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Erik received an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art and a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. His traditional landscapes have been widely exhibited and he is currently represented by Wally Findlay Gallery in New York City. |
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Thomas Locker (Painting, Illustration) Thomas has spent his entire life in service to his two great passions: painting and nature. Through widespread exhibition of his artwork and publication of his illustrated children’s books, Mr. Locker has touched the hearts and minds of countless people. Since the opening of his one-man show in 1964, at the Banfer Gallery in New York City, Thomas Locker has held more than 50 such exhibitions, in galleries throughout the United States and abroad. These include two at the Hammer Gallery in New York City, plus a major show at the Alan Jacobs Gallery in London. Mr. Locker’s early paintings were poetic landscapes, which Stuart Preston of the New York Times said, “manage to create the proper impression of dreamy reverie.” William Wilson of the Los Angeles Times saw the paintings as “magical.” He felt that Mr. Locker’s work was “a totally sophisticated experience in which our sense of wonder remains untarnished.” In an art catalogue introduction, Dr. Joshua C. Taylor, former director of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., wrote, “Although Mr. Locker’s landscapes are not glimpses of a new Arcadia; the quotation from the past reemphasizes their cerebral play. They call attention less to Nature than to the complex intermingling of perception and thought in the mind of man. Suddenly, seeing becomes thinking, and thinking a delight to the age.” In 1982, Thomas’s career took on a new and even broader dimension. In an effort to connect with a wider audience and educate younger minds, he began work on his first children’s picture book. Today, Thomas’s exceptional paintings and illustrations grace the pages of over 30 different books, several of which he also wrote. Many serve as an expression of Thomas’s profound love of and respect for the natural world. These unique books have been honored with numerous awards, including the prestigious Christopher Award, the John Burroughs Award, and the New York Times Award for best illustration. Thomas’s most recent landscapes have a quality all their own. His years of experimentation and research into the glazing techniques and paint chemistry of traditional European painting have enabled him to achieve a new vision.
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Lauren was a distinguished student of Mr. Lockers, and has studied at the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York City. She has twice been awarded the Hudson River Fellowship to study traditional landscape painting in the Catskills. |
B. Goode (Woodworking)
Photo by Banner Hill
Furniture maker, painter, sculptor, animator and model maker....B. has been an artist in fine and applied arts his entire life. B. graduated from the Wendell Castle School.
Frank Giorgini (Ceramics/Tile Making)
Frank Giorgini is one of the foremost designers and fabricators of handmade tiles in the country. His best selling book Handmade Tiles(Lark Books, 1994) has become the bible of the handmade tile movement. In 1996 Frank was recipient of the prestigious Tile Heritage Foundations Award of the Year and is recognized as one of the most collectable contemporary tile artists. In 2001 Frank completed the design and fabrication tile murals and artwork for the renovation of the Whitehall Street Subway Station, R Line in NYC. Frank completed (2003) the fabrication of the 48 large 18"x18" art tiles designed by architect Hugo Consuegra for the Utica Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, NY. Also in 2003 Frank was awarded the design commission for a 45 ft.x7 ft. mural for the Downtown Flushing Pedestrian Project, Lippmann Plaza which is now completed and awaiting installation. Frank Giorgini's artwork is in private and public collections across the U.S. and abroad and is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY. Frank Giorgini taught the Architectural Tile Design course at Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY for 15 years. He has held tile making workshops around the USA and abroad including at NCECA in Rochester, NY, Los Angeles, CA and Philadelphia, PA. Also at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, Parsons School of Design at Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Currently, Frank designed and is producing the 2011 Commemorative Centennial Tile for the New York Public Library.
Eugenie Barron (Paper Making)
Eugenie Barron is a hand paper maker who resides in New York's Hudson Valley. Artistically, her work in paper is primarily sculptural. In the early 1980's she was a student of master paper maker Douglass Howell, learning to form high quality handmade papers for any medium. She has taught at Dieu Donne Papermill in NYC and WSW in Rosendale, NY, as well as lecturing and curating nationally. Her writings can be seen in Hand Paper Making magazine.
Matt Christie (Printmaking)
Photo courtesy of Matt Christie
Matt Christie holds a BFA from the University of Denver, an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and has over 30 years of experience collaborating with artists on print projects. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Georgia's study abroad program in Cortona, Italy. He served as a professional printer at Shark's Ink in Lyons, Colorado for over 15 years and served as Artistic Director of Printmaking and head of Anderson Ranch Editions at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Matt currently teaches printmaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Roy Mendl (Painting)
Self portrait courtesy of Roy Mendl
Roy is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts and an award winning graphic design professional who has spent the past 20 years pursuing his passion for traditional painting. Founder of the 19th Street Atelier, Roy has studied figurative painting at The School of Visual Arts, The Grand Central Academy, Steven Assael Workshops, Janus Collaborative and The Art Students League.
Beatrice Cohen (Painting)
Beatrice grew up in Zurich, Switzerland and received her Teaching Certification from Teacher's College in Zurich and a B.S. in Education and Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. Beatrice has taught drawing, watercolor painting, oil painting, and clay modeling for over 16 years.
Mike Waters (Gilding)
Mike Waters is a gilder and restorer of antique picture frames from Newburyport, MA. He has been working in the field since 1991.
Photo courtesy of Bob Van DykeBob Van Dyke (Woodworking)
After 18 years as an award-winning chef in French restaurants Bob left the business to begin a career in woodworking and teaching. Furniture making had provided an outlet to the pressures of the restaurant business until 1993 when he started the Harris Enterprise School of Fine Woodworking and then in 2000 as a partner, the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. Bob's writing has been featured in Fine Woodworking Magazine and Woodshop News and his work has been featured in a number of videos for finewoodworking.com. Bob's approach to teaching centers on the belief that people learn "by doing rather than by watching." Successful furniture making also depends on utilizing a sensible combination of machine woodworking and handwork. Bob's classes feature hands-on woodworking projects that promote mastery of both hand tool and machine woodworking techniques.
Doris Cultraro (Stained Glass)
Photo courtesy of Doris Cultraro
Doris operates her studio in Rhinebeck, NY working on new commissions and restoration projects. With over 35 years of experience, she also focuses on teaching stained glass to help train people interested in this art form and to help her students develop the craftsmanship skills that will be needed to build new stained glass items, basic repairs, and to maintain the many aging windows that we find today. In addition, Dorris teaches computer design for stained glass using Glasseye 2000 software - bringing this antique craft into the 21st century from a design point of view. Ms. Cultraro has taught workshops and classes at the Katonah Museum of Art and the Pelham Art Center. She is a member of The Stained Glass Association of America and the American Glass Guild. Her glasswork has been featured in newspaper articles and magazines including Hudson Valley Magazine, Westchester Magazine, NY Times, The Guild, and The Journal News to name a few. She is also a founding member and organizer for the Annual Art Studio Views - Open Studio Tour.
Connie Pruiksma (Stained Glass)
Photo by Banner Hill
Connie has always loved "anything" made from glass and as a small girl was fascinated by church windows. Later in life, a visit to Mt. Trempers kaleidoscope shop intrigued her visual sense, and inspired the further study of this art form that traces back beyond the Middle Ages. Connie creates stained glass pieces including kaleidoscopes, suncatchers, and custom windows in her studio and shop in Preston Hollow, New York. Connie says her "favorite colors to use in her work change every time she goes glass shopping", her creations tending towards an aesthetic choice "of simple, elegant patterns using unique glass such as ring mottled, irridescents, and glue chip." Connie's stained glass works can be found in the New York State Museum and The Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, NY, as well as the Artisan's Gallery, Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery and Cooperstown Art Association Gallery.
