October Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Autumn in the Hudson Valley  

Show Dates: October 1st-31st

Susannah Leighton

My creative life began early, at the knee of my colorful and artistic grandmother. She taught me to knit, to sculpt in clay and to embroider in gold—all these decades later I continue to thrive in those media and many more. My greatest love is painting in oils. More recently I’ve become fluent in watercolor, and drawing always serves as a primary underlying force in my work. I can paint just about anything, and often get commissioned to make images I wouldn’t otherwise choose. But my favorite work captures the spiritually rich landscape of the Hudson Valley—I will never tire of calling this part of the world my home.

Golden Afternoon

Watercolor

$120.00

Japanese Maple, October

Oil

$500.00

Beech Eyes

Watercolor

$120.00

 

September Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: A Little Bit of This...A Little Bit of That! 

August 31st-September 28th

Patricia DiIorio

I make art because I need to- Art is Life is Art for me!

    I'm drawn to different techniques and materials so I don't contain my creative curiosity and art adventures to just one approach, genre or medium.

    The theme "A Little Bit of This...A Little Bit of That" reflects my artistic journey and eclectic approach. I invite my audience to experience each artwork with no preconceived notion that the piece has some sort of "meaning" but that instead "it is what it is" to each person who views it.

    My work encompasses a variety of processes and mediums such as painting, printmaking, steel sculpture, mixed media, textiles, ceramics, weaving, driftwood, natural elements, recycling and upcycling.

    Each medium presents its own challenges as I work to express ideas and create unified compositions through the elements of art and principles of design, including color, shape, form, line, value, texture and movement, among others 

    Through constant experimentation, I've come to understand that each piece I crate helps me to see that art is not about following a single path, but about embracing the multitude of directions that creativity can take me.

Email: pdartanddesign@gmail.com
Phone: (914) 980-5887

Drift #4

Mixed Media

$250.00

 

Koi

Print, mixed media with embroidery

$125.00

Sunset Wheat

Gelli Print

$150.00

 

August Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

August 1st-August 31st

Eliot Scher

  Eliot Scher is a fine art photographer from Carmel, New York. He retired from a thirty seven year teaching career to find joy behind the lens of a camera. Eliot’s images are digitally processed, Giclee prints museum matted and framed and also printed on metal.

Though he is, more often than not, a landscape photographer, you will also see him creating compelling sports images, children’s photography, portrait photography of all kinds and photographs of model railroads. His work has been published in quite a few magazines and has been put into book print form. 

Eliot believes that art is the story of life in visual form, be it an image, a sculpture, a song, a poem, or any type of creative expression. Without art, life would be dull and without a very special kind of joy. He believes that every image in your home should be something you want to look at every day. Otherwise, Eliot says, it’s just a space on your wall.

We’re all here for some purpose. If we can make our lives more vibrant and meaningful through art, we’re on the right road.

New England Canopy 

$295

20"x30" printed on metal using a Chromaluxe dye sublimation process

                                                                               

Fire Island Shoes

$295

20"x30" printed on metal using a Chromaluxe dye sublimation process

Taos Trees

$365
28"x36" printed on metal using a Chromaluxe dye sublimation process

 

July Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

i love the way you love: June 29th-July 31st

Steph Gonzalez

    Steph Gonzalez is an Illustrator and Designer based in New Rochelle, NY. They earned their BFA in Digital and New Media from Pace University and is interested in using interdisciplinary approaches to increase access to art and education. Steph is a Board Member of the New Rochelle Art Association and, in addition to freelancing and exhibiting in local shows, is working to obtain their MA in Art Education from Lehman College.

  
    “For my graduate thesis exhibition, I created a series of illustrations on Adobe Illustrator inspired by the quiet and personal work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. What I’m exhibiting here, at the Kent Public Library, are the original sketchbook drawings that my digital work is based on. “Untitled” (i love the way you love) is a celebration of the queer people in my life who I hold dear to my heart. Like Gonzalez-Torres, I sought to explore and express my queer experience while allowing room for the audience to insert themselves and create their own personal connections with the work.


    I, along with the subjects of these portraits, recognize the stories behind each image, but the lack of context is meant to encourage the construction of new narratives. Each moment was first captured in a photograph. I used that photo as reference for a colored pencil sketch that then became the basis for the final drawing in Adobe Illustrator. Instead of working directly from the photograph I decided to draw on paper first so I could take the time to fully reflect on who and what I was rendering. Through that love I hold for each person, this collective of moments ultimately became a self-portrait.”

   Instagram: @yummyknife 

    Website: StephGonzalez.art

                    Email: stephgonzalezart@gmail.com 

I still think you're very talented

Colored pencil on paper

Let me hold your bag so you can eat

Colored pencil on paper

                                                           I'm grateful to be here with you

Colored pencil on paper

 

June Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Still Blooming: June 1st-27th

Luisa Baptista

    Since I can remember picking up a pencil and crayon I have always been innately passionate about art. My earliest memories are of happily drawing, coloring freely and seeing the world through imaginative, creative lenses. My young soul was happiest when I was freely creative.    

Despite my natural gravitation toward art, my expression of it seemed to ebb and flow throughout several stages of my life. There were periods where I placed it all on hold, due to my inexperienced struggles and pressures to meet external and traditional expectations, ignoring what my soul was needing and subconsciously yearning for. Of course, as experience has taught me, creative instincts can not be suppressed for long and, consequently, my artistic desire to create and express would re-emerge and blossom during my periods of health crises and extreme stress. After my last life-altering health scare, with immeasurable support from loved ones, I began to listen and tune into my innate creative instincts and finally took a chance on myself and my art. Once I did, my world seemed to open up in ways that I could not have believed: some lifelong dreams were realized, awesome opportunities and experiences became possible and tangible and new artistic outlets opened up that I had never considered before. 

Long before I became cognizant of it, my visual art was always an extension of myself and what I needed to release. What began as subconscious doodling with pen and paper has developed into expressions of my passion for visual movement and energy, patterns and the arrangement between positive and negative spaces. Whether I'm working with vivid color combinations or high contrasts of black and white, my line work explores fluidity and motion. Creating linear tension and balance by diverging and synchronizing shapes and spaces provides both a heightened focus and meditative state for me. My art is not only inspired by, but celebrates my love for the beauty of natural lines, shapes, light, shadows and harmony found in the human body and nature and its elements (i.e.: bodies of water, fire, air, plant life). 

Instagram: @luisaartanddesign

Website: LuisaArtandDesign.com

Family (of 5) Nest framed Giclee print

16"x20" with frame $350

Floral Mandala 2 framed Giclee print

25"x25" with frame $550

                                                Flow Like Water framed Giclee print

25"x25" with frame $550

 

May Artist of the Month

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Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Land- Real and Imagined Exhibition Dates: May 2nd-30th

Joann Zwolski

    Joann received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and MA from the College of New Rochelle. She have exhibited her artwork in several solo and group shows throughout the tri-state area and the state of Delaware. Joann has taught art for over thirty-five years to students from kindergarten to high school and has been teaching adults drawing for many years in a variety of places. She has been a trustee, including the chairman, with Putnam Arts Council and is currently a trustee with the Peekskill Arts Alliance Board. This show is her visual interpretation of nature, particularly landscapes, through acrylic painting.

 

    "Line, color and texture are the essential art elements in my work. My line is a quick mark that captures and records nature. My palette consists of brilliant hues encompassing a wide spectrum. I love all colors, but my favorite color is red. Red energizes, motivates and inspires me. Red symbolizes joy. Texture is achieved by layers of paint. The paint is applied using both traditional and nontraditional methods. For example, the potato masher is one of my nontraditional tools that I use when I paint."

Instagram: @jzwolski14

Email: jzwolski14@gmail.com

Landscape with Red

16"x 20" acrylic
$300

Three Trees

16"x 20" acrylic
$300

The Golden Field

16"x 20" acrylic
$300

 

April Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Nature's Dreamscapes Exhibition Dates: April 1st-30th

Hillary Korn Fontana

"The balance and intrigue of a project comes to fruition when I can combine multi-layers of materials to create my pieces. Before I start that session, I have already visualized the finished product. But sometimes it grows and evolves in a new direction, like a person with different strengths and personalities. As a hearing-impaired person, I use my artwork to create communication. The silence allows me to focus on how to connect with my audience by using colors, textures, or even words. I want the viewer to feel raw emotion and self-reflection, thus creating their internal conversation."

Hillary Korn Fontana is a mixed-media artist living in Westchester County, New York. Self-taught, Hillary grew up experimenting with all different mediums of visual and digital arts, woodworking, glass, textiles, and silversmithing. Working professionally as a graphic designer for 20+ years in the corporate and non-profit world supported a family and a sense of security. However, creating “hands-on” artwork has allowed her more freedom of expression as an artist and to go beyond her emotional boundaries.

Website: www.HillaryKornFontana.com

Facebook: HILLARYKORNFONTANAART

Instagram: @hkfontana

Email: hillfont@gmail.com

Dreamscape

Mixed Media

$400

Dragonfly Sky

Mixed Media

$900

Cloudy Text

Mixed Media

$500

 

 

March Artist of the Month

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Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibition Dates: March 1st-30th

Patricia L. Stanton

    

   "My main influences are flowers, leaves, nature and patterns that I see in everyday life. I express my inspirations, both abstract and realistically, using paint, paper, collage materials and fabric. This is what drives my art."

    Patricia Leinani Stanton is a painter with abstract and realistic influences, originally from Chicago, Il. She attended the School of the Art Institute and took courses in Fashion Design, Printmaking and Photography. She later attended the School of Textile and Surface Design, where she received a certificate in Berkeley, CA. She also received an A.A.S degree of Textile and Surface Design, from the Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York. She currently resides in Yonkers, New York. Pat has also worked in the textile design field having created a line of silicone placemats, for Bed, Bath and Beyond. She is currently an artist member of the Blue Door Art Center, an art gallery in Yonkers NY. She also is a member of the New Rochelle Art Association, where she serves on the membership committee. Pat has won several awards since she began exhibiting her fine artwork.

Instagram: @luckybunny_designs
Email: patricialstanton@yahoo.com

Gold Jacobean

Gouache on watercolor paper

$1000

Grey Damask

Gouache on watercolor paper

$250

Medallion

Gouache on watercolor paper

$350

Red Damask

Gouache on watercolor paper

$400

Red Sunburst Finish

Acrylic paint on paper, framed and matted

$350

Tokyo Rose

Acrylic paint on paper, framed and matted

$350

Music in the Night Wind

Acrylic paint/mixed media on cradleboard

$350

Mon Café

Acrylic paint on paper, framed and matted

$350

 

February Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibition Dates: February, 2/2-2/29

Kat Sayegh

    

Kat Sayegh is an abstract mixed media and digital artist from New Rochelle, NY. She received her BFA in studio art from the college of New Rochelle, and received her master of professional studies degree in art therapy and creative development from Pratt Institute, and a master of science in sport and exercise psychology from Lock Haven University. Kat is also an art therapist specializing in athletic injuries, physical and medical trauma, injury and illness recovery, and stress and anxiety reduction. She also serves as president of the New Rochelle Art Association.

The driving forces behind her work are the deep emotions that only the subconscious can reach. Within these feelings live the traumas that she has experienced throughout her life as an injured athlete. These memories are released through her work, which ultimately makes art her therapeutic process. Her physical trauma, x-rays, MRI images and the organic shapes of the nervous system serve as the basis of her inspiration.

Websites: katsayegh.com

Instagram: @kat_sayegh_artist

Email: sayeghkat@gmail.com

Boundaries
Digital Media
$300

Gentle Force 2
Digital Media
$450

Healing Journey
Digital Media
$300

January Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibition Dates: January 2nd-31st

Caroline Zemira Douglas

These photos were taken in the fall of 2021, during which I conducted research on water quality in the Green River (Williamstown, MA), for a geomorphology class. There are quite a few things to be said about what the Green River has provided for me, but to put it simply: it has offered solitude when I need it, brought togetherness when I wanted it, and most of all, it has served as a physical reminder that multiple things can exist within one body. Whether it be the dramatic variation in water dynamics or the fact that I could pursue two of my strongest interests at the very same location and even in the same moment. It’s easier for me to see now that there’s no need to box in things that don’t need to be confined.  Instead, I try to lean into and celebrate the multidimensional nature of people and places — it brings new perspectives.

    Caroline Zemira Douglas is a graduate of Williams College and a resident of Stormville, NY.  At Williams, she studied Geosciences and Studio Art, and has combined the two in various forms while exploring the overlap between visual art and science.  She works with a range of materials, and has experience with photography, drawing, painting, linocut, quilting, video, weaving, fresco, and more.

Email

carolinezemira@gmail.com

Stained Glass

Not for sale

Exploding

Not for sale

Calm Bubbles

Not for Sale