May Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Animalia

Show Dates: May 1st-31st

 

 

Sharon Rubinstein

                                                                    Artist’s Statement:

    I am a portrait artist, but that subject matter extends beyond human beings. I love

capturing the spirit of the many animals, birds, fish and other living creatures who share

the earth with us.

    In this show, I’ve selected a few works that showcase inhabitants of land, sky and water. Some are pets - some are working animals - and some are independent. I’ve also included a few people, also members of the animal kingdom.

    My goal with this show is to share some beauty using several different media. I have

included oil paintings, pastels, pencil, pen and ink, and prints. The fish prints were

originally created on silk.

    My theme in bringing these images together is harmony, respect and peace.

                                                                                    Bio

    I specialize in portraiture, but enjoy many artistic subjects and media. I especially love to share the joys of creativity. In recent years, I have offered workshops at my New York studio, Ossining’s Cedar Lane Art Center, the Morabito Center in Cortlandt Manor, and the Garrison Art Center. I am slated to teach at the Adams School of Art in North Salem this spring, where I did a portrait demonstration for the Hammond Museum’s opening day on April 11.

    My art education includes BFA studies at the University of Michigan and art classes at Cornell University, the Corcoran School of Art, and the School of Visual Arts. I have studied with many notable artists, including Daniel Greene, Alain Picard, and Robert Liberace. I believe in life-long learning, and keep my own knowledge fresh while teaching others. (When not practicing art, you might find me using some of my other education practicing law, writing, or advocating.)

    My recent show, “The Taken and the Left Behind: In the Wake of Gun Violence,” spent a month in Annapolis, MD, and will be shown in Albany this June. In December of 2025, I included my mother’s work in “Connecting Threads: Dark and Light,” a 61-piece show in Montrose, NY. My work has been juried into local and regional exhibits, and I am pleased that I am among artists whose work reflecting on heritage and the 250th anniversary of the United States will be shared online by the Peekskill Arts Association this summer.

Horse Profile

Oil on Canvas 11 x 14"

$375

Dale the Cat

Oil on Canvas 11 x 14"

Not For Sale

Fish Parade

Giclee Print 21 x 4.5"

$175

Backwards Horse Gaze

Oil on Cradled Board 8 x 10"

$250

Calico Cat

Giclee Print of Drawing 8 x 10"

$100

Portia on a Pole

Giclee Pint of Oil Painting 8 x 10"

$100

Email: Sharon@rubisparkscommunications.com Tel.: 914-314-6696

                                                                                                                                                         www.yourcornerartist.com

                                         I am available for commissioned work and classes.

https://www.peekskillartsalliance.org/artist/sharon-rubinstein/

https://www.facebook.com/YourCornerArtist/

                                            https://www.instagram.com/yourcornerartist/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-rubinstein-05651b4/

https://www.ossiningartscouncil.org/member-directory/sharon-rubinstein

 

April Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Time Measured/Moments Kept

Show Dates: April 2nd-30th

 

Carol Herd-Rodrigues

                                                                        Artist Statement

In Time Measured / Moments Kept I share work about time. I’m thinking about it as an abstract concept, as something we feel rather than measure. Each piece holds a quiet record of attention - moments noticed, repeated gestures, hours that pass both quickly and slowly. The rounded forms act as a kind of tally, but not in a strict or literal way; they gather experience rather than count it.

My  abstract work conveys immediacy and softness. The repetition becomes a way of marking time, of staying with it, of honoring a container that might otherwise go unnoticed. These paintings are not about fixed duration, but about presence—how time is remembered, carried, and felt in the body.

                                                                                    Bio

Carol Herd-Rodriguez lives and works in the Hudson Valley, where she grew up and maintains her studio today. She has a lifelong fascination with the Hudson River and the surrounding landscape, which informs her sense of rhythm, duration, and attention in her art practice.

Exposed as a child to both the natural environment and her mother’s craft work she developed a deep appreciation for creativity and careful observation. She earned a BFA in sculpture and papermaking from SUNY Purchase and later received a full scholarship for an MFA at the University of Illinois. Following graduate school, she lived in Mexico for a year, where she began her journey into painting.

Carol paints daily—whether in her studio, en plein air in the Hudson Valley, or on the Metro North trains. Actively exhibiting her work is central to her practice, as she believes a work is completed only when shared. Her art is held in private and corporate collections across the country.

                          

Generous Moment

Acrylic/Pastel/Graphite/Pigment Stick on Paper 18x24

$850

Lyrical Gesture

Acrylic/Pastel/Graphite on Paper 24x18

Nine Hours Rounded Form Series

Acrylic/Pastel/Graphite on Paper 14x11

$680

Collected Hours Tallied for Review

Mixed Media on Paper 24x18

                                                                                 $850

 

March Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Oil and Watercolor Paintings

Show Dates: March 2nd-31st

 

Joan M. Kendall

    Joan is a former teacher of deaf and hard of hearing children with a Masters Degree in Deaf Education from Boston University. She developed curriculum and worked in schools for the deaf in Rhode Island, Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut. She taught developmental language and speech, and used art and illustration extensively to teach language and language concepts.

    After leaving a career in teaching, Joan began to pursue her love of art. After first exploring painting in watercolor, she took her first oil painting class at the Silvermine School of Art in New Caanan CT and fell in love with the medium.

She continued attending classes at the Silvermine School of Art with gifted and talented teachers. She has taken workshops with well known realist and contemporary impressionist painters both in the US and abroad. Among her teachers are Dmitri Wright, Maggie Signer, Jeanne McGuire, Larry Moore and Ian Roberts.

    She has traveled to France, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and New Zealand to study and gather materials and ideas for her work. She finds painting a never ending source of challenge, discovery and joy.

                            To purchase art please contact Joan at jmkendallart@gmail.com

Lipstick

Watercolor print on archival paper 16" x 20"

$200

Raven

Oil on Linen 9" x 12"

$350

Fire Cloud

Oil on Canvas 18" x 18"

$350

 

February Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Island Hopping

Show Dates: February 2nd-28th

 

Luis Fonseca

    Fonseca is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist with a BA in Photography. CCNY My

artwork is shaped by chance encounters, memories, and evolving ideas rather than a

fixed outcome. It began with an invitation for a solo exhibition at Kent Library in Putnam,

New York, a place I encountered while helping a friend install his show. Having worked

in libraries throughout high school and college, the setting prompted me to reflect on

past systems of knowledge and their contrast with contemporary digital information

retrieval. I realized that many younger visitors have never encountered a physical card

catalog, and that absence became the project’s conceptual anchor. While visiting

California, I encountered a carpenter’s workshop and met Michael, who owned an

authentic card catalog. He generously gifted me a portion of it, confirming the card

catalog as the ‘container’ for the project. The work then evolved into a dialogue between

the physical/analog, and the virtual/AI-driven, with ChatGPT assisting in the project’s

research and structure. The ‘content’ emerged from a personal moment of realizing my

ignorance. Preparing for a digital exhibition in Grenada, I realized I did not know where

the country was. This gap in geographic knowledge, despite formal education, became

the catalyst. With AI’s assistance, I assembled maps, lists of Caribbean sovereign

nations and dependencies, Dewey Decimal classifications, and QR-codes. The

installation presents a pebble-textured Caribbean map mounted on metal mesh. Each

island is illuminated by an LED activated by the viewer. Visitors may take a catalog

card.   I now have a better idea where Grenada is!

Island Paradise

12"x12"x3"

$150

Cool Vibes

12"x12"x3"

$150

Island Hopping

7'2"x7'x5"

Not For Sale

 

January Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: River

Show Dates: January 1st-31st

 

Christine Rice

    In my studio, my go-to tools are a large griddle, a 16” hot plate, a heat gun, a torch, an iron, and a plug-in tool with various heated tips, along with natural bristle brushes. With a hard wooden board that’s been gessoed, sanded, and heated, I can begin to paint, fusing each layer of wax with a torch as I go.

    The beauty of encaustic is its luminosity, transparency, and amazing versatility. One can make a painting, create perfect archival reproductions, using photo transfers, that are literally floating between layers of wax, print etchings, carve sculptures, and, using rice paper soaked with wax, fashion lamp shades for battery-powered lights. The possibilities are endless.

Caution! Do not drop or hit encaustic work with a blunt object. It is fragile and will break!

Contact the artist on Instagram at Christine_oma_rice

Peekskill Bay

Oil paint on board

33.5"x21.75"

Not for Sale

Bundle of Hope

Collage made of river detritus and acrylic paint

24"x17"

Not for Sale

Bear Mt. Bridge

Linoleum Print

15.5"x13.5"

Not for Sale

 

December Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Exhibit: Abstract Paintings by Linda Winters

Show Dates: December 1st-31st

 

Linda Winters

   Artist Statement:

I draw and paint what I see in an exploratory manner, keeping an open mind, following neural grooves, and continuously making adjustments, as I am presented with new discoveries. I work in a wide-variety of mediums, from water-based paints, like casein and gouache, to oil, and use colors that pop. My subject matter is usually a still-life of items found in my studio, which are simply catalysts for exploring the relationship between color and space. This is my primary passion, and full-time pursuit.

                                                                           Bio:

Linda Winters is a painter who lives and works in Peekskill, New York, where she is active in a growing artistic community. Winters is primarily interested in using everyday items found in her studio as the starting point from which to explore color and space. Winters works in a wide variety of mediums, from water-based paints like acrylic and casein, to oil, and often uses colors that pop. Recent work has been described as melodic, as tickling the eye, and spanning time.

website: https://www.lindawinters.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wintersfineart/ or wintersfineart

Deep End

Oil on Linen

18x12

$690

Inner World

Oil and Mixed Media on Wood

12x12

$300

Baltimore

Flashe and Oil on Canvas

60x42

$2250

 

November Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Show Dates: November 1st-30th

 

Henry Hennings

My interest in x-eye 3 dimension pictures hit a high point many years ago [in the 1950's] when I was on a school trip and I found myself on the observation deck, high up on the Empire State Building in NYC.  I had an early Eastman Kodak Brownie Hawkeye  roll film camera which produced pictures about 4” x 4” from film that was mailed to the film processing lab and returned back to you with prints maybe a week later.  

At the ESB I took one picture of the city from one corner of the observation deck and the usual stereo second picture from about 4 “ to the left …... and then I took the same picture from the other corner of the observation deck, about 50 feet away..... knowing even then that I was experimenting with cross eye stereo. Usually a cross eye stereo pair are taken only a few inches apart,  the width of the space between your eyes. 

The idea to take the third picture was to enhance or exaggerate the 3d effect by making the distance between the two pictures larger.  I remember the experiment was a success but alas ….. the pictures have been missing for many many years. 

Today you can do many interesting things much easier in photography. With inexpensive digital cameras or a cellphone camera and a modest computer with free image software you can do many things we couldn't dream of back then. You can also spend many hours researching cameras and x-eye stereo pictures on the internet and learn how to make your own x-eye images and view them on the computer and share them with others via the internet. 

My hope is that interested folks will try out the x-eye viewing and eventually get comfortable crossing their eyes and possibly producing their own collection of pictures. 

Some folks are worried about the strain on their eyes when they cross them to focus on the x-eye pictures. We all are refocusing constantly as we look at things that are close and far away and we usually don't realize that we are refocusing.  I can focus on objects, like my hand. that are just a few inches from my eyes so I don't find any problem focusing on a spot [ my finger ] halfway to the computer screen image or a print at arms length away.  

To be able to view an x-eye pair you need to focus your eyes at a point half way between your eyes and the x-eye images.....whether the images are held at arms length or on the computer screen or on the wall several feet away. One successful method to focus on the right spot to see the 3d picture appear between the 2 x-eye images is to place you finger about half way between your eyes and the images where you can see the finger clearly. And then slowly move the finger closer to the eyes or the images and you will see a third image [ the 3d image ] forming between the 2 original images. 

 If you can focus on your finger that is halfway between you and the images then you ought to be able to see the original images separating in the background and see a third image forming between the two originals as you keep focusing on your finger. Once you can do that you can lower your finger without changing focus and concentrate on the center 3d image and make fine adjustments like tilting your head from side to side to produce the clearest 3d effect.   

This process can be used to view the 3d effect of any x-eye pair anywhere ….. in a book or the computer screen or on the wall. Practice will make it easier each time you try it and pretty soon you will be able to properly focus on the x-eye pair without needing your finger to get you started.  

If you experience eye discomfort viewing a x-eye pair don't try to force the effort but try again after you give your eyes a chance to rest. 

 

October Artist of the Month

              Art At The Kent Library

Sponsored by The Friends of Kent Library

with Arts on the Lake

Show Dates: October 1st-31st

 

Georgine Honohan

    I am a watercolorist and I am a daily sketcher.  Watercolor is a medium that enables me to capture what I discover around me.  It is or table , meditative, and full of controlled surprises.  The transparency of this medium can capture depth with layers.  The flow of the watercolor sows the fluidity of nature .  The light of the paper showing through lends a freshness to my paintings.  Watercolor is a constant challenge that absorbs me on a daily basis.  

Drawing and sketching is an important part of my daily art. My love of sunflowers is showcased here. It is a subject I return to time and time again. To me they represent both beauty and strength and the transitory nature of beauty. The complexity of their form intrigues me and challenges me each time I set out to paint them.

    Composition is ultimately the force that holds it all together. Line, color, and value are at the forefront of my mind when I begin a watercolor painting. It is through daily sketching and painting that I am engaged with the world around me.

 

SMILE MAKERS

Framed watercolor 20"x26"

$625