Joseph Annino
Joseph Vincent Annino, signing his works as JoViAn, is a self taught artist working in a variety of mediums since 2015. Joseph’s work explores a world of nude figures, as a natural and positive state of being, presenting the body frankly and colorfully. His process involves transparency, through glazes, or layers of materials, treating the paint as layers of skin. Exploring self image, masculinity, embodiment, queer futures and histories, social relationships, and the relationship of the body to environment and nature, Joseph seeks to imagine the possibility of people being fully themselves through the simple act of being naked.
Donna Castelluccio
Donna Castelluccio is a mixed media artist with fiber art being her latest love. She likes to use vintage materials in her books, vignettes, wall hangings and upcycled clothing.
I love texture so I love going through my bins of fabrics, laces and trims, it’s both visually and tactilely exciting. I like the design process and looking though my stash. I find fabrics I like together or vintage pieces of clothing that suggest what they want to become. Its possibilities. I like that my work is different & unique.
I have taken many classes over the years. I also teach classes.
I am a member of ArtEast , Arts MidHudson, Sherman Artsists and Putnam Arts Council
My work has been in:
Arbor Gallery Donna Castelluccio is a mixed media artist with fiber art being her latest love. She likes to use vintage materials in her books, vignettes, wall hangings and upcycled clothing.
I love texture so I love going through my bins of fabrics, laces and trims, it’s both visually and tactilely exciting. I like the design process and looking though my stash. I find fabrics I like together or vintage pieces of clothing that suggest what they want to become. Its possibilities. I like that my work is different & unique.
I have taken many classes over the years. I also teach classes.
I am a member of ArtEast , Arts MidHudson, Sherman Artsists and Putnam Arts Council
My work has been in:
Arbor Gallery, Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Putnam Arts Council, Carmel, NY
Kent Art Assoc., Tivoli Artists gallery, Wallkill River Arts, Patterson, Adriance, Beekman Libraries, Sherman, Pawling, NY
John Cote
John Cote has recently transitioned from a forty year career as a full time storyboard artist to focusing primarily on his paintings. His most recent solo exhibition has been at the Croton Free Library in Croton on Hudson. He has shown regionally, most notably at Silvermine Arts Center in CT, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Arts Center of Northern Westchester and the Society of Illustrators in NYC. Nine paintings will be showing in Philozoic Gestures at BAU Gallery in Beacon September 11-October 3rd.
Sashia Dumont
Sashia Dumont is a filmmaker and mixed media artist based out the lower Hudson Valley. Her tactile, layered compositions explore the intersection of history and modern craft, utilizing diverse materials to transform forgotten archives into new physical dimensions.
Melissa Freebern
Melissa Freebern is a New York-based encaustic and mixed media artist inspired by the landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and the shores of Cape Cod. She earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Alfred University and has worked across creative disciplines, including graphic and floral design, while developing her studio art practice.
Beginning most paintings with a watercolor underpainting, Freebern builds layers of encaustic wax, oil pigments, pastels, natural fibers, and found textures to create luminous surfaces rich with depth and atmosphere. Balancing observation with intuitive mark-making, her work moves beyond representation to explore memory, reflection, and emotional connection to place, inviting viewers to experience familiar landscapes in new and contemplative ways.
Mary Ann Glass
Her work has been described as spiritual and sensual, serious and elegant. She shoots and develops her photographs exclusively with her iPhone.
Mary Ann is from a village in Ohio, attended Ohio State University and the American Graduate School of International Management and moved to Manhattan to pursue not only a career but the dream of big-city sophistication. Eventually, much to her surprise, she built up a career at Chase Manhattan Bank in employee communications. After 13 years there, Mary Ann attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana. In 1999, she left her corporate job and settled in the Hudson Valley as a professional photographer.
She is a member of the Women Photographers Collective of the Mid-Hudson Valley and the Rhinebeck Fine Art group and was was one of the founding owners of RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon which featured artists for 17 years. Currently the co-curator of Gallery 40 in Poughkeepsie, she also curates a group of 20 Hudson Valley artists, organizing several IRL popups each year.
Georgine Honohan
Georgine Honohan received a BA in Fine Art from Marymount Manhattan College. She worked as an Art teacher for several years at St, Mary’s in Katonah and St. Patrick’s in Bedford, then for over twenty years as an Interior Designer at Ethan Allen in Danbury,CT. She has exhibited her Art work at Ridgefield Guild of Art, Beacon Artist Union, Hendricks Hudson Library, Mahopac Public Library, The School House, The Katonah Library, Putnam
Arts Council, and the Howland Center in Beacon, and At Arbor Gallery in Carmel,N.Y.
James Kroupa
As a master puppeteer, Jim skills brought him to the attention of Jim Henson, who engaged him to perform on assorted Muppet projects. Sesame Street, Little Muppet Monsters, The Muppet Meeting films, and assorted Muppet specials. Jim also performed on Between the Lions, Bear and the Big Blue House, Book of Pooh, Johnny and the Sprites, No Strings International, and The Helpsters. Jim created mechanisms for The Jim Henson Company, effects for features such as Little Monsters and Woody Allen’s Alice, and rebuilt many of the mechanisms/characters for Disney’s Muppets. With his company, 3/Design Inc., Jim performed many characters, including Batly on Eureeka’s Castle.
Retiring from puppetry in 2024, he has turned his attention to creating whimsical art, “Repurfish”, fish sculptures made from domestic objects revealing multiple layers of wit and personality. Jim is currently working on a new series of Repurfish sculptures with a deep sea theme.
Jerry Michalak
Jerry Michalak is an educator and artist, who studied with Modernist Alexander Minewski and Abstract Expressionist painter, Joop Sanders. He earned his post-graduate degree at SUNY New Paltz in painting and photography. For several years, he has developed a distinct series of abstract winter landscapes, particularly wooded scenes rendered in a muted tone. These works echo composer John Cage’s idea that “There’s not enough nothing in it,” inviting viewers into a contemplative space where visibility dissolves and form give way to atmosphere tensions. As New York Times critic Benjamin Genocchio wrote, “Beginning with depictions of landscapes, he gradually covers them with layers of white paint until they disappear, imitating the effects of a snowstorm… they are incandescent.” (Weather Channel Exhibit, Islip Art Museum).
In recent years he has expanded his exploration in nature to include more expressive and abstract imagery in a series of imaginative waterfalls and wetlands paintings. Jerry has exhibited throughout the Hudson Valley, being invited to participate in several solo and juried exhibits. For further information: www.jmichalak.com
Matia Query
Matia Query is a professional editor by trade and a self-taught artist. She resides in the Hudson Valley.
Forrest Sheperd
Forrest Sheperd studied with Cesare Borgia, the principal instructor at the Reilly League of Artists in White Plains. Mr. Borgia founded the Reilly League, following the painting techniques of the late Frank Reilly. Forrest’s neoclassical painting style is directly related to this early training. His technique exemplifies a contemporary approach to realism, focusing on expression of form and volume on the two dimensional plane. Forrest believes that the craft of painting and drawing is as important as the art of painting and drawing. After pursuing multiple degrees in Wildlife Biology and working for various government entities, he and his wife ran successful small business in Westchester. The sale of that business in 2024 allows Forrest to paint full time
Rick Weber
I have created multiple series of works, variations on a theme. Carved hollow clay spheres were my focus for years using geometric and organic design motifs. Textured wall-hanging portraits are often labeled as tree spirits due to the bark-like texture becoming another direction. Plant based forms are a recurring concept, often using succulents, cactus and corral as inspiration. Currently making ceramic sculpture that explores an expression of movement and openness.
Jake Bonder
As a twenty-year-old artist, I specialize in both abstract acrylic paintings on canvas and digital art created using my iPad. I work out of my home studio in Garrison, New York. I occasionally exhibit my original canvases at craft shows throughout the Hudson Valley, while my digital art is available for purchase in various forms through my website, my Etsy store, and on Amazon. Additionally, I sometimes upload videos showing my creative process to YouTube, where I have amassed over 2700 followers.
Phyllis Chadwick
Phyllis is a mixed media artist living in the Hudson Valley. She has a master’s degree in art education from Manhattanville College and taught locally at the high school level for 10 years and as an adjunct at Dutchess Community College. Now retired from teaching, Ms. Chadwick spends her time creating in her home studio. She is currently a member of the Inspiration Art Group International; American Society of Botanical Artists; River Winds Gallery; Great Hollow Photographers Club; Artseast, Sherman Artists Association, Friends of the Great Swamp (FrOGS). She exhibits her work locally and virtually.
Phyllis sells her work via local shows, virtual shows, and her website pgchadwick.com.
You can also find her artwork at Perk Up a cafe in Stormville.
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 Council where his work has been part of juried and member shows. His photography has been displayed at juried exhibits at the Praxis Gallery Photo Center in Minnesota and the Decode Gallery in Arizona. In Sept his paintings will be part of a small group show of three artists at the MPL Art Gallery in Mahopac, NY.
Robin Esser
Most of my life was spent as a super-science person. I earned a Ph.D. in Cardiac Electrophysiology (Membrane Biophysics) and was on the faculty of Columbia Medical School. I taught high school advanced sciences for thirty years, as well working in staff development for the NYC public schools. I have been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, grants, and honors in both the fields of scientific research and education.
In September 2022 I first starting working with clay and have taken courses at the Clay Art Center for the last four years, mainly with Jon Townley.
As a member of the Hudson River Potters I am honored to have sold some of my ceramic sculptural pieces and to have been commissioned to fabricate pieces.
I was one of the artists in the 2025-2026 Stephen Hill Journeys Workshop held at the Alison Palmer Studios in Kent, CT and will have a piece in the Stephen Hill Journeys Workshop Retrospective exhibit to be held in March 2027 in Baltimore, coinciding with next year’s NCECA.
I have been actively writing autobiographical fiction, as well as other genres, since 2015. For example, a three hundred page long semi-fictional manuscript details the first eight years of my life.
Originally from NYC, I have lived since 1989 in Brewster, New York.
I have been a lifelong advocate for the environment and social justice.
Julie Garfield
Julie Garfield is an award winning actress, who came to painting later in her life. She is the daughter of legendary actor John Garfield who was Blacklisted in the 1950’s and died as a result.
She studied at The New York Studio School, Art Students League,
New York Academy, and with Vincent Desiderio, Steven Assael, Kirsten Deirup, Sherry Camhy, Robert Cenedella, and Steve Foster.
Exhibitions
Lift Trucks Project, solo show
Art Students League, Red Dot Award
Art Students league Concourse
Metro Pictures Aids Benefit Show
Art Splash, Leroy Nieman Center
Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Her Portrait of her father was featured in the exhibition Blacklisted,
An American Story at The Skirball Cultural Center, then traveled to the Historical Society Exhibition, Blacklisted An American Story, Capital Jewish Museum, DC,
and currently in Illinois Holocaust Museum And Education Center
Kathy Halper
Kathy Halper (1958, Chicago, IL) has been a working artist for over 30 years creating narrative work in a multitude of mediums. She has been a Hudson Valley resident for less than two. As such, her work has become increasingly more focused on the land while retaining an eye towards storytelling. Halper has created and exhibited work at George Billis LA, Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago, among others. She was selected by Lucy Lippard for “From the Center: Now!” and Kendall College of Art & Design as part of ArtPrize and has participated in Terrain Biennial. She has been shown at Context/Miami Art Week, SOFA Chicago and has been featured in HuffPost, Art Voices and Surface Design Journal. The artist lives with her husband and dog in Saugerties, New York.
Chris Ingram
I am an artist working primarily in oil on linen and wood panels, often beginning with a limited palette to distill mood and atmosphere. I also create drawings and have maintained a lifelong artistic practice, making art since early childhood.
With a renewed focus on painting, I continue to develop a practice grounded in careful observation and emotional resonance. My work moves between impressionism and realism, encompassing figurative subjects, cityscapes, and landscapes. Throughout, themes of isolation, loneliness, and exile quietly surface.
Whether working in the studio or occasionally painting en plein air, I seek a deeper connection to nature and the human condition. Through an intimate and introspective approach, I aim to create works that invite contemplation and evoke a sense of place, memory, and emotion.
Jay LeRoy
Jay LeRoy is a Wurtsboro, NY artist, designer, and seeker. His digital illustrations and mixed media works explore the mysteries of spirit, psyche, and the occult. He is the creator of The Red Magician’s Tarot, now in its second edition. LeRoy is the founder of the Cornwall-Highlands Arts Alliance, currently serves as Vice President of Wurtsboro Art Alliance, and exhibits work at The John Neilson Gallery in Wurtsboro.
Ann Marie Napoli
Ann Marie Napoli, a native from Brooklyn, New York, cultivated their artistic passion at the Fashion Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in Illustration that paved the way for a vibrant creative journey. Ann Marie is now an inspiring art educator, empowering young minds, while personally embodying the transformative power of art and creativity to inspire positive change and self-discovery. They love staying in Mahopac, enjoying their lake property with their family.
Barbara Ringer
Born and raised in the South Bronx housing projects, Barbara Ringer pursued cinema studies at New York University. After a career in video production in New York, Germany, and Switzerland, she devoted her practice to fine art photography. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout New York, Connecticut, and Florida. She is an active member of the Silvermine Artists Guild, Westport Artists Collective, and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists.
Cecilia Soprano
My my love of gardening translates through my creations . Like seeds with the intention to grow, bloom, and fruit in human consciousness I paint the mystical in the mundane. Art has
a way of witnessing the extraordinary in the ordinary drawing awareness to what is already here and attainable in each moment.
Kara Wilson
Kara Wilson is a visual artist working across printmaking, painting, and sculpture. Inspired by the space between dreaming and waking, she transforms impressions from the semi-conscious mind into elemental forms that feel both familiar and strange. Her work explores the tension between control and surrender, structure and spontaneity, and the human-made and organic.
Kara is a professional graphic designer and has worked as a Creative Director in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Kara holds a BS in Studio Art and Art Education from Skidmore College. She works and lives with her family in Westchester County, New York.
Lesa Cash
Lesa Cash is a Hudson Valley–based emerging artist whose work is deeply influenced by the beauty, mystery, and struggle found in the natural world. Working across photography, encaustic, painting, mixed media, and poetry, Lesa embraces an intuitive and ever-evolving creative process.
Her work has been locally exhibited and published and has been featured in juried solo and group exhibitions. Along the way, her work has been rejected, sold, and awarded—and she loves every part of the process, from the first spark of an idea to a piece finding a home..
Lesa has led workshops for local art councils and participated in art events at national historic sites. Her creative practice extends beyond fine art; she has designed logos for local small businesses and created custom tattoo designs.
A lifelong love of antiques, history, and repurposing frequently finds its way into her work. She often creates on found objects or incorporates vintage frames that she personally restores, giving discarded and forgotten pieces a new life.
For Lesa, making art is as much about discovery as it is about the finished work—a continual conversation between nature, history, materials, and imagination.
Peter Cheney
Peter Cheney is a New York based contemporary artist living and working in Rockland County. Peter's paintings are primarily Acrylics on Canvas , but he frequently uses a variety of added materials to develop texture and depth. He also has been known to create onsite large-scale interactive installations. Some of his paintings are representational, some are landscapes, and some have vague allusions to biblical stories, while others represent scientific concepts of space and time and how the two things really are one. PeterCheneyArt.com
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Sarah Evans
Sarah Kate Evans (b. 2002) is a painter from Tampa, FL. Evans graduated from Florida State University with her BFA in Studio Art in 2024. She now works out of her home studio in north Florida.
Maureen Gates
Maureen Gates is a seasoned photographer with a few decades of experience. She launched her career at the age of 19 by founding SharpImagesPhotographic.com, while studying art, photography, and business. Maureen has since worked in corporate editorial photography for major clients, including IBM, HGTV, the National Park Service, the Culinary Institute of America, Milea Estate Vineyards, and Unilever, among others. Her work has been published in national & local publications.
Beyond her own creative practice, Maureen has taught photography workshops for both professional photographers and beginners, helping them refine their skills and cultivate their unique artistic visions. She has also mentored students in her studio, guiding interns as they learn the craft.
Maureen’s experience as a juror includes serving on panels for professional photography competitions across New York State, as well as volunteering her time to judge local camera clubs and student exhibitions in Dutchess and Columbia counties. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the Hudson Valley, including recent shows at W.A.A,M, Gallery 40, Jane Street Gallery, Unison, Arbor Gallery and the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College. Maureen is an active member of Rhinebeck Fine Art and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (W.A.A.M.).
Will Hanlon
Will Hanlon is an emerging artist who lives in Peekskill, NY. He is originally from Lincoln, NE. His signature medium uses painted push pins and other materials. He creates wall mounted art with an eye toward abstract pointillism and geometries.
Kellie Kottman
Kellie Kottmann is ceramic artist, art teacher, and digital marketing manager currently living in the Hudson Valley. While her educational background is in mental health counseling and neuroscience, her passion is creating with clay and working to inspire young artists. In addition, she is also passionate about improving accessibility within the arts by providing a safe space for neurodiverse individuals to create! Within her own art, her inspiration is drawn from my academic interests and the beautiful nature that surrounds my home in Westchester, New York. The majority of Kellie’s current body of ceramic work explores topics of mental health, environmental conservation, and exploration of self.
Victor Messick
Through his camera lens, Victor Messick looks for the abstract and conventional in his subject matter. He’s exhibited in multiple group shows including a solo show in the summer of 2026. He exhibited in 2025 at The Millbrook Winery as part of Mid-Hudson Art’s ‘Art in The Loft’ exhibition and got 2nd place in the exhibition’s wine label competition. In the summer of 2026 he exhibited with the Edward Hopper House in their ‘Hopper Happens’ photo exhibition.
Ana Pedro
Born in Leiria, Portugal, Ana Pedro studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon from 2012 to 2015. Since 2022, she has lived and worked in New York.
Pedro presented her debut exhibition at Arbor Gallery in New York in 2024. Since then, she has participated in several exhibitions and art fairs across the Hudson Valley region of New York, as well as in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Ranging from human and pet portraiture to botanical studies, her work is primarily created using dry media such as pastels and colored pencils. For Pedro, beauty is found not in perfection but in detail. Subtle nuances in facial features—birthmarks, beauty marks, asymmetry, scars, and skin variation—are treated as defining elements of individuality and presence.
Her recent solo exhibition extends this inquiry into perception and identity. The works occupy a space between representation and abstraction, transforming familiar subjects seen at extreme proximity into fields of color, texture, and pattern. This shift challenges recognition, questioning how much of an object we understand through shape versus detail, and whether identity can be read through texture and color alone.
Pedro’s artworks are held in both local and international private collections.
Robert Santora
Robert Santora is a contemporary artist, illustrator, and creative director whose work blends mid-century modern aesthetics, architectural illustration, florals, nostalgia, and experimental mixed media. Drawing on decades of professional experience in publishing and design, he combines traditional art techniques with digital innovation and AI-driven imagery. Inspired by local landmarks, vintage visual culture, and the curious relationship between nature and architecture, Santora creates distinctive works that balance graphic simplicity, rich texture, and imaginative storytelling. His evolving practice bridges fine art, illustration, and animation, transforming familiar subjects into unexpected visual experiences.
James Sparks
My personal imagery has always been to explore the fluid boundaries between representational and abstraction, discovering what is worth looking at. I have had several one-person exhibits at Upstream Gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, and have participated in group shows at Arbor Gallery, and with the Peekskill Arts Alliance.
I am represented by fineartamerica.com and SaatchiArt.com. Many of my works reside in public and private collections.
Wayne Toepp
Wayne Toepp is a Hudson Valley painter living in Poughkeepsie and maintaining a studio in Hyde Park. His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions spanning four decades as he has continued to examine the boundaries between abstraction and representation.His process is driven by the material qualities of oil paint, layering thick paint applications alternated with delicate glazes. Toepp activates mystical and poetic potentialities, all the while embracing contradiction as a viable creative outcome . The atmospheres and images within his works carry potent associations with both art historical and literary references, from northern romantic painting and haunted surrealist tableaus to images called forth by works of Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot. Toepp’s paintings are not bound to straightforward representations of the visible world; instead, they tread in more mystical, poetic realms. His compositions evoke a sense of mystery and ambiguity, presenting images that suggest rather than explicitly show.The muted interiority of his paintings suggest half-lit chambers and the barely discerned outlines of presences – everything in a state of luminescent flux, evoking memories of place and otherworldly light.
Joann Zwolski
I received my BFA from Pratt Institute and my MA from the College of New Rochelle. I have exhibited my artwork in several solo and group shows throughout the tri-state area and the state of Delaware. I have taught art for over 35 years from kindergarten to high school and have been teaching adults drawing for many years in a variety of places. I have been a trustee on two Art Boards - The Putnam Arts Council and the Peekskill Arts Alliance.
