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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
