Window 1: Tony Seker

Tony Seker was born in Beirut, Lebanon and fled the country with his family during the Lebanese Civil War. His “action” painting style developed during his diasporic experience when he resorted to painting his toy model fighter planes with cardboard out of necessity. He also abandoned using camouflage colors and instead embraced bold, colorful paint which became part of his statement against war. Despite semblances to Richter and Pollock in style and technique, Seker attributes his greatest influences to be the great comedic and cinematic performers of that era, such as Peter Sellers, Bruce Lee and Victor Borge. He still channels their unique forms of expression when painting which makes him smile. The result is his self-taught technique involving bold movements, positivity and colorful paint. Seker recently returned from an artist residency in The Maldives where he spent 30 days looking deeper within himself. As an intuitive artist, he discovered new and exciting ideas that he is currently working on, including ironically, painting with a brush.

Seker incorporates both elements of planning and randomness into each painting, mirroring his life experience. It is a reflection on randomly being born into a region at war. His action style is emotionally driven and intuitive. The overriding message is greater compassion for those who randomly have been dealt more challenging lives.

Foreign exhibitions include Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Basel, Dubai, Malé (Maldives) and Beirut

Local exhibitions include SoHo, Chelsea, Southampton, Bridgehampton, Hoboken, Fort Lee, Montclair, Englewood and others

Seker has won numerous awards and been featured in art publications such as Contemporary Art Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts and others

Seker’s work can always be seen at the Piermont Flywheel Gallery and he currently serves as the president of the Fort Lee Artist Guild

Contact Information: Please visit www.ClaxonDuSoleil.com

Instagram: @ClaxonDuSoleil

Window 2: Eli Tenyakov

Window 3: Brian Hallas

Botany inhabits my daily life, both at home and in my profession – as a gardener, I grow and sell plants, shrubs, and trees. Every day I get to live in a world where flora decorates my life and watch the vivid variety of vegetation change throughout the seasons. I constantly use my iPhone to chronicle this cavalcade – a world filled with marvelous, eccentric colors, shapes and textures – to create abstract and hallucinatory blooms of the imagination.

I play around with the shots I’ve taken using various apps and filters, on the lookout for the surprising and the astonishing. These images become individual layers to be blended together to create the final piece. My kaleidoscopic improvisations often end up to be quite painterly, which sometimes seems to alter the nature of photography itself. In the end, I want the viewer to become my collaborator so we can embark on a visual adventure together, to see the unseen qualities that Nature likes to hide from us.

After a long, rich life collaborating in film, music, and especially theater (principally as a sound designer in NYC), I have turned to photography as my primary means of creativity. My tastes are stimulated by an eclectic spectrum of artists from an array of art forms, eras, and genres, whose works never fail to make me want to make art. And now that I’ve passed the age of 70, I’d like to note that I’ve always had a certain regard for Grandma Moses. I feel closer to her than ever.

Contact Information: bhallas0909@gmail.com, https://brianhallas.myportfolio.com

Instagram: @bhallas0909

Window 4: Ann Dushanko Dobek

Collectively titled SILENT VOICES, my work: installations, video, and mixed media works on paper  consistently focus on social/ or environmental issues.

The most recent series, “Parallel Migrations” including “NO Olvidado“and “Field  Fire” reference the perilous journeys of migrants, immigrants and refugees.

The source material for all my work is specific: news stories in the New York Times. However, the often surreal elegance of the  installation sitings and presentation is more reductive, opening the works to individual memories of similar  narratives

The data collection and distillation of same ultimately  determines my final selection of images, techniques and sites. The latter, often challenging and remote  outdoor locations mirror in geography and/or weather (oceans, fields, villages,  wind, rain, or snow) the sites of the original narratives. Video and still photography document the works before they are destroyed or eliminated by natural forces

Often more conceptual than literal, my work is informed by a collage aesthetic. The result is a physical as well as referential layering of images and materials both natural and constructed.  Their  fusion  into an environment that appears, at first glance to “be” asks the ultimate question, reality or perception?. This is an intentional exploration of opposites and contradictions inherent in the final works.

My work has been  significantly  influenced by the creations of Joseph Beuys, Pina Bausch, Louise Bourgeois, Oliver Sachs   and E.O. Wilson.

Contact Information: Please visit www.dushankodobek.com