Art Walk Kingston

About
Art Walk Kingston is a celebration of the arts and the local community and one of the largest open studio tours in the Hudson Valley. Over the course of two days, visitors and local residents are invited to explore three distinct areas of the city of Kingston and immerse themselves in a range of art and events. Paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures are just some of the mediums that will be on display at home studios and galleries across the city. Whether you have a few hours or a full day, the event weekend will offer a broad range of art and activities for everyone.

Mark your calendars for the 10th Art Walk Kingston on September 20 & 21, 2025!

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2024 Participating Artists

**Alie Smith** **- Drawing/Illustration, Painting**

Alie Smith (b. 1992, Norwalk, CT) is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from from the School of Visual Arts in 2014, and was awarded residences at the Vermont Studio Center in 2014 and Azule in 2016. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in New York and she is currently showing with MONUMENT.

**Amy Fenton-Shine** **- Mixed-Medium, Painting**

Kingston, NY based collage artist, painter and photographer, Amy Fenton- Shine, has been developing her way of seeing for decades. Amy previous- ly spent years touring the world as a dancer with the critically acclaimed “Fiddle Puppet Dancers”, a percussive dance company that innovatively reinterpreted traditional dance forms. The “Fiddle Puppet Dancers” were chosen by the Smithsonian Institution to represent American culture in Japan. Amy brings the same impulse as expressed in her dancing, a well - composed ensemble of elements, to her visual art. As a starting point, with photography, Amy captures the rich beauty of the natural world, old buildings and images of life. It is with the same sensibility, that her paintings and collage art emerges. She has developed a strong sense of design with which the elements don’t merely exist on their own, but truly become intertwined into a satisfy- ing and elegant conclusion.
Amy exhibits her work locally and it is included in private collections.

**Andrea Kantrowitz** **- Drawing/Illustration, Painting**

Andrea Kantrowitz, an artist and educator, has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and the author of “Drawing Thought,” published by MIT Press in 2022. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University, an MFA from Yale, a BA in Art and Cognition from Harvard and is an Associate Professor and Director of the Art Education Program at SUNY New Paltz.  Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are in many private collections.  She is an artist member of The Painting Center in New York City, and her artwork is also represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Connecticut.

**Andrew Moore** **- Photography**

American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the High Plains, the American South and most recently, the Hudson Valley.

Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library of Congress amongst many other institutions. He has received a fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as well been award grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J M Kaplan Fund.

**Barbara Scott - Painting**

My work is about finding visual connections in shapes, mark making and paint application that have personal as well as a broader resonance. By experimenting with the materials and process as a way of creating my own visual language, I aim to retain a feeling of discovery.
NOTE: This studio will only be open on Saturday

**Benni Huang** **- Painting**

Benni is a painter and motion designer based in Kingston. She works with sitters who come to her studio over many months.

**Bob Bechtol** **- Painting**

Bob Bechtol is a painter recently arrived in Hudson Valley, NY. His work explores visual and contextual balance in the dilemmas created by combining elements in opposition ––finding unexpected composition and coalescence within that process. Over the years, he has lived and worked and/or shown art in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Nashville and currently Hudson Valley. His work was recently on display in a solo exhibit, Causal Effects, at Available Items in Tivoli, NY.

**Chris Gonyea** **- Drawing/Illustration, Painting, Sculpture**

Chris Gonyea is a native Kingstonian who has been painting his unique versions of trees in the landscape for nearly 20 years. Lately he has been exploring aspects of functional art and lighting which will be introducing at his studio this fall.

Artwork by Dave Deadeye — **Deadeye Dave** **- Jewelry, Painting, Sculpture, Textile**

Deadeye Dave is a conceptual artist living in Kingston NY.
Exploring future building through a post-industrial lens or just making art through obsessions with materials and trash.

**Demetria Chappo** **- Ceramics**

Demetria Chappo is an artist, designer and educator creating ceramic home objects, sculptures and wall hangings with an emphasis on surface and organic form. Inspired by nature and universal symbolism, her Seed Pod, Spirit Eye and Snake pieces feature intricate textures, patterns and graphic motifs. Her Smoke Fired artworks have galaxy-like surfaces, a shadow and memory imprinted through her alchemical firing process in sawdust, wood and variety of specific materials. Founded in 2012, her studio is in the Hudson Valley, New York.

**Douglas Shippee** **- Painting**

Oil paintings on canvas acrylic and gouache on paper. Been at it for some time.

**Gary Mayor** **- Painting**

Chaos , Passion , pushing feelings emotions beyond constraints , excess , animalistic , nature wildness all things associated with Dionysus. Really wellsprings for Art especially the Art I admire and I hope to make . I’ve been doing a figure drawing session once a week for a number of years and I thought the sensuality and eroticism associated with this Greek god were a perfect subject to pit yo use all the drawing I had done . I’ve often done inventive figurative work and purely abstract work but this body of work needed bodies not so abstracted or imagined but more real pulsing alive

**Ian von Miller** **- Furniture**

I am a furniture designer and maker in mid-town Kingston. I have been creating furniture now for over 24 years. I am always seeking originality and craftsmanship. For me, there is a never-ending fascination with making something beautiful.

**Jack Decker** **- Woodwork**

Vernacular Design Is a custom Furniture and cabinet shop located in the Heart of Kingston NY. We focus on bringing our clients aesthetic vision to life.

**Jack Miller** **- Photography, Digital Art**

Photography mixed with collage.Iconic POP ART characters in highly saturated colors.

**Jason Mones** **- Painting, Sculpture**

Jason Mones’ kinetic figurative paintings engage the humor, horror, history and power of bodies in public and social space. He earned his MFA in Painting from Yale University and his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Bemis Center for the Arts, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yale. He has served as a curatorial member of Field Projects and teaches drawing, painting, and printmaking, most recently at Montclair State University. His work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles. He lives with his family in Kingston, New York.

**Jeffrey Milstein** **- Photography**

Jeffrey Milstein is photographer known for aerial shots of cities, as well as photos of aircraft mid-flight. His photographs have been featured in publications including New York Times, Time, Fortune, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, GQ, and Graphis. His work has been showcased in galleries and museums throughout the world including a solo show and permanent display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. His recent books include Paris From the Air, Rizzoli, London From the Air, Rizzoli, LA NY, Thames and Hudson, and Aircraft the Jet as Art, Abrams.
NOTE: This studio will only be open on Saturday

**Julie Hedrick** **- Painting**

Julie Hedrick has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Colombia, and Europe. She is a graduate of the Painting Studio Program at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). Born in 1958 in Toronto, Hedrick is now based in Kingston, New York. She is also a poet and has participated to great acclaim in readings, performances, set designs and discussion panels. Hedrick was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012 and was recently honored with the Kingston Distinguished Artist Award alongside her composer husband Peter Wetzler. Hedrick has been represented by Nohra Haime Gallery since 1998.

**Karen Wyks-Lindsay** **- Textile**

I am an artist currently working in fiber.While working in other mediums over the years, my love of color and textures always has led me back to cloth. I am drawn to botanical images as a subject for tapestry weaving, and printed fabric, which I combine in semi-traditional art quilts. I have taught frame loom tapestry weaving and rigid heddle weaving to both children and adults. My studio is my refuge and happy place! Come visit and see my weaving room with newly acquired floor looms for private lessons in the fall!

**Kelly McGrath** **- Painting, Sculpture**

Kelly McGrath has been a practicing artist since 2007 and Art educator since 2009. She utilizes wax, paper, plaster, wood, clay and found materials in her process driven work. She explores themes that are influenced by biologic process like growth and decay, mutation and evolution. She has been invited to present and teach at R&F Handmade Paints, Women's Studio Workshop, Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Peter’s Valley and Snow Farm. She earned her BFA in Sculpture from SUNY New Paltz in 2007 and her Master’s in Art Education from Hunter College in 2019. She is currently employed at SUNY New Paltz as the Instructional Support Technician for the Sculpture Department.

**Kim Baglieri** **- Painting, Installation**

Kim Maxime Baglieri (libra sun and moon, sag rising, virgo venus, leo north node) is an energy practitioner and queer interdisciplinary artist of Waray, Armenian and Sicilian descent, born in New York City and based in Lenapehoking. She plays in her work with creating worlds in which sites of harm are transmuted into paths for liberation, reclamation, relationship and imagining. Liminal space and dissociation caused by the impact of centuries of harm and imbalance are playfully and ritually reclaimed, as portals to interdimensional experiencing, relearning of language and knowledge, and embodied relationship with objects, materials, place, ancestors, animal and plant kin, each other and Mother Earth. This is all enacted exploratively and perfectly imperfectly. Her work has been screened at Doc NYC, QTPOC Visions and various other festivals and venues. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. She is also a facilitator of arts classes to NYC elementary school children through Studio in a School Association.
This studio will only be open on Saturday.

Painting by artist Lily Taylor — **Lily Taylor** **- Painting**

Lily Taylor (b. 1993, New York, NY) is an artist living and working in the Hudson Valley. Taylor received her BA in English from Wesleyan University in 2016 and her MFA in Painting from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2024. Recent group exhibitions include What Lovers Do, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2024); Painting with Butter, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI (2023); Painting Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI (2022); and Hot Box, Flatiron Project Space, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2022).

Ceramics by L'Impatience — **L’Impatience** **- Ceramics**

L'Impatience is a ceramics studio dedicated to crafting pieces with timeless design and pure form.

**Meryl Bennett** **- Sculpture**

Meryl Bennett is a sculptor based in Kingston NY. Drawing inspiration from observations of the natural world, her work explores the uncertain boundaries of human and animal behavior. She borrows from science, symbolism, and design to create hybrid creatures that combine animal anatomy and human perception. Her current body of work grapples with the uncertainty woven into the complex webs of our modern world and within our own biology, asking how we make sense of the unpredictable events and disproportionate effects that define our reality.

**Nancy Goldenberg** **- Ceramics**

Nancy Goldenberg combines drawing and painting in her ceramic works which echoe the shapes of legs, and torsos, skirts and shields. Drawings and mark-making are partially obscured beneath an illusory surface of layered glazes. Her latest series of sculptures suggest columns and relics of architecture. Nancy maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY and is part of the artist community at BKLYN CLAY. She received a BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from Queens College.

**Olga Joan** **- Textile**

olgajoan designs and creates functional, practical modern handcrafted home goods made locally for everyday living, with ethical and sustainable methods in mind. Their screen printed textile collection has a unique aesthetic inspired by art and design, architecture, geometric forms and linear patterns.

**Pablo Shine** **- Painting**

Pablo Shine was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He first studied painting under the direction of his father, Professor James Shine at the Art Student League in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1978 he became a member and co-founder of “Workshop 78”, a non profit organization, directed by his father, to promote young talent in the field of visual arts in San Juan. After studying at the University of Puerto Rico & the Inter American University, he continued his studies in art at SUNY New Paltz where he earned a Masters degree in Fine Arts. He has had many exhibitions in the Hudson Valley area, NYC, Washington DC, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gallery showings include the Ponce Museum (Ponce, PR), Museum of the University of Puerto Rico(San Juan), Botello Gallery (San Juan), Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (San Juan), Caiman Gallery (NYC), Ariel Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (NYC), Cueto Gallery (San Juan, Wired Gallery (High Falls, NY) and WAAM (Woodstock, NY), West Strand Gallery (Kingston, NY) just to name a few. Pablo has been an art teacher for over 35 years in various educational settings throughout the Hudson Valley, including SUNY Ulster, Woodstock School of Art, Marist College, The Barrett House, SUNY New Paltz and private instruction from his studio in Kingston, NY.

**Patti Gibbons** **- Mixed Medium, Painting, Art Cards**

Patti Gibbons is an artist and designer living in Kingston, NY. She has lived most of her life in the Hudson valley, which has greatly inspired her art and captured her heart.
Her early art career included design and production work for apparel companies and design studios in Ulster County. She taught art for 20 years, leaving that career to create art full time in her home studio. Her oeuvre of work includes landscapes, narrative collages, and abstract mixed media art.
Her work has been shown internationally and regionally, and can be found online and in local galleries and shops.

**Paul Willy - Mixed-Medium, Painting**

PWilly is an artist and animator working and living in the Hudson Valley. His art is inspired by the region's wildlife, the textures and natural artistry of wood, and by spiritual practices like Zen Buddhism.

**Priscilla Derven** **- Painting**

Priscilla Derven is a life-long painter, born in 1948 in Nyack, NY, near her family’s home in Grand View overlooking the Hudson River. Her earliest memories include making art with her mother, Mary Jane, a painter of everything she saw around her. Like her mother and grandmother, Cora, all she ever wanted to be was an artist. She studied art at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College in NYC. Her painting has been ever-evolving from figures to conceptual grids to skirmishes, environmental disasters and now to above-it-all aerial abstractions. She’s worked serially but is never a slave to style and isn’t afraid of change. She lives in Kingston NY and Sarasota FL.

**Rakel Stammer** **- Drawing/Illustration, Mixed-Medium, Painting**

Rakel Stammer is an interdisciplinary artist from Denmark, now living in Kingston, NY. Having spent most of her 20’ies organizing for labour, queer, and women’s rights in Scandinavia, she brings a unique perspective to her work and her interest in the complicated landscape of power, consent, and coercion. Rakel is an alumni of The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale and an award-winning cartoonist. Her work has been exhibited and published in Mexico, Russia, England, Scandinavia, Italy, and Spain.

**Rebecca Hellard** **- Drawing/Illustration, Mixed-Medium, Painting**

Rebecca Hellard is a Kingston-based painter who works out of her studio in the heart of the city. Since graduating from SUNY New Paltz in 2016, she has honed her understanding of color and material through her work in production at R&F Handmade Paints. She has always been fascinated with issues dealing transformed bodies and their relation to monsters, and takes a whimsical approach to this subject through her use of watercolor, oil paint, and collage.

Artwork by Rich Cali — **Rich Cali** **- Mixed-Medium, Painting**

Rich Cali is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Kingston, NY. He is owner and director of MONUMENT hv.

**Ryan Rusiecki** **- Photography**

Ryan grew up in Westchester, New York and studied photography at Bard College, receiving his BA in 2020. He currently lives in Kingston, New York where he is working on a project about the Hudson River. His work explores the reciprosity between place and image.

**Sara Collazo Romay** **- Textile**

Sara started weaving in an effort to reconnect with every step of the creative process: from designing, to making a warp, weaving and sewing each of her textiles by hand - using ancient weaving techniques with a contemporary sensibility to create timeless and functional pieces that will elevate any space.

**Scott Chasse** **- Painting**

Scott Chasse is a self-taught artist who paints a lot of UFOs. Born in 1974 in a small town in Massachusetts, he began exhibiting his artwork in the early 2000s in Boston, MA. Chasse relocated to New York City in 2010 and has been living in Woodstock since 2015. Chasse’s creative energy drifts back and forth between visual art and music, looking for new ways to combine the two. His paintings are often influenced in content or title by a song or a musical memory, and are usually grouped into sets like songs would be for an album or EP.

**Scott Zimmer** **- Ceramics, Painting**

I have never seen a divide between being an artist and a garden designer, it is all the same, just different materials. Layering the given colors, forms, and textures nature offers, revel as an intimate experience with the power to delight, sooth and activate our senses. Porcelains and canvases are my attempt to collect, layer, and present intimate views while working in a garden.

**Sharon Frey - Painting**

Sharon Frey is a portraiture and figurative artist working in both, traditional realism, and contemporary abstraction of the human form. A social worker for 20 years, Sharon found herself returning to her passion for visual art at the height of the pandemic. Since then, Sharon has exhibited in multiple group shows throughout the Hudson Valley. Her debut solo show took place summer of 2022 at Cunneen Hackett, Poughkeepsie, NY. Sharon paints in her basement and will be presenting out of her open garage studio.

Sculpture by Sophi Kravitz — **Sophi Kravitz** **- Mixed-Medium, Sculpture**

Sophi Kravitz is a multimedia artist merging technology and traditional sculpture. Her first public artwork was a giant birthday cake for a Gay Men's Health Crisis event installed high up by helicopter. She recently completed an art incubator at Gray Area Org. She created life-sized unicorns shown at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum for ArtPrize (2017). Sophi collaborated with several young artists on "Occhiolino," reflections during COVID (2022). Sophi showed work in two Planned Parenthood fundraisers: "Nasty Women" (2017), and "TrumpCare IUD" (2019). She has received support from Burning Man, San Diego Arts Cap, Guerilla Science, and the Frey Foundation.

**Sophie Eisner** **- Sculpture**

Sophie Eisner creates sculptures, installations, and performances that explore the intersection of intimacy and utility. She uses industrial materials (steel, concrete, rubber), more traditional art media (plaster, bronze) and found objects (electric guitar, stethoscopes). With a background in ceramics and figure drawing, Eisner’s practice is grounded in close observation of the physical world and the hands-on act of making. Eisner earned her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has exhibited in the United States and internationally including at Simone DeSousa, Wasserman Projects, Franconia Sculpture Park, the Wright Museum of African American History, and Galerie Marzee. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Mass MoCA, the Vermont Studio Center and Salem Art Works and was honored with the Louise Bourgeois Award in Sculpture from Yaddo. Eisner was Assistant Professor of Art at St. Olaf College, a faculty member at College for Creative Studies and has worked with students at the University of Louisville, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Carleton College, and the National Gallery School of Visual Art in Zimbabwe.

**Susan Burlew - Ceramics**

I was first introduced to clay in High School and immediately knew it was the right medium for my art. I studied at MICA in Baltimore, MD and completed my BFA at SUNY New Paltz. Clay has been part of my life for over 40 years.
My work is mainly sculptural and ranges from simple slab pieces I like to call ‘shards’ to larger more complex vessel forms. Recently I have begun to make miniature shards into pendants. My current work is heavily influenced by my love of Archeology. I’ve always been fascinated by ancient cultures and their art. It amazes me that Art can survive long after the makers are gone. It carries the spirit and history of its people with it into the future. There is so much to learn from art and the civilizations that created it.

**Suzanne Goldenberg** **- Drawing/Illustration, Mixed-Medium, Stop Motion Animation**

Suzanne Goldenberg is an artist, writer, educator and activist from NYC. She has exhibited her work widely in NYC and internationally. Her writing can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Review, and most recently in NoDear magazine. She hosts the CRUSH reading series at the Woodbine collective in Ridgewood, NY.

**Therese Tripoli** **- Mixed Medium**

Born in Albany, New York, Therese Tripoli lived in Chicago and Brooklyn before relocating to the Hudson Valley where she now lives and works. She received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University, and completed graduate coursework in ceramics at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz. Tripoli is a mixed media artist focusing on voice, memory, place, and loss. She has exhibited at Kunstraum Gallery and Jason McCoy Gallery in New York City and has been included in the NCECA Clay National Exhibition. She has worked in national museums, with MTA Arts and Design and Franz Mayer of Munich.

**Todd Samara** **(1943-2020) - Painting**

Born in Brooklyn, Todd Samara lived and worked for many years in Kingston’s Rondout District. Inspired by Rondout’s hilly streetscapes and views of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River, he translated its rows of 19th-century buildings, churches, and iconic Wurts Street Bridge into dream-like reveries in a fauvist style of simplified forms and glowing color. Described as “the quintessential local artist” by American Artist in its July/August 2010 issue, Todd exhibited at numerous galleries in the area and attracted a loyal following. In 2017, after a couple of years of suffering from dementia, Todd could no longer live on his own and moved to a nursing home, where on September 30, 2020, he passed away.
A selection of Todd’s work will be on display over Art Walk Kingston weekend and available for purchase. All funds will go to the Todd Samara Project.

**Viktorsha Uliyanova** **- Photography**

Viktorsha Uliyanova is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working with alternative photographic processes,video,and fiber art. Her work explores impermanence, the notions of home,and cultural identity narrated through the prism of memory. She received her BA in English from Hunter College and an MFA in Photography and Related Media at State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work has been exhibited at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Baxter St. CCNY, Lorimoto Gallery, Participant Inc, Collarworks, among others. She teaches photography at SUNY New Paltz.

Artwork by Vincent Pidone — **Vincent Pidone** **- Drawing/Illustration, Painting**

A Hudson Valley native, Vincent Pidone is a self taught artist.

**William van Roden** **- Works on paper**

Artist books, printed matter, and other works on paper. Works lean into typography, language, repetition, shape and color.

Participating Galleries

**Artport Kingston**

*About the Gallery:* ArtPort Kingston is a contemporary art gallery & curatorial project space housed in the historic Cornell Steamboat Building along the Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY. We aim to create art experiences that offer unconventional interactions with contemporary art to a wide range of audiences. We work with artists to transform unorthodox art spaces into imaginative, user-friendly platforms that defy genre and often lend to playful, engaging relationships with the artworks. Through art exhibitions, performances, gatherings, and beyond, ArtPort Kingston explores the environment and cultural/historical heritage of the Rondout Creek, and serves as an harbor at the confluence of art, community, and historical preservation.
*Participating Artists:* Susan Shultan, Margaret Rolke, Lady Labor (Roxy Savage), Amanda Russo Rubman, and more.

Art Society of Kingston (ASK)

About the Gallery: ASK provides a rich and vibrant range of visual art exhibitions, performances, workshops, classes, and other arts-related events in its multi-arts facility. Our mission is to enrich our quality of life by bringing artistic experiences to the communities of Kingston, Ulster and Dutchess Counties and the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Participating Artists: TBA