Exhibiting Artists at Gallery 32
Maria Crowley
Maria Crowley, a Fairport resident, is a grateful citizen of the United States. She arrived in America in 1962 from Cuba, unaccompanied, at the age of 12. She was sent to a camp in Florida for boys (under 13) and girls (up to age 18).
She lived in this camp for 3 months and was then sent to the state of Washington as a sponsored child by Catholic Services. She lived in a foster home on a farm.
She was transferred to a different foster home, which was run by a psychologically abusive alcoholic, who told Maria that her parents had died in an automobile accident.
After surviving alone for four more years, Maria’s parents arrived in the United States. The reunited family moved to California.
Upon marriage, and through connections in Rochester, Maria arrived in NYS. Life is much easier for Maria now, and she celebrates her daughter, a teacher, and her son, a mechanical engineer.
Why Zentangle? Maria answers this way: ”Zentangle is freedom, you don’t have to follow a certain format, nothing is wrong.”
Robin McCondichie
The vibrance of soft pastel has become my passion; it is a material that offers a language through which I can speak visually. I have welcomed working in oil paint and drawing materials, however, soft pastel most closely served my expression for the past 15 years. The layering of the medium and the interaction of the colors, whether abstract or landscape, captures the image I am seeking.
Each piece brings me back to a new beginning, a fresh challenge. The question is renewed; how will this piece find it's way to expressing the original spark? How will this material bring this snapshot of life through my hand? I am striving to develop a visual language to convey a sense of personal inner life, experienced yet concealed - a nonverbal observation expressed in visual terms.
Influential opportunities for me include obtaining a MFA from the Mt Royal School of Painting, Maryland Institute of Art, and an internship the in the conservation department of Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Both offered exposure to broader ideas and unique perceptions, opening my way of thinking and looking at art.
It is my hope that my artwork invites the viewer to explore the images with a long and lingering conservation.
https://www.robinmccondichie.com/
Ellen G. Horovitz
I have been making art since age 6. My formal art training was at the Rhode Island School of Design and NYU. I have advanced degrees (PhD) in Art Therapy. Currently, my work is at Main Street Arts, Gallery 32, Cheshire Union, Los Angeles @thepotshoplosangeles, and recently, my art was selected for the upcoming Teapots XI Exhibit at Baltimore Clayworks (1/26-3/26) as well at Main St Arts for the Small Arts Exhibit (opening 11/8/25).
I am a licensed art therapist, psychotherapist, registered yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, and trained EMDR clinician. I founded and directed the graduate Art Therapy program at Nazareth University, and in 2016, I retired from academia (Professor Emerita). I have published more than nine (9) books.
But mostly, I love making art.
Dana Besaw
Living in New York, and having the opportunity to travel has given me the ability to appreciate the natural world, and translate these reactions to create images.
Throughout my photographic career, I developed a good eye seeing the interplay of composition and light in nature and like to explore this in landscape photography. Light and shadow affect scenes and objects, bringing out contrasts, creating a mood, or an emotional reaction.
I enjoy immersing myself in photographic technology and processing images to illustrate what I saw or felt. Although I am interested in pushing technology to obtain sharpness, I also experiment with different camera techniques such as “intentional camera movement” to interpret what I see. I enjoy sharing my perceptions with others, giving them the opportunity to react to the images I have created.
To see more go to: danabesaw.com
Kay Howard
I am a biologist by training and a potter and painter by choice.
My hand-built clay work reflects but does not mimic the natural world. Impressed, textured clay slabs become functional and decorative clay objects. My ceramics often show leaves and sealife; my paintings are most often of water, trees and rocks.
Earth and sky toned, layered glazes and paints are used. All of my glazes are food, dishwasher and microwave safe. My goal is to create beautiful objects which others will enjoy using and living with.
As a professional full time functional potter, I have regularly juried into some of the top art fairs in the county. Since moving to beautiful Canandaigua in 2011, I have enjoyed getting to know the Adirondacks and becoming semi-retired.
My work can be seen locally at Gallery 32, Artizaans in Naples, and the OCAC gift shop in the Ontario County Historical Museum.
I can be contacted at kay.clay@frontier.com and on my landine at 585-396-5909.
Amina Bradley
Amina is an Elma, NY-based artist. Her artistic focus is on Golden Age Dutch master painting, with an emphasis on floral still life. She draws most inspiration from Dutch masters Rachel Ruysch, Jan Davidsz de Heem, and Jan van Huysum. A retired physician, she has spent countless hours studying the Dutch still life technique as well as the botany and science behind rare flowers, including the “broken” Dutch tulips which served as the focal point of Dutch tulipmania. A juried artist, her work is represented by multiple galleries in the Western New York region. You can find her either in her art studio, tending to her extensive flower garden, or gallery hopping in New York City with her Manhattan-based daughter.
Deborah Massey
I am a self-taught, emerging painter in oil and watercolors living in Canandaigua, NY and Oakland, Maine. I paint mainly landscapes and figurative scenes, especially people within a landscape, but I am turning to more abstract subjects.
For most of my life, I worked as a scientist and educator. After a near-fatal car accident, I returned to my first love of painting and never looked back. I hope that you enjoy my art.
Regina Morse
Regina developed her talent as an artist after enjoying a full and varied career as a teacher and administrator in public and private education, director in County and New York State Government, and budget analyst and negotiator for the NYS Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees.
She completed her undergraduate work at SUNY Geneseo and her master’s degree in administration at Syracuse University. She is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Enjoying all media and subject matter, Regina paints in watercolors, oils, pastels, ink and acrylics. While living in New York’s Capital District, she was a member of the Colonie Art League and showed her work at the Local Color Art Gallery and the League’s gallery in Albany.
Regina resides in Geneva and is an exhibiting artist at the Flick Gallery (Arts Center of Yates County), a member of the Penn Yan Art Guild, juried artist at Gallery 32, exhibited at The Dove and has had a one-artist show at the Billsboro Winery. Her watercolor, “Magnolias”, was accepted in the 2021 Arts Center of Yates County National Juried Exhibition.
Regina’s art is in the permanent collection at Albany Memorial Hospital, and owned by private collectors in the Finger Lakes, Capital District, Catskills, Long Island, Connecticut, Maine, South Carolina, Florida and Guatemala.
Regina accepts commissions and can be contacted at:
(518) 441-6611
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