Artist Bios

Natalie Boburka
Natalie Boburka is a local NYS artist known for working with natural and discarded materials. She is a 35-year certified visual arts instructor with a Masters in Liberal Studies from SUNY Empire State College. Her work primarily consists of several evolving series. expressing reactions to social, environmental, feminist, spiritual, and political topics. She works in a variety of media, often creating natural dyes as an underlayer for her paintings. She is inspired by objects such as seaweed, packaging scraps and dried grasses to apply pigment to create unique textures and marks. Her abstract conceptual work fluctuates from richly layered colors to stark graffiti style imagery. She has shown work in galleries from Florida to Old Forge, NY.

Nicole Helen Brunner
Nicole Helen Brunner is a multidisciplinary artist born (1986) in Hackensack NJ. At a very young age Nicole began training as a drawer and painter which she later went on to formally study at Ramapo College of NJ, Parson’s School of Design, and the Art Student’s League of NY. Over time Nicole’s artistic practice has evolved to include a deep passion for ceramics, mixed media, textiles and many untraditional mediums like plastic and trash. In 2017 she opened a community pottery studio in Brooklyn, NY where she taught and provided guidance to upwards of 50 members until 2020 when she passed the studio onto a member. In 2019 finding a slower pace of life, Nicole relocated with her family to the bucolic upstate town of Mountaindale, NY. There she built out an art studio to support her many artistic endeavors that is powered by solar energy and rainwater, making it an environmentally sustainable workspace.

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.

Collin Douma
Collin Douma creates speculative bestiaries where animals declare war over humanity’s environmental destruction. “His colorful drawings and mixed-media sculptures may appear whimsical at first glance, but they ultimately serve as apocalyptic warnings of the future that awaitsif humanity failsto curb the accelerating dangers of climate change.” Nicole Goldberg. Executive Director, WAAM Born in Woodstock, Ontario, he studied animation at Algonquin College before navigating the arts scene in Toronto and a careerin New York’s advertising
industry. Through life’s coincidences, he now lives near Woodstock, New York. After settling in a wooden house in the rapidly drying forests of the Catskill Mountains in 2017, he evolved United Fauna from watercolors into hand-built mixed media sculptures of creatures appropriating discarded human technology as weapons of resistance. His work has traveled from Amsterdam to Peekskill, earning him WAAM’s 2025 Lisa Williams Social Justice Award for environmental activism through art.

“His colorful drawings and mixed-media sculptures may appear whimsical at first glance, but they ultimately serve as apocalyptic warnings of the future that awaits if humanity fails to curb the accelerating dangers of climate change.” Nicole Goldberg. Executive Director, WAAM

Adah Frank
Adah Frank is a mixed media artist working in sculpture, painting, printed matter and text. She received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Frank’s practice moves between fine art and reproducible design, exploring materials, language, subtext and narrative. Frank founded a printed matter company producing cards, T-shirts, and wrapping paper and has lived in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years.

Andrew Harrison
Andrew Harrison is a graphic designer, motion graphics animator and Art Director who spent most of his time professionally at the network Nickelodeon.

As a record collector, I began doing collage work in 2013 with the goal of making art out of inner sleeves and covers of discarded LPs.

Sue Horowitz
Sue is a self-taught mixed-media artist living in Ulster County since 1974. Her work revolves around time, decay and preservation, occasionally pairing found objects with materials, such as resin, that create embryonic “timepieces’.

Affiliations with regional organizations have been influential for growth and continuity in her work.

As an avid canoeist and hiker, the Hudson Valley and Adirondack regions are inspirational magnets providing seeds for experimentation.

Masters on Main (NYFA) in Catskill,NY, and outdoor installations on the O&W rail trail in Accord, NY and the Wallkill Valley rail trail in Rosendale highlighted both conceptual and practical examples of her process. She is eagerly awaiting the third “annual” cicada celebration!

Sue’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the Northeast such as the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY and the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pa, in addition to work in private collections.

Judith Hoyt
Judith Hoyt has been making collage with found metal and paper collage with encaustic medium for over forty years. Her works are composed of discolored, corroded, and misshapen found metal and paper from old books and prints; materials whose history is passed on to the work. Hoyt’s collages evolve through trial and error based on her intuition and the materials available. She was born in the Catskill Mountains of New York and earned a BFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She currently lives in Rosendale, NY.

Hoyt’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY; Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY; The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and The Signature Shop Gallery Atlanta, GA. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally in venues such as the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; O.K. Harris, New York, NY; Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA; and Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Hoyt’s work is in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Racine Art Museum, Racine WI: Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; and Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK. An artist book featuring her work is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Printed Matter, New York, NY; and the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY. Hoyt has participated in artist residencies at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; the Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY; The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland; and Art Park, Lewiston, NY. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in crafts and a Book Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured in publications including Metalsmith Magazine; On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets, by Suzanne Ramljak; and The Female Gaze, by Robert Cozzolino.

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

Rivka Katvan
My name is Rivka S. Katvan graduated with a BFA with honors from School of School of Visual Arts in 1979. For my theses I photographed life backstage on Broadway which continued after my graduation for almost 35 years.

Though photographing backstage became a passion, I also found myself drawn to street photography and travel photography. I never allowed my theater work to define me as an artist. I carry my camera everywhere, capturing vignettes and moments that speak to me. My NYC Reflections series, for example, features moody, surreal images of store mannequins reflected in the windows they inhabit. In Coney Island, I followed two men dressed in vintage clothes as they wandered among contemporary visitors, creating a lyrical sense of unreality.

Many of these projects—and others—can be found on my website, www.rivkakatvan.com. I am also currently collaborating with my husband, Moshe Katvan, a professional photographer and painter, on a project called “Artist Portraits”.

I’ve always believed that my heart and eyes are interchangeable. I refuse to be confined to one subject matter when I am surrounded by such a vast array of sights, ideas, and stories. I must respond to what speaks to me in the moment, wherever my journey takes me.

Natalya Khorover
For two decades, Natalya Khorover has reclaimed and repurposed materials in her art, guided by a thrifty upbringing in Leningrad, USSR, and New York City. She creates site specific installations from single-use plastic waste such as Arcadia Lost for The Social Fabric exhibition
at ArtsWestchester in White Plains, NY; Hothouse and Speaking Of Birds for Collaborative Concepts Outdoor Sculpture exhibit at Tilly Foster Farm Museum in Putnam County, NY.

A Pratt Institute BFA graduate, Natalya transitioned from careers in fashion and film to focus on studio art. Her work has been exhibited in Quilt National (Dairy Barn) and Quilts=Art=Quilts (Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center). She shares her expertise through teaching, lectures, and workshops, including at the Hudson River Museum as a 2023 Teaching Artist in Residence.

Natalya founded REPURPOSER COLLECTIVE, a community for artists exploring sustainable materials, and hosts SALVAGE, a podcast featuring artists working with repurposed materials. Her work has been featured in Surface Design Magazine, Fiber Art Now, SAQA Journal, and more. She is a member of Project Vortex, ecoartspace and the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

David Lantow
David Lantow is printmaker, master printer and professor who also makes artist books, drawings, collage, and paintings. The genesis of most of his work comes from improvisational sketches and maquettes that are fleshed out and refined in another medium, such as printmaking. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn continuously since 1985.

Lantow received a BFA from the University of Iowa, studying printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky, and an MFA from Brooklyn College in 1987. He worked as a fine art lithographer making prints with a variety of artists, including, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Elaine and Willem Dekooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, David Salle, Tom Wesselmann, Larry Rivers and many more. In 2002, he started teaching at Brooklyn College, and in 2006 at Pratt Institute. In addition, he has been a visiting artist at Columbia University and The New School, completed a residency at the Ragdale Foundation, and co-founded and curated exhibits at the former Cold Fish Art Space in Brooklyn. From 2001-2002, he was artist liaison and Muse Fuse coordinator at NURTUREart, and from 2005-2009 he served as President of AGAST – the Gowanus Brooklyn studio tour.

He has exhibited his work extensively in the United States and Europe. His prints and artist books are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Herzog August Bibliothek, Brooklyn Museum Library, Amherst College Museum Library, Banff Museum Library, New York Public Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Library, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, C. J.Petrow & Co. Ltd., Dartmouth College, Iowa State University, Olin College of Engineering, University of Delaware Library, Grinnell College Special Collections, and many private collections.

He is represented by Central Booking and Booklyn. Other works can be seen at Kentler International Drawing Space and the Pierogi Flat Files.

More work can be seen at www.davidlantow.com

Tracy Leavitt
Tracy Leavitt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges painting and sculpture through the
use of wax, pigment, and symbolic objects, either created or found. Leaning toward sustainable materials, Leavitt uses an intuitive process to explore moments of personal and collective transformation. She holds a BFA from MECA&D and an MFA from MassArt, Boston. Leavitt is the director of Visions Story and Art Center, a 2013 Women’s Studio Workshop fellow, and has received grants from NYFA and Mid-Hudson Arts Council. Currently, a solo exhibition is on view at the Arts14C Foundation building in Jersey City, New Jersey. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY,

Lori Merhidge
Lori Merhige was born in 1975 in Teaneck, NJ. In 2009 she received her MFA Degree in Sculpture from CUNY Hunter College and was a recipient of the Tony Smith award. She earned her BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1999. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Ramapo
College of NJ, and lives and works in Beacon, NY. She has exhibited her work consistently throughout the New York area, including at the 2024 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, KUBE, Garrison Art Center, the Wassaic Project, and the Ramapo College Art Galleries. She has
participated in several large scale outdoor sculpture exhibitions, including Terrain Biennial Newburgh, Beacon 3D, and the Reeves Reid Arboretum. She was the 2025 Art in the Gardens resident at Hortus Arboretum in Stone Ridge, NY and is currently part of the 2026 Hudson
Valley Artists Exhibition at the Samuel L Dorsky Museum. Examples of recent and past work can be found on Instagram at @lorimerhige and at www.lorimerhige.com.

Mary Mobijohn
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and migrated to Woodstock over 30 years ago.
– studied at the Arts Student League in NY
– studied architecture, graduated with a B.A. of Architecture.
– studied teaching, graduated with a Masters of Science in Teaching.
– attended open studios at the Woodstock School of Art

Grey Ivor Morris
Grey Ivor Morris is a multi-disciplinary fine artist whose practice encompasses mixed-media, encaustic, mosaic, sculpture, colored pencil, alcohol inks, and photography. The selection of mediums is often guided by the subject matter itself. Grey finds inspiration in both the contemporary human experience and the profound beauty and terror of the natural world.

Artistic Career and Exhibitions
Grey has been an active figure in the New York and Hudson Valley art scenes for several decades, both as an artist and curator. His work has been exhibited in various venues, including Soho, Saugerties, Woodstock, Kingston, and Catskill. Notably, his street art has been a recurring feature during the summer months in the village of Saugerties.

Professional Experience
In addition to his fine art pursuits, Grey embraced digital commercial design early in his career, gaining expertise at Pratt Institute. Over the years, he has worked as an Art Director, illustrator, and photo retoucher. His client list includes major corporations such as American Express, Chase, ClearChannel Entertainment, Gerber, Fortune, People Magazine, CBS, Disney, and Lowes. He has also collaborated with DKNY and various local organizations, including Ulster Publishing, Aaron Rezny Photography, Catskill Interpretive Center, the Business Alliance of Kingston, and The Solar Energy Consortium.

Media and Online Presence
Grey is the subject of a short film by Stephen Blauweiss, which was broadcast on the local PBS station WMHT. The film can be viewed at: http://video.wmht.org/video/3000995887/

His website — www.greyivor.com — showcases his latest commercial and fine art works, and provides links to his Instagram and Facebook pages.

Franc Palaia
Franc Palaia is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, photography, sculpture, murals, artists books, public art and is an independent curator, educator and musician.

He graduated with honors from Newark State College (now Kean University) with Bachelor’s degree in Painting and received a full scholarship, fellowship and teaching assistantship from the University of Cincinnati for an MFA. Other college teaching jobs include Uppsala College, Essex County College and Kean College.

He has received 20 grants , fellowships and residencies in eight media categories: painting, photography, sculpture, murals, public art, artist books, printmaking and curating. Some grants include the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany grant, two Polaroid Sponsorships, a Puffin grant , three Arts Mid Hudson grants, two NJ Arts Council grants and a Rutgers Printmaking grant to name a few.

Franc has produced a voluminous amount of works that include several series of fresco paintings, Polaroid and mixed media photography, a variety of artist books and published books, has curated over 40 art exhibitions in galleries, museums and outdoor public spaces. Some of his curated shows have been presented at the Alternative Museum, NY, Newark Museum, Velan Arte Contemporanea in Turin Italy, the American Academy in Rome, the 5th and 6th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial at the Wilderstein Estate in Rhinebeck and Collaborative Concepts in Beacon, NY. He founded and directed two cooperative art galleries in Poughkeepsie in 2003 and 2007 for about seven years, the GalleryShop and G.A.S Gallery and Performance Space.

His artworks and curated shows have been reviewed in the NY Times, Art in America, Arts Magazine, the Village Voice, Chronogram magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine, ArtByte, Almanac, Newark Star -Ledger, Poughkeepsie Journal, Main Street magazine, Parachute magazine, Tema Celeste among many others.

He has delivered dozens of lectures in galleries, museums, libraries, public spaces, community centers, theaters on a variety of topics such as the Murals of the Hudson Valley, Cuban Street Art, Roman Aqueducts, The Great Walls of China, the Shadow Paintings of Richard Hambleton, Frescoes of Pompeii, The Mid Hudson Bridge, Tower Music and Public Art of Poughkeepsie, NY to name a few.

He has presented over 50 solo shows, and 350 group shows that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the White House, PS1, OK Harris, New Museum, Gracie Mansion gallery, Dorsky Museum, Newark Museum, High Museum of Art, Hyde Collection, Albany Airport, Vassar College, Jersey City Museum, the Clocktower, Sidney Janis gallery, Blum Helman gallery, HV Museum of Art, Neon Museum, among others.

His studio practice includes a number of series of works such as mixed media photography, fresco painting, mural painting, illuminated photo-sculpture, hand colored Polaroids, panoramic color photography, photo-murals, sign painting, installation, video and film, and mixed media performances including his professional drumming. He was a drummer for a musical group called Jon Waine where they performed in many club venues in NYC and several colleges in New Jersey, such as CBGB’s, Danceteria, Inroads, Kenny’s Castaways, 8BC, Pyramid club, Club Negrill and Rutgers, Princeton University and Montclair State College. He has performed at the Rhinebeck Porchfest and Poughkeepsie Porchfest several times with his percussion band.

Franc has appeared on many TV programs: Good Morning New York, Italics, Panda TV, Futurevision and he was host and producer of his own Time Warner cable TV show called, “Arts Focus” from 2007-11 where he interviewed artists, politicians, filmmakers etc. Franc has also worked as a TV cameraman at WPIX TV, NY and Future-vision in NJ. He was a theater scenic designer for the Actor’s Studio in NYC in 1980 and has assisted and collaborated with many well known artists such as Annie Liebovitz, Salvador Dali, Billy Name, Crash, Daze, Tracy 168, Jean Michel Basquiat and Richard Hambleton, to name a few.

Some of his murals have appeared in Hollywood movies such as “Bad Company” with Chris Rock, NBC TV and the Discovery Channel.

His artworks are in dozens of public and private collections such as MoMA, Newark Museum, singer Diana Ross, Crash, John Carlin, Prudential Ins., Univ. of Cincinnati, Johnson & Johnson, and others

Eileen Power
Eileen Power’s path to becoming an artist was a circuitous one. She was born and raised in New York City to immigrant parents. Though art was not a part of her education, she always believed she was an artist. It simply wasn’t possible to be one full time before having an alternate career.

In 2016, Eileen was finally able to leave her marketing role to pursue her life as an artist. That same year, she moved from New York City to Woodstock NY to take classes and find community at the Woodstock School of Art.

In addition to painting and printmaking, Eileen has been creating art made from everyday objects, animating them in unusual ways. She enjoys upcycling things that others might discard into art.

Her sculptures have been exhibited at The 2024 Phoenicia Festival of the Arts, the 2025 Biennial Woodstock Byrdcliffe Sculpture Show, the 2021 and 2022 sculpture shows at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the 2020 Kingston Design Showhouse and the 2023 Shelter exhibition curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Eileen received the Robert Angeloch Printmaking Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2021 and the Nicholas Buhalis Award for Weaving the Woven, from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2024. Her works are held in collections from New York to California and in Europe.

Suprina Troche
Suprina studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia but gained the bulk of her knowledge of her craft from working in the field of promotional, prop making. Her clients included Annie Leibovitz, Apple Computer, Bloomingdales, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After 9/11, having lived in the neighborhood at the time, Suprina decided she would focus solely on her own artworks, which discuss environmental, social and political issues. She has won numerous grants including 2 Puffin Foundation, a LMCC, NoMaa, Individual and Community Decentralization grants and was awarded Art in Public Places by Dutchess County Executive Arts Awards in 2021. Currently, Suprina’s studio and Micro gallery named CONVEY/ER/OR are on Main St. in Poughkeepsie, NY. She shows work of other artists concerned with the same themes, social, political and environmental.