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Tompkins Corners ONLINE Art Exhibit
"LOVE"
February 2nd - 28th
And the Winners Are...
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the Anne Anastasi Foundation Art Awards for our “Love” exhibit!
First prize goes to Dorene Battles’ powerful photograph, “Never Forget”,
and second place goes to Kevo’s oil painting, “In My Feelings.”
Selecting only two artworks from the many submitted was a challenge; each piece had a unique character to recommend it, and we were proud to present all of them. Dorene will receive a $100 cash award and an invitation to have a solo exhibit at Tompkins Corners Maaike Hoekstra Gallery later this year, and Kevo will receive a $50 cash award.
Many thanks to all the artists that submitted to our show.
The artwork will remain on our website until Feb 28, so please treat yourself to viewing some wonderful work!
CHECK THEM ALL OUT BELOW!
First prize goes to Dorene Battles’ powerful photograph, “Never Forget”,
and second place goes to Kevo’s oil painting, “In My Feelings.”
Selecting only two artworks from the many submitted was a challenge; each piece had a unique character to recommend it, and we were proud to present all of them. Dorene will receive a $100 cash award and an invitation to have a solo exhibit at Tompkins Corners Maaike Hoekstra Gallery later this year, and Kevo will receive a $50 cash award.
Many thanks to all the artists that submitted to our show.
The artwork will remain on our website until Feb 28, so please treat yourself to viewing some wonderful work!
CHECK THEM ALL OUT BELOW!
Be sure to explore the artists websites or Instagram.
If you are interested in purchasing something from this show, please contact the artists directly.
If you are interested in purchasing something from this show, please contact the artists directly.
Art Lovers ~
Tompkins Corners is proud to present a new online art exhibit that will get you in the mood for Valentine's Day! We have curated a show of 20 artists and over 30 works of art from polished professionals to hobbyists and students. Who knows? Perhaps you'll spot a piece that speaks to you that you'd like to bring home! All artists who sent us their submissions were accepted into this show as an open and welcoming community event.
We know that love is multi-faceted. Some ideas of it are steeped in myth and tradition, while others evolve with us and our society. At last, here is what the artists have brought us! Kathleen Hoekstra and Maureen Winzig, as curators, are not eligible to claim prizes for this exhibit.
On Valentine’s Day ~
We will award the Anne Anastasi Foundation prizes of $100, and $50, to the 1st and 2nd place winners. The first-place winner will also be awarded a widely publicized live solo exhibit in the TCCC Maaike Hoekstra Gallery when it reopens, hopefully in Spring/Summer 2022.
Tompkins Corners is proud to present a new online art exhibit that will get you in the mood for Valentine's Day! We have curated a show of 20 artists and over 30 works of art from polished professionals to hobbyists and students. Who knows? Perhaps you'll spot a piece that speaks to you that you'd like to bring home! All artists who sent us their submissions were accepted into this show as an open and welcoming community event.
We know that love is multi-faceted. Some ideas of it are steeped in myth and tradition, while others evolve with us and our society. At last, here is what the artists have brought us! Kathleen Hoekstra and Maureen Winzig, as curators, are not eligible to claim prizes for this exhibit.
On Valentine’s Day ~
We will award the Anne Anastasi Foundation prizes of $100, and $50, to the 1st and 2nd place winners. The first-place winner will also be awarded a widely publicized live solo exhibit in the TCCC Maaike Hoekstra Gallery when it reopens, hopefully in Spring/Summer 2022.
More About the Artists
Karen Allen
Email: karen@karenallenartist.com
Karen Allen is primarily a painter. She maintains a home studio in Verplanck where she can see the Hudson from her window.
Jeanine Marie Aufiero
Email: Jeanineaufiero@gmail.com
Phone: 631-830-1818
Instagram: Jeaninemarieart@instagram
Jeanine Marie Aufiero is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Huntington N.Y. Her colorful paintings are an emanation of her joyful spirit- with love, peace, happiness and healing being the main messages she wishes to express. With an array of harmonious and contrasting colors, seascapes, landscapes, flowers, animals and fantasy are all brought to life with her compositions. Jeanine also works as a Psychotherapist and is the mother of five - all of whom have contributed to her creative expression.
Dorene Battles
Email: Chcdirector2017@gmail.com
Dorene is a trained Physician Assistant, mother to two children, two dogs and 18 chickens. A lover of photography, she is a hobbyist with no formal training.
Regina Gelfer
Email: regina@gelfergraphics.com
Web: www.gelfergraphics.com
Regina is a professional graphic designer, illustrator and painter. Recent awards are 1st place in the nocturne category of the 2021 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, 1st place in the NAVS 2021 Art for Animals Competition. She is a member of the Garrison Art Center and the Hudson Highlands Plein Air Painters Club. She is a 21 year resident of Putnam Valley.
Fiona Gerety
Email: fiona.gerety@gmail.com
IG: www.Instagram.com/fegeefoto
Phone: 857-928-4103
Ever curious about the human condition, emotion, and what makes us tick, Fiona Gerety explores intimate human moments through the lens of her camera.
Will Hanlon
Email: willhanlonstudios@gmail.com
Web: www.zhibit.org/profile/willhanlonstudios
Will Hanlon is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska where he developed skills in Art, Music, Theater and Business throughout school. During a professional business career, he became an emerging artist embracing Push Pins as a material for wall mounted forms employing abstract pointillism. He now resides in Peekskill, NY in a studio gallery and has shown at various venues and private collections.
Lenny Harrington
Email: chm@lennyharrington.com
Web: www.lennyharrington.com
Hudson Valley Artist Lenny Harrington, has been working with his hands for his entire life. As a boy, taking bicycles apart, building intricate models and sketching out a floor plan for the house he would eventually build. Lenny works with steel creating large scale sculptures that inspire a contemplative state of mind and being.
Barbara Herzfeld
Email: baherz@gmail.com
Phone: 917-446-0653
Barbara Herzfeld is a figurative painter with a lively drawing practice. A former resident of NYC, she now resides in the Hudson Valley. Barbara holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is constantly evolving a language for expressing how she sees, and feels about, the figure. Bodies and the expression of her own body are central to her ideas and how she connects to her subject. Barbara Herzfeld had a solo show “Skin On Skin” at The Carter Burden Gallery in 2019. She has been in solo and group shows at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and several Brooklyn and Manhattan galleries, including The Prince St. Gallery and The Bowery Gallery. North of NYC she has shown in The Upstream Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, The Beacon Artists Union, and The Howland Cultural Center. She was a finalist for a grant from The Massachusetts Council On The Arts.
Kathleen Hoekstra
Email: yankate2@optonline.net
Web: www.katehoekstraart.com
My day job has been psychotherapy, but every other minute finds me in my studio painting portraits and flowers. I am a self taught painter who continues to be intrigued by this human activity that connects the doer and the viewer to themselves. To the deepest aspects of what it means to be human. To the recognition and celebration of what is truly beautiful. You can see more of my work at my website.
Kevo
Email: Kevoartbykevo2021@gmail.com
Phone: 832-883-1990
Web: artbykevo.com
I was born and raised in Houston TX, where I was praised on Fox News for the story "From Inmate to Entrepreneur". After a troubled childhood I went on to open a tattoo business, where I re-created myself as an artist. I went on to write books & movies, produce films, and attended the University of Houston for my BFA in Fine Arts (MFA at HBU), where I developed a career for creating works to be exhibited. My art business has been my life's goal for some time, and I consider myself an artist of content. The things we get through make us who we are, so I will always make art with a purpose.
Prints of all these works are available. Inquire at the website.
Kylie Landisman
Email: kylie.l@longviewschool.org
Phone: 203-770-5702
Kylie Landisman is a 14 year-old artist who attends the Longview School.
Betsy Levine
Email: betsy.levinne.lcsw@gmail.com
Phone: 917-974-8744
Betsy Levine is an artist and psychotherapist. She has a BA in painting from Wesleyan University, and has studied art at the Art Students League, Tyler School of Art in Rome, Pratt/NY Phoenix School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her first career was as a graphic designer, but she has been a psychotherapist for many years. She recently moved from Manhattan to Carmel.
Mario A. Mercado
Email: mamercado@optonline.net
Phone: 845-284-2052
The subject of this painting is my version of August Rodin’s bronze sculpture titled “The Kiss”. The medium in this piece is acrylic ink on canvas. The rendering was done in Photoshop by hand using custom digital brushes.
Rob Messner
Email: robbiebravo@gmail.com
Rob is a resident of Carmel. He enjoys digital and analogue photography, computer painting, and is fascinated with the mechanical world.
Diane Rich
Email: dplrich@optonline.net or dianerich686@gmail.com
I am a resident of Putnam Valley, NY for over 35 years. Originally from Rhode Island. after losing my job due to the Covid pandemic, I retired and found my love for paper quilling and wood-burning.
Arlene Robin
Email: arlenerobinart@gmail.com
Phone: 914-466-9089
I love to create, whether it takes the form of sewing, gardening, or visual arts. Throughout school I took all the art classes that were offered, but was directed to a more “practical” profession. I became an art therapist and had a solo show of assorted media for part of my thesis. My current work is inspired by the forms, colors, and light of the Hudson Valley.
Dalia Roshal
Email: dalia.r@longviewschool.org
Phone number: 206-915-7179
When Dalia Roshal isn’t spending their free time drawing, they’re writing, listening to music, or practicing Taekwondo. Visual art is one of their favorite forms of self expression. Their art has been recognized in the Scholastic Art And Writing Awards, and they won first prize in Greenburgh Library's 2019 Teen Poetry Contest. They also run their own magazine called Lit Space, which regularly publishes art and writing created by teenagers from around the world.
Keith Rossein
Email: keithrossein@gmail.com
Phone: 516-316-1954
Keith recently had three images accepted – “Up,” “Time Travel” and “Passage” – into the Juried show “Portals” for the Long Island Photo Gallery at the Huntington Art Center and was awarded 2nd PLACE for “Up.” He has had photos accepted into the following juried art exhibits: “African Treeline” – Arborescent – Resembling Trees Exhibition at the Alex Ferrone Gallery; “Snow Covered Trees” – Winter: National Juried Small Works Exhibition at the Alex Ferrone Gallery; “Mother and Child” – Art at 50-Plus Virtual Exhibition at the Islip Art Museum; “Signs of the Time” – Forever Young Virtual Exhibition at the Islip Art Museum; “Rural Conservatives” and “Trashed Trailer Park” – Americana Exhibition at the Long Island Photo Gallery; and “Fiery Sky” and “Klipvis Fish” – In Vivid Color at the Long Island Photo Gallery; “Fractured Beauty” and “Butterfly Close-Up” (won HONORABLE MENTION) – Butterflies at the Long Island Photo Gallery; “Imagine the Riviera” – Coastal virtual exhibit at the Long Island Photo Gallery.
Sharon Rubinstein
Email: serubins@gmail.com
Phone: 914-314-6696
Web: www.yourcornerartist.com
Sharon Rubinstein has been drawing and painting since childhood, with a particular interest in portraiture. She pursued fine arts studies in college and beyond. Several years ago, she completed a 14-portrait commission that is now hanging at the Jefferson Valley Mall.
Renee Samuels
Email: samuelsrenee@gmail.com
Web: www.reneesamuels.com
After studying art, English literature and communications at Boston University, Renee Samuels moved to Woodstock NY in 1987 and studied drawing, painting and art history with Nicholas Buhalis for five years. Samuels’ paintings, drawings, prints and collages have been displayed throughout the Hudson Valley and in New York City, Albany NY and Cambridge MA. One of her paintings won a first prize at the Woodstock Art Association & Museum.
Taylor Venturini
Email: tae.venturini@gmail.com
Web: www.Taeventurini.com
Instagram: @taylorrae.art
Artist Statement: A self reflection on my role as an older sister within my three separate families, the reflection of myself on the window mimics this. The three frames represent different households which were home to the pairings of my half siblings within three families. The frames progression in aging/ deterioration represent the length of time spent within each home, longest to new. The windows hold the concept of standing outside looking in, as my own image is not presented, I am able to resonate with my alternating roles to each of my siblings. Find out more on my website. Looking Glass Chalk paint on glass 2021.
Taylor Venturini is a mixed media artist living in Los Angeles. She is currently exploring interpersonal relationships. She studied painting in Santa Cruz and conceptual art in Prague and Germany.
Maureen Winzig
Email: mwinzig@mindspring.com
Web: WinzigArt.com
Instagram: @winzigartstudio
Oils and watercolor are my forte. I have complete control with oils, especially with water, sky and portraits. My work is meticulous and bold working well with light and contrast. With watercolor, I invite the medium to show its organic nature while controlling it when desired as well. Working in these 2 very different mediums affects each other continuously spurring new ideas and techniques. My mission is to stay true to what I’m feeling as I paint and express it with boldness, intensity and light. My purpose is to listen to my inner, “Woman on Fire” and to forever remain true to myself.
The "Love" paintings I've submitted to this show come from a deep place of empathy and joy within me. The love I show with these works includes other people counteracting the crippling solo love of self.
Email: karen@karenallenartist.com
Karen Allen is primarily a painter. She maintains a home studio in Verplanck where she can see the Hudson from her window.
Jeanine Marie Aufiero
Email: Jeanineaufiero@gmail.com
Phone: 631-830-1818
Instagram: Jeaninemarieart@instagram
Jeanine Marie Aufiero is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Huntington N.Y. Her colorful paintings are an emanation of her joyful spirit- with love, peace, happiness and healing being the main messages she wishes to express. With an array of harmonious and contrasting colors, seascapes, landscapes, flowers, animals and fantasy are all brought to life with her compositions. Jeanine also works as a Psychotherapist and is the mother of five - all of whom have contributed to her creative expression.
Dorene Battles
Email: Chcdirector2017@gmail.com
Dorene is a trained Physician Assistant, mother to two children, two dogs and 18 chickens. A lover of photography, she is a hobbyist with no formal training.
Regina Gelfer
Email: regina@gelfergraphics.com
Web: www.gelfergraphics.com
Regina is a professional graphic designer, illustrator and painter. Recent awards are 1st place in the nocturne category of the 2021 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, 1st place in the NAVS 2021 Art for Animals Competition. She is a member of the Garrison Art Center and the Hudson Highlands Plein Air Painters Club. She is a 21 year resident of Putnam Valley.
Fiona Gerety
Email: fiona.gerety@gmail.com
IG: www.Instagram.com/fegeefoto
Phone: 857-928-4103
Ever curious about the human condition, emotion, and what makes us tick, Fiona Gerety explores intimate human moments through the lens of her camera.
Will Hanlon
Email: willhanlonstudios@gmail.com
Web: www.zhibit.org/profile/willhanlonstudios
Will Hanlon is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska where he developed skills in Art, Music, Theater and Business throughout school. During a professional business career, he became an emerging artist embracing Push Pins as a material for wall mounted forms employing abstract pointillism. He now resides in Peekskill, NY in a studio gallery and has shown at various venues and private collections.
Lenny Harrington
Email: chm@lennyharrington.com
Web: www.lennyharrington.com
Hudson Valley Artist Lenny Harrington, has been working with his hands for his entire life. As a boy, taking bicycles apart, building intricate models and sketching out a floor plan for the house he would eventually build. Lenny works with steel creating large scale sculptures that inspire a contemplative state of mind and being.
Barbara Herzfeld
Email: baherz@gmail.com
Phone: 917-446-0653
Barbara Herzfeld is a figurative painter with a lively drawing practice. A former resident of NYC, she now resides in the Hudson Valley. Barbara holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is constantly evolving a language for expressing how she sees, and feels about, the figure. Bodies and the expression of her own body are central to her ideas and how she connects to her subject. Barbara Herzfeld had a solo show “Skin On Skin” at The Carter Burden Gallery in 2019. She has been in solo and group shows at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and several Brooklyn and Manhattan galleries, including The Prince St. Gallery and The Bowery Gallery. North of NYC she has shown in The Upstream Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, The Beacon Artists Union, and The Howland Cultural Center. She was a finalist for a grant from The Massachusetts Council On The Arts.
Kathleen Hoekstra
Email: yankate2@optonline.net
Web: www.katehoekstraart.com
My day job has been psychotherapy, but every other minute finds me in my studio painting portraits and flowers. I am a self taught painter who continues to be intrigued by this human activity that connects the doer and the viewer to themselves. To the deepest aspects of what it means to be human. To the recognition and celebration of what is truly beautiful. You can see more of my work at my website.
Kevo
Email: Kevoartbykevo2021@gmail.com
Phone: 832-883-1990
Web: artbykevo.com
I was born and raised in Houston TX, where I was praised on Fox News for the story "From Inmate to Entrepreneur". After a troubled childhood I went on to open a tattoo business, where I re-created myself as an artist. I went on to write books & movies, produce films, and attended the University of Houston for my BFA in Fine Arts (MFA at HBU), where I developed a career for creating works to be exhibited. My art business has been my life's goal for some time, and I consider myself an artist of content. The things we get through make us who we are, so I will always make art with a purpose.
Prints of all these works are available. Inquire at the website.
Kylie Landisman
Email: kylie.l@longviewschool.org
Phone: 203-770-5702
Kylie Landisman is a 14 year-old artist who attends the Longview School.
Betsy Levine
Email: betsy.levinne.lcsw@gmail.com
Phone: 917-974-8744
Betsy Levine is an artist and psychotherapist. She has a BA in painting from Wesleyan University, and has studied art at the Art Students League, Tyler School of Art in Rome, Pratt/NY Phoenix School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her first career was as a graphic designer, but she has been a psychotherapist for many years. She recently moved from Manhattan to Carmel.
Mario A. Mercado
Email: mamercado@optonline.net
Phone: 845-284-2052
The subject of this painting is my version of August Rodin’s bronze sculpture titled “The Kiss”. The medium in this piece is acrylic ink on canvas. The rendering was done in Photoshop by hand using custom digital brushes.
Rob Messner
Email: robbiebravo@gmail.com
Rob is a resident of Carmel. He enjoys digital and analogue photography, computer painting, and is fascinated with the mechanical world.
Diane Rich
Email: dplrich@optonline.net or dianerich686@gmail.com
I am a resident of Putnam Valley, NY for over 35 years. Originally from Rhode Island. after losing my job due to the Covid pandemic, I retired and found my love for paper quilling and wood-burning.
Arlene Robin
Email: arlenerobinart@gmail.com
Phone: 914-466-9089
I love to create, whether it takes the form of sewing, gardening, or visual arts. Throughout school I took all the art classes that were offered, but was directed to a more “practical” profession. I became an art therapist and had a solo show of assorted media for part of my thesis. My current work is inspired by the forms, colors, and light of the Hudson Valley.
Dalia Roshal
Email: dalia.r@longviewschool.org
Phone number: 206-915-7179
When Dalia Roshal isn’t spending their free time drawing, they’re writing, listening to music, or practicing Taekwondo. Visual art is one of their favorite forms of self expression. Their art has been recognized in the Scholastic Art And Writing Awards, and they won first prize in Greenburgh Library's 2019 Teen Poetry Contest. They also run their own magazine called Lit Space, which regularly publishes art and writing created by teenagers from around the world.
Keith Rossein
Email: keithrossein@gmail.com
Phone: 516-316-1954
Keith recently had three images accepted – “Up,” “Time Travel” and “Passage” – into the Juried show “Portals” for the Long Island Photo Gallery at the Huntington Art Center and was awarded 2nd PLACE for “Up.” He has had photos accepted into the following juried art exhibits: “African Treeline” – Arborescent – Resembling Trees Exhibition at the Alex Ferrone Gallery; “Snow Covered Trees” – Winter: National Juried Small Works Exhibition at the Alex Ferrone Gallery; “Mother and Child” – Art at 50-Plus Virtual Exhibition at the Islip Art Museum; “Signs of the Time” – Forever Young Virtual Exhibition at the Islip Art Museum; “Rural Conservatives” and “Trashed Trailer Park” – Americana Exhibition at the Long Island Photo Gallery; and “Fiery Sky” and “Klipvis Fish” – In Vivid Color at the Long Island Photo Gallery; “Fractured Beauty” and “Butterfly Close-Up” (won HONORABLE MENTION) – Butterflies at the Long Island Photo Gallery; “Imagine the Riviera” – Coastal virtual exhibit at the Long Island Photo Gallery.
Sharon Rubinstein
Email: serubins@gmail.com
Phone: 914-314-6696
Web: www.yourcornerartist.com
Sharon Rubinstein has been drawing and painting since childhood, with a particular interest in portraiture. She pursued fine arts studies in college and beyond. Several years ago, she completed a 14-portrait commission that is now hanging at the Jefferson Valley Mall.
Renee Samuels
Email: samuelsrenee@gmail.com
Web: www.reneesamuels.com
After studying art, English literature and communications at Boston University, Renee Samuels moved to Woodstock NY in 1987 and studied drawing, painting and art history with Nicholas Buhalis for five years. Samuels’ paintings, drawings, prints and collages have been displayed throughout the Hudson Valley and in New York City, Albany NY and Cambridge MA. One of her paintings won a first prize at the Woodstock Art Association & Museum.
Taylor Venturini
Email: tae.venturini@gmail.com
Web: www.Taeventurini.com
Instagram: @taylorrae.art
Artist Statement: A self reflection on my role as an older sister within my three separate families, the reflection of myself on the window mimics this. The three frames represent different households which were home to the pairings of my half siblings within three families. The frames progression in aging/ deterioration represent the length of time spent within each home, longest to new. The windows hold the concept of standing outside looking in, as my own image is not presented, I am able to resonate with my alternating roles to each of my siblings. Find out more on my website. Looking Glass Chalk paint on glass 2021.
Taylor Venturini is a mixed media artist living in Los Angeles. She is currently exploring interpersonal relationships. She studied painting in Santa Cruz and conceptual art in Prague and Germany.
Maureen Winzig
Email: mwinzig@mindspring.com
Web: WinzigArt.com
Instagram: @winzigartstudio
Oils and watercolor are my forte. I have complete control with oils, especially with water, sky and portraits. My work is meticulous and bold working well with light and contrast. With watercolor, I invite the medium to show its organic nature while controlling it when desired as well. Working in these 2 very different mediums affects each other continuously spurring new ideas and techniques. My mission is to stay true to what I’m feeling as I paint and express it with boldness, intensity and light. My purpose is to listen to my inner, “Woman on Fire” and to forever remain true to myself.
The "Love" paintings I've submitted to this show come from a deep place of empathy and joy within me. The love I show with these works includes other people counteracting the crippling solo love of self.
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