Antonio Alvarez offers the following artist’s statement:

“I try.”

More work by Alvarez can be seen at https://ninosantaeulalia.com

Long Islander Daniel van Benthuysen worked as an art director for print and web media and taught visual journalism at Hofstra University. In recent years he has increasingly focused on landscape painting. For nearly ten years he was a monitor (teaching assistant) to various instructors at the Art Students League in New York. He’s done artist residencies in the United States and Europe and exhibits extensively in the greater metropolitan area.

More at https://www.danvanb.com

Mia de Bethune is a multi-media artist, writer and art therapist living in the lower Hudson River valley.  Her work ranges from oil, pastel and encaustic painting to weavings in paper, plastic and natural fibers, to earthworks that engage the landscape. 

"I’ve had a varied career experimenting with various media from oil to pastel and collage. The language of representational landscape and figurative image has gradually given way to more abstract forms that address the essential elements of shape, color and light. Grids and woven images provide a structure for movement, which has naturally led to kinetic works in large form sculpture."

More of her work can be found at www.miadebethuneart.weebly.com

I have always taken inspiration from studying many old masters such as Sargent, Velazquez, and Rembrandt, to name a few. Through my palate I continue to advance as a painter, honestly depicting realism in the world around me.

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Paintings merge control and pleasure with my private reality and emotional reaction to the physical world. I paint air and earth: sky and ground, and the drama of the horizon, that mythical union. Two dimensions receding into the expanse of a third and leading us to the fourth dimension of spirituality.

Landscape is the universal nostalgia of place blurring reality with abstraction. The paintings originate from experience, and then are made from memory and invention. The tools are layers shapes, colors, textures, and edges. They are guided by reflection and inspiration.

I cannot match the scale of literal space with the scale of emotional space, but I use them both. My work is as small as the most intimate suggestion and as large as freedom itself.

The dialogue between painter and painting, like any drama longs to be shared.

More at https://patherzdeahl.com

Enrico Giordano states that, "My work is reflective of world events, issues, the environment and childhood memories.  Architecture, acoustic surroundings and mythology play major roles.  However, I create each piece with the knowledge that viewers play an important part by bringing their unique interpretations to each work."

More of his art can be seen at

enricogiordanoartist.com

"The ideas for many of my bronze sculptures come from dance movements. I abstract the dancer and emphasize the movement,” according to sculptor Sondra Gold.

“The Triangles are an additive process: I start by joining two triangles and then adding others until I feel the sculpture is complete.

In all of my work, I'm alert to the relationships of planes, line, negative spaces and viewpoint.  Envisioning this interaction is what makes it exciting for me."

More of Gold's work can be seen at SondraGold.com

"Exploring gay male sexuality through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia, my work encompasses collage, image transfer, and printmaking. I’m interested in male camaraderie, desire, and emotions related to body image.

My current work in collage and mixed media focuses on imagined or constructed memories of male companionship. Using images of men from vintage magazines and photos, the work features classic gay beefcake, soft gay porn, and automobiles, along with flashes of color and recycled imagery from my own work. Transparent layers of color in acrylic and encaustic create depth and complexity, enhancing the sense of memory altered, distorted and rewritten through the passage of time. While the work delves into the universal experience of loneliness, it also offers hope in the form of potential intimacy and companionship."

More of Goldberg’s work can be seen at www.mitchellgoldbergart.com

Eleanor Goldstein's large-scale watercolors and her tightly focused etchings create narratives of environmental concern and urban construction based on firsthand observation. Her strong geometrical line and powerful use of color create worlds of unique energy.  Goldstein's work is in many collections, including IBM, PepsiCo, Pfizer and Co. and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She has exhibited in museums and many national juried shows.

Of her approach, she says:

"Light informs or obscures an image. It sets the mood. The viewer is invited to journey to places that are almost familiar... and to celebrate a vision of the past"

More of Eleanor Goldstein’s art can be seen at www.eleanorgoldsteinart.com

"My first goal as a mostly abstract artist is to create beauty through line, composition, balance, texture and color,” according to Paul Greco.

Growing up I was very influenced by the work of Paul Klee and always felt very connected to his way of seeing. While my work is quite different from Klee's, it is also informed by some of the same ideas : spirituality, the ancient world, the universe, politics and the beautiful forms, colors and shapes of nature."

More of Paul Greco’s art can be seen at http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paul-greco.html

The purpose of my paintings is to make something beautiful for me. They are a means of expression. They represent my deepest feelings as a response to my life. My paintings are how I see color; how I see shapes; how I see line. They are about complexity, sadness, hope and always beauty. My style of painting is contemporary n minimalist and through them I want to express my experiences.

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”After retiring from a successful 40-year career as an independent graphics designer, I adopted watercolor as my chosen medium. With it I have created images of people, animals, events, and places that I have seen, experienced and loved.

“Today as a ‘very senior’ watercolorist I continue striving to base most of my paintings on a background of more or less recognizable story themes.

“As a fairly recent example of this I painted a group portrait to remember and honor my 1937,  Jewish Cub Scout friends in Holland.  They all were murdered in German death camps. I feel honored that their images have found a home in Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum forever.“

Makom  (Black & White): Much has changed since I first started wandering around in these woods. Yet I am still ineluctably drawn to them. Once this work was a series of technical and intellectual challenges; now it is an ongoing meditation on the meaning of place.

Losing the Light (Photographs for my Mother): My mother was the painter Mary Rankin. Many years before she died, she began losing her eyesight.  Almost entirely blind in the end, she continued to paint. "Losing the Light" was for her. 

 More of Jo Zalon Meer’s work can be seen at jzmeerphoto.com

After traveling the globe for thousands of assignments photographing cars, places, architecture and celebrities, Janine is happily leaving the advertising world behind to enter the world of fine art and galleries.

Janine’s artwork includes mixed media projects that explore the natural world, and various series of photographs that illustrate concepts of leisure, humor and nostalgia. Several of her projects emerge from groups of thematic photos that she deconstructs, repeats, and collages together creating graphic patterns, colourful palettes and impressions of movement.

“From beginning to end this process is pure joy and discovery as moments in time come together in harmony. I treasure my opportunities as a photographer and artist, and pursue this journey to create artwork that conveys a sense of calm and reminds us to engage in the beauty that surrounds us.”

Website: https://www.18thstreetart.com/

Susan Richman is an award winning, nationally exhibited photographer who worked as a professional in NYC before evolving into an artist and educator. Her work has appeared in numerous museums, exhibitions and publications worldwide. She has also received prestigious international recognition, including multiple accolades in annual Julia Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, Best in Show at a recent Salmagundi Club National Juried Exhibition, also as a finalist in the annual Larry Salley Photography Award, as well as in Open Walls Arles.

Richman’s interests lie in exploring the link between existence, decay and loss. For the past decade, she has primarily concentrated on photographing images that focus on the damage to our environment by creating images that capture and preserve the fleeting nature of our world. Through art she hopes to increase awareness and inspire change. Prior to Covid, she was a teacher at The International Center for Photographer in NYC. In addition to Upstream Gallery in New York, she is also represented by dk Gallery in Georgia.

More work by Susan Richman can be seen at susanrichmanphotography.com

Twenty-three years ago when her son went missing in Brooklyn, Madge Scott picked up a discarded paint set of her daughter's. She didn't dream of the outcome — she only wanted to engage her mind. By the time her son was found, she had already decided to press on with this new-found love.

Working in nursing, she used almost every minute of her spare time to draw, and began experimenting with paints and colors later. Her coworkers encouraged her to press on with her new calling. She created for quite a few years before she moved to Hastings-on-Hudson in 2002.

Her work was discovered by two Hastings residents who encouraged her to exhibit her work, which she did in October of 2005 at the FRC Gallery in Hastings. She sold 19 of the 31 pieces she exhibited. The exhibition ran for 2days.

Since then, Madge has shown her work in the Congo (through the U.S. State Department Art in Embassies program) various galleries in Universities, Consulates, Municipalities, Libraries, the Katonah Museum, Playhouse Set in Nyack, private organizations, Arts Westchester, two documentaries by City Lore, restaurants, cafes and more.

An award-winning artist, her accolades include The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, Westchester County Board of Legislature proclamation, The Preservation Company, and MBHSAA, located in Westchester County.

An inspirational writer, she writes every day and is also a voice-over artist who has done work in that field. Madge lives in Hastings and works out of her studio in Dobbs Ferry, NY.

More work by Madge Scott can be found here

“For many years now my subject matter has been centered on the theme of complexity and diversity as found in nature especially when the scale is manipulated and enlarged. This theme, where movement, space and form interact, presents itself in my paintings of stadium crowds at sporting events as well as in more recent paintings of dried leaves accumulating in a corner of my porch or that congregate along the pathways that meander in the wooded area behind my studio.

“In summary, by incorporating a slight shift in the frame of reference, ordinary objects become suitable for monumental expression.  A novel iconography can evolve from otherwise ordinary everyday forms that when carefully painted and altered in scale become  compelling and evocative.

“More recently, I have become immersed in amplifying fragments of Hieronymus Bosch's  Garden of Earthly Delights as a source of inspiration and I am currently inspired by the endless possibilities of internalizing his work from a 21st century perspective.

More work by James Sparks can be seen at https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/james-sparks.html

"My work is a response to nature and to art.”

“I take all of the elements of the landscape; flowers, trees, clouds and also the human body and make new configurations out of them. The changing light and colors of the seasons come into play as well."

In her most recent exhibit, Spitzer revisited early work in the context of current.  In doing so, she highlighted both the evolution of her language and the constancy of her eye.

Spitzer's work is always clearly a response to the natural world.  Strong gestural forms drawn from reality make her abstraction more powerful.

“The creative process has been a life-long journey of experimentation and discovery for me, through painting, printmaking and collage. Regardless of the medium I use, or the subject matter, the goal is the same – to produce a work of art that is strong in theme, composition and color, and that will reflect my vision and engage the viewer”.

More of Susan Steeg’s work can be seen at susansteegart.com

"I feel the line tells the story.

"I start with a notion of the natural landscape and then allow for any deviation; thoughts of man made structures, the visual impact this creates. I look for line, whether it is made in pencil, a scratch on a surface or a piece of manipulated wire.

"I embrace creative accidents and try not to allow my own particular taste block the path towards the outcome of a piece.  By this I mean making statements -- whether they be a brush stroke, sawing a piece of wood in half or making a color choice -- without any preconceptions before assessing them for their merits or failures.

"The repetition of the process and the responses I make must culminate in a balanced, harmonious piece.  That achievement, or striving to reach it, is what interests and motivates me to continually create."

More work by Ward can be seen at https://www.tbward.com/

Rachel Whitlow's landscapes are realized in the interstices between man and nature. Zeroing in on specific areas or subjects and repeatedly coming back to them, her work often straddles the worlds of figurative and abstract language.  Whitlow’s work does not attempt to replicate an actual place, but to transform it into something else--- to create a distilled experience driven by imagination, emotion, memory and reflection.

A graduate of  Cooper Union, Whitlow also studied painting, lithography and print-making at Academie Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands. She is a master printer of both the Tamarind and Paris methods of lithography.

She works in New York and on Mt. Desert Island Maine.

More of her art can be seen at rachelwhitlow.com