One woman, endless talent
byA visit to the home-studio of Susan Obrant reveals the seemingly unending creativity of this fashion and costume designer, painter and illustrator.
A visit to the home-studio of Susan Obrant reveals the seemingly unending creativity of this fashion and costume designer, painter and illustrator.
WAG first met Kerri Rosenthal a couple of years ago when she was working with a Weston-based interior design firm. Today, the longtime artist and interior designer is on her own with a stunning Westport design studio/showroom that offers a glimpse into her heart-filled world.
If plates could have feng shui, his would be models of perfect harmony.
WAG first profiled Susan Stillman back in December of 2014. We then caught up with the White Plains artist – perhaps best-known for the custom…
Marcy B. Freedman, the Croton-on-Hudson performance artist, is teaming up with the musicians of SKIN AGAINST METAL to present a benefit performance Dec. 5…
It was back in our February issue, which put the spotlight on “Passionate Pursuits,” that we introduced our readers to Gina Bratter. It was…
For artist Kathleen Griffin, the butterfly flies in the face of nature. “Nature tells us that the bloom falls off the rose,” she says….
One of the most expensive neighborhoods in New York City, Brooklyn’s Dumbo is a synergistic place where stylish artists, actors, designers, musicians and filmmakers can showcase their works in understated galleries like SmackMellon and performance spaces like St. Ann’s Warehouse. Bars and cafés coexist peacefully with luxurious new condos housing celebrities, families and young executives in an intimate space between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges that extends east into Vinegar Hill.
Watercolorist and fashion illustrator Anne Watkins paints what she sees in ordinary and extraordinary New York. She records fabulous celebrations, weddings, people and places using the “surprisingly muscular medium” of watercolor with stylish, impressionistic flair.
The prolific artist Roberto Dutesco stepped away from his role as an in-demand fashion photographer and dedicated 18 years of his life to photographing the legendary wild horses of Sable Island, a pristine place some 190 miles off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Although Sable Island is sometimes referred to as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” – it’s the site of about 350 shipwrecks – Dutesco embarked on a mission to document this wilderness and in turn discovered living beauty and a new home.
“I can see what’s going on in the world by looking at myself.”
That’s Asa Jackson’s take on his evolving artwork. Asa is a 23-year-old painter from Hampton Roads, Va., but recently he could be found on Greenwich Avenue where he held a solo exhibit of his large-scale, Expressionistic portraits at the Samuel Owen Gallery.
Photographs by Jill Gordon and Mary Shustack You have to make your way through a narrow closet – but it’s worth it to reach…
Photographs courtesy of Max Avi Kaplan One afternoon in the spring of 2009, a crowd gathered outside NYU’s Gallatin Galleries, beckoned by the siren…