Terry Falquero

Terry Falquero is a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology with degrees in Fine Arts and Illustration. Terry worked as a head studio designer for a Manhattan textile manufacture and in the art industry for ten years before pursuing her legal career in court reporting. She is also certified to teach classes and has taught at Studio E in Miller Place in mixed media and art start. Terry feels "We all started drawing and painting at an early age and I just never stopped." Her artwork was sold to various designers in NYC and has also been featured in galleries and sold at local art fairs and to private collectors. She now owns and directs Studio East Gallery in Greenport, New York.

Mike Jablonski

Mike Jablonski has a BS in Art Education from the Southampton College and an MS in Instructional Technology from Stonybrook University. Mike has been teaching high school art at Mattituck for the past 10 years. His classes include fine arts as well as computer graphics, graphic illustration, studio art, drawing, crafts, independent studies, animation and video editing. I have been creating artwork and showing in local galleries since 2000. I am committed and excited about teaching and having students enjoy the art world. Mike owns and operates Studio E in Miller Place.

Barbara Bilotta

Barbara was born in New York and attended the Stony Brook University Arts Program. She considers herself an abstract impressionist, using the flow of colors and their relationship to trigger the imagination. Her work has been described as Vibrant, Passionate and Energetic. She now dedicates herself solely to her work throughout various galleries and art festivals nationally. Website: www.teklafineart.com.

Donna Stapleton

Bio coming soon!

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Anna Franklin

As a native Italian, I grew up with an appreciation of art in all aspects. While traveling extensively abroad, my primary destinations have been and still are the world's famous museums. The Van Gogh and Brandywine, are my favorites. My dedicated years as a teacher of Romance Languages left little time for the actual painting and execution of art. After leaving the classroom, I have been totally devoted to painting in water based mediums. I like to diversify styles and moods instead of sticking to a repeated formula. I have exhibited at various art venues here in the East End: Ashawagh Hall, the Southampton Cultural Society, the Bridgehampton Historical Society Archives, at Guild Hall, at the Blue Sky Restaurant in Sag Harbor at the Barnes Gallery in Garden City, etc. I can be seen regularly as a member artist, at Studio East Gallery, 120 Front Street, in Greenport. I am also a member of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton, Southampton Artists Association and the East End Arts Council with whose membership I show regularly. I have founded the Bell'Arte Group, a group which includes 5 other artists of diversified talents, which has shown successfully around East End venues. My inspiration comes primarily from the beauty of the East End, where I reside with my husband.

Dr. Roslyn Marcus

Dr. Roslyn Marcus was born in New York. Her focus on photography combined with her life-long dream of becoming a professional artist has ignited her interest in Decoupage. Her skills are expressed on contemporary combinations of fantasies. She demonstrates a wide range of emotional freshness combined the familiar and the mundane. Her creative process is both thought provoking and whimsical. She sees her artistic renderings as expressions of the yearnings and desires of the subconscious mind.

Judy Valentino

Judy Valentino was born on Long Island and came to the art world later in life after joining Studio E art classes in Miller Place. Her artwork has been shown and sold in galleries and Art Fairs. Her work features realism and fine detail. Judy confides, "I try to create a tranquil feeling in my work".

Ron Nicoletta

Ron is a self taught Photographer. He started shooting at the age of 13 with a Box Camera borrowed from his father. He learned processing and developing of Black and White Film and Prints in a small Dark Room he set up in is parents basement. Ron continued with a variety of SLRs throughout his teen and adult years. In the last few years he has moved to Digital Format and enjoys learning a new process. Ron studied Architecture in High School which taught him to appreciate Form. His Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees are in Psychology and for the past thirty years he has worked with children as a School Psychologist. Quite often these are influential to Rons varied themes and subject matter. While Ron will occasionally shoot Black and White, ТI prefer color because of its strong influence on emotions.У

Jim Sabiston

Art was little more than a passing curiosity to me until I saw the works of artists such as Maxfield Parrish and Andrew Wyeth back in the early Ф70Хs. Here were my mentors with the keys to a new way of seeing. Inspired, I tried my hand at watercolor, pencil, airbrush, even custom vans and motorcycles at one time or another with some success. I gradually learned to see the world with a painter's eye. The greatest transition occurred with the invention, and my subsequent discovery of, digital photography. A nomad spirit seeking out the quiet, secret places of the natural world, I traveled the remote backcountry of the mountains, witnessing first hand these spectacular, natural vistas. The camera, at first, was just a tool that allowed me to bring a record of these places back home to share. I soon discovered that the camera held within it a special magic if one only took the time to learn to see with it. Here was, for me, the perfect marriage of the artistic vision and the tool to express it - and it has led me to an unlikely place; a traveler in search of what it means to truly see the world and who discovers a hidden truth. The vision has grown to include the more traveled places, the mundane every day places and things that most no longer see, so inured to the commonplace as we inevitably become. My chosen task is to break through that hard carapace, to bring you back to the spirit of the reality that lies just underneath the surface of our lives, to communicate again, even if for a moment, with that vital thread of life.

Clarence Simpson

Clarence Simpson is an Award Winning Eastern Long Island Artist and Photographer. Mr. Simpson has taken images of a variety of the Island's landscapes and seascapes as well as still life, floral images and urban street scenes and urban characters. Photographers and artists such as Clarence D. Simpson Sr., Gordon Parks, Minor White, Edward Weston, Alfred Steiglitz, Paul Gauguin, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, Diego Rivera, Dali, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Kahlo, and Bresson are just a few of the artists that have greatly inspired Mr. Simpson's work. Mr. Simpson's images are primarily in silver gelatin/ black and white 35 mm. He has recently added the digital photo/art media to his repertoire. Educated at SUNY Empire State College in Saratoga Springs NY, Clarence received both his AA and BA degrees in Cultural Studies with a concentration in American and African- American History. Mr. Simpson is affiliated with North Shore Arts Guild, Studio East Gallery, The Schomburg Society, East End Arts Council, South Bay Arts Association, Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council, IMDB, Vietnam Veterans Of America. Mr. Simpson's work has been published in several educational magazines and newsletters. He also has still photo credits as well as live performance credits in his resume.

Michael Azzato

Michael Azzato has been passionate about photography for over 30 years. He graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and later Queens College with a Bachelor of Science and Masters Degree. Although he enjoyed a successful career as a teacher and associate real estate broker, his ongoing love is his passion for photography. Prior to digital photography he developed his own pictures in his traditional wet dark room. Michael now embraces traditional photography with digitally enhanced photos as a new medium of art expression to create more powerful images. He has won numerous awards and prizes for his imaginative and yet distinctive photography. Some of his photographs have been published in Newsday and other Long Island newspapers. Recently he was asked to photograph two well know professional photographers- Charles Needle and Robert Schiller. Michael enjoys photographing in NYC, as well as all over Long Island and the Hamptons. He travels frequently through out the United States and Europe in search of people and places to photograph. Michael continues to create pictures that make a statement about life, nature, and beauty by merging art with photography.

Pat D'Aversa

Pat studied art and photography at SUNY Farmingdale and Dowling College and continues to perfect her craft attending Photography Workshops. Much of her work focuses on Floral Portraits and abstract interpretations greatly influenced by Georgia OХKeefe and Joyce Tenneson .She has received numerous photography awards and has had three solo exhibitions, most recently in 2010. A member of EEAC, Suffolk Camera Club, Photographic Society of America and Women Sharing Art, Inc, Pat recently retired from a life long career in health care and is devoting most of her time to photography. More of her work can be seen at: www.womensharingart.org/patdaversa.

Nacola Wilson

Nacola Wilson is an Eastern Long Island Photographer and Artist. I specialize in colorful abstract floral, landscape, seascapes and still life scenes from around Metro New York and Long Island. I discovered my passion for photography in 2009 when I incorporated the use of the digital format. Digital software allows me the freedom to express my creative style to enhance my images. I have been inspired by several artists which include Monet for his impressionist works and Georgia O'Keefe for her unique floral style. I also admire the photographic style of Clarence D. Simpson as well as his critique of my work. I am currently affiliated with the North Shore Art Guild, Studio East Gallery II and The Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Countil.

My works have been on display at the following venues:

Briarcliff College, Patchogue, NY

Gallery on the Hill, Farmingville, NY

Phoenix Gallery, Bellport, NY

Rose Carracappa Building, Miller Place, NY

Sachem Library, Ronkonkoma, NY

Duryea State Office Building, Hauppauge, NY

Studio East II, Greenport, NY

Kirk Larsen

One of Long Island's premier maritime and landscape artists joins Studio East Gallery. He is passionate about all forms of creativity he has earned over 96 awards painting, drawing, sculpture & writing. He works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, pen & Ink, Carves in: stone, wood, clay, & ice. Subjects: portraits, still life, seascapes, boats, illustration, graphics, representational & abstracts. A phenomenal maritime-nautical artist & plein air Landscape painter. Awards include "The Katlin Family Seascape Award" (The Salmagundi Club, NY), Mystic Seaport's 31st annual International Maritime art Show and Talent in Motion Magazine's "Artist of the Year". Over 44 solo shows, collections in 7 countries, exhibited in The L.I. Museum of Fine Arts, Hecksher Museum of art, The Nassau County museum of Art and The Islip Art Museum. A true renaissance man, his talents extend to acting, motivational speaking, also writing short stories, poetry & screenplays. A graduate of SVA, Kirk enjoys teaching, demos and workshops.

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Rosanne Kaloustian

is a compassionate artist whose works project a feeling of warmth and tranquility. To reward her talent, she received a full scholarship to the National Academy of Design where she was given the Suydam Gold Medal. After traveling throughout Europe on an independent studies program, she began a professional career as a fine artist and illustrator. Rosanne is currently exhibiting her paintings at the Nassau County Museum of Art and has exhibited her art at Guild Hall in East Hampton, Renata Metelska Gallery in Palm Beach, FL, Great Neck Art Center, Saks Fifth Avenue, Old Westbury Gardens, NY and the Museum of American Illustration. In addition, she has been privileged to paint the Baptismal and Crucifix paintings for St. David Armenian Church in Boca Raton, Florida. As an illustrator, her works have appeared in such publications as Readers Digest, Woman's Day, Redbook, Golf Journal and several award-winning children's books.

Denise Backman

For the last 10 years, Denise Backman has freelanced full time painting murals and portraits. Most of her work has been created for clients, until recently, when she decided to start creating her own paintings for the public. Her artwork ranges from realism to expressionistic; experimenting with emotions and imagination; and combining the softness of shading and color with the harshness of lines, showing the unity of two forms. "We look to show the world what we are about. I choose to do it through my paintings with the aspirations that others will be able to depict their own view through the vessels that I have created for them."

Nancy Wernersbach

Nancy's love for painting and desire to capture the beauty of the ocean and the natural world in her art was nurtured at Southampton College of Long Island University. She graduated with a B.F.A. degree in 1981. Following college she worked in illustration, had her own stained glass design company and enjoyed many years as an assistant to a fashion jewelry design firm.

She has always remained dedicated to fine art through her watercolor & oil paintings and has been busy exhibiting, selling and winning awards for her artwork in juried art exhibits including the Salmagundi Club, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club & American Artist Professional League, NYC; and at galleries & cultural centers such as the Shelter Rock Gallery of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Manhasset, Mistretta Galleries, Locust Valley, Guild Hall, East Hampton, & with the Art League of Nassau County (where she serves as Corresponding Secretary), The Art League of Long Island & the Smithtown Township Arts Council, NY.

Currently, Nancy works as a full-time artist and also teaches watercolor painting.

Mary Van Deusen

My paintings & photographs focus on local people and scenes. The subjects are shown going about their daily activities Р working in a boat on the water, picking crops in the farm fields, lounging in the backyard. The local scenes are celebrations of the beauty in quiet places that often go overlooked as we rush off to the more popular sights.

Many of the works are multi-media, often incorporating the use of natural materials, creating a three dimensional quality.

I work as an Art Teacher in a special education high school and teach beginner painting classes in the summer.

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Paul Dempsey

Photographer, Digital Manipulator. I am a computer programmer who left the rat race to 'capture' the world. I like to photograph what people see everyday. But never stop to look at. When I am without a camera, I feel naked. "How can I be sure, in a world that's constantly changing? I can't, unless I document it through photographs."