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FEATURED ARTISTS
For artists that would like to show work in our gallery,
In our Main Gallery Space: "Local Woman Artists: Working in Paint, Pencil and Photography" Featuring: Helen Gutfreund Helen Gutfreund is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist working primarily in painting and drawing media. Trained as a multidisciplinary artist at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, SUNY Purchase and SUNY New Paltz, Ms. Gutfreund is currently involved in an "Art All Year" project, immersing herself in visual arts for a period of one year with the intent of entering a Master's of Fine Arts program in 2011. Her current work focuses on a personal mythology based on the use of particular numbers. To find out more about Ms. Gutfreund's Art All Year project, please visit http://artallyear.blogspot.com or http://www.facebook.com/artallyear. Patti Hokanson-Murphy Polly Reina Maureen Rogers Eileen Quinn A trip to Kenya in the Summer of 2008 re-energized my love of photography. Always drawn to nature, I found the lush Central Highlands and the great expanses and wildlife of the Masai Mara to be alluring. Photography allows me to perceive and feel at a level far beyond “just looking.” The process of working with these images with Kevin Van Buren at the gallery, doing my own framing for the first time, and now sharing them has brought me the joy that comes with creative expression.
Yong Sook Kim
Rob Couteau “ A Year with Picasso: A reinterpretation of major and minor works." Rob Couteau was born in Brooklyn, NY, and studied fine arts at the State University of New York, at New Paltz. In the mid-1980s he was director of a nonprofit agency that provided advocacy, housing, and counseling for former psychiatric patients, in New York City. In 1985 he won the Fourth Annual North American Essay Award, a competition open to writers throughout North America and sponsored by the American Humanist Association. He has published poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews in such publications as The Alembic; Arete; Bloomsbury Review; Chrysalis; Croton Review; The European; The Hawaii Pacific Review; The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy; Raintaxi Review of Books; Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture; West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal; White Pelican Review; and Z Miscellaneous. upstate New Paltz, New York. His work inspired by the time he spent at Musee Picasso, Paris is entitled “ A Year with Picasso: A reinterpretation of major and minor works." A new book of poems which features work that is part of the Picasso project will soon be available. In the book, Couteau takes a number of his paintings and "portrays" them in poetic form. These include pieces that are also featured in the "Year with Picasso" show as well as a number of poems about Paris and some prose that deals directly with the inspiration of Picasso in his own work and in 20th century art. The book of poems will include an introduction by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, a well-known biographer of poets and writers (including e.e. cummings and Paul Bowles) and who has translated many collections of poetry by major poets for City Lights Books.
Couple with Dog, after Picasso by Rob Couteau January/ February 2010 ---------
Cathy Law November 2009
VISIT CATHY LAW'S MOST EXCELENT WEB PAGE Read About the "China Rocks" show in the New Paltz Times
Gregory B. Martin Large Format Landscape Photographer
Growing up, I took my point and shoot camera with me on every vacation. Perhaps it’s the scientist in me or perhaps it’s the first four letters of analysis, but I found myself seemingly documenting everything and everyplace when I traveled. If there were four mountains, six building and five rivers, I’d make sure I took pictures of four mountains, six building and five rivers. Vacations started to become a time to catalog rather than a time to enjoy, so, fifteen years ago, I stopped taking pictures and started to just relax during my travels. About ten years ago, my interest in photography was rekindled when it became necessary to do some macro-photography for another hobby. After purchasing a midrange modern 35 mm SLR, taking a local continuing education course, and completing my project, I decided to use my new camera to take some local landscape shots, landscapes being my favorite subject. Of course this lead to taking the camera along on almost all of the trips that my wife and I take across North America. I started to display my early photographs on a couple of bare walls in my office. As I studied the prints made by my local photo lab I noticed that they just didn't seem sharp enough and did not seem to match my memory. I bought a medium and then a large format camera to address the first and Photoshop and a digital printer to address the second. My goal is to have my prints match both what I remember what the camera actually recorded. I now try to balance the enjoyment of the vacation and photography by becoming somewhat more discriminating on both what and how I photograph. I patiently compose my photographs and wait for the best lighting and can now drive by three of those four mountains and a couple of the rivers without stopping. I even occasionally set the camera up, examine the scene before me, sigh, pack up, and leave without ever tripping the shutter.
"Painters' Palette" Group Show September 2009 Franz Heigemeir Painter, Sculptor
Graduate of the Kunstschule Augsburg, Germany Group exhibits: One-man shows: Awards: Other: Since 1990 the design and calligraphy of the annual “Four Freedoms” Awards for the Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, NY
MARIANNE R. HEIGEMEIR
Graduated from the Kunstschule Augsburg, Germany Active member of The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum since 1986 Exhibited at: Winner of the Finalist in the 4th Annual Pastel 100 Competition, heifranart@hvc.rr.com Patti Hokanson-Murphy
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and starting its new life cycle, Patti is just beginning her new life as an artist. Although Patti has enjoyed the arts for many years, it wasn't until recently that she allowed her inner artist to have freedom of expression. This renewed expression has allowed Patti to feel alive and has re ignited her passion towards life. As a teenager, Patti enjoyed drawing and sketching. Over the years, she became interested in jewelry design and began making and selling her one-of-a-kind and custom pieces. More recently, Patti has enjoyed experiencing other mediums such as pottery, in which she continues to study. In addition, Patti enjoys painting. She creates both abstract and mixed media art. She says that she enjoys this as it has become her “therapy.” She uses it to relax, reflect, and renew.
Kathleen McGuiness
My work is the product of circumstances that surround us all universally. I consider myself an expressionist. My love for drawing the figure has been a continuing passion for more than thirty years. The classical approach is the basis for my work, offering stability to my freedom of color and line. Training: Primarily Self Taught New York City: Art Student League, 1960's Woodstock: Nicholas Burhalis, private group, 5 years Woodstock School of Art: Staats Fasoldt, watercolor- Deanne Keller, drawing and anatomy- Zhang Hong Nian, oil painting Kathleen McGuiness teaches art including:
www.woodstockartists.com
Richard Morris
I believe that art should change you. Lingering over an image and exploring what it has to offer is a pleasure. In my painting, I focus on the mix of randomly occurring forms and colors found in the earth and sky and I find faces and human forms intermingled among them. We are united by our origins in the same speck of primoridal dust and we return to it in the end. The mind pulls us through our own universe in a sort of dance amidst the light and clouds. There is no other experience beyond our own. We dance with the stars that flow through the universe. Over my life thus far, I have found creative expression in many forms. I have found joy in a long, happy marriage, raising three sons, and my practice of the dance that is Family Therapy and Counseling with young children. I returned to painting with a passion and I am thankful for the rush of expression that I now enjoy.
Erin Parsch
Erin Parsch's art draws on the traditions of cubism, color field, and abstract expressionism. Erin grew up attending Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied dance, piano and music theory at the University of Louisville. At the age of seventeen, Erin moved to New York to study art history, dance, choreography, and improvisation at the State University of New York at Purchase. She joined the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in 2001 as a principal dancer and was featured in such works as New Moon (originally created in 1989). The Hawkins Company successfully integrated dance with live music - such as Lucia Dlugoszewski’s stark, experimental compositions - and art, exemplified in the sets designed by Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, and Ralph Dorazio. While dancing with Hawkins, Erin also designed and created sets for the company's performances. Erin has had several shows in NYC. She was commissioned to paint a 12’ x 18’ painting for a dance piece that premiered at Lincoln Center on April 1, 2005. She has had solo shows at the Wooster Arts Space in SoHo, and her work was exhibited in a group show along with paintings by Basquiat and Hinmann. Since moving to the Hudson Valley,Since moving to the Hudson Valley, Erin has continued to be active as a dancer, appearing in Susan Osberg's 'The Monk Project', and video art such as the "Two Simultaneous Videos" by the noted photographer Angelika Rinnhofer. Erin's studio is in New Paltz, New York.
Fran Sutherland
A native New Yorker, Fran Sutherland is a painter, teacher, and restorer of Sutherland (nee Murano) synthesizes both Eastern and Western aesthetics Fran Sutherland's paintings enhance numerous public and private collections Lynn Walcott
Education: BA Philosophy and Photography - New School for Social Research (1968-1969) MA Ed. Antioch Graduate Philosophy - University of New Hampshire (1970-1972) MSW Clinical Social Work- Fordham Graduate School of Education ( 1991-1993) Student of Kathleen McGuiness Woodstock Artist (1999- present) Lynn Walcott is a practicing Psychotherapist in private practice since 1993
Paul Osgood August 2009
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Paul has worked with Northlight Photography for more than 10 years. Each year he dedicates time to concentrate exclusively on creating unique landscape images, traveling to many of the more remote and scenic places in North America. Usually only a few distinct images result from one of these trips. He will often visit the same scene many times before conditions are right. Once an image is composed, he will usually have to wait, studying the changing light waiting to capture the perfect moment. His images may be viewed on the web at PaulOsgoodPhotography.com.
Keri Gould July 2009 "This is my first gallery exhibit although I have been experimenting with photography as an art form since high school. What interests me most is capturing the patterns of life; whether visual patterns like the ceiling of the mosque in Oman, flora in Hawaii, sunflowers in Provance; patterns of behavior like young girls learning to balance dishes on their heads in a mountain village, a man carrying water buckets in cambodia horses grazing in a field of lavender. Likewise, I am fascinated with trying to capture the emotional responses to life's patterns. These interests inform other parts of my life, like being a lawyer and a law school professor. After all, what is the law, other than a codification of society's patterns? Law has offered me opportunities to explore patterns around the world and I am delighted to bring my photographs back to you."
Resident Artist & Landscape Photographer Kevin Van Buren Featured June 2009
Kevin Van Buren has worked with Northlight Photography for almost 20 years exploring and developing a photographic vision capturing the natural landscape. Kevin works in both color and black and white in image capture. Images are captured using a Medium Format 6X7 camera system onto film. Images selected for printing are digitally scanned and processed capturing maximum detail and providing greatest longevity. Kevin has worked with numerous local groups assisting fund raising for their organizations as well has numerous collectors in the Hudson Valley as well abroad. Many of the images are limited editions with only 75 available per image size. Kevin continues to promote and help artist succeed with the opening of a new type of gallery the Van Buren gallery,Inc which utilizes the incubator theme as a model to help promote and hone the skills of aspiring Artist.
FIVE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN IN ART May 2009 * PATTI HOKANSON-MURPHY *
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and starting its new life cycle, Patti is just beginning her new life as an artist. Although Patti has enjoyed the arts for many years, it wasn't until recently that she allowed her inner artist to have freedom of expression. This renewed expression has allowed Patti to feel alive and has re ignited her passion towards life. As a teenager, Patti enjoyed drawing and sketching. Over the years, she became interested in jewelry design and began making and selling her one-of-a-kind and custom pieces. More recently, Patti has enjoyed experiencing other mediums such as pottery, in which she continues to study. In addition, Patti enjoys painting. She creates both abstract and mixed media art. She says that she enjoys this as it has become her “therapy.” She uses it to relax, reflect, and renew.
* SIDELLE JOFFEE *
Sidelle's artistic endeavors began later in life. In her 40's she set up shop on the kitchen table. Spreading out newspapers, she began to teach her shelf how to paint. Her children recall that as dinner time crept nearer their mother would scramble to convert her make shift art studio back into place for plates, food and family. Her closest encounter with the classroom was when she bartered with a local art student, she would clean his paintbrushes if he would frame her finished paintings. Later in her art career, around the age of 60, she began experimenting with clay. She audited a couple of art courses, but then took the medium into her own hands. Sidelle says that many of her works are "inspired by the unique relationship between mother and child." The majority of her works, both her paintings and clay, are created from memories of her travels and family. Her pieces are an evolution, flowing with the tides of her mind. * DOLORES LYNCH *
" Life and Art are Inseparable" This has always been my belief since art exists in many forms and contributes to the development and growth of our life experiences. Throughout my life, the necessity of art has been a fine thread that weaves in and out of my everyday life. I would perform in theater, dance, and do choreography. I study art, visit museums and have always been aware of the fine sensibilities that abound in our world. Without art in our lives, our souls and spirits would surely die.
Training: Art Classes: 1950's Oil Portraits: 1962 Figure Study: 1980 Ikebana - Japanese Flower Arrangement: 1996-1998 Water color Study: 2000-2005 Woodstock School of Art - Sculpture & Portraits: 2005 Portrait Art Study Kathleen Mc Guiness 2000-2009 * KATHLEEN MCGUINESS *
My work is the product of circumstances that surround us all universally. I consider myself an expressionist. My love for drawing the figure has been a continuing passion for more than thirty years. The classical approach is the basis for my work, offering stability to my freedom of color and line. Training: Primarily Self Taught New York City: Art Student League, 1960's Woodstock: Nicholas Burhalis, private group, 5 years Woodstock School of Art: Staats Fasoldt, watercolor- Deanne Keller, drawing and anatomy- Zhang Hong Nian, oil painting Kathleen McGuiness teaches art including:
www.woodstockartists.com * BRIANNA C. STACHOWSKI * I like to think of photography as a window into the mind of the artist. My photographs are a way for me to show the more profound side of subjects that may have become mundane or ordinary for the viewer through routine, and so that I may illuminate the beauty in my subjects and enlighten my audience's perspectives. Education: BA in Business and Photography- Eckerd College (2003-2008) Brianna is the Manager of Van Buren Gallery, Inc. and is working on her professional portfolio * LYNN WALCOTT *
Education: BA Philosophy and Photography - New School for Social Research (1968-1969) MA Ed. Antioch Graduate Philosophy - University of New Hampshire (1970-1972) MSW Clinical Social Work- Fordham Graduate School of Education ( 1991-1993) Student of Kathleen McGuiness Woodstock Artist (1999- present) Lynn Walcott is a practicing Psychotherapist in private practice since 1993 Lynn will be giving Psychic Consultations May 16 1-4 at Van Buren Gallery $10 for 15 minutes. She has over 30 years experience. ************************************** Resident Photographer Kevin Van Buren
Brent McCullough Photography www.ordovergallery.com/artist/BrentMcCullough
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