Jessica Alazraki was born and raised in Mexico City, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Universidad Anáhuac. Since 1998, she’s been based in New York City. She also holds a diploma in graphic design from Parsons School of Design and a certificate in drawing and painting from the New York Academy of Art.

Jessica has exhibited her work in four solo exhibitions in the United States and in over 50 group exhibitions in both Mexico and the United States. In 2018, she received the Award of Excellence from the Huntington Arts Council and an Honorable Mention Award from the Barrett Art Center. In 2019, she participated in the ARTWorks Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and was selected into the Creative Capital NYC “El Taller” in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute. In 2020, Jessica completed the Trestle Art Space Residency Program, was awarded the New Work Grant by the Queens Art Fund, and won the Diane Etienne Founders Award from the Stamford Art Association. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Hopper Price Award and was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award. More recently, Jessica was named the 2021 MvVo AdArt Show winner and The Jackson Painting Prize Emerging Artist Award 2021.

Kelly Nelson has wanted to spend more time painting throughout most of her life. Ever since she’s made Shelter Island her home, she is enjoying branching out and finding more time to do what she loves; paint! One of her horse paintings in the exhibit, Multiverse Trek, reminds one of a mythological spirit horse, beautifully posed against a whimsical background.

A master photographer, Alan Nevins has increasingly over the years imposed or coaxed his personal vision out of Nature. “He treats photography like going to the beach. It’s not enough just to be there, and take a photo, but back in his studio he has to make waves and splash around,” says Romany Kramoris.
Nevins says his style is “Lyrical Realism.” Lyrical is certainly true, but that does not adequately describe the wide range of thoughts, moods and emotions evoked from or imposed by the viewer onto his expansive seascapes. And Realism, that certainly too; one can almost hear the rushing of the waves or smell the briny mists. But the pictures express much, well beyond “mere” realism. They are as cool as the shore itself.

Jorge Silveira started picking up flotsam and jetsam from the beaches and the bays of Sag Harbor and the streets of New York City…and spackling them onto pieces of driftwood, adding paint and found objects, from bottle caps to mattress springs, shards of soda cans to cutlery, until he had created something fresh and original out of materials discarded having outlived their usefulness.

Silveira says the materials themselves speak to him, he sees the object’s soul and revitalizes it by transforming it into a piece of art. His compositions of rusty and weatherworn objects are immortalized into three-dimensional paintings of human faces, fish, birds and other animals.

The Artwork of

Linda Capello
Christopher Engel
Muriel Hanson Falborn
Pingree Louchheim
Diana Malcolmson

May 27 – June 10, 2021

Open House Reception:
Saturday, May 29, 1-5 PM