THE ARTISTS

The Artists

Judith Campanaro

Judith Campanaro is a Beacon, New York–based mixed media artist whose vibrant oil and acrylic paintings explore the power of creativity to inspire and heal. A registered expressive arts therapist and consultant, she teaches across mediums, guiding others to discover their own voice through art. “My mission is to facilitate empowerment through creative expression,” Campanaro says, “believing that the artistic process, in any form, nourishes the soul and fosters well-being.”

Marina Caspe

Marina Caspe’s sculptures explore the raw poetry of human connection through everyday interactions and fleeting moments. Her work transforms personal observation into universal reflection, revealing beauty in the unnoticed and emotion in the ordinary. Each piece invites viewers to pause, feel, and rediscover the quiet significance of shared experience.

Joe Diggs

Joseph “Joe” Diggs blends figuration and abstraction to explore memory, emotion, and personal history. Working intuitively, he allows spontaneity to shape each painting, creating expressive, atmospheric works that reflect both self-discovery and the universal search for meaning

Carol Flaitz

Carol imitates the organic feel of glazing and clay sculpture, but on two dimensional surfaces, using acrylics, crystalline salts, ground glass, various resins, encaustic, and burnt wood.

Luis Fonseca

Luis Fonseca uses alternative photographic processes like cyanotype to explore memory, transformation, and the human form. In Mine, luminous blue silhouettes capture fleeting emotion and connection, turning moments of impermanence into lasting impressions of light and shadow

Sally Frank

Phillip Gebhardt

Philip Gebhardt’s work explores the tension between deconstruction and reconstruction, blending gestural spontaneity with intentional mark-making. His textured surfaces blur the line between form and fragmentation, offering a contemplative experience rooted in emotion, rhythm, and reflection.

Alex Geerken

In Orion, Alex Geerken transforms the vault into an immersive exploration of memory and perception. Through synchronized video, light, and sound, his installation mirrorsthe way memories fade and resurface over time. Inspired by the constellation Orion’s Belt, the work reflects humanity’s search for meaning through shifting patterns of light and time.

Karen Ghostlaw

Multiplicity In Motion is an immersive installation that transforms a 1981 double exposure negative from the Photo 101 series into a multidimensional holographic experience. What began as an experiment in layered film has evolved into an ongoing exploration of perception, memory, and the shifting nature of identity.

Stefanie Haining

Stefanie Haining reimagines everyday keepsakes through handbuilt ceramic sculptures that blend playfulness with depth. Her work transforms ordinary objects into reflections on memory, permanence, and the stories we carry, revealing beauty in the fragile balance between what is held and what is remembered.

Joan Harmon

Joan Harmon explores memory, dreaming, and transformation through sculptural works in glass. Her luminous forms, including brains, pillows, and feet, symbolize introspection and vulnerability, illuminating the mind’s ability to reshape and reimagine experience.

David Holt

David K. Holt reimagines familiar cityscapes through vibrant, geometric abstraction. His acrylic paintings, inspired by the architecture and rhythm of places like Newburgh, distill memory into color and form. Balancing structure with emotion, Holt’s work reveals how lived experience and imagination intertwine to shape our sense of place.

Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins creates surreal paintings that merge humor, philosophy, and human inquiry. His works place recognizable forms in unexpected contexts, inviting viewers to explore meaning, question perception, and complete the story through their own interpretation.

Kathleen McGuckin

Kathleen McGuckin’s work explores the transformative power of memory and its influence on the creative process. Drawing from personal history and lived experience, she layers mediums through brushing, scraping, and mark-making to reveal what lies beneath the surface. Her paintings serve as both record and reflection, capturing the emotional pulse of life in all its complexity.

Chris Neyen

Chris Neyen’s paintings explore the balance between structure and emotion through bold color, geometry, and abstraction. His work transforms design into meditation,
revealing the interplay between order and intuition, surface and depth, and the enduring patterns of memory.

Cécile Roberfroid

Cécile Roberfroid, a French/American abstract painter, found solace and inspiration in art amidst her nomadic upbringing across countries like Niger, Yemen, and Congo. Her diverse experiences shaped her outlook and fueled her creativity, infusing her work with a dynamic and deeply personal essence.

Andrés San Millan

Andres San Millan’s Nahuatl honors one of the world’s oldest living languages, celebrating endurance and cultural memory. Through charcoal and acrylic, he transforms the essence of language into visual poetry. A meditation on identity, loss, and the enduring power of expression.

Bill Santelli

Bill Santelli’s geometric abstractions translate meditation, music, and inner vision into vibrant fields of color and light. Through layered compositions that balance structure and intuition, his work explores the architecture of thought and the emotional resonance of form.

Catherine Schmitt

Randi Stewart

Randi Stewart’s ink-based works translate the textures of the natural world into visual meditations on time, memory, and transformation. In Origins, she captures the flow and resistance of ink as a metaphor for the unseen forces that shape both the landscape and human emotion.

Leonid Yermoshkin

Leonid Yermoshkin’s fine art photography transforms fleeting moments into evocative works that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination. Rooted in retro nostalgia and surreal sensibility, his images invite viewers to reconnect with memory and emotion through a poetic, dreamlike lens.

The Shape of Memory