Marjolaine Arsenault
Marjolaine Arsenault received a B.A. in Fine Arts, from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 1984. Her background as a graphic designer and later on as a garden designer is reflected in all her pieces. Composition, color harmony and texture are integral to every creation. Nature is her main source of inspiration. She is a feltmaker artist who loves to create wearable art. Nuno feltmaking invites the imagination to paint with fibers and to explore the limitless possibilities for creating unique seamless garments and accessories. She is a member of the Northeast Feltmakers Guild and is exhibiting her garments in the Guild’s show “Creation Myths”. She lives in North Creek, NY.

Robin Blakney-Carlson
Robin Blakney-Carlson works with felt as her primary medium.  She studied fine arts at California College of the Arts and Crafts, Munson Williams Proctor Institute School of Art, and with numerous master-feltmakers.  Her work has been represented in exhibitions and galleries throughout New York and New England.  “My work is influenced by the shifting character of life and seemingly mundane patterns that surround us.  I am fascinated by the nature of surfaces as they transform over time. When I am felting, I find my sense of balance.  I manipulate multiple layers of wool, silk and textile fragments with my hands, soap and water to create the foundation of my compositions.  It’s a very tactile, meditative process.”  Robin owns Luckystone Feltworks Studio in the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, New York. She has taught feltmaking throughout the US and Australia.  She is an active member of the Northeast Feltmakers Guild and Surface Design Association.

Elena Bornstein
 For the last ten years Elena Borstein has been living in the Adirondack Mountains where sailing has brought about a new direction in her work. The simple elegance of the sails, the feeling of the wind, brilliant colors of the spinnaker and the subtle shades of tone and form created by light reflected from sky and water have all inspired her recent work. Borstein received her B.S. Degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College and her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been in many solo and group exhibitions both in this country and abroad including "American Realism" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1985, the Bronx Museum in 1978, 1986, and 1993, "New Acquisitions" in the Everson Museum, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work was part of a traveling exhibit organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. called "The Liberation - 14 American Artists" which traveled to 11 countries. Borstein's work is included in many major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Hayden Museum, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. She currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains.

Chicken Coop Forge
The Chicken Coop Forge is artist-owned and operated by Jeannette Brandt and Mike Parwana in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Brandt and Parwana’s interest in blacksmithing quickly turned from a hobby shop in the backyard chicken coop of their home in Lake Luzerne into a career as full time smiths. Their studio is now located near West Mountain in Glens Falls, NY on the southeast corner of the Adirondack Park and only about a mile from the Adirondack Northway (I-87). They create commissioned heirloom-quality ornamental ironwork using traditional forging methods and modern techniques. This includes a wide variety of traditional and contemporary products forged in iron, steel, bronze and copper.

Jean H. Clark
Jean Holly Clark has spent most of her life working in art. For many years she was the senior designer for a stained glass studio in Manhattan. Influenced by the thriving New York art scene of the 1980s, she started to work on a more personal level. By the end of the decade, She moved to farmland in Upstate N.Y. She studied drawing, painting and textile design in NYC at the Art Students League and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also has attended printmaking workshops at the Arts Center in Troy, N.Y. and at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She says: “I am always exploring layers, textures, space and containment within the boundaries of paper.”

Katie DeGroot
Artist's Statement: “I have worked from nature for many years, I enjoy the discovery of a funny shaped leaf, or a fallen log covered with bright orange and purple mushrooms blooming after a rainy period. These found objects become a starting point for my studio investigation. My artwork has always been based on a traditional observation process, however the final appearance of the objects in the paintings is informed by contemporary ideas and concerns and more recently by my own quirky interpretation of the objects’ personality. Where these found objects lead me in my artwork has to do with my interests in surrealism and abstraction along with the pure physical pleasure of using color and paint.”  Katie DeGroot attended New York University and Illinois State University before living and working in New York City for nearly twenty years. She now resides on her great grandparents farm next to the Hudson River in Fort Edward, NY. Katie DeGroot is currently the Director of Skidmore Colleges’ Summer Studio Art Program.

Anne Diggory
Anne Diggory has painted out of her studio in Saratoga Springs for over 30 years and has been featured in Adirondack Life, American Artist Magazine, and the NY Times. She is known for her combination of accurate detail with expressive painting and strong abstract structure – an outgrowth of education at Yale, Indiana University, and 35 years of exploring the natural world. In the fall of 2014, her work will be featured in a solo show at the Hyde Collection.  For the past three summers she has been a resident artist at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. Diggory has extensively researched and written about the19th century painting perspectives at Lake George of the artist John Frederick Kensett. Her current blog  http://saratogatrees.diggory.com/ is connected to an upcoming fall 2013 show partnering with Sustainable Saratoga and focusing on the urban and community forest of Saratoga Springs.

David Greenberger
In 1979, having recently completed a degree in fine arts as a painter from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, David Greenberger took a job as activities director at a nursing home in Boston. It was that year he created The Duplex Planet, a long-running publication based on his conversations with the residents. Though he worked there only a couple years, the experience gave him a new direction as an artist, leading to a number of books, several documentaries, a comic books series, and recordings. For the past decade his focus has been on the creation of monologues with music, resulting in more than a dozen CDs and performances for museums, arts presenters, theaters, and universities. His pieces have also been heard regularly on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered.” In 2008 he was commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco to create a new work about memory, titled “Tell Me That Before.” The following year he was artist in residence for the Center on Age & Community at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, resulting in the CD and performance “Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time” as well as a documentary about its creation that has been airing on PBS. He is currently completing a new recording and performance, “They Like Me Around Here,” for the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI.  During the last five years Greenberger has returned to visual art, picking up with some of the same areas of exploration he had been pursuing when he purposefully set aside painting in favor of other media some thirty years ago. His small square drawings are patterned fields made of words and small marks. They give the appearance of being abstract but reveal themselves to be quite specific and sometimes autobiographical.

Anne Gregson

 

Betsy Krebs
Artist Betsy (Elizabeth) Krebs received her formal education in Art from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY where she received an M.S. in Art Education and minored in painting. As with many artists, however, long before the diploma -- art was always a part of Betsy's life. Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, and in group exhibitions throughout the North Country. Betsy's first solo exhibition was in 1990 at the Lake George Arts Project in Lake George, NY. Solo exhibitions followed at the Albany Boys Academy in Albany, NY; the College of Saint Rose (master show) in Albany, NY; the Gibson Gallery in Potsdam College, Potsdam, NY; the Cool Beans Cafe Gallery in Queensbury NY; Valley Artisans Gallery in Cambridge, NY; The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, NY; the Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga, NY; Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY; and most recently, at the L.A.R.A.C. Arts Gallery in Glens Falls, NY. Recently, Betsy's work was displayed in a group exhibition held at The Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls, NY and The Open Space Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY. Before that, group exhibitions included the L.A.R.A.C. Grant Recipients Show in Glens Falls, NY; the Adirondack Community College's Guild of Adirondack Artists show in Queensbury, NY; the Lake George Arts Project Juried Drawing Exhibition in Lake George, NY; the Urban Cultural Park's Open Space Invitational in Saratoga Springs, NY; The Hyde Museum's "Putt Modernism" invitational fundraiser in Glens Falls, NY; and many other galleries and colleges throughout the Adirondack and upstate New York area.

Stephen Lack
Stephen Lack is a New York based artist who exhibits internationally. One of the founding members of the ‘East Village Scene’ in NYC., his work has been shown in museums and gallery venues throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. Stephen has been the subject of a Bravo TV profile on Arts&Minds as well as a retrospective of car related imagery in 2010 “AUTONATION” at the Illinois State School of the Arts in Normal Illinois. He had a survey show at the Lyman Allyn Museum in 1999 titled “The Edge of Innocence”. His work is in many major U.S. and international collections, both public and private.; such as Chase Bank, Ralph Lauren, The Brooklyn Museum, Australian National Gallery, Speyer Family , and the Rubell Family collection among others. His work has been reviewed by many of the major Art publications, including Art in America; Arts; Art News; ArtForum; The NY Times; and FLASH Art. He resides in Hebron, Washington County, NY. Stephen’s connection to Lake George goes back to his teenage years when for 3 consecutive summers he and his bunkmates canoed the entire lake; sleeping over at Turtle Island and Rogers Rock.

Bruno LaVerdiere
Bruno LaVerdiere studied at the Art Students League from 1965 to 1967. He was a monk and resident artist at St. Martin's Abbey in Washington State from 1955 to 1969. Bruno has taught at Skidmore College, Rochster Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University, New York University, Greenwhich House Pottery, Claremont Graduate Schools, and the University of Gorgia in Catona Italy, and at SUNY Adirondack located in Queensbury, New York. Numerous pieces of his work can be found in private and public collections including the American Craft Museum, NYC, Columbus Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, and the J. Patrick Lannan Foundation. Bruno received Artist's Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 and 1990, and an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1987. He also received a three-month residency grant from the La Napoule Art Foundation in the South of France in 1991, and shared the job of resident director of the La Napoule Art Foundation from 1995 to 1996. Bruno is a working artist living in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.

Mia Muratori
Mia Muratori studied painting at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Beauchamps, ceramics at the Ceramics Institute in Faenza, Italy and received her MFA from the University of Delaware. Muratori exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work reflects thoughts on the evolution of consciousness, the construction, destruction and reconstruction of popular myths and symbols and the promotion of universal themes. She recently began making rugs after realizing that her artwork had much in common with traditional Oriental and Tibetan rugs. “I am driven to make thoughts visible through visual narrative, similar to rug weaving cultures around the world. Our life is a reflection of our consciousness and rugs are a reflection of the lives of the people who make them and those who use them. Historically rugs have held documentation of man’s achievements and adventures.”

Vicky Palermo
In the “Pool Party” series, Palermo invites the viewer to dive into pools of color and light. Her current work incorporates the light effects of colored translucency in multiple forms at various scales. Her most recent project “Bus Stand” is a permanent public work commissioned by Kidspace at Mass Moca, installed in the city of North Adams, MA. Palermo is represented by John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Art in General, New York, White Columns, New York, and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, among others. She received her BS from Skidmore College and her MFA from Bennington College. Palermo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Skidmore College. She lives in Queensbury, NY.

Jon Segan
Jon Segan lives and works in Fort Edward NY. He studied painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. After many years he returned to doing art work in 2007. His work combines painting ,sculpture, and assemblage. He has been showing his work regionally, including the Lapham Gallery in Glens Falls, The Small Gallery in Cambridge, The Mohawk Hudson Regional in Albany, and the Fence Select show in Troy.

Andrew Thompson
Bio / Statement: "I am an artist, illustrator and bookbinder born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. I am interested in the natural world and have focused most of my painting on wildlife and their living environments. Many of my works are created to be integral parts of one-of-a-kind or limited edition art books. Exploring the balance between traditional binding disciplines and traditional visual media has allowed me to create book forms that have content as compelling as the form and conversely are not simply decorative vessels for presenting visual media. Similarly, the design bindings I have created for existing texts explore the same realm of form and function and are a very direct, but unique way to respond to another artist or writer’s creative work. I spent over a decade in the art world as a scholar and dealer in turn of the century American paintings. I worked extensively on compiling the forthcoming Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonne and continue to be a member of the Catalogue’s Expert Committee. This time studying the work of the great American masters from the 19th and 20th century was vital in the development of my work and has continued to be a strong influence on my aesthetics. I have a studio and small bindery in Brooklyn and spend as much time as possible in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Wasatch Mountains of Utah".

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