Jeff White’s first departure from the woodcut medium in many years is a series of large abstract drawings inspired by Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole, whose “Course of Empire” from 1834 expressed concern for the direction of our young country. 2 contour lines travel throughout his compositions to convey time, continuity, paradox and the both/and principal.
42 Hudson Street, Sleepy Hollow
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
Sharon (Shroon) Seidl has never been afraid to take chances. She takes pleasure in the uncertainty of each piece as it reveals itself through color, composition and texture. Somewhere in the curious chaos lie familiar, beautiful, comforting forms. She has designed for well known musicians, album art, souvenir brochures, well-known magazines, fashion design features, mobile applications famous logos and much more.
Sleepy Coffee Too, 110 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Kersten Harries, an architect by training, engages in creative placemaking and community building in her current home of Sleepy Hollow. She’s passionate about installation art, enjoying its temporal, transformative, and spatial qualities and utilizes photography to document pieces and process. Seeking to nurture her own daily art making habit, Kersten shares her latest creative works in progress.
18 Anderson Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
The Maker Hive is a community makerspace to explore arts and technology and everything in between.
416 Warburton Avenue, Hastings, NY
Website: www.makerhive.space
Instagram: @makerhivespace
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
Bonnie Levine is a ceramic artist and studio art educator. Similar to her work in the classroom where material exploration is essential, Levine draws inspiration from the clay itself. She uses various techniques to create her forms. The plasticity of the material, the mood of the moment, the moisture in the air and other variables converge to produce one-of-a-kind pieces.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Combining found elements with those fashioned by his own hand, David’s work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. The essence of his work lies in the age-old struggle between nature and the man-made industrial world. His challenge is to convey that sense of conflict in a way that resonates with the viewer.
104 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY 10591
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
Ted and Nune are a photographic team whose work is inspired by the man-made world. Seeking out the spiritual dimension in monumental human constructions, they make studies of architecture and industry, bringing a joint male-female point of view to their shared vision. Both photograph, edit, and print. They do not sign their works individually.
45 Main Street, Store B, Hastings On Hudson
David Rabinowitz is an artist working with digital images to create surreal art work. He’s been doing this for 20 years and enjoys using masking techniques to isolate parts of many images, which he then combines into a completely new image. His art has been shown in galleries and has won numerous awards.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Hagar’s art negotiates the relationship of a body to an environment in a physical and metaphorical sense. She uses plexiglass as the holding structure of her pieces, and her process involves painting, tracing her own body, adhering objects, melting and scratching the surface.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 412-5120 | [email protected]
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.
