Sometimes the most fun and engaging forms of art won't be found on a flat piece of canvas. Thinking outside of the frame is a daily ritual for Craig and Pam Booth, the husband and wife team behind Car-toons by Booth.

   "We've been working in clay for over 30 years" Craig explains. "Pam is a trained sculptor (Memphis College of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Summit Art Center), and I'm a potter. I've always been a car enthusiast, and she (Pam) got bored with me going to car shows all the time: Pam said, ' If you're going to keep going, ( to car shows) do something to make some money.' I made my first automotive pieces and took them to Hershey and everone of them sold. It was exciting- a way to combine my love of cars, clay and art."

View website:
http://www.cartoonsbybooth.net

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.255.4169
Email: bybooth@aol.com

Hours:
By appointment only

Marcia Cole is a multimedia artist whose luscious, contemporary, encaustic monotypes communicate myriad meaning—as varied as the media she employs. Much of her work was inspired by meditation, chants and visual expressions of energy. The resulting polychromatic strata is reminiscent of cyclic hymns, of the vibrations of human connection, and of fluxing landscapes. The bands of uniquely produced pigment suggest a natural progression and environmental awareness, conjuring imagery such as the bare, tawny cliffs of the Shawangunks. Surprising palettes and finite detail delight the viewer, while the endless significance provokes deeper thought and emotional connection.

View Website:
http://www.marciacoleart.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 929.376.5458
Email: http://www.marciacoleart.com/about.html

Hours:
By Appointment Only

To create is to dance with the Universe, to serve and to become a positive affirmation of our own magnificence.

This work is about recovering Spirit and turning towards the light and truth within my own heart. Two years ago, I moved out of the chaos of Brooklyn and into the forest to heal, create artwork and reclaim a beautiful part of my spirit that had nearly been extinguished. I began a body of artwork and writing to express this experience.

Today, I live in sync with the seasons and stars. I assemble sculpture from natural found objects to honor the Goddess within me, the Spirits I have been, and the Spirit in all things. Crystals, branches, feathers and the bones used are all in praise of life, in celebration of earth, in honor of transformation and spiritual awakening. These pieces are primarily wall hangings and altars, creating sacred spaces within the home. I write poems to accompany each piece to illuminate the meaning held in each creation. The bone pieces are made with the deepest reverence for the animal spirit, and I write about the medicine of each animal as a way to honor the relics and learn from their teachings.

The healing and wisdom found through the process of art making in these woods has reconnected me to my truth, my femininity, my center... and has brought immense beauty and meaning back into my life.

Let it be known.

I did not fall from grace.

I leapt to freedom.

-Ansel Elkins

View website: 
http://www.thefreedomlodge.com

Inquiries and Purchases: 
anna@annadavisfilms.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

I make art that sparks joy in your heart. 
A smiling affirmation and a joyful heart inspire life's infinite potential. 
I create art that inspires, affirms, and uplifts the spirit.
I offer oil and acrylic paintings, portrait commissions, prints, and greeting cards for sale.

Visit her website:
http://www.stacieflint.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: StacieFlint@yahoo.com
Phone: (914) 475-0113

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Hand felted soft sculpture and accessories.

When I discovered felting it was love at first touch.

I am continually inspired by the colors, textures, and feel of soft wool in my hands and the ability to mold them into so many different forms including beautiful wearable art and whimsical soft sculptures.

View Website:
http://www.alexaginsburg.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
alexa.ginsburg@gmail.com

Hours: 
By Appointment Only

Stills, paintings and collage
expressing the beauty of movement

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Sunflowerartstudios.community

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: liz@sunflowerartstudios.community

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Textual Photography and Wearable Fiber Art

A photograph’s power resonates from the subjective truths an individual concedes to that visual image captured in the continuum of form, time and space. My images emphasize the physical and emotional rhythms and patterns of life by visually commenting through texture, color and the play of light – giving viewers an opportunity to consider the framing of our visual viewpoints and emotional perspectives.

In addition to photography, I create wearable fiber art- crochet and knitted freeform pieces ranging from scarves to sweaters, baby blankets, fingerless gloves, shawls, cowls and more!

My artistic sensibilities are on overdrive when I create my handmade knit and crocheted thneeds. I love creating wearable art where the balancing of color, design, and the weight and texture of the wool or other natural fibers enables others to "get" the sensuousness of the finished piece.

I am a photographer and fiber artist living and working in the Hudson Valley, NY. I am also a practicing attorney and law school professor who spends much of her time training with her horse Layla in dressage, pursuing a rigorous yoga practice and gardening.

View Website:
http://www.kerikgouldphotography.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
http://www.kerikgouldphotography.com/contact

Hours:
By Appointment Only

 I have been a visual artist since the ’60’s, and have primarily worked as a painter. My paintings and my sculptures were exhibited at galleries in New York City and were placed in corporate collections both in the United States and Canada.  Additionally, my artwork was included in the “virtual corporation “ run by Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street.

It was serendipitous  that through my experiences teaching art in the Department of Education in New York City, I was reintroduced to ceramics.  I found working with clay extremely pleasurable and much different than creating a painting.  I found myself spending more and more time making a body of work with clay as the medium.

 I have been working in clay seriously for the last 20 years.  Wheel work was a skill I began to develop about 12 years ago.

Shortly after moving to Pine Bush in the Hudson Valley of New York State in 2007, I built a studio building on the property and established New Prospect Pottery. The pottery built two kilns thereafter. The pottery holds group firings in the 40 cubic foot gas reduction kiln and the salt kiln. Potters from all around the tri-state area come together to glaze and fire their work. I mix and experiment with glazes and slips and make all the glazes that the pottery uses.  Glaze experimentation is an ongoing process, as there is much to learn when making glazes that are specifically  made for each different type of firing.

These glazes and slips are available for the ceramic artists who come to glaze and fire their pots here and for my students who study at the studio. Please feel free to contact the pottery directly for information about firings and classes.

View Website: 
www.newprospectpottery.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.744.6787
Email: newprospectpottery@gmail.com

Purchase:
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/newprospectpottery

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Welcome to my dream. 

Journey with me through the mysteries of this universe, from the garden of shadows into the land of enchantment.

I have faced my deepest darkness with all my addictions and the suffering that came along. However I have chosen to stand in my Truth and to accept and love myself there. It has been a profound journey of emotional healing through Mother Nature's medicine. The ultimate alchemical rebirth of reclaiming my light and shining in my infinite power & purest beauty. With my heart wide open I hold sacred space for you to reflect your highest vision. Come with me.

As long as I can remember I have always pushed the boundaries of creativity. After studying fashion design in Paris I moved to New York and embarked on a career as fashion stylist working with Hollywood celebrities, top models and rock stars. After a decade being exposed to high profile talents I got inspired to create my own films. My first short film “Autumn Dawn” screened at Tribeca Cinema in NYC in 2007.

Since then I have passionately explored myriad avenues of creative expressions ranging from filmmaking, acting, writing, photography, dancing, yoga and spirituality.  Ultimately I have morphed all these elements into one art form. Here is the debut of “Cracked Open”, a film series on the healing powers of Mother Nature and a book of still images from the films together with poetry, transformational stories and the divine wisdom of the Earth.

Come with me.

View Website:
http://www.sabinakurz.com/index.html

Learn More:
http://www.sabinakurz.com/blog.html

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Leonie Lacouette manages to strike a balance between concepts and influences that otherwise might seem like polar opposites-her elegant clocks successfully reconcile the strict geometries of Minimalism with a warm, approachable palette of colored patinas on the copper and nickel that predominate her designs. Created from a basic language of circles, squares, ovals, and rectangles, the clocks are not only beautiful, but often playful as well. In one design, the otherwise hidden movement of the pendulum swings gently back and forth, revealed by a perfectly circular hole punched through the face of the piece to create a dynamic (and unexpected) game of 'hide-and-seek'.

Over 25 years ago, Lacouette started making clocks, as a practical way to make a living while using the aesthetic training she'd received in art school. It all began when she needed a clock for her studio, and noticed an ad in a magazine for a company selling clock mechanisms. Ordering five, she used one to make her own timepiece, and then made four more to sell. They sold out immediately, and she's been making clocks ever since.

View website:
http://www.leonietime.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
leonie@leonietime.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Marsha was selected to exhibit her artwork at the 2017 Hudson Valley Artists Association Exhibition in May at the Salmagundi Club in New York City.  

I see the world through an emotional lens, and I use the medium of oil paint to share what I experience:  serenity, movement of light, texture, and color.  

Marsha Massih is an award-winning oil painter, exhibiting her landscapes and still lifes throughout the Northeast and abroad for over 20 years.  In 2010, the National Association of Women Artists in NYC selected her work for their annual show.   In 2012, she received an award at the prestigious Chelsea International Fine Art Competition.   In 2013, Marsha had a solo show of Hudson Valley regional landscapes and was invited to exhibit at‘Art Along the Hudson’ sponsored by the Dutchess County Arts Council.   The Allied Artists of America and Audubon Artists National Exhibitions have presented her paintings throughout the years.  In the Spring of 2015, Marsha was included among a select group of regional artists invited to exhibit figurative work in ‘Being Human’, a show at the Art Society of Kingston.  As a plein air painter, Marsha is regularly invited to participate in the annual 'Plein-Air Paint Out' at the Mohonk Mountain House sponsored by Wired Gallery as well as at the Historic Huguenot Street 'Artists On The Street' Plein-Air Event.  Roost Gallery in New Paltz, New York will be exhibiting her work from May-June 2018.

Marsha and her artwork have been featured in several publications over the years, including Art Times and  Lines from the League, published by the Art Students League of New York.  In 2015 her biography and work were featured in the New Paltz Times and the Gardiner Gazette .

Marsha is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tours (GOSTartists.org)  and sells work out of her studio. She is a member of the Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, and the Artists Fellowship in NYC. 

Represented by Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz, New York.

View Website:
http://marshamassih.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: mmmassih@gmail.com
Phone: 845.532.3548

Gallery Viewings:
Mark Gruber Gallery

Bannerman Island Gallery

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Why I Draw

For most of my adult life I focused more on music than on visual arts, but in my late forties a wrist injury interfered with my ability to play my instrument. My creativity needed a new outlet, so I started drawing, and soon became obsessed. Drawing became the focus of my life. After my 2013 move from Oregon to Gardiner, NY I discovered the rugged ecosystem of the Shawangunks. The natural world is my passion and my refuge. In my work I try to recreate a hiker’s perspective of landscapes as potential journeys that can draw us out of our usual tired circle of thoughts into a more spacious place. I hope to simply convey the inherently generous, fluid and mysterious nature of the world that I see.

Background

I am mainly self taught, having no formal art instruction other than one college class in drawing. But as the child of a painter and a photographer who towed me from one museum to the next, art was a consistent presence. We also travelled and camped all over the West, so the outdoor world was always a big part of my life. In middle age I developed the patience to immerse myself in an image, and the confidence to return to the mind of the child who explored freely in redwood forests, open fields, and on mountain trails.

Visit her Website:
http://andreamcfarland.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: amfar@andreamcfarland.com
Phone: 971.409.2125

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Meadow’s work is constantly redefining and refining intimacy and emotional relationships between herself, her materials and her visual language. She strives to remain vulnerable and experimental while including a graceful marriage of symbolic and ancient references.

In order to maintain freshness in her work, she produces art in a variety of media and metaphors; as a sculptor, jeweler, painter, printmaker, product designer and children’s book author and illustrator. She has an MFA degree from George Washington University, in Washington DC, in Ceramics and Design and an MFA degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Sculpture and Jewelry. Her undergraduate degree is from The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, in Ceramics.

Meadow’s international exhibition history is long and distinguished. Her art can be found in numerous private and public collections including; Smithsonian Institute, and Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Science Museum, San Francisco, and DiRosa Collection, in Napa, CA. Her large installation sculptures were shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, and galleries and museums in NYC.

View website:
http://www.meadow-art.com

Inquiries and Purchases: 
Email: woodrockstudios@yahoo.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

As an artist there is variety in her work, though her love of Mexican folk motifs appears no matter the medium she's working in. This folk art flavoring gives her painting and pottery a delightful playfulness that is the perfect antidote for people who feel intimidated by more formal styles of artistic expression. 

Annie herself can also be vigorously irreverent which serves her well in her work. If you see any of her #GOSTdoors you will recognize them right away.

View her work:
Click Here

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.255.5508
Email: annieohoh@earthlink.net

Hours:
By Appointment Only

In dreams, images evoke responses that we don't quite comprehend. They contain figures, faces, and suggestions of things whose exact meaning often remains both elusive and provocative. It is that kind of provocation that I'm striving to capture in my abstract photographic images.

The most important part of the creative act for me is the mysterious journey of discovery as I explore the consequences of 'tampering' with my own source image photographs. I think of it as tampering because it is a sort of illicit alteration of the "truthfulness" of photography.

My work starts out with my own photographs of landscapes, architectural details or colorful scenes and other unusual views. These are the source photos for my images and also my inspiration. In their photographic transfor-mation into an entirely new work, the influence of the source images remains. My process simultaneously alters and obscures their initial forms but utilizes them as my palette and brush. I mix color, shape, mood and texture from their original essence.

Ultimately I convert these realistic photos into my abstract images. My work uses bold, saturated, and intense colors both because they appeal to me and also to make clear that the images that result are not photos of a rational observable reality but instead represent vistas of my own idiosyncratic landscape of abstraction.

I believe that by stripping away the obvious narrative content and context of a photo-graph and creating an abstract image from it, that the viewer is freed to view the image through their own emotional imagination. I am intentionally divorcing my work from the abundance of everyday photography that pervades our modern hyper-visual life on the internet, on TV and in print. I am challenging the truth of photography; the expectation that photography is only for accurately capturing and depicting an external observable reality.

I am removing both the narrative and historical context that ordinarily establishes the photographer’s intention. I am cloaking the photograph’s purpose so that the viewer is left to their own devices, to interact more honestly with the image, and to engage in their own personal search for meaning.

View Website:
http://www.pazer.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 862.236.5348
Email: JP@pazer.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Marilyn Perry’s love of art has deep roots in Italy, where she lived, wrote, and taught about Italian art during the 1970s.  Thereafter, she served as President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1984-2007) and Chairman of the World Monuments Fund (1990-2007) in New York City.   Exploring the creation of art in the early 2000s sparked a new passion, and on retiring from art history and cultural heritage preservation she declared herself an artist and opened a studio in her country home in the Hudson River Valley.      

She is fascinated by the evanescence of the natural world in its constantly changing patterns -- seascapes, water vistas, moonlight, lava, forests, the sky, flowers in the wind – which she paints, with semi-abstract abandon, in acrylics and encaustics.   

Her work has been on view in New York City, and has been purchased by strangers as well as friends, a great encouragement.   The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Gardiner Gazette have written about her life as an artist.

View Website:
http://www.marilynperryart.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: mp@marilynperryart.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Bruce Pileggi's work modulates between abstract and figurative, but is always anchored in exploring the relationship between himself and how he fits into the rest of the world. This relationship can at times feel isolated and solitary, but there is an undercurrent of energetic movement and vibrancy that connects the pieces back to a larger narrative about our place as humans in society. His pieces often solicit the viewer to engage and question their own place in society as well. 
Pileggi is an artist and performer residing in upstate NY. He received his BFA from SUNY New Paltz. Currently he is exploring digital photography, drawing and painting. In the past his mediums included political documentary film making, play writing and stage acting.

Explorations of pattern, perspective, human nature, and the wonder that emerges from their interaction.

Visit Website:
https://www.instagram.com/brucepileggi/

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: bpileggi@hvc.rr.com
Phone: 845.255.1722

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Ron Schaefer was born in New York City and currently resides in the Hudson Valley of New York State. He studied painting with David Lax, St. Julian Fishburne and learned frame making under the tutelage of the late Robert Kulicke.

He worked for over forty years as an Oil Painting Conservator serving museums, galleries and private collections. Prior to conservation training, Ron worked in the engineering field.  

Utilizing an1830’s one room school house as a studio, Ron paints with a propensity for vernacular styles of architecture, industrial subjects, landscapes and still life.

Representation has included art galleries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and New York City. He has had many gallery shows and three " one man " museum exhibitions beginning with the Museum of the Hudson Highlands , Cornwall , NY  the Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA and the Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY. 

His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections including United States Steel Corp., AK Steel Corp., Weirton Steel Corp, Allegheny General Hospital , Federated Investment Corp. Frisk and Borodin Art Appraisers and many others.

View Website:
ronschaeferpaintings.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
http://www.ronschaeferpaintings.com/contact.html

Hours:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12:00PM - 8:00PM
Also By Appointment

Suzy Sureck is a multi media artist whose sculptural installations, drawings, videos and photographs involve the physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, light and shadow, with attention to the environmental. Her works have been exhibited in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Australia, and India. 

Recent exhibitions include The Nature Art Biennale in Gongju, South Korea; Forest Art in Darmstadt, Germany; The Dorsky Museum in New Paltz; Poznan Biennale, and fringe events at the Venice Biennale. Public works utilizing light as a main medium include projects for the Neuberger Museum Biennial, the Evergreen House in Baltimore, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in NY, and the Kingston Biennial. Two large-scale suspended sculptural installations were created for Socrates Park over the East River in New York and Co-existence Construction above the Ramon Crater in Negev, Israel. She completed three underwater installations in Gongju Park, Korea; the University of Maine in Augusta and Art Omi in New York. 

Her works have been highlighted in The New York Times, World Art. Sculpture Magazine, NY Arts and Flash Art, and can be found in both public and private collections including The Museum of Installation in London, The Artists Museum in Poland and the Dr. Fischer Arts for Peace Collection in Tel Aviv. 

Suzy received a Masters Degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and a BFA from the Cooper Union in New York, as well as studying at The Slade School of Art in London. She lives and works in New York.

View her Website:
http://www.suzysureck.com/index.htm

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: surecks@gmail.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Artist Statement

Jean Tansey is an artist who has worked in a variety of mediums, her choices driven by the purpose of the project which she is currently engaged in, through Jean is primarily a painter. In her Snap Shot series she addresses topics which are part of the national discourse. Jean can be found creating live art paintings in public venues, such as this piece titled "Witness". In this life size painting the young woman is using her phone to record an event in order to document what actually happened as opposed to what was reported to have occurred.

View Website:
http://jeantansey.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: jeantanseyvisualartworks@gmail.com  

Hours:
By Appointment Only

I am a photographer.

As a student at SUNY New Paltz, I was hired by the Public Relations Dept., given a camera and told to walk around campus and take pictures. I have binders of contact sheets from that time.

  My personal interest is varied, like most people.  There isn't just one thing or theme that inspires me.  My photos reflect my interest in landscapes, people, old structures, geometric designs and patterns in natural or man made environments. 

Inquiries and Purchases:
GregoryT18@gmail.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

John A. Varriano has been a respected representational and accomplished portrait artist for over 20 years. As an artist and instructor, John focuses on how to observe nature and effectively translate the language of light into the language of paint .  Exhibiting extensively in juried shows and galleries throughout the country, John has won various awards for his oil paintings, including the 2016 American Artists Professional League ‘Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Traditional Landscape’, the 2015 Allied Artists of America ‘Florence and Ernest Thorne Memorial Award’ for Portraiture, Best in Show at the UCJF’s 14th Annual Fall for Art Show in Kingston in 2010, the Sanford Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Alfred and Mary Crimi Award, and the Guilia Palermo Award at the Audubon Artists Exhibits.  In 2011, John was awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the National Art League’s Annual Exhibit in New York and First Place at Gardiner Plein Air Show in June.  In August 2012, John was one of 20 artists chosen out of thousands to participate in the International Fine Art Exhibition at Agora Galley in Chelsea.  

 John served on the Board of Directors of the Art Students League for several years and was its President in 2005 and 2006.  John is a member of the Allied Artists of America, the Audubon Artists Society, the Artists’ Fellowship, and he currently sits on the Board of the Hudson Valley Artists Association.  He is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tour.  John teaches figure drawing at the Art Students League of NYC, and portrait painting and drawing at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. He conducts landscape painting workshops in New York and New Jersey.  John’s portrait commissions are In numerous private and public collections.

View his Workshops:
Click Here

Inquiries and Purchases:
johnvarriano@yahoo.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

At over 3,000 square feet, the DM Weil Gallery may be the largest modern art gallery in New York’s Hudson Valley.  Just a short drive from the center of picturesque New Paltz, the DM Weil Gallery offers the look and vibe of an exclusive Soho style exhibition space, but with the majestic Shawangunk mountains as a backdrop.

While the art on the walls — the eye-popping abstract creations of acclaimed painter DM Weil — has been praised by critics and collectors alike, the gallery’s mission statement remains, “Why Can’t Fine Art Be Fun?”.

Our goal, therefore, is to provide a total entertainment experience, to stimulate all of your senses, and to help you have as much fun as possible during your visit.

Best of all, ADMISSION IS ALWAYS FREE!

Visitors to the DM Weil Gallery are rewarded not only with walls exploding with colorful contemporary paintings, but also with complimentary wine, espresso and other goodies. The gallery even boasts a carefully restored 1911 Grotrian Steinweg grand piano, which provides the basis for many of our free mini-concerts.

You will have the opportunity to spend time with the artist herself, DM Weil, and to learn the story behind each painting.

View Website:
http://dmweilgallery.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
http://dmweilgallery.com/contact/

Hours:
Fri-Sun: 10AM-6PM

I’m a multi media artist based in the Hudson River Valley. I have always worked on a couple of projects at the same time to keep things interesting and to avoid getting stuck. My artist statements spring from the projects. Lately I’ve been interested in abstraction.

Abstraction plays a role in my work as the bones of the intuitive, visual, non-verbal arrangement of elements with which I choose to make an image. My approach has been influenced by my study of Art: Western, since childhood, and Eastern, since young adulthood. Mix the two and I get the way I work. In my Chinese Well pieces I start with large paper and blow up fireworks on the surface. It leaves smoke, burn tracings and deposits colorful chemistry as the exploding fireworks spin around on the paper. This makes for random marks: subtle and sometimes blatant. These are a spring board ground for juxtaposing and arranging my figurative drawings, paintings, transfers, and found papers/objects. I juggle them around until they fall into place. This is where they belong or want to be…guided by my informed intuition. Then I adhere with wax medium to fix in place. The wax holds and protects the chemistry particles, and collaged additions both front and back of the paper. The paper becomes skin-like and translucent with the saturating beeswax and the imagery is read from behind and in front of the paper. I can then add further layers of imagery or text to make it all more dense.

View her Work:
https://www.airgallery.org/artists/cynthia-winika

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.255.5109
Email: Sisu5109@gmail.com 

Hours:
By Appointment Only