Current Show - August '20 - CRYPTIC GALLERY

CURRENT SHOW

Cryptic + Friends

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Raul Barquet

BIO

Raul Barquet is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary artist and independent curator from Staten Island, NY. His artwork has been featured on the cover of FONT Arts & Literature Magazine, on New York 1 Television, on the murals of the 100 Gates Project, the Centrefuge Public Arts Project, and BKLYN House, and is included in collections across the globe. Additionally, Barquet has conducted workshops in partnership with the Staten Island Museum and IlluminArt Productions.

Denis Barry

BIO

Denis Barry was born on February 19th, 1989 in the Lower Hudson River Valley of New York. His fascination with the artistic process began early on with sculpting clay. As this fascination grew, he was
instilled with the desire to share his creations with others, often giving clay toys to friends and family. His later formative years broadened this artistic inclination to encompass drawing, painting, and even some printmaking techniques such as block printing and silkscreening. During this time he was awarded First in various scholastic art competitions, and was able to pinpoint the successful elements to his body of work. The recurring term used by judges and peers to describe his work was “raw”; and so he used his collegiate years at Dutchess Community College and the Fashion Institute of Technology to refine and balance this almost visceral, “raw”, quality. Under the guidance and tutelage of his professors, he was able to evolve his work to be bigger, bolder, and more raw, all the while remaining balanced, compelling, and approachable.

Barry Barsamian

Shannon Bee

BIO

Shannon recently graduated with an Associates in Visual Arts from Dutchess. When not pursuing her passion for sculpting, Shannon works at Cryptic Gallery assisting for each show.

John Breiner

BIO

(b. Poughkeepsie,N.Y. 1980)
Growing up in New York with an early love for Comics, skateboarding and graffiti John’s maintained a career as an Illustrator / fine artist and muralist for well over two decades. While the focus of his personal work revolves around the reuse of found items, (specifically old paper, books and book jackets) he’s also paints large-scale murals, various private commissions and designs as well as curated a number of group art shows and installations.

Boogie

BIO

Risa Tochigi, aka Boogie, is one half of the dynamic duo boogieREZ. Boogie is a Japanese American street artist who crafts detailed imaginary creatures, flowing abstractions and fun and uniquely creative loving characters. Her body of work taps into the flow of the streets and the vibrations of the dance culture. Her creative spirit blends the technical mastery of traditional Japanese prints with urban imagery, materials and locations.

She is an illustrator, painter and muralist who truly lives life to the fullest. She can’t stop, won’t stop creating! She works on a wide range of projects in a number of mediums. Recently, she has been deeply involved in using plywood to bring her illustrations to life. Her imagination and love of nature and design has led her to create many organically inspired pieces. Some of these projects include, No Boarders, ART @ WTC, Poughkeepsie Gateway Project, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Anderson Contemporary Gallery, Clinton Street Gallery, Cryptic Gallery, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Nord Anglia International School, Art 4 WTC, Jonathan Levine projects, O+ Positive festival, Sun Rise Steam Shack, Int-O Yellow, First Street Project, Gownus Mural Project, Raw Brooklyn, Star Street Art Project, Meeting Of The Styles.

Adam Casey

BIO

As a recent graduate from DCC, Adam aims to create art that people want to see. While continuing to improve on his art and learn different mediums, Adam also works at a print shop in Woodstock, assisting others in making art themselves.

Taka Cooper

Asian & American influenced artist

Hiten Damodar

BIO

Hiten Damodar is a tattoo artist from New Jersey since 2016. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration in 2012. He currently works at Hudson Valley Tattoo Co.

Ramiro Davaro-Comas

BIO

Ramiro Davaro-Comas is an Argentine/American artist and entrepreneur living and working in Brooklyn New York. He is the creator and director of Dripped on the Road, (a traveling artist residency program based out of an RV) and an artist on the road at times. His dedication for painting, traveling and community work have allowed him to travel through his career and collaborate with other artists, and the combination of all three passions after many years led him to launch this unique program and artistic career.

Davaro-Comas is currently directing the artist residency program, painting murals, working on creative projects for design clients, and showing his work in different gallery exhibitions and public projects. His artwork is heavily influenced by his travels, street life, comic books, South American/European muralism, skateboarding culture and animation. Davaro-Comas works within his own vocabulary of characters, symbols and iconography, creating fantastical worlds in which his characters float and loom about. With a mix of illustration, painting and mural work, Ramiro’s work is bold and expressive, and launches its viewer into colorful mystical world.

Sean Donovan

BIO

Abstract portrait painter

Steven Howard

BIO

Photography has always been a huge passion of mine. Everyday it gives me a reason to get out and explore the world around me. I love taking portraits and doing studio work with low light.

Kyle Kirwan

BIO

Kyle Kirwan is an artist and sculptor originally from San Diego California working in the custom and designer toy scene.

Lady Pink

BIO

Lady Pink was born in Ecuador, raised in NYC and currently resides in the countryside north of the city. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon was well known as the only female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. In 1982 she had a starring role the motion picture "Wild Style". That role and her other significant contributions to graffiti have made her a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture.

While still in high school she was already exhibiting paintings in art galleries, and at the age of 21 had her first solo show at the Moore College of Art. As a leading participant in the rise of graffiti-based art, Lady Pink's canvases have entered important art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, the MET in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groningen Museum of Holland. She has established herself in the fine arts world, and her paintings are highly prized by collectors.
Today, Lady Pink continues to create new paintings on canvas that express her unique personal vision. She also shares her 30 years of experience with teens by holding mural workshops and actively lecturing to college students throughout the world.

Grace Lang

BIO

Grace is a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn and upstate New York, where she creates both two and three-dimensional work to tell stories of triumph. Continually preoccupied with the concept of personal “demons,” her work reflects the internal struggles that plague us all, creating visual expressions of those dark little thoughts that are at once frightening and sort of funny. Much of her work stems from the belief that these personal demons are not necessarily enemies but, rather, aspects of our selves that can be utilized for good. The figures in Grace’s drawings, paintings and sculptures are manifestations of her hopes for herself and for creatures everywhere. With each difficult experience, our armor grows and we become the warriors of our own worlds.

Long Neck

BIO

Born in 1977 in Middletown, N.Y., John Stoltz is an infamous artist, whose striking,pioneering artwork has depicted progressive interpretations as well as personal event.The birth of his talent was introduced during the Skater revolution of the 80's and was further influenced by comic book art. It was not long before his interest in animated design work was overtaken by the underground art world where he emerged as an up and coming Graffiti artist. He experimented with one of the most powerful art movements in recent history and considers the realm of Graffiti to be his greatest inspiration. It provided him with an artistic stage for his gifted ability to transfer raw street art material to mixed media design. His life experiences and artistic explorations have been instrumental to his development as an Urban Artist. His unique style allows him to create beauty on multiple platforms while maintaining an extraordinary balance between optimism and subtle realism.

Kara Moore

BIO

I enjoy using different mediums in many different ways. My goal is to allow others to find their own meaning in my work so that they can further connect with it!

Annie O'Neill

BIO

Annie studied art at the HS of Music and Art in NYC, Sarah Lawrence College and Women’s Studio Workshop In Rosendale.
Extensive time in Mexico has influenced her work. She currently is doing ceramics and painting and in the past worked on large scale steel animal and bird sculptures.
she has had the honor of working on two murals with Lady Pink and Roger Smith
She is part of the Gardiner Open Studio Tour where more work can be seen.

Annabelle Popa

BIO

Sick and tired of boring, basic, knock-off summer prints? Tropical patterns not hitting the same now that the pools are closed? Don’t pack up yet- Kingston artist, Annabelle Popa, has your quarantine home fix! Brighten your space up with a Toucan Bird Bud. For less than the amount of one stimulus check you can bring a new virus-free friend home. They will provide your room with the perfect mood for a relaxing summer’s day!
What are you waiting for? Grab your Hawaiian shirt, tropical house-plants, Mai Tai, and get ready to chill with your favorite birds- Sam, Pam or Tiny-Tam!

Glenn Probst

BIO

Photographer from the Hudson valley. Been shooting for 20 years. I shoot a little bit of everything.

Shannon Ramos

BIO

Shannon Ramos is an artist based in New York. Graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Illustration. Her work conveys a dark, but colorful twist to capture emotion with attitude and it’s own take on fashion, beauty and pop culture.

Sane Smith

Staudz

BIO

Self taught artist from Long Island specializing in graffiti art and cartooning

STETZ

BIO

Stetz is a self-taught mixed media artist based out of Kingston, NY
Born into a family of perpetual travel, having moved from one place to the next while living out of, in, and on the four C’s since birth: campgrounds, couches, cars, and casinos. This life of constant travel has given Stetz an endless source of inspiration. Opening him up to all forms of art even some he weren't aware of at the time.
In his youth Stetz had developed a speech impediment. Not being able to fully utilize his voice as an expressive outlet it was his aunt, a painter and teacher of the arts at university, who introduced him to the paintbrush shortly before she had passed away. Immediately realizing the pen and brush are a much stronger voice Stetz had begun scribbling on anything in his path. Carrying a marker since the age of 5 would enable him to draw on everything from car windows, to the back of paintings in hotel rooms, to bus benches, all just to kill boredom. Unaware that what he was doing would be the seed that later leads him into a life of illustration, design, publication, photography, videography, graffiti, fine arts, and street expression.
Over the years Stetz has fabricated a fast and loose painting style molded by the traditional arts and refined in the dark of night utilizing the quickness of the spray paint can. This love for creating public works of art has given much momentum to the lifestyle of perpetual travel allowing Stetz to show artworks and paint murals on an international scale.

Jared Tennant

BIO

I am a 25 year old photographer born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York. I currently study photo at The Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and I am always looking to improve my work and learn something new every day. I started shooting seriously in 2015 - I never took myself seriously enough to think I could actually do it when I was younger and I am extremely proud of what i have learned and what I have accomplished, from then up until now.
My primary goal as a photographer is to document and visually describe the beauty and art that surrounds me. I tend to focus on nostalgia, and the tangible feel of human interaction. I’ve always felt that a photograph should tell a story, which is what I hope I can accomplish in my work.

Lewy V

BIO

Lewy V conducts shading and texture into harmonious extremes of contemporary absurdity. Compelled by the spirit of human expression in its present and ever changing form; Lewy V combines the broad and twinkling shades of modern graphic design with the classical principals of 20th century Cubism and geometric prose of the post-war era. The contrast manifests those lofty themes of vices, sex and the resulting apathy, with the rigid and stark realities of trauma and self-actualization. What is born is a harmony of colorful extremes, wholly commanding a reflection challenging the monotony of everyday life, which Lewy V so expertly distorts into perfect place.