Artist Reception: Mitch Eiss and Joan Hooker
2024-09-14 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
Celebrate the work of Mitch Eiss and Joan Hooker and meet the artists themselves. Light refreshments will be served.

Artist Exhibitions: Ivan Pazlamatchev & Milbry Polk
2025-01-07 - 2025-05-05
Gallery 1 Paintings By: IVAN PAZLAMATCHEV
Ivan Pazlamatchev is a Bulgarian American painter rooted in figurative realism. In his paintings, the representational contemporary interpretation is backed by classical training, received at the prestigious School for Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
With over 30 years of experience working as a fine artist, Ivan has exhibited in galleries and museums inEurope and throughout the United States. Notably, in 2008, Pazlamatchev’s paintings were included in the Societe Nationale Des Beaux-Arts Salon at Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. In 2018 he had a comprehensive retrospective exhibit at the Art Gallery Georges Papazov in Bulgaria. In 1997, his solo exhibition at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia represented the Painting portion in the Salon of the Arts ‘97. His work was selected in the Crocker-Kingsley National Competition 2021. He has received awards, grants, and invitations, including to the Art Fusion Festival in Berlin, Germany, and has work residing in public and private collections, including the S. C. Rockefeller, Jr. collection. Ivan’s art is included in the Lunar Codex, a digital archive of Contemporary Art, which landed on the Lunar South Pole on February 22, 2024 with the Intuitive Machines Odysseus mission.
ARTIST STATEMENTWhen thinking about food, particularly of fruits and vegetables, I find myself contemplating the journey from seed to plant, and then onward to fruit and seed. It is hard to look at a Seed as being alive, yet, inside of it is the potential for a new Life. And… why not, the imagination, the idea, for the new plant. It is fascinating to see the unfolding of a plant from a little seed. How it grows large and so complex in form and substance. All of the guiding principles for its character, its archetype, seem to have been stored in and now released, from the Seed. (Many plant foods that we eat are Seeds. In various states of fulfillment.) The series of watercolor paintings, depicting farms, I named Cathedrals. It is in reference to the places where our physical nourishment comes from.For more information or sales inquiries, please contact Ivan: ipazlamatchev@yahoo.com / 845-642-2560Instagram @ ivan_pazlamatchev_art
Gallery 2 Photographs by MILBRY POLK
Milbry Polk was born in England and grew up in the U.S. and Egypt. She graduated from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. She co-founded and served as executive director of Wings WorldQuest, a nonprofit supporting women in science and exploration, and was Vice-Chair of the Conference on Affordable World Security. Currently, she works with The Explorers Club, co-chairing the Global Exploration Summit and leading the Young Explorers Program in the Arctic. Milbry got her first camera at the age eight and has been photographing ever since. She has published her photography in numerous magazines and books and has exhibited in galleries in New York, Hartford and elsewhere. She has participated in led and expeditions to Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia; Iran; Pakistan; Alaska; Nepal; Brazilian coast; Greenland; Canadian Arctic, India; Chinese Tibet, and the Andaman Sea. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Sweeney Award, the Explorers Club, the Capt. J.-E. Bernier Medal, Royal Canadian Geographic Society, and the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award2. She has served on the boards of the Explorers Club and the National Arts Club. She was featured in a CBS Sunday Morning segment, which earned a Gracie Award.
ARTIST STATEMENTIn our chaotic world I have been drawn to places of peace and beauty, places far from the modern world in space and time. I am inspired by the ever-changing landscape impacted by water and light. My favorite time of day is about a half an hour before sunrise on the cusp of light and dark. The pictures in this show were taken over the past 6 years in the far north of Canada, the shores of Greenland, and the coast of Maine. One, image, marked by the lack of water is of the ancient floor of the Tethys Sea which once covered North Africa. The strange rock formations in the desert were carved out first by currents and later, once the water was gone, by sand and wind. I try to capture a moment in time in an ever-changing landscape buffeted by water, by storms, by ice Illuminated by otherworldly lightVisit her website: www.milbrypolk.comFor more information or sales inquiries, please contactMilbry at: milbry@post.harvard.edu / 914.522.2434Instagram @milbrypolk

Meet The Artists: Ivan Pazlamatchev & Milbry Polk
2025-02-01 12:00 - 14:00
🎨✨ Join us at Roost Restaurant & Union Arts Center
Saturday, February 1st, from 12 PM to 2 PM, for a special ‘Meet The Artists’ event!
Explore ‘Nature/Nurture’ by Ivan Pazlamatchev in Gallery One and ‘Chasing Reflections’ by Milbry Polk in Gallery Two. Get inspired by their stunning works and meet the talented minds behind them.
📍 2 Union St, Sparkill, NY
Gallery Hours: 4 PM – 5:30 PM (except Tues.) or by appointment: 845-359-0258″

Artist Exhibitions: Mary Tiegreen
2025-05-21 - 2025-09-07
Artist’s Statement
My journey into Wonderland began almost 30 years ago. It started with a yellow parrot tulip from my garden. Now 30 years later and with thousands of images in my collection, I am so grateful to have experienced each one, as each has transformed me. The process I use produces a sharpness, clarity, and shallow depth of field that enhances the tiniest details, inspiring a fascination with small wonders.
As children, we had a curiosity about all things, where every discovery felt exciting, magical, and surprising. If we adults are lucky, and open to observation, we may recapture that feeling from time to time. It is my hope that these images can help viewers encounter a bit of wonder in nature and find the extraordinary in the ordinary.
—Mary Tiegreen
Artist’s Statement
Mary Tiegreen was born in Chicago. She studied photography, writing, and handmade books at the University of Iowa, receiving her BFA. Mary moved to London to continue her studies in book design, returning to New York where she was a partner in a design studio, working with illustration, graphic design, and package design. She later spent many years in the publishing industry designing and creating illustrated books. Her collaboration with Jana Kolpen on “The Secrets of Pistoulet” series of books resulted in four lines of dinnerware produced by the Pfaltzgraff corporation. In 2010, her show of Wonderland images was on display at the National Arts Club in New York. Presently, her series “Climate Disasters Inspired by Great Masters,” a co-creation with artificial intelligence, is being shown at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University’s climate school.

Artist Exhibitions: Delah Brucelli
2025-09-10 - 2026-01-04
WORK BY AWARD WINNING ARTIST DELAH BRUCELLI
Delah Brucelli is an Artistic Alchemist, born in the UK and resident of New York, who maintains a working studio in Nyack, on the Hudson River. Brucelli is classically trained and globally experienced as a contemporary realist and abstract painter. She trained internationally in France, Italy and the UK before working for seven years with some of New York’s prominent artists including Frank Arcuri, Steven Assael, John Phillip Osborne, and Dennis Sheehan.
Brucelli was awarded Best in Show by the IFDA for her collection titled “Transcendence in Movement” at the 2015 Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York City. In addition, her works were purchased for the model penthouse of Hudson Yards, NYC. She undertakes comissions and is in private collections in Palm Beach, Nantucket, Los Angeles, Colorado, and Europe.
Brucelli is a successful entrepreneur and previously owned a New York based clothing label that was featured on the front-page of the Sunday New York Times fashion section. As stylist to the stars in Hollywood, her clients included Ringo Star, Brooke Sheilds, and Catherine Deneuve. Her prestigious background in fashion includes the Couture Houses of Dior and Balmain in Paris. Brucelli’s book Tell Me The Truth is due to launch this Fall 2025.
Artist’s Statement
Whether I’m creating allegorical stories, brush-free abstracts, or mosaics of poured color, I have developed my own style of “artistic alchemy” – a combination of mixing materials to produce the stillness of image and the movement of spirit.
By using different techniques, I aim to create a multi-dimensional space within the work that elevates the viewer to contemplate and transcend the physical. My current focus is on the exploration of the intersection between fine art and new media.

Opening Reception: Delah Brucelli
2025-09-14 12:00 - 14:00
