Naomi Berkery
Naomi is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator whose work bridges the realms of fine art, graffiti, and emotionally charged portraiture. A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, she holds an MFA in Art and Design Education with a concentration in Art Therapy.
Since 2003, Naomi has taught visual art to students with special needs in NYC, grades 4th-12th, diagnosed with a wide range of learning differences. As a certified art therapist and department head, she approaches education and her own expression as intertwined tools for healing, identity formation, and empowerment. Naomi works from her studio in Newburgh NY. Her work is shown in local galleries and businesses throughout the Hudson Valley and NYC.
Christopher Datino
Chris Datino is a New York artist who specializes in mixed media art. Chris started drawing at an early age and always took advantage of art classes in his high school years. Chris owns a small business which gives him free time to create in the winter. When not working or creating art you could find him hiking or biking the great outdoors.
Mark Edwards
Mark Edwards is a local artist from Rochester, NY, graduated from SUNY Buffalo, and has worked in the animation industry for 20 years. He has exhibited at Arbor Gallery (10/2023).
Julie Garfield
Julie Garfield an award winning actress, who has worked on and off Broadway, in films and television. She studied at The Provincetown Workshop as a young woman. In 2003, she attended the New York Studio School, then joined The Art Students League where she took classes with Sherry Camhy, She also studied with Kirsten Deirup, Steven Assael, Vincent Desiderio and Steve Foster.
Ana Henriques
Born in Leiria, Portugal, Ana studied at Faculty of Fine Arts, in Lisbon, from 2012 to 2015. Since 2022, the artist has lived and worked in New York. Pedro had her debut exhibition at Arbor Gallery in New York in 2024. The artist participated in several exhibitions and art fairs the same year in the Hudson Valley area, New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Ranging from human and pet portrayals to botanical observations, Ana’s works are usually created utilizing dry mediums as pastels and colored pencils. Pedro’s artworks have been acquired by local and international collectors.
Christopher Legare
Christopher Legare is a self taught, multi-disciplinary artist born in south eastern Massachusetts. After attending DePaul University for media production, Christopher quickly shifted fields into agriculture, where he has been working on farms for the past five years.
Christopher creates symbols exploring the inner world of the collective, working primarily with ink on paper. Creating in tandem with his unconscious, the body, and the collective unconscious, only interfering in the process to flesh out an idea or concept that has revealed itself through the act of creation.
Titles are just reflections of interpretation.
He believes what the person viewing his art gets out of it is significant. Why is that narrative forming in your head? To what extent are you co-creating the artwork through your perceptions and projections? Do you see the work as a portal, a mirror? Can meaning exist without being specifically addressed?
Jerry Michalak
Bio: http://www.jmichalak.com
Based in the Hudson Valley, Jerry Michalak bridges observation and abstraction in his art, capturing the subtle, ongoing changes of landscapes. His distinctive series of abstract winter scenes—often depicting woodlands in muted colors—invite a contemplative experience, echoing John Cage’s idea that “There’s not enough nothing in it.” In his latest works, Michalak paints the limits between reality, abstraction, and fantasy, incorporating images from his immediate natural surroundings and imagination. Jerry continues to exhibit locally and in the Hudson Valley region.
Barbara Ringer
Barbara Ringer is a photo-based artist who uses old dolls, toys, and herself to explore the darker side of childhood, as well as the adult anxieties and phobias that follow. She often extends the narrative into the framing devices she constructs, using reclaimed wood and other found materials.
Raised in the South Bronx housing projects, she pursued cinema studies at New York University, and later worked for video production studios in New York, Germany, and Switzerland. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions throughout CT and NY. She now resides with a home studio (and hundred plus dolls) in Connecticut.
Sandra Spilke
Sandra Spilke is an abstract visual artist based in Rhinebeck, NY. Her work encompasses collage, drawing and printmaking. Sandra has a background in graphic design, advertising and psychotherapy, each of which have shaped her approach to creating her current, more personal, artwork. Much of Sandra’s art is influenced by the energy of the New Mexico desert, a place she visits often. This affinity shows up in her subject matter as well as in the shapes and forms and colors she uses.
Sandra’s artwork has been accepted into several juried shows, including Emerge Gallery 2022, 2024; Olive Free Library Exhibit 2024; Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, 2024 and the Monoprint Invitational at the Woodstock School of Art, 2023, 2024, 2025.
Cindy Sumerano
Cindy Sumerano is a painter, metalsmith and educator based in Hurley, NY. Holding two degrees from SUNY New Paltz, she continued her studies in printmaking, painting and metal smithing in studios locally, across the United States and in Italy. Currently working primarily in acrylic painting, Cindy’s work, whatever the medium, is representational and expresses her interest in light, structure, and visual story telling.
Adrienne Cullom
Adrienne Cullom was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 27, 1938. She studied at the Atlanta Art Institute in Georgia from 1956 to 1959 and, following her graduation, she traveled to Austria where she attended Vienna's Akademie fur Angewandte Kunst for one year. Receiving a scholarship from the French Government, she went to Paris, where she studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 from 1961 to 1962.
She is a master of the burin, engraving very intricate plates. Her earliest prints were in black and white but she eventually began to explore the use of color. In the 1970s, Cullom began creating hand-dyed, intricately knotted fiber masks, and currently pursues printmaking, water coloring, and mask making.
Nicolas Dalton
Self-trained painter coming from three generations of artists. Returned to painting during the pandemic after a long break to teach Svaroopa yoga, working mostly with acrylics on panel and charcoal on paper.
Joseph Eschenberg
I started creating in upstate New York, in the region called the Thousand Islands located on the
St. Lawrence River. Later moved to Montauk, New York on Long Island where I continued my creative
process and now creating in Fort Montgomery, New York.
Mixed media concepts and assemblage presents throughout most of my artistic production, a balance of chaos and control. I am driven by improvisational and direct action in the arts. I have always noticed things a bit off centered, how light effects the appearance of objects through out the day and the beauty in
objects that are worn, torn, ragged, chipped and cracked.
I am now creating a series of white creations that explore shadows, light and hidden concepts. Also a series I call Variance, exploring intersections and cross overs. My concept is more about DNA markers and finding family you had no idea existed.
Michael Garland
Michael Garland is a fine artist with a long list of gallery shows and awards. His work has been featured in American Artist Magazine, Print Magazine, Communication Arts and Conservation Magazine. Recently, his painting, Lattice Face, won an award at the annual Mark Twain Library Art Show.
Michael Garland will be having a one-man show, Fantasy Faces at the Tompkins Cultural Center, 5/10-7/24 , Live4Art Gallery 9/6-28/25
Michael Garland has been invited all over the country to make presentations about his work at schools, from elementary age to graduate students. He has been a professor at Marist and Mount Saint Mary Colleges.
http://www.michaelgarlandfineart.com
Hanadi Istambouli
Hanadi is an American artist born and raised in Georgia, who spent more than a decade living and working in Seoul, South Korea before returning to the U.S. With thirteen years of oil painting experience and over sixteen years in drawing and mixed media, her work spans realism, surrealism, and abstraction. Drawing from a lifelong fascination with science, psychology, and music, Hanadi creates pieces that examine perception, memory, and the emotional effects of color. Her practice reflects both the discipline of observation and the freedom of imagination, offering viewers an invitation to uncover what lies beneath the surface.
Holli Levy
Holli Levy is a fine artist based in Fairfield County, CT, known for her vibrant encaustic paintings and mixed-media works. Her art incorporates encaustic paint, natural materials, papers, and her own photography, creating pieces rich in texture, depth, and visual storytelling. Holli's work has been featured in numerous juried exhibitions, solo shows, and has earned awards, reflecting her unique artistic approach and dedication.
Holli’s deep connection to the outdoors profoundly influences her art. While traveling, hiking, or just observing life, she collects natural materials and photographs, which she later integrates into her paintings. These elements, along with her exploration of the encaustic medium, allow her to capture the serenity and beauty of the natural world.
A former elementary school teacher, Holli transitioned to art as a second career and is grateful for the creative outlet it provides in this new chapter of her life.
Lisa Penny
Lisa Penny is a Mixed Media artist working with paint, fibers, wood, cork, stone, natural papers, and found materials.
Her journey began with textile arts, exploring complex geometrics, and representational abstraction, before expanding into mixed materials, marquetry, and painting.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and eldercare, her work embraced more non-objective abstraction, creating layered constructions that reflect the era’s emotional depth and transformation. Her work is influenced by Fauvism and Orphism, combining color and 3-dimensional materials to evoke rich textures and expressive compositions.
A Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists, Lisa exhibits in galleries and museums, has been featured in books, magazines, and digital media, and is enjoyed in private collections internationally.
Arlene Seymour
Though Arlene Seymour was born in NYC, travels to the Hudson Valley in her teens left a lasting impression. She moved to the Hudson Valley in 1978. After several attempts to relocate, the pull of the river and mountains were an irresistible force, becoming her home in 2000. She spent many of her professional years as a Creative Arts Therapist. Semi-retired now, she is able to focus on her art, letting it flow in whatever current runs below the surface. Arlene's art can be seen in exhibitions throughout the area and in private collections. Using watercolor, gouache, ink, and acrylic, Arlene’s paintings are inspired by her home in the beautiful Hudson Valley and her travels worldwide.
James Sparks
I have been an art educator and painter for almost fifty years teaching studio art, photography and art history at the university level.
Currently, I am retired as an Adjunct Professor of Art at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York (since 2002). My teaching approach has always been to emphasize the multi- disciplinary nature of the creative process to cognitive philosophy, psychology and, really, to all the humanities. Put more simply, stressing cognitive science as a portal into the origins of artistic creativity from an evolutionary perspective.
My personal imagery explores the fluid boundaries between representational and abstraction in Nature, discovering a new awareness and appreciation of beauty and what is worth looking at.
I am represented by fineartamerica.com and SaatchiArt.com. My work is hung in corporate collections and owned by private collectors.
Daniel Creary
Daniel Creary is a self taught artist with a focus on drawing, painting , and printmaking.
Rob Decina
Rob Decina is a NY based, creative professional working in the television industry for thirty years. He is an abstract artist who paints with acrylics and collage paper. He recently added photography to his portfolio. At his core he is a storyteller and looks to tell a unique story in his work. His paintings have been featured at several group shows at the Arbor Gallery in Carmel, NY. He is a member of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists and the Putnam Arts Center where his work has been part of member shows. He participated in the 2025 RGA Art Walk and has a photograph featured at the Praxis Gallery Photo Center in Minnesota for their juried show, The Shadow Aspect.
Harriet Forman Barrett
Harriet Forman Barrett, a multi-disciplinary artist, has been involved in the arts since the early childhood. High School of Music and Art ‘65 Oil Painting Award. Pratt Institute BFA. Through each medium, she invokes the power of collective spirituality, the feminine, the empowerment of being and the careful balance within that. Her artwork is held in private collections throughout the world. Young Americans ’69 Museum of Contemporary Crafts Competition and Exhibition, World Silver Show in Mexico City in ‘73, Monmouth Museum ‘77, the Samuel Dorsky Museum ‘20, the Hammond Museum 12/20 - 6/21, the American Artists Professional League’s 93rd Grant National Exhibition ‘21, Cunneen-Hackett-One Woman Show ‘22, Arts in the Loft ‘22-24, Lace Mill Gallery ’24-‘25, One Woman Show at Wired Gallery, ‘24, Bank Art Gallery ‘25, Arbor Gallery ‘25. Beautiful article in Art Times, Volume 29 No. 1 July/August ‘12 Profile: Harriet Forman Barrett.
Alicia Gonzalez
After I received my Bachelors Degree in Fine Art in 1990, I spent three years in Cuernavaca, Mexico, working in a ceramic studio which specialized in ceramic overglaze painting. Later, I returned to Mahopac where I started my own business hand painting tile. In 2016, my parents and I were invited to show together in a family exhibition. I decided I must include a large realistic oil painting of my teenage daughter in the show even though I hadn’t painted in oil on canvas since art school. My daughter became the surprisingly indifferent subject of a series of portraits that followed which explored the feeling of space, separation, and alienation from one’s surroundings. An experimental play session with paper became the inspiration for my next series of oil paintings based on collage.
Victoria Kingsley
Kingsley is a portrait artist based in Shelton, CT. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and community art spaces across the region, where it has drawn attention for its distinctive use of color and atmosphere. Combining technical precision with a sensitivity to mood, Kingsley creates paintings that are both visually striking and conceptually layered, establishing her as a dynamic voice in the contemporary art scene.
Erik Long
Erik Long is an ink and digital illustrator based in Hudson, NY. He makes finely detailed graphic drawings with Pigma Micron pens and often creates digital colored versions based on these. Whether creating animal hybrids or walking trees, he incorporates his unique stippling technique in every piece. Erik has been drawing since childhood and always had a love of dark fantasy and quaint themes. Think Beatrix Potter meets Marc Brown meets L. Frank Baum.
Lisa Petsu
Lisa Petsu http://www.lisapetsu.com
American born artist Lisa Petsu (b.1973) received her B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (1995) and her M.F.A from Bard College, NY (1999) where she received the Elaine de Kooning Memorial Scholarship in painting. She creates idiosyncratic abstract paintings, sculpture and installation art that is highly textural, using objects and narratives from her lived experience. Her work entertains the edge between the art space of galleries and domestic architecture of personal life. Cultivating a spiritual connection to her materials Lisa considers the accumulation of color, time, and emotion in physical layers and moments of imperfect beauty on the canvas. “The vantage of Petsu’s contentious “life of imperfection” gives rise to “ugly beauty” an intricate reality in which all things do not neatly fit” – Arlene Raven, curator
Christopher Seep
Christopher Seep is a transplanted Midwesterner with a compulsion to create. His primary medium is digital photography but also does a bit of abstract acrylic painting and ceramics. The search for the unusual and offbeat often informs his work.
Cecilia Soprano
Writing and imagery has impact on the senses. My intention is to create pieces that assist the love and harmony for what sustains us in the natural world.
Awareness and consciousness is key to the salvation of our planet.
To assist in remembering and sustaining our 'indigenous' relationship
with the planet as a living organism.
