Artists’ Reception for Roisin Reilly and Chris Reilly
2023-04-02 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Union Arts Center invites you to a reception for Chris Reilly and Roisin Reilly, brother and sister of Roost’s Chef, Kevin Reilly. Light refreshments will be served as we celebrate the visual artists, the culinary artist and the interior designer, Maria Santini, partner of Kevin Reilly and co-owner of Roost.
The Exhibitions:
HUDSON SUBLIME: PAINTINGS BY CHRIS REILLY
and
ENVIRONS: PAINTINGS BY ROISIN REILLY
Gallery hours are 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM daily (except Tuesdays) or by appointment. Call 845-359-0258.
On view Through May 1, 2023

Rosanne Cerbo – Oils On Canvas
2023-04-17 08:00 - 17:00 | NY
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Sunday April 25th 2021, 12 PM – 3 PM | More Info
Through July 25, 2021

Rosanne Cerbo is a resident of Tuxedo, New York. She’s an award winning artist, has had her work featured in 2019 Southwest Art Magazine, and is a Signature Member of AIS and HVAA and member of OPA and Salmagundi. She’s had the fortune to study under John P. Osborne and Andrew Lattimore. All subjects inspire her from portraits to landscapes.
Exhibit may be viewed while dining at Roost Restaurant, from 5 PM daily (except Tuesdays) or by appointment. Call 845-359-0258. Exhibition is curated by Audrey Leeds. For inquiries, contact Audrey at proleeds@aol.com.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“Art is part, if not whole, of who I am. It is my oxygen- it’s why I’m eager to awaken from my warm bed to face painting outside on a freezing day. It takes me out of my comfort zone and challenges me on a daily basis. It is my friend and at times, a frustrating foe. It is the spouse that I would never divorce. My undying passion does not get old and will remain with me until my last breath.” –RC

Photo Credit: Paul Undersinger

AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS:
December, 2020- Finalist in Richeson International Animal Show
November, 2020-Peter Matulavage Memorial Award Salmagundi (Sylvia Glessman Exhibit)
September, 2020- Accepted into Eastern Regionals Oil Painters of America
August, 2020- BEST IN SHOW (Tuttle Memorial Award) Salmagundi Christmas in July Show NYC
April, 2020- Accepted into Oil Painters of America Salon Show
March, 2020- BEST IN SHOW- AIS Nationals Small Works Show TX
January, 2020- Exhibited in Museum of The Dog- NYC, NY
December, 2019-Salmagundi Thumb-box Award
September, 2019- Trekkel Intl Pet Portrait award
June, 2019-Hudson Vly Art Assoc. Show- Elizabeth C. Morgan Floral Award
May, 2019- Finalist in ARC Salon Show
December, 2018- Exhibited at Belskie Museum in NJ
November, 2018- Exhibited at Attleboro Museum in MA
September, 2018- The Southwest Art Magazine-finalist in Artistic Excellence Competition from over 1500 entries
July, 2018- accepted 19th AIS Nationals
January, 2018- Featured in Southwest Art Magazine
August, 2017- 2017 OPA Eastern Regionals Acceptance
July, 2017- The Artists’ Magazine-selected finalist in 34th Annual Competition from over 6500 entries
July, 2017- AIS-accepted 18th Annual National Show
April, 2017-Hudson Valley Art Assoc. 84th Annual Show Award
March, 2017-Sylvia Maria Glesmann Salmagundi Show Merit award
March, 2017- Charles Dana Gibson Salmagundi Award
January, 2017- Award Ridgewood Art Institute Open Juried Show
October, 2016- 1st Place Ringwood Open Juried Show
May, 2016- Award-AAPL Members Show
March, 2016-BEST IN SHOW-Joseph Hartley Salmagundi Award
April, 2016- AAPL Online Landscape Show Award
March, 2016- Accepted in Hudson Valley Art Assoc. 83rd Juried Exhibition
December, 2015- Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club Award
October, 2015- Oil Painters of America-Accepted in Salon Exhibition
May, 2015 — Salmagundi Floral Award
March, 2015 — AAPL Landscape Online Theme Show Award
February, 2015 — Salmagundi Urban Show Award
January, 2015 — Exhibited in New Britain Museum of American Art
October, 2014 — Salmagundi Fall Show- “Sylvia Glesman Award”
September, 2014 — RMAA Open Juried Show- First Place
January, 2014 — Ridgewood Art Instiute- 34th Regional Open Juried Show– Award
April, 2013 — Scarsdale Art Association- “Best in Show” and First Place in Portraits
June, 2010 — RMAA Members Show — “Best in Show” in oils
November, 2013 — Orange Cty Arts Federation– First Place in show
March, 2011 — Kent Art Association — “2011 Award of Excellence” in oils
April, 2011 — Kent Art Association “Best in Oils/Acrylics”
March, 2012 — First Place in oils-Warwick Art League
June, 2013 — First Place oils- Fort Lee Arts Guild
August, 2013 — American Professional Artists League-Award in Landscapess
March, 2014 — American Professional Artists League Award in Portraits
September, 2013 — Accepted in The National Gallery, NYC- Lorillard 117th Annual Open Exhibition
October, 2013 — Accepted in Audubon Artist 71st Annual Exhibition
June, 2014 — Hudson Valley Art Association: Accepted 82nd Exhibition
May, 2014 — Connecticut Academy of Fine Art: Accepted 103rd Exhibition
May, 2014 — Salmagundi -Accepted “American Masters” Exhibition
MEMBER (EITHER PAST OR PRESENT):

Salmagundi Club — 5th Avenue/NYC, NY
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Oil Painters of America
Ridgewood Art Association
American Impressionism Society
Hudson Valley Art Association (Signature Member)
NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society)

Nick Savides: A Retrospective Of Paintings
2023-08-13 12:00 - 14:00 | NY
Above: Light Through the Trees – Prospect Park, oil on linen, 16″ x 20″
NICK SAVIDES
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My paintings have a calming effect, but with a quiet intensity. There is a stillness about them, as if time was slowed down, and then suspended.
I’m inspired by the effects of light and the drama created by light. Influenced by artists such as Johannes Vermeer and Edward Hopper, I strive to create paintings that capture a sense of time and place, making that moment eternal. They draw you in with the familiar and invite you to interpret the story behind them.
The artistic process is a journey reflecting life’s journey — one of discovery and expression. Each painting that I make is a stop on that journey that I would like to share and make a connection.
My paintings are inspired by the people I’ve known, and the places I’ve lived and traveled to. I am interested in the relationship between people and their environment. Although they are often set in public spaces and feature well known icons, each one is a deeply personal statement and a celebration of the beauty of nature and humanity.”
–NICK SAVIDES

Amberg Farm, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″

Cape Cod Sunset, oil on canvas, 9′′ x 12”

Beach Path, oil on Canvas, 24″ x 36″
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BIO
Nick Savides learned to paint from his mother at three years old and hasn’t stopped since. Inspired by the works of Edward Hopper, the quiet energy within his art captures a palpable sensation of both light and place. The paintings’ range encompasses urban scenes and architecture, landscapes and nature, and the figure and portraiture.
After studying under Paul Georges at Brandeis University, Nick began a career as a Realist painter. Starting out, he focused on paintings of people in interior settings, drawing on Johannes Vermeer as an influence. It was then that the effects of light became ─ and stayed ─ a key ingredient in his paintings. The paintings capture a sense of time and place with a certain understatement, as many of the titles would suggest, such as “Wall Street – Early Morning” or “West 14th Street at Sunset”. They grip you by inviting you in with the familiar and showing you more than you expected. As Val Schaffner writes, “Beyond the carefully rendered beauty, complexity, and calm of his art, there is mystery: a sense of something about to be discovered.”
Since his first solo show in 1980, he has exhibited in many group and solo shows in New York City, as well as Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Long Island, Upstate New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, Wisconsin, and Toronto. His work is included in numerous collections and was featured in June Middleton’s “Minding Your Business,” which aired on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in 2010. Twice published by Nabi Press, he had a retrospective of his work at the Berkeley College Gallery in 2012, was selected for the cover of the 2015 William & Mary Review and has been published in ArtVoices Art Books’ 2016 “101 Contemporary Artists” and the John Natsoulas Press’ 2018 “10th Annual Art of Painting”, and the August 2021 American Art Collector. His most recent solo exhibit was at Bowery Gallery in New York, and his work is also in the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program.
Nick lives and works in Brooklyn.
Visit Nick’s Website: nicksavides.com
Follow him on Instagram: @nicksavides
For purchasing inquiries, contact Nick: nicksavides@gmail.com

Artist Reception: Joyce Byrnes and Dan Lukens
2023-12-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
Celebrate the work of Joyce Burns and Dan Lukens and meet the artists themselves. Light refreshments will be served.

Artist Exhibition: Norman Galinsky and Alberto Reyes
2024-01-09 - 2024-05-07 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
Experience the works of Norman Galinsky and Alberto Reyes. On display for purchase in the Union Arts Center from January 9th to April 9th. Make sure to mark your calendars, you do not want to miss these ethereal works.
Gallery 1: Norman Galinsky
Norman Galinsky’s abstract geometric art has been inspired and informed by his background in science and engineering, and his ongoing interest and study of meditative and energy healing disciplines and consciousness explorations.
His work represents the intimate relationship between the energetic and quantum nature of reality and the spiritual essence embodied by art. He believes that art expression is energy itself –an aspect of what the Chinese term Qi, the universal life energy. The images depict a “stillness in motion”, drawing the viewer into a meditative dialog with the present moment. His over 30 year practice and teaching of Chinese martial arts, Tai Ji Quan and qigong exercises, as well as study of other energetic healing disciplines have been foundational in helping him generate, cultivate, and utilize energy patterns that often find their way into his images. Additionally, his earlier career and professional background in chemical engineering was instrumental in combining his use of mathematics with “permutational” and intuitive approaches to making art. His understanding and study of sacred geometry became a roadmap to explore how energy, science, and esthetics can be related.
www.normangalinsky.com
Gallery 2: Alberto Hernandez Reyes
Alberto Hernandez Reyes (b. Havana, 1976)
Behind the appearance of natural shapes, hidden behind the beauty of the landscape is the living spirit of the world (Anima Mundi). That invisible, but intuited, soul manifests itself in multiple signs. A sustained contemplation makes us listen to the primal music that comes from the forest, the mist in the morning transforms the old road into an unknown country, a forgotten language makes us understand the underlying codes in the waves of the sea. So many messages, many of which we are not conscious.
Through my paintings I have tried to explore the visuality of this ethereal dimension: The elements of Nature are recognizable on the surface of the canvas but, as the viewer will see, the representation patterns go beyond pure mimesis. It is about exploring and materializing that mystical world through atmospheres full of mystery, giving trees almost human emotions, concentrating, or limiting color in an ascetic, monochromatic range, evoking silence.
The use of light is essential. The spaces addressed are practically surreal scenarios that gravitate between the perception of the birth of Creation and apocalyptic shadows. And light is capable here of tipping the balance towards one concept or another.
Let this be an invitation to discover another physiognomy of the landscape through the inner vision of the artist.
albertohreyes.com

James Kimak: Painting Light
2024-05-07 16:00 - 2024-09-10 22:00 | NY
Artist Statement
Recent Honor for James Kimak! Kimak’s painting “Man with Tattoo, Havana” was recently included in a multidisciplinary art presentation at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
From my start as an inker at Marvel Comics to work as a newspaper designer and illustrator, to an Art Director in the early years of interactive media at NBC and CNBC, to the creator/designer of murals for large health and education institutions, I have always been active as an exhibiting fine artist.
In 2019, I shifted from my previous focus on pastels to larger pieces in acrylic on canvas. From a gallery statement, “Through the use of vibrant hues and strong light/shadow contrasts, he skillfully captures the interplay between light and form in his paintings. Drawing inspiration from such renowned artists as Edward Hopper, Degas, and Fairfield Porter, among others, his works suggest a hint of abstraction along with its explicit realism. ‘Something catches my eye when I’m not actively seeking a subject. Often, these subjects have a strong structural shape at their core.’ While his paintings are based on specific locations that evoke a distinct sense of place, he also brings his own imagination into the compositions, often omitting or altering details to align with his vision.”
Since 2005, I have also used my graphic and photography skills—often including images of my fine art—in the creation of narrative murals for such clients as Columbia University, Montefiore Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospitals, among others.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Bridgeport. I have participated in numerous exhibitions in galleries in New York and New England, and in museums, including Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, the Parrish Art Museum, and the American Museum of Illustration, winning a number of awards, including Gold Medals, along the way. My newest honor is the inclusion of a projected image of my painting, Man with Tattoo, Havana, in a dance and choral stage performance, PORTRAITS, at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center (6/2024)
Following my first solo show at the Edward Hopper House in 1993, I became a founding member of the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, NY. Afterwards, I was represented by the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City, where I held several solo shows. I have also shown at Carrie Haddad in Hudson, NY, Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, VT, the Jessie Edwards Gallery on Block Island, RI, Ned Kelly & Company in Tappan, NY and Perry Lawson Fine Art in Nyack, NY.
I live and work in Rockland County, NY.
Follow James on Instagram: @kimakart
Visit James’ website: www.jameskimakfineart.com

Artist Reception: James Kimak
2024-06-02 15:30 - 17:30 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
James Kimak: Painting Light
Artist Statement
From my start as an inker at Marvel Comics to work as a newspaper designer and illustrator, to an Art Director in the early years of interactive media at NBC and CNBC, to the creator/designer of murals for large health and education institutions, I have always been active as an exhibiting fine artist.
In 2019, I shifted from my previous focus on pastels to larger pieces in acrylic on canvas. From a gallery statement, “Through the use of vibrant hues and strong light/shadow contrasts, he skillfully captures the interplay between light and form in his paintings. Drawing inspiration from such renowned artists as Edward Hopper, Degas, and Fairfield Porter, among others, his works suggest a hint of abstraction along with its explicit realism. ‘Something catches my eye when I’m not actively seeking a subject. Often, these subjects have a strong structural shape at their core.’ While his paintings are based on specific locations that evoke a distinct sense of place, he also brings his own imagination into the compositions, often omitting or altering details to align with his vision.”
Since 2005, I have also used my graphic and photography skills—often including images of my fine art—in the creation of narrative murals for such clients as Columbia University, Montefiore Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospitals, among others.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Bridgeport. I have participated in numerous exhibitions in galleries in New York and New England, and in museums, including Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, the Parrish Art Museum, and the American Museum of Illustration, winning a number of awards, including Gold Medals, along the way. My newest honor is the inclusion of a projected image of my painting, Man with Tattoo, Havana, in a dance and choral stage performance, PORTRAITS, at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center (6/2024)
Following my first solo show at the Edward Hopper House in 1993, I became a founding member of the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, NY. Afterwards, I was represented by the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City, where I held several solo shows. I have also shown at Carrie Haddad in Hudson, NY, Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, VT, the Jessie Edwards Gallery on Block Island, RI, Ned Kelly & Company in Tappan, NY and Perry Lawson Fine Art in Nyack, NY.
I live and work in Rockland County, NY.
Follow James on Instagram: @kimakart
Visit James’ website: www.jameskimakfineart.com

A Conversation with Artist James Kimak
2024-09-08 10:00 - 11:15 | NY
Sunday, Sept 8th, 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM Gallery Two, Roost Restaurant & Union Arts Center Join us and learn about the artistic process of James Kimak and view his art before the exhibition closes on Monday Sept 9th.

Artist Exhibitions: Mitch Eiss and Joan Hooker
2024-09-10 - 2025-01-06 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
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/

Artist Reception: Mitch Eiss and Joan Hooker
2024-09-14 12:00 - 14:00 | 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 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
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 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
🎨✨ 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 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
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 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
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 | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
