Past and Upcoming Presentations

November 6th:

Maria Janina Rizzo will give a presentation on "Marketing Your Art, and Marketing Resources

for CNY Artists" 

Maria was born in Bologna, Italy in 1987 and has been working as a professional artist since 2010.

She recently participated in the NY Foundation for the Arts Mark Bootcamp, which offered a unique opportunity for individuals to focus on the professional and business side of their creative practice.

Maria Rizzo's paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout New York State and abroad, including the Red House Gallery in Syracuse, the Frederic Remington Museum in Ogdensburg and the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone in Italy.

Maria Rizzo's recent paintings are a tribute to trees. To create these "Totems of Life" she uses her memory of nature as a reference and intuition as her guide. The painting process is her journey to find beauty and balance among texture, color, and form.

Tree Totem 18, acrylic by Maria Rizzo

Tree Totem 20, acrylic by Maria Rizzo

Tree Totem 21, acrylic by Maria Rizzo

 October Presentation:
 Mary Ann Brigandi gave an informative presentation on framing

Mary Ann commenting on a member's framed artwork

Workshop with Elizabeth Apgar-Smith: 

 Eighteen OAG members and guests participated in a successful workshop with Elizabeth Apgar Smith in mid- September. Students sketched and painted at sites along the Seneca River on all 3 days. They participated in International Paint-Out Day on Saturday.  

Elizabeth Apgar-Smith explaining her approach which applies to any medium.

1.a comprehensive drawing to collect data.   2.a value sketch.  3. a color sketch

Seneca River, watercolor by Judy Hand

September presentation:
 Beth Sotherden  demonstrated her Approach to Abstraction

Beth explaining that each step she takes points her on what direction to go next

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One of Beth's acrylic abstractions

Featured Artist: Gale Shuba

It's a Cat Thing, 8x10" color pencil by Gale Shuba

I am retired and spend most of my free time with drawing. I started out with pastels and water soluble oils.  Then, I tried color pencils and fell in love with them.  I still bounce around sometimes, depending on my subject matter.  If I do pastels or oils for awhile, I yearn to get back to my color pencils.

I love to paint animals and will do them on commission.  I also love painting landscapes and flowers.  I work from photos and look for the unusual, like the cat.  I love what I do but still consider myself a work in progress.  

 

Gale Shuba

Green Frog 5x7" pastel

Oh, the Colors,  5x7" color pencil

Horse Play, 8x10" color pencil

 

 

Old Barn

Southwest Landscape 10x8" pastel

Stormy Seas, 16x20" oil

 

Featured Artist: Carolyn Coit

Portrait of a Man
"I have always been fascinated by the human figure and what a painting or drawing can tell you about the subject and the artist. I have worked in all media since I taught art to Art majors in high school and needed to stay at least one step ahead of them. Recently I have gone back to my first love, OILS. "




L-R: Andrea Smith, Back, Portrait of Another Man

OAG Spring Show and Sale

Garden Lilies, Barbara Bickford

Our 3rd Annual Spring Show and Sale is this weekend!

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 W. Yates Ave.
East Syracuse NY 13057

Saturday April 30th: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Sunday May 1st: Noon - 4:00PM

Come and support the arts.

You might find something that will make a good Mother's Day present.

Forgotten by Time, Helga Guilbert


Ogunquit, Marge Hill
Autumn, Linda Abbey

Featured Artist: Mary B. Touchette

Ode to Red

Painter of watercolor and mixed media for about 30 years.
Studied under:

Caroline Berry - Skylark Studios
Carl Wenzel - Syracuse University
Barbara Kellogg - local artist
Gretchen Ness - local artist

• Showed multiple times in On My Own Time - University Hospital
• Showed work at Edgewood Gallery
• Commissions to MacKenzie Hughes Law and other private personage
• Sold recently to MacKenzie-Childs
• Member of Onondaga Art Guild and Cazenovia Watercolor Society

"I love the challenge with every painting. Watercolor's unpredictability and surprises always fascinates me. I just love to paint."


L-R: Splendor; Lemons Up; Let's Bloom

Featured Artist: Dee Gage

After retiring from a career in commercial art, I returned to
painting. I was born in Michigan. I studied at the Detroit Society
of Arts and Crafts and later at the Art Students League of NYC. I
continue to attend workshops.
My watercolors and acrylics have won awards consistently at the
Canastota Canal Town Museum, Rome Community Art Center Show, our annual Onondaga Art Guild shows, and others. I have had one-woman shows at the Old Forge Library, and in Syracuse at the Paine Branch Library and Betts Branch Library.
In my paintings I try to project beauty and serenity as a counter force to the stresses we all experience.

L-R: Early Spring Pond, Farmhouse in Winter











L-R: Autumn Walk, Frozen Stream













L-R : Black-Eyed Susans, Windowbox

Featured Artist: Maria Rizzo

Human Nature #1
Artist Statement:
My current work is about portraying our human condition symbolized as a tree. The tree has three main parts: the roots, the trunk and the branches. The roots can be seen as our past, our childhood, and the experiences which help form the person that we are now. The solidity and the immobility of the tree come from the roots. I can see the roots, also, as our "inferno", our unconscious part, which is full of desires and irrational memories. Then we have the trunk which I see as the perception of our present, the image of what we have become through our experiences. I also can see the trunk as our armor, the walls that we create to protect our self from what is painful for us. The last part of the tree are the branches. I see them as a representation of our future of great potential and unsure possibilities. As an artist I want to portray our condition through cryptic images and I want to share them with whoever quests life.



Left to right: Human Nature #7, Human Nature #3, Human Nature #6














Left to right: Human Nature #10, Human Nature #11, Human Nature #12, Human Nature #2

Featured Artist: Susi Buschbacher

Seaturtle
Artist Statement: In 2001, I realized that the Syracuse night skies are not ideal for my love and interest in stargazing. I needed something else to fill my night activities that did not depend exclusively on clear skies. A friend introduced me to my first watercolor class. I started painting and a new world opened up for me, literally changing my life. I fell in love immediately with this medium and I still feel the excitement that I felt when I first watched the bright colors mingle on the paper, creating new colors in the process. Mostly I create realistic paintings, starting with photo references from my travel adventures. After the initial composition is established I let my creativity take over. I love every step of the process from start to finish and hope that the viewer enjoys looking at the painting as much as I had fun, painting it.

Below clockwise: Blue Line, Clown, Fresh Pick, Trillium, Sunflowers.

























Below: Peter, Reflections, Summer Walk











Below clockwise: Winter Creek, Winter Road, Cardinals, Downhill, Chickadees