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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kristin Javier began as a self-taught artist who eventually sought courses in both Classical and Modern Mosaic Techniques. A former teacher and translator of Spanish and Italian, in 2018 she turned a former weekend hobby into an artistic path forward. She cuts or shapes all materials by hand before placing the tiny pieces directly into cement tinted with earthen pigments.
385 Warburton Ave, Studio 1, Hastings-on-Hudson (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
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
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
Vicky is an Adjunct Professor at Pace University, Pleasantville campus, where she has taught ceramics since 2011. As a Professional Teaching Artist through ArtsWestchester she conducts ceramic arts residencies in schools, community sites and through Arts Mobile. She teaches adults and children at Clay Art Center in Portchester and senior citizens at Five Star Premier in Yonkers.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings on Hudson
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.
