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Chip Gallagher does wood sculpture.

Jim Gardner Photographer, sculptor. landscaper with the greenest thumb around. Tells tales of the lower east side of NYC in the 70's and knows more about old movies than anyone has a right to.

Shalom Gorewitz I’ve been working as an electronic imagist with video and computers since the late 1960’s. During the 1970’s I was a frequent guest at Laneville’s Videofreex/Media Bus facility and during the 1980’s at Owego’s Experimental TV Center. For the past 20+ years I’ve had a personal studio in Chichester where I edit, process, and make soundtracks for digital films, as well as create digital prints and paintings. Audio and visuals often reflect environmental and political concerns. Last year a bear showed up. Dave- are bears allowed on the tour? www.gorewitz.com

 

    

Wendy Grossman Owner and designer of Studio 78, Wendy has been a working artist since the age of 15. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts for ten years. She has worked in all media including fabric, wood and clay. Because of this diversity, she brings with her an understanding of how home furnishing can blend , meld. Needing to flow in creative and unique way. Wendy is very conscious of the planet and chooses to use only products that are made from non -threatened trees and recyclable products. To this end she can hold her head up high in the area of art and life, knowing she has done her best to contribute and not to detract.If the product is not affordable, its not sustainable. Wendy employs only local help and wants to promote a healthy environment in which to hire in her community and not be swayed by the lore of cheep labor overseas. Most of her furniture is designed and manufactured by local cabinet makers with accent pieces made in the United States.
Her works reflects her attitude of keeping a positive outlook on life and encouraging growth both spiritual and economic in harmony with her surroundings. Wendy would also like to send a special thank you to her mom for helping Studio 78 be what it is today. Peace and love.

 

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Hot Stuff Blown Glass

Visit Hot Stuff Blown Glass and owners Mary Certoma and Alan Barbier. Together they own a gallery-like shop where you can see exquisite, unique, one-of-a-kind designs.. Collectively they have over 40 years of glass blowing experience. Mary specializes in perfume bottles, paperweights, and fluted edged vases. Alan specializes in substantially large pieces like platters, bowls and vases.. They team up to make fish sculptures and holiday ornaments. Alan and Mary always use lots of colors and different finishes such as etching and winter webbing in their designs.
A couple of new art glass techniques they are currently introducing is mosaic fusion and cabochon making. Mary is currently teaching at the Sugar Maple School in Maplecrest, New York. Hot Stuff Blown Glass Studio is located at 509 Rt. 214, Chichester, NY 12416.

For more information go to: www.hotstuffblownglass.com 
Drop us a line at: hotstuffblownglass@yahoo.com  or call 845-688-7720.

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Peggy Kay Making photos give me the freedom to question and respond freely with intention. My formal studies have been in synesthetic education, early childhood education, dance, photography, social work and psychotherapy. I am pulled by human nature life/death, the confrontations and beauty around me. I will be showing photographic masks and macro studies of plants and flowers that have been made by a digital camera and processed with the mac computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Babette Kiesel 845-688-7687 kieselseasel@gmail.com

Babette Kiesel is a nationally award-winning painter with solo, group and juried exhibitions throughout tri-state area with work in numerous private and museum collections, including National Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO. She does primarily commissioned contemporary portraits (people and/or pets) and landscapes from life or photographs.
Art Education: The Cooper Union Art School, NYC, Stephens College, MO. Also studied at Brooklyn Museum Art School, NYC; New York University,NYC (Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition Painting Scholarship); and with Chas. Cajori and Nick Carone.

 

 

 

John Kilb 845-688-2150

John Kilb was born and grew up in Greenwich Village. He was surrounded by the arts both in his neighborhood and at home: his mother was a dancer, singer and painter and his father was a set designer and painter; both worked with Orson Welles at the Mercury Theater. Inevitably,, John became an artist too. He has studied art at NYU, the New School, the Art Students League, and Atelier 17. John traveled and lived in Europe before settling in the Catskills in the early 1960's. He expresses himself in a variety of ways: paintings, drawings, wood bas-relief and sculptures, and constructions. His art reflects his bohemian upbringing and diverse experiences, from a detailed construction of a gritty NYC street scene to a wooden fish beautifully carved and gilded and hanging over a local bar.

James Knight
BFA Syracuse University | MFA Pratt Institute | Printmaking
1982-97 NYC working as papermaker and printer at RPM Studio, Tribeca,
L.E.S. Studio, East Village and Jera Studio, Tribeca.
Left NYC 1997. Moved to Catskills 1999.
Since moving here I've been making small scale drawings:
modernist endeavors at capturing a moment.

 

 

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Dakota Lane 845 688 5211 - 307 Old Plank Road Dakotastories@yahoo.com  www.dakotalane.org

       

 

Lucy Lasky splits her time between Chichester and New York City. In NYC she spends her days as the Director of a Child Care Center in Harlem that serves 85 chldren ranging from two to five years.
Lucy has been taking pictures for 25 years of her travels to Asia (Papau New Guinea, Thailand, Bali) Africa, Central and South America (Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil), Eastern and Western Europe (France, England, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic), the Carribean, and of course the USA.

She loves to take portraits of the faces that she sees everyday and in her travels. She especially loves to take portraits of young childten, unusual architecture and the inner world of flowers. Her interest is in the wide palate of colors she experiences in the natural world around her. She uses digital photography to bring out the colors she experiences.

Presently has an exhibit in NYC at Rootchi, a clothing store on the Upper Westside.

           

                 

     

Laura Levine  -  Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques

Described by Country Living magazine as "a love-at-first-sight wonderland of oddball collectibles, vintage clothing, and objects d'art," the Mystery Spot is part store, part museum, part odditorium, and a whole lot of fun! Named for Homer & Langley, the infamous Collyer Brothers, this obsessive and artistic "Shrine to Clutter" is packed to the rafters with unusual antiques, incredible vintage fashions, 1,000's of used records, found objects, mid-century lighting, out of print art books, and downright oddities such as the Creepy Doll Exhibit, Petey the Petrified Piranha, and Desdemona, the Devil Girl of Phoenicia,
Having recently acquired a collection of over 15,000 rock, jazz and C&W records (which we're still sorting through), we can now add "used record store" to our resume. We also feature a selection of original paintings, prints and rock & roll photographs by proprietress/artist Laura Levine, whose work is currently on exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum through January 31.
Levine's work can be purchased at the Mystery Spot or through her online gallery:  www.illogator.com/lauralevine

Songbirds of the Catskills by Laura Levine
Limited edition 12-color process archival pigment ink print. Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm 100% cotton rag, each signed and numbered by the artist on the front. Prices start at $45

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R.E.M., Walter's Bar-B-Que, Athens, GA, 1984 by Laura Levine
Archival fine art pigment ink print of photograph of R.E.M. by Laura Levine taken in Athens, Georgia in 1984. Each print will be individually hand-signed and titled by the artist. Printed on Harman gloss paper. On special offer through the end of the year, starting at $150.

an interior view of the Mystery Spot:

Mark Loete

 

Ken Lovelett I am a musician that has been building sound sculpture since 1969. This is an art form that not many people in this country are familiar with but is gaining greater recognition and acceptance much the same way photography has over the many years. The pieces that I make are one of a kind and eventually each one is recorded as a solo performance as well as with an ensemble called " The Sonic Liberation Orchesrtra". Many of my creations have been written about or featured in publications here and abroad. The" Sonart Gallery " is a building that I am renovating to showcase not only my work but that of my cohorts around the globe. It will also feature " musicians that are artists as well as artists that are musicians." Dealing with this dichotomy to me is very interesting.

You are invited to an exhibition and performance on my works on June 5th at 7:00 PM. Three of my sound sculptures will be played at G.A.S in Poughkeepsie. Admission is $10.00.

Thanks, Ken Lovelett

    

 

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Cornelius and Ann McGillicuddy - Cornelius makes furniture, wood carvings, saunas, guitars, violins, tools, wood sculptures, and more.

NEW for 2011- an Iron Forge!  Cornelius shown here during construction.


Ann McGillicuddy: These traditional Scandinavian rag rug weavings are inspired by my Finnish/Swedish roots. After graduation from SUNY Purchase in 1989 , I travelled around Europe and then moved north to Stockholm to live with my mother’s mother and finally crossed the Baltic Sea to live with family in Helsinki. There, I studied Swedish language at the University of Helsinki and Weaving at the Espoo Center School. I learned how to weave on a traditional 4 harness loom using “rags”. The first piece I wove was made out of the old curtains that had been hanging in my grandmother’s Stockholm apartment. They were faded from many years of strong summer suns, and I ripped them up and created my first weaving. It is unconventional, in that it is not a straight back and forth weft weaving. I created shapes in the warp with the weft , using my hands only . The preceding rugs I have woven have been traditional. Many of these rugs have been made out of old sheets that I have scavenged from different places, and then hand-dyed ; they were cut up and recycled for weaving. In this sense they are very traditional rag rugs.
The elements of nature are embodied in my weaving …… I see each piece as a reflection of my natural surroundings.

James McColgan

About my Artwork:
Sometimes I look at things in decay - what someone else might consider old and useless - and I try and figure out a way to bring it back to a new life, to transform it into something useful or Nice to look at or just cool. I'm a craftsman, so naturally building things comes easy. I love soft colors and the beauty of Flowers in our world. I like to paint them in a child-like style. Children are as close to Primal Art as you can get - they see things very simplisticly. They are as Pure as Angel's That Fly! And Why would I want to shoot for anything Less Perfection? I make work in pastels, handmade paper, wood, tile, glass, copper and use all found objects! I Believe it's time to make do with what we have and stop making the planet any sicker than it is.
James


 

Tessa Morelli - Mysterious mixed media montage.

Mount Tremper Arts Nestled in the Catskill Mountains and founded by photographer Mathew Pokoik and choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Mount Tremper Arts serves as a center for exploration within the fields of movement and the arts. Artist-run, MTA is dedicated to providing a rich and nurturing, yet challenging, environment for its artists and audiences. It serves this mission by hosting events that give time and space for in-depth work and dialogue. These events include a summer festival, performances, exhibitions, lectures, classes, workshops, residencies, and informal gatherings.

845-688-9893 - www.MountTremperArts.org - info@mounttremperarts.org

Astrid Nordness Ceramics, paintings and drawings of mythical and biological fantasies.

 

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Naugatuck approaches his art with the eyes of a Native American.

 

James Nevin is a new media artist focusing on the conversion of live performance, electronic media, and oral and written narrative. I am currently developing a new form of live electronic performance I call a "realto." A realto blends traditional storytelling with live video and computer-generated scenery to create a virtual, electronic theater.

Astrid Nordness "I like breaking rules within strict confines. I create stamps, often with strong images within frames. Then I extend echoes of that image – and new designs – beyond the frame to make what’s going on outside the confined area just as engaging. I work with an outrageously large pallet of colors—loud colors. No matter how vibrant, I find the texture and natural colors of clay stand up to the noise of bright glazes.
I became obsessed with clay, in part, because it’s a slow, multi-stepped process. I began life as an artist by doing pet portraits. I spent twelve years doing what became very rote and factory. I love animals—and i am a dog grooming in order to support my art. I incorporate critters: bugs, lizards, birds, microscopic life forms or whatever catches my attention in nature into ceramic work. Each layer, from building, to my stamp process, to glazing feels like more interaction with these fascinating creatures, more love."

Bio
Astrid’s father, Oscar Nordness trained at the Chicago Art Institute and was perhaps best known for designing the Pepsi bottle of the 1960s. He was highly encouraging of her talents, and taught her “how to see things, how to be clear about the big picture before the details.” With Astrid in tow, her father frequented museums and browsed art books, which contributed to her high esteem of teaching as a profession. She planned on teaching high school students and graduated from the College of Staten Island with degrees in Fine Arts, English Literature and a minor in secondary education. After student teaching, however, she opted for mentoring artists — an instruction path she continues to devote time to.
Astrid’s love for animals has always been intertwined with her art. Seemingly a natural extension of this fondness, she did pet portraiture for years. “It took a while to realize how much pursuing art for money was killing my creativity. Ironically, I’ve consistently made more income from doing what I love.” She painted with acrylics and did work in digital photography up until 2004, when Astrid discovered ceramics. Presently, her highly colorful works are studded by images from rubber stamps she constructs to imprint clay. Everything she does is one of a kind, production work does not interest her.
Astrid’s work has been shown at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY; The Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia, NY; 60 Main, Phoenicia, NY, and Tivoli Artist Coop, Tivoli, NY.

 

 

  

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Margaret, Gavin and Jesse Owen - We lived on Canal Street in N.Y.C for 26 years with our children Jesse and Alice. We had a childrens clothing store called "Just Kidding" in Tribeca. we moved Upstate to Boiceville in June of 2001 and started a business dying and painting silk scarves. In August of 2004 we got together with a few friends and opened "The Arts Upstairs" gallery in Phoenicia N.Y. We are a community based gallery that accepts everyones work without judging or jurying. Our family has always been creating things and selling them and I hope we always will.

 

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Ralph Persons Studied interior design and architectural rendering at Russel Sage collage Troy. He has had thirty-six individual art shows. He has spent several years studing at Copperstown art Assn. and with John Pike at Woodstock. Ralph taught adult education art at North Colony School and he has held several Elder Hostel Art Classes at the Frost Valley YMCA.

 

 

 

 

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Ralph Persons studied interior design at Russel Sage College. He has had thirty-six individual art shows. He has studied at Cooperstown Art Association and with John Pike at Woodstock. Ralph taught adult education art at North Colony School and he has held several Elder Hostel Art Classes at the Frost Valley YMCA.