Fine Art
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Each month, the editors select their favorite entries in fine art
(paintings, drawings, sculpture, illustration, etc.). Thanks to all who shared their work. CLICK ON IMAGES to go to the artists' individual pages.
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© Joan Elizabeth Meyer
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Joan Elizabeth Meyer is the May Featured Artist. Joan is a New York City-born-and-based artist who has refined her style and skills for over 40 years. Her paintings are oil on canvas or oil on wood assemblages. They bring surreal images to life in unique colors where her love of nature shines through in depictions of animal and plant life. Joan has an approach that suggests a futuristic scenario which blends the subconscious imagination and dream-like imagery. Now retired from full-time teaching, Joan creates new works at her Chelsea art studio. She continues to exhibit at various New York City institutions, including The National Arts Club. Her work has been recognized in Art in America, Miami Herald, Interview Magazine, Art and Antiques Collector’s Sourcebook, and was most recently featured in Forbes magazine.
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FINE ART 2024
© Bobbi Mastrangelo
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Bobbi Mastrangelo is an artist specializing in relief sculpture, mixed media, and fiber art, including handmade cast paper. She was born Barbara Ann Betschen in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1937. Her work is best known for its themed manhole and water covers, grates and drains. Her art has been exhibited in the U.S. and is included in several museum collections. Bobbi's activities as a community leader in the 1970s and ‘80s, which drew attention to littering, environmental pollution, and water conservation, became themes reflected in her art. Her manhole-themed collages made from handmade paper and sculpture relief works sometimes include street litter bits. Eco-conscious messages also appear in her works.
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© Harriet Livathinos
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Harriet Livathinos is the November Featured Artist. A native Texan, born in Dallas in 1939, she has traveled extensively throughout her career, living and working in Athens, Greece, Dallas, Texas, and throughout the Northeast United States. She received an M.A. in painting and printmaking from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Harriet has furthered her artistic education with coursework at the Art Students League and the Woodstock School of Art. Harriet’s work is in private collections in Greece and at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, as well as in Italy, England, and throughout the United States. She has enjoyed many exhibitions and prestigious awards in and around the Hudson Valley region of New York, East Hampton, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut. She is represented by the Carter Burden Gallery in New York City.
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© Jane Eveshodioni Ugah
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Jane Eveshodioni Ugah is the July Featured Artist. Jane is a Nigerian visual artist from the rocky town of Ososo, Edo State. She holds a BFA from the University of Benin, Benin City. Jane uses nature as an inspiration and aesthetic. She paints surreal personalities embedded with the essence of the natural world. Her works evoke a sense of escape and a reflection on human relationships, cultural-religious mythology, and the ecosystem. She uses acrylic, oils, wax print fabric, and other mediums as a means of expression. The bodies in much of her figurative work are depicted as fragmented rock layers, representing cracks in the human psyche and lines on our skin. Her work exudes a feeling of solitude and tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of city life. She has been featured in many group exhibitions. Jane lives and works in Abuja, Nigeria.
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© Camille Kouyoumdjian
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Camille Kouyoumdjian’s artistic journey is deeply connected to the environment. Growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and along the eastern shore, she developed a deep respect for nature and a keen awareness of how humans affect it. Working as a Master Gardener, beekeeper, and environmental educator brought her close to delicate ecosystems, sparking her desire to create art that celebrates and deepens our relationship with the earth. Being in nature is crucial to her work, helping her connect the chaos of the outside world with her inner emotional responses. The canvas becomes a way to express the beauty and complexity of nature, capturing her feelings and perceptions. Camille has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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© Dawn Lombard
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Dawn Lombard's designs are a testament to her artistic vision, technical prowess, and dedication to craftsmanship. Each piece is infused with a profound understanding of the scientific properties of glass and metal, resulting in jewelry that is as visually striking as it is structurally sound. By merging the ancient art of enameling with cutting-edge metalwork and laser technology, Dawn creates wearable works of art that resonate with individuals seeking both timeless elegance and contemporary sophistication. Her commitment to utilizing 100% recycled copper further underscores her passion for sustainable practices. With every piece she crafts, Dawn invites us into a world where science and art coexist, transcending boundaries and inspiring a sense of wonder and awe.
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© Carole Richard Kaufmann
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Carole Richard Kaufmann is the May Featured Artist. Carole's paintings and drawings reflect her passions for feminism, art and politics as well as the people and landscapes she has discovered along the way, from Europe to China with journeys along the Silk Road, safaris in South Africa, and treks through South America and the Easter Islands, always in search of ‘Ch'i,’ the energy of life. Carole is a founding member and past president of the West Side Arts Coalition (WSAC), which was founded in 1979 by a group of visual and performing artists on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She is also a signature member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and a member of the association’s Board of Directors. Her work is in many private and corporate collections worldwide.
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© Ángeles M. Pomata
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Ángeles M. Pomata is an artist based in Spain. She came to oil painting as a visitor and settled. What lies between is a passion for the materials involved in the creative process and excitement for the expressive possibilities of the painting. As a former clinical psychologist, she has known harshness and hideousness, and she consciously avoids both in her work, instead focusing on beauty, kindness and good. Knowing the healing power of beauty on a frail soul, and even more, on a strong one, she tries to add her bit. Ángeles shares, "I approach every piece as a new attempt to solve a teaser and capture an idea. When I perceive a certain harmony in it, then I’m done."
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Photo Courtesy: Paul Filipkowski
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Kay WalkingStick is an April Featured Artist. She is a proud member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Of Cherokee/Anglo heritage, she is a painter of extraordinary power. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, the Museum of Canada in Ottawa, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC, and many others. Hales Gallery represents her work in New York City and Europe. Among her numerous awards are the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
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© Astrid Lempriere
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Astrid Lempriere is an April Featured Artist. She is an Australian-based visual artist specializing in relief printmaking using linocut to produce works on paper. After making some interesting career choices and multiple worldly adventures, Astrid found her niche as an artist. She immediately took to linocut printmaking, finding the precision of mark making addictive. Starting from a photograph, Astrid spends hours carving away to reveal a mesmerizing interpretation of the original photo. Since starting linocut printing three years ago, Astrid’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions. She won two commendations and judged her first local print exhibition. This feature is part of our "Celebrating Autism Awareness & Acceptance" issue.
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© Sally Beth Edelstein
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Sally Beth Edelstein is the March 2024 Featured Artist. She is an award-winning New York-based collage artist and writer who considers herself a visual archeologist digging deep into American mythology, excavating and examining the social fictions we as a society have subscribed to over the past 70 years. An incurable collector of vintage ephemera, she utilizes imagery found in her collection for her hand-cut collages, drawing heavily on popular culture and how it both informs our identities and fragments it. Through both text and illustration her blog, Envisioning the American Dream, probes the ways that advertising and media steer our perceptions of race, class and gender.
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© Lisa Rivers
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Lisa Gilyard-Rivers is the February 2024 Featured Artist. She is a New York native-born, South Carolina-based artist whose work is influenced by the African Folk style of painting known as Gullah art. Recognized for its vibrancy and distinctive colors, Gullah art explores the culture and life of the people living in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida's Lowcountry, a region located along the southern coast that is deeply rooted in Black history. As owner of the Legacy Art Gallery in Beaufort, South Carolina, she is the first African American woman to own and operate an art gallery on the popular Bay Street. Her art has been featured in prestigious publications, and her work has been included in many exhibitions and in private collections throughout the U.S.
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© Megan Carty
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Megan Carty was born in Portland, Maine, and is an accomplished colorist whose artistry is showcased through her dynamic, gestural abstract expressionist paintings. Her abstract art has been featured by Anthropologie, CBS Sunday Morning, HomeGoods, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, Maine Home & Design Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, to name a few. Her original paintings reside in private collections in both the U.S. and internationally. She has exhibited her work in solo shows and is represented exclusively with Art Space & Design Galleries in Canada.
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FINE ART 2023
© Sonia Stark
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Sonia Stark is the November 2023 Featured Artist. She has always worked in a variety of mediums and styles in acknowledgement of their equal validity and in appreciation of the multi-dimensionality of art. However ostensibly different, her drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures are intricately related, both thematically and aesthetically. Sonia is a signature member of the National Association of Women Artists, an organization where she formerly served as president and member of the Board of Directors. She has exhibited her artwork across the United States and has received numerous awards for her paintings, designs and illustrations.
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© Donna Gabusi
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Donna Gabusi is a Long Island, New York- based fine artist who has been creating art for 30 years. Her work includes portraits, still life, landscapes, and waterscapes, and she is particularly drawn to the expressive nature of the human face, animals, and the reflective nature of water and other objects. Donna sometimes paints on fabric covered matboard, instead of canvas, to enhance texture. Donna has exhibited at galleries, cafes and libraries throughout Long Island, New York. She often sells her work through word of mouth and is available for commissions.
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© Jill Cliffer Baratta
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Jill Cliffer Baratta, MFA, NAWA, is a printmaker/work on paper artist, and currently the Executive Director of the National Association of Women Artists, Inc. Her work has evolved from academic studies at a young age, to employment as a graphic designer/artist, to a fine artist focused on watercolor, printmaking, and collage works on paper. Focusing on facilitating art for others, her work has varied in style and format. She has created series on baseball, music, and other ranging themes, including her Omen series, and Adulation series, using printmaking techniques of linocut, woodcut, intaglio, photo transfer, and layered combinations. Mentors include Dorothy Cochran, Denise Collins, Basil King, Penny Dell, Christine Ferreira, and Tom Pollock.
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© Karen Loew
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Special Father's Day Tribute to a Holocaust Survivor: Artwork by Karen Loew. Karen is a long-standing artist member of the Salmagundi Club and serves on the Board of Directors. The club, located in Manhattan, is one of the oldest art clubs in the United States. As the first woman committee chair of the Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP), she has led the committee since 2001 and was recently honored with Emeritus status. She is the liaison between Salmagundi, the program sponsor, and the United States Coast Guard. The tribute painting is of Moshe Meisler (1924 - 2020).
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© Elaine Franz Witten
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Elaine Franz Witten is the May 2023 Featured Artist. She is a multi-award-winning, classically trained sculptor. Hallmarks of her bronzes are beautiful form, illusion of movement, creative use of negative space, and use of indigenous stone bases. Elaine’s art has been exhibited in over 150 national and international exhibitions as well as museums and reginal solo shows. Her bronzes are in public and private collections in the United States, Canada, and in the private collection of the former King of Saudi Arabia. In 2013, she became a purveyor of sculpture to the U.S. State Department for use as Presidential gifts by President Obama. Elaine is a signature member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA).
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© Syd Hap
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Syd Hap is a mixed-media artist and doll maker. She holds a master’s degree in art therapy from New York University and is certified in positive psychology from Whole Being Institute. She has post-graduate training in the fields of trauma and addiction. In the 1970s and 1980s, she focused on her skills as a doll and puppet maker. As the official sculptor of Betty Boop products for King Features, she became a master sculptor for the Danbury Mint in Norwalk, Connecticut. Syd believes that art making is healing and supports personal growth, so throughout her decades-long professional career, she made time to facilitate workshops and classes that help her clients make positive and lasting changes in their lives.
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Photo Courtesy: April Dawn Griffin
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April Dawn Griffin is the April 2023 Featured Artist. She started painting at age eight, and her passion for this medium blossomed for decades. April is an autistic artist with deteriorating eyesight. However, she shares, “It weirdly doesn’t stop me from painting." Her metal work speaks to synergy in the forest. She used her paintings on metal – particularly her work on large saw blades – to draw attention to potential clear-cut logging. April appeared in the film CONNECTED: A Film About Autistic People, which provides a heartwarming look into the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum as they gather for the International Naturally Autistic People Awards in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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© Natalia Koren Kropf
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Natalia Koren Kropf is a classically trained interdisciplinary, award-winning contemporary artist who combines art and science in various studio media. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia into a family of artists, Natalia studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from a very young age. Upon family relocation to New York in 1992, she embraced its contemporary art scene. Natalia has won several national awards and her work is exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Allied Artists of America, the Art Students League of New York, and the Monotype Guild of New England. She is former President of the National Association of Women Artists (2019-21) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors.
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