Richard Edelman
151 Market St.
ulsterpub.staging.wpenginegraphicsstudio.com
“These photographs reveal transitional moments. By combining the actions of a live model, and the impressions formed on a pinscreen, they exist on the threshold of portraiture. The pinscreen is a tactile device that translates touch into visual effects. The portrait, in these photographs, obscures facial expressions. Subjects reveal themselves only with flowing body movements, which may be more telling and interpretative than a traditional portrait. The beauty of making photographs in this manner is that each session becomes a performance. The impressions that linger, as the model moves along the screen, are a whisper of the pose held moments ago, while light plays on the subject and the luminescent pins.”
Ruth Edwy
58 Phillips Rd.
www.ruthedwy.com
“My current work is playful lyrical paintings incorporating soft-edged geometric forms, lines and circles. In the end, what defines all of my artwork is my love affair with light. I feel that without light there would be no color, no sense of space and no mystery of life. What moves me are simply light, color and the profound beauty of the landscape.”
Robert George
67 Main St.
www.robertgeorge.org
“My sculpture is focused on the human figure. Using models but continually implanting emotion, gesture and a personal manneristic approach. Working in clay to be fired in the kiln or casting bronze in the foundry, the result is always a vision of Robert George.”
Mikhail Horowitz
302 High Falls Rd.
Primarily known as a poet and performance artist, Mikhail Horowitz is also a maker of collages, monoprints and assemblages. His collages have been published in Exquisite Corpse, City Lights Journal, Jewish Currents, Chronogram, and other journals, periodicals, and anthologies, and have graced (if that is indeed the proper word) many book and magazine covers. Ongoing works include colored leaf prints that are run, when dry, through an antique typewriter and imprinted with short poems; Zen bento boxes; freestanding animal cutouts; a collection of mythopoetically altered baseball cards; boxes of Animal Crackers that pay homage to extinct creatures; and broadsides made in collaboration with Carol Zaloom, with whom he shares an 1852 Irish quarryman’s house on 23 acres of woodlands just north of the village of Saugerties.
Jemerick Art Pottery
Steve Frederick and Cherie Jemsek
21 Wild Wind Ct.
www.jemerickartpottery.com
Steve Frederick and Cherie Jemsek have been making pots since 1973. The continuing thread for these artists is a strong connection to the earth and its natural beauty. Steve’s work reflects an abstract, mathematical appreciation of natural forms and surface design. Cherie presents a figurative interpretation of the cycle of life. Although they have worked in many different styles together and apart throughout 35 years, their current work is inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement of 1890-1910. Visitors will get to see the artists at work.
Marsha Kaufman-Rubinstein
6 High Woods Rd.
www.mkrubinstein.com
“My wheel-thrown, hand-painted and etched porcelain pottery is inspired by nature with colorful landscapes and floral themes: lamps casseroles, tea pots, dinnerware items and bowls. I have new hand-built pieces with similar motifs. The gardens have been featured on local garden tours and visitors are welcome to stroll the grounds. My studio is open year-round by appointment and classes are available for children and adults. This is my 11th year participating in the Saugerties Artists Tour.”
Polly M. Law
Showing at 302 Old Rt. 32
www.buttonwoodart.com
“My work is intriguing, charming, bricolage pieces, my ‘paper dolls with deep personal issues,’ that explore the figure — human or un — and nature. Betsey McCall, these ain’t. The pieces in my recent series of works: ‘What the Tide Brings,’ ‘Esopus Mystics’ and ‘Rude Mechanicals,’ incorporate materials from the natural — the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hudson Valley — and the man-made worlds respectively. I am honored to have been chosen as the November 2014 artist-in-residence at the Grand Canyon National Park. I am looking forward to working with new materials and drawing on the creation stories of the local peoples for inspiration.”
Yvette Lewis
463 Fishcreek Rd.
“My work is sensual, organic and emotional. The abstract free-floating objects seemingly exist in a world that is almost natural. Color is a soft palette of greens and blues with intense areas of contrast, reds, oranges and pinks. The compositions welcome the viewer but also push back almost, saying wait, not yet.”
