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Christie
Scheele A mid-career artist, Christie Scheele has been painting
devotedly since receiving her BFA in 1980, and began exhibiting and
selling her work in 1985. She started painting her atmospheric, minimalist
landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City
in 1990. These meditative pieces cross the boundaries between realism
and the contemporary art world, reaching the viewer's heart without
sentimentality or melodrama. Ms. Scheele's work has been collected
nationally and internationally through galleries in the Hudson Valley
as well as those in New York, New Jersey, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape
Cod.
STREAMS AND WOODS
A nature-based sculpture installation workshop
led by Christie Scheele Located by and in the Stony Clove Creek
where Rt 214 meets Main St. Phoenicia
Shandaken
Historical Museum Mary
Herrmann is the Museum director and has curated an exhibition of photographs
of the region made from antique glass plate negatives. Mary is also
a seamstress specializing in fine doll clothing.
Rita
Schwab - Fresco Paintings - My
work suggests a rebirth of life forms, a growth and renewal of organic
shapes. I try to strive for balance, a balance between earth and sea,
sky and breeze, light and dark, texture and smooth finish hoping to
represent all the elements.
The surfaces of these fresco paintings are dense and complex in their
materiality. They are enhanced with organic ingredients such as sand,
rocks, ground barks, shells and natural pigments. The biomorph shapes
flow naturally on this highly textured wood surface. Circles are off-centered,
suggesting celestial bodies. Oil washes bring a flowing spacey dimension
to otherwise defined geometry. I like to paint in multiple series,
creating a body of work that is sequential. I also like diptychs,
triptychs, quartets etc. I prefer to work with odd sizes: long and
narrow, tall and repetitive, round or square. I build my own “canvases”
using basic carpentry skills and recycled materials.
David
Seche (see Stephanie Barnes, Barneche studio)
Carla
Shapiro
is a photographer. For 25 years she has made images of and about women
and the unexpected but not the unfamiliar. Carla currently photographs
woman in slips. Her next show will be at the BCB gallery in Hudson
NY.
In this portfolio
titled Dance of Time, I photograph slips. I photograph these slips
with people and without. In the images without people there is a portrayal
of a person. The empty slip is vacant of the body; it defies a sense
of gravity and air passes through it. In the images with people the
woman where the slips with grace, sensuality and vulnerability. Ranging
from ages 4 to 103 these women represent our bodies throughout time.
These images are platinum/palladium printed on handmade Japanese rice
paper. I choose this paper because it is soft, delicate and translucent,
resembling the slip itself. I have collected slips over the years.
I am drawn to what is old, what has history, and what has been used.
In these photographs the slips become nostalgic, evocative and wistful.
They hold spirit in the body form. They have their own presence; they
hold light brimming with life.
Judith
Singer I live now in a setting of great beauty, on a stream-coursed
mountainside in the Catskill Mountains, yet part of my heart and head
are still in New York City. My artworks reflect my many worlds, from
the streets of New York to the mountains of the Catskills to the interior
of the psyche. My primary medium is assemblage. My assemblages contain
toys, yard sale finds, pictures from books and magazines, scrap wood,
and even garbage, each piece carefully chosen and arranged to create
art that is both visually pleasing and mentally stimulating. In the
tradition of surrealism, commonplace items and cultural icons are
juxtaposed or altered in the hope of provoking fresh insights. My
consistent themes are the role of chance, rather than plan, in determining
our lives’ paths; the incredible abilities of the human mind;
and the need to dream and aspire. Recurring motifs include the brain
and the heart, angels and rockets, cherubs and skeletons, dreams and
reality, contrasting and collaborating in the fascinating mix that
is life.
Skin
Flower Tattoos - Sunday Dawne-Marie
10+ years of tattooing... life is imagination that becomes adventure...
finding inspiration in music, books & travel... she loves making
art & enjoys the collaborative nature of tattooing which she sees
as a chance to work with a myriad of different people whom she might
have otherwise never met... sunday is a friend to animals great &
small & can often be found talking to birds & squirrels...
now just where is she?
sunday currently divides her time between her own shop SkinFlowerCosmicArts,
located in phoenicia, new york & working with the talented crew
at Lark Tattoo in westbury, long island a few days a week... check
out the links page for details about Lark & the amazing crew there...
& if you find yourself in the catskills stop in at SkinFlower!
845-688-3166 skinflowerart@gmail.com
Michelle
Spark was born in Philadelphia in 1951. She studied painting
at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts and
Queens College. After completing a Master’s degree in Art Therapy
at New York University, she also taught there and worked in a large
metropolitan New York hospital for many years. Currently, she devotes
her time to painting, Zen practice, local watershed concerns, and
family.
Faye
Storms I thrive on creating realistic art using pastel or
oil. I appreciate great draftsmanship and aspire towards that outcome
in each of my works. My subject matter always surrounds me as I am
living in one of the most beautiful and lush areas in the country.I
love and indulge in all forms of artistic expression including acting,
designing interiors and singing. You can visit me at my home interiors
store The Blue Barn where my gallery is located and also come to my
upcoming show at Cabane Art Gallery in Phoenicia opening Labor Day
weekend.
