This well-travelled space inside South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry serves as a popular Rivertowns gallery representing local artists. The first exhibit was in 1982 and in the 40+ years since then artists in many media have shared their unique views of life, the world, and self.
The Donald Gallery (Inside South Presbyterian Church) 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry
As an artist, Mary always found herself torn between two mediums: Photography and Mixed Media. Her photography work represents her vision looking outward at the world. Her mixed media work represents her vision as looking inward, inspiring visual narratives that are both relics of personal memory and symbols of the universal human experience.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 415, Dobbs Ferry
Alison Marra is an abstract painter and mixed media artist. By exploring natural shapes and instinctual mark-making, her work considers the themes of cultural femininity and our human relationship to the world. She previously designed and taught workshops to both children and adults on how to access one’s own personal creative voice. Alison lives with her family in Yonkers, NY.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry, NY
The techniques found in Anne-Marie Mcintyre’s work have developed over years of studio practice. These include an extensive repertoire of hand mixed glazes and inks and combining 2D and 3D media in unconventional ways. Her ceramics are done in conjunction with her drawings and inform each other to help answer questions about the nature of consciousness and embodiment.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 339, Dobbs Ferry
This year Vincente has been busy with with watercolor and ink sketches from Italy as well as figurative work and small oils.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 401, Dobbs Ferry
Neil Lavey was born in 1958, He graduated Cooper Union 1981. His Exhibitions include: The Leslie Lohman gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts , The Edward Hopper House in Nyack, The Blue Door Gallery & The River Front Gallery in Yonkers, the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, and the The H Gallery in Peekskill.
60 Beechdale Road, Dobbs Ferry
Exploring gay male sexuality through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia, Goldberg’s work encompasses collage, mixed media, and printmaking. He is interested in male camaraderie, desire and relationships, as well as emotions related to body image.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 383A, Dobbs Ferry
Hudson Ceramics is a local, female-owned collection of modern, handmade porcelain jewelry by Lindsay Mortimer. Each piece is a work of art, lovingly made in her Hastings-on-Hudson studio. She is inspired by the beauty of nature and draws on her BFA and 20 years experience in NYC fashion and textiles to create jewelry as unique as you are!
145 Palisade Street, Studio TBD, Dobbs Ferry
Alan Garry is trying to capture the geometry & patterns in unselfconscious construction.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 307, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Peggie Blizard is a realist painter, currently fascinated with painting flowers in water. She has spent the majority of her career representing objects as well and enjoys the trompe l’oeil challenge.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Ariella Toeman is a classically trained Chef, turned potter. After many years in the kitchen and raising kids, she now focuses her time making pottery- bringing together her love of food, travel, and entertaining. Based in Irvington NY, Ariella creates one-of-a-kind tableware made of stoneware, thrown, altered and hand made, her pieces inspire home chefs and foodies.
You can find more of her work on Instagram (@ariella_ceramics) and on her website (www.ariellaceramics.com)
145 Palisade Street, Studio 215, Dobbs Ferry
Christy Knell’s paintings are created with beeswax, pigment, and gold foil and leaf. Christy aims to reveal the inherent beauty in the medium by allowing the science to take control, revealing naturally occurring textures and designs through the addition of the blow torch. The materials work together to suggest other elements of nature like marble, stone, and smoke.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 200, Dobbs Ferry
Naomi Gilbert’s work is inspired by the fundamental oneness of the universe and the patterns and particles that run throughout the cosmos. Nature repeats itself: images of microscopic life resemble galaxies which resemble deep sea environments. Atoms flow through everything. It is these energies, and a sense of connectivity, that inspire her to create.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 335D, Dobbs Ferry
Constanza Mallol paints what is alive, that breathes, changes, gives off scent, promises of touch, taste. She wants to seize the thrill of that life and her life colliding. Not photographic render, exalted emotion of recognizing life. Painting nature, breathing that same air, light, changing, slowly dying as she is dying she feels complete and her life is full of meaning.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 313, Dobbs Ferry
Marci Miles resides in Hastings on Hudson, NY, where she passionately pursues her love for landscape and abstract photography. Nature has consistently held a profound influence, acting as a formidable force that fuels her creativity. Through her artwork, Marci aspires to evoke feelings of joy, peace, and even healing, hoping to accompany others on their personal journey of life.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 215, Dobbs Ferry
Larry Blizard’s imagination is a deluge of hysterically funny ideas, all of which work. His drawings are warm and delicate. Technically, they are masterful.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Alison Cimmet’s mixed-media painted collage work celebrates vibrant colors and textures. She uses beautiful curated papers, vintage ephemera (sheet music, literature, etc.), and her own gelli-plate acrylic prints. Final touches are done with paint, markers, and gold leaf. Alison is a proud member of the Collective Art Studio collaborative work space in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
www.Fancille.com
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist/maker who takes so-called ordinary things and projects them into other
dimensions
145 Palisade Street, Studio 406, Dobbs Ferry
Lindsay Harper duPont’s work is inspired by human gesture, attitude and movement. It is optimistic and embraces the absurd. Whether she’s illustrating or painting-it’s the same instinct, an improvisation with the feeling that there’s something waiting to be discovered right around the corner.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334C, Dobbs Ferry
Originally from the UK, Helen has been living and painting in the Rivertowns for over 25 years. She works as an artist and educator in her studio in Dobbs Ferry. “When I paint I enjoy the process, the movement and the stillness. I try to communicate the inherent beauty of our natural world, albeit in the form of 3 pears.”
145 Palisade Street, Studio 402, Dobbs Ferry
Raine finds inspiration for her work in the garden and familiar landscapes. Ideas and images develop in reverie and on the page. She is moved by color and light, organic composition and growth – and by surprises of medium and process.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
Eleanor Goldstein is a painter and sculptor from Westchester, NY, who works in a variety of mediums. Goldstein’s work evokes emotion through the investigation of both natural and urban environments, exploring themes of death and rebirth throughout. Her subjects are drawn from the striking industrial landscapes and transcendent forms from nature that she encounters.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 316, Dobbs Ferry
Michael Barnett Lewis is an architect and painter who emerged in the 80’s with East Village and Soho solo exhibitions at M-13 and Howard Scott Galleries and numerous group exhibitions. His work is in corporate and private collections, as well as the Connecticut Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently, Lewis’s studios are located at 145 Palisade Street; Dobbs Ferry, NY.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 304, Dobbs Ferry
Stephanie uses a variety of materials to create non-traditional mosaic art. Broken plates, found objects, glass, tile and color are the basic elements of her work.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 408, Dobbs Ferry
Artist living in Hastings on Hudson for 23 years. Portrait and figure painter of realism and fantasy. An international artist whose work has been featured in galleries throughout the USA and abroad. A member of the Upstream and Blue Door Galleries, she is currently participating in a group exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers NY. Dobbs Ferry Studio.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334E, Dobbs Ferry
Monica Shulman is a painter and photographer whose work is a form of story-telling. Rooted in the traditions of abstract expressionism, her world is best described as colorful and rhythmic and her sculptural paintings reflect an evolving universe where communication is less concrete. Her process-oriented work explores themes of the human condition, identity, and self-reflection.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 237B, Dobbs Ferry
Janet Sikirica is a fiber artist, and her main medium is wool feltmaking ranging from wearable art to home décor. Her recent endeavors include rug making using traditional Nomad techniques of Eastern Europe and Western/Central Asia. She also studies and practices Japanese Shibori dyeing techniques as well as the Korean art form Bojagi which merges various shapes and colors of a particular fabric through stitching, creating beautiful seams.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 314, Dobbs Ferry
Since 2013, Marisa Gonzales Silverstein has worked as a mosaic artist and paper sculptor, creating designs that are meditative and mathematical. Marisa received a BA in Art History from Yale College in 1992 and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1999. When not making art, Marisa helps teenagers successfully navigate the college admissions process.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
With fluid lines, and visible brushstrokes Jen Moore Smith depicts the whimsy of chickens, and the weather and light of nature’s edges: coastal marshes, tidal wrack lines, roadside weeds, tangled gardens. Her compositions often convey the viewpoint of a child suggesting viewers share her sense of wonder and delight in quiet discovery. Rhode Island School of Design (’90 BFA Illustration)
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
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RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by support from The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.
