Amy Masters

Shows We Love: Amy Masters: Interior Life

Amy Masters: Interior Life show is on view at Hawk and Hive Gallery in Andes, NY until October 19. Peonies, oranges, April, September, Parisian cafes, these are some of the subjects that inspire the artist in her approach to still life that borders abstraction. Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Bonnard, Richard Diebenkorn and Jane Freilicher are cited among her influences. Vessels, flowers, fruits, and shadows appear both … Continue reading Shows We Love: Amy Masters: Interior Life

Shows We Love: Between the Mountains and the Mayor: Paintings by Robert Schneider

Robert Schneider has been painting the Catskills and the Hudson Valley area for over 40 years closely following the tradition of the Hudson River School of Painting. Both Schneider and his wife Susan Goetz, who is also a painter, studied at the Art Students League of New York, and also privately with accomplished painters. Their work was featured in American Artist in November 2007. Between the Mountains … Continue reading Shows We Love: Between the Mountains and the Mayor: Paintings by Robert Schneider

Shows We Love: Farms, Farmers, and Farming at Longyear Gallery

Longyear Gallery is hosting Farms, Farmers, and Farming: A Tribute to Local Agriculture, a group show on view through April 23. Featured artists include Ann Lee Fuller, Margaret Leveson, Gary Mayer, Helane Levine-Keating, Hedi Kyle, Patrice Lorenz, Gail Freund, Robert Axelrod, Ron Macklin, Elaine Grandy, and others. The Gallery is located at 785 Main Street in Margaretville, NY. It’s open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 … Continue reading Shows We Love: Farms, Farmers, and Farming at Longyear Gallery

Featured Destination: Andes Academy of Art

A group of Catskills creatives led by William Duke, Peter Mayer, and Erwin Karl launched the Andes Academy of Art during the summer of 2022 to bring together artists working in all disciplines and nurture creativity in a way that forges camaraderie and recognition. Artists need both solitude – to distill new ideas and create new works of art, and companionship – to receive feedback, … Continue reading Featured Destination: Andes Academy of Art

Featured Destination: The Hyde Collection

The Hyde Collection Art Museum in Glens Falls, Warren County, includes a wide array of artworks and antiques – paintings, sculptures, pottery, books and furniture – spanning from the early Renaissance to modern and contemporary era. The collection was established by Charlotte Pruyn Hyde and her husband Louis Fiske Hyde, who acquired art from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Later on, the collection expanded … Continue reading Featured Destination: The Hyde Collection

Last Day to See Ellen Wong’s Show “Living in Nature”

Today is the last day to see Ellen Wong’s show “Living in Nature” on view at Longyear Gallery. The show includes thirty oil paintings and works on paper grouped by season (winter, spring, summer and fall) as well as wild life – at prominent display being trout and deer drawings. “As I found myself painting through the seasons – quiet snowy fields, radiant autumn roads, … Continue reading Last Day to See Ellen Wong’s Show “Living in Nature”

AMR Spring Art Show at the Commons

The Commons Building has become an important art hub for the communities in and around Middletown in Delaware County. Founded in 2007 as an artist-run cooperative, Longyear Gallery has hosted numerous solo and group shows in a 1,275 sq ft space located on the second floor. In the summer of 2016, the gallery took over a larger and better illuminated 1,425 sq ft space located … Continue reading AMR Spring Art Show at the Commons

Chagall in High Falls – The Virginia Project

Famed Surrealist painter Marc Chagall, known for works such as I and the Village (1911), Paris through the Window (1913), and Green Violinist (1923), lived and worked in High Falls between 1946 and 1948, producing a significant number of works. At that time, Chagall was accompanied by his lover Virginia Haggard, an artist in her own right, her young daughter from a previous marriage, Jean … Continue reading Chagall in High Falls – The Virginia Project

ART CONVERSATION AND WRITING WORKSHOP AT THE ZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM

ART CONVERSATION AND WRITING WORKSHOP WITH AUTHOR SIMONA DAVID SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018, 1 – 2:30 PM THE ZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM, 14540 MAIN STREET / RTE 23, PRATTSVILLE, NY  As guest of the Zadock Pratt Museum, Simona David, author of “How Art Is Made: In the Catskills” (2017), will talk about her experience interviewing artists, and discuss what moves and inspires the creative mind, how a new artistic project … Continue reading ART CONVERSATION AND WRITING WORKSHOP AT THE ZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM