Current Show - October '20 - CRYPTIC GALLERY

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Ama

BIO

Ama is an American pop-surrealist painter residing in Chico, California. She is the face of the illustration brand: Absolute Ama. Ama's most recognized for her stylized blend of cartoon realism dipped in shades of vibrant pastel gouache.

Art of Ama draws heavy influence from Japanese Animation, 90's/early 2000's trance, magic, kimokawaii, and cyberpop culture. She enjoys experimenting with the juxtaposition of color and concept, masking heavy themes or feelings with soft hues, ultimately creating a universe in pastel. With ethereal women as her focal point, she breathes life to the female form with delicate beauty and charm, harmonizing them in a world of enchantment and the bizarre.

At this moment, Ama exclusively works in design gouache. Other medium includes watercolor, resin, ink, and digital. Find out more about her on popular social media platforms such as Twitter and Twitch.

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.

Tony Brickner

BIO

Tony Brickner is a Hudson Valley native, born and raised in Newburgh. He uses photography as his primary form of artistic expression, but frequently steps out from behind the lens to try his hand at other mediums. Much of Tony's work is on the verge of crossing into the surreal, while still feeling grounded in reality. When he's not working on his art, you could probably find him on one of the many hiking trails in the Hudson Valley, practicing yoga on the ground or in the air (he teaches both!), or just sitting back and enjoying the place he gets to call home.

Melanie B

BIO

Melanie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at SUNY New Paltz in 2017 and is a current MFA Painting and Anatomy candidate at the New York Academy of Art. She has been an educator of the fine arts since 2014, teaching painting and drawing, life drawing, and sculpture classes at USDAN and Ivy League School. Melanie’s artwork explores the persistent imagination of the inner child; her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout New York State, including The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Greenpoint Gallery, Upstream Gallery, Mills Pond Gallery, and The Huntington Arts Council. Melanie is also children’s book illustrator. Her work for Augie Goes to the Library- a 48-page commemoration to the New Paltz community and the titular Border Collie- was published in 2016

Julia Bliss

BIO

Tattoo artist by profession; painter, sculpter, taxidermist, and then some on the side.
I would consider it an impossible task to stick with just one medium, there is far too much to explore for that. Our world is full of tools for creation and that is one of my many inspirations. Being raised in a home of animals lead me to my favorite subject matter, my other interests trickled from there. My current work has mainly revolved around the combination of disembodied critters and light hearted pastels; my assumption is that stems from an interest in horror and disney from childhood.
Some things never change.
I love the freedom of the life I live and the people it's brought to me, I couldn't ask for a more rewarding career.

Craze

BIO

Crews: RA, TA, FUA. JIO

City: New England

Elif Varol Ergan

BIO

After graduation for her PhD thesis and artistic studies she researched about underground art and contemporary illustrations in Europe and Japan. Her art mainly focused on parent-child relationship, sex discrimination, women’s rights, feminism and human psychology. The characters in her early works can be outlined as uncanny, spooky and strange infants with pale faces, sharp teeth and shadows. There were heavy dose grotesque in the images, severe form deformations, sagging and melting forms merge and blend with intensive contrasts in red and black.
Her current artworks content is mostly focused on feminism, divine femininity, mysticism and women’s identity. She illustrates rebel female characters and move away from all kind of definitions and identities of women which has been put by the male dominance. She uses mostly “witch and wicca” metaphors for her rebellion ladies whose behaviours totally against the common thoughts and belief of society.
She usually uses digital media, digital imaging and CNC-machined productions also sometimes combines traditional media such as acrylic, ink, silkscreening for the artworks

Joseph Fasolino

BIO

Joey Fasolino is a Hudson Valley native currently living and working in Brooklyn. His work is influenced by dreams, nature, music, and the concept of infinity.

Heidi Foland

BIO

Heidi Foland is an illustrator and game industry veteran with an eye toward the juxtaposing the erotic and grotesque. Rendering uncaring subjects and worlds with pop surrealist whimsy, Heidi enjoys walking the line of playfully threatening imagery exploring a future of horror and the occult.

Ovid Forest

Geddes

BIO

I have been making art as far back as I can remember. I was born on Nantucket Island to two painters who put a pencil in my hand at a very young age. I have always been heavily influenced by surrealism, especially the work of MC Escher and Dali. When I left the island for the first time, at age 7, I was exposed to graffiti and my interest in manipulating letterforms began. Since I started tattooing in Chicago 2010, my influences have become more contemporary and personal. The use of psychedelics and automatic drawing as meditation has changed the way I approach my artwork over the years. Lately, I find myself mostly inspired by fellow traditional tattooers, graff writers and calligraphic lines. I view my artwork as a visual psychedelic experience and primarily work as a tattooer and painter.

Jason Henry

BIO

Born and raised in New York City, this S.F. area based artist earned his B.F.A. degree from S.F.A.I. in 1999. Though primarily a painter working in water based oils, acrylics, and latex paints he also works in mixed media, assemblage and conceptual art. As a former Chef and Underground DJ,he takes a ,“whatever medium is needed”, approach to his art. Building on his experiences and journey in the music, entertainment and culinary worlds over the last 20 years, Jason has returned his focus to creating his own personal art. With a passion for gripping visual oddities and palette that echoes the colors and textures of food and confections, his newest paintings coax the viewer into discussions about familiar but difficult emotions around various methods of self examination.

Kyle Indorf

BIO

Kyle is an Artist from Ossining, NY and works with collage and mixed media.

Insuh

BIO

I am a New York based erotic photographer.

Alex Kuno

Liam

BIO

I started working with bone when I was young because i had no friends and dead shit can't leave.

Lizzie

BIO

witchcraft, the occult, and inter- dimensional ideas on getting air and riding skateboards
Painter, doodler, designer, skateboarder and punk singer for the band witchslap

Nick Nightmare

BIO

Subservient being to Hannah Ward
Liker of sweet treats and liquid bread

Matthew O'Connor

BIO

Matt O’Connor is a traditional/digital artist based in upstate New York.
Currently working as an executive assistant to Lady Pink, and a graphic designer for Ron English.

Madeleine Rhondeau-Rhodes

BIO

Madeleine Rhondeau-Rhodes (b. 1992) is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received Dual Degrees in Historic Preservation and Studio Art, with a minor in Urban Studies, from the University of Mary Washington. In 2018, Madeleine had her first-ever solo-exhibition at Second Street Gallery, entitled siren x silence. In 2019, Madeleine was accepted as one of two artists-in-residence at the Maple Terrace Residency headquartered in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which subsequently resulted in an invitation to exhibit her surrealist paintings at three consecutive group shows at the prestigious Booth Gallery | Last Rites Gallery in Manhattan, New York.

Erica Roberts

BIO

Erica Roberts is a Brooklyn-based photographer from Massachusetts. She embraces the lo-fi, by-any-means-necessary approach to documentation. Her work focuses on her travels and life in New York, riding the line between objective narrative and subjective autobiography.

Keri Sheheen

BIO

Keri Sheheen is known for creating works that combine her love for printmaking with poster design and vintage optical toys. Her lifelong fascination with superstitions, spiritualism, folklore and unusual phenomenon are often the subjects of her prints. Making prints by hand is a passion of hers in an otherwise digital age.
Keri has exhibited work in galleries and shows throughout the tri-state area, including the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island’s Artspace and The Alice Austen House Museum. She also frequents local art fairs under her traveling print show, Parlor Trick Prints, including the Snug Harbor Fence Show, Coney Island’s Strange and Unusual Market and the Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market. In 2018 she illustrated the official t-shirt of Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade.
Keri was born and raised in Staten Island, NY. She received her BFA in Printmaking in 2013 from SUNY New Paltz. When she is not making prints you can find her making edible artwork in the form of cakes at her family’s bakery.

Kito Snow

BIO

Born and raised in Woodstock, after studying photography and being involved in the nyc fashion industry decided to focus more on personal moments between the graffiti and underground music scene.

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.

Sticky Wickham

BIO

Michelle Wickham is an illustrator living and working in New Haven, CT. She draws inspiration from medieval art, comic books, and children’s cartoons to illustrate scenes from the lives of a regular cast of creepy but fun-loving imaginary characters. Her previous work history has included such positions as firearms engraver, tattoo apprentice, and perfume bottle painter, all of which provided skills that continue to carry over into her work style. She currently lives with friend and fellow artist Chad, his dog Diego, and her cat Chippy.

The Unicorn Wrangler

BIO

Painting since 1997
From nowhere, heading nowhere

Tkid170

BIO

Tkid170 old school graffiti artist from the Bronx. Tkid is one of the most renowned bronx artist who has influenced a generation of new artists. His graffiti went from subway cars to main stream galleries throughout the world. His work is constantly growing and always relevant. His work can be found in collections such as Sam Esses Gunther Sachs and Agnes B. His work can be found in movies, commercials and video games. His documentary "The nasty Terrible Tkid170 aka Julius Cavero can be seen on the Night flight Channel. His book The Nasty Terrible Tkid170 is one of the best books on the topic of graffiti culture. From New York and beyond Tkid has touched millions with his art love and integrity.

Hannah Ward

BIO

Hannah Ward is a prosthetics technician and multimedia artist working primarily with colored pencil. Her works depict fragmented animal and human forms that raise questions about culture and spirituality. Her recent bodies of work contain loosely narrative, ceremonial images, that explore intimacy, mortality, and the process of healing.
Hannah Ward received her MFA in Drawing and Painting at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

yarkenstein

BIO

It’s just what I enjoy doing influenced by everyday life.

Keith Zahra

BIO

Creating art in the Hudson Valley for over 40 years, done a bunch of stuff here and there, some good, some bad, some ugly. True blue-collar illustrator, working on skin 23 years and a painter at times, I could tell you stories about the potholes on I-95.