Galleries

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

Artwork by JJ Kathe

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.