Vincente Saavedra
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artist who paints abstracted landscapes of the East End. Light, Color and Horizons are dominant themes. Planes of color lead to a open and airy sense of color and movement.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-On-Hudson
Emily is an artist and teacher based in Tarrytown, NY. She works representationally from life, with a love for careful observation and naturalism.
1 Central Avenue, Suite 302, Tarrytown
Timothy’s paintings invite the viewer to participate in the narratives implied within the artworks. His process is improvisatory, informed by choices made on the paper and then refined and revised, until it is hung on the wall. Generally that ends the process, unless further revisions are added.
114 North Washington Street, Tarrytown
Originally from the UK, Helen has been living and painting in the Rivertowns for over 25 years. She works as an artist and educator in her studio in Dobbs Ferry. “When I paint I enjoy the process, the movement and the stillness. I try to communicate the inherent beauty of our natural world, albeit in the form of 3 pears.”
145 Palisade Street, Studio 402, Dobbs Ferry
Linda loves painting still life and outdoor settings from direct observation, using vibrant pigments and complex imagery. She chooses subjects primarily for their color and pattern, as well as their reflective and transparent qualities. She often picks items that have sentimental value or conjure up a fond memory. “I hope my art conveys a vision of optimism and brightness.”
1 Mill River Lane, Apt. C305, Ardsley
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
Jamie Kay MacKenzie is known for her ethereal narrative paintings. She is interested in exploring the emotional and spiritual lives of her subjects, forging a psychical connection to their past. Each piece serves as a kind of vessel for shared memories and experiences between people, combining the poignantly personal with an inclusive universality.
385 Warburton Ave, Studio Four, Hastings-on-Hudson (through left gate, downstairs to patio)
Edward paints portraits, landscapes, and figures in a loose, modern way. In 2016, the American flag became a subject and surface of special interest for him. Edward renders large portraits exploring nationality and history. Born and raised in Washington, D.C. with roots Upstate, he was a social studies teacher for twelve years and currently resides in Tarrytown with his wife and daughters.
114 Neperan Road, Tarrytown
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)
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
Carol Perron Sommerfield returned to painting in 2011 after working for 32 years as a corporate executive. Since that time, she has exhibited widely and won numerous awards. Ms. Sommerfield has had seven solo exhibits in Westchester County over the past ten years and her work has been selected for juried exhibits at The Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Fairleigh Dickerson University, Point Park University, ArtsWestchester, The Catskill Arts Society, Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center, and galleries in Westchester and New York City. In 2014 Ms. Sommerfield was juried into the National Association of Women Artist, The New York Society of Women Artists and the New Rochelle Art Association. Ms. Sommerfield was awarded multiple studio and artist residencies at Arts, Letters and Numbers (Avril Park, NY) and Drop, Forge and Tool (Hudson, NY). She was the co-curator of The Donald Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, NY, for four years and the Chair of the annual Dobbs Ferry Beaux Arts exhibit and competition for Westchester County artists for five years.
23 Orlando Avenue, Ardsley, NY 10502
Beth depicts urban and suburban places that evokes her curiosity while also looking for a rhythm in shapes, light and color. She use the inherent properties of woodcut – woodgrain and created textures with both transparent and opaque inks – to create precise, light filled, mostly architectural images.
114 N. Washington Street, Tarrytown