Lauren Bergman
Through a language of culturally specific symbols Lauren Bergman’s paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Her paintings reside at the juncture of myth and social realism, probing the loss of societal optimism, the ongoing irresolution of feminist issues, and question the imminent future of a threatened and fragile planet. The work courts irony as her playful imagery and inner narratives confront the conflicting expectations of contemporary culture and the intricate ways in which we, as women, form our identities.

Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art courses at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York, and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York.

Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League.

Lauren now lives and paints in a barn in Saugerties, NY.

Lucille Colin
Lucille colin born 1947 Brooklyn NY
Recidencies YADDO VCCA Konstepidemin Sweden
Artist in Residence Dept Averyon France
Artist in Residence Citidad Colon Costa Rica
Collections Estate of Louise Fishman Galleria National Costa Rica
Islip Art Museum French Minister of Culture Dept Averyon
Selected Solo Shows WAAM 2001, 2016 Gallery St Catherine Rodez, France
Ann Harper Gallery Amagansett NY Galleria National Costa Rica
Selected Group Shows Sideshow Williamsbrg Brooklyn Islip Art Museum
Postmasters Gallery NYC – The Show about The War
Jack Light Gallery – Lower East Side NYC
The Church Sag Harbor NY Ukraine Benefit curator April Gornik

Janet Dow
I have had an enjoyment and affinity for drawing and painting since childhood. My adult education was in the Fine Arts Department at Indiana University, South Bend campus. My work has been shown at galleries in Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas and Nevis, West Indies. I have lived in the Hudson Valley for the past twenty years, and have been in exhibitions locally at Art Bar, A.S.K., Jane Street Gallery, Lace Mill, Roost, W.A.A.M. And W.S.A.

Kristin Flynn
My narrative paintings spring from a love for the overgrown fields, woods, wetlands and lakes of the Adirondacks where I grew up hiking and exploring. Currently I have an off- the -grid cabin on the edge of a field in the North Country. I create painted narratives that reflect my concern with climate change in both the landscape and native populations of birds and amphibians.

I earned a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, an A.A.S. in Textiles from Rochester Institute of Technology, and studied painting at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.

I have exhibited my work in numerous group and solo shows including Cheryl McGinnis Gallery ( New York, NY); Stone Ridge Center for the Arts (Stone Ridge, NY); Jane Street Gallery (Saugerties, NY); Studio 89, (Highland NY); Brick Gallery, (Catskill NY); Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, (Kingston, NY); Bard College, (Annandale on Hudson, NY).

Residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Johnson Vermont, Jentel in Sheridan, Wyoming and the Platte Clove A.I.R. in Arkville, New York.

An extensive career in the fashion industry primarily as an apparel designer at Nike in Portland, Oregon was followed by creating and directing a fashion design degree program at SUNY Ulster Community College.

Jennifer Hicks
Jennifer Hicks was born in Lawrenceville, NJ. She received her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University (2006), her Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1996), and BFA from Tufts University (1984). Additionally, Ms. Hicks won the prestigious Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University (1996).

She has exhibited and performed widely in such prominent settings as The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Tsai Performance Center, Mobius, The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Bromfield Gallery Boston, CRASHarts Boston, CAVE NYC, The Boulder Fringe Festival, The Boulder Butoh Festival, The San Francisco Butoh Festival, New Orleans Fringe Festival, Artisterium Tbilisi, Movement Research at Judson Church, Club Helsinki, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Oberon, Naropa University, and participated in collaborations with Liars & Believers, a Cambridge-based theater company. She was a long-time member of Mobius (1996-2006), the longest-running performance art collective in the US, based in Boston. Ms. Hicks is also an alumna of Franklin Furnace, a nonprofit organization that annually awards grants to early-career artists.

Amy Husten
Amy Husten has primarily been working avocationally in clay for the past 50 years. While living in Spain in the late 1990’s, her work was featured in a solo show at the Bearn Gallery in Palma de Mallorca. The last couple of years she has developed an unexpected surge of interest in figure drawing and is now currently experimenting with melding the two disciples together. Amy has a B.A. in Art History and a B.F.A. in printmaking from Cornell University. She also holds an M.B.A. from Tulane University.

Amy lives with her husband, Jim Haskin, in Red Hook , NY.

David Klein
For 45 years David G Klein has worked for leading Newspapers, Magazines, and book publishers. Clients include NYT and the Wall Street Journal. Books he’s illustrated include the
Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, the Short Stories of Mark Twain, and Sword of Shannara. David is the co-author of the Paper Shtetl: A cutout and assemble model of an eastern European Jewish town. David worked in comics for Marvel and DC with characters like Spiderman and Batman.

He is the author of his own graphic novel The Golem’s Voice.

He is a co-founder of Point Made Animation, creating animated explainer videos for
marketing, professional development, and education.

Three Strikes Press published Brooklyn Rescued Bestiary, a fine art book, hand printed and bound with David’s hand-engraved illustrations, celebrating Sean Casey Animal Rescue.

David is one of the founding members of INX Newspaper Editorial Illustration Syndicate and their publishing arm, NOW WHAT MEDIA. His work was prominent in their 20 year retrospective FEVER LINES in 2001. http://www.inxart.com/inx/inxsju.html. The FEVER LINES exhibit traveled throughout the U.S. Canada and Europe.

David Klein’s book The Golem’s Voice was a part of the SERIATIM exhibit presented by the Department of Fine Arts, St John’s University 2007.

He was one of six artists featured in VISIONS: The Personal Images of Contemporary Illustrators. at Grace Institute 2011
Also: Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #21-1979,
Society of Newspaper Designers Gold Award of Illustration 1980
Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #42 – 2000

Debra Priestly
Debra Priestly is a visual artist exploring themes of memory, ancestry, history, and cultural preservation. Her multidisciplinary work, incorporating drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and sound, has been widely exhibited and is represented by June Kelly Gallery in New York City. Recently, her work appeared in three solo exhibitions: black, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY; movements, Headstone Gallery, Kingston, NY; and 2nd movement, June Kelly Gallery, New York City, and several group exhibitions, including “A Sense of Place: The New Hudson River School”, an inaugural exhibition at TRANSART’s the Gallery @107, Kingston, NY and “A View from the Mountaintop” a year-long exhibition at 45 Rock, New York, NY, sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts and Rockefeller Corporate Management. Collections include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Sandor Family Collection, and the Petrucci Family Collection Foundation. Awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Painting, Art Omi Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe’s The Space Program Residency, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project Fellowship. She holds an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from The Ohio State University. Priestly lives and works in New York City and Upstate New York and is a Professor in the Art Department at Queens College, City University of New York.

Alexander Rupert
Grew up in Greenwich Village in an acting family without the performance gene. Learned I had an aptitude for visual art and pursued that at the High School of Art & Design followed by Parsons School of Design where I earned a BFA. Since then attended School of Visual Arts, Studio School, Spring Street Studio and Art Students League. Honestly, I never want to stop learning.

Steven Rushefsky

I live in the Hudson Valley. I studied art at Binghamton University.

My focus is drawing on paper. Printmaking added a sense of layering within my drawings and working in clay added a sense of texture to my drawings. I love drawing because it is intimate, informal and can retain traces of the steps used to create the drawing.
I participate in several group exhibitions each year nationwide (recently in Norfolk, VA and the NY Hudson Valley) and have had solo exhibitions in Watchung and Montclair New Jersey.
Chris Seubert

A contemporary draftsman, painter, printmaker and educator who works from observation and memory describing light and how it creates volume, form and life.

Has participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dahesh Museum in Manhattan and appeared in American Artist Magazine. Art Renewal Center 2nd International Salon, 2005 Finalist, permanently on view at artrenewal.org. Actively exhibits locally in one man and group shows and featured in the emerging artist exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. Guest Lecturer at Historic Wheeling West Virginia, 2014 en plein air painting workshop. Exhibited watercolors, oils, drawings and prints at the Stone Ridge Library as their Fall Artist. Director and participant of the High Falls 350th En Plein Air Paint Out in the Hamlet of High Falls sponsored by the High Falls Conservancy. Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Fine Art/Visual Arts program at SUNY Ulster Community College. Recipient of SUNY’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015 and 2 Title III Mini Grants for program development in the Fine Arts Department.

Had residencies at the Prince of Wales Foundation in collaboration with the Prince of Wales Drawing Institute and with the kind benefaction of Trustee Christopher Forbes, at the Château de Balleroy in Normandy, France in 2000 and Plat Clove in 2017.

Joanne Pagano Weber
Joanne Pagano Weber is a visual artist, writer, performer, and educator. She is a native New Yorker who has exhibited throughout the tri-state area and at NY spaces such as The National Academy of Design, Tribes Gallery, ABC No Rio, Kenkelba Gallery, Tompkins Square Library Gallery, and at Art 101, Brooklyn. She has contributed cover art for numerous anthologies and publications. She has had a long collaboration with artist Janice Mauro on cross-disciplinary installations, such as Beware of the Year 7000, which include text and combine humor and social critique concerning the ramifications of global warming.

She created the first of many sets for the Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, establishing thematic set design as an integral part of the yearly East Village event instituted by then boyfriend, now husband, Bruce Weber. Joanne was involved in “The Alternative’s” evolution from the start as a performer, graphic designer, and organizer. She and Bruce have begun a new Extravaganza tradition upstate in Ulster County since relocating to Saugerties, NY in 2018, and they co-curate Dialogues for the Ear and Eye, a cross-disciplinary salon for the arts.

As a visual artist and playwright, Joanne is an avid member of Shout Out Saugerties, a vibrant town arts organization that spans all creative disciplines, and includes activism. She had a long career as a textile designer in NY and has recently retired from her second career as an adjunct professor of Studio Art and Art History.