2022 Featured Artist Updates
As part of our December issue each year,
we post updates from each of our Featured Artists who continue to do amazing work in their fields.
Let's see what they've been up to!
Click their photos to see the original feature.
we post updates from each of our Featured Artists who continue to do amazing work in their fields.
Let's see what they've been up to!
Click their photos to see the original feature.
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January 2022 Featured Artist
VIKY GARDEN Multidisciplinary Artist 
Photo: Selfie
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New Series: Ancestral Roses
Ancestral Roses 2
Acrylic & Antique Wallpaper on Canvas 60 x 95 cm © Viky Garden "Over 120 years ago, these remnants of rose bouquets were brand new wallpaper in an Auckland villa – very possibly chosen by the woman for whom the house was built. Successive tenants covered over the walls, but recently, the paper re-emerged as the villa was renovated. By rescuing some of this paper and including it in my work, she and I have effectively collaborated on the Ancestral Roses paintings." ~ Viky Garden
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February 2022 Featured Artist
Queen Sheena Tennessee-Based Singer-Songwriter 
Photo Credit: Lester Booth
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Since her appearance in Sanctuary in February, Queen Sheena released her new single "Step Right Out" in the summer.
Find the official lyric video from Queen Sheena's YouTube channel. Queen Sheena's fans (a.k.a. her Crowns) can purchase merchandise and other items from her PRODUCTS PAGE. "My biggest passion is writing songs. I’m hoping to write for films and TV. I want my music to be everywhere whether I’m singing or not." ~ Queen Sheena |
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March 2022 Featured Artist
CAROLE KUNSTADT New York-Based Mixed Media Artist 
Portrait Collaboration Credit:
Carole Kunstadt & Kevin Kunstadt |
Carole's "Pressing On No. 8" won the Florence & Irwin Zlowe Memorial Medal of Honor Award at NAWA's 133rd Annual Members Exhibition.
Birds of a Feather 2:
Abstract Tapestry KuBe Art Center 211 Fishkill Avenue Beacon, NY November 4 - December 31, 2022 Carole's "Markings No. 51" & "Markings No. 60" are included.
Welcome Home Group Exhibition
Mo Jo Supermarket 29 Norman Ave Brooklyn, NY Now through December 30, 2022 Open 5 - 10 p.m. ~ Wednesday, Friday Included: Carole's PRESSING ON installation incorporating a vintage ironing board and antique sad irons. |
APRIL 2022 Featured Artist
IVONNE FERNANDEZ y GONZALEZ German-Spanish Multidisciplinary Artist 
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Ivonne is currently exhibiting her two works "Broken City II" and "Burning Nature" at the annual exhibition of the BBK Gallery in Würzburg.
Updated virtual exhibition on Artsteps: "Das Draussen" /"The Outside," a partly interactive artistic reflection on the current situation of the world and human mortality. Ivonne has been working with craft techniques and restoring an old doll's house to turn it into a miniature art gallery, which will be exhibited in Aschaffenburg from late December to early '23. Ivonne completed her training as an accessibility scout and now advises companies and institutions with a focus on accessibility to culture (e.g. a theatre on accessibility and invisible disabilities). New happenings with NeuroDivers e.V.: a free parent-child play meeting for autistic children with their caregivers every month.
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May 2022 Featured Artist
PATRICIA WATWOOD Acclaimed Figurative Artist 
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Patricia's book The Path of Drawing (Monacelli Press) was released in November. This book guides readers to cultivate a creative habit, learn skills in realistic drawing, and develop confidence in one’s individual voice.
Readers can find an exclusive excerpt of Patricia's book by clicking the cover below. 
December 14, 2022
The Path of Drawing Talk and Book Signing: Salmagundi Club The Path of Drawing Exhibit: Salmagundi Club Thomas Moran Gallery |
July 2022 Featured Artist
ALEX FERRONE Commercial Fine Art & Aerial Photographer 
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Alex's Open Studio
"Aerial and Land Observations" Open to the Public through December 2022. The Barn Alex Ferrone Gallery 25425 Main Road Cutchogue, NY 
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Sept. 2022 Featured Artist
KIM WOZENCRAFT Award-Winning Author 
Photo Credit: Dash Stratton
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Kim is presently at work developing a television series with former prisoner Kerry Max Cook. Cook, who spent 20 years on Texas Death Row after being falsely accused and convicted of murder, has been fighting to clear his name since winning his release from Death Row in 2016.
Kim’s bestselling first novel, Rush, was based on her experiences with the Tyler, Texas Police Department, the same department that arrested Cook for murder barely two years before Kim went to work there. An exclusive excerpt of Kim's latest novel, Neglect, was published earlier this year in Sanctuary. |
October 2022 Featured Artist
BECCA STEVENS Grammy-Nominated Singer-Songwriter 
Photo Credit: Yoel Levy
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2023 Grammy Nomination:
Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals (alongside her husband, Nathan Schram, of the Attacca Quartet) for “2 + 2 = 5,” a track on the Becca Stevens and Attacca Quartet album released in March. This is Becca's second nomination. Becca's Upcoming Performances:
Miami Beach Bandshell Miami Beach, FL February 3, 2023 Find more upcoming tour dates. |
JUNE 2022: CELEBRATING THE MEN IN OUR LIVES
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THOMAS CALE
New York-Based Abstract Artist 
Rhinebeck Fine Art Show
Gallery 40 Poughkeepsie, NY Opening: Saturday February 4 ~ 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Show runs through February '23. Thomas is represented by: TWO TWO Gallery Las Vegas, Nevada Museum Editions New York City
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JEFFREY FRIEDKIN
New York-Based Photographer 
Jeffrey's photo “On the Town” was selected as Best in Show as well as
1st Place for Photography in the 2022 Open Art Exhibition and Competition at The Light Space & Time Art Gallery. The gallery received 635 entries from 25 countries as well as 29 states and the District of Columbia in the U.S. 
Jeffrey received the prestigious Alphaeus P. Cole Memorial Award for Photography for "On the Waterfront" at the 138th Annual Members Exhibition for the Salmagundi Club in New York City.
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DAN GOLDMAN
Photographer & Founder of Loma Kachi 
In August, Dan was a guest on:
"Correct Me if I'm Norm" (Radio Free Rhinecliff) He continues to show his work in exhibitions. Find posts of future exhibitions and other news from Dan's Instagram Page. |
FRANC PALAIA
Multidisciplinary Artist 
On Labor Day Weekend, Franc participated in the
Northern Dutchess Studio Tour. Also in September, Franc's mural works were celebrated as part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble, an annual event series that celebrates the history, culture and natural resources of the Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, as well as the amazing landscape, communities, and trails throughout the region. This year, Franc led the walking tour of public art in Poughkeepsie, NY. |
