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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
Combining found elements with those fashioned by his own hand, David’s work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. The essence of his work lies in the age-old struggle between nature and the man-made industrial world. His challenge is to convey that sense of conflict in a way that resonates with the viewer.
104 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY 10591
Kit is an artist, art therapist, art teacher and resident of Hastings on Hudson. She works primarily in wool and felt and clay. Her work is about color and the relationship between shapes and the space between them.
526 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson
Lindsay’s work is quasi logical, inspired by human gesture, attitude and movement. It is influenced by the seasons and the atmosphere of the day. “It is optimistic! And, embraces the absurd. It’s an improvisation with the excitement that there is something to be discovered right around the corner.”
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334C, Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Nora loves to paint and paints what she loves: flowers, nature, botanicals.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Raine’s current work continues to explore themes related to found moments in time and space, as well as lost moments. Some of the work is inspired by observed still life, some by memory and surprises of medium and process. Raine is a member of Collective Arts Space in Dobbs Ferry where she shares studio space with four other artists.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
Elizabeth’s work takes inspiration from the human figure, the natural world, and the written word. She creates mixed media pieces incorporating pen and ink, pastel, watercolor and acrylic. She paints and teaches privately in Tarrytown, New York.
Emily Denise, 1 Central Ave, Suite 302, Tarrytown
Eleanor Goldstein is a painter and sculptor from New York City, working in a variety of mediums. Goldstein’s work evokes emotion through the investigation of both natural and urban environments, exploring themes of death and rebirth throughout. Her subjects are drawn from the striking industrial landscapes and transcendent forms from nature that she encounters, representing a cry for action.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 316, Dobbs Ferry
Eva is an architect and a painter. She works with water-based and mixed media, walking the line between inorganic and organic, abstract and landscape expressions.
James V. Harmon Community Center 44 Main Street, Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706
Carol Herd-Rodriguez, a New York artist, draws inspiration from everyday life and the natural world. Her work is often rooted in a love of the Hudson River and its scenic surroundings. With three decades of professional exhibition experience and collectors of her art spanning the nation, she blends personal experiences into her work, aiming to capture a profound essence hidden beyond the visible.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main St, Hastings
Michael Lewis is an architect and painter who emerged in the 80’s with East Village and Soho solo exhibitions at the M-13 and Howard Scott Galleries, along with numerous group exhibitions. His work is in corporate and private collections, as well as the Connecticut Museum of Contemporary Art permanent collection. Lewis’s studio is located at 145 Palisade Street; Dobbs Ferry.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 304, Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry
Catrin’s work explores the concept of memory and how it is captured, represented and viewed. She finds inspiration in old family photos, antiques and vintage ephemera, historical buildings and settings, and anything that evokes a sense of nostalgia. She works with acrylic, oil, and watercolor and also creates paintings digitally.
385 Warburton Avenue, Studio 2, Hastings (through left gate, down stairs to patio)
Hagar’s art asks questions about the relationship of the body to an ‘environment’ in both a physical and metaphorical sense. Her material and photographic exploration of this relationship defines and shapes it. She uses plexiglass as the holding structure of her pieces, and her process involves painting, tracing, adhering objects, melting and scratching its surface.
13 Crossbar Road, Hastings-on-Hudson
Madge is a self taught, award-winning arist who has shown and sold her work nationally and internationally. Her career began in the mid 1990’s. She’s been exhibiting her work since 2005 in solo and group exhibitions in New York and other states including New Jersey and Gallerie Bonheur, St. Louis. She’s a member of the Upstream, Blue Door Galleries and RiverArts.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334E, Dobbs Ferry
Monica Shulman’s brand of gestural abstraction is a form of story-telling. Rooted in the traditions of abstract expressionism, her world is best described as colorful and rhythmic and her paintings reflect an evolving universe where communication is less concrete. Creating sculptural surfaces through her impasto technique, she engages the medium itself as a participant in her art.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 237B, Dobbs Ferry
Chloe Sikirica is a multi-faceted artist: printmaker, photographer, painter, and ceramist. She obtained her BFA Degree in Painting from SUNY New Paltz and her Masters Degree in Studio Art and Art Education from New York University. She currently resides in Hastings on Hudson and is excited to show her current work of Ceramics and Photo Encaustics during the RiverArts Open Studio Tour this fall.
526 Broadway, Hastings
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 412-5120 | info@riverarts.org
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.
