Joan Max Reinmuth
185 Houtman Rd.
“Wearable art by Joan Max Reinmuth. Up-cycled rubber tubing, buttons, and other intriguing urban materials some with graffiti technique, some with conventional construction, and all related to the streets where art travels.”
Tad Richard
Opus 40
50 Fite Rd.
www.tadrichards.com
“Prints made from original painting/drawing using MS Paint/Photoshop with mouse on computer and ArtStudio with finger on iPad. I work in three distinct styles on computer: black and white woodcut-like images, sampled color sketches, and pointillism. Recently on the iPad I’ve been doing nudes and portraits, chiefly of jazz musicians. I use deliberately these techniques with not much technical sophistication or digital manipulation — simply because I like the relation I get to the image. Also, no brushes to clean.”
Jeff Schiller
437 Fishcreek Rd.
www.jeffrey-schiller.com
“In my work, I attempt to stay as spontaneous as possible while leaving very little to chance. Direct metal (i.e. welding and forging) is the technique that allows me this freedom. Natural forms, including the human figure in dance, are my main concerns. The quest is not to emulate a particular form, but to reach for the essence in ‘perfect’ (or not so perfect) spatial relationships. Although the work may appear ‘rough-hewn’ there is an almost religious need to stay true to its language. A language that has been developed over a lifetime, first in painting and now in sculpture.”
Istar Schwager
1247 Church Rd.
www.istarart.com
“My recent collage and multimedia work continues to explore color and form. I often transform materials that we would otherwise overlook by putting them in a new context, and have created original series of work based on specific visual and conceptual challenges. My work is inspired by an eclectic list of artistic ‘gurus,’ including Matisse, Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, the ancient Cycladic sculptors, Ray Johnson, Pia Alexander and the designer Josef Frank. I graduated from Barnard with a degree in art history, and studied painting at the Art Students League, and at Parsons with Jacob Lawrence. My life as an educational psychologist-writer influences my ways of seeing, and I integrate a playful and experimental perspective into my art. My work has been exhibited locally at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, the Kleinert, The Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia, in New York City, and is in some private collections.”
Prue See
38 Valley St. (Access Burt St.)
www.prudencesee.net
“I paint places, and my best paintings are of places I love. Places with deep historic roots are my favorites. Brought up in England in a family whose every move was historically referenced, inevitably I find ways to connect with the past in my paintings. Old buildings for me not only offer wonderful bold blocks and lines within the fluidity of landscape, but they also enshrine memory, suggest story. My architect father took us sketching as children. We braved frequent English showers to render watercolors in our sketchbooks, of mellow Cotswold stone villages in hollows in the hills, and lonely, gray stone farms under the high moors. Evocative places in Vermont; Saugerties and Cornwall, England have been the subjects for some of my solo shows in this area. I studied at the Ruskin School in Oxford, England and Chelsea Art School in London, but before that my mother, an artist herself, gave me my first oil painting lessons. I still use oil paints but the newly developed water-based oils are my medium of choice.”
Viorica Stan
100 High Woods Rd.
www.100studios.yolasite.com
Viorica Stan was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She started taking photographs while in high school at the age of 15 and she has been doing it ever since. She immigrated to the U.S. at the end of 1980 and studied at NYU in the Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in photography. She has worked as an editorial photographer for various newspapers and has been published in numerous magazines in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard. Her work has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, Tompkins Square Gallery, The Bronfman Center, New York University Gallery to mention a few. Viorica is a recipient of Westmoreland Art Nationals/ Black and White Award and the Seth Tobias Award.
Raymond J. Steiner
16 Fite Rd.
www.raymondjsteiner.com
“I’ve been painting landscape for some years and my method has primarily been to paint on site and, in an effort to capture a spontaneous impression, to confine myself almost exclusively to the use of the palette knife.”
Raymond is a member of the American Society of Aesthetics, The Salmagundi Club, the Hudson Valley Artists Association, Artist Fellowship, Inc., Woodstock Artists Association Museum and the International Association of Art Critics. He has had his work shown in numerous exhibits throughout New York City and the Hudson Valley region.
Fay Wood
123 Market St.
www.faywoodstudio.com
The Clove Church Studio has moved to the village of Saugerties. The Fay Wood Studio “at the Magnolia on Market,” offers oil paintings, reverse painting on glass, drawings, and the Sculpture Studio with Wood’s award-winning Found Object Assemblage. Wood can inspire visitors to think in a special way about the making of art. She shows her “intense, spirited, far-sighted, inventive, startling, ingeniously whimsical” (comments by Raymond J. Steiner for the Art Times Journal) artwork for sale, as well as offering workshops and consultation in a variety of mediums. In addition to being open during the Artist Tour, Fay’s studio is open Sundays, 12-4 p.m., May–December, and by appointment.
Carol Zaloom
302 High Falls Rd.
www.carolzaloom.com
Carol Zaloom, illustrator, makes hand-colored linoleum prints. Her client list includes Random House, David Godine, HarperCollins, Tower Records, Hampton-Brown, Yankee Magazine, Sky & Telescope, the State University of New York, Bard College, the New York City Parks Department, and many artists and arts organizations throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. Her studio is situated in a stone-and-timber house built by an Irish quarryman in 1852; in the 1930s, it was home to Saxton Fells Art School, owned by A. A. Champagnier, a WPA muralist, and in 2008 it received historic landmark status from the town of Saugerties. Among Carol’s prints available for sale are depictions of mythological creatures, Japanese fairy-tale motifs, portraits of great writers, landscapes, and studies of birds and animals (including work inspired by the Paleolithic painters of prehistoric Europe). Also on display and for sale are painted baseballs depicting mythical and literary themes; several such illustrated balls have been commissioned by Tim Wiles, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
