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Buone Feste - Holiday Group Show
November 11, 2006 -
January 8, 2007
Artist Reception November 11, 5 -
8pm
RiverWinds Gallery at 172
Main Street in Beacon offers a unique holiday shopping
experience. Come find a one of a kind gift for that special someone on your
list, a handmade gift that says you have given thought. There are gifts in
every price range for the many special ones on your list. Gift Certificates
are available. Everything at RiverWinds is hand-crafted by more than
forty-five artists. Come meet several of our artists at our November
11 artist reception 5pm - 8pm. Free gift wrapping will be
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For the art
enthusiast on your list:
New
Paintings by
Virginia Donovan - oils and
pastels
Robert Ferrucci - acrylics
Jinny T. Goggin -
watercolors
Jamie Grossman - oils
Linda Richichi - pastels
Neela Pushparaj -
watercolors
plus porcelain paintings by
Paola Bari
and drawings by Allison
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New
Photographs by
Mary Ann Glass - Angels
Linda T. Hubbard - Aerial
Views of the Hudson River
Karl LaLonde - Trucks
plus photographs by Taylor
Hallman
and Alison Shaw
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For the
Holidays there are:
Santas and Ornaments by Sue
Turek
Winter Banners, Snowman
Boxes and Snowman Pins by Judith Loertscher
Porcelain Ornaments and
Candle Holders by Virginia Piazza
Red and Green Tableware by
Marilyn Price
Holiday cards by several
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Angels by Jennie Chien
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Gourd Ornaments by Claudia
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warm scarves, shawls and purses by Kelly Makara
silk scarves by Janet Jappen, Kelly
Makara and
Neela Pushparaj
jewelry by Paola Bari, Carolyn Baum,
Ann Carpenter, Jennie Chein, Virginia Donovan, Michael Dunn, Mary Ann
Glass, Janet Jappen, Monica Jorgensen, James Joslyn and Julie Siegmund.
earring dishes by Janice Scholz
jewelry boxes and ring holders
by Paola Bari
new soaps, lip balms, bath salts and
colognes by Sherri Manfredi
photographs and paintings -
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Trucks with attitudes by Karl LaLonde |
For Him
warm scarves by Kelly Makara
calendars and journals by Mary Ann Glass
wine magnets and boxes by Paola Bari
photographs and paintings - see
artists listed above
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Barnwood Birdhouses by Michael Murphy
Decorative Gourds by Claudia Pflueger
Rugs by Lisa Phillips
Lamps by Mary Ann Glass and James
Joslyn
Windsor Chairs by Maureen and Ferris
Rugar
Vases, mugs, bowls, plates and more by
Paola Bari, Jennie Chien, Virginia Piazza, Marilyn Price, Janice Scholz, Lisa DeRensis and Tinya
Seeger.
Yarn by Kelly Makara |
Zen
Bowls by Jennie Chein |
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For
Children Baby Blankets by
Kelly Makara
Photo Book: Sarah the Helicopter
Pilot by Linda T. Hubbard
Tooth Fairy boxes by Paola Bari
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Past Shows |
October 14 -
November 6
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Harvest
Tableware by Nancy Bauch
and
Fiber Art by
Carol Taylor
Walk in the Woods by Carol Taylor
Artists’ Reception on October 14, from 5- 8pm, during Beacon’s
Second Saturday.
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Nancy
Bauch's tableware, as featured in Martha Stewart Living Magazine and at
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"Wind Song", 18" diameter
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For RiverWinds, noted potter
Nancy Bauch is recreating the table settings she created for a
feature article on her in the October 2006 issue of Martha Stewart Living
Magazine.
Nancy’s work has a serene, tactile quality that draws the hand to her bowls
and mugs. She is largely inspired by the observations she makes of the
earth…an opening in the ice, the lines in a leaf, the texture of a rock, the
curve in a snowdrift, the light filtering through the forest at dawn.
Underlying all is the hidden unity that nurtures her and breathes life into
her pottery forms. Nancy goes into nature every day. It is her library of
ideas. And it trains her eye to see. She collects natural elements from her
daily walking meditation in nature, and transforms these elements into new
objects that dramatize and honor their beautiful qualities. Select pieces by
Nancy Bauch can be seen in during October at RiverWinds. |
Carol Taylor’s collage
pieces incorporate portions of her etchings, various special papers,
metallic threads, cords, sheet music and even beads. The collages often
include parts of two or three of her etchings, cut into pieces, They are
then sewn back together to create a unique work of art that is some
instances is more reminiscent of a quilt than of a print or collages.
Carol has found that she often uses her stitching to invoke the feel and
flow of the wind in the trees or movement in the leaves. Sometimes a color
or a rustle of sounds will inspire her to create a world of trees and
landscapes, abstracted into shapes, involving the feeling of the natural
world. Like Nancy Bauch, Carol says she loves finding a color, a leaf, even
a scrap of paper and building a new world to encompass it.
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Artist Carol Taylor |
Carol's collages of her etchings plus table setting of
Nancy's ceramics |
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Etchings by Carol |
Soup bowls and teacups by Nancy |
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Nancy Bauch and Sharon and Zane Grey looking at Martha
Stewart magazine article about Nancy |
Table Setting by Nancy |
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September 9 through October 9, 2006
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"Fantasia" by Paola Bari: Porcelain
Painter
Artist Reception September 9 5
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Beacon Second Saturday 12 -
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RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main Street,
Beacon, NY presents porcelain painter Paola Bari. Porcelain is her
canvas. She paints intricate, detailed patterns using amazing colors to
create fantasies on vases, plates, teapots, cups, boxes, tiles, elephants,
and more. And porcelain is also a sculpture to her. She transforms with
combinations of styles ones’ perceptions of a piece of porcelain. The
transparency of the porcelain contributes to the elegance of the finished
work of art. "I love the challenge of adapting my fantasy, my inspirations
to the shape of the porcelain to form at the end an harmonic unit." says
Paola. Please join her at the artist reception Beacon Second Saturday,
September 9, 5 - 8pm.
Paola paints porcelain and Limoges pieces with
overglaze colors and uses European close medium, lusters and precious metals
such as gold, silver and platinum. Once painted, each piece requires to be fired
around 1400-1450 F degrees to make the colors permanent on the china surface.
Many pieces need to be fired multiple times, depending on the motif and on the
variety of the material used.
Born and raised in Italy, Paola became
interested in porcelain painting as a teenager and has been actively painting
ever since. She began porcelain painting in Milano and attended multiple
seminars in Italy and Switzerland to learn different styles, techniques and
materials for porcelain painting. Paola is known as an international an artist
and has exhibited both in the United States and Europe. Paola is also one of the
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The Artist Reception was held September 9, 2006.
Paola was joined by many collectors and friends...
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| Beacon's Windows on
Main Street - Aug 12 - Sept 10 |
Artist Victoria Raabin
created wind and river for RiverWinds. Come see this fun and more. |
And photographers Taylor
Hallman and Linda Hubbard have captured the beauty and flow of the
river. Linda even put her river photos in windows! |
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for more info about Windows on Main St, go to
www.beaconarts.org |
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August 12 - Sept 4 - “The Subject Was Roses" by Mary Ann Glass
a mixed media exploration of
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Artist Reception August 12
5 - 8pm
"I like to get up close and personal with flowers, "Mary Ann
explains, "Roses in particular reward such close scrutiny because of their
intricate architecture and lush, subtle coloring." For this exhibit,
she is dipping color photographs in encaustic, which is a mix of beeswax and
resin. "I like combining 21st century technology -- ink jet prints -- with
ancient techniques such as encaustic (the Greeks and Romans painted with
encaustic). And the combination of roses and beeswax is, I think, a
particularly apt combination."
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Also included in the show
are cyanotype roses. This is an alternative photographic technique,
first developed and widely used in the mid-19th Century. With their unusual
Prussian blue tonal range, cyanotypes cannot be created by using a darkroom
and enlarger, but must be contact printed in daylight. Ultimately, the
process lost popularity due to the blue-only color of the emulsion.
Today, the cyanotype is one of the many alternative process photographic
techniques available to experimental art photographers.
For these prints, Mary Ann hand-mixed the iron salt cyanotype sensitizer and
brushed it onto cold press watercolor paper. The emulsion is a sunny
chartreuse as it is painted on. She then used a hair dryer to dry the
emulsion, then place an enlarged negative onto the paper over the emulsion.
The size of the resulting image is limited to the size of the negative.
This is placed in a carrier with glass on the top and clips on the back to
hold the "sandwich" together tightly. Outside on a bright, sunny August
day, the prints took only five minutes to develop -- at that point the
highlights are chartreuse and the rest of the print is a muddy, vague
blue/gray. Rinsed under water, the cyanotype image comes alive. The
highlights wash out to white, and the detail emerges in soft blues.
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Mary Ann ‘s work has been
described as spiritual and sensual, serious and elegant. She has studied
with such photographers as Brian Lav, Joel Meyerwitz, Joyce Tenneson, Arlene
Collins and Alison Shaw. Her images have been included in group shows as
well as in solo shows.
In addition to her fine art
photography, Mary Ann is one of the owners of RiverWinds Gallery and also
one of the two principals in fete accompli, a premier wedding and event
photography firm that combines a fine art photographic style with
photojournalism
www.feteaccompli-photo.com.
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Opening was on Beacon Second
Saturday - and rose petals were all around...
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Lots of people came...
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It was a beautiful day and a
beautiful show...
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Congratulations Mary Ann! |
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July 8 - August 7
Marilyn J. Fairman Classical Landscapes in Oil
Artist reception: July 8, 6-9 pm
Celebrating the Third Anniversary of
RiverWinds Gallery
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The featured artist for the third year celebration
is Marilyn Fairman, a plein air landscape artist for over 25
years. Her renderings of the meadows, creeks and rolling Hudson Valley hills
invite one to enter of world of color and changing light.
"Natural light and its play on the day has always
drawn me outside. Through each painting, I search for unexpected light and
the unusual color combinations that occur in nature. Before I begin
painting a scene, I reflect on what has drawn me to that particular scene.
What it is that made me stop my car, step outside
and sent up my easel. This focus helps me through the painting process as
the scene subtly changes. I find I am invigorated by this challenge of
ever-changing light and I cannot image painting in any other way than in the
open air."
Marilyn has a Master's of Art Degree in Art
Studio (Painting) from the State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. She has
worked as a graphic artist and a landscape artist, painting plein air landscapes
since the early 1970's. She teaches at the Middletown Art Group and the Barrett
Art Center and has been a landscape instructor for several years, conducting
private plein air classes.
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She has also been a visiting artist at the
Dutchess Land Conservancy, Millbrook, NY for a one-year project of painting
their lands to raise funds to preserve and protect these irreplaceable natural
and wildlife resources. And she was selected to be a visiting artist at the Weir
Farm Heritage Trust in Wilton, Connecticut, home of American Impressionist
Painter, J. Alden Weir.
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Roundout in Kingston 16 x 20
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Morning Stillness 12 x 16 oil |
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Catskill Morning 12 x 16 oil |
Hay bales in Walkill 9 x 14 oil |
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customers, friends and family came to Marilyn's opening! |
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Riverwinds is continuing its
third year celebration with a
Demonstration by
Watercolorist Neela Pusparaj
July 22, 2006 3 - 5pm
Light refreshments will be
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interest in nature and plants and the fascinating array of colors and shapes
they display. Neela is mostly a studio painter whose color memory and love
of nature guide her work. She starts with splashes of color which are molded
into flowers and foliage from layers of negative painting and crucial foci
of darks which help bring out the detail.
Neela is a retired pathologist, was born in
India and currently resides in Summit, New Jersey. She started painting as a
distraction from the practice of her specialty of Pathology, a term which
gets its roots from "Morbid Anatomy". Her husband enrolled her in an adult
education course in watercolor, upon hearing that a palm reader had said
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She has since become addicted
to painting and gone on to learn from multiple teachers by attending
workshops and courses at the local Art Institute. Her paintings are
mostly in watercolor, though she occasionally works in collage. She admires
the old masters as well as her mentors like Barbara Nechis, whose color
sense she shares. Her teachers have helped her develop and establish her
style of creativity. Neela’s
paintings are currently at RiverWinds Gallery. She has also exhibited in
solo shows and donates her work to charitable causes. Her aim is to bring
joy to those who look at her work. Anyone who has been on the upper floors
of St Francis Hospital can attest to the beauty and uplift they bring to the
patients and their visitors. |
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June
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June - Karl LaLonde: Trucks and
Other Beautiful Things
June 10 - July 3
Artist reception: June 10, 6-9 pm
Towns are
different with their unique look & styles. Always at their beginning or at
the edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end.
Trucks and cars; tired and retired from there
tasks lay dormant with their own memories of the heroic deeds. For many
years they have accomplished impossible tasks for man. Their memories are
starting to fade like the color on their skin.
Trucks, the modern work horses are the heroes
we’ve used, wore out and left in a field to retire. These steel marvels
are more beautiful now than when shiny and new. Amazing what time
can do to metal and paint. Ho the brilliant colors are homogenized with
rust. There is beauty in their patina, history and in their engine hearts. …………………………Karl LaLonde
RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main Street, Beacon, NY is
featuring the color photography of Karl LaLonde, an exploration of the beauty of
old trucks. Please join Karl at the artist reception Beacon Second Saturday,
June 10, 6-9pm.
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The color photography of Karl LaLonde is an
exploration of the beauty of old trucks. America has had a love affair with
trucks, an important part of America’s nostalgic culture. Capturing the aging
beauty, the rust, the old lights, the fading colors, has become a passion with
Karl LaLonde.
Karl travels with his camera through towns each
different with their unique look & styles. Always at their beginning or at the
edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end. Trucks
and cars; tired and retired from there tasks lay dormant with their own memories
of the heroic deeds. For many years they have accomplished impossible tasks for
man. Their memories are starting to fade like the color on their skin. Trucks,
the modern work horses are the heroes we’ve used, wore out and left in a field
to retire. These steel marvels are more beautiful now than when shiny and new.
Amazing what time can do to metal and paint. Ho the brilliant colors are
homogenized with rust. There is beauty in their patina, history and in their
engine hearts.
Karl LaLonde is a photographer and a
painter, living most of his life here in the Hudson valley. In high school he
learned how to take pictures and the love affair continues today. He attended
Dutchess Community College for Commercial art and BARD for photography. IBM
offered him a job and he started working for them as an artist in their TV
Studio in the sixties. He was directing and producing productions by age 24 and
won several international TV awards. By 30 he was art directing. All this time,
outside of the corporation, he was photographing, painting and showing,
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Many truck lovers, friends and family came to the
opening on June 10th! |
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I really have to think about
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May -
Linda Holmes Richichi
"Colors of the
Hudson Valley"
May 13 - June 5, 2006
Artist Reception
6 - 9pm May 13th
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Yellow and Pink, Pastel, 24 x 30 by Linda Richichi |
RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main
Street, Beacon, NY is featuring new pastels by "plein air"
RiverWinds artist Linda Richichi from May 13 through June 5,
2006. In between her worldwide travels, Linda has taken much
time this last year capturing "plein air" landscapes from the
lower Hudson Valley region. Her dazzling colors spring forth
from every painting which stimulate the senses. " I have become
attuned to the variations of color from the different times of
the year. Each season displays its own unique palette. As I
emphasis color more in my paintings, the world that I perceive
becomes more colorful. The way the light electrifies color
inspires me to get out in the early morn and late afternoon. At
those times the light adds pink or orange to all it touches."
The way that Linda utilizes rich color combinations on her works
imparts a feeling of serenity and communion with nature. Her
plein air paintings capture the brilliance of creation and love
of life. Please join Linda at the artist reception Beacon
Second Saturday, May 13, 6-9pm
Linda recently received a major
honor from the International Plein Air Painters (I.P.A.P.)
organizations. I.P.A.P. is made up of 19 different Plein Air
Painting organizations throughout 11 different countries. This
year Richichi was selected along with only two other artists
worldwide for Signature Status. This earns her the right to
place the initials of the organization, I.P.A.P. , after her
signature on her plein air paintings. The initials signify the
organization's recognition for outstanding work. The New York
Plein Air Painters honored her with Signature Status as well
this year.
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meaning in open air or out of doors. This mode of painting was made popular
in France in the 1800s by the Impressionists. There is a strong global
movement to keep this tradition alive. Richichi is also the Regional
Ambassador for the International Plein Air Painters to recruit others to
take their easels outside in the light. Those interested in finding out more
are free to contact her and request an application. " My aim is to discover
and capture what cannot be seen. Intuition leads the way. I enjoy painting
in outdoors as all the senses can be employed." says the artist. "Being in
nature in silence is essential to discover who I am and what I want to say
through my paintings. As I follow my heart I am taken to extraordinary
places that are filled with beauty." Born
in Montgomery, N.Y., her mother gave Linda her first easel at age two. She
earned her first award and commission at the age of sixteen. Numerous awards
have been earned through the years. Her educational background includes a
Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from SUNY, New Paltz and many years of study
thereafter. A scholarship from the Pastel Society of America was awarded to
Richichi to attend classes at the Art Students League in NYC in 1999. Soon
after, she was the accepted into the Pastel Society's show at the National
Arts Club in New York City. In 2003 Linda was inducted in the Pastel Society
of America as a juried associate member. Richichi shares her time painting
with teaching art classes at Orange County Community College. She teaches "plein
air" painting from her studio and in 2004 and 2005 she conducted workshops
around the country, in Tuscany, Italy and Paris, France. Her work can be
found in private and public collections around the country and abroad.
She will be hosting an all day "paint out"
on June 6th in the Newburgh area for the members of the Lower Hudson Valley
Plein Air Painters which is a chapter of the NYPAP. Artists will each pick a
spot and capture their experience on canvas. It will be held at the newly
named Stewart State Forest near Stewart International Airport. Worldwide
plein air painters are cognizant of the disappearing landscapes. They often
choose sights that are in jeapordy of being lost to development. Richichi
chose her paint out location in the Stewart State Forest to celebrate the
recent permanent preservation of this land filled with flora and fauna.
Visitors are welcome to watch the artists as they work.
Here are some images of her current show at
RiverWinds:
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Pastels by Linda Richichi |
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Many friends, family and art collectors came to
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April - Linda Erman - Signs of Spring
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"Signs of Spring" by Linda Erman
April 8 thru May 8,
2006
Artist Reception April
8 5 - 8pm
RiverWinds Gallery at 172 Main Street in
Beacon welcomes spring with Linda Erman’s acrylic and mixed media paintings.
She created her "Signs of Spring" art as a nest-feathering response to
life’s winter days and raspy edges, drawing inspiration from the domestic
landscape. Her collection includes robins, birds nests, pussy willows - all
welcoming signs of spring. Please join Linda at the artist reception Beacon
Second Saturday April 8, 5 - 8pm.
Gallery Hours: Wed - Monday 12 - 6pm,
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comes to fine art from a background in surface design and illustration. A
graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she honed her sense of
color and design as an artist in New York’s fashion industry. She has
created everything from puff-painted childrenswear to sacramental art, and
shows her acrylic and mixed media paintings in galleries across the US. She
has always been inspired by the natural world. As a kid she spent countless
hours playing "Artist"; grinding sandstone into "paint", making "paper" out
of bark, building tiny houses with pine-coned shingled roofs. It all came
together when her sixth grade art teacher introduced collage. Linda recalls
thinking, "This is something I will always do."
Linda’s art reflects her fascination with the
many "rooms", both past and present, of the Hudson Valley farm she grew up
on. She strives to transmit that sense of wonder through her work.
Often,bits of bark or seed pods gathered on a ramble find their way into her
highly textured pieces. Her paintings are built up from gessoed birch, which
she prefers to canvas for its rigidity. She then uses handmade paper,
pigment, silk and other fibers.
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Ornithology by Linda
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Birdhouse by Linda Erman |
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Pussy Willows by Linda Erman
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comes to fine art from a background in surface design and illustration. A
graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she honed her sense of
color and design as an artist in New York’s fashion industry. She has
created everything from puff-painted childrenswear to sacramental art, and
shows her acrylic and mixed media paintings in galleries across the US. She
has always been inspired by the natural world. As a kid she spent countless
hours playing "Artist"; grinding sandstone into "paint", making "paper" out
of bark, building tiny houses with pine-coned shingled roofs. It all came
together when her sixth grade art teacher introduced collage. Linda recalls
thinking, "This is something I will always do."
Linda’s art reflects her fascination with the
many "rooms", both past and present, of the Hudson Valley farm she grew up
on. She strives to transmit that sense of wonder through her work.
Often,bits of bark or seed pods gathered on a ramble find their way into her
highly textured pieces. Her paintings are built up from gessoed birch, which
she prefers to canvas for its rigidity. She then uses handmade paper,
pigment, silk and other fibers.
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Ornithology by Linda
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Birdhouse by Linda Erman |
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New barn wood birdhouses by Michael Murphy |
The gallery show also has wonderful new
birdhouses by Michael Murphy. He creates the birdhouses using
old bard siding and vines from his gardens, some single family homes, others
multiple dwellings. He also makes some from colorfully designed
gourds. And Janice Scholz has created wonderful
little bird houses and wind chimes from porcelain.
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plus new zen bowls. |
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New spring photos by MaryAnn
Glass and Linda Hubbard |
Kelly Makara, Neela
Pushparaj and Janet Jappen have designed scarves and
shawls in delightful spring colors. |
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There is also lovely spring
jewelry by Michael Dunn, Ann Carpenter, Monica Jorgenson, Virginia Donovan,
Marianne Liakos and Julie Siegmund |
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March - Art of the Recycled
Robert DeVito's "City Scapes" and
John Jackson's Whimsical Metal Sculptures
March 11 - April 3, 2006
Artist Reception March 11
5 - 8pm
RiverWinds is
delighted to present the whimsical metal sculptures of John Jackson
and city scapes by Robert DeVito . Their palette is from
junkyards, yard sales, repair shops, shores of the Hudson.
Their humor is contagious. Jackson welds his treasures
together to make you smile. DeVito paints his old boards and
driftwood with color and creates a nostalgic cityscape of long ago.
Please join them at the artist reception Beacon Second Saturday
March 11, 5 - 8pm.
John Jackson: "So
much junk - so little time". As a humor therapist in a crazy world, his
goal is to generate smiles and laughter to fight fear with fantasy and
fun, with metal as the medium. Bicycles are "okay" when used for
transportation or work, but they can have a higher calling "recycled"
and rewelded. Rescuing hundreds of bikes from the crusher, Jackson has
given them new life reincarnated as objets d’art. His prescription for
generating smiles is to present things out of context. Jackson has shown
his work throughout New York at Fine Art Craft Fairs and has been
published in many media including the International Trombone Association
and the National Geographic World.
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Jackson's Bull
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Jackson's Tong and
Dance
23 x variable
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Jackson's Chock Full
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A New York City multimedia artist,
Robert DeVito's brightly painted Skylines are sculpted from
driftwood with layers of joyful colors of paint that create memories of
a city of long ago. Robert searches along the shores of the Hudson to
find old boards to paint. The shape of the board dictates the cityscape
that emerges. Each piece is one of a kind - there are no reproductions
of his images. His creations are so innovative and original that the
Library of Congress has issued copyrights on the idea. Robert has
studied throughout the United States and Mexico to develop his unique
work. In addition to his own murals, he planned and executed the
restoration of the large mural bracing the SAS terminal at JFK Airport
in New York City. His Skylines have been in several galleries such as
the Celadon Gallery in Soho and the Parlor Gallery in Douglaston. He has
won first place awards at numerous art shows around the region.
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Kitchen Man |
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February - Robert Louis Ferrucci
- American Celebration
February 11 - March 6, 2006
Artist Reception: Saturday
February 11, 5 - 8pm
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Quite Valley |
Robert Ferrucci’s American
Celebration February 11 - March 6, 2006. His paintings depict
America’s land, barns, farms and the serenity of country living.
Influenced by the vanishing open spaces, farms and barns of the Hudson
Valley and New England, Ferrucci translates the feeling and emotions
that surround the subject, time and place. He captures the peace,
serenity and simplicity mixed with strong landscapes, old homes, barns
and faded images of fields and mountains. He combines soft quiet areas
with a strong central image.
His paintings are filled with muted
colors, diffused images and a primitive simplicity, a contemporary style
of American Folk Art. He puts part of himself in his paintings as
influenced by 45 years of formal education, a lifetime of paintings
experience and experimentation. He has studied at the New York city Art
Student’s League and the Pan American Art School in Manhattan. While
working in the graphic art and publishing industry, he also painted for
galleries and private commissions. He later studied with Gilbert Stone,
a prominent illustrator and professor at the School of Visual Arts in
New York City. His paintings have been shown in galleries both in
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Valentine's Day
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dietically
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sweetie -
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Brownie or Chocolate Covered Strawberry Scented Candles
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February 14
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January |
- Beacon Teen Reflections |
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Self Portrait, pastel, by Akela Hudson |
"Beacon Teen Reflections"
January 14 - February 6,
2006
Artist Reception: Saturday January 14, 2 - 5pm
Refreshments will be served
Gallery will be open
until 9pm as part of Beacon Second Saturday
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Drawing by Dharman
Abdullah |
Artwork by students at Beacon
High School in Beacon, New York. These students
demonstrate powerful observational skill, quality craftsmanship and
passion in their art work. The works include pastels, drawings, and
photographs. For their early years, they show a command of color and
depth, and an understanding of techniques.
Mrs. Diane Mikula, head of
the Beacon High School Art Department, working with her team of
teachers, has selected the artwork that will be on display at
RiverWinds Gallery from
January 14 - February 6, 2006.
Akela Hudson created a
self portrait in pastel and Dharman Abdullah designed a surrealistic
post card drawing. Akela and Dharman are both seniors in Mrs. Mikula's
Portfolio Development Class at Beacon High School. Martha Roszkowski,
Luis Cruz, Marie Disimone, Nick Gonzalez, Amanda Horne, and Bill
Hustis are also students from Mrs. Mikula's Portfolio Class that will
exhibit their work in this show.
Amber Coleman, a
junior in Mrs. Harris' Drawing and Painting I Class, created an
embossed print with pen and ink drawing. Nicholas Sienty and
Schuyler Schmadtke, tenth grade students in Mrs. Harris' Drawing and
Painting I Class are also displaying embossed prints with pen and ink
drawing |
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Pen and Ink by Amber Coleman
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Photo by Dominique
Washington
A photo using
mirrors and the concept "reversed" are the themes and techniques
demonstrated in Dominique Washington art work for this show.
Dominique is a tenth grade student in Mr. Lyon's Photography I Class
at Beacon High School. Mr. Lyon's Photography I Class will be
displaying a variety of themes and techniques in their photos, for
this show. The students from Mr. Lyon's class that have been
selected to submit photos for this show are Kristy Knowles, Brian
Kileen, Matthew Ambrosini, and Brittany Lucas.
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From the Poughkeepsie
Journal - Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Teen Reflections
Students' work gets professional treatment
By Barbara Gallo Farrell
Poughkeepsie Journal |
Dominique
Washington learned that trying something new can definitely be a
good idea. For her, the experience of having her photograph
selected for the "Beacon Teen Reflections" exhibit at RiverWinds
Gallery in Beacon "is really cool." "You can have fun doing
new things," Dominique, a 10th-grade student in the Photography I
class at Beacon High, said via e-mail.
Dominique is one of 20
students whose work was selected for the exhibit, which opens
Saturday. Students had to demonstrate quality and craftsmanship in
their work to be part of the professional exhibit, said Diane Mikula,
who teaches the Portfolio Development class for advanced students at
Beacon High.
"The students are
thrilled with the idea of their work being for sale," Mikula said in
an e-mail interview. "It's the first time our students have
exhibited work for sale in a private gallery."
The idea for
Dominique's sepia-toned photograph of a peace sign leaning against
mirrors with the word "war" placed around it came to her as she
thought about the war in Iraq.
"I was sitting in my
room and I noticed the peace sign on the wall," she said. "I thought
about it and figured it would be a good idea."
Along with
photography, works in pencil, pastel, watercolor, oil and block
prints will be displayed.
"We do it because we
like to promote new talent and give them the opportunity," said
Linda Hubbard, co-owner of RiverWinds. "We treat them just like
professionals. We try to give them the whole, big experience."
For the past two
years, students from the Art Institute of the Mill Street Loft in
Poughkeepsie took part in the exhibit.
The students' works
had to be matted and framed, and contracts were sent to them for
their work to be sold.
Mikula said the
process has been a good one for the students.
"It's led to
conversations of marketing, merchandising and the economics of
producing and selling your creativity, art," she said. "A few
students felt their work could be displayed, but felt an attachment
that they valued more than money and wished not to sell their
artwork."
Hubbard said the
exhibit also offers her patrons and customers an opportunity to see
a different type of art in the gallery. "I'm excited about the
images," she said. "They're very diverse."
As for Dominique, she
said she is honored to be part of the show. And while she plans on
keeping her options open for college, her mind is set right now on
becoming a forensic scientist. "I absolutely love law and
science," she said. "But I do also have a strong passion and respect
for art."
Barbara Gallo Farrell can be
reached at
bfarrell@poughkeepsiejournal.com Or log onto the Poughkeepsie
Journal home page. |
Embossed Prints by
Amber Coleman, Julie Del Bianco, Stephanie Nesi,
Jennifer Navarijo, Schuyler Schmndtke, Nick Sienty and Drawing by
Luis Cruz |
Oil and Pencil drawings by Luis
Cruz, Martha Roszkowski, Nick Gonzalez and Marie Disimone
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Photographs by
Mark Sargis, Sarah Emmett, Eddie Pellegrino, Brittany Lucas,
Ian Wood, Dominique Washington, Melinda Sumner, Brian Killeen,
Van Bentley, Matt Ambrosini, Kristy Knowles, Lana Lagomarsini, Nick
Paty, Cheyene Boyle Cole, Max Schmidt |
Pastel Self Portart by Akela
Hudson, Drawing by Dharman Abdullah and Martha
Roszkowski . Collage Portraits by
Marie Disimone, Cherie Heron, Becca
Ambrosini, Robert Fio Rito, Robert Sanders
and
Leah Woodward
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Many thanks to all the
teachers, parents, family and friends that supported the students in this
effort.
And thanks to all who came to
the opening on January 14th! |
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