Meredith Mallwitz
The series of landscape paintings featured in the CULTIVATE exhibition is about the simple, unassuming beauty of the relationship between a horizon line, the light of an expansive sky and the changing mood of the day. When I see a landscape that inspires me it can be because of the glow of the light coming through the clouds that […]
Richard Harvey
Richard’s artwork is on view in our juried exhibition “Small Works 2016”. ARTIST STATEMENT: As a figurative artist, I explore the psychological and emotive potential of the human face and figure in a contemporary expressionistic style. My work diversifies across a broad range of two and three-dimensional media including digital and mixed media collage, encaustic painting, digital […]
Dennis Revitzky
Born and raised in northwestern Pennsylvania, I graduated from Gannon and Mercyhurst Colleges with a degree in art education in 1969. I did graduate study in Fine Arts at SUNY Brockport and taught art for 33 years, most of that time in the Livonia, NY school district. Along with teaching I was also a professional […]
Phyllis Bryce Ely: A Landscape Revisited
A Landscape Revisited: Onaping Falls, Canada For this “Fifty Landscapes” blog I’ve chosen to share my experience painting “Onaping Falls, Canada” included in this exhibit. This oil painting is an example of how I often paint landscapes multiple times, first en plein air and then again in the studio using my plein air works, sketches, […]
Kari Ganoung Ruiz: Small Bits
I’m back! Thank you Main Street Arts for inviting me to offer my thoughts in another blog entry; this one corresponding with the opening of the Fifty Landscapes exhibit which includes 4 of my paintings. As nature awakens after its winter slumbering, so to does the painter feel the pull of nicer weather. Spring is an […]
Victoria Connors: Fiber Art
Growing up in the Finger Lakes, the regional terrain has shown me the peace and beauty of nature. I have always enjoyed the process of creating, using landscape and surrealism as my main passions for expression. I was first introduced to fiber arts and needle felting in June 2014 while volunteering in Rochester. I saw an inspiring […]
Kari Ganoung Ruiz: En Plein Air
I’m Kari Ganoung Ruiz, and my studio is the great outdoors! My husband Diego Ruiz and I currently live in Union Springs, NY on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. I grew up in Interlaken, NY near the Finger Lakes National Forest, setting the stage early for my deep appreciation of the natural landscape. I […]
Constance Mauro: Celtic Impression by Three
I was born and raised in Rochester NY and spent my childhood in the suburb of Wester. I attended Nazareth College and received a degree in studio art with a minor in Psychology. I then worked briefly in a retail buying office after which I retuned to school to earn my teaching certification. In retrosecpt, this was not the […]
Tom Kredo: In the Basement
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of four with two sisters and a brother. When I was only 5 my father died, and my stay at home mother became the household breadwinner. I was too young to have many memories of my father, but I was told he had a darkroom in the […]
Jean K Stephens
The foundation for my artwork was laid in childhood–a mix of nature and art. Growing up in Gates, a rural suburb of Rochester, New York, I spent hours out of doors climbing trees, playing in fields and streams, my home surrounded by my Mother’s flower gardens. I loved to color and was a happy girl […]