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
Isabella Bannerman has been the Monday artist for the unique all women comic strip “Six Chix” since 2000. She has been a member of River Arts since 2013. Her work has been recognized by the National Cartoonists Society, the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. She believes that humor can be healing.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings
Barbara Abram is a local artist in Westchester County NY. She works in her home-based studio, which is truly her happy place! Pastels are her medium of choice; she loves the color, the contrast, and mark-making. She enjoys painting portraits and has been including more figures in her landscapes and interiors.
25 Woodlands Avenue, White Plains, 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
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
Jan Rozene, a resident of Tarrytown, enjoys painting en plein air in the Hudson Valley and in New York City. She hopes the viewer will share the emotional high she feels observing the beauty of nature.
1 Central Avenue, Studio 302
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
Kit Demirdelen’s work is abstract, geometric and color based. She loves playing with odd color choices and finding new relationships between color and form.
526 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson
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
Each painting evokes the sensation of being surrounded by the rocks, waters, hills, vegetation, and unique light found in the Hudson Valley. The Palisades, the Hudson River, and environs have been an unwavering muse. The work captures childhood wonder and reverence for nature. The flattened forms, simplified shapes, and imaginative color, evoke a childlike magical realism.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main St, Hastings
Lisa Maxwell’s desire is to represent the beauty in nature as she sees it. To get to know the soul of every plant she draws or paints.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
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
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.
