SMALL WONDERS ARTISTS
Nest
Gouache and Graphite on Gessoed Paper
4.5 × 6 in.
JENNIE BOOTH
Jennie Booth’s work is cerebral and quietly intense. A colorist at heart, she creates paintings in which glowing hues emerge from black gessoed grounds, giving form to solitude and longing.
Booth has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Honey Badger Motel Gallery in Brooklyn and The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Susquehanna Museum, the Bernard Heller Museum, the Francis Maguire Art Museum, and Palazzo Gagliardi in Italy.
Throughout her career, Booth has received numerous residencies and grants supporting her practice, including the City Artist Corps Grant, an artAmari residency in Crete, the Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland, the Mano y Mente residency in New Mexico, and participation in the Sharpe Studio Program. Her work has been featured in print and digital publications. She maintains a studio residency through the ChaShaMa Space-to-Create Program.
Scattered Seeds
Oil on board
24 × 12 in.
BARBARA HOLT
Barbara Holt’s work explores the quiet struggle between growth, decay, and survival in the natural world. Drawing inspiration from the Catskill landscape, her current work focuses on invasive species and the way they climb, entangle, and surround host trees. Using her own photographs as source material, Holt enlarges and transfers these images onto board, then develops them further with oil paint.
Her work reveals the contrast between skeletal branches reaching upward and new growth emerging from below, creating layered images that reflect resilience, transformation, and the ongoing cycles of nature.
Holt holds a BFA in Painting from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz. She has also studied at the Woodstock School of Art and worked for many years as an art educator. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and arts organizations throughout the Hudson Valley.
Mare Obscurum No. 8
Photograph
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Evan D'Arpino
Working across photography, architecture, and fine art, his practice is rooted in a longstanding interest in the relationship between place, memory, and the natural world. His photographic work moves between observation and abstraction, using light, form, texture, and atmosphere to reveal qualities that can easily go unnoticed.
His images often transform familiar landscapes and environments into something quieter and more contemplative. Through careful composition and an attention to subtle details, he creates photographs that invite the viewer to slow down, look more closely, and experience the subject beyond its immediate appearance.
Coming Untied
Monotype
11 × 15 in.
Anne LaFond
Anne LaFond works across painting, printmaking, and interactive public art, exploring the interconnectedness of personal experience and the larger social world. Her work reflects on moments where individual lives intersect with broader cultural and economic forces, creating imagery that feels both intimate and expansive.
Through layered forms, gesture, and movement, LaFond invites viewers to consider their own assumptions and the complex relationships that shape everyday life. Her work is rooted in curiosity, connection, and the possibility of dialogue and positive change through shared experience.
Interspace Four
Pencil on Rives paper
11 × 7.5 in.
Ginnie Gardiner
Ginnie Gardiner explores the interplay of color, light, form, and space through a practice that moves between observation and abstraction. Her work often begins with carefully arranged studio compositions, where natural light and shadow become active elements in shaping the image.
Drawing on decades of experience as both a painter and multidisciplinary artist, Gardiner transforms these visual relationships into compositions that feel both structured and fluid. Her work reflects an ongoing interest in perception, balance, and the way familiar forms can shift into something more abstract and emotionally resonant.
Fresh Rain
Oil on MDF
18 × 24 in.
Jenifer Follman
Jenifer Follman is a contemporary landscape painter whose work is inspired by the ever-changing relationship between land, sky, and water. Working intuitively, she builds each painting through layers of color and texture, creating atmospheric landscapes that feel both familiar and quietly transformed.
Her work invites reflection and discovery, capturing fleeting shifts in light, weather, and place while allowing the landscape to remain open to memory and interpretation.