Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

Visual Arts

Susan Day Tells Her Story in Ceramics

by Christopher Heffernan

Visual Arts

Ephemeral Art: The Sawdust Carpets of Guatemala

by Roberta Schine

Music

Popcaan – Best Mood album review

by D. T. Alexander

Events

2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at The New York Studio School

Events

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025 – Western Connecticut State University at Blue Mountain

Music

The Tradition Continues: Luther Allison

by Roger Parris

Literature • Profiles

The Children’s Orchestra of the Clouds

by Shelly Reuben

Events

Wally Gilbert will take part of the 2025 Somerville Open Studios Event

Films • Visual Arts

Leonardo da Vinci – A Documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon

Visual Arts

Atsuko Mu Yuma — Artist with a Mission

by Marina Hadley

Connections of G&S

photography of lush green countryside and mountains in the background with a bus in the middle of the image seen through a lens arch.

Victor
Santos

Flyer that says “New York in TOON: An original tapestry woven from the fabric of New York Day in the Life Stories & Published Our Town NYC Comic Book Reality Narratives, Art Illustrations and Photography Photoons.”

Peter
Pereira

abstract painting with lilac and yellow background, multicolored lines and shapes overlaid .

joshuagabriel

Pyramid-like origami sculptures of thick material strapped with gold string and brass pins with knotted heads.

Renee
Cuny

Photograph of a the inside of a rustic hut with rays of sun crossing the front of the lens. A wooden bench is piled with bed linens, and a wooden ledge is full of books, jars and vases.

Barbara
Schneider

A still life pastel painting of a flower plant in yellows and pale pink

Mary
Moross

abstract expressionist painting featuring blues, reds and white

Sheila
Hecht

Minna
Resnick

A woman sews flowers onto a material with various objects behind her.

Hira
Kazmi

painting of pink flowers and green foliage background

Leah
Tomaino

Portrait of a girl

Chanit
Roston

Blue, black and white abstract image with upward vertical paintstrokes.

Marceil
Kazickas

black and white abstract work with columns of numbers in the bavkground, a mainly red and cream Russian poster an a small negative image of a girl.

Nadi
Adatepe

A person wearing a pointed blue hat with a pompom at the top wearing a skirt, while holding a large ring or hula hoop.

Cheryl
Finfrock

A naked man crouching on a seashell in front of a draped cloth with a starry sky in the background.

Seth
Keller

A girl with an easel, painter’s palette, windows, and the words: "I will spend time alone and know this is temporary."

Kayley
Isaacson

Abstract lines and paint strokes.

Dellamarie
Parrilli

Collage of woman with a glass in her hand.

Denise
Adler

Grey statue with its shadow on the wall.

Elaine
Weiner-Reed

portrait of a person in color pencils

Lou
Patrou

A red page sits on multiple things behind it.

Michael
Ainsworth

A human-like form dressed in plaid with a cat's head, holding another cat’s head. They stand in plants with cat heads.

Hanae
Sasaoka

A person stands in front of an empty storefront with an awning next to a “One Way” sign seen through a slit in a gate.

Jesse
Skupa

abstract painting with a woman's face at the bottom of the image, a neon image of the word love, bright colored swathes of paint, including drips

Eddy
Bogaert

Film clip of a man in the dark.

Paul
Dougherty

Rectangular abstract work with many shapes.

Yvonne
Rossetti

a stamp-like image on the yin and yang symbol looking like a coronovirus. Red Zomia Post is written in text as nwell as the title of the piece. Edges are scollopped like a stamp

Alexander
Limarev

Abstract expressionist work in white black and beige.

Mira M
White

A man doing a backward flip off a wooden platform that has the word NO DIV(ing) written on it, into the sea

Norm
Borden

Painting of flowers in a field.

Eleanore
O’Sullivan

Black and white photograph of the side of a barn with an American flag painted onto it.

Robert
Kalman

A shirtless person wearing a headwrap facing a headboard and curtains in a room.

Christie
Cruise

Photograph of a woman's torso partially covered with cloth and with one breast uncovered

Anthony
Buscaino

Two birds on branches with berries with a snowy background.

Emily
Shih

Scantily clad woman with her left hand over her head and clutching at her hair looking to her left.

Ashleigh
Alexandria

A list reading “my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends, road trips, swimming” signed R, clipped on a map.

Merih
Akman

painting of blue water, lillypads and greeen shoreline

Don
Gropman

geometric architectural design, heavy with white or light tan lines, giving the impression of a large wine-colored building in the foreground with a brown track behind it and perhaps a formal gren garden or roads.

Astrid
Witt

A long-haired girl in color wearing a blue mask in a black and white old-style NY subway.

Valerie
Patterson

An opaque plastic female body form with large crystal-like shapes lies on grass.

Bridget
Howard

Statue of a man in a suit sits on a chair, holds a Corona beer in his hand, and is surrounded by greenery, a fence and skis.

Lee
Day

A black and white photograph of a field of wheat with a small house in the far left corner

Peter
Welch

Painting of a human figure curled up inside of an opaque white egg on a dark background.

Anki
King

Brightly colored portrait of Lady Gaga with a black frame above her head. The letters 4 U GAGA are littered around her face.

Jed
Williams

Portrait of a woman with lively hair made of dynamic colors moving across the painting in different directions.

Esther
Barend

Abstract work vaguely reminiscent of torn fabric with a flower pattern.

Minya
Mikic

Abstract expressionist - 2 alien creature like objects mirrored and flipped, colored orange and red with bubbles on a green background

Joyce
Bailey

Six registers of different abstract works with a singular string on top of all of them.

Miss Ellen Ruth
Levy

Virginie
Dekker

4 film strips with images of people

Janet
Stafford

Painting of a cat rolling around on the floor

Nemo
Librizzi

painting on a wall - an abstract of pale, grey, tan and white patches that look fluffy. There is one black oblong with a white cross in the center of the painting with a few other random shapes and objects

Robert
Kingston

A forest of trees with orange leaves, green undergrowth, and blue skies in the background.

Shy
Raguso

Bryna
Silbert

Painting of a cowboy on a horse in the background with a young calf in the foreground.

Melchor
Moore

Abstract portrait of a woman with closed eyes, red lips and purple tones

Emily
Shih

Described as abstract informal by the artist. In 3 horizontal parts, small people, robots and other characters, on surfaces/planets covered in colorful dots.

Teruhisa
Tahara

Mutli-colored flowers against a blue sky.

Fotini
Christophillis

A chain link fence with a metal white chair behind it in an empty lot, with the skyline of New York seen in the background.

Giedrius
Jokubauskis

portrait of a woman with black hair and red lipd wearing an exotic headress and necklace, both with circular decorations

Marylu
Downing

black and white phtograph of an inside corner, with rays of sun hitting the two walls and the corner.

Brian
Auerbach

abstract painting

Victor
Grauer

painting with car, a woman dressing in a white top and black skirt, red beret walking with a jaguar in a jungle

Joe
Chierchio

A black and white image of a family of 5 holding hands on the sidewalk under towering abstracted buildings.

Catherine
Chaillout

Painting of a congregation

Gina
Petrone

A variety of pond foliage and autumn leaves floating on water.

Susan
Laing

Three people are outdoors. Two stand on their phones while one sits. They are all wearing casual clothes and sunglasses.

Luong
Thai

Drawing of a blue dream catcher surrounded by blue circular designs on a black background.

Dulcie
Dee

Painting of a multi-colored Buddha-like figure with a beaded necklace, yellow jacket, and a large belly.

Jim
Charette

An abstract image of a person face along with many colors and textures.

Claudia
Furlani

Dots in variations of cream to brown on a plain background and are denser to the bottom as they disperse upwards.

Capucine
Bourcart

Astract work in tones from white/grey and brown/black. Swathes of color, overlaid and textured paint

Jerry
McLaughlin

Abstract mixed media including digital work. Four oddly shaped blanks of varing sizes with random images and colors, laid on a discolored sandy floor

Nancy
Perry

Black and white photograph of a person in an overcoat and pants standing on the side of the road by a lamp post.

Carol
Julien

Many abstract headless figures cavorting around with various blobs of color floating around and plant-like bodies.

Betina
Jung

A bridge over water with orange and red trees in the background. Many people are on the bridge and in boats in the water.

Allan
Einhorn

Crumpled photo paper of a landscape with hills and blue skies.

Paul
Neale

Image of a person wearing a gas mask with an idustrial background, seen through broken glass.

Nicholas
Berdysheff

outdoor photo of three metal sculptures, yellow in the center and two black sculptures either side. A large tented building stands behind

Richard
Pitts

Black and white photo of a young man with no shirt on sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and his head thrown back.

Bill
Travis

Street scene in Madrid

Tomas
Castaño

Drawing of a red fox

Heather
Levy

Textured blue painting with darker paint dripping down the center of the piece.

Lena

portrait of 3 royals in robes, two females seated to the center and right, with a male standing on the left. Set with a red background

Karina
Sala

Abstract image of various small white outlined shapes on a black background. The shapes are conentrated at the top left and cascade down.

Claude
Smith

abstract digital image - colorful and busy detailed abstract images

Ilka
Scobie

A nude figure opens their arms towards a dark landscape with their back facing the audience.

Glen
Rogers

The World Takes A Breath

Thomas
Pickarski

A woman with black hair, a lace shawl, cracks from her chest up to her face, and no eyes stands against a dark background.

Ashley
Rang

sculpture of ribbed conch shell like shape. Glazed in dark brown/black and lighter colors with a pink tinged inner part

Naomi
Teppich

Abstract work of blacks, pinks and greys, with lines strocking upwards in an hourglass shape. in the lower half there is photograph of a person's face and spread hands peering through a window in a darkened room

Madeleine
Wories

Abstract collage with some of a face shown in the center of the work.

Bernice
Sokol Kramer

Image of a street scene with shops, apartments, and vehicles.

Arlene
Finger

Three elephant walking in long grass in Kenya

Lesa
Walker

A woman wears a white dress and a hat with a red cross on it. There are American flags as wings on her shoulders.

Linda
Dujack

a blue background with many small figures of people dotted about the canvas wearing different colored clothes, many in white tops with their arms outstretched.

Jens Ulrich
Petersen

geometric abstract painting with orange, blues, yellow, and various shades of beige amongst other colors

Matthew
Turov

An embroidery hoop with text that says "There is less room to avoid ourselves now."

Loosey
Hughes

A wavy palm tree on paper with a blue bird flying above it, all hung on a door

Janis
Anton

Museums

Museums

It’s Psychedelic, Baby!

by Dr. Bill Thierfelder

Museums • Visual Arts

Reading Women

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Museums

“Courage and Devotion and Firmness” Women, Real and Imagined, of the American Old West

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Museums

The Colors of Inclusion

by Dr. Bill Thierfelder

Dance

Dance

Paulio Sóvári: Beyond the Curtains, Captured

Dance

Max Malachi: Poise and Passion

by Roger Parris

Dance

Lee Edwards – “The Body is an Archive”

by Roger Parris

Dance

Ballet for a Better World

by Marina Hadley

Literature

Literature

Bookseller’s Row The History of Cecil Court

by Madison Arsenault

Literature

Nature or Nurture?

by Audrey Duckstein

Literature • Profiles

The Children’s Orchestra of the Clouds

by Shelly Reuben

Literature

Gen Z Returns Us To Books?

by Isabella Tomaselli

Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Susan Day Tells Her Story in Ceramics

by Christopher Heffernan

Visual Arts

Ephemeral Art: The Sawdust Carpets of Guatemala

by Roberta Schine

Films • Visual Arts

Leonardo da Vinci – A Documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon

Visual Arts

Atsuko Mu Yuma — Artist with a Mission

by Marina Hadley

Music

Music

Popcaan – Best Mood album review

by D. T. Alexander

Music

The Tradition Continues: Luther Allison

by Roger Parris

Music

On For Emma, Forever Ago

by D. T. Alexander

Music • Poetry • Profiles

Sista Zock: A Poet in Perpetual Motion

by Roger Parris

Films

Films • Visual Arts

Leonardo da Vinci – A Documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon

Films

Skyward (Gagan Gaman) A film by Suruchi Sharma

by Woody Sempliner

Films

Localized Blindness A film by Yan Wai Yin

by Woody Sempliner

Films

The Fourth Wall: 9 minutes 50 seconds A film by Mahboobeh Kalaee

by Woody Sempliner

Theater

Profiles • Theater

O’Wayne Dalhouse: From Spanish Town to New York

by Roger Parris

Profiles • Theater

Yohanna Florentino: A Deep Diver into Character

by Roger Parris

Profiles • Theater

Environmental Theater, the Suburban Dream and Mike Vitti

by Woody Sempliner

Theater

Spinning Tree Theatre

by Marina Hadley

Events

Events

2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at The New York Studio School

Events

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025 – Western Connecticut State University at Blue Mountain

Events

Wally Gilbert will take part of the 2025 Somerville Open Studios Event

Events

Art Walk with Art Students League