Creating Landscapes in the Landscapes: A three-day Plein Air event presented in collaboration by The Olana Partnership and the Columbia County Council on the Arts: October 16-18, 2014

Thirty Participating Artists Competitively Selected

Scott Thomas Balfe Stephanie Amato www.scottthomasbalfe.com www.stephanieamato.com

Scott was born in Cornwall, NY and now resides in Stephanie’s work is created entirely “Alla Prima,” (from life), a technique she credits to her degree in Earlton. Scott paints landscapes in the tradition of the Hudson River School. Scott’s work has been Illustration/Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design in NYC. She has received multiple top featured in galleries like the Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz and NY Agostino Antiques in NYC. Scott honors, most recently receiving the Salmagundi Club Kent & Helen Coes Award for “ was the recipient of the Ridgewood Art Institute Reflections.” Stephanie is represented by Studio 7 Council of American Artist Award. Scott says of

Art Gallery in Bernardsville and The Marx Gallery of painting En Plein Air: “…when I paint in the field, I Lambertville. She is a Signature Member of the try to create something that is partly what I see and Pastel Society of New Jersey, a Resident Member of partly what I would like to see, or where I would the Salmagundi Club, the American Impressionist like to be, and for me in doing this I am creating my Society, and Oil Painters of America. own handwriting in oil paint.”

Jane Bloodgood-Abrams www.janebloodgoodabrams.com Arlene Boehm www.carriehaddadgallery.com www.artscolumbia.org/ccca

Jane Bloodgood-Abrams graduated from The College Arlene Boehm was born and raised in Nassau of Saint Rose with a BA in Fine Arts and later earned County, . She attended Hofstra her Masters of Fine Arts from SUNY New Paltz. She University and studied Media Arts at the School of now lives and paints here in the Hudson Valley and Visual Arts in NYC where she received her BFA. She the Berkshires. Jane paints in the tradition of the moved to Hudson, NY in 1999. Arlene always had an Hudson River school and the luminists to capture interest in painting during her career as a graphic her surrounding landscapes. She is represented artist/illustrator, when she authored and locally by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson and a illustrated two children’s books: A Cheerful Note founding member of Hudson Valley Pastel Society. for Jack and Jack In Search of Art. Arlene took up Plein Air painting in 2005, and has been painting ever since.

Gerald Cooley James Cramer www.stateofmindart.com www.markgrubergallery.com

James is greatly influenced by Impressionism, the Gerald, a life-long resident of Columbia County, Barbizon School, and American Realism; creating opened his business, State of Mind Art, when he works en plein air as is traditional practice in these began his third career as a full time artist. Gerald’s movements. Living in the Hudson River Valley, he is work can be found in his personal gallery, Atlantic inspired by the natural landscape and lighting, West, various galleries around the Northeast, and in much like the painters of the Hudson River School. private collections all over the country. He is a board James’s work is in many private and corporate member of the Columbia County Council on the arts collections. He is represented by Mark Gruber and was voted the 2014 Best Artist by the County’s Gallery, New Paltz, NY and Ginofor Gallery, Chamber of Commerce and the Hudson Register- Cambridge NY. His works can be seen online Star Newspaper. through the link above.

Joe Danciger Timothy Ebneth www.timebneth.com Joe grew up in Texas, and received his M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a four-year Residing in Kinderhook, NY, Tim attended Pratt Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Institute, graduating as a Fine Arts and Illustration Fine Arts. Joe has exhibited in the US, and his Major. He has designed windows and installations paintings have been reviewed in the New York for , Gucci and Barneys. His Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is professional work can be seen in Vanity Fair, O represented in the Arcadia College collection and in Magazine, and . Since moving the Ben and Lorraine Alexander collection among to the Hudson Valley, Tim’s paintings, drawings, others. He has recently shown at Artists of Gallows and mixed-media works have been exhibited Run Art for Conservation, Tilghman Island Gallery throughout the Hudson Valley at various galleries and the Alumni Show of University of Pennsylvania. including The Hudson Opera House, Select Juried and Invitational Exhibitions as well as in many private collections.

Olive Farrell

www.olivefarrell.com Tarryl Gable www.tarryl.com Olive resides in the Catskill Mountains of NY and is Tarryl, a native to ND, now resides in the Hudson an avid plein air painter. Her works range from both Valley. Having lived in this region for over 25 years urban and rural landscapes, to sporting events and now, she spends most of her time painting the local other figurative painting. She is represented by landscape en plein air. Tarry had the honor of being Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery, Tivoli Artist Gallery, and chosen to paint an ornament for the White House Smithy Gallery, Cooperstown. Olive’s work can be Christmas tree under the theme “Our Country’s seen at Columbia County Council on the Arts, National Parks.” It remains in their permanent Suntan Arts Center in Passe Grille, Florida and the collection. Tarryl recently has been named “Best of other various galleries in the Hudson Valley Region. the Hudson Valley - Best Artist” by readers of the Hudson Valley Magazine for the third year in a row.

Tarryl is represented by Alex Perez Online Gallery.

Susan Whiteman

http://www.susanwhitemanpastels.com/ Michael Garland

www.michaelgarlandfineart.com Susan is a pastel artist who has studied with Sangita Pahdke, Kenn Backhaus, Jo Sonja and others. Susan has been pursuing her artistic life for the last few Michael’s paintings are shown in many private and years, earning recognition and making sales in the corporate galleries and have appeared in two issues Adirondack art community in Saranac Lake, NY, of American Artist Magazine. He is known not only where she is an active member of Saranac Lake for his fine art pieces, but as an illustrator and Artworks. She has participated in and sold works author. His work has been featured and on the during the Adirondack Plein Air Festival, and was cover of Forbes, Fortune and Newsweek. His is well juried into last year’s Olana festival, where her known for the children’s books he writes and painting sold at auction. Susan has shown her work illustrates, reaching the New York Times best-seller at The Artful Lodger in Clinton, NY this spring. Of list four times. His work has won many honors and her work Susan says, “I hope to leave a record of is frequently included in the Society of Illustrators some of the wonderful things that still surround us and the Original Art of Children's book show. in this time of change. I hope my paintings will take viewers to somewhere beautiful, an idyll, a moment in time.”

Laura Garramone www.pastelistlgarramone.wix.com/laura Elissa Gore www.elissagore.net Laura is a pastel artist living in Greene County. Primarily a landscape artist, she also paints still-life Elissa, lives, produces art, and teaches in New York and has begun to dabble in figurative and portrait City. She spends her summers at Byrdcliffe Art painting. She is a member of the Greene County and Colony in Woodstock, NY. Elissa currently teaches a Columbia Councils on the Arts, Upstate Artist Guild, workshop, “Tuesday Painters,” at the New York Adirondack Pastel Society, Bethlehem Arts Botanical Gardens. Her work is featured in over 60 Association and the Colonie Arts League. Laura has private and corporate collections. In 2013, she won exhibited in many local shows and earned awards second place prize at Mid-Mountain Maryland Plein such as First Place in Pastels BAA 2012 and 2013 and Air and the outstanding watercolor prize at Saranac won Judges Choice Award 2012, Nature Art Exhibit Lake Plein Air, among others. She is represented by 2012-2014, at Thacher Park Nature Center. Markel Fine Arts in , Madelyn Jordan Fine Art in Scarsdale, NY and AAD in Westport, CT.

Dan Graziano Jamie Williams Grossman www.dangrazianofineart.com http://www.hudsonvalleypainter.com/

Dan lives in New England where he paints both Jamie Williams Grossman won the Second Place urban and rural landscapes. He a multi-award Award at this event last year. She has taught winning painter, most recently receiving note at Landscape Painting here at Olana, and is “2014 Easels in Frederick”, Frederick, MD. Dan is a represented by River Winds Gallery in Beacon, New member of the Oil painters of America, California York. Jamie is a Signature Member of New York Art Club, American Impressionist Society, and Plein Air Painters, and Leader of their Lower Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. His work has Hudson Valley Chapter. Her paintings have been been featured in Southwest Art Magazine, and is in featured in USA Weekend, The Journal News, Plein the collections of private and corporate collectors. Air Magazine, Putnam County News and Recorder, the Catskill Region Guide, Poughkeepsie Journal, and Bedford Record Review.

Karen Hummel

Gretchen Kelly Karen was born in NYC and grew up in Dutchess County. She has resided in Columbia County for 38 www.gretchenkellyart.com years. Karen completed her undergraduate work at SUNY New Paltz and graduate work at SUNY New Gretchen Kelly attended the School of Visual Arts Paltz, and College of St. Rose. Karen served for 13 and started her art career in the commercial world years as District Wide Art Department Chair for of fashion. She started making Fine Art in 2006, Columbia County. Karen stepped away from a after turning 50 and deciding it was time to successful 33 year career in teaching Visual Arts in embrace her inner artist. Since 2007 Gretchen has 2008 to pursue her art. Karen works in a variety of been “faithfully painting en plein air in The Hudson media and most often subjects are reflective of River Valley, New York.” She also is known for her nature in the form of landscape, plant forms, and figurative paintings, particularly her nudes. She sells animals. work internationally and shows at local galleries in the Hudson Valley and surrounding New York area.

Sally G. Lyon

Kathryn Kosto http://riverwindsgallery.com/Rhinebeck10.htm www.poetrycollage.com After earning her BFA, Sally worked in graphic Kathryn has a BA and MA in the history of art and design and illustration, primarily in NYC. Sally has history. Kathryn’s collages explore the intersection recently returned to fine art and her work can be of the immediacy of the plein air experience with seen in several area galleries and art associations, the intricate patterns of memory. Her work has like the Montgomery Row gallery in Rhinebeck, NY. been in numerous juried exhibits at arts centers She has been juried into national and regional throughout the northeast and she has had solo exhibits and invited to show in others as well. Sally shows in NY, MA, and VT. Her en-plein-air inspired considers living in the Hudson River Valley as a collage "Olana garden gate" was awarded best in reason to paint as much as possible. Sally lives on show at the Olana Plein Air event in October 2013 . the east side of the river with a great view of the Kathryn resides in a 1793 farmhouse in Schodack, Catskills, which she considers pretty hard to resist. NY and is at work restoring the orchards and Sally is influenced by the Impressionists, and loves gardens. color and painting in the loose style.

Patrick McPhee Dominique Medici http://www.patrickmcphee.com/ www.dominiquemedici.com

Patrick currently resides in Binghamton, NY. Patrick studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and has While in high school, Dominique Medici was invited to attend art school in London. Early on in her shown at Phelps Mansion Museum, and the Fine Arts Society of the Southern Tier, where he won career she was recognized at Art in Action, Royal Best in Show. Patrick found his calling smearing oil Society of Portrait Painters and other Exhibitions pastels at the age of six, where the idea of capturing for her ability in egg tempera and oil painting- a memory on paper stuck with him. Patrick’s love leading to many portrait commissions from for the outdoors and fishing is apparent in his work, London's elite. While abroad, she, and a team of which is primarily focused on capturing nature. painters, created the largest fresco in England in Patrick has long admired the Hudson River School the last 800 years in Waterperry, Oxfordshire. painters and their commitment to depicting the Today she teaches, continues to paint portraits and beauty of nature. landscapes, and has work in the private collection of Hugh Jackman and Deborrah-Lee Furness.

Steven James Petruccio www.stevenjamespetruccio.com

Walter J. Pasko Steven is a Hudson Valley artist whose work has www.paskofineart.com been included in exhibits at The American Artists

Professional League, North East Watercolor Society Walter resides in the Berkshire Mountains of MA, and the Kent Art Association among others and is in where he has spent the last 40 years scouting the many private and corporate collections. He country for the perfect combination of light and recently completed a mural for the entrance to the landscape for his oil paintings. Primarily self-taught new Children’s Emergency Department at Orange artist, Walter studied with the late Maurice Regional Medical Center. He is an award winning Kennedy. He is a member of The Rockport Art illustrator with over seventy picture books to his Association, Rockport, MA. ; The North Shore Art credit. His paintings were included in the exhibit Association, Gloucester, MA. ; The Academic Artists “American Nostalgia: A Tribute to Norman Association, Springfield, MA, and The Southern Rockwell”. Steven is also an adjunct professor in Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT. the Studio Arts Department of Marist College.

Kari Ganoung Ruiz Judy Reynolds www.kariganoungruiz.com www.jreynoldsstudio.com

Kari lives in the Finger Lakes region of Central New Judy, a primarily self-taught painter, has been York. She graduated from Ashland University with professionally painting with oils and pastels since a Bachelor of Science in Fine Art/Painting. Kari 1990. Her landscapes are completed both in her believes in the importance of capturing light and studio and en plein air. Judy is a member of the how it transforms a landscape. She is relatively

Columbia County Council on the Arts and NYS Plein new to painting en plein air; recently challenging Air Painters of America. Her work has been shown herself to complete 30 paintings in 30 days. She and throughout the Hudson Valley, including Hudson her husband own Copperesque in Union Springs, NY Valley Gallery, Tivoli Artists Co-op and Gallery, and - a framing studio and gallery where Kari’s work can Images Art Gallery. be seen and purchased.

Mitchell Saler www.mitchellsaler.com Trish Wend Trish Wend grew up on the coast of Belgium, and Mitchell graduated with an Associate Degree in moved to the U.S. as a pre-teen and continued to Visual Arts from Orange County Community College, draw and paint. Trish now lives in New York City. where he presently works as a Graphic Artist and Trish studied at the Palette & Chisel Academy, the Technical Assistant for the Cultural Affairs Silvermine Arts Center and the Art Students League department. He received a BA in Fine Arts in of New York. She has shown in the Artist Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz. He is a Association of Nantucket and the Student member of the Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Concours. Trish is inspired by the reflections on a the Orange County Arts Council, the Middletown Art pond, shadows over a field or the light on a Group, the Arts Council of the Southern Finger bouquet of peonies, and tries to communicate that Lakes, and the Crawford Arts Association. each painting is about something larger than the sum of its parts.

Catherine Whitehead Marlene Wiedenbaum, PSA www.catherinewhitehead.com www.wiedenbaum.com

A New Jersey native, Catherine fully embraces what Marlene is a graduate of Queens College; SUNY it is to be a plein air artist. She has been featured in New Paltz; and a student with Harvey Dinnerstein many exhibitions, including the Camp Hill 4th at the Arts Students League in NYC. Her award Annual Plein Air Arts Festival juried Competition in winning paintings have been exhibited Camp Hill, PA and the Finger Lakes Plein Air internationally, including the International Pastel Festival juried event in Canandaigua NY just to Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan in 2010, 12 & 14. She is name a couple this season. Catherine’s awards A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of include “Best in Show” at the 10th annual Bayonet America. She is also an Active Member of Farm Arts & Music Festival, a Juried Plein Air Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, NAPPAP, Painters Event in Holmdel, New Jersey and NYPAP & LongReachArts. Her work is in private “Honorable Mention” at the High Bridge Paint-out collections & is represented in the Tri- State area. 2013“En Plein Air Event.” Marlene accepts commissions & teaches at the Barrett Art Center