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
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
Barbara Bilotta
“Barbara Bilotta considers herself an Abstract Expressionist. The striking abstract patterns in her works are more than just arrangements of colors and shapes. Her love of nature animates those patterns, forging a connection between pure abstraction and organic forms. Thanks to that link, a flowing arrangement of colors will also evoke the textures found in a rock’s surface or a body of water. There is an elemental strength in her images that grounds them, setting up a contrast with the artist’s dynamic use of colors and shapes. “My goal,” she says, “is to transform the natural order into a suggestive interpretation to stimulate the imagination.”
The surface of my paintings is also the result of an intriguing contrast. I work mostly in acrylics glazed with resin, and the acrylic’s softness and the resin’s hardness combine to create a “charged atmospheric space” in which the viewer is made to feel the movement of the paint. Website: barbarabilotta.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.”
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
Haim Mizrahi
Rooted in poetry and music, Haim Mizrahi’s journey into painting is an extension of rhythm and rhyme, where subject matter emerges through the cadence of artistic expression. His versatile approach embraces the many facets of painting, allowing adaptation and transformation to define his process. With over 100 solo exhibitions and countless group shows spanning across continents and East Hampton, Mizrahi has continuously explored the poetic essence of visual art. Today, his work gathers the seemingly insignificant into a circle of meaning and goodwill, elevating the overlooked into a realm of artistic and human significance.
“Recovering pre-established artistic treasures is a daunting task”
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.
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
Lieve Thiers
“My paintings have no accepted meaning no representation of an object.
They are a quest for a personal expression against conventions, preconceived ideas,
and traditions
I liberate these emotions by creating a new pictorial life. Through spontaneous gestures,
the use of variations of lines and strokes, rhythmic movement and
color a new unexpected emotional world comes into existence.
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.
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
Elizabeth Paris
An East Hampton based artist with deep roots in this artistic community. Her connection to the region runs deep. In 2022, after over two decades of nurturing young talents as an art teacher at the Amagansett School, she embarked on a new chapter in her artistic journey.
She pursued her Bachelor of Science in Art Education at LIU Southampton Campus, and honed her skills in painting and printmaking, among others..Later, she earned a master’s degree in education with a concentration in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. She also pursued further studies in graphic design and interior design, expanding her artistic palette.
Her artistic expression is primarily through abstract acrylic paintings, complemented by art prints and digital paintings. Influenced by the breathtaking natural landscapes of the East End of Long Island, her work often features organic shapes, gestural lines, and layered textures. Color, a powerful conduit for memory and emotion, is central to my artistic process.
Her art serves as a testament to the profound interplay between nature, emotion, and creativity.
www.lparisstudio.com
Setha Low
Setha Low is best known for her organic anthropomorphic sculpture made from multiple clay bodies, worn clothing, leather, metal, wire and mesh. The theme of separation and re-integration of the human body/psyche pervades her ceramic torsos, wired sculpures and dry point prints. Her use of blouses and tee-shirts painted with messages, over stuffed with mesh, often hung on wire or silk hangers create a sense of temporal urgency and spatial flow. While the subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and its form, she prefer materials that can be manipulated intuitively and that reflect the intensity of their handling as she works.
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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Rosalind Brenner
Creating in various mediums is for Rosalind Brenner an artistic-spiritual betrothal. Just as it is for all people who want to give meaning to life, who love the challenge of working creatively or intimately with heart, hands and head. Handling materials, learning, exploring, beauty and mastery, be it pilot and plane, the athlete and her body, the mathematician’s problem, dancer and form. Making art transcends the everyday and is transport into an inexplicable realm. It is that realm that she expresses in her work. She is a painter and poet. Her stained glass is in the homes of many collectors as well as in churches, synagogues and offices throughout the tri-state area and beyond. Her paintings are collected by many patrons. Rosalind has years of experience teaching stained glass in New York City, Great Barrington, and at the D’Amico Institute. She has a love of art and paintings making art that began in childhood and to which she has dedicated her many years as a professional in the glass world as well as in painting and writing.
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.