Artist Bios

Robin Adler
Robin Adler is a contemporary artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Adler transcribes emotional experience into visual form. She uses various media including oil, acrylic, wax and print. Adler explores her inner landscape and the natural environment for inspiration. Expressing boundless enthusiasm for abstraction, she works intuitively, pushing past limitations toward freedom and possibility.

Adler is a member artist of BAU Gallery, in Beacon, NY. She had her first solo exhibition in June 2024, and her second solo exhibition, The Only Way is Through, opened April 12, 2025 at BAU. She was awarded her first residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts in August 2024. Her work has been featured in galleries throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond, including the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Equity Gallery, Limner Gallery, and The Lockwood Gallery. Adler is a member of two art collectives, Spliced Connector and The Drawing Galaxy. Her work can be seen online at artsy.net and in the Artist Directory of Visionary Art Collective (visionaryartcollective.com). Additionally, she has been featured in Issue #41 of Create! Magazine and in the Spring 2025 issue of Dutchess Magazine. Adler’s work is held in private collections across the United States.

Joan Barker
Joan Barker is a Hudson Valley artist who employs both traditional and experimental methods in her painting and photography. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship, The Village Voice Photography Grant and two Center for Photography at Woodstock Fellowships, the New Visions Award and most recently, the Leilani Claire Award for Photography from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including O K Harris in NYC, Photographers’ Gallery in London, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, and the California Museum of Photography in Riverside.

Joan’s work is included in numerous collections such as The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, The New York Public Library and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Jahmal Williams adapted Joan’s paintings and photographs for designs on HOPPS skateboards and Tech Decks as part of their Artists Series.

Joan completed her MFA at SUNY New Paltz where she taught for over 20 years. She was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching for the academic year 2013-2014. Joan is a member of the Women Photographers Collective of the Hudson Valley and The Elm Street Art Salon.

Isabel Cotarelo
My journey has been shaped by a multitude of experiences that have transformed through the years. My early geometric abstractions evolved into organic abstractions that evoke the chaotic beauty of visceral “stews” of ambiguous spaces.

In recent years, my artwork has become increasingly influenced by my deep concern for the climate crisis. Witnessing the widespread denial of this pressing issue has fueled my frustration and urgency to address it through my art. Each piece I create serves as a meditation and a reflection of these concerns, aiming to inspire greater awareness of humanity’s relationship with the environment.

I strive to highlight the far-reaching consequences of our actions and decisions regarding environmental representation and governance. My work is a call to action, urging society to consider sustainable management and protection of our planet, ensuring that it remains a viable home for future generations. Through my art, I hope to foster a deeper understanding of our collective responsibility towards this precious resource.

Maxine Davidowitz
Maxine Davidowitz is a painter and printmaker living and working in West Shokan, NY. After a career as a magazine creative director, she returned to a fine art practice in 2008, studying under Annie Lapin, Claire Sherman, Nuala Clarke, Ilana Manolson, Donald Elder, Jenny Nelson, Kate McGloughlin and others. She exhibits her work frequently at venues in the Northeast, including both solo and group shows at The Equity Gallery/NYC, The Lace Mill/Kingston, Emerge Gallery/Saugerties, 510 Warren Street/Hudson, Unison Arts/New Paltz, ArtBar/Kingston, The Lodge at Woodloch/PA, Wired Gallery/High Falls, the tyte Gallery/ Millbrook, the Woodstock School of Art and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. Her
work has received honors at juried exhibitions, and she has been awarded funded residencies at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland and the Brush Creek Arts Foundation in Wyoming. Her work is in many collections throughout the United States. In December 2024 she was awarded the prestigious annual Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award for excellence in artistic achievement by WAAM, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.

Ted Dixon
Ted Dixon is an abstract painter living and working in the Hudson Valley NY. He writes: “How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see? What are the things that influence our ability to perceive? My paintings can be described as abstract compositions influenced by personal experiences and efforts to capture moments in time. And as a Black American, my work attempts to enhance and widen the dialogue among all people.”

For over 25 years, Dixon has worked as a graphic and Web designer, and in 2009 began devoting himself full time to his artistic practice. His previous exhibitions have included Montgomery Row Art Space (Rhinebeck NY); Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (Woodstock NY); ADS Gallery (Newburgh NY); Arts Society of Kingston (Kingston NY); Olive Free Library (West Shokan NY), Albany Center Gallery (Albany NY), Susan Eley Fine Arts (Hudson NY), and Mattutuck Museum (Waterbury CT).

Reidunn Fraas
I was born in Norway, and was greatly influenced by my artist father, who introduced me to painting at an early age. I was his student until I moved to the US as an adult .

I attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC , where I studied design and drawing. I began designing jewelry and started a jewelry design business which I had for ten years. My art pieces were sold at Saks Fifth Ave., Fonda, One-of-a Kind, and better boutiques in CT, Soho, Southampton, and Bridgehampton, with a fashion show in Gurney’s Inn in Montauk. Working in metal caused me metal poisoning, resulting in my closing the business due to that illness. These years working in jewelry design did influence the shapes and texture in painting I was to do later.

In 1999, my move to the Hudson Valley area gave me the opportunity to concentrate on painting, with the beautiful nature here as inspiration. I have continued painting ever since.

I have participated in juried exhibitions in South Hampton, NY, in the Carter Burden Gallery in NYC, and in The Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum, Art Society of Kingston, the Kingston Art Bar, Oriole 9 Gallery, Woodstock, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, Arts Mid Hudson Art in the Loft, and the National Association of Women Artists annual exhibition, among other venues.

I have been given solo shows by the Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum, Hudson River Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Oriole 9 Gallery, Woodstock, NY, and the Healing Arts Gallery, Ellenville Regional Hospital, NY.

Was given a two person exhibition at the Art Bar Gallery, Kingston, NY in June 2019, and in June 2022 a two person exhibition at Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD.

In September 2023 was given a two person exhibition at Corcoran Country Living Gallery, Kingston, NY.

Was given a four person exhibition at the Carter Burden Gallery, in NYC, August 7-September 3, 2025.

From September 6-28, 2025, was part of a three person exhibition at The Lace Mill Gallery in Kingston, NY.

I have been juried into the National Association of Women Artists and as an active member into the Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum.

I have received numerous honorable mention awards at the Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum in juried shows.

My work is in many private collections in Norway, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, and Idaho.

Ali Herrmann
Ali Herrmann is a mixed media painter based in Troy, NY. Raised in the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Herrmann developed an early interest in the raw beauty of the natural landscape, the ever-changing seasons, and the rich flora and fauna of the region.

Throughout her nearly 30-year career as an artist, Herrmann has been awarded multiple grants including the New York State Council for the Arts (2023, 2022); A.R.T. fund, NY (2020); Martha Boschen Porter Fund Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, MA (2019, 2014); and a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant (2017).

She has exhibited widely including Ford Studios, VA; The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY; Albany Center Gallery, NY; Emerge Gallery, NY; and The Berkshire Museum, MA. Her work is in the permanent collections of RCA Screen Gems Productions, CA; Sony Pictures Entertainment, NY; Red Lion Inn, MA; as well as several private collections. Artist residencies include the Millay Arts, NY (2020); Main Street Arts, NY (2017); and the Vermont Studio Center, VT (2007). She studied Fine Arts at Bennington College, VT, achieving a BFA (1998) in painting and printmaking.

Martha Hill
Martha Hill is an abstract artist residing in Kingston, NY, who is inspired by color, mood, and the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley. After earning a BFA, she worked for a decade in non-profit organizations. Martha earned her master’s in teaching in 2001 and was a special education teacher until 2022. During this time, she worked with pastels and charcoal, and beginning in 2011, studied at the Woodstock School of Art. After discovering the joy of working with oil paints, she developed a body of work combining mark-making with palette knife painting. She also creates monotypes and collages. Martha’s work has been shown in numerous Hudson Valley locations including Arbor Gallery, ArtBar Gallery, Art Society of Kingston, Create Council on the Arts, Emerge Gallery, Gallery 40, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, and the Woodstock School of Art.

Yoko Izu
Yoko Izu is a Japanese American abstract artist and lifelong creative. Born in Woodstock, NY, she spent over two decades living in New York City, Japan, and South Africa before returning to the upstate area in 2021. Largely self-taught, she rediscovered her love for painting the following year and has since continued exploring ways to merge her American upbringing with her Japanese roots through different materials and techniques.
Her mixed-media approach begins with acrylic paint on heavyweight paper or canvas, often paired with a technique loosely inspired by monotype printing to create additional textures and patterns. Tapping into her childhood fondness for paper crafts, she layers specialty papers (primarily washi) to add depth and dimension, along with gold elements as signature marks.

Her work has been juried into multiple group shows, including Cooperstown Arts Association, Garrison Art Center, The Sketchbook Gallery (Saugerties, NY), and Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM). Her debut solo exhibition was held at Maiden Lane Gallery (Kingston, NY) in 2024, and she was invited to show in a duo exhibition at Buster Levi Gallery (Cold Spring, NY) in April 2025.

Yoko is based in the Hudson Valley and studies at the Woodstock School of Art.

Roxie Johnson
Born and raised in a tiny suburb of NYC, I grew up a quirky, shy, pencil-thin young girl. At the early age of three, I took my first Crayola crayon in hand to bravely draw a blue line across the family RCA tv screen, saving Winky Dink from grave peril. (I have just dated myself.) Little did I know I had transformed one brief moment to create a new reality, a magical process soon to become my own personal voice.

I fondly remember gravitating to worlds of the small and intimate. Long hours spent tearing apart and reconstructing tossed items provided a release from the daily chatter, confusion, and stresses of growing up. And through my delightfully strange, reassembled creations, I learned to trust my curiosity and inner muse. Full circle, my favorite childhood pastime remains a trademark of the work I produce today.

Looking back on my life as an artist and educator, I’m reminded of my father’s work ethic, and how his infectious belief in education and personal quest for excellence inspired my own career choice. For 30+ years, every day in the classroom posed its own unique opportunity. Developing ‘hands-on’ studio curriculum for “my kids”, I experienced how essential the arts were to both the learning process and in providing emotionally supportive and stable environments for young creatives.

Earning my MFA with honors from Syracuse University led to my Hudson Valley relocation in 1984, where my artistic endeavors began to flourish in the field of printmaking. In search of an innovative and a more immediate etching process, I had the privilege to study with master printers Dan Welden and Ron Pokrasso, in Florence, Italy, as well as in the North Eastern and South Western United States.

Once retired from the public education system, I traveled the northeastern seaboard to paint and write. Crossing paths with the late artist, mentor and friend, Skip Lawrence, marked a dramatic shift in my work towards the abstract. The challenge was a liberating and refreshing one. Today I enjoy frequenting the classroom as a student at the Woodstock School of Art.

Career highlights have included the receipt of: a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, 2 summer printmaking fellowships at Skidmore College, with additional studies conducted in Florence, Italy and Santa Fe, NM. Select awards have been received from the Palm Spring Art Museum and NAWA (National Association of Women Artists), along with recognition in the Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art. (Thank you, James Mullen!) Known widely in previous years for my own unique and meticulous approach to the etching process, I have exhibited in juried competitions nationally as well as in galleries of the Mid-Hudson and Metropolitan area.

Chong Kang
Maryland Institute College of Arts BFA 1982-1986
Painting major / Art history minor
Co-Directors Kearns and Associates 1998
Company specializing in residential and commercial murals, trompe l’oeil, decorative arts
throughout the mid-Atlantic area.
Project for Sheridan Co., an Australian company with locations throughout U.S., 1988-1992
custom hand-painted mural screens and furniture.
Awarded restoration and mural project in Grasse France 1991
Awarded restoration and mural project for Takoma Masonic Center 1993
Partners with Penine Hart Antiques and Art 1993-1997
Painting on commissions / interior stylist 2000 – present
Co-authored. http://intodesignjourney.com/
Commissioned paintings for private collections NYC, Washington, D.C., Northern Va.,
Baltimore Md., Bethesda Md. Philadelphia, London, France, Seoul, Kyoto
Reference is given upon request

Galleries
The Sketchbook Gallery, You’re Breaking Up, group show 2024; Jane St. Art Center, Welcome Home, group show. 2024; Jane St. Art Center, Off The Charts, Group Show. 2024; Jane St. Art Center, Go Figure, group show 2023; Women Work.Art Vision of Spring group show 2023
ADA Art Gallery Washington DC group show 2022; Purple Yam Brooklyn NY Solo show. 2021; Greater Reston Art Center group show 2015; Va. Juried Art festivals 2000 – 2018; Penine Hart Gallery NYC 1994; Sheridan Co., 1987 – 1989; Joan Wachtman Gallery. 1990 -1995; Anilian Gallery 1990; Hallway Gallery 1989

Publications
Washington Star, The Fairfax Journal, The Style magazine, Baltimore Sun. House Beautiful

Harriet Livathinos
Born in Dallas, TX, she has traveled extensively and lived and worked in Athens, Greece, Dallas, TX, NYC, Greenwich, CT, Woodstock, NY, currently Kingston, NY. Her paintings are represented in the collection of the United States Embassy in Athens, Greece, also drawings and paintings in private collections in Greece, Italy, France, England, Ireland, NY, TX, OK, CA, WA, VA, and CT.

Education:
2009- Woodstock School of Art, Abstraction in Drawing; 1992-1993– Art Students League, New York City, Pastel Figure Drawing; 1964– MA degree in Painting and Printmaking, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI ; 1961– BA degree in Art and Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Solo Exhibitions:
2025- The Lace Mill Gallery, Kingston, NY; 2025- Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; 2023- Corcoran Country Living Gallery, Kingston, NY; 2022- Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD; 2019- Art Bar Gallery, Kingston, NY; 2018- Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; 2018- The Hawthorn Gallery, Woodstock, NY; 2014– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY ; 2009– Hudson River Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 2008– LGBTQ Center, Kingston, NY; 2004– Art Forms Gallery, Woodstock, NY; 1996– Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY; 1988– Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY; 1986– Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY; 1985– D-Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX; 1969– Stoa Technis Gallery, Athens, Greece; 1968– Hellenic American Union Gallery, Athens, Greece

Juried Group Exhibitions:
1985-present– Galleries in Dallas,TX; Nacogdoches, TX; Frederick, MD; New York City; East Hampton, NY; Southampton, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Reading, PA; W. Hartford, CT; Highland Park, NJ; Loveladies, NJ, Catskill, NY; Saugerties, NY; Hudson, NY; Kingston, NY; Poughkeepsie, NY; Garrison, NY and Woodstock, NY

Awards:
2017 – National Association of Women Artists 128th Annual Members’ Exhibition, Miriam Russo Enders Memorial Award for Works on Paper, at Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery NYC, juried by Monica D. Church (Associate Director of James W. Palmer ’90 Gallery at Vassar College), Susana Torruella Leval (Director of El Museo del Barrio), and Linda Weintraub (Director of Bard College Museum) for drawing “Outskirts 4”
2017- Art Society of Kingston Regional, juried by Carrie Haddad of Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Honorable Mention for “JigJag”
2015- N.A.W.A. Eve Helman Memorial Award for Works on Paper at 126 th Annual Members Exhibition
2013–Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Sally Jacobs/Phoebe Towbin Award Outstanding Artist of 2013
2013– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Fifth Annual Regional, Sam Spanier Award for Works on Paper, juried by Annina Nosei, of Annina Nosei Gallery in Manhattan
2013– Art Society of Kingston Regional Exhibition, Honorable Mention, juried by Christie Scheele, artist and teacher
2012– Southampton Cultural Center “2012 Annual Exhibition”, Honorable Mention, juror Richard Vaux, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Art History, Adelphi University
2012– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: “March 2012 Group Show”, Honorable Mention, juror Carinda Swann, Executive Director of the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2010– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: “2010 Recent Work”, Juror’s Choice Award for Drawing, juror Carl Van Brunt, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY
2009– Kleinert/James Arts Center: “2009 Members Exhibition”, Honorable Mention
2007– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: “Fall 2007 Exhibition”, First Honorable Mention
2006– Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: “Social Commentary 2006 Exhibition”, People’s Choice Award
Professional Organizations: NAWA 2010-present; Woodstock Artists Association & Museum 2005-present

Nancy Mahoney
Education:
1994 MPS, Special Education (art therapy) Pratt Institute; 1977 BA William Paterson University (Art)
Permanent Collections
William Paterson University
Solo Exhibits
2025 St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock, NY
Group Exhibits
2025 Woodstock School of Art Student Showcase Exhibition I
2010 Walt Whitman’s Calamus at 150, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC
2009 Exposure, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Essential Music and Art Show, 531 W. 25th St., NYC
Stronghilos Influence, Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2008 Encryptions, MH Art NYC
Pro Arts Show, Hoboken City Hall
Pro Arts Members and Community Show, Canco Lofts, Jersey City
Cathedral Arts Festival, Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City
Women’s History Exhibit, City Hall, Jersey City
4th Annual Plein Air Competition, Easton, Maryland
2007 Universal Diversity, Gay Center, NYC
Earthscapes, Mary Benson Gallery, Jersey City
Community Show, Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City
ProArts Member Show, Canco Lofts, Jersey City
Faces of Grace, Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City
2006 Cathedral Arts Festival, Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City
2004 Friends on a Journey, The Open Center, NYC
New Jersey Small Works Show, OCCC, Demarest, NJ
2000 Graduate student painting exhibit, College of New Rochelle
1997 New Jersey Small Works Show, OCCC, Demarest, NJ
Alumni Juried Art Exhibition, William Paterson University

Dorothea Marcus
Dorothea Marcus is a lifelong art collector who in the last decade turned her eye to creating her own work. Her “eye” now has a “hand” too.

Dorothea is known for her collages, photographs and monoprints. She is a founding member of the Women Photographers Collective of the Hudson Valley, Her work has been shown at the Lockwood Gallery, the Lace Mill, Wired Gallery, WAAM and Byrdcliffe, among others. She had a solo show at the Old Glenford Church Studio in 2019.

Her photography, collages and prints are often combined, playing with depth, texture, geometry and color. Dorothea’s travels to Morocco, Cuba and Japan have been fertile ground for inspiration.

In February 2025, she became Gallery Coordinator at the Queen of Rogues. She will be curating some of the art shows, the first of which, Cool/age, is the inaugural exhibition which opened in July 2025 at the gallery’s new location at 59 Tinker Street in the heart of town.

Dorothea lives in Woodstock, New York where she has served on the board of the Woodstock Library and works as an Associate Broker at Halter Associates Realty.

Sylvia Mueller
Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and worked for several years in advertising and magazine production in NYC. It wasn’t until her move to the Hudson Valley from her home of many years in Brooklyn that she found the time and space to work creatively again. This time, she enlisted magazines quite differently and art books to create collages. The choice to change mediums was the desire to have a more textural, hands-on art practice. Her love of nature, one of the main reasons for her move to upstate NY, is reflected in the cuts in her collages as she captures the patterns in nature and applies them to printed material.

Susan J. Murphy
I have done photography, photo-collage, drawings in oil pastels, graphite and charcoal, and paintings in acrylic and gouache. I have woven my photographs in a variety of ways, and combined photographs with painting in a number of different ways, including the series I call Saugerties My Home Town (SMHT, which has proven to be popular among collectors). I have done some experiments with carving driftwood but have not yet mounted or shown any of these pieces.

My works have been shown many times in Emerge Gallery, in the Art Bar in Kingston, in several of Byrdcliffe annual Member shows and 5×7 shows, twice in the Center for Contemporary Photography at Woodstock, three times in the Gallery Lev Shalem, once in the Mum Festival art exhibition, and once in the Olive Free Library. In addition, my works always are included in the bi-monthly exhibits in the Common House of Cantine’s Island CoHousing.

Throughout the months of March and April 2022 I was the featured artist at the Saugerties Public Library; I called the show “Dreamworld” and 17 of my pieces were shown. At the closing reception, many of the works were sold or given away.

Because I started late in life (in my 70s), showing my works in galleries has been a hurdle for me in a number of ways: it means being willing to give a piece up (not always easy; it can be like giving away my children), cultivating relationships with gallery owners (not easy for an aging introvert), and knowing how to price my works appropriately. But as my practice and self-identity as an artist matures, I want more and more to have my work go out into the world, if I can figure out how to do it.

Plans for the future include continuing to produce SMHT pieces, paint more in gouache and less in acrylic (because of the microplastics), continue with a series of non-religious icons, do more woven photo pieces, and explore 3-D work, possibly incorporating painted ceramic elements.

Suzanne Parker
Suzanne Parker has been making art all her life, but only began to show her work when she moved to Woodstock, NY full time in 2017. Her professional experience includes Textile Stylist, Arts Management (Queens Council on the Arts), Food writer and restaurant critic, and author of “Eating Like Queens: A Guide to Ethnic Dining in America’s Melting Pot, Queens, NY.” She also gives cooking lessons in her home under the name Cookskills. She served on the board of the Woodstock Artists Association from 2017 to 2022, as Vice Chair from 2019-2022.

Education: Syracuse University, School of Art; Majored in Sculpture; Fashion Institute of Technology, Textile Design

Some of the shows and venues where her work has been featured: 2025 Cooperstown Art Association National Show New Innovations Award Winner; “Playing With Wire”, Solo Show at the Wired Gallery, High Falls, 2023; WAAM Featured Active Artists Solo Wall 2023; National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association 2023, Merit Award; Merged III, & Vivid D’Arte Center, Norfolk Virginia 2023; “Parallel Lives”, Two person show, Spotlight gallery, Art Society of Kingston, 2022; Euphoria: Painted Sculpture 2018, Lobby Gallery @ 1251 Avenue of the Americas, four person show; Solo Show at Mid-Hudson Federal Credit Union October, 2017; Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, Online show and publication, 2018

Participated in numerous group shows at the following galleries: Needle & Nerve Kingston Pop-up; Unison Arts; Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW); The Sketchbook Gallery; Garrison Art Center; Wallkill River Center for the Arts; WAAM; Kleinert; Emerge, Saugerties; Art Society of Kingston (ASK); Art Juxtapose, Rosendale; Art Bar, Kingston

Lindsay Peyton
Artist Lindsay Peyton explores place, passage of time and memory in her work. She began oil painting as a teenager and fell immediately, deeply in love with the medium. She is currently exploring a more liminal space between painting and sculpture.

Originally from Houston, Peyton currently lives in New York and maintains a studio in the Brush Factory in Kingston. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in painting from Central Washington University and her Bachelor of Journalism in Photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, she has studied art at Gage Academy in Seattle, Lone Star College and Houston Community College.

Peyton has taught students of all ages, from serving as a professor at Central Washington University, after-school elementary teacher at City ArtWorks, high school art tutor and an assistant to the art department at the Kinkaid School. She enjoys curating both independently, in collaboration with galleries and in her prior role as gallery director at McWhorter Gallery in Houston.

An ardent supporter of the arts, she served as a member of the Spacetaker artist advisory board and the Houston Arts and Culture board. In addition, she was a member of the Seattle Opera Gala Committee.

Peyton has completed residencies in Kentucky, Nebraska and Washington. She continues to exhibit regularly and participate in artist residencies. Studio visits are available by appointment.

Steven Rushefsky
I live in the Hudson Valley. I graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in Studio Art. I currently study Figure Drawing in New York’s Hudson Valley and New York City. My focus is drawing on paper. Periods of working in printmaking and clay have added a sense of layering and texture to my drawings. I participate in several group exhibitions each year nationwide (recently in Norfolk VA, New England and the Hudson Valley) and have had three solo exhibitions in New Jersey.

Vincent Serbin
In 1974, I received a B.A.from William Paterson University in New Jersey. My studies emphasized the studio arts with concentrations in photography, painting, and ceramics. After graduating, I took a serious interest in photography and secured a position at a large commercial photography studio. As the studios’ black and white printer, I developed the skills and knowledge needed to pursue a professional career. In 1980, I opened my own studio. I also took an interest in exploring photography as an art medium and began creating my own photographic artworks.

In 2005, as I continued to create more painterly, abstract photo works, I contemporaneously developed an interest in painting and soon devoted my entire time to abstract expressionism. Within a period of five years, my vision evolved, and through study and observation, I became more aware of the history of abstract expressionism, suprematism, and minimalism. Frank Stella, Robert Ryman Alberto Burri, Elizabeth Murray and Christo were some of the artists that I studied and emulated.

For the past twenty years, I have nurtured an intuitive process that emphasizes the material qualities of paint, canvas, and sub-structures. Shaped panels, double layers of canvas, power sanding, and attached shrouds of canvas are techniques that I currently use to expand and
explore the formal elements of painting. I currently live and work in the Catskill Region of New York.

Gloria Tanchelev
I have a 46 year painting practice; following a 10 year photography practice. It has been an adventure. I follow the paintings where they take my mind. My mind has been trained by Zen practice.

I was a photographer of people. In 1979, when I returned to painting, I painted the figure. I then quickly turned to gestural abstraction which led me to Radical Color painting. Since 2018, I have been working within and against the ancient and modernist traditions of geometric abstraction.

I want my paintings to challenge the viewer, to be a direct encounter, not a picture. The paintings are concerned with perception and illusion. They arise out of the extremity of our moment.

My large-scale paintings are held in the collections of California art museums. My paintings and photographs have been exhibited extensively.

I began studying painting and exhibiting my work early in New York City. After studying drawing at the Art Students League, philosophy at Bard College, art history at Columbia University and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, I studied painting and conceptualism with several California artists.

In 2006, I was invited to write for a San Francisco on-line art journal. My writing helped to turn the conversation from objectivity to empathy/intuition. My painting practice and writing on art was supported by poet Bill Berkson

Painting is a way of life.