representational and metaphorical and allegorical readings that will connect the idea with the image.
153 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry, NY
In 2019, after fifteen years working digitally, Evan returned to oil painting. Before the digital period, his painting used hard edged geometry, while new projects are experimental, painterly and spontaneous. Surface and simple geometry are paramount.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318C, Dobbs Ferry
N8plaster lighting design shines beyond traditional lighting fixtures, incorporating creativity, innovation and traditional materials into their design. The pieces serve as both a practical light source and an artistic focal point within interior spaces.
92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown
Lea works intuitively in various media, on paper, using line, shape and color to explore space, movement, and time.
The works are titled by date in order to allow the viewer to see the work unfettered by suggestion.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 317, Dobbs Ferry
The Weaving Center is a non-profit community center established to encourage the artistic use of fibers, particularly in weaving. The Center offers both group and individual workshops, as well as loom rentals for individual weavers of all levels on various multi-shaft floor looms. 32 Warren Avenue, Tarrytown Website: www.theweavingcenter.org Email: rhavazelet@optonline.net (914) 332-1948 Cat Tracks […]
Peggie Blizard is a realist painter, currently fascinated with painting flowers in water. She has spent the majority of her career representing objects as well and enjoys the trompe l’oeil challenge.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Pastry Chef meets Potter, this piece symbolizes Ariella’s two worlds colliding; a fruit bowl made out of cookie cut-outs. Hand-built, glossy white glaze, fired to cone 6.
Upstream Gallery was founded in 1991 by artists who came of age in New York during the 50’s and 60’s, and remains artist-owned and operated, with particular emphasis on quality, community. Current artist members work in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, collage/assemblage, print making and photography.
20 Artists
8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Shula Weinstein (Fine Arts Graduate of Pratt Institute, 1985) currently works in a print medium and celebrates the transient and eternal qualities of nature through her work.
18 Harvard Lane, Hastings-on-Hudson
Christy Knell’s paintings are created with beeswax, pigment, and gold foil and leaf. Christy aims to reveal the inherent beauty in the medium by allowing the science to take control, revealing naturally occurring textures and designs through the addition of the blow torch. The materials work together to suggest other elements of nature like marble, stone, and smoke.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 200, Dobbs Ferry
Naomi’s work is inspired by the natural world, focusing on the patterns and particles that run throughout the cosmos rather than the distinct forms that make up the material world. Advances in technology reveal images of realities once invisible to us. While their beauty and perfection cannot be matched, they suggest endless possibilities that inspire her to create.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 335D Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry
Karen’s work combines architectural elements with contrasting interiors. The paintings explore color, texture, and light, and the interplay between inside and outside. The architectural structure has a “conversation” with the more free-flowing, organic or ephemeral elements – the shifting patterns of light inside, or snippets of landscape glimpsed through a window or door.
Climbing Wolf Coffee & Beer, 78 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry
Nature is Costanza’s inspiration. She likes to paint what is alive, breathe it’s aroma, feel the wind on her skin, imagine its taste and touch.
“I absorb my subject through my senses and feel satisfaction with direct encounter, avoiding much interference between us as possible. This interference can be the use of electronics or my mind over intellectualizing my experience.”
145 Palisade Street, Studio 313, Dobbs Ferry
Marci Miles resides in Hastings on Hudson, New York, where she passionately pursues her love for landscape and abstract photography. Nature has consistently held a profound influence over her, acting as a formidable force that fuels her creativity. Through her artwork, Marci aspires to evoke feelings of joy, peace, and even healing, hoping to accompany others on their personal journey of life.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 327, Dobbs Ferry
Beverly paints joyful memories of desserts and foods. Often partially eaten, these simple pleasures elicit nostalgia. Her first experiments with placing broccoli in candy vending machines stimulated a dialog. This unexpected juxtaposition excited kids and adults, inspiring a series. Recently, she began painting her Ikebana flower arrangements. Come take a bite out of life – with food, flowers, and fun!
423 Saw Mill River Road, Apt. A101, Ardsley, NY
Iris Jaffe is a contemporary artist living and working just outside New York City in Westchester County. She holds a BA with honors from Brown University and has worked for the contemporary artist Tom Sachs and the gallery Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Major themes in her work include popular culture, art history, technological progress, nature, consumer culture and gender roles.
19 Windle Park B, Tarrytown
Visitors cannot park in the Whisper Hill parking lot. They will be towed.
Larry Blizard’s imagination is a deluge of hysterically funny ideas, all of which work. His drawings are warm and delicate. Technically, they are masterful.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Alison Cimmet’s mixed-media painted collage work celebrates vibrant colors and textures. She uses beautiful curated papers, vintage ephemera (sheet music, literature, etc.), and her own gelli-plate acrylic prints. Final touches are done with paint, markers, and gold leaf. Alison is a proud member of the Collective Art Studio collaborative work space in Dobbs Ferry, New York. www.Fancille.com
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
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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.
