Welcome to our Online Portraiture Exhibit
"Let's Face It"
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"Let's Face It"
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Our contributing artists
Mujgan Agardici, Beth DeWit, Emmanuel Faure, Regina Gelfer, Goodness + Truth Studio, Barbara Masterson, Patricia McDermond, Jessica Miller, Ocean Morisset, Sharon Rubinstein, Roseanne Spano Swider, Ellen Saltzman and Maureen Winzig.
Mujgan Agardici, Beth DeWit, Emmanuel Faure, Regina Gelfer, Goodness + Truth Studio, Barbara Masterson, Patricia McDermond, Jessica Miller, Ocean Morisset, Sharon Rubinstein, Roseanne Spano Swider, Ellen Saltzman and Maureen Winzig.
November 21st - December 19th, 2020
This exhibit which is the 3rd in a series of TCCC online visual arts events was made possible by a grant from the Anne Anastasi Foundation. The curator of this show is Maureen Winzig.
Tompkins Corners Visual Arts committee has invited several artists to participate in this exciting new exhibit. Their portraits, created in oils, watercolor, charcoal, collage and photography, capture the human spirit and emotions within the human face. Participating artists include many professionals who live and work in New York’s Hudson Valley.
VOTE! Viewers are invited to scroll through the artists’ works and select their favorite piece. At the close of the show, the winner will be announced and a $100 Anastasi Art Prize will be awarded for the work voted *“Best in Show” by online visitors.
While this exhibit is free, donations of any amount are greatly appreciated. To donate to Tompkins Corners Cultural Center please click this link:
TCCC Donations
This exhibit which is the 3rd in a series of TCCC online visual arts events was made possible by a grant from the Anne Anastasi Foundation. The curator of this show is Maureen Winzig.
Tompkins Corners Visual Arts committee has invited several artists to participate in this exciting new exhibit. Their portraits, created in oils, watercolor, charcoal, collage and photography, capture the human spirit and emotions within the human face. Participating artists include many professionals who live and work in New York’s Hudson Valley.
VOTE! Viewers are invited to scroll through the artists’ works and select their favorite piece. At the close of the show, the winner will be announced and a $100 Anastasi Art Prize will be awarded for the work voted *“Best in Show” by online visitors.
While this exhibit is free, donations of any amount are greatly appreciated. To donate to Tompkins Corners Cultural Center please click this link:
TCCC Donations
More about the artists
Mujgan Agardici *Winner of Best in Show
Email: agrdc@aol.com
Online: Facebook Page
Mujgan Agardici graduated from The Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul. She has worked as an interior designer and a teacher for many years. Mujgan taught herself pyrography, and has been consistently working on wood/paper burning artwork since 2015. Her passion is to elevate this technique to a fine arts form. Mujgan has made a solo exhibition in Ossining at 2018 and has joined many group exhibitions.
Mujgan began her work in pyrography doing portraits and other subject matter—both realistic and symbolic. Her current focus is on sepia works, which she creates using only an iron tool.
Email: agrdc@aol.com
Online: Facebook Page
Mujgan Agardici graduated from The Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul. She has worked as an interior designer and a teacher for many years. Mujgan taught herself pyrography, and has been consistently working on wood/paper burning artwork since 2015. Her passion is to elevate this technique to a fine arts form. Mujgan has made a solo exhibition in Ossining at 2018 and has joined many group exhibitions.
Mujgan began her work in pyrography doing portraits and other subject matter—both realistic and symbolic. Her current focus is on sepia works, which she creates using only an iron tool.
Beth DeWit
Email: dewitart@optonline.net
Online: bethdewitart.com PeekskillArtsAlliance.com
Working in the decorative arts for over 24 years, Beth is primarily a self-taught artist. She has exhibited her fine art works at ArtsWestchester Gallery, White Plains, NY, The Riverside Gallery, Yonkers, NY, Peekskill Open Studios, Lofts on Main Gallery, Field Library in Peekskill, NY and Mahopac Public Library in Mahopac, NY. Beth holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Iowa. She is a board member of the Peekskill Arts Alliance. Her art can be viewed on the PAA website above and at the Lofts on Main Gallery in Peekskill, NY.
Email: dewitart@optonline.net
Online: bethdewitart.com PeekskillArtsAlliance.com
Working in the decorative arts for over 24 years, Beth is primarily a self-taught artist. She has exhibited her fine art works at ArtsWestchester Gallery, White Plains, NY, The Riverside Gallery, Yonkers, NY, Peekskill Open Studios, Lofts on Main Gallery, Field Library in Peekskill, NY and Mahopac Public Library in Mahopac, NY. Beth holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Iowa. She is a board member of the Peekskill Arts Alliance. Her art can be viewed on the PAA website above and at the Lofts on Main Gallery in Peekskill, NY.
Emmanuel Faure
Email: info@emmanuelfaure.com
Online: www.emmanuelfaure.com
Emmanuel Faure has been a Westchester County resident since 2001. He came to New York in 1983 from France with a one-way ticket and a dream.
A professional Commercial Photographer for over 3 decades, his photographs are simple yet powerful; graphic and to the point.
His work has been published in countless editorial, corporate and advertising campaigns.
“I find myself becoming more of a storyteller in my professional and personal work and like to draw in the viewer to take time to explore my photographs.”
Emmanuel is available for assignment work.
“You don’t take a photograph you make it” - Ansel Adams
Email: info@emmanuelfaure.com
Online: www.emmanuelfaure.com
Emmanuel Faure has been a Westchester County resident since 2001. He came to New York in 1983 from France with a one-way ticket and a dream.
A professional Commercial Photographer for over 3 decades, his photographs are simple yet powerful; graphic and to the point.
His work has been published in countless editorial, corporate and advertising campaigns.
“I find myself becoming more of a storyteller in my professional and personal work and like to draw in the viewer to take time to explore my photographs.”
Emmanuel is available for assignment work.
“You don’t take a photograph you make it” - Ansel Adams
Regina Gelfer
Email: regina@gelfergraphics.com
Online: www.gelfergraphics.com
Regina is a professional artist and illustrator. She's a member of the Garrison Art Center, Hudson Highlands Plein Air Painters and Fest for Beatles Fans Artists Club. She’s always loved portraiture. “It’s such an interesting exploration to study a face, and attempt to capture the personality that lies beneath”.
Email: regina@gelfergraphics.com
Online: www.gelfergraphics.com
Regina is a professional artist and illustrator. She's a member of the Garrison Art Center, Hudson Highlands Plein Air Painters and Fest for Beatles Fans Artists Club. She’s always loved portraiture. “It’s such an interesting exploration to study a face, and attempt to capture the personality that lies beneath”.
Goodness + Truth Studio
Email: goodnessandtruthstudio@gmail.com
Online: www.goodnessandtruthstudio.com, www.ericthornton.nyc
IG: @goodnessandtruthstudio
Tintype is an antique photographic method producing unique, handmade images. Everyone who handles a tintype of themselves or a loved one understands the intrinsic value of these irreplaceable and precious artifacts. Many report that the medium has a certain ancestral, ethereal quality. Considered fast and cheap in its heyday, tintype democratized portraiture, making it available in the United States to liberated Black people, immigrants, and the White working class.
Goodness + Truth Studio is a moveable tintype project which uses this 19th-century medium for contemporary portraiture. The studio is a partnership between Brooklyn-based artists Eric Thornton and Amanda L Driggers, who harness the medium’s power to create joy in our socially-disconnected moment. We operate as a pop-up in public spaces, and in our private home studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
For commission inquiries, please email goodnessandtruthstudio@gmail.com
Email: goodnessandtruthstudio@gmail.com
Online: www.goodnessandtruthstudio.com, www.ericthornton.nyc
IG: @goodnessandtruthstudio
Tintype is an antique photographic method producing unique, handmade images. Everyone who handles a tintype of themselves or a loved one understands the intrinsic value of these irreplaceable and precious artifacts. Many report that the medium has a certain ancestral, ethereal quality. Considered fast and cheap in its heyday, tintype democratized portraiture, making it available in the United States to liberated Black people, immigrants, and the White working class.
Goodness + Truth Studio is a moveable tintype project which uses this 19th-century medium for contemporary portraiture. The studio is a partnership between Brooklyn-based artists Eric Thornton and Amanda L Driggers, who harness the medium’s power to create joy in our socially-disconnected moment. We operate as a pop-up in public spaces, and in our private home studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
For commission inquiries, please email goodnessandtruthstudio@gmail.com
Barbara Masterson
Email: olde561@gmail.com
Online: www.barbaramasterson.com
Barbara has received an AAS in Fine Art from Elizabeth Seton College, bachelor’s degree in Art Education, and her Master of Art in painting from SUNY New Paltz. She studied with art masters in the US and France.
In late May of 2015 while painting en plein air on a local farm, Barbara began adding the migrant workers to her work. At first, they were faceless figures in the fields. They became prominent in her compositions; the figure becoming large/cropped. These workers are some of the “faceless” people that impact our lives. These workers often remain unseen and unknown despite their presence in our Valley for many months each year. Getting to know and then paint them has transformed Barbara and her work. Her large-scale drawings and paintings have transitioned to portraits of the men and women in our society that are invisible.
In May of 2019 she received a $2500. Individual Artist grant from Arts Mid-Hudson to continue a series of large-scale drawings of the workers including text.
Email: olde561@gmail.com
Online: www.barbaramasterson.com
Barbara has received an AAS in Fine Art from Elizabeth Seton College, bachelor’s degree in Art Education, and her Master of Art in painting from SUNY New Paltz. She studied with art masters in the US and France.
In late May of 2015 while painting en plein air on a local farm, Barbara began adding the migrant workers to her work. At first, they were faceless figures in the fields. They became prominent in her compositions; the figure becoming large/cropped. These workers are some of the “faceless” people that impact our lives. These workers often remain unseen and unknown despite their presence in our Valley for many months each year. Getting to know and then paint them has transformed Barbara and her work. Her large-scale drawings and paintings have transitioned to portraits of the men and women in our society that are invisible.
In May of 2019 she received a $2500. Individual Artist grant from Arts Mid-Hudson to continue a series of large-scale drawings of the workers including text.
Patricia McDermond
Email: pmcdermond@optimum.net
Online: www.mcdermond.com
I have had an interest in drawing and painting since childhood, I graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri with a major in painting. Awards of scholarships provided study at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Max Beckman Scholarship at Brooklyn Museum.
New York City is where I lived and worked for most of my life. My interest in art eventually led me in the right direction when I worked as a graphic designer for publishers and also as an instructor teaching computer graphic applications. Upon retirement ten years ago I moved upstate where I was able to resume painting, my primary interest. My source of inspiration is perceptual. It comes from love of what I see which covers a range of subject matter; people, landscapes, still life.
Email: pmcdermond@optimum.net
Online: www.mcdermond.com
I have had an interest in drawing and painting since childhood, I graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri with a major in painting. Awards of scholarships provided study at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Max Beckman Scholarship at Brooklyn Museum.
New York City is where I lived and worked for most of my life. My interest in art eventually led me in the right direction when I worked as a graphic designer for publishers and also as an instructor teaching computer graphic applications. Upon retirement ten years ago I moved upstate where I was able to resume painting, my primary interest. My source of inspiration is perceptual. It comes from love of what I see which covers a range of subject matter; people, landscapes, still life.
Jessica Miller
Email: jessica@jessicamillerpaintings.com
Online: https://www.jessicamillerpaintings.com
“Bold, decisive, and dynamic are just some of the adjectives that describe Jessica Miller's work. Vibrant brushwork and vivid color embolden her canvas with a unique expression that captures the essence of her subjects. Whether painting a landscape or portrait, Jessica finds the indelible qualities that invigorate and fortify her work, leaving the viewer captivated by her interpretations of life and nature. Jessica's work seems influenced by the Fauvists of the 20th century yet remains uniquely and formidably an expression of herself and her time."
— Andrew Lattimore
Originally from northern Michigan, Jessica now makes her home in the Hudson River Valley. She is best known for her portraits, recognizable for their expressionist style and vibrant color. Particularly popular are her half-hour portraits, small paintings done in one quick sitting, which effectively capture likeness as well as mood. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Jessica studied at the School of Visual Arts and at the Art Students League in New York, with legendary painter Hananiah Harari, later continuing her studies with acclaimed portrait and landscape artist Andrew Lattimore. Her work is shown regularly in galleries in New York and hangs in private collections throughout the U.S.
Email: jessica@jessicamillerpaintings.com
Online: https://www.jessicamillerpaintings.com
“Bold, decisive, and dynamic are just some of the adjectives that describe Jessica Miller's work. Vibrant brushwork and vivid color embolden her canvas with a unique expression that captures the essence of her subjects. Whether painting a landscape or portrait, Jessica finds the indelible qualities that invigorate and fortify her work, leaving the viewer captivated by her interpretations of life and nature. Jessica's work seems influenced by the Fauvists of the 20th century yet remains uniquely and formidably an expression of herself and her time."
— Andrew Lattimore
Originally from northern Michigan, Jessica now makes her home in the Hudson River Valley. She is best known for her portraits, recognizable for their expressionist style and vibrant color. Particularly popular are her half-hour portraits, small paintings done in one quick sitting, which effectively capture likeness as well as mood. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Jessica studied at the School of Visual Arts and at the Art Students League in New York, with legendary painter Hananiah Harari, later continuing her studies with acclaimed portrait and landscape artist Andrew Lattimore. Her work is shown regularly in galleries in New York and hangs in private collections throughout the U.S.
Ocean Morisset
Email: oceanmorisset11@gmail.com
Online: www.oceanmorisset.com
Telephone: 917-535-3309
Ocean Morisset is a self-taught, award-winning photographer with nearly twenty years of experience specializing in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. A self-described “humanitarian-with-a-camera”, Ocean also explores Fine Art Portraiture and engages with a wide range of subjects in life, though his passion remains in telling stories with photos.
Email: oceanmorisset11@gmail.com
Online: www.oceanmorisset.com
Telephone: 917-535-3309
Ocean Morisset is a self-taught, award-winning photographer with nearly twenty years of experience specializing in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. A self-described “humanitarian-with-a-camera”, Ocean also explores Fine Art Portraiture and engages with a wide range of subjects in life, though his passion remains in telling stories with photos.
Sharon Rubinstein
Email: serubins@gmail.com
Online: www.yourcornerartist.com and Peekskill Arts Alliance
Telephone: 914-314-6696
Sharon Rubinstein specializes in portraiture but enjoys many artistic subjects and media. Early in 2019 she finished a 14-portrait oil painting series for the Jefferson Valley Mall, and in the fall of that year she had a one-woman show in Annapolis, MD. She has participated in a number of local exhibitions. Sharon has pursued both formal and informal art education, and she appreciates all the great teachers - and artist friends - she’s met along the way. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America.
Email: serubins@gmail.com
Online: www.yourcornerartist.com and Peekskill Arts Alliance
Telephone: 914-314-6696
Sharon Rubinstein specializes in portraiture but enjoys many artistic subjects and media. Early in 2019 she finished a 14-portrait oil painting series for the Jefferson Valley Mall, and in the fall of that year she had a one-woman show in Annapolis, MD. She has participated in a number of local exhibitions. Sharon has pursued both formal and informal art education, and she appreciates all the great teachers - and artist friends - she’s met along the way. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America.
Roseanne Spano Swider
Email: spanoswider@gmail.com
Online: www.rosenephotography.com
Born and raised in New York City, I have always been attracted to and moved by its visual nuances. With the escalating gentrification of neighborhoods throughout the boroughs, important aspects of the city’s visual identity are rapidly disappearing. This includes unique vintage signage and urban decay that contain vestiges of past times. It has inspired me to pictorially capture and document as many of these elements as possible, before they are lost forever. Although New York City was the base for my art, I have relocated to Westchester County, where the Hudson River has inspired artists for centuries. I also do portrait painting and millinery, and have a new found love of mixed media collage. In this form, I use vintage advertising and photography.
These projects call upon my fine arts, textile and interior design background, which has given me a unique sense of color and composition. I am a graduate of New York University with a degree in Studio Art. My career as a textile designer included numerous converters and manufacturers in both the fashion and home furnishings industries. I studied Interior Design at The Parson’s School of Design and in Paris at the Museum of Decorative Arts, where the focus was French architecture and furniture.
Enjoy the images of my work which will undoubtedly outlast the subjects themselves, and I hope you appreciate the visual messages these works portray.
Email: spanoswider@gmail.com
Online: www.rosenephotography.com
Born and raised in New York City, I have always been attracted to and moved by its visual nuances. With the escalating gentrification of neighborhoods throughout the boroughs, important aspects of the city’s visual identity are rapidly disappearing. This includes unique vintage signage and urban decay that contain vestiges of past times. It has inspired me to pictorially capture and document as many of these elements as possible, before they are lost forever. Although New York City was the base for my art, I have relocated to Westchester County, where the Hudson River has inspired artists for centuries. I also do portrait painting and millinery, and have a new found love of mixed media collage. In this form, I use vintage advertising and photography.
These projects call upon my fine arts, textile and interior design background, which has given me a unique sense of color and composition. I am a graduate of New York University with a degree in Studio Art. My career as a textile designer included numerous converters and manufacturers in both the fashion and home furnishings industries. I studied Interior Design at The Parson’s School of Design and in Paris at the Museum of Decorative Arts, where the focus was French architecture and furniture.
Enjoy the images of my work which will undoubtedly outlast the subjects themselves, and I hope you appreciate the visual messages these works portray.
Ellen Saltzman
Email: ellensaltzman23@gmail.com
Ellen Saltzman has been drawing, painting, pasting, cutting, sewing, gluing, and making suggestions since 1948. She currently lives in Somers, NY.
Email: ellensaltzman23@gmail.com
Ellen Saltzman has been drawing, painting, pasting, cutting, sewing, gluing, and making suggestions since 1948. She currently lives in Somers, NY.
Maureen Winzig
Email: mwinzig@mindspring.com
Online: www.winzigart.com
My studies began in the ‘80’s with illustration, design and commercial art at Pace University, NY and fine art, graphic art and web design at WCC, SUNY Westchester, NY. I’ve studied also studied privately learning different painting styles and techniques in oils and watercolor. My subjects include landscapes, portraiture, dream-scapes and more.
My portrait series “Sheroes & Heroes” began in 2016 as a personal project when my spirits began to fall. I was looking for heroes to look up to, learn from and give me hope. To my surprise and delight, people fell in love with them and bought them up. In response to demand, I have created 6 x 6” archival prints of the series that are matted and framed priced at $65 each. I also paint commission portraits and more upon request.
Email: mwinzig@mindspring.com
Online: www.winzigart.com
My studies began in the ‘80’s with illustration, design and commercial art at Pace University, NY and fine art, graphic art and web design at WCC, SUNY Westchester, NY. I’ve studied also studied privately learning different painting styles and techniques in oils and watercolor. My subjects include landscapes, portraiture, dream-scapes and more.
My portrait series “Sheroes & Heroes” began in 2016 as a personal project when my spirits began to fall. I was looking for heroes to look up to, learn from and give me hope. To my surprise and delight, people fell in love with them and bought them up. In response to demand, I have created 6 x 6” archival prints of the series that are matted and framed priced at $65 each. I also paint commission portraits and more upon request.