Springboard, a local artist networking group, presents new artwork.
Elizabeth Robles’ passion for painting and art has always been in her soul even before art school. States Robles, “I am inspired by what I see all around me in this beautiful world while plein air painting, working in my art studio, or working from my photos. There is always something I need to capture in paint, something I need to express, something that calls me to pick up my brushes and paint. For me it’s like breathing, something I must do in my life and what I was meant to do.”
Emily Gilman Beezley is a Glen Rock oil painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist specializing in one-of-a-kind vibrant dreamscapes and travel-inspired artwork. Always drawing on personal experience, her goal is to create a lasting image of the joy I feel when embracing the beauty and wonder of the world.
Jennifer Shaw Merz is a painter, illustrator, teacher, and published author-illustrator of picture books with art degrees from Marymount College, the College of New Rochelle and F.I.T. For this exhibition, Ms. Merz has chosen to display detailed pencil studies of musical instruments, created for her Etudes Series. This black and white linear work is a departure from her usual torn-paper collage pieces.
Joy Yoo is an outdoor painter who brings the air and light of nature right into viewers’ minds. At this exhibition, she is exploring Canadian Rocky’s winter; snow covered mountain and tree with icy blue shadow. Then she wants to warm you up with sunlit trees on a snow-laden hill on Paramus Road. In between her paintings, she is working full time as a dentist in Ridgewood.
Lydia Baldassarre has been creating art since childhood. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, she began her formal training and has never stopped. This exhibit combines abstract expressionism with collage pieces of her original artwork.
Vicky Katzman’s work is rooted in her fascination with the plant kingdom. By combining different methods of capturing visual information (in the garden vs. in the studio, ink on rice paper vs. acrylics on canvas), this series of paintings explores the nature of time. Vicky earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
