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Casa del Arte

(Photo by Marlis Momber)

-Roz Balkin

-Sarah Beams

-Alicia Belo
-Shash Broxson
-Amanda Buhler
-Alan Carey

-Marty Carey

-Susan Carey

-Carl

-Mercedes Cecilia

-Vicki Chesler

-Elena Davicino

-Mary Anne Erickson

-John Ernst
-Marsha Fleisher

-Ana Laura Gonzalez

-Lola Kalman

-Elliott Landy

-Gay Leonhardt

-Sean Lucas
-Jeffrey Milstein

-Meadow

-Basha Ruth Nelson
-Evelyne Pouget
-Elisa Pritzker
-Braddy Romero Ricalde

-Linda Richichi
-Dahlia Rissman
-Garry Rissman
-Randall Rissman
-Marsha Rubinstein
-Nanette Shapiro
-Julia Santos Solomon

-Gabe Zimmer

“Lilacs”            oil on canvas

“Wisteria View”        oil on canvas

 “Skytop from ‘Osio’”     oil on canvas   

 “Mary Anna’s Studio”     oil on canvas   

John Ernst 

"It's very hard to be a painter."      

                                         John G. Ernst
                                         1920 - 1995

     Born in Brazil, little is known about John Ernst until his years performing as an acrobatic clown and trapeze artist for the Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus during the late 1930's. It is written that he performed with Burt Lancaster as part of a two man acrobatic team. Drafted during the second World War, he served three years overseas. Arriving in Woodstock in 1947, he attended the Art Students League under the G.I. Bill. Here he studied with Fletcher Martin, and met his future wife, the poet Pearl Bond, while she was modeling there.

Exhibiting often during his lifetime he was involved and participated in many shows including:

Gallery East, New York City, November 1953
Neil Lovisco Gallery, New York City
The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, in several shows throughout the 1950's
Albany Institute of History and Art, 1965-1966
Provincetown, Cape Cod art Show, 1965-1967
Bard College, 1967
Berkshire Art Association, July 1980

Ana has been involved in photography for over 25 years.  Mainly self-taught, she uses the camera as a tool to portray the world as it can still be found in some corners of the planet.

A love for the natural world, its wild creatures and spaces, has taken Ana to Africa on four separate occasions.  There, she captured on film the day-to-day activities of numerous species of animals living free and unrestrained.  Closer to home, she finds spectacular images in her travels throughout the United States and Canada. 

Ana was a Polaroid/Daylab Creative Use Consultant and conducts workshops on the Polaroid Emulsion and Image Transfer, both for children and for adults.  

Ana won the Phillip Isenberg Memorial Award, 1^st prize in photography at the Fall 2000 Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, and 2^nd prize in photography at the Summer 2002 Housatonic Art League Art Show.

Leaf Sculpture at Wilson

Gay Leonhardt

Working in assemblage, watercolor, photography, and digital art Gay Leonhardt has had solo shows since 1980 in galleries in the Woodstock, N.Y. area including The Kleinert Gallery (two shows), The Women’s Studio Workshop, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock (two shows).

Beginning in 1983 with "Waiting On Godot" Leonhardt has published artist’s books including two texts with Boss Books: "My Laundry and My Life or My Life in My Laundry" (93) and "This Year’s Summation" (95). She often incorporates words in her primarily visual art and visuals in her written material.

She has pursued an art career outside of the marketplace through installation and guerilla art. Initially, she co-founded The Floating Gallery, which mounted shows in supermarkets, storefronts, and other public arenas. She later installed "This Year’s Summation" in restaurant bathrooms next to paper towel holders.

In 2005 she installed “snow fence art” comprised of bits of painted snow fencing at various beaches in Amagansett and Montauk, NY. Her generalist approach has included numerous collaborations. In theater with Sigrid Heath in 1996 Leonhardt created seven foot charcoal figures that became the characters for a play. In 1997-98 she collaborated with Richard Edelman to shoot and manipulate a series of photographs which were shown at The Kleinert, the SUNY/Westchester Gallery, in The Digital Salon at The School of Visual Arts in New York, and the Circule De Bellas Artes, Madrid. In 2004 she collaborated with Nancy Rullo, a poet, to create images and texts that were presented at The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

In 2007 she had a solo show at Donskoj & Co in Kingston, NY of artists's books and framed images from the books.

In recent years Leonhardt has focused on artist’s books and digital art. She has two grown children and lives in Woodstock, NY.

"Portrait of                       8" x 13"         charcoal and pastel        December2007     
Lindsay Duvernoy"                                on paper

Sean Lucas

Sean Lucas Willett is a self-taught Hudson
Valley painter. 

He is primarily interested in building
objective forms through fortuitous,
subconscious creation.

His work is highly process-driven and is
tied into the relationship of different
two-dimensional media; impasto
technique, iridescences and sometimes
found-objects are incorporated. It is a
marriage of illusion and the psychology of
material and color with oblique reference
to natural material and form.

Meadow

Road to Somewhere

Fall in the Hudson Valley is truly magnificent. Any forest road will take my breath away and keep my brush going.

20" x 16"

Oil on Canvas

Evelyne Pouget

Evelyne Pouget began painting in 1992, inspired by the words of her beloved teacher Baba Muktananda, who used to call her "the Painter" years before Evelyne had ever picked up a brush or even considered painting. One day, while living in Stone Ridge , NY, she followed her instinct and painted a portrait of her master. She and others were astounded by the beauty of that painting and its remarkable likeness to Muktananda considering that she had never painted before.

Born in Paris, Evelyne traveled the world following her quest for culture and beauty. Her appreciation for art started when she lived in Rome, Italy then in NYC where she owned a graphic design studio for 20 years. Evelyne moved to Woodstock 15 years ago with her family. "I love this area, the quality of light, the lush vegetation, the mountains and the fields," Evelyne says. "Everywhere I look , it is so inspiring." Evelyne had 5 solo shows since 1999 and is a member of the Woodstock Artist association.

 Elisa Pritzker

Elisa is an American artist born in Argentina.  She has presented her work and curated across the globe, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Everyday thoughts, feelings, political, psychological and metaphysical inspirations

are the components of her mixed techniques art. She reflects on the human condition, politics, war and peace, love, money, life and death.

  Braddy Romero Ricalde

Braddy is a Peruvian paintor who resides in Cusco. His work has been displayed within Latin America as well as here, in the United States. 

   Linda Richichi

Linda Richichi has been honored by the International Plein Air Painters (I.P.A.P.) organization.

"For me, painting is a pilgrimage — a journey into the mystery of creation and, through that sacred path, ultimately a journey into the deepest reaches of my soul. If in my painting I am successful in reaching my goal, then I see it as a bridge into you.  

           Whether I am painting in the breathtaking Hudson Valley, near Tuscan castles, or on a sun-drenched beach in Maui, my intent is to capture the underlying brilliance — the spiritual energy — that underlies all of nature. At this point of my development, painting en plein air, absorbed into nature’s grand silence of communication, with all of my senses acting as ready receptors to whatever might be presented to me, seems to most further my mission of discovery. 

With intuition leading the way, I avoid focusing on details to allow for a total immersion of self into the “greater” self that surrounds me. Slowly, the world of form and color merges and shifts, separates and impresses, the whole dissolving into an insistent mood of pure energy. It is this distillation of both what is seen and not seen that I attempt to capture on my canvas. When a mixture of color and form resonates in my being, when I feel that I am at one with nature and that my painting is reflecting that union, then I feel a sense of spiritual awakening. The magic is there and the painting is complete.

 In the end, it is my hope that through my painting I have passed along a bit of the mystery to you which expands your view or our world."

 Dock on the Hudson, Brass Anchor Marina

 - pastel 

 Randall Rissman

Randall Rissman is a family doctor in Woodstock, NY who enjoys capturing his visions of nature on film.  Despite his color-blindness his photos are amazingly bright and vivid and printed in color.  He shoots flowers, plants, water reflections, and any other wonder of nature that catches his eye. 

Julia Santos Solomon

I am restless and open to evolution.

After spending time in Italy and the Dominican Republic, I moved back to the United States, continued teaching at Parsons and privately and exhibited in group shows of Caribbean artists. I moved to Woodstock, New York in 1996. Living in a community of artists within the natural world, has allowed me to focus on my art in a way previously unencountered.

Gabe Zimmer

Gabe Zimmer graduated from Bard College with a major in photography.  His unique work and creativity captivate his audience.

The Wrestlers, 16 x 20", Archival Pigment Print, 2008