Archives: FINE ART 2019
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© Carol O'Neill
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Carol A. O’Neill is a native of New Jersey. Her formal art education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Master of Fine Arts Degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Carol’s solo exhibitions include A Gathering of Leaves at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, NJ and a solo exhibition at L’Espace Cadres in Waterloo, Belgium. She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions across the U.S. and has received a number of awards for her work, including a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and an artist residency at Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY.
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© Tarryl Gabel
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Tarryl Gabel was born and raised on a cattle ranch on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She has lived the last 32 years in the beautiful Hudson Valley Region of New York. Tarryl has been voted by readers of Hudson Valley Magazine as “Best Artist” in their annual “Best of the Hudson Valley” five times to date. She has won awards nationally and regionally, including Paint the Parks and Paint America Top 100. Most recently, at Plein Air Easton, her painting was given the award titled “Worthy of the Met” by David Levy. Tarryl was also chosen to paint an ornament for the 2007 White House Christmas tree.
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© Marlene Wiedenbaum
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Marlene Wiedenbaum, PSA-MP, is the July '19 Featured Artist. She is an award-winning pastel artist from New York. She considers herself “a passionate realist, working with a palette of soft pastels, sanded paper, and a kneaded eraser.” Her award-winning paintings have been exhibited internationally, including the International Pastel Artists Invitational in Taipei, Taiwan and the Xian Art Museum in China. Her work is among six International Master Pastelists featured in two text books commissioned by the Taiwanese government. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, and, in 2012, Marlene was selected out of 1500 artists as one of 10 semi-finalists for the prestigious Basil H. Alkazzi Excellence in Painting Awards. As an Award-Winning Signature Member and MASTER Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), Marlene is also an elected board member of the PSA Board of Governors, and she is a member of several other prestigious arts organizations.
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© Deb Brandon
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Deb Brandon is a weaver, respected textile artist and writer. She is also a popular speaker on textiles and other topics. Deb is an active volunteer with Weave a Real Peace (WARP), serving multiple terms as a board member as well as writing the long-running “Textile Techniques from Around the World” column for the organization’s newsletter.
Since 1991, Deb has been a professor in the Mathematical Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her books include But My Brain Had Other Ideas (a memoir about her long-term recovery from brain injury), excerpted in Sanctuary, and Threads Around the World. Her essays have appeared in several publications, including Hand/Eye Magazine and Weaving Today. |
© Sandra Bertrand
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Sandra Bertrand is the May '19 Featured Artist. She has been immersed in the arts all of her life, as a theater actress, playwright, painter, photographer, book reviewer, editor and art critic. In theater, her accomplishments are numerous. Her plays include Manikin, The Transformation of Aura Ruanes, Days and Nights of an Ice Cream Princess, The Sentry and the Laughing Ladies and many others. Her plays for television include Chameleon and Coming Attraction. She has been an O’Neill Playwright Conference finalist and her plays have been performed Off-Off Broadway at the Courtyard Playhouse, The Viridian and elsewhere. Sandra’s artwork has been selected for solo and group exhibitions in Connecticut and New York. She is a member and Public Relations Co-coordinator of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) . Sandra is Chief Art Critic for Highbrow Magazine and a contributing writer for GALO Magazine.
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© Jean Newburg
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Jean Newburg is a sculptor and painter who worked for decades as founding CEO of Weston United, a nonprofit organization providing housing and services for homeless individuals with mental illness and other behavioral disorders. Jean has been studying and making art since the 1970s concurrently with pursuing a career as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. After retiring in 2016, Jean began painting and sculpting full-time. She is currently studying sculpture with Rhoda Sherbell at the Art Students League of New York. She is also studying watercolor at the Woodstock School of Art, and, in 2017, started experimenting with abstraction and pastel landscapes. Jean has exhibited in galleries in New York City and the Hudson Valley region of New York. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists.
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© Kimberly Gerry-Tucker
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Kimberly Gerry-Tucker is the April '19 Featured Artist. She is an author, artist and vice president of The Art of Autism, a nonprofit organization supporting autistic creatives. She is in charge of the P.O.D.S. (People of Diversity, Speaking) Project, one of the many programs sponsored by this nonprofit. After receiving an Asperger’s/Selective Mutism diagnosis in 1999, Kimberly stopped seeing herself as ‘less-than’ and felt empowered to write candidly about herself as a spectrum woman. Her memoir Under The Banana Moon was published in 2012. Her artwork has appeared in many books and on the cover of three.
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© Katherine Kean
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Katherine Kean is the March '19 Featured Artist. She is an award-winning painter from Los Angeles and a former visual effects producer, designer and animator whose film credits include The Fly, Ghost, Stargate, and Willow. Her paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and have been acquired by many private and corporate collections. Her work has been presented in many publications and collections, including Bloomingdales in Santa Monica, CA, Schiffer’s 100 Artists of the West Coast II, and the National Weather Center 2015 Biennale.
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