PortFest Art Exhibit 2016
Come take a stroll through the PortFest Art Exhibit to view artwork by local artists. Enjoy viewing a variety of different styles and mediums including watercolors, oil paintings and photography. The works on display are all for sale and 50% of the proceeds will benefit HEARTS. Your purchase will support arts education in our public schools as well as support local artists.
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Exhibiting Artists
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Featured Artists
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Bhuvana Baskaran
Reuben Bechtold Lawrence Chrapliwy Lynne Chrapliwy Ronald Cooper Alexandra Feigin Barbara E. Fishman Michele Garfield Tani Gilani Shelley Holtzman Sandy Jo Hyman Akanxha Joshi Rachelle Krieger |
Jade Kuei
Diane Luger Kris Murphy Eileen Neville Shellie Schneider Mike Selbach Victoria Selbach Michelle Shain Marcos Sinconegui Stan Strauss Rhonda Verteramo Nancy Wright Will Wright |
This year we are introducing a new element to the PortFest Art Exhibit; Featured Artists. These artists will display a breadth of their work, as well as have demonstrations and/or activities using their medium. They will also be available most of the day for any questions that you may have.
This year's featured artists are: Lawrence Chrapliwy- Plein Air Oil Colors Plein Air Oil Painting Demonstration Throughout the day, Lawrence Chrapliwy will discuss his work and demonstrate his technique in painting with oils en plein-air (open-air). Michelle Shain- Water Colors Watercolor Demonstration Join us for a hands-on lesson in painting with watercolors from a still-life. Sandy Jo Hyman and Stan Strauss- Photography Photography Demonstration Learn about the various things that you can do with digital photography and the digital darkroom. Suggested ticket donation for each demonstration: 2 tickets per person |
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Bhuvana Baskaran
Port Washington I used to paint from my childhood but I have not pursued Art as an Education. I learnt few techniques of Tanjore Painting( Ancient Indian Art form) from a master and now, I specialize in making acrylic paintings on different topics. My first art exhibit participation was for Twitter Art Exhibit. You can reach me at [email protected] |
Ink Splashed Sunflower, Acrylic, 8" x 12", $30
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Reuben Bechtold
Port Washington Reuben Bechtold is a third-generation craftsman and trained artist with a BA from SUNY Purchase. He has a history of embracing unique, creative projects, plus 15 years experience as a licensed general contractor/master carpenter. He comes with a fine artist's passion for realizing a vision and a builder's dedication to quality methods and practices. Bechtold enjoys an active partnership with artist Dannielle Tegeder, with whom he'll complete an NYC public art project in 2017. Recently, along with collaborator Larry Gordon Stained Glass, he fabricated Tegeder's large-scale metal and glass mobile sculpture commissioned by Hamilton College, where it remains on permanent display. He has collaborated with partner van Enter Studio to restore a "Grand Sphere" Pomodoro sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa, and a cast iron façade and mosaic murals in Dallas’ historic Union Station. The latter received an Award of Excellence in Texas Construction. Bechtold has built a series of custom exhibits for Evette Rios (current host of CBS' Restaurant Rehab and former correspondent on ABC’s The Chew), including “Come in from the Rain,” Winner, Best in Show, for DIFFA/Architectural Digest’s Dining by Design event, 2011. His most recent Dining by Design exhibit, "The Comma Dining Pod" for designer Marc Blackwell, was featured in Architectural Digest in 2014.h |
Untitled, Charcoal on Paper, 8” x 10”
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Lawrence Chrapliwy
Port Washington Award winning artist, Lawrence Chrapliwy, grew up in South Bend, Indiana. Living at the edge of the woods and St. Joseph River, he was always surrounded by nature. While largely self-taught, he studied with the OPA plein air painters Kevin McPherson, Matt Smith, Kenn Errol Bachaus and Master Artist Xiang Jie. Trained at the Art Students League under painter Henry Finklestein in NYC. His preferred style is a loose impressionistic application of paint. He works primarily in oil and exclusively from life. Now, living near the water, his love of painting the local boatyards, regattas and the landmarks of Port Washington are his inspiration. He has many resident collectors who commission local scenes to remind them of this beautiful area on Long Island. Ninety percent of his work is plein air and often uses his on the spot oil sketches to create larger landscape paintings. Lawrence also teaches plein air painting to adults and young artists. Recently he has started a Young Maritime Artist program at the Science Museum of Long Island. He is also President of the Manhasset Art Association with an exclusive membership of 125 artists. He is also an Associate member of the Oil Painters of America and The Society of Marine Artists. He has won many awards for his paintings both regionally and nationally. During PortFest 2014,Congressman Steve Israel purchased one of his plein air paintings of the Sands-Willets House for his office in Washington, D.C. Lawrence and his wife Lynne are Artists in Residence at the Historical Sands- Willets House which is the home of the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society. |
Town Dock Sunset, Oil, 18" x 24". $1,200
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Ronald Cooper
Stony Brook Ronald Cooper was born and raised in the Bronx, New York and presently lives in Stony Brook, New York with his wife Arlene. Cooper was educated in the New York school system and attended Pratt Institute and The Arts Students League. His pastel works are presently in private collections in East Hampton and throughout Long Island and New York City. This versatile artist's original pastel paintings consist of landscapes, still life, florals, animals and sports figures. |
Roses in Bloom, Oil Pastel, 30" x 24", $500.
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Alexa Feigin
Port Washington Alexandra Feigin is a native New Yorker, artist, and mother. She is a self taught street photographer, inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and primarily interested in capturing both the "decisive moment" and the juxtaposition of every day life. She is a photojournalist on the front lines of suburban reality. |
Heart Cuddle, Photograph, 16" x 20", $85
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Barbara E. Fishman
Port Washington |
Wax Wing, Oil on Linen, 20" x 25", $1,500
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Michele Garfield
Port Washington People, life, moments in time, surroundings, light, shadow, color, shape and design all converge in one place: my canvas. I take photos of people moving through life and hone in on something that I want to capture in paint. Sometimes it’s the mood created by light and shadow. Sometimes it’s the relationship of people to the environment around them or the visual connection between people. Every interaction provides a subject to be interpreted. My passion for painting and appreciation for daily life allow me to fill the space of a blank canvas with color and life. |
Tourists– Siena, Italy, Oil on canvas, 24" x 12"
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Shelly Holtzman
Port Washington My love of art began in childhood and has stayed with me to this day. I received a BFA from The University of Michigan. After graduation, I returned to New York and began a 13-year career in advertising as an art director, and later, group creative director, senior vice president, for Brouillard Communications, a division of J. Walter Thompson. I left the corporate world to start a family and to once again, pursue the study of fine arts. Through the years I have studied art at The Art Students League, The New School and The School of Visual Arts in New York City; also at Stanford University, Syracuse University, The University of London and the Nassau County Museum of Art. My background in graphic design influences my style, which emphasizes strong outlines, bold shapes and rich hues. I’m drawn to the way color is reflected in light and shadow and try to intensify this relationship on the canvas while capturing the spirit of the moment. I am Co-President of The Art Guild of Port Washington, located at the Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd and also a member of the Port Washington Library Art Advisory Council. While living on Long Island I have had two solo shows at Northwinds Coffee House in Port Washington, exhibited multiple times with The Art Guild at Elderfields and The Graphic Eye galleries and with the Huntington Arts Council. In 2010 I had a solo exhibit entitled Petals & Portraits at The Reconstructionist Synagogue in Plandome, NY. In 2011 I had a show called Mid-Winter Summer Solstice at North Shore LIJ Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY. Posters of my artwork still line the hospital’s waiting room. |
The Shed, PITT Artist Pens, 17" x 21", $150
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Akanxha Joshi
Port Washington I am a Graphic / Web designer from Port Washington. I love this community and here is my hand drawing for Port Fest. Visit my website to know more about me and my work. http://www.akanxha.com/ |
Smile with me!, Crayola Marker on Thick Paper, 9" x 12", $5
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Rachelle Kreiger
Port Washington Rachelle Krieger was born in NYC, and currently lives and works in Port Washington NY. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in both the US and abroad, and were recently featured in The Heckscher Museum of Art’s inaugural Long Island Biennial. A select example of exhibits include those at Susan Eley Fine Art in NYC, the Dorian Grey Gallery in NYC, Etra Fine Art in Miami, the Judi Rotenberg Gallery in Boston, the Simon Gallery in New Jersey, the Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery in San Francisco, the Wyndy Morehead Gallery in New Orleans, the Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery in Dallas, the Federal Building in NYC, and the Taylor Jardine Gallery in London. An award-winning painter, Rachelle Krieger has been honored with the Mark Rothko Memorial Scholarship, the Alexander Medal, and the Award for Excellence in Design from Pratt Institute. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1989, and has studied at the Art Students League and New York Studio School in NYC. Her paintings are part of numerous private and corporate collections, and her work has been featured in several publications including TIME Magazine, The NY Times, LI Pulse Magazine, and Newsday. Krieger currently serves on the Art Advisory Council for the Port Washington Public Library Gallery. |
Window Panel V, Oil on Linen, 30” x 22”, $2,400
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Jade Kuei Mumbot
Port Washington "Jade Kuei a.k.a. “MUMBOT” (b. 1981) Kuei graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2003, focusing on fine art and two-dimensional animation. In her free time she has been hard at work developing powerful creative formulas. Kuei illustrates whimsical yet haunted abstractions of her own dreams and experiences. Her kids and their superpowers, have been catalysts of inspiration and as the fulcrum for her further documentation, remain the key to unlocking her magnum opus. Ms. Kuei's work has been described as "Creepy-cute" and is generally associated with lowbrow, urban, kawaii, pop-surrealist art. She has exhibited around the country and as far as the Philippines. Most recent notable art gallery exhibitions include Giant Robot's Post-it Shows 10 and 11 alongside artists such as Matt Groening, Jim Lee, Audrey Kawasaki, James Jean & more in Los Angeles, a traveling skateboarding themed exhibition in Colorado titled "Push, Pop, Kick" and also in Brooklyn, NY at the Cotton Candy Machine in their juried show this past December. Kuei has currently been working on a new body of work for an upcoming solo exhibition. Her work has also been published in several kawaii art & design books including "Kawaii Design+" and "Chibi Manga Irresistible" which was just released this March, 2016 - the books are available at the PW Public Library or try your local bookstore. You can find Miss Jade teaching "Art Club" at the PRC and other art workshops for kids in Port Washington. You can also find her portfolio online at: www.woodenantlers.com Follow her social media here: Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram: @mumbot Facebook.com/jadekuei Shop: Ghosting.bigcartel.com " |
Wizardly, Black Ink and Gouache, 16" x 12", $800
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Diane Luger
Port Washington |
Sands Point Trees, Black and White Photograph, 16" x 20", $150
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Kris Murphy
Sea Cliff Kris is an artist who has been teaching art at Paul D. Schreiber High School for the last twenty five years. She works in all media. |
Path to Be, Digital Photography, 11" x 14", $100
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Eileen Neville
Port Washington |
White Daisies, Watercolor on paper, 12" x 12", $150
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Shelly Schneider
Port Washington Shellie Schneider works on L.I. NY and in the Berkshires of MA. She has studios in both locations. These venues offer inspiration and enrichment through the beauty of nature as well as experiencing the rich, varied cultural life of both areas. Shellie has been involved with art on many levels from an early age. It has been a major force in her life and an important satisfying career. It has taken her through extensive study with outstanding teachers and her own participation in the education profession. She has taught art to many age groups. In addition to classroom teaching, Shellie has done numerous demos of her techniques for schools, libraries and a variety of organizations. Her commitment to her chosen field is evident in a range of art media, starting with painting, adding printmaking and collage and returning to painting. |
Reclaimed, Screenprint, 16" x 20", $225
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Mike Selbach
Port Washington Selbach's primary medium is wood. Selbach primarily works with carved and assembled wood relief sculptures. Woodcuts are a special case of very low relief. His woodcuts are strongly influenced by German Expressionist woodcuts, especially those of the Die Brucke group - Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller et al. Selbach lives and works in metro Port Washington. [email protected] 917 575-4073 mikeselbach.com |
Kilroy, Woodcut, 13" x 18", $220
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Victoria Selbach
Port Washington Victoria Selbach is a New York Contemporary Realist best known for her lifesize nudes caught at the intersection of light and shadow. Her gaze is directed through a deep connection to individual women who carry their strong presence and complex beauty onto the canvas. Capturing the intricacies of unique women through a powerful merging of empathy and paint allows Selbach to deepen her understanding of herself and promotes a journey to uncover and embrace the diversity and complexity of all the women we are. Selbachs work exhibits in galleries, museums and collections nationally, including the Heckscher Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art and the Tullman Art Collection. The Huffington Post reviewed Selbach’s work in an article by Priscilla Frank, ‘Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are’. An archive of Selbachs work is available a victoriaselbach.com |
Reclining 2, charcoal on paper, 18" x 24", "$180
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Michelle Shain
Port Washington For 15 years, Michelle Shain worked as an art director at a New York City ad agency specializing in high-end fashion and luxury goods. She then switched gears and brought her work in-house as a full-time freelance graphic designer. In addition to design, watercolors are her passion. Fun, lighthearted and colorful, her paintings tell stories and share memories. Michelle earned her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art. Go Blue! |
Flats, watercolor on paper
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Marcos Sinconegui
Port Washington My work usually starts with found images or snap-shots that resonate with me because of the source, subject matter, graphic qualities, or an emotional connection. At times, I search for images that relate to a theme or a subject that I have in mind and always allowing the search take me to unexpected places. Once an image is chosen, I let the art making process take its course. I explore ways of creating works that combine traditional forms of art making and medium with commercial graphic techniques and materials, as well as technological tools used to create images. I manipulate the images using computer software which I then transfer to the surface of the works using layers of colors and lines. I am interested in the juxtaposition of very freely applied fields of color where everything is possible and there are no rules with the symmetry of monochrome lines or graphic shapes. I allow the process, materials and techniques I use to dictate the outcome. This combination of materials, techniques and technologies seeks to connect the symbols of culture, history and media that construct perceived reality, and the understanding by which our lives and shared existence is rendered legible. |
9292, Mixed media on masonite board, 19.5" x 14", $250
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Stanley Strauss
Port Washington Stan Strauss is an avid photographer and computer geek. He started his photography over 40 years ago, and, except for a period with a young child running around, has been busy making photos every since. He is a member of the Photography Club of Long Island, the Flushing Camera Club (past president), the Long Island Center of Photography, the Manhasset Art Association and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. With the advent of digital photography, he was able to marry his photography with his geekiness. In addition to photography, Stan provides instruction on basic photography and photo-editing, especially Lightroom and Photoshop. For more information and an additional images, visit www.StanStraussPhotography.com or email [email protected]. |
Windblown Tree, Digital Photography on Canvas, 20" x 16", $350
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Rhonda Verteramo
Plainview Always having had a flair and a passion for art, Rhonda has a personal touch in every piece of art that she creates. From nature to family , reality to fantasy , Rhonda's artwork adds color to everyone's world . Her sense of color , perspective and emotion transcend all generations. Those who have seen paintings by Rhonda are in awe of her interpretation of the world and its beauty. Not only does she offer her work to her family and friends but to the art connoisseurs of the local areas as well . Join her in her artistic interpretations as she travels the french countryside , the Hampton beaches , the gardens of upstate New York , the flowing rivers of Europe and so much more . Her "brush" along the canvas will "stroke" your senses and move you vicariously into her paintings. This is an artist not to miss. |
Long Island Sound, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12", $850
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Nancy Wright
Port Washington Nancy is a skilled silversmith as well as a casual photographer with a fine eye for found images. |
Wings, Photogaph, 19" x 13", $200
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S. Willis Wright
Port Washington This Port Washington resident was given his first camera as a teenager and has had a camera with him throughout the balance of his life. His business career involved producing film commercials for a major advertising agency—and a near total immersion in photography. His affection for photographing life as he sees it has continued well into his retirement years. To this day he works largely in film and still maintains a black and white darkroom. Wright is an exhibited and published photographer. |
Clearing Storm, Sunset, Photograph, 13" x 19", $200
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