Andrew Barthelmes
1980 Crompond Rd
Studio: Gallery-Hudson Valley Hospital Center
The main focus of my work is the relationship between people, time, and the urban landscape. I look for beauty rarely appreciated; the scene out the train window that is soon forgotten, the building that will one day collapse and be plowed over, and the people we will never know.
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Bob Barthelmes
1980 Crompond Rd
Studio: Gallery-Hudson Valley Hospital Center
Statement: Although I have worked in virtually every medium, watercolor is my true love. As I tell my students, watercolor is the only medium that has a mind of its own, and while it will respond to being controlled, it is happiest when it is allowed to roam.
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Deborah Beck
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Lisa Breznak
1000 N Division St - Suite 18
Studio: The Hat Factory
Through my work I hope to demonstrate that beauty, ideas, humor, and significance are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Fascinated by the universal and sometimes comedic aspects of the human condition, my work addresses observations and perspectives on relationship, environment, religion, and community. Through various references such as architecture, costume, and often body language, I anthropomorphize symbolic abstract forms to tell cautionary tales and illustrate the fables and foibles of contemporary life.
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Jo-Ann Brody
1000 N Division Street, Suite 2H
Studio: The Hat Factory
Brody works with the figure, with women as individuals and as groupings sometimes creating conversations, sometimes massed into installations. Her sculptural figures are pared down, simplified. She works in both cement and in clay. She has had a studio in Peekskill since 1993.
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Larry D'Amico
901 South St
Studio: Independent Studio
My personal work is predominantly landscape painting. My technical approach varies widely from tighter contemporary realism to looser more abstract color based images. Under it all, for me is an attraction to the subtle or radiant effects of light, at times describing and at other times dissolving forms in nature. I love the moods and changing atmospheres of the landscape.
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Marcy B Freedman
1006 Brown St - Suite 203
Studio: Brown Street Studios
Marcy B. Freedman is an artist and an art historian. Her Peekskill studio is filled with collages, photographs, small sculptures and video artworks. Additionally, she presents one-on-one, face-to-face interactive performance pieces, because she wants to provide an alternative to the “virtual” forms of communication -- email, texting, social networking, etc – that are coming to dominate our lives. “I want to create situations in which real people are communicating in real time and in real space.”
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Wendie Garber
105 S Division St
Studio: Gallery - Flat Iron
Wendie Garber, Director of The Flat Iron Gallery, in the 3rd floor gallery. Ms. Garber’s exhibit space consists of four rooms located on two floors of Peekskill's historic "Flatiron" building at 105 South Division Street in the heart of its growing downtown art district. Now celebrating its 16th year, the gallery represents over 100 area artists and specializes in contemporary fine art and handcrafted jewelry.
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Sarah Haviland
Studio: 1000 N Division Street, Studio
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Melinda Hunt
8 S. Division St
Studio: Independent Studio
The Hart Island Project is a storytelling collaboration about Hart Island, the public cemetery that serves the greater New York area. The project hosts a database of 60,534 people buried in mass graves between 1980-2011. Works include a series of ink sketches on photographs titled Shades of New York representing a few of the people located in the database. Artist Melinda Hunt received a 2012 NYSCA award in Film, Media and New Technology.
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Charles McGill
906 South St - Suite 2
Studio: Independent Studio
I began using the golf bag as 'found' object/motif by exploring its relationship to the human figure, specifically the headless and limbless torso. I collaged race-sex-class-inspired imagery to the surface with meticulous care and attention to make a beautiful object. Recently the focus has shifted away from the surface to the bag’s intrinsic structure and hardware. I find the golf bag to be a very political object and as such, it has the potential to resonate on many levels. It easily personifies human character. My earlier abstract constructions gradually transformed into compositions that inherently revealed the human postures hidden within. I find the golf bag to be a very inherently political object that comes with its own cultural baggage.
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Brooke McGowen
119 N Division St
Studio: Independent Studio
ART = POWER Art rips through the sensory overload, baring the brain’s eye. Intoxicating cerebral fireworks integrate circuits, transcending experience. Art, nourished on potentialities, tells the truth through fantasy. Art is a thought experiment to plumb the depths of the future. A preternatural call to action, it foments volition to the breeding point.
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Berenice Pliskin
105 S Division St
Studio: Flat Iron
Berenice Pliskin is my name
Silk painting is my game
In my Peekskill atelier
All my work is on display
When you enter you will view
Bold imagery, unique in hue
Come and visit let us meet
At 105 South Division Street
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Wendy Porterfield
Studio: Esther Street
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Toni Quest
981 Main St - Suite 2
Studio: Independent Studio
I strive to create work that will stimulate thought and action. As an artist, I feel obliged to give of myself through my art. My aim is to cultivate the ability to use art to make a positive contribution to our global society, whether it is by simply creating art and exhibiting it, teaching others self-actualization through their art, and / or donating to others a portion of what I earn from it.
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Joseph Squillante
Studio: Independent Studio
Stills in Motion • My exploration of light and motion in abstraction is a departure from my longtime realism work along the Hudson River. I am pushing the limits of the medium by experimenting with an innovative approach to subject matter through this amazing light machine, the camera. The excitement of seeing fresh optical imagery compels me to create differently, partially due to my newly found appreciation of the digital camera. Its freer form enables me to take more chances, and seeing the results immediately is integral to achieving exactly what I am looking for. The use of color in these photographs is essential and adds to the already stimulating visual.
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Carol Wax
803 Central Ave - Suite 2
Studio: Independent Studio
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Linda Winters
805 Central Ave - Suite 1
Independent Studio
I draw and paint what I see in an exploratory manner, keeping an open mind, following neural grooves, and continuously making adjustments, as I am presented with new discoveries. I work in a wide-variety of mediums, from water-based paints, like casein and gouache, to oil, and use colors that pop. My subject matter is usually a still-life of items found in my studio, which are simply catalysts for exploring the relationship between color and space.
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Maureen Winzig
44 N Division St - Suite 2
Independent Studio
I paint what I love; water, sky, mountains and trees. Women, one of the beautiful wonders of the world, must be painted… so I paint them. A well done painting for me has beauty depicted in such a way that it hurts to step away, pains you to think you’re not actually there. After painting series of landscapes, I find myself creating a freer expression in abstracts bold and powerful. RED always finds its way in there. Next, will be a series of important women of distinction. Stay tuned.
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Mark Yarnes
981 Main St - Suite 2
Independent Studio
Having the ability to capture someone’s expression and putting it on paper in a life like drawing has intrigued me since I was a child. I work each piece trying to feel the persons character and emotion then portraying it on paper to the best of my ability. If I can warm someone’s heart every time they look at a portrait I created for them I have accomplished my objective as an artist.
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Lana Yu
802 South St - Suite 2
Independent Studio
I work with mixed media to create abstract works that explore the emotional content of my experiences, my relationship with others and the environment. For me painting becomes an investigation, where I search for flow, movement, light, dark, action, reaction, and ultimately order in what seems inextricable. I am currently creating gestural pastel drawings for a picture book about going from the smaller world to the larger world.
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Anthony Volpe
Main St - Suite 3
This current series of graphite drawings is a departure from previous work in that there is total absence of color and recognizable imaging. These linear constructions are resolutely process driven, their visceral immediacy conveyed through bold swaths of overlapping black lines that attract, repel, describe and ignore. Deliberate erasure lines coupled with frottage, further deny and identify form by blurring, softening and concealing. These physically demanding instinctive drawings each have a voice of their own.
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As well as:
Anna Adler
John Agne
Scarlett Antonia
Brian Beaton
Cindy Booth
Ada Cruz
Jeanne Demotses
Louis DePippo
Inge Dube
Jeannie Egel
Andrea Elam
Linda Jean Fisher
Nadine Gordon-Taylor
Elana Goren
Lorraine A. Gregus
Lisa/Alan High
Ann Johann
Angela Lane
Denise Leaden
Matthew Leonard
Brook Maher
Stephen Mancusi
Chelle Mayer
Darby Melnik
Laila Molle
Wilfredo Morel
James Mulvaney
Michael Murrey
Marcelino Pegan
Arne Paglia
Bob Pliskin
Wendy Porterfield
Stephanie Purcell
Marla Rubin
Ilse Schreiber
Jeorjia Shea
Margaret Steele
Brian Ben Taylor
Brian Delma Taylor
Sone Tower
Keren Valentin
Susan Weinreich
Lavinia Wiggins
