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Christie
Scheele
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.
While getting her BFA, she spent a year on fellowship at the Royal
Academy of Fine Art and the University Complutense of Madrid in 1978-79.
She started painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before
moving to the Catskills from New York City in 1990. As a non-regional
landscape painter, Ms. Scheele paints images, in her signature style,
of all of the places she has ever been. Among her favorite locales
are the beaches and marshes of the Northeast coast, the Hudson River
and Catskill Mountains, and the highways and bridge views of the Hudson
Valley and New York City metro area. These meditative pieces cross
the boundaries between traditional realism and the contemporary art
world, reaching the viewer’s heart without sentimentality or
melodrama.
A full-time painter, Ms. Scheele’s work has been collected nationally
and internationally through galleries in the Hudson Valley as well
as those in New York City, New Jersey, Martha’s Vineyard, Cape
Cod, and Key West. These collections include the Queens Museum, the
Dorsky Museum, the Tyler Museum of Art, American Airlines, Waterford
Crystal, Kelsey Grammer, Howard and Ellen Greenberg, and Elaine Kamarck.
Her work was featured in the film “Broken Flowers” (in
the scene with Jessica Lange) and in “Perfect Strangers”,
on the set of the Halle Barry character’s home, and has been
profiled and reviewed extensively in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
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
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.
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 Cosmic Arts
a mix
of artworks
by sunday dawne~marie
an artist with a versatile imagination who works in a variety of media
creatively inspired by the cycles of life & death
by the mysteries of the human experience
by our interactions & connections with each other
with nature ... with the cosmos
845-688-3166 skinflowerart@gmail.com
Allan
Skriloff Allan attended Pratt Institute in 1962 and
1963, then transferred to Parsons School of Design, studying interior
design. He studied at the Art Students Summer League in 1964 and 1965,
and then on and off for the next decade. Alan has had shows at OK
Harris and Jakendoff Bochi Gallery in SoHo area of NYC. He's also
shown at General Electric Headquarters and Manhattan College. An amusing
Allan factoid: he's had 6 paintings on The Days of Our Lives soap
opera over the course of several episodes that were meant to take
place in an art gallery. More recently, Allan has shown at the Woodstock
Art Association and Hunter Gallery. Several of his Oil Worker paintings
are on display at Precision Drilling in Houston, Texas. Allan currently
has several paintings on display and loan at the Emerson Resort, an
award-winning, four-diamond property here in the Hudson Valley.
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.
