Beacon Teen Reflections: Beacon High School Art Students

January 14 - February 6, 2012

Artist Reception: This Saturday! Beacon Second Saturday January 14, 3 - 7pm

RiverWinds Gallery at 172 Main Street in Beacon is celebrating its seventh annual show by the art students at Beacon High School, Beacon, New York.  This year the young art students have created paintings, photographs, ceramics, digital art and more. The works demonstrate an amazing use of color, composition,  imagination, and the skill with the various medium. The opening reception for the show is January 14, 2012, (Beacon 2nd Saturday) 3 - 7pm.  The show will run through Feb. 6, 2012.

Samantha Glusker

“We are lucky to be art teachers in a community that supports the arts.” says Claudine Farley-Davis, coordinator of the Beacon High School Art Department for four years. " RiverWinds Gallery has supported the art department with shows from their beginning days in 2004. They treat the students as professional artists, plus Linda T Hubbard mats and frames all the work.   The Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA) helps promote the show and has also included our students in Electric Windows, the Art Guitars and other activities.  The whole Beacon arts community has helped our students become the artist they want to be.  I feel it is time to give a big thanks to the beacon art community!”

Opening Reception January 14, 2012

The ceramics in the show are from the Ceramics I class taught by Claudine Farley-Davis and Jennie  Duke.  The students have created combinations of wall tiles inspired by Portuguese and Picasso designs. Students include Jessica Homes, Linda Nguyen, Meghan Mac Enroe, Mercedes Soriano, and Shakerra Gibson.

Other students - Britni Grohosky and Michael Borrello have created functional candle lanterns. Megan Urganak and Justin Sonko created ceramic Picasso pieces.

Cermaic Lantern - Britni Grohosky

From from Jennie Duke's Digital Art class, Megan Urbanka and Joe Pendleton created digital art works: micrograph pieces using text to describe the image.

Architectural pieces use a graphic table to draw directly on the computer.

Joy Rotering, Catherine Miller and Candice Shaw in the Drawing and Painting classes created monochromatic paintings using limited color to mix, blend and create all the tints and shades needed for a full range of color. 

Catherine Miller

Joy Rotering

The self-portrait drawings are a long-standing way for the artist to study the human face. The artists include: Joy Rotering, Catherine Miller, Ariella Maloney and Alaa Salama.

The photographs in the exhibition are from Photography One students taught by Mark Lyon.  Anna Barber and Quiana Perez created cyanotypes made from natural objects with a focus on developing compositional skill. 

Anna Barber

Students also created non-traditional portraits using double-sided magazine pages as a starting point.  In the darkroom light passes through both sides of the magazine page and creates a new image on photographic paper.  Students also worked with long shutter speeds to “paint” fluid lines with flashlights.  The resulting photographs are an abstract representation of movement captured over 15 seconds. The photography students include Ian Schmidt, Jackie Cimmino, Mary Jacketti, Sabrina Valenti, Jasmin Santana, Whitney Bentley and Greg Secor.

Stevie Borrello did a large Black and White photograph of Boots.

The landscape images were created in Mark Lyon's Digital Art One class. Alexandra Rios, Cassidy Acuti, William Puswald, and Sara Califano created a digital composite from sections of 20 or more existing images. Helandra Hall did a nature study.

Alexandra Rios

Cassidy Acuti

William Puswald

Helendra Hall

Aviv Tchernicholvski, a student in the AP Art class, used the computer as a painting tool in creating a hand and foot study.

Aviv Tchernichovski