Carol Greiff Lagstein
I experience painting as an escape from rational thought, where I can mindlessly merge with the paint and canvas. Those are moments of grace. The process is as meaningful as the product. If a final painting emerges that captures the experience, than there is even more satisfaction.
Ray Lagstein
A mercurial painter, Ray Lagstein paints with temperament and mood, often disregarding the inclination to submit to conventional rules or restraints; his work is an active expression of memory, driven by color and movement.
Linda Lichtenstein
“The emotional element of perspective encompasses both the reality as well as the metaphysical to produce the content.”
Kathleen Baxter, Making It Personal, American Artist July, 2002, p 34-7
Julie Carin Lucca
I work on site, from observation and from memory, often using the people and places that make up my everyday life. Each image suggests a preceding or succeeding incident and strives to capture the psychological struggles underlying the event. Using light and shadow to veil information, I strive for simplicity and the implication of a situation rather than the description of it.
Diana Lynn
Eleanor Grace Miller
Initially a figurative painter, I have been drawn in recent years to the still life.
The tactile immediacy of objects, their placement, light and shadow, color and design, simplicity and complication fascinate me. This has, in turn, influenced my figurative work in its arrangement and compositional point of view.
It is rarely that the the subject of the painting has any significance but rather how the subject illustrates or conveys the concept, whether it is movement or stillness, reflection, pattern or repetition.
Japanese Koi Paintings
Eleanor Grace Miller’s Japanese Koi Series are painted in rich transparent scarlet watercolor hues, set into 22k Gold leaf or Japanese silver leaf on paper.
Koi, or Carp, have often been described as “living jewels” and “swimming flowers”. The Koi is believed to have originated in Persia, is native to Eastern Asia, and was introduced into Japan by China in 200AD. The Chinese book titled Yogyokyo, written in 553 BC, describes the methods of breeding Koi. The eldest son of the Chinese Philosopher Confucius was presented at his birth with a Koi by King Shoko of Ro in 475BC. In Japan, Koi are known as Nishikkigoi.
Carol Maurer
A student Boston's North Shore artist, Zygmund Jankowski of Glouster, MA, and Dan Gibbons of NY, Maurer is a former Featured Artist in the Hopper House's annual Focus on the Figure. An accomplished artist in oils and watercolor, her work includes figurative studies, landscape and harbor images.
Terry Mollo
Inspiration comes where nature‘s inorganic form meets the organic. In my sculpture, both often depict human emotion, human condition. Rocks, shells, waves suggest human form, fluidity, texture, tone. Botanicals are sensuous, yearning; sea forms are muscled or fleshy.
Exhibitions 2000 - 2006
- Arts & Industrial Center Annual Art Expo/Open Studio Show, NY
- Art Students League of New York, NY
- Bertoni Gallery, NY
- Gallery Nuova.. Warwick, NY
- Hambletonian Fine Arts Show, Sugar Loaf, NY
- Hudson Valley Art Association, Hastings, NY
- Museum of Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY
- OCAF, Washingtonville, NY, 2004 (Best of Show)
- Pomona Cultural Center, NY (S)
- Port of Call Gallery, NY
- Renaissance Fine Arts Gallery, NY (S)
- Ridgewood Art Institute, NJ
- Ringwood Arts Association, NJ
- SUNY/Orange. Middletown, NY
- Upstream GalleryDobbs Ferry, NY
- Washingtonville Art Society, Bodyscapes, NY
Ellen Morozowski
Metropolitan Portrait Society, Board member
Merrill Lynch Corp. Collection
Pratt Institute
School of Visual Arts
Art Students League
Jeanie E. Neyer
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Jeanie E Neyer’s work concentrates on repeated forms in both drawing and painting, communicating small worlds of stillness and fragility.
“Intent on conveying the essence behind the appearance, that which lies just below the surface, it purposely leaves much in the realm of suggestion as a means of imparting a sense of mystery”.
Dale Payson
Dale Payson’s vigorous still lifes and florals are painted with a dense and unrestrained saturation of color and brilliant light, with shadows cast in creamy rich grays. Payson has exhibited extensively, her work is represented in numerous corporate and museum collections, including Nabisco and the prestigious Kerlan Collection.
Bonnie Sakoff
Painter, Photographer and Printmaker, Sakoff has exhibited extensively, and her work is represented in collections nationally. Her documentary photography concentrates often on the ordinary and pedestrian, most notably in her Mexico and China series, with the same vivid boldness and color evident in her paintings and prints.
Janet Helen Shearn
Shearn's recent body of work focuses on botanical illustration, following an extensive background in theatrical scenic design in Canada with the Shaw Festival Theatre, National Arts Centre, Theatre London, and Theatre New Brunswick among many. A graduate of York University Faculty of Fine Arts, Toronto, she has as well studied at Rodman Hall, St Catherine's, and Niagara College in Canada, SUNY Purchase in NY and received her Botanical Illustration certificate from the NY Botanical Gardens.
My studies reflect not only a love of the subject and it's intricacies but an appreciation for its' inherent movement, for the presence of life and for the very fragility and transience of nature itself. Unusual composition, textural detail and spatial arrangement on the page are important to me as I strive to capture drama in the shapes of shadows and negative space. As much as I am drawn to the beauty, I am equally intrigued by the oddity or imperfection.
Victoria Steinberg
Victoria Steinberg presents a captivating perspective of still life, portrait and landscape subjects, through a dedication to the mastery of realism, executed in oil painting. Her work embodies light form and color with skillful strokes suggestive of Dutch masters. Ms. Steinberg carries forward the refined tradition of ?chiaroscuro? or direct light.
Years of study at the world renowned Art Students League in New York City with such Twentieth Century masters as Robert Brackman, David Leffel, Gary Fagen, Daniel Greene, Robert Johnson, Peter Cox and Greg Kreutz have empowered her to produce elegant compositions. These compositions embrace concepts of cast shadows, definitive and lost edges, all transmitted in reflected light and full-bodied colors.
Ms. Steinberg has undertaken commissioned portraits for Marilyn Horne and Michael Moriarty, among others. Mrs. Lawrence Rockefeller donated one such painting to the Sloan Kettering Hospital; Her portrait of Ms. Horne is on display at the University of Southern California. The esteem in which she is held resulted in an honor by the ALS Foundations, which has acquired her work for their archives.
Awards Received
- National Juried Competition, A.W.A. June 2001
- Merit Award, Best Painting, Art Students League, NYC, NY, March 2002
Associations
- Salmagundi Club, New York, NY current
Lubomir Tomaszewski
“Tomaszewski finds tremendous inspiration and comfort in nature and in the environment, and successfully conveys this feeling in his art. Working with freshly unearthed rocks, rotted wood, scrap metal and glass, he blends the raw beauty of nature with the complexity of the human spirit, as he interprets it. His search to strike a true balance in art between the abstract and the realistic - and, thus, find the perfect art form - reveals itself in a restless spirit that motivates, inpsires and haunts him.”
A Restless Spirit by Robert Marston
