Vicki Clausman Alvarez earned her BA in Communication Design from Salve Regina University in Newport, RI and an MA in Media Studies from the New School in NYC. She has spent the last 40+ years photographing people and places. Vicki's self-portraits started when she turned the lens on herself, using at least one frame in each roll of film. The portrait paintings started as gifts for family and friends when she was young and broke. She would capture a simple snapshot of aperson using color to reflect their personality. Embracing imperfections of line in the work and focusing on imagery, she knew if she wanted the picture to be perfect, she could take a photo. Vicki was born and raised in New Jersey; where she still lives with her sweet, silly husband Jason and their very serious dog.

After receiving a BFA in painting from Ohio University, Bryan moved to NYC and then Jersey City, participating in the underground and alternative art scenes there. Exhibiting in galleries, clubs, and private collections, he also worked as an illustrator and scenic artist as well as a decorative finish painter. Bryan's lifelong interest and research in aquatic and nature studies, particularly the watershed and its symbiotic relationship with our society, has been a primary focus of his work since moving to the Hudson Valley almost 30 years ago, inspiring his use of color and natural materials. Bryan has taught and created environmental and arts projects for the Clearwater Festival and Education programs, Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, the Norrie Point Environmental Center, the NYS Department of Environmental Protection, and he is an arts-in-education grant recipient for programs in public schools throughout the region. bryanperrinstudio.com

Susan Shaftan Perrin is a multi-media artist with a degree in Creative Expression from Empire State College. She studied ceramics and fine arts in Japan and New York, has exhibited throughout the tri-state region, and has pieces in many private collections. Currently working primarily in ceramics, Susan paints and photographs extensively, and creates mixed-media sculpture as well as fabric and natural material crafting. Color and form are her inspirations. Born and raised in NYC, she experienced a culturally diverse upbringing, studying the art, architecture, and humanity of that time and place. Involved in a wide variety of endeavors, Susan is a fine and applied artist, an educator, a thoughtful and focused business analyst, and an avid gardener and nature lover. She founded and directed the O ROE Electric Art Space, a multi-arts space in Hoboken, New Jersey where she curated more than 40 exhibitions and organized music, poetry, and film festivals. Susan has been awarded numerous grants for Arts-In-Education work and arts curriculum and programming, and has been a teaching artist in schools throughout NY and NJ for more than 35 years. Susan is a member of the Exhibition Committee for the Olive Free Library, and also serves on the Board for My Green Museum, a planned children's museum in Kingston, NY. She hosts intergenerational art workshops with her husband at their mountaintop home studio and gardens. etsy.com/shop/Artbowls

Mor's artistic practice spans sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, ceramics, and multidisciplinary performance. After three decades in New York City's arts community, she relocated to the Hudson Valley in 2008, where she and her family transformed a church into a studio and its adjoining hall into a home and creative gathering place for artists, musicians, writers, and fellow creatives. She also creates immersive, multi-sensory events that weave together music, visual art, literature, theater, and her own culinary creations. At the core of her practice is a lifelong commitment to deep seeing and to discovering unique and authentic forms of expression—through subject, material, form, and beyond. Whether Mor is working in sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, ceramics, or performance, she is interested in what lies just beneath the surface: moments that resist language yet feel immediately recognizable. The ceramic masks in this exhibition were created over the course of five years. They range from elaborate and finely detailed to spare and gestural, and are made in high- fired stoneware, low-fire raku, and Egyptian paste. What unites them is an attempt to capture an animal-human gaze—a fleeting look, a feeling, or a pulse that cannot quite be described in words, yet is somehow recognized. These masks are encounters: they invite a recognition of both self and other at once—a reflection of our shared humanity. Mor's hope is that each piece holds a presence that lingers beyond explanation, inviting the viewer into a moment of quiet recognition.

Being a photographer's son, Frank was destined to pursue photography. As a kid, he had a darkroom in the basement. Frank studied art at SUNY New Paltz, worked as a custom color printer, and sold professional photography equipment in NYC. He created commercial and editorial photos, and he is represented by Getty Images. In addition to color, Frank's latest endeavor is B&W infrared photography. This work is very surreal and twisted looking: blue skies turn black; greenery turns white; sun flare is exaggerated. Frank tries to pre-visualize the outcome, and then alters the image further in Photoshop. His subject matter tends to be statuary and landscapes as they lend themselves well to the tonality of infrared. Places he shoots include Atlantic City, cemeteries, churches. Frank loves history, the older the subject, the better.

Aleksandra Scepanovic is a sculptor and installation artist based in Woodstock, New York. Raised in the former Yugoslavia, her work explores memory, identity, displacement, and the fragile architecture of being human. Her sculptures and installations occupy a space between the familiar and the uncanny, where faces fracture, bodies transform, and the boundaries between self and other begin to dissolve. Having lived through the Yugoslav wars before immigrating to the United States, Aleksandra draws upon experiences of rupture and reinvention, not as autobiography alone, but as a lens through which to examine universal questions of resilience, belonging, and what remains after transformation. Her work invites viewers to consider the many identities we carry, those we inherit, those we construct, and those we conceal. Aleksandra has exhibited widely throughout New York and beyond. She is the founder and president of Site Seen, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to transforming overlooked spaces through pop-up contemporary art exhibitions. aleksandrasculpture.com

Carol studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Although her early professional aspirations were to work as a fashion photographer, her interests quickly moved to everyday people and places. She spent many years working as a celebrity public relations, large event, and editorial portraiture photographer in NYC. She worked for large corporations, charities, newspapers, and magazines around the country. Her corporate clients include Macy's, NBC, Telemundo, and American Express, just to name a few. Her work has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, Shape, Real Simple, and many other publications. While maintaining a busy commercial photography business, Carol continued to explore varied topics in her personal work. She was heavily involved in the vibrant Hoboken/Jersey City arts scene throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, and showed her work in many group shows in that area. She also mounted a solo exhibition at the Cooper Gallery in Jersey City. Carol bought her home in the Hudson Valley 30 years ago and gradually transitioned to full time life there. Her most recent personal project, "Growth in Difficult Places", was featured in a solo exhibition at the CONVEYER/ER/OR Gallery in Poughkeepsie in early 2026. Carol continues to explore universal life themes and issues of identity in her personal work. carolseitz.com

Suprina studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia but gained the bulk of her knowledge of her craft from working in the field of promotional prop making. Her clients included Annie Leibovitz, Apple Computer, Bloomingdales, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. After 9/11, having lived in the neighborhood at the time, Suprina decided she would focus solely on her own artwork, which discuss environmental, social, and political issues. She has won numerous grants and awards, including two Puffin Foundation, a LMCC, NoMaa, four Individual and Community Decentralization grants, and she was awarded Art in Public Places by Dutchess County Executive Arts Awards in 2021. Currently, Suprina lives and works in Poughkeepsie, NY. She runs the CONVEY/ER/OR Gallery (299 Main Street), and has her working studio in the same space. Solitude speaks to the empty promise of the internet to bring us all closer together—what we have found is quite the opposite. suprinasculpture.com

John Walter, creator of the optically perfect non-reversing True Mirror, brings extra layers of meaning to seeing yourself without the left/right reversal that every other mirror creates. From the merely curious and very unusual physical differences, he guides people to see something special. Level 1 is a connection to yourself that is enabled when your eyes are communicating properly to yourself—for the first time! Level 2 can have profound effects on individuals, when the vitality and authenticity being reflected are contrasted strongly with the regular reverse mirror that quickly truncates expressions: our faces more mask-like in reverse. Level 3 becomes a conversation about what this all means: every person, since childhood, has never seen themselves accurately, and instead has seen an alternative version of themselves that only they see. What impacts does that have on us? From just a curious physical phenomenon, the True Mirror could offer real insights and therapies to the human condition, opening a door to a much more connected and natural self-relationship and the positive impacts that can have on self-awareness, self-understanding, self-image, and a dozen other "self-isms." John has been making them continually since 1992, with more than 25000 demonstrations, over 1200 videos with 500 million views on social media, and many other media appearances. truemirror.com