Roost Restaurant & Union Arts Center

Hanged With Roses: Hiba Schahbaz
2017-01-14 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Roost Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY, 10976, United States
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: January 14, 2017, 12p-4p
Through Monday, March 27

“I speak an ancient language in a contemporary feminine voice. Trained in the centuries-old traditional Indo-Persian painting technique, working with imagery developed by men to tell the stories of antiquity, I aim to challenge the inflexible rules of miniature painting and recontextualize the art form to accept and embrace a female perspective.
“In my work, I am both the artist and the performer. I photograph my body and use these images as references for my paintings. Through the stories I create I contemplate what it means to be a woman. These works addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form.
“I use the female figure to unfold a narrative that transcends cultural and political boundaries. I tell my own story while heavily embellishing it with imagination and metaphor. And although the protagonist in the work is me, she also carries a dual, existential meaning. I often use the female form as a tool, portraying thoughts and concerns from socio-cultural and political realms.
“Meticulously ornamented and vividly colorful, the miniature draws the viewer in. I pursue the world of the beautiful in my work, resulting in visually appealing paintings. This delicate allure is underscored, however, by an unsettling tension. Things are not quite what they seem.”
9 Artists to Watch ~ Hyperallergic
Read about Ms. Schahbaz in Verve Magazine
Hiba Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in the centuries-old art form of miniature painting. She trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan and received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York City. In addition to exhibiting her work internationally in galleries and fairs including the Vienna Art Fair and Scope NYC, Schahbaz has curated exhibitions of miniature paintings in Pakistan and India. She was an artist-in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and The Wassaic Project and has taught miniature painting as part of the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She is a teaching artist at the Art Students League of New York.

Full Circle: Grace Knowlton And Haile Binns
2016-11-27
About The Exhibit

Through Friday January 6, 2017

Open Gallery With Grace Knowlton: 11/27 and 12/17
Open Gallery With Haile Binns: 11/12, 11/26 and 12/17

About The Artist

Haile Binns is an American artist whose wooden canvases shows the beauty of nature through color, texture and movement. The foundation of her work is the welding of natural and industrial materials. Through earth and rock texture, contrasting color, and sharp emotional marks her work discovers the variegation within nature, and strives to express the possibility of balance in precisely those places we tend to fear and marginalize as a culture. What emerges onto her canvas is all soil and movement – textural stories of brutality, decay, ferocity, and change.

After Grace Knowlton graduated from Smith College in 1954, she moved to Washington and studied painting with Ken Noland. Unsatisfied with that surface, she started pouring rubber into flower pots to make relief forms for the paintings; the forms gradually evolved into free-standing, round clay sculptures. The closed form’s sealed–in space suggesting hidden-away mysteries fascinated her. Then it became the form itself. She began to place different sized spheres in groups which could be moved around, changing the relationships. Her early clay spheres were acquired by Storm King Sculpture Park in 1965. When Storm King expressed an interest in work of a larger scale, Ms. Knowlton shifted to concrete, which enabled her to create larger and more durable pieces.
In 1970’s the Newark Museum bought out her first gallery show in New York City – seven large concrete spheres, which they placed in their sculpture garden. She has shown in various galleries such as Hirschl and Adler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lesley Heller Workspace, Bates College Museum, Neuberger Museum and the Katonah Museum, among others.
In the ‘70s Grace began photographing white interior corners and printing the images in platinum. She went on to photograph subjects as diverse as seeds, bones, chairs, and sawhorses, looking for the abstract values of line, form, composition and structure.
Her work is in the collections of (among others): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art New York, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and the Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, CT.

Paintings By Fred Cohen
2016-10-23 12:00 - 16:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Sunday October 23, 2016, 12:00pm-4:00pm
Closing Reception: December 3
Through December 4

Statement from the artist: “I paint because I have to. It has become my pathway to relating to the world around me and inside me. It enables me to share.
‘Some years ago I was taught a design system, originally from Europe, that changed my life. This system helps one break down visual arts to more basic elemental designs, then reassembling them according to the artists particular vision and abilities, never forgetting the original underlying structure of the system. It was suggested that I use paint in the system, as my medium, which I was very reluctant to do: I had never used paints before. It immediately seemed natural. I found my artistic voice and have painted ever since. I cannot help but view things within my system, as it has become integral to my aesthetics and me. It always comes back to design and color, in a never-ending exploration and evolution.
“I have most enjoyed doing larger scale murals for children’s hospitals in the past. I am currently finding ways to do more murals locally, thru grants and other opportunities. It is a goal of mine.”

Mr. Cohen will be present during the opening reception on October 23, and open gallery hours on November 20 and December 3.

About The Artist

Fred Cohen studied architecture at the University of Miami before attending Pratt and the City College of New York. He has been featured in group and solo shows for over thirty years, and received the Prix de Paris Award in 1980.

Earth Impermanence
2016-09-03 14:00 - 17:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 3, 2:00-5:00pm
Through Monday, October 3 2016

OPENS SEPTEMBER 3

Featuring ten American and international artists
The Earth is in a way forever, but forever impermanent. Changing, shifting, growing, exploding, substantially different with each rotation. Green and lush, blue and vibrant, throughout each revolution. What is Earth, Impermanence?
This exhibit grew from a few artists in curious a group into a full-on cohesive discourse. The ensuing dialog surrounding the tension perched between permanent and impermanent is poignant yet alluring. Through a feminine lens, climate change, co-habitation, and perception are re-examined. The resulting exhibit challenges social, behavioral, and global norms in ways that are beauteous, while begging deeper self-analysis from the audience. This invitational of American and international artists is a sensuous exploration through a myriad of materials, medias, and meditations, lending voice to the subtle exuberance of Earth, Impermanence.
Please also join us on September 18 for a very special lecture and panel discussion with Dr. Lucy Spelman, founder of Creature Conserve. Learn more here.

About The Artist

Roya Amigh is an Iranian artist who earned a BFA and MFA in Tehran before completing a Master’s in Fine Arts degree in 2012 at Boston University. Roya’s work has exhibited throughout Colorado, New York and Massachusetts. She has been attending in a different Artist-In-Residence such as The Millay Colony for the Arts, Art Omi, Vermont Studio Center. She was a recipient of Ruth Katzman Scholarship in 2014, and Constantine Alajalov Scholarship in 2010-2012.
Zsuzsanna Ardó is human by inclination, humorous by nature, and an award-winning visual artist, art director/curator and writer by profession.To investigate contemporary society and culture creatively and critically, out of the box and at times out of the white box, she founded Ateliér A, and curates international arts projects as the Art Director of Creatives without Borders. She has worked in many artist residencies around the world, from France, Italy, Macedonia, Turkey, UK to the Deutsche Börse at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the High Arctic, and the Art Students League NY at Vyt. As a writer she has collaborated with composers and performers, and her work has been published internationally. Her visual art and curatorial projects, featuring strong, relevant concepts and a wide variety of artists from six continents, have been featured at galleries, museums, festivals, from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Google NY to the British and the European Parliament. Polar self Portraits, Ardó’s personal as well as curatorial art project about the landscape of the face (self portrait) and the face of the Earth (landscape) is featured in venues literally across the planet, including England, France, Morocco, Arctica and Antarctica. Earth Impermanence at UACNY grew out of Ardó’s Polar self Portraits, and her climate change/Hudson Valley curatorial concept proposed to and discussed with UACNY during her residency at Vyt. The next chapter of her climate change through art project, PlanetBody, shifts the focus from the face to the body. Interested artists and organisations can get in touch via Creatives without Borders and SynergySync Arts. Her public engagement work in the arts has been carried out in English, French and Hungarian, and includes sitting on international juries, portfolio reviews, workshops, talks, pop up art and flash mobs. Awards and fellowships include two Arts Council England awards. www.ardo.org
Charis J. Carmichael Braun grew up in New Ulm, MN. After an exchange year in Switzerland, she earned her BA from Bethany Lutheran College and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She is currently the Director of Communications and Caretaker at The League Residency at Vyt, the international artist residency of the Art Students League of New York. She has served on two NYC not-for- profits: as a board member for Spark and Echo Arts and also as the President of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and may be found in both private and public collections. With her husband Andrew Braun, a woodworker and cabinetmaker, Charis lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Chloé Bulpin is an illustrator and artist born in Canberra, Australia. She spent her childhood living and drawing in France, England, Scotland, Georgia (US), and Massachusetts. She attributes her love of drawing to her French grandfather, a painter himself, who used to keep her busy with stacks of paper and pencils. During those visits to her grandfather’s, she would draw tomatoes in the garden and became fascinated with botany. Her obsession with nature and line work continued as she studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. During her time at RISD, she aimed to combine her loves of art, conservation and biology to create work which highlighted the beauty of nature, encouraged conservation and showcased means to help. She graduated in 2015 and now lives and creates art in Brooklyn, New York.
Angela Gram received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She has done mural work for the American Museum of Natural History and her paintings exist in many private collections. Angela has been accepted as an artist in residence by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny France and by the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary in NJ. Her work has been shown in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island, and internationally with Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has also recently been published by Skira Rizzoli in “The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture” a book showcasing figurative art by established and emerging artists. Angela currently lives and works in New Jersey.
Heraa Khan is a contemporary visual artist from Lahore, Pakistan. After being awarded a scholarship at National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, she completed BFA in 2012. Heraa has specialized in the traditional techniques of Mughal and Persian miniature painting. Miniature painting requires immense technical skill, attention to detail and discipline. She uses natural pigments, handmade paintbrushes (Kalam) and paper (wasli). She has shown her work extensively in group and solo shows around the globe. She was awarded the Ruth Katzman scholarship at ASL Residency at Vyt.
Lisa Lebofsky is a painter living and working in New York City. She holds a BFA in metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz, and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work is in private collections, and has been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Prince of Wales Scholarship travel grant to the Château de Balleroy, France (2005), Terra Nova National Park artist in residence (2010), the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Grant from the Bronx Council of the Arts (2010, 2014), New Bedford Whaling Museum artist in residence (2013), and Saltonstall Foundation artist in residence (2014). Ms. Lebofsky finds inspiration and collects source material by traveling extensively to immerse herself in different natural environments. She primarily paints onsite, but also takes digital photos to cultivate a library of images for studio work. Recent travels include Antarctica, Newfoundland andLabrador, Greenland, and the Maldives.
Elena McCabe works collaboratively with natural objects and metal. Using silversmithing techniques, the metals and natural “gems” create adornment objects. Setting ephemeral items in a traditional context of cultural value, these miniature monoliths give form to a desired but sensitive environment in a dialogue balancing sustaining life and living comfortably. She was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, completed Pratt @MWPI fine arts foundation, attended Parsons New School University and studied Product Design for the Other 98%. Ms. McCabe graduated from Pratt Institute in 2008 with a BFA in Sculpture and Jewelry.
Char Norman is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in papermaking and fiber sculpture. She received a Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Art from Scripps College. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has developed and conducted workshops for all ages, worked as a consultant to area schools and community arts organizations and has held the position of Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at Columbus College of Art & Design.
Natalie Tyler is an internationally exhibiting artist, whose work has shown in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe. Drawing inspiration from nature, she casts its essence into the elements of metal and glass. She combines masterly cast bronze and glass sculpture to make truly inventive and original artwork. She has been a US Embassy sponsored artist twice, once in Dublin, Ireland and again in Tallinn, Estonia exhibiting at the Estonia Museum of Applied Art and Design. She has received numerous grants and awards from art institutions like Mass MOCA, Art Students League of New York, Vermont Studio Center, and Cornell University. In addition to her artwork she has curated large-scale exhibitions. Originally from California, she moved to the Berkshire Mountains inspired by its’ natural beauty, vibrant arts, culture, and friendly people.

Photographs By Barbara Sandson
2016-09-01
About The Exhibit

Through September 1, 2016

Barbara Sandson has been concentrating her efforts in capturing the color and texture of the small forgotten villages throughout Europe. She looks for and portrays the subtleties and fragile beauty she sees around her and captures the timeless quality of these areas. There are almost no people in these images, but unlike traditional architectural photography in which people seem irrelevant, one senses here that they hover near, just outside the frame.

About The Artist

New York City native Barbara Sandson now lives in Piermont-on-the-Hudson, just south of Nyack, New York. Recently she has purchased a house on Martha’s Vineyard and now divides her time between the two locations.
Her interest in photography came at an early age when her father brought home a Brownie camera and an enlarger. Her training became more formalized over the years and she has studied extensively in the fields of photography and painting. After working for twenty-two years in black and white she became seriously involved with color. She now enjoys the freedom and control of doing her own darkroom work. A great deal of time, care and precision go into printing each photograph.
While Barbara has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa, Asia, and South America, she developed an early passion for the French language and France itself. She was a French major in college and studied at the Université de Nancy, France, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Barbara has been drawn back dozens of times ever since for her photography (and of course the food and wine!)
A great number of Barbara’s photographs are now on permanent display in many galleries in the metropolitan New York area and Martha’s Vineyard. In addition, her work is in numerous private and corporate art collections, and the image, “Rainy Day Roses,” had a home for several years at the White House.

Norman Galinsky: Seen / Unseen
2016-07-23 14:00 - 17:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Saturday July 23, 2pm-5pm | More Info
Through August 28, 2016

New and selected works by Norman Galinsky
“I see my artwork as an embodiment and transmitter of healing energy- healing in the broadest sense of the word: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The compositions are created through an intuitive, meditative approach, a practice of focused attention and intention. By using a vocabulary of abstract geometric forms, patterns, and repetitive marks, I create images that portray vibratory fields and networks that contain the energy and facilitate its emission. I often use sacred geometric shapes and converging circular forms to construct a central focus, a ‘stillpoint’ that represents the unity of consciousness, a merging of subject and object.”
Seen / Unseen presents works that were created recently as well as a number of pieces created forty years ago which have never been exhibited.

About The Artist

Norman Galinsky’s artwork has been inspired by his background in science and engineering and his ongoing studies of metaphysics and spiritual issues.
His art studies began with a focus on traditional renaissance oil and egg tempera painting techniques, followed by classes with Henry Pearson at the New School and with Will Barnet and George Tooker at the Art Students League in NYC. In the late 1960’s, he participated in the Experiments in Art and Technology program developed by Billy Kluver and Robert Rauschenburg. After a seven-year career in chemical engineering, he left industry and turned fully to art, earning an MFA degree from Columbia University in 1973. At Columbia he studied painting with Philip Guston, Jack Tworkov, and Stamos, and printmaking with Bob Blackburn and Tony Harrison.
In addition, his artwork has been shaped by his 30 year experience in the practice and teaching of Chinese healing exercises and martial arts, including qigong, Taiji Quan, and other meditative and energetic healing disciplines. He has taught these forms in his studio as well as in area hospitals, including: New York Presbyterian (under the direction of Dr. Mehmet Oz), Englewood Hospital, Nyack Cancer Center, and St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY.
By synthesizing and translating the seemingly disparate worlds of the quantum sciences and spirituality into compelling images, Galinsky’s art depicts the evolving dynamic order underlying our world today and forecasts possibilities for the future.

Soul Argonauts: Paintings By Cate Whittemore
2016-06-12 14:00 - 17:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Sunday June 12, 2:00-5:00pm | More Info
Through July 15, 2016

Soul Argonauts is a collection of figurative watercolors, etchings, paintings and writings spanning the past few years, which explore physicality. Working between figurative and non-objective imagery, Whittemore cultivates a spontaneous use of materials to convey cathartic meanings.

About The Artist

Cate Whittemore is an artist and a long time yoga practicer. Her work investigates how the body manifests, and how art evidences, emotions, and how both bodies and art can be read for meaning.

She is a recipient of numerous awards and artist residencies, among them @ La Scuola Di Grafica in Venice, Italy and The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts in Red Wing, MN. In 2011, she had the honor of designing a poster for the World Peace Kalachakra of the Dalai Lama in Washington DC.

As a member of the International Alliance of Stage and Theater Employees, she was a professional set painter, creating scenery for movies, television, and theater hits, including “Spiderman; Turn On the Dark”, and “The Book of Mormon”.

She holds a a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Connecticut College, a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts/ Drawing & Painting from the University of Minnesota, and was a full-time apprentice at The Studio and Forum of Stage Design, in NYC 1977-1979.

She divides her time between Red Wing, MN and Skyros, Greece, where she teaches creative watercolor painting. She also teaches yoga, Pilates, and is a Thai Yoga Masseuse. More work and info available at www.artztruk.com.

Drama Of Light: Photographs By Michael Garber
2016-04-30
About The Exhibit

Through April 30, 2016

View Michael Garber‘s exhibit Drama of Light, where the artist showcases local landscapes in his signature style.

About The Artist

Michael Garber, a landscape, nature and portrait photographer, is intrigued by the subjectivity of light and is drawn to objects as they are transformed in changing light. He employs light as a design element in shaping and capturing his images. Dramatic scenes attract his attention especially where color and texture add depth and intensity. He has a special affinity for clouds with their visual power.He has travelled extensively to photograph diverse landscapes in their unique light.
Michael studied photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City with Bobbi Lane, noted photography teacher and educator. As a guest teacher for Bobbi Lane’s portraiture classes, he taught the process of how to create a photo essay.
He is completing a book, Vince, Portrait of an Aging American, a five year visual story of his friend, Vince, who died in 2009. The book documents the diminishing world of an aging American and his struggle to maintain dignity and self worth.
He also is the photographer for the forthcoming Timber Press book tentatively titled The History of Landscape Design in 100 Great Gardens by Dr. Linda Chisholm due to be published in the spring of 2017.

Paintings By Anne Bell
2016-04-16
About The Exhibit

Through Saturday, April 16

“I am interested in painting as a visual language. As a former student of Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League in NYC, I was trained to use abstraction as a means of expression. Throughout my career I have been exploring ways of using color, line, form, space, and rhythm to express what it is to be alive.
“My subject matter sometimes starts with plants and flowers. I am painting their movement and rhythm. That is what interests me most- the way they present themselves and their gallant enthusiasm for life. Different kinds of plants have different ways of moving. Some are voluptuous and unfold with care. Lilies on a single plant often reach out and caress each other as they bloom. Their leaves take up a circular movement and their berries form a musical counterpoint to the whole choreography. Quite amazing. By contrast, a zigzag cactus grows in spurts and jumps, and then reaches out in a big sweeping movement with its mature arms to find the sun. The cyclamen are extraordinary because their leaves undulate almost like waves, while their flowers – some like pinwheels – some like birds, fly in a group seeking their light.
“As a painter, with all of this going on in front of me, I try to capture this sensation with line, form and color. The challenge is to convert my means – charcoal, paint, and linen – into a visual language which will express my response to what I see. We are all dazzled by the beautiful colors in flowers, and the way their colors sometimes float on top of each other. By using, layered color and line, and variations of value, chroma and intervals, I seek to convey rhythm and movement.
“I often use a large scale even for plants that are in reality quite small. I do this because I want to take the viewer into their dance, to sense them physically, as if one is a participant in their seduction.
“The last fifty years, of abstract art have opened up new ways of creating a visual language. At this point I am working with abstraction and inspired by realism, always trying to capture a life force.”

About The Artist

Born, New Orleans, La
EDUCATION
Sarah Lawrence College, Junior year Abroad, Paris
Art Student’s League, NYC; Studied with Marshal Glasier, Vincent Malta, Vaclav Vytlacil, Knox Martin
American University, summer painting course, Washington, DC
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
Vermont Studio Center
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006-8 TOAST Open Artist Studio Tour, Tribeca, NYC
1976 AAMES GALLERY, Soho NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 THE ELIZABETH V. SULLIVAN GALLERY Summer Exhibition,
Curated by Naomi Campbell, THE LEAGUE RESIDENCY AT VYT, Orangeburg, NY
2015 BELL-ANS CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS,
Gallery opening, Anne Bell paintings, Tom Artin, Photography, Rockland County, NY
2014 BELL-ANS CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS, Open Studios, Rockland County, NY
2012-15 THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION, Members Exhibition, NYC
2011 THE HOPPER HOUSE, Members Show, Nyack, NY
2008 CULTURAL CENTER, NYC
2007-8 ART GOTHAM, NYC
2007-8 SYNAGOGUE FOR THE ARTS, Curated by Veronica Nemic, NYC
2006 RIVER STONE ARTS, curated by Rachel Yarmolinsky, Haverstraw, NY
2005 JACKSON ART CENTER, Open Studios, Washington, DC
2003 THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, Members Summer Exhibit, DC
1998 COVINGTON & BURLING, 2 person show, Washington,DC
1992 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION and MUSEUM, Members Show, Mass.
1991 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION and MUSEUM, curated by John Imber, Mass.
1983 JUST ABOVE MIDTOWN, “ART BIZ”, NYC
1974-77 AAMES GALLERY, Soho, NY
1972-3 ART STUDENT’S LEAGUE, Concours, Exhibit, NYC
1969 ROCKLAND FOUNDATION, NY
REVIEWS
1976 THE NEW YORK TIMES, by John Russell, Solo Show, Aames Gallery, Soho, NYC
1976 THE JOURNAL NEWS, by John Dalmus, “Soho Meets Artist From Grand View”
1969 THE JOURNAL NEWS, by Marietta Campbell, ROCKLAND FOUNDATION EXHIBIT
AWARDS
1979 New York City, C.A.P.S, semi finals , NY STATE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
acceptance V.A.R.S File ( Visual Artist Registry of Slides)
1972 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, Thelka Bernays Merit Scholarship
1972 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, Concours, Exhibit Award

Femme Eternal: Paintings By Ivan Pazlamatchev
2016-03-06 13:00 - 16:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 1:00-4:00PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 16, 3:00-6:00PM
Through Saturday, April 16

Please join us for a wine and cheese reception on April 16. Meet the artist and view his striking paintings of the eternal feminine spirit.

About The Artist

Ivan Pazlamatchev was born in 1968 in Bulgaria. He currently works and lives in New York.

Listening Fields: Paintings By Sharon Falk
2015-12-13
About The Exhibit

Through December 13, 2015

Sharon Falk’s paintings are inspired by the fields and wetlands where she lives. Walking through them is a journey of expanded time surrounded by the images and sounds of the seasons evolving. I paint wild things: birds, and botanical forms, as though I can see time and energy moving through them, lifting upward and vibrating outward. I seek to observe the patterns and rhythms that are created in nature, and to portray the aura of a subject with a glow from an unknown source. I think of these wild things as mirrors of us, spinning their world, in the language of cornfields and birds; they sing the world into being around us.
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About The Artist

Sharon Falk is a New York based wartist hose expressive paintings evoke the gesture of a moment in time, and the power of that moment to expand, timeless in memory. Her images are those of the natural world: wild creatures and landforms painted with a sense of motion that radiates the space around them. Light glowing from within and around the forms erases boundaries, creating an energy and aura that transcend time.
From an early age, she had a desire to experience the world from many different regions and cultures; and has traveled in Egypt, Greece, Peru, Italy, Mexico, and the caves of the south of France filling sketchbooks with images inspired by the art of those civilizations. She is intrigued by the effects of time layering over the ancient frescoes, with artifacts made and covered over and found again; and her work seeks to express the energy and power existing in all things.
Growing up in Arizona, and living in New Orleans and Los Angeles for several years before moving to New York, she was surrounded by a rich sense of light and color and the space of wide western lands. Falk also worked as a courtroom sketch artist for CBS News covering historic court proceedings for broadcast; and having to travel on short notice to be at a trial, and drawing every day reinforced her instinct to capture a figure quickly while it was in motion. With her interest in history and its fragments of the past, she seeks to portray the potential in each of us: the divine side of us running parallel with fleeting time. We are each on a journey of discovery, ultimately alone, that expands in our perceptions and shared knowledge.
Falk has also taught painting and drawing at Pace University, and Bergen Community College; and has been the recipient of artist residencies in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Woodstock, New York; and Gatlinburg Tennessee; and received the Paula Rhodes award from the School of Visual Arts. Her work is in numerous collections nationwide.

Vitality Of Life: Sculptures And Drawings By Lori Shorin
2015-11-28
About The Exhibit

Through November 28, 2015

From the artist: My sculptures can more adequately describe to you how the human form and spirit inspires me, more so than can my words. However, the following is what I can tell you about what moves me to create:
The vitality of life expressed in the face and body gets my attention. The eyes are of particular inspiration to me, for their capacity to convey deep, inner, human expressiveness – both emotional and spiritual. While the human condition is a catalyst for the conceptual aspect of my work the process of finding those qualities that are uniquely special to an individual and yet common to all people is very fulfilling. Many of my life questions are related to universal interconnectedness in the physical, mental and metaphysical realms. These queries give rise to ideas for new work, and when realized, feel like answers.
I have gathered and organized a lot of information about the human form in my mind, which fuels my creative intuition. Through my observations in my daily practice, love of science, personal introspection and meditation, the physical and spiritual realms merge together harmoniously.
All of nature inspires me, but to me the human form and the spirit housed within it, has my full interest; that’s the bottom line.
About The Artist

Lori Shorin grew up embracing different cultures having grown up in New York, Belgium and Florida. Her work has always been inspired by change for social good. Mobile and site-specific installation, soft sculpture, plexi-glass, various painting and drawing mediums are some of the materials she has explored throughout her creative career. While most of these works were primarily stylized and conceptual in nature, in 2005, she was inspired to create realistic figurative sculptures to express new ideas. She studied the human form at the Florence Academy of Art. A portion of the proceeds from sales of her work goes to the Self Realization Fellowship to support their goals and ideals of unity of all religions and to teach individuals to know their highest Self through the science of meditation. In addition to her studio practice, Lori teaches at The School of Visual Art in New York City and holds periodic workshops at the Art Students League and other venues. Lori is represented by Sirona Fine Art in Hallendale, Florida and the Principle Gallery of Fine Art in Charleston South Carolina. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Mariposa Museum of International Culture (NH).

Cuba Antes: Images Of Cuba On The Cusp Of Change By Julie Cahn
2015-09-25
About The Exhibit

Through September 25, 2015

In late March of this year, Julie Cahn had the lucky opportunity to join a group of American photographers on a government approved cultural exchange trip to Cuba. It was a propitious time to visit the country just on the cusp of big change. Yet to be impacted by American capitalism, the native artists the group traveled with were no less excited about the possibilities to come and as a result gave the photographers greater access into neighborhoods, homes and rural villages Americans have been prohibited from visiting since the 1960 embargo. It was a privileged last look at the country before/antes the lifting of sanctions and a chance to document one of the last places on earth that has been virtually free of American influence for the last fifty-five years.
Join us for a light reception at 3pm on September 10, with ample time to take in the images and share Q&A with Ms. Cahn. The exhibit will close on September 25.

About The Artist

Julie Cahn is a writer and photographer and a teacher of both. She has published three young adult novels and several photo essays, and has traveled extensively in Latin Ameria. She strives to capture in her photographs the authenticity in the people and places she visits.

Here Comes The Sun: Paintings By Diane Churchill
2015-06-13
About The Exhibit

Through June 13, 2015

Moving through palettes of orange and gold, Diane Churchill’s paintings celebrate the power, passion, and mystery of the sun’s radiance.

About The Artist

“I am an abstract painter. I strive to achieve power in a simple, or relatively simple image.
Most of my work has its source in nature, so for many years I painted abstracted landscapes where I was more interested in the forces present in nature, such as fertility of the land, the sun, etc. than in painting a specific site. I also was captured by images of apes, and worked on that solely for about 5 years. I moved into the figure and explored identity as a woman in that work. Color, that mysterious and most powerful of elements, has been my main concern throughout. Color has effects we barely understand. Color waves literally enter our bodies through our eyes and affect us emotionally and physically.
Currently I have moved into images that are ephemeral, such as air and water. With air, I am exploring thought and spirit as things appear and disappear. With water I am exploring all kinds of emotional states such as flow, deep quiet, or wildly raging waves and crashes.”
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Way Of Color: Blue – Photographs By Iris Brooks
2015-06-06
About The Exhibit

Through June 6, 2015

The Union Arts Center is pleased to present The Way of Color: Blue, a photographic exhibition by Iris Brooks. Color touches most of us on a daily basis, yet many of us don’t stop to think about its impact on our lives. Colors are universal symbols and also have particular significance and associations in different parts of the world. Is blue really divine as Van Gogh believed, or is it connected to wisdom and infinity because of its association with the sea and sky? Iris Brooks will show her mostly monochromatic photographs along with her curatorial selection of blue artifacts from around the world in this new exhibition.
Join us on Saturday, April 11 from 4 – 6 p.m. when we will feature an interactive gallery walk and talk. The exhibition, with gallery hours on Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 4 p.m., will run through June 6, when there will be a closing event from 3 – 6 p.m.

About The Artist

Iris Brooks is a cultural writer and photographer who has traveled to, written about, and played music on all seven continents. Her experiential writing and images capture her adventures: serenading penguins with the pennywhistle in Antarctica, attending a royal wedding in Bali, paddling a canoe down the Zambezi River on a sound safari in Zimbabwe, luxuriating at Ian Fleming’s villa Goldeneye in Jamaica, and harvesting healing herbs in Tuscany, Italy.
Hundreds of her arts and travel articles and photos have been published in a variety of magazines on topics such as Australian Spas (Travel & Leisure), Art in Asian Hotels (Robb Report), World Expo in Japan (New York Post), Food Museums Around the World (Saveur), Gardens of Montreal (Odyssey), Architecture in Portugal (The Hook), and Zanzibar Spice Tours (Islands).
She has interviewed luminaries in many fields including Academy-award winning director Julie Taymor, Grammy-award winner Wynton Marsalis, musical icon Ravi Shankar, and spiritual world leader, the Dalai Lama. Brooks has been the editor-in-chief of EAR Magazine, the public relations editor of the New York Philharmonic, and the program editor of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Together with Jon H. Davis, her stories currently appear in video as well as print. Brooks and Davis create captivating digital documentaries exploring culture and travel in well-known and remote locations ranging from colorful deserts to tropical rainforests, and idyllic, island landscapes around the globe. Their documentary, Languages Lost and Found(distributed by Filmakers Library/Alexander Street Press) was screened at the United Nations in New York and throughout North America.

Inherent Volition, Knowing In Action: Sculptures By James Garvey
2015-01-08
About The Exhibit

Through January 8, 2015

What is the inspiration for these early sculptures? As a freshman in Mechanical Engineering, I was required to take a course in humanities. Each time we met, we discussed a new page of Hamlet. The writing resonates in the realm of collective intelligence; it is like the Gettysburg Address, or the Declaration of Independence, “These truths are self evident…” Shakespeare inspired me to respect sentient intelligence that can be perceived by any person, apart from academics or wealth.
Reading Shakespeare is like going on a campout; everyone at the campsite appreciates a campfire when the night comes. Using secular language there is a visceral affect that is able to awaken a presence of wonder. I felt that I was a kin; I knew where the work came from in Shakespeare’s writing. I went to many art exhibits; only one piece had such a connection. I became convinced that I can create objects that resonate as strong as the work of Shakespeare because it would come from the same place.
What is constant? There is an attention fueled by interest that is accessing a large map of impressions stored in my mind. An anonymous wit is functioning as my inner browser; then, there is a form idea that comes to mind.
Most of these pieces are made at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, 1974 to 1985. I received attention from Mrs. Louise March; a teacher for a rigorous program of self development. I believe she was extraordinarily patient with me; she made it possible for me to have time and a place to develop a “way to work”.
In 1885, Mrs. March suggested that I go to NYC; I began work at the Statue of Liberty. She took full credit for any contribution I may have made to keep the project on schedule during the replication of the armature bars. Liberty Star was conceived and built while I was working at the Statue; after work, I was a participant at the Athena Foundation, a studio opportunity conceived by Marc DiSuvero for emerging sculptors.
Liberty Star was conceived and built while I was working at the Statue; after work, I was a participant at the Athena Foundation, a studio opportunity conceived by Marc DiSuvero for emerging sculptors.
Attention Star was a breakthrough conceived twenty-two years after the start of the Star Series. I was sitting with Barbara and Tammy waiting for a Kirosawa Movie to begin at the Film Forum.

About The Artist

James Garvey’s training includes Colorado State University and ten years as head of Blacksmithing at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. He has over 100,000 hours as a professional artist blacksmith working in New York with an open-hearth forge. He has designed and built public commissions in Manhattan including MTA Percent for Art works at two subway stations, The School of Spirits Doors at the Dwight School in Manhattan, The Lariat Rustic Rail in Central Park, The Lariat Street Furniture for Coenties Slip Park in Lower Manhattan. He has completed design/build contracts for corporate entities such as: Ogilvy Mather Advertising Corporation, Martin-Marietta Honeywell Corporation, and Firmdale Hotels from United Kingdom. Since 2003, he continues as full time artist blacksmith and as a part time instructor of the Sculpture, ‘forging class’ for the Art Students League of New York, at the Vytlacil Campus.

Ekaterina Smirnova: Stellar Landscapes In Watercolor
2014-12-27 12:00 - 16:00
About The Exhibit

Opening Reception: Saturday December 17, 12-4pm
Closing Reception: Sunday February 12, 12-4pm
Through Sunday February 12

An exhibition of works by Ekaterina Smirnova will include a series of large scale watercolor paintings. Through her work, Ekaterina explores the relationship of humanity with the universe, investigating our place as human beings in an infinite space. You will find mysterious clusters of stars, the evening lights of a megapolis and various enigmas of light in nature. Ekaterina’s work is often inspired by science. In 2016 she had a solo show at the European Space Agency (ESA), participated two science symposiums and gave talks at NASA and ESA. During this exhibition you will be able to not only see her latest science-inspired pieces, but also experience augmented reality to explore the invisible.

About The Artist

Ekaterina Smirnova is a New York based artist. She is highly inspired by science (astronomy, physics and chemistry). Ekaterina’s recent project, 67P, has been noticed by the European Space Agency (ESA), where she presented her work in 2016. The artist collaborates with scientists from around the world, interpreting their research into art. Ekaterina often travels, in the past few years she went to art residencies in Japan, Ireland, Austria and throughout the USA. Ekaterina works in different media: large scale watercolor paintings, ceramic sculptures, music collaborations and interactive electronics.
In 2016 Ekaterina:
participated science symposiums: 50th ESLAB & DPS/EPSC;
had solo shows at: ESTEC and 4Bid gallery, Netherlands;
gave public talks at: ESA and NASA;
Ekaterina’s work was presented at the World Science Festival in Brisbane, Australia.

Sacred Vedic Mandalas And The Spell Of Beyond Knowing: Work By Melissa Forbes
2014-09-13
About The Exhibit

Through September 13, 2014

Melissa has been a student and teacher of yoga for over twenty years and studied the art of Vedic Yantras in India. This exhibition features her drawings and paintings as well as her sacred vedic mandalas and yantras.
Exhibit One
All the Muses and the Graces
…including Vedic gods & goddesses, and celestial atmospheres.
Yantra means “an apparatus” in sanskrit, it is a mystical diagram, or visual mantra, composed of geometric shapes that create, by sight, the vibrations and other mystical effects of a mantra. The act of wearing, drawing, or concentrating on a Mandala/Yantra is said to have spiritual or magical benefits. A Yantra focuses spiritual and mental energies to improve one’s quality of life, to invoke a particular Divine Vibration or Archtype.
Exhibit Two
The Spell of Beyond Knowing
This exhibition features large scale drawings & paintings in an effort to achieve “healing through inspired movement and visual expression”.

About The Artist

Melissa Forbes has been a student of yoga since her mid twenties. Her interest in yoga became more singularly focused after finding inspiration in the tradition of the yogi scholar Shi T. Krishnamacharya and his students Pattabhi Jois, and T.K.V. Desikachar. Melissa began her career teaching Desikachar style yoga and was the co-founder of the internationally renowned Heart of Yoga. She has taught yoga in numerous schools throughout the United States, among them, the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center in New York City, where she worked closely with Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, a student of Swami Rama, who founded the Himalayan Institute.
Melissa began her study of art, as well as dance and movement in her youth. Painting and design, along side dance and movement, are her ongoing passions. Melissa’s art career began with her studies of textile design at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, followed by a five-year full scholarship in printmaking at New York’s National Academy Press. She was the recipient of an Ogden M. Pleissner Fellowship, a Nancy O’Malley Fellowship, a Ricky Fingerhut Fellowship and a Ralph Fabri Fellowship. Melissa was also granted the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant.
She is presently involved in an independent study of Vedic Yantras, having studied in India with students of Harish Johari. Her Yantric renderings reflect both her artistic expression and intimate experiences of Yogic disciplines. They are quite unique as they combine Eastern and Western Sacred Geometry. Most recently, sixteen of Melissa’s vibrational Yantra art paintings were featured in the book, “Karttikeyan Yogic Method”, published by Gatherinsight.com. Her art has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, Philadelphia, and the United Nations. She maintains a studio in New York while frequently traveling and painting in majestic locations around the world.
For the five years leading up to his passing in 2007, Melissa traveled with the late sage U.G. Krishnamurti, and made Switzerland her home. Upon his passing, Melissa moved back to the United States, and is currently living in the Taconic Hills of New York State. Melissa is presently an Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, while continuing to teach yoga.
In addition to her interests and experiences in yoga and art, Melissa has formally studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming under Richard Bandler cofounder of NLP, Shiatsu (Certified Ohashiatsu Practitioner), Certified Divine Intervention TeacherMinister, and Certified Teacher of Mayan Sacred Geometry, graduate of Suluk Academy school of Sufi studies and Four Wind Society Light Body School.
She is the author of “No Teaching Yoga, The Authentic Guide”, a work reflecting her time with U.G. Krishnamurti, a brief history of yoga, a collection of Vedic Yantras and Melissa’s eight Miracle Combination practices.

Dancing Leaves: Pigment Prints By Thomas Bernsten
2014-06-28
About The Exhibit

Through June 28, 2014

Dancing Leaves Portraits have been featured in publications such as CT Cottages & Gardens, shown in galleries; amongst them The Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, CT where I am an active member. An extensive show of huge 4 x 5 foot prints filled the Main Gallery at The National Arts Club in New York City. Several public and private collections, The Dana Farber Cancer Institute and New York Clearing house among them have acquired the work. The collection of photographic images has become the inspiration for a similar collection of sculpture for the garden landscape. These leaves are sculpted in both bronze and fabricated in steel. Presently my work involves building sculpture inspired by the ancient practice of meditative walking paths such as in a labyrinth.

About The Artist

From the artist: I seek to express in my work a feeling of profound optimism, wonder, joy, and beauty. While walking one winter day across a frozen pond I glanced at my feet. The leaves encased in the ice mesmerized me. In a moment of grace the concept of expressing that moment came to me. It would become a collection of photographs and sculpture entitled “Dancing Leaves Portraits”.

Stillness In Motion: Ink Drawings By Norman Galinsky
2014-06-28
About The Exhibit

Through June 28, 2014

Norman Galinsky’s artwork has been inspired and informed by his background in science and engineering and his ongoing interest in metaphysical issues and explorations of consciousness.
The recent works involve the free-hand application of small marks to construct larger, intuitively derived geometric patterns. The compositions are produced through a meditative approach, a practice of focused attention and intention, often using ancient sacred geometric forms and proportions. I call the work “process oriented” because I maintain an intimate connection with the act of generating the works by hand. Thus, I remain an engaged and active participant in the creation, rather than an observer.
The images suggest emissions of energy waves and particles, vibrating fields and networks that denote a synthesis between the material world and a hidden quantum universe. Many of the works utilize symmetry and circular imagery of converging forms, a central focus of “stillness” to express the unity of consciousness—the one shared life.
I want my images to encourage thinking as well as feeling, to challenge as well as to promote healing and balance, to connect the personal with the universal order, and to draw one into a dialog with the present moment in ways that intimate the future.

About The Artist

Norman Galinsky’s artwork has been inspired by his background in science and engineering and his ongoing studies of metaphysics and spiritual issues.
His art studies began with a focus on traditional renaissance oil and egg tempera painting techniques, followed by classes with Henry Pearson at the New School and with Will Barnet and George Tooker at the Art Students League in NYC. In the late 1960’s, he participated in the Experiments in Art and Technology program developed by Billy Kluver and Robert Rauschenburg. After a seven-year career in chemical engineering, he left industry and turned fully to art, earning an MFA degree from Columbia University in 1973. At Columbia he studied painting with Philip Guston, Jack Tworkov, and Stamos, and printmaking with Bob Blackburn and Tony Harrison.
In addition, his artwork has been shaped by his 20 year experience in the practice and teaching of Chinese healing exercises and martial arts, including qigong, Taiji Quan, and other meditative and energetic healing disciplines. He has taught these forms in his studio as well as in area hospitals, including: New York Presbyterian (under the direction of Dr. Mehmet Oz), Englewood Hospital, Nyack Cancer Center, and St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY.
By synthesizing and translating the seemingly disparate worlds of the quantum sciences and spirituality into compelling images, Galinsky’s art depicts the evolving dynamic order underlying our world today and forecasts possibilities for the future.

Dance Of The Spirits: Mandalas By Jon H. Davis
2014-03-15
About The Exhibit

Through March 15, 2014

The life of a travel photographer is an adventure filled with the unexpected. Things can happen quickly, so having the camera ready to capture the moment is essential. A hippo that emerges off the bow of a Tanzanian riverboat will not wait and it’s challenging, and rare, to get the perfect shot.
Sometimes, when I feel everything is running smoothly, the weather suddenly changes and delays a shoot. I keep moving forward. Then slowly, the storm passes, the clouds part and the landscape is painted with an incredible light, accented by a gorgeous rainbow. This happened in Alaska’s Denali National Park. The beauty of it is, you never know, as nature reveals itself in so many mysterious ways. I am never at a loss to find even some small treasure through the lens. Many of those often overlooked gems become the source material for my original process of “digital alchemy” and the creation of new mandalas.

About The Artist

Jon H. Davis embraces digital media, expressing his vision of people and places while reflecting his love of the natural world, ancient arts, and global adventures. He has been an avid photographer since his youth and after studies at the Brooks Institute of Fine Art and Photography, went on a two-year sojourn taking volumes of photos. While driving across Europe and Asia in his Volkswagen van, his adventures included kayaking in the fjords of Norway, skiing throughout the Alps, and elephant-riding in Sri Lanka. His photographs–including ships from the Indian Ocean, robots from Japan, food from Thailand, and totem poles from Canada– have been published in many magazines including The Robb Report, Body & Soul, The Hook, Spa Life, Global Rhythm and North American Inns.

In addition to his video documentaries and vast inventory of photographs from around the world, Davis creates colorful contemporary artworks inspired by Tibetan mandalas (cosmic maps of the universe). Working with a process he calls “digital alchemy,” he transforms his photographs and paintings into contemporary mandalas, incorporating elements, textures, and patterns from the natural world. These works are available in limited edition archival prints as well as on canvas, metal, and in digital installations. Davis is currently working on a new book of his mandala images.

The Sounding Light: Art And Poetry With Rose Marie Raccioppi
2014-02-18
About The Exhibit

Through February 18, 2014

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS, FABI, is an exhibiting artist, a published and performing poet, and an award winning and honored master educator, child advocate and activist, holding graduate degrees with honors in education and psychology. She is an Educational Consultant and Sound Therapist in Private Practice. She is the founder of APOGEE Learning Enhancement Training Systems™ and APOGEE Acu-Tone™. Her work has defined art as the timeless aspiring creation of beauty in form, in word, in deed, in thought. Rose Marie has exhibited throughout Rockland County, New York, has been a featured artist in galleries of New York and for several years has been an exhibitor at the New York City, Gracie Square Art Show. Her work has received noted praise in juried shows. Her watercolors are in private collections in Europe as well as in the United States.

About The Artist

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS, FABI, is an exhibiting artist, a published and performing poet, and an award winning and honored master educator, child advocate and activist, holding graduate degrees with honors in education and psychology. She is an Educational Consultant and Sound Therapist in Private Practice. She is the founder of APOGEE Learning Enhancement Training Systems™ and APOGEE Acu-Tone™. She has been elected to Who’s Who Historical Society, 2001-2002 , Empire Who’s Who, 2002-2003, in recognition of her entrepreneurship, outstanding community service and leadership benefiting children and families with special needs.
Rose Marie has been awarded and named International Poet of Merit, 2002 and is published in several anthologies of poems: Chorus of the Soul, 2000, International Library of Poetry, Poetry’s Elite, The Best Poems of 2000, Finding Your Wings, 2003, International Library of Poetry, The International Who’s Who in Poetry, 2004 and 2005, Timeless Voices, 2006, Editor’s Choice Award, International Library of Poetry, Forever Spoken, 2007, Editor’s Choice Award, International Library of Poetry. Over seventy of her most recent poems have been accepted by the International Society of Poets for publication in upcoming anthologies. For her overall accomplishments in the academics and the arts she has been selected to hold the title WOMAN OF THE YEAR – 2002 – 2004 and declared an Eminent Fellow by the American Biographical Institute.
Rose Marie sees art as a way to perceive, as a state of being that translates concept, thought and experience to form and color. She states that her watercolor paintings are visual metaphors. When asked about her skyscapes, Rose Marie responds, “The sky is an ever changing panorama of calm, storm and beauty – and so with our shared lives. The sky is a reflection of all forces operative and expressive.” Her work has defined art as the timeless aspiring creation of beauty in form, in word, in deed, in thought.
Rose Marie has exhibited throughout Rockland County, New York, has been a featured artist in galleries of New York and for several years has been an exhibitor at the New York City, Gracie Square Art Show. Her work has received noted praise in juried shows. Her watercolors are in private collections in Europe as well as in the United States.

Seen And Sound, One Voice: Paintings By Yasmin P. Khan And Ray Lagstein
2013-10-18
About The Exhibit

Through October 18, 2013

Seen and Sound, One Voice is an exhibition of figurative and abstract painting exploring the gestures of music, movement, and poetry with guest painter Ray Lagstein.

About The Artist

More info coming soon.

Salute To Women In The Arts: Creativity Explored
2012-11-14
About The Exhibit

Through Wednesday, November 14

SALUTE is a non-profit organization, established in 1974, to recognize, support and celebrate the efforts of women in the arts. We do this by exhibiting members’ work throughout the year in as many venues as possible. SALUTE artists represent an array of the visual arts: oil, acrylic, and watercolor painters; photographers, portraiture artists; artists whose medium is craypas and charcoal as well as collagists. Some artists work big, while others work small. SALUTE artists have studied and mastered their craft at college art departments, local art centers, the Art Students League and with established artists such as Ben Benn, Will Barnet, Vaclav Vytlacil and Hans Hofmann. Many SALUTE artists have exhibited their work in galleries in New York and New Jersey as well as in travelling exhibitions that have visited Europe, Israel, Asia, Canada and South America. Most of SALUTE’s artists have participated in juried shows; their resumes and biographies listing the prizes that they have won. Exhibition Runs Through November 14th.

“Ribbon Clouds” by Rose Hertzberg; watercolor framed 18.5″ x 16″ glicee artist print, 2013. Photo courtesy of the Rose Hertzberg
