Artist Exhibitions: Mitch Eiss and Joan Hooker

Gallery 1: A Journey: Photographs by Mitch Eiss

I got my first film camera in the early 1960’s – a Kodak Brownie with a flash bulb – and that was the beginning of a life-long passion for capturing moments and people. As my interest in drawing and photography grew, I entered college as an art major, but turbulent times and my interest in social issues led me to a career in mental health. Then life and responsibility eventually turned me to a corporate career. My one constant throughout was my love for art and photography.

I am now happily devoting my time to making and sharing photographs. (Oh, how proud my father would be.) I have shot major events and small music club venues, but primarily, “I walk the streets.” Each of us can look at an object, a person or scene, and yet, we all see, feel and react differently.For inquiries, please contact mitch@mitcheiss.photography
https://www.mitcheiss.photography/

Gallery 2: Paintings by Joan Hooker

Joan Hooker is an oil painter who concentrates on still lifes, striving to express the essence of her subjects as well as represent in her work the response which motivates her to paint those subjects. As Camille Corot said, “Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression from nature. While I strive for a conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me. Reality is one part of art; feeling completes it.”Joan’s early education came from the inspiration and tutelage of her grandfather, Pennsylvania impressionist John F. Folinsbee, and her uncle, landscape and portrait painter Peter G. Cook. She received a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the New York Academy Graduate School of Figurative Art in 1993, where she studied with Eric Fischl and Ted Schmidt among others. She had previously studied at Pratt Institute, the Corcoran School of Art, and received her B.A. from Smith College.Joan Hooker’s work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Allen Sheppard Gallery, Newington Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Somerville Manning Gallery, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Penobscot Marine Museum, Rockland Center for the Arts, among many others. Her work is currently represented at the Newman Galleries in Philadelphia.  She lives and works in Rockland County, NY.For inquiries, please contact jwhooker@gmail.com.
http://joanhooker.com/