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
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
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
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
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.
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
A lifelong artist, Lisa began cultivating and studying the flowers in her garden in 2000. Doing so inspired her to take botanical illustration courses at the NY Botanical Garden; a perfect way to combine two of her loves, art and flowers. She is now fully committed to her desire “to represent beauty in nature.”
15 Oakrest Lane, Hastings-on-Hudson
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
Wendy Naidich is a photographer & potter living In Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She often focuses on architectural details which can take on an abstract quality. Textures, patterns, and colors are what attracts her eye. Wendy’s pottery is hand built and mostly functional. She enjoys the tactile experience and the unexpected twists & turns of clay and glaze.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
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
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.
