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Art Opening Reception: Friday, July 12, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 12 Vassar Street

Amphibious Nature by Collin Douma

Collin Douma is a mixed media artist whose career spans fine arts, illustration, animation, and digital art as well as other creative mediums. Hailing from the Woodstock area of Ontario, Canada, he studied traditional animation at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada and established a decade-long career in advertising while living in Toronto.  Moving to the United States in 2011 with his wife and son, he took up residency in Brooklyn, NY then relocated to the Hudson Valley in 2017.  Mr. Douma, who “started drawing as soon as he could lift a crayon but never stopped”, has exhibited his work in both of the Woodstock locations, across the United States and Canada, and in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

Art Opening Reception: Friday, July 12, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 12 Vassar Street

Artwork by Marty Zlotkin

Marty Zlotkin, a Bronx, New York native who has been involved in the visual arts since early childhood, studied art at the Art Students League, the High School of Music & Art, Queens College and the School of Visual Arts. Beginning his professional career as a painter with a strong art history education he took to constructing large scale steel sculpture as another means of expression. His current medium of exploration is through digital media and the manipulation of photographic images with the last few years concentrating on incorporating wet and dry media into his photo work. “This body of work is an evolved melding of my photo work and my love of painting as transformed compositional space, creating a more artful and unique dynamic with the intent of a greater visual experience,” explains Mr. Zlotkin. “My interest is of the dynamism of the expansion and compression of space as visual poetry.”  Along with being the featured artist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he has enjoyed being a visiting artist at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania working with the college staff and senior studio art honors’ students and sharing his experience, passion and technical knowledge of art.  He is also an Associate Member of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) located in mid-Hudson Valley region of New York.

Art Opening Reception: Friday, July 12, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 9 Vassar Street

Main Street Hyde Park NY by Tatiana Rhinevault

Tatiana Rhinevault was born in Moscow and spent much of her childhood playing in Sokolniki Park, watching artists paint day-in and day-out. Because of her exposure to Moscow’s many museums, theaters, and art studios, the arts played a huge role in her childhood and, ultimately, in her paintings. After earning her Masters Degree in Art from the Moscow Institute, she found work restoring icons in Moscow’s old churches and, often, painted new ones. She visited and painted in many countries throughout Europe, including Hungary, Yugoslavia, Spain, Holland, France, and Italy. Tatiana’s love of all of the Renaissance Arts is reflected in her work. Most of her paintings include a musical instrument or score, paintbrushes or palette or literature of some kind. More specifically, she often includes paintings within her paintings. Tatiana works in several mediums including watercolor, acrylic and oil, and utilizes rich dark colors in combination with diffused window light to create a calming but magnetic space. She creates windows through which one can see the old streets and monuments of Europe. In 1990 she met her husband while working on The English Map of Moscow for the US Embassy. She moved with him to the United States and resides in Hyde Park, New York with their son.

Art Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 9 Vassar Street

Clover Wings by Emily Marchesiello

Emily Marchesiello is a graduate of the MFA program at Queens College CUNY and specializes in fine point line drawing, oil painting and watercolor painting.  She derives her inspiration from the natural world and the fantasy realm.  “The process of intentional mark making is a meditation,” she explains. “Each line and dot is a physical manifestation of thought, while at the same time a product of mindless release.”  Ms. Marchesiello uses vibrant hues to convey joy, freedom, and endless possibility. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley, NY region with her family.

Art Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 12 Vassar Street

South of the River by Carol Loizides

Carol Loizides, who studied Art Education at SUNY New Paltz (receiving 34 graduate credits), is inspired by the concept of “painting your childhood” to paint pieces using color and color relationships as they are found in nature and beyond. During her time at SUNY New Paltz, she was greatly influenced by her professors George Wardlaw and Illya Bolotowsky, and in ensuing years studying under Bernard Steffen, Franklin Alexander at the Woodstock Art Students League, and most notably Bruce Dorfman who influenced her approach to painting the most. “(Bruce Dorfman) emphasized that artists must have a much more focused goal than wanting to ‘express themselves’ and explained that there is ‘something the artist must want to see…a goal one must work towards’; I find that color, color relationships, as they are found in nature and beyond are what motivate me,” she recants. “This includes the Chemung River Valley in the Southern Tier of New York where I spent my elementary school years, and Central New York, where I spent my high school years. Most of the work in my exhibit, entitled Upstate and More, reflects this focus.” Ms. Loizides is a founding member of the artists cooperative LongReach Arts that formed in 1982 in Poughkeepsie as summergroup but now encompassing artists from both sides of the Hudson River. Her work can be found in both private and public collections.

Art Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 12 Vassar Street

JJ Kathe hails from New York’s Capital region and creates art and music based on her profession in the fields of forestry and climate change adaptation. “The intent of my artwork is to illustrate correlations between spatially or conceptually related variables, and many of my pieces are artistic representations of real data relating to a subject: maps which I’ve processed using GIS, or graphs from published works and others integrate photographs of one location over time to highlight land use changes…almost all works with a spatial component relate specifically to New York State,” she relays. “My hope is to amplify an underused lens to observe scientific evidence that actually ties the information back into meaning and feeling; without imagining the real-life outcomes of phenomena – like climate change, gentrification, or habitat loss – that is conveyed through facts and figures, it’s impossible to gain a sense of what is being lost by inaction.” Ms. Kathe holds a BA degree and an MS degree in Geography and spends time exploring New York’s forests and sailing the Hudson River.