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