Deirdre Leber (1959-2024)

My paintings, synthesized from observation and my imagination, are a dialogue between the observed and the remembered, the planned and the surprise that happens on the canvas. Over time I have been drawn to figures and have placed them within different settings, from interiors, to leaf filled woods and most recently, a series of women in water.

Water, because it is yielding and soft and at the same time amazingly strong, is a very suitable environment for female figures. In these images a tension is created between representation and abstraction as the figures appear and disappear in the fluid surfaces of each painting. Symbol and meaning are balanced and intertwined with the formal elements of light, color, surface and form.

Working with a palette knife, I layer one color over another, creating an expressive and painterly surface with a range of vibrant and subtle hues. Once I have composed the image on the canvas, the physical process of painting takes over as I respond to the interactions of textures, lines and shapes. Often, after the work is done, I discover connections between the figures and their surroundings, which I had not consciously planned, yet these add to the meaning and mood of the image.

That sense of surprise and discovery, a window into my subconscious, is one of the great joys of painting.” - Deirdre Leber

Judy Stanger

Judy Stanger studied fine art during her undergraduate years, and has undertaken coursework at both TheWoodstock School of Art and The Cape School of Art.She has been painting with pastel as her medium for more than 25 years while pursuing a career in the human services. Subjects of interest have been seascapes in Cape Cod and other Atlantic coastlines, and landscapes in the Hudson Valley as well as inArizona.

She draws her inspiration for seascape rendering from the sheer beauty that is expressed through the poetic character of light and color in seaside settings. Landscapes inspire a distinctly different sensibility by distilling images represented in nature such as mountains, rivers and barns through their interactions with light and color.

She lives in Stone Ridge, NY and is a graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany with a Doctorate of the Arts, an interdisciplinary degree in theHumanities.

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Tasha Depp

Tasha Depp is a teaching artist for Rehabilitation Through the Arts. Her paintings on assemblages of detritus and canvas depict carefully rendered glimpses of people, places and things, including other pieces of trash. (See more of her work at TashaDepp.com) She travels to Fishkill one evening a week to mentor a group of men who share an interest in visual art. While several of them are accomplished artists to begin with, others are trying it out for the first time.

Tasha provides some instruction, support, and inspiration. After a “check-in” around the circle of participants who often simply state how eagerly they were waiting for this evening to come and what a relief it is to be there, everyone gets to work.Inevitably, the room gets quiet. It was one of those evenings when I picked up the Debbie cardboard that one of the men, knowing that I often painted on throw away surfaces, had given me. At the same time, my “Inside” incarcerated coordinator and fellow instructor, Adam was working on his painting. He was newly inspired by a recent directive of mine to “draw” with the paint, as opposed to thinking about painting as filling in penciled outlines. He took to it like a fish in water.

Natalie Wasserman(1927-2016)

Natalie Wasserman (Wasser) was a fine and commercial artist. Born in the Bronx, she attended Washington Irving School and Queens college. She worked as a commercial artist in her earlier years. She self-published 3 children's books. She created many paintings on canvas and directly on walls in the home she lived in, in Queens and Sarasota, Florida. Some of more of her work can be seen at clairewasser.com

Claire Wasser (b.1958)

Claire Wasser(Wasserman) is a painter in High Falls. She earned her BFA in painting from SUNY New Paltz in 1979. The body of her work is a composite of primarily representational images of a broad range of subject subject matter, sometimes including text. You can see more of her work at clairewasser.com

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