Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions heightens the viewer’s sense of imagination and discovery. He has earned an international reputation over the past 50 years for designing, fabricating, installing and maintaining unique sculptures and fountains in collaboration with architects and designers. “The studio is my playground, my laboratory, my sanctuary, where I practice and experiment with creative ideas. When I am working I am truly living in the present moment.” His most recent creative endeavors include paintings and works on paper. Website: www.vandebovenkamp.com
Karen Kirshner
Critics have said Karen’s art is original, complex, exciting and beautiful; that she does not accept the status quo, and that even though she has complete control over her technique, she keeps
challenging herself with new possibilities. “If you seek power in a painting, you will find it in
Kirshner.”
Karen L. Kirshner, is a national award-winning artist. She grew up in a creative household,
exposed to art at a young age with artist mother, Betty B. Kirshner, bringing her own visions to
life and urging Karen to pursue art. Early on, Karen received awards for her intricate pen & ink
compositions and had her first solo show through her high school cultural arts gifted program.
She was soon showing with her mother in Greenwich Village, NYC.
Karen studied at the Art Students League of New York, taking classes with accomplished artists, including Marshall Glasier, who said that there was “no limit to what Karen can accomplish in
art.”
Ann Brandeis
Ann Brandeis is a fine art photographer who centers her practice on time, memory, and perception. She holds an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute, with a specialization in the History of Photography, a foundation that strongly informs her conceptual approach.
Brandeis creates image-based narratives that reflect on the passage of time and the way personal memories surface through small triggers such as a color, a scent, or a fleeting visual detail.
Her work invites viewers to slow down and reflect, offering images that feel both intimate and universal. Rather than documenting specific moments, Brandeis builds emotional landscapes that echo lived experience and the quiet complexity of human memory.
Her series The Landscape of Memory was featured in FotoNostrum Publishing’s collection The World of Photography.
Brandeis’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in publications including Fine Arts Magazine, Art Hub East Hampton, and Graphis Magazine. She has also received recognition and awards from organizations such as IPA, PX3, Lucie, and FotoNostrum. Website: www.annbrandeis.com
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell paints in the Hamptons, but his palette and mind seem elsewhere. Bodacious sirens swooning in all manner of come hither poses, dogs leaping through space, and idyllic watery landscapes. This is art for the straight guy, a visual tour through the fantasies of a regular Joe whose thoughts are miles away from the recession and the East End’s winter gray. The Southern California colors of David Hockney and the urbane juxtapositions of James Rosenquist come to mind.
McDowell explores a wide range of subjects and styles and often uses several iconic images repeatedly in his paintings . Often his work shows a split canvas of a seductive woman whose face is striped with sunlight, as if filtered through Venetian blinds, on the top half and a gleeful airborne yellow Lab beneath. Website: michaelmcdowellstudio.com
Zoe Denahy
“I describe my paintings as geometric abstractions. I see spatial planes that recede to a distant horizon line. Using color, light and form, I try to create a sense of balance, the paint lends itself to an airy atmosphere. Brushstrokes and marks are broken down into a simple form. I only use what I feel is key to the expression, nothing superfluous. This creates a visual language that I find pleasing.”Website: www.zoedenahy.com
Josh Dayton
Painter and sculptor Josh Dayton grew up in East Hampton, and has cited Jackson Pollock as an early influence on his art. Art historian Phyllis Braff has described Dayton’s use of materials in his paintings as “daring…extend[ing] beyond surface boundaries.”Josh Dayton, shows his skill at organizing disparate elements in precarious balance. Josh Dayton explores a valid issue with his wall reliefs that negate the flatness of the traditional picture plane. Looking initially like aged relics from an earlier culture, his fragmented forms in a rich terra-cotta toned clay suggest a promising direction too. They are solid yet seem soft, pliable and casual as they bend and twist to imply unexpected motion. Rough, random, seemingly accidental edges add to the sense of the unpredictable.
Placing the clay components on a rectangular backing tends to reintroduce a flat plane, but Mr. Dayton apparently recognizes this situation and this presentation shows him to be experimenting with a number of ways to increase the coherence between the imaginative shapes and their background support panel. website: www.joshdayton.com
Mary Daunt
Mary’s artistic journey is deeply intertwined with her connection to the East End,
where she has resided for four decades. She often finds herself immersed in the
captivating essence of her surroundings.
Pastels serve as Mary’s chosen medium, allowing her to tread the delicate boundary between abstraction and realism. She exaggerates colors and simplifies forms, infusing her pieces with a vibrant energy. Each stroke is calculated, as she builds layer upon layer, gradually filling the surface.
Mary has embarked on a new challenge: capturing the beauty of backlit trees during the golden hours of sunrise and sunset. As the sun’s rays filter through the foliage, casting long shadows and enveloping the scene in a warm, luminous glow, Mary translates this fleeting moment.
Mary Daunt uses soft pastels to tread the delicate balance between realism and abstraction, capturing the natural beauty of Eastern Long Island.
Elizabeth Engelhardt
Liz Engelhardt is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Greenwich Village.
Growing up in New York exposed Liz to an endless variety of style and culture: a colorful palette from which she is able to draw artistic and design inspiration.
Liz is now a painter, sculptor and collage artist, working and living in New York City and Eastern Long Island.
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Frank Latorre
Artist, musician and founder of the Kingbees
Frank Latorre is a Five time winner of the Long Island blues to Memphis challenge
2014 Grammy certificate best blues category
Oh and Doc D in New York, blues Hall of Fame TV right now.
Geralyne Lewandowski
“I began printmaking at Pratt Institute focusing on the serigraphic technique as applied to canvas. The images I created were my personal re-interpretation of Pop Art. Often irreverent and focused on sexual innuendo and satire as inspired by the Manhattan Club scene of the 1970’s & 1980’s. Images influenced by Andy Warhol, Peter Max and David Bowie. More recently my work involves re-purposing my serigraphic prints with mixed media. Currently my technique is to make each serigraph unique by hand painting each background with a distinct color pallet and after print splatter, stencil and spray paint, thereby making each print, one-of-a-kind.” Website:lewandowskics.com
Beth Barry
My paintings are responses to the extraordinary reverence one experiences in the presence of nature. The magic of the movement, the light, and the scale, combined with my perceptual experience, have led me to move beyond literal references to landscapes to capture the visceral quality of the feeling of nature.
I always begin my paintings with a strong gestural line. From that starting point, shapes evolve. They are usually organic shapes that nudge each other. The immediacy and quick drying of the acrylic paint allow me the flexibility to layer shapes, adding depth and complexity to my compositions. Buoyant color choices play a crucial role in the paintings’ emotional impact.
To me, these paintings are joyful explorations of nature’s vastness.
Bob Sullivan
As an artist, Bob Sullivan is looking for truth through simplicity with an emphasis on natural color and a strong reliance on accurate rendering. The stroke of the brush, the weight of the paint, the juxtaposition of values, hues, mass and line combine to allow the viewer to join in exploring the artist’s vision of his truth.
In describing his vision as an artist, Sullivan says a photograph is able to capture a particular moment with a certain amount of realism, and it’s difficult to compete with a camera for capturing an accurate two-dimensional representation of what one’s eye perceives. Art, specifically painting, on the other hand, attempts to capture the magic and personality of a given time in its given place. Sullivan further likes to explore memory which has a tendency to solidify and fix itself in ways which fit conveniently into one’s personal narrative – the idea of venturing into the more complex, less accessible aspects of memory while painting familiar places allows viewer and artist alike to fill in their own dynamic narrative.Website: bobsullivanart.com
Joyce Riamondo
Joyce Raimondo’s vibrant paintings, illustrations, murals, and art books, turn outward, celebrating her playful creativity and joy. Referencing her autobiography, her sculpture turns inward expressing emotional intimacy and vulnerability. Ms. Raimondo has exhibited in New York City and East Hampton where she resides. Her solo exhibitions include A.I.R Gallery in Manhattan – the noted feminist art gallery, Queens College, and numerous group shows including Soho 20, Guild Hall of East Hampton, Ashawagh Hall, and others. Website: joyceraimondostudio.com
Donna Corvi
Trees and branches have always played a thematic subject matter in my works.
Most of my paintings of trees are “leafless”. I prefer the graceful, skeletal bare trunks and limbs that lie beneath, that are hardly noticed, where life lies dormant and waiting.
My former career as a NYC illustrator for 20 years has lead me to full time painting using acrylics on canvas, and painting only what inspires me.
Janet Rojas
Janet Rojas got her introduction to watercolor painting by taking a series of adult education classes at East Hampton High School, and has also studied under Janet Jennings. Her acrylic paintings are heavily influenced by watercolor techniques, specifically the use of glazing and washes.
Both her representational and abstract works are inspired by the nature and serenity of the East End. She is constantly moved by the unique light, the quiet atmosphere, and the natural beauty of these surroundings, all of which she strives to capture in her works.
She is a founding member of water+color+works, as well as a member of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton and the Montauk Artists Association. Website: JanetRojasArt.com
Susan Malfa
Susan Malfa lives, paints and gardens in Amagansett, NY. Born in Kew Gardens, New York, she enjoyed a career in the media industry and has a BA from Queens College plus a Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Strategy from NYU School of Professional Studies.
Creating art and gardening have been life-long endeavors and vital to her well-being. She has experienced the healing benefits of working in the garden and the meditative process of creating. Susan prescribes to the neuroscience behind the primal need for humans to connect with plants and nature. She studies plant symbolism and advocates for Therapeutic Horticulture, therapy working with plants, as an effective healing modality.
Susan incorporates her lived experiences and observation of the natural world into paintings and drawings of plants, landscapes and people’s hands, our tools that touch the earth. Compositions are unlikely take on plants and places they inhabit. Materiality is integral to her process. Susan reacts to surfaces, brush and paint types impacting how each work is handled. Her work bridges figurative and abstraction and is an offering, a reminder of the healing power of Mother Earth and our mutual interdependence with Her.
Delia Fasano
A self-taught photographer with a deep-rooted passion for outdoors. Delia specializes in capturing the raw beauty of nature and landscapes. Starting with a 35mm film camera, her journey behind the lens has evolved into a dynamic exploration of light, texture, and emotion. While nature remains her greatest muse, she also finds inspiration in the spontaneity of street scenes and the intimacy of portraiture. Her has earned recognition through multiple juried art competitions, reflecting both technical skill and a unique artistic voice.
Whether in remote wilderness or urban streets, she brings a thoughtful, observant eye to every frame.
Michael Cardacino
Michael Cardacino is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Springs, East Hampton, NY. My art, realized in sculpture, installations, stills and performance pieces on paper and video, evidences an unusual representational take on how art can expand awareness and create a shared experience of timely events, and provoke a constructive conversation about the causes of suffering and conflict in the world.
My work, built with popular images and ideas appropriated from the streaming collective consciousness – including the Internet, TV, movies, cave painting, standup comedy and my own photographs – constitutes a kind of sensory language that can be easily read, the purpose of which is to foster compassion through recognition and understanding.