Window1: Marisol Ross

Baseball is nostalgic, forever tied to childhood, of what was and is always good. In a world of constant change, the one constant is Baseball. I strive to capture the universal, spiritual magic through these Polymer Clay Paintings. These are authentic, historical, Baseball highlights. My hope is to spark a joyful memory that transports the viewer to an all-inclusive, shared emotional feeling.

I grew up in the Bronx and went to college in New York City. I was a vendor at Yankee Stadium as a teenager and into college. This continuing love for baseball influences and reflects in my work.

Window 2: Kathleen Yemm

Inner city born and bred, I am without formal training, but my elementary school teachers encouraged my creativity by sending me home at the end of each term with a pile of paper and drawing materials that brightened my summer.

Window 3: DJ Dougherty

Nature, to me as it is with many people, is soothing. The wind blowing through leaves, the sounds of birds and distant water, the shape and color of clouds in the sky. When I paint, I try to bring that meditative calm to my paintings. I try to recreate, with oils, the presence of nature as it is, as it should be, a view, a glimpse, of a microcosm of the world that we can happily be lost in for a time.

Santino

Born in Astoria, N.Y. and raised in New Providence, N.J. my formal training is in music and photography. My abstract oil on canvas work, however, has opened a completely different method of expressing myself. Whether I am using a knife or brushes, my approach to the canvas is a very visceral experience for me. My ideas originate in the initial color palate but are driven by the emotions I associate with the subject. I enjoy creating texture on the canvas with differing consistencies of paint which  allows me to develop upon the original color scheme and more importantly focus my emotions toward the subject. Just as a songwriter’s lyrics can be interpreted differently for each listener, I hope that my work awakens some emotional response that is unique to the viewer.