Fern Apfel's still-life paintings depict remnants of the past: old stamps, pages of diaries, pieces from well-thumbed books. By invoking simple and authentic materials from bygone times, her paintings suggest the symbiotic relationship between past and present.

Matt Buckner's paintings focus on portrait painting, still life and landscape. He is inspired by Inspired by the landscape and architecture of the Hudson Valley.

Laura Cannamela lives and works in Valatie NY, near a gorge sculpted by waterfalls and a meandering creek that eventually flows into the Hudson River.  Her wood-fired ceramic sculptures reflect small details she observes in nature that parallel the massive forces which formed this landscape many years ago.

Ramiro Davaro-Comas

Tara Fracalossi is an artist/curator living in Valatie Ny.  Her work is a layered exploration of the photographic process, concepts of ‘high’ vs ‘low’ photography, language, pictorial space and color.

Ralph Gartner is a photographer and digital artist who loves to capture the uniqueness and beauty of where he is.  He is a local artist living in Valatie, NY.

Christopher Griffith is a self taught artist initially trained in research biochemistry, segueing into commercial photography for 25 years ultimately relocating in 2017 to a converted Dutch barn home in the Hudson Vally to pursue purely artist endeavors. His most recent work in painting are abstractions of words which facilitate a desire to be subtly inappropriate. 

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Patrick Harbron's photography of rock and roll musicians such as, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Blondie, The Police, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Grateful Dead, The Who, David Bowie, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Rush, Kiss, Van Halen, and Bob Marley, has been featured as album, DVD covers, publicity, tour booklets, books and magazines. Patrick's work grew beyond music to become a unique form of reportage and portraiture. His work has been used in prominent advertising campaigns as well as for network television programs. He has produced three books of photography published internationally by The Bantam Dell Publishing Group. image © Patrick Harbron 

Based in New York, originally from Tehran, Osheen Harruthoonyan merges movement with themes of cultural heritage and renewal.

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In a variety of mediums, Karen Hummel explores nature, landscape, animals, botanicals, and abstractions. She draws inspiration from Columbia County, Hudson River, Catskills, Maine, Ireland and Scotland. Karen is a member of the plein air painters of Columbia County.

Sandra Koponen came to oil paintjng after a life time of working in a various art forms, from music to video.  Always keeping it fresh, her paintings run the gamut from representational to abstract, political to pastoral, but you can always count on juicy paintings thick in oil and vibrant colors. Her recent ventures in sculpture are also fun to see.

Thomas Lail appropriates fragments of images that look to Utopian communities, protests, Edenic floral patterns, flags, and maps. These readymade pictures, often reproduced to degraded obscurity, find form in the common, cast-off materials of our everyday.

Grace Lang is a multimedia artist and educator based in Valaltie, New York, where she creates both two and three-dimensional work to tell stories of triumph. Continually preoccupied with the concept of personal “demons,” her work reflects the internal struggles that plague us all, creating visual expressions of those dark little thoughts that are at once frightening and sort of funny. Much of her work stems from the belief that these personal demons are not necessarily enemies but, rather, aspects of our selves that can be befriended and utilized for good.

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Through photography, I offer a reminder to look up, to look down and to look within. A reminder we are all of the Earth and as the Earth is, we are.

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Realism in painting today is seen by some as an anachronism, in light of recent surges in technology, automation, and new art forms such as film and computer-generated imagery. But I believe that the desire to express the world in painted form is an ancient impulse in human beings; it may even be a feature that accelerated our evolution. By carefully observing the world, whether the subject be a bowl of fruit, or a view of a forest, or a human face, painters can tap into a deeply satisfying mode of perception and understanding. Paintings made in such a state will thus continue to be meaningful, as they display our ability to see, understand, and present these observations as true and beautiful.

Donna Moylan lives and works in Kinderhook and Brooklyn. Her paintings deal with the humor and poignancy of life. 

Tracey Campbell Pearson is the author and illustrator of many critically acclaimed picture books, including Bob, a NCTE Notable Book, and the illustrator of many more children’s books, including The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Booklist Editor’s Choice. She recently moved from Vermont to the Hudson Valley.

Andrew Pellettieri is a painter who brings the representational images of his surroundings into semi-abstract reflections that reference spacious, holistic inputs of environment. His subjects often float in displaced horizons, asking viewers to reckon with impermanence and placement—with our own liminal object-hood within the ever-moving parameters of space and time. Much of his recent work centers issues of change and decay in the modern pastoral environment of the Upper Hudson Valley.

Nancy Rutter is fascinated by the tonal interplay of color and form. She takes her inspiration from nature specifically from Columbia County and New York State. 

Schaefer's work comprises painting and large-scale installation in which color and pattern are paramount to creating optically challenging and perceptually immersive experiences for the viewer.

Darren Waterston has been exhibiting his paintings, works on paper, and installations in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. He lives and works in Kinderhook, New York.

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