Christine Alicino’s photographic career began in the avant-garde performance and music scene of New York and San Francisco. The experimental vibrancy and energy of those experiences continues to give her professional work an open, abstract quality that is instantly recognizable and widely influential. What sets Christine’s work apart is her ability to combine a high degree of technical proficiency with the passion of a fine artist. For many years she has been equally successful with products, people and environments. Her photographic style is dramatic and always concerned with process and evocative lighting.
Craig Blankenhorn is an internationally published photographer. He shoots a wide range of assignments – editorial to advertising, sports to entertainment. His client list is just as far ranging: New Line Cinema, HBO, CBS, NBC, Life Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Sports Illustrated, Grey Advertising, GE, British Airways and Rolex. He has worked on many award winning movies and television shows and has published two books: Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
Danielle Sacripante is a print graphic designer with 20 years experience in a wide range of areas but most especially in the corporate world of finance, pharmaceuticals and publishing. She is a NYC art school graduate and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Art Deco Society of New York. She has traveled extensively throughout her life, reaching faraway places such as England, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand and has lived in Tokyo and Djakarta and in various cities around the U.S. Her favorite places in the world are Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Greek Isles. The exotic traveling has given her mind's eye a deep, well-rounded insight and another dimension to her creativity.
Much of her work reflects her admiration of vintage design and she collects old black and white photos, clothing, furniture, and housewares from the 1940s and 50s. There was such an innocence about the times and quality of craftmanship in the designs back then. She tries to capture those same qualities in her work.
Diana Bryan is an award-winning artist, illustrator, animator whose paper-cutout work is currently on exhibit as steel sculptures and prints at the Colony Arts Center, Woodstock, NY. She has created 30-foot long murals for Walden Books and the New York Public Library. Her work has appeared in many galleries and museums, including The Smithsonian Institutions, The Society of Illustrators in NYC, and The Library of Congress. Diana is currently creating sculptures from her paper-cutout art, using computers and lasers to transform them into steel sculptures, architectural tile design, children's books, murals, and animation.
Frank Olinsky graduated from Pratt Institute where he studied drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, filmmaking, and animation. After graduation he created editorial illustrations for New York Magazine, Esquire, The New York Times, and other publications. He also entered the world of graphic design, and after several years of freelance work he co-founded Manhattan Design, a studio specializing in work for the music and entertainment industry. The studio’s most famous creation was the chameleonlike logo and original "look" of MTV; Music Television. After 12 years, Manhattan Design folded and Frank continued as an independent graphic designer, art director, and illustrator. He has created album packages for many noteworthy musicians, including the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass. He was the founding art director and cover designer of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and continues work with that publication as creative consultant and contributing editor. He is the co-author and designer of What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs and author and designer of Buddha Book: A Meeting of Images
Jacquie Gaess has been seriously photographing since 1969. With a Bachelors in Education from University of Connecticut and a Masters in Applied Arts from Syracuse University. She taught high school for two years before moving on to work in the Manhattan rag trade. Manhattan exposed her to the world of photographers and photo galleries and she was included in such shows as the Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers at FIT, Women Photographers and PhotoWorks at the Midtown Y Gallery, Collectors Choice from the Floating Foundation of Photography to name a few. She also had a one person show at the Focus Two Gallery. Her work appeared in Popular Photography, The Expatriate Review, the Small Press Review and 35 mm Magazine. Her work was last exhibited in 2008 at Wild Birds Unlimited in Brookfield. Her subject matter is everything in nature from plants and flowers to insects, birds and mammals. She has traveled to twenty four countries including Kenya and Australia.
A Kennett Square, Pa., native, Kathleen Lighty earned her B.S. in photography from Ithaca College, but didn’t start out working with photography as she had planned. Instead, she built a career in the retail marketplace. In addition to honing her people skills in management and sales, she also developed her own unique sense of design, display, and use of materials.
Kathleen’s life took an unexpected turn in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Initially engulfed in shock and fear, she gradually rose up, choosing to challenge herself. Kathleen returned enthusiastically to photography, her first love, realizing how her vision had changed since she was in her 20s. Kathleen has always felt close to nature in all its forms, and she is especially responsive to water and its many aspects. She started working with digital photography in 2008, and the body of work that has emerged from this transition is an ongoing coming of age for her to shine as she inspires herself and others. She and her husband, Steve, currently live in Nottingham, Pa.
Matt Sauer grew up in Chicago. He was always fascinated by Lake Michigan, its shores and the changing seasons that always brought with them an abundance of visual diversity. From organic to abstract shapes and a vivid color palette the imagery was endless. The impact of NYC was nothing short of profound when he moved there in 1984. The streets, people, parks and shores once again provided an infinite tapestry. His “Urban Walkabouts” continue to allow him to capture that which influences him most: the birth, decay and rebirth of the world’s melting pot. With both camera and brush Matt defines the world around him as he travels locally and abroad, seeking out the minutia, the unique and the ever-changing landscape of our planet.
Neil Ryder Hoos, a photographer and photo editor for 25 years in New York City has a passion for capturing the abstract. Neil’s penchant for the patterns, colors and textures found in reality. Urban landscapes, florals or sidewalks dominate his work. Neil studied and taught classes in philosophy as well as film, acting, writing and avenues of self-expression. His photographs are about being there – capturing a fraction of a second in the life of a tulip or a fraction of a second in the life of the photographer - it’s about the shutter of thought. His photos have appeared in books and exhibits around the New York area.
Known for his classic design and elegant typography, Ray is well regarded in the publishing and graphic industries. Specializing in Publication Design, Corporate Identity and Branding, he has worked for many of the world's most prestigious magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Avenue, Crawdaddy, GQ, and Essence and corporations such as World Broadcast News, Blenheim Capital Investments and New York Life. His more than two decades in book publishing include eighteen years as Special Projects Art Director and Senior Book Designer at Harry N. Abrams, as well as work for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other world-renowned clients.
Throughout Ray's career, he has always remained interested in the future of design. For the past twenty-four years, he has also taught Typography and Design Concepts at Parsons The New School For Design, where he both informs and is informed by his students. While pursuing his work in publishing and teaching, Ray created greeting cards and stationery items, as a labor of love for family, friends and special clients.
Originally from Japan, Ritsuko Deura began working in the event and floral design field 17 years ago when she arrived in NYC. By working with flowers so closely, she cultivated an eye for finding the natural beauty of the flowers. Ritsuko’s signature style, in a word, is “Harmonious.” Influences range from European culture and big-city sophistication to her own simple Japanese heritage and revered Buddhist traditions. She photographs flowers in the parks, botanical gardens and on the streets of New York City.
Silvia D. Schulteisz learned to observe nature early on. Growing up in Germany's countryside, going on long hikes through fields and woods as a youngster was common. It was during these hikes that her father taught her to pause and observe the thriving wildlife that hid in nature’s cover. And when she just looked long enough, she discovered the deer and her fawn hidden in the tall grass or the rare botanical camouflaged by withering twigs. Developing an eye to see the unusual led naturally to photography. Her interest in photographing flowers and to share her images with others was spurred by visits to New York’s botanical gardens. For Silvia flowers in bloom are the essence of nature and she is compelled to capture their images.
Susan James grew up in Sullivan County, New York, a series of valleys and ridges ringed by the Blue Mountains, the foothills of the Catskills, and a region of serene beauty. Her background helps to explain why her photography has always focused on landscape; even in New York City, where she’s lived for nearly three decades, she manages to find sources of natural beauty. Susan is particularly entranced by reflections--sunset reflected in a mountain lake, clouds mirrored in a skyscraper's glass facade, people and traffic distorted in the pillars outside Grand Central Station. She has also experienced and photographed some of the less traveled parts of England and Scotland.
Illustrator, Designer, Web Designer, Photographer. Founder and President of The Soup Group, an artist coalition and design group. Exhibits: The Soup Group presents "The Peace Show" in Shizuoka, Fukui and Hiroshima, Japan. Awards: Disney's InspEARations, Golden Web Award, Austin Chronicle and Laguna Gloria Art Museum.
Trish Naudon Thomas spent most of her youth on the beaches of Santa Monica, CA and Baja, Mexico with her family. Learning to keep her toes out of open clams and fingers out of octopi and crabs, she developed an intense curiosity from which came a love for nature and all things beautiful. Trish studied Fine Arts & Art History at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. but spent most of her time painting, photographing her new surroundings, and playing drums in various bands. Today, she continues drumming, writing and singing in her band the NATCH! in NYC. All the while, still fascinated by her environment here in the Northeast and spending time with her husband discovering the nature, Trish has been provided with the endless beauty that she hopes to capture and share.
Warren Linn has worked for virtually every major media client and exhibited in a wide range of gallery venues over the past four decades. Born, reared, and established in Chicago, he moved to NY City in 1980, and to Baltimore in 2002. He is a full-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art where he draws, paints, collages, and illustrates continuously. His work is in 10 American Illustration Annuals and on their website, most recently A-1 26, published November 2007, and in numerous Society of Illustrators Annuals including 200 Years of American Illustration. His Harper/Collins children's book Happy Birthday Frankie by Sarah Weeks was awarded the Marion Vannett Ridgeway Honor Book Award, and his work is in the Art Institute of Chicago Print & Drawing permanent Collection. Linn and his Drawing students collaborate with Baltimore Symphony Musicians and MICA faculty on Concert lab, an ongoing Acoustic Music, Digital Media, and Traditional Art collaboration.
