​Monica Church

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“The design and architecture of the sails, along with their tactility, transparent areas, elaborate gold, and graphite colored fibers allows a dimensional space to unfold whether I am painting on their surface, printing with them or making a collage.”

 

Born and raised in Middlebury, VT, Monica Church has lived in New York’s Hudson Valley for over three decades. She is an abstract artist working in painting, collage and printmaking. Church studied printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, and has a B.A. in Visual Arts from Bennington College and an M.F.A. in Painting from The University of Kentucky. Her artwork is included in both private and institutional collections including Binney and Smith, Easton PA; Manugistics Ltd, Rockville, MD; Community Bank, Lexington, KY; Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA; The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Vassar College Libraries Archives and Special Collections, Poughkeepsie, NY; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY among others.

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December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026​

Opening Reception: Saturday December 6,  5-7pm

​Sylvia Mueller

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"The cuts I use in my collages are taken from patterns found in nature.

I’m fascinated with the repetition of a shape, like leaves on a tree,

when viewed at a distance creates the perception of that object being

whole, when in actuality it is made up of distinctly different pieces.

My work, similarly, upon close examination, is an image fragmented

and then reassembled to create a new whole. Unification of the image

is done through context, color, hue or texture.

In some of my work I intentionally pick an image that will meld with it’s

background and in others it is a selection of images assembled to

convey a mood, but in all the works I want the texture of the cuts to

come through in juxtaposition to the flatness of the images I started

with."

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Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and worked for several years in advertising and magazine production in NYC. It wasn’t until her move to the Hudson Valley from her home of

many years in Brooklyn that she found the time and space to work

creatively again.

This time, she enlisted magazines quite differently and art books to

create collages. The choice to change mediums was the desire to have a more textural, hands-on art practice. Her love of nature, one of the main reasons for her move to upstate NY, is reflected in the cuts in her collages as she captures the patterns in nature and applies them to printed material.

She has exhibited in juried shows in New York at Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, Sketchbook Gallery and Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in Woodstock, Muroff Kotler Gallery SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge, Create Council on

the Arts in Catskill and Limner Gallery in Hudson.

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December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026​

Opening Reception: Saturday December 6,  5-7pm

From the tactile rituals of analog development to the limitless horizons of digital editing, photography has undergone a transformative journey. “Darkroom to Lightroom and Beyond” shows photographers of all backgrounds with work that explores the evolving nature of image-making—from film to pixels, vintage techniques to experimental digital processes.

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Join us for this exhibition to see how photography has changed—and how it continues to shape the way we see the world.​

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Partecipating artists:

Jim Allen, Lynne Breitfeller, Phyllis Chadwick, Mike Chuney, Carl Cox, Mary Ann Glass, Dan Goldman, Julie O'Connor, Janice Pitt Patterson, Karen Pomarico, Howie Pohl, Mary-Anne Ramirez, Matthew Ranson, Joseph Squillante

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December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026

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Opening Reception: Saturday December 6,  5-7pm