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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist/maker who takes so-called ordinary things and projects them into other
dimensions
145 Palisade Street, Studio 406, Dobbs Ferry
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
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
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
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
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
Stephanie uses a variety of materials to create non-traditional mosaic art. Broken plates, found objects, glass, tile and color are the basic elements of her work.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 408, Dobbs Ferry
The emotional pull of implied water in Susan’s work is the underpinning of her series, Confluence. A symbol of rebirth and hope, water gives sustenance to every ecosystem and civilization and is needed by all living organisms to grow and survive. Confluence builds on prior environmental themes and honors her subjects whose deterioration of habitat makes their recognition vital and poignant.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 304, Dobbs Ferry
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
Janet is a fiber artist and her main medium is wool felt making, ranging from whimsical objects and home decor to wearable art. She also studies and practices Japanese Shibori dyeing techniques, eco dyeing, as well as the Korean art form of Bojagi – which merges various shapes and colors of a particular fabric through stitching, creating beautiful seams.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 314, Dobbs Ferry
Marisa Gonzales Silverstein works as a paper sculptor, creating designs that are meditative and mathematical and demonstrate the interplay of light and shadow. Marisa received a Fellowship in Photography from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2016 for her series “92 Americans Everyday.” She has shown her work in galleries in New York City, Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
Jen paints light and color as they imbue natural subjects. In works large and small her brushwork remains visible and loose. Composing often with a perspective suggesting a child’s viewpoint, Jen reveals hope that the work is seen with the serious curiosity, and lighthearted intensity of youthful innocence.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
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