Svetlana Askenazy
Svetlana Askenazy is a self-taught artist whose journey into the art world was driven by a deep passion for creative expression. Although she earned a degree in Civil Engineering Management, her love for painting and drawing remained constant. Eventually, this passion transformed into a powerful calling, leading her to fully dedicate herself to the arts.
Svetlana’s creative process is rooted in exploration and experimentation. She combines a variety of materials and techniques to create visually striking and emotionally resonant pieces. Her work often carries deeper philosophical or personal narratives, inviting viewers to explore hidden meanings and connect on a more profound level.
Whether working in realistic or abstract styles, Svetlana’s art reflects her evolving vision and emotional depth. As her work gains visibility in galleries and online platforms, she remains committed to inspiring others and pushing the boundaries of her creativity through meaningful, thought-provoking visual storytelling.
Nina Bertolino
Nina Bertolino is a local artist whose work ranges from abstract to impressionistic. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied painting, drawing, and printmaking. She studied for her masters in art education at the College of New Rochelle. After completing her education, Nina worked at a silkscreen atelier where she printed the artwork of many well-known artists such as James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella. Nina has displayed her works in many group and solo shows. She primarily paints in watercolor but also works in acrylic, pastel, gouache, collage and mixed media.
Nina enjoys capturing the beauty she finds in life through her use of color.
Joseph Edward 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.
Rob Lundberg
Robert Lundberg is a photographer, artist and thinker. Passionate about merging scientific and artistic methodologies.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, to Brooklyn, he now finds himself exploring upstate, New York.
His photographic works have been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, Brokelyn, Vents Magazine, Do NYC, No Depression, The Patch and countless others including podcasts.
In June 2018 he debuted his solo show “Uncontaminated Sound” at the Bowery Electric. 2019 saw Lundberg showcasing “Uncontaminated Sound II” at Arlene’s Grocery and beyond.
Since 2020, Lundberg has grown a self-produced raw artist to artist conversation series entitled "Uncontaminated Sound: the Interviews" to nearly over 700,000 views. Currently in collaboration with wavefarm.org ( an international transmission arts organization and WGXC (Catskill, NY) on a FM broadcast series.
In 2023 he executed a 75 image early-to-mid career retrospective of his cumulative works at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY.
Jeffrey Pine
BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, 1976, majored in sculpture. After college and a few years of practicing my craft, worked as a carpenter, woodworker, cabinetmaker and was fortunate to have clients who gave me free rain to design / build many projects. For the past 7 years I have been back into my artwork, creating a variety of assemblage and found object art. I have a studio / gallery in South Salem, NY and do my own work as well as commissioned pieces.
Mitchell Visoky
Mitchell Visoky is a White Plains, New York based, multidisciplinary artist working with a variety of media and processes to create abstract and representational images. His work develops through a dialog between the intentional and unplanned. His work in collage, printmaking, painting emphasizes composition, color, and spacial tension.
His work has references to mid century abstraction, spatial relationships, and architecture.
Visoky’s award-winning images have been exhibited at regional solo and group venues in the tri-sate area.
He shares his talents with many organizations. He is a certified art educator with over 30 years teaching experience in both public and higher educational institutions.
He is presently teaching encaustic painting at the Rye Art Center.
Susan Barrett
Susan Barrett is a painter and mixed-media artist whose work explores themes of time, place and transformation. In her practice, she reinvents subjects using a collective library of photos and clippings as source material. Born in New York City, Barrett studied at Rhode Island School of Design and New York University (B.S. cum laude fine arts) and then Hunter College (M.A. painting). Her work has been exhibited throughout the northeast including: The Painting Center (NYC), Attleboro Arts Museum (Attleboro MA), Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (Woodstock NY), BAU (Beacon NY), Trolley Barn Gallery (Poughkeepsie NY), Edward Hopper Museum and Art Center (Nyack NY), Hudson Valley Museum of Art (HVMOCA) and the Silvermine Art Center (New Canaan CT). She lives and works in the Hudson Valley.
Kevin Clifford
I'm just a guy that likes hanging out where most people would never go.
Mary Ann Glass
My work has been described as spiritual and sensual, serious and elegant. I shoot exclusively with my iPhone and develop images with phone apps.
I am a graduate of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s summer intensive program. I was a founding owner of RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon which featured Hudson Valley artists for 17 years. Currently I'm the co- curator of Gallery 40 in Poughkeepsie, and I also market and curate a group of 20 Hudson Valley artists on social media and organize several IRL popups a year. In addition, I’ve taught photography workshops in Australia and Italy as well as attended international residencies in Poland and in Beacon.
Jose Marti
My interest in art began in the early 1970s growing up in Brooklyn, New York. The emergence of graffiti art fascinated me and began my journey into learning about painting and drawing.
I use many different mediums, such as Spray Paint, Acrylics, Airbrush, Charcoal, Graphite and whatever I can get my hands on. Working in mixed media gives more freedom to create custom art.
Being an instructor of martial arts gives me great inspiration for my art. I love Japanese art, so some of my work reflects that. The greatest inspiration of my work comes from Graffiti art and nature.
Margaret Ryan
Michael Sirken
I have always been interested in the arts but have been primarily a painter for the last 12 years;some of these are mixed media explorations and drawings. I exhibited in 8 group at Jones Gallery in KC, Missouri. I have shown work in numerous on-line shows especially at
HMVCGallery.com for the last 2.5 years. I have shown locally in Putnam County NY at Arbor Gallery, Mahopac Library and PAC.
Additionally, I self published a children’s book, “Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”, in 1993.
Numerous of my poems have been published, and I have performed some at, “Writing the Walls, at HVMOCA. I have composed songs and played guitar in my youth.
I have a BS in Math & an MA inMath Ed from CCNY and taught High School mathematics as a career.
Robert Vizcarrondo
Born in Puerto Rico, raised in The Bronx, Left New York in 1993 to live in Florida, returning July 2021. Working full time, painting part time for now.
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.
Meghan Davis
Born and raised in New York, Meghan graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Photography (2013). Her journey began in high school, taking pictures at hardcore punk shows; learning the relationship of light amongst the crowd and bands in dark venues/warehouses. It has become her comfort photography. A deeper understanding of the photo-journalism field flourished at an internship at Creative Loafing in Atlanta, GA. After college, Meghan worked freelance positions with studios in the greater New York City area and continued her project focused on covered graffiti, “Buffed.” Once settled in Connecticut, Meghan worked as a real estate photographer, connecting her love for architecture and detail oriented work in studios.
Meghan can be now be found photographing while traveling, a passion supported by helping others plan vacations through @meg_alorian and Carry on the Magic Vacations.
Maria Juster Ralescu
Born in Romania, I lived in Paris, Montreal and Providence before settling in New York in 1984. My architect/painter father inspired me to delve into art at an early age, but I really began developing my artistic voice in 2002. Over the years I explored several mediums: stained glass, watercolor, alcohol ink and collage. Since 2024, I have devoted myself mostly to abstract acrylic painting.
Presently, I'm a member of the Katonah Museum Artists' Association, and most recently I exhibited in group shows at Pelham Art Center, Arbor Gallery, Bethany Art Center and The Townhouse Gallery.
Victor Messick
Victor Messick is an educator of 30+ years, who, through his camera lens, tries to see with the eye of a storyteller/plein air painter and looks for both the abstract and conventional in his subject matter.
He enjoys experimenting - subjects being architecture, people, shapes, colors, textures, urban and nature settings and more - capturing on camera unfolding stories or temporary moments for others to enjoy, to consider and experience.
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.
