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Lito Allegra Abrams
Lake George, NY 12845 (518)668-5376
Sarasota, FL 34235 (941)377-6424
litoabrams@earthlink.net
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Fascinated by the "topography" of living creatures, Lito paints people
and animals in acrylic and watercolor. With an eclectic and
impassioned eye for the visual, she focuses on the subject, pushes what
can be done with color, moves into questions of what is real in terms of
figure/ground, and references an art history background for its rich
tapestry of ideas. Works usually have a subtle play of humor,
contrast between the formal and information, and an attempt to influence
the viewer, whether it's a feeling of tension or a very direct pull into
the work. |
Scarlet Jane Arroyo
Glens Falls, NY 12801
Scarletwitch36@hotmail.com
www.Scarletdreams.org |
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Contemporary Artist with a focus in fantasy, uses color and figures to
express thoughts, ideas and feelings. Medium of choice is acrylic but
also uses, oils and water colors. |
Kate Austin-Avon
Glens Falls, NY 12801
518-353-2121
www.aephemera.net
kate@aephemera.net |
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Kate E. Austin is an artist who likes to push buttons. Her subject
matter is personal and emotional, and her paintings often have stories
behind them, embodying the statement that “real art won't match your
sofa”. She feels as if she has a story to tell, and her work is
reflective, like a journal. She doesn't fit into one category of media;
she collages with found objects and personal mementos, paints with
watercolor and acrylic on gesso or yupo, and even has been known to
paint using brushes made from her own hair. She has been featured in the
Post Star's “go” section and is a member of LARAC, NCAC, the Upper
Hudson Valley Watercolor Society, and the Killington Arts Guild. Visit her website
for more information. |
Lynn Benevento
Four Bridge Street,
Lake Luzerne, NY 12846
518-696-5702
www.lynnbenevento.com
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Lynn creates realistic
paintings of Adirondack scenes--mountains and lakes, wildflowers and hot
air balloons. You can also visit her gallery in scenic Lake Luzerne
for limited and open editions of her work. |
Paul Chapman
12 Morgan Drive, Hudson Falls, NY 12839
518-474-7302
www.paulmchapmanart.com
paulchapman1@mac.com |
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My painting style is realistic, in a general sense. There will be areas
of indistinct representation in each painting that could suggest that I
am not a slave to detail. Truth be told, however, I am a slave to
detail. I feel that the images I represent will have meaning to someone
who has much more experience with the subject than I and I want them to
be satisfied that the image is accurate - then move on to the image is
interesting. The thumbnail represented here is an image that was
entered in a contest and was selected (with 9 others) from over 2,000
entries, to be published in the March 2010 issue of The Artist’s
Magazine. |
Anne Gregson
659 Charley Hill Rd., Schroon Lake, NY 12870
518-532-9479
anne@stonefireplace.net |
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Anne's etchings are done in a realistic style, responding to her home
in the rural Adirondacks. Some of her subjects have been feathers,
ravens, leaves and trees. A trip to Italy resulted in a focus on masks
while the contrasting forms of Santa Fe are currently being explored. Printmaking affords her the luxury of printing from one plate in a
variety of ways, changing colors, combining plates in one print and
sometimes collaging in colored papers. (chine colle) |
Kate Hartley
PO Box 49, North River, NY 12856
518-251-2235
katehartleyvt@yahoo.com
www.katehartleyart.com |
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"As an artist, I have always found inspiration in close observation of
the natural world, and in the ever-changing play of light and shadow
over organic forms. My recent paintings combine rounded rocks
(collected in my travels), pears, wild mushrooms, seeds, and eggs.
Through my art, I seek to convey a sense of visual poetry." For
twenty years, Kate has painted, exhibited, and taught art, with
watercolors as her specialty. She ran a small arts school in
Burlington, VT before moving to North Creek and is looking forward to
teaching at Tannery Pond Community Center. |
Renee Leigh Hiscock
28 1/2 Thomson Avenue, Glens Falls, NY 12801
518-260-8381
www.reneeleigh.com
renee@reneeleigh.com |
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I am a formally trained illustrator whose work is primarily water media
based, but also includes photography, digital and collage. I am
inspired by complex social and cultural relationships but also by the
simplicity of nature. As an avid hiker and backpacker, the
Adirondack Mountains are a regular subject in my personal works. |
M. C. Huskie Studio & Gallery
21 Cooper St., Glens Falls, NY 12801
www.mchuskie.com
mike@mchuskie.com |
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M. C. Huskie paints the human form in oils. He states, "It's a challenge
that allows me to explore my abilities and develop what I hope to be a
unique style. We'll see where it goes when we get there." |
Jenny Hutchinson
Studio: 20 Ridge St., Suite 210, Glen Falls 12801
518-321-5278
hutchinsonjenny@yahoo.com
www.jennyhutch.com |
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Jenny Hutchinson considers herself somewhat of an anomaly. Her
body of work features single, multiple, or conjoined forms that explore
figuration in both abstract and representational modes. Each
figure is a continuous stream of consciousness that transforms and
develops as a result of artistic medium, observation, and memory.
She likes to think of her use of drawing and painting materials as
relative to alchemy. The materials serve as tools to help direct
and translate the simultaneous narrative to provide a more sincere sense
of reality and physical representation of a human body. |
Sandra Keyser
Hartford, NY 12838
518-632-5624
skeyser41569@roadrunner.com
www.sandiekeyser@fineartamerica.com |
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Sandie is a folk artist specializing in brightly colored acrylic
paintings of local scenes in Upstate New York. She is inspired by
the beauty of the local hamlets and farms, and expresses that
inspiration in her paintings. |
Danielle Monahan
Hudson Falls, NY 12839
518-791-5638
dani.monahan@gmail.com
www.daniellesart.org |
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Danielle Monahan is a mixed media artist who specializes in painting. Her subjects vary from images found in nature to portraits. She often
combines images, distorts images or works with abstraction. Her main
focus, while creating a work of art is subject matter, color relation,
and layering technique. Have a look at her website for more information. |
Nancy Ness
PO Box 388, North Creek, NY 12853
518-251-9869
nessnancy@hotmail.com
www.nancyness.com |
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Since leaving the design world, Nancy has worked in oils and pastels.
She has shown her work in two national shows and one international
competition. She has also participated in four solo shows and seven
group shows. She is a member of the Adirondack Pastel Society, and
in 2011 she became an Associate Member of the prestigious Pastel
Society of America. At this point Nancy has the freedom to say,
“It’s important for me to do what’s right for the painting by being
flexible and sensitive. For so many years, in the design world I had
to please and alter work for different clients. Now, it’s time for
the work to lead the way." |
Elizabeth (Betty) O'Brien
Queensbury, NY 12804
518-798-2822
Contact Betty
www.larac.org/Betty_Obrien.htm |
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Betty O'Brien considers herself
a "painterly realist", part of the romantic tradition of
landscape painters who create a sense of place as a metaphor for the
human spirit. Attempting to make opposites connect, she seeks
out contrasting elements, those inherent in the subject as well as
those existing in the creative process. Although her compositions
are carefully planned, media manipulation and brushwork push the
reality of her water media works well beyond the merely descriptive.
Betty also teaches watercolor classes at her WaterMedia Academy. Connect
here for more information. |
Mary Paladin
Brant Lake, NY 12815
mary@marypaladin.com
www.marypaladin.com
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Art has always been an essential part of Mary’s life. At the age of two
and a half she began drawing with crayons on anything she
could-including her bedroom wall. At four she received her first set of
“real” watercolors from a relative in Europe which inspired the animals
she painted on the back of her closet door. Mary was not a mischievous
child by any means; she just wanted to “make pretty things”. She has
studied various forms of art throughout her life; pottery, sculpture,
textile design, fiber arts and jewelry making. Painting and drawing
however are her favorite forms of expression with painting being her
“passion”. Mary works in pen and ink, colored pencil, acrylic,
watercolor and gouache; she is the happiest when she can "make pretty
things". Mary is also the author of "The Adirondacks that are the
Other Half of Me"... |
Leslie Parke
Cambridge, NY 12816
info@leslieparke.com
www.leslieparke.com
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"Since my time as an artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation
in Giverny, France, I feel as though I have been on the other end of
Monet’s see-saw. While he pressed his work from strict observation
into abstraction with his late lily paintings, I am pushing mine from
abstraction back into representation. In my most recent work, I
like to sit on the edge between the two possibilities. I am
happiest when I can make a very abstract composition and yet imbue it
with all sorts of qualities that are only possible in a representational
context, such as light reflections, transparencies, translucencies,
glitter, sparkle and shimmer. How light affects natural surfaces,
such as flowers, insects and water; and artificial surfaces, such as
patent leather, foil, Mylar, transparent ribbons, and glass, become part
of my visual arsenal. For a while the more elusive and impossible the
image was to paint, the more it interested me. A painting succeeds
for me when it seems as though the light is emanating from inside the
canvas." |
Jim Parker
Ballston Spa, NY 12020
518-899-7311
carol@owlsperch.com
www.jcparkerfineart.com |
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Jim Parker states, "I've always been creative and dabbled in visual
arts. A life threatening medical diagnosis has taught me that there is
only this moment. Painting whether it be in oil or watercolor keeps me
in the moment. I believe you can see my passion for life in the images.
I paint what I know--the Adirondacks, Saratoga, and the ocean." |
Ruth Sauer
Salem, NY 12865
518-854-3406
ruth@artinsalem.com
www.artinsalem.com |
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Ruth’s colorful acrylic and pastel stylistic abstracts on canvas and paper decorate the walls of
her gallery North Main in Salem, NY. The vibrant colors in her abstract landscapes bring a special life to the pieces. Ruth says her work comes from “day dreams and night dreams” as well
as places she has visited. Ruth also teaches at the studio; for
more information on classes, click here. |
Beverly Saunders
bjsartworks
Framing/Gallery/Studio
The Shirt Factory, 71 Lawrence St., Suite 208,
Glens Falls, NY 12801
518-793-9350
bjsartworks@aol.com
www.bjsartworks.com |
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Beverly now has her Framing, Gallery and Studio in
The Shirt Factory. Her current work in pastel captures the
serenity in landscapes, still life, and florals. In an age where
serenity is not found easily, her work allows the viewer to find it
there. Beverly also has experience in graphic design, art
consultation, framing design, animal portraits, etc. For shop
hours or an appointment, feel free to contact her by phone or email. |
Trudi Smith/Portrait Commissions
Beekman Street Artists Co-op
79 Beekman St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518-587-0095
tsmith@nycap.rr.com |
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Portrait artist, Trudi Smith has won numerous awards in juried shows in
New York City and locally. She is a signature member of the Pastel
Society of America and a full member of the Oakroom Artists. Also
a member of the Portrait Society of America, she was awarded second
place in the society’s 2006 Self-Portrait Competition. Trudi Smith
is available for commissions. |
Ken Wheeler
16 Richardson Street, Queensbury, NY 12804
518-793-2620
www.kenwheelerstudio.com
kenwheeler@roadrunner.com |
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Watercolorist Ken Wheeler specializes in creating one of a kind commissions for discerning
buyers. His representational style lends itself well to almost any
subject. Working closely with each client creates a piece that reflects
each person's individual tastes. Commissions accepted. |
Martha Winsten
Gansevoort, NY 12831
518-792-1635
coyote77waiting@yahoo.com |
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Martha is a children's book author and portrait artist. An animal
lover, she has been doing portraits of all types of animals for over 30
years. For a number of years she has done paintings of race
horses, and those paintings are located in private collections of George
Steinbrenner and Hall of Fame horse trainers H. Allen Jerkens and
Jonathan Sheppard, among others. Martha also does portraits of
people, and was recently commissioned to paint Saratoga philanthropist
Michele Riggi with one of her little dogs. |
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All images, copyright the artist, 2003-2010.
All rights reserved.
Use or reproduction of the artwork displayed on this site is strictly prohibited without expressed written
permission. |
