INFORMATION ABOUT OUR MEMBERS AND HOW TO PURCHASE THEIR WORKS
LISA L. CANGEMI: Lisa Lynne Cangemi, like every human being, was born an ARTIST with the ability to EXPRESS.
Cangemi, is a native to Long Island. Cangemi excelled with ARTS, and continued her studies at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in 1981. She double-majored in Graphic Design & Illustration, studied psychology,cartooning & animation & film. Cangemi began her Graphic Design company in 1985, C&C Graphic Design, worked out of Richmond Hill, Queens, and Lynbrook. Cangemi has won over 5 dozen National Graphic Design awards, and over a dozen professional Photography Awards in the Art Direction field.
Lisa has been a member of TCA since 1991 and has been exhibiting since then. She is also a member of the Long beach Art League and Huntington Arts Council. She has won over 3 dozen awards in the Fine Arts categories, over a dozen professional Photography Awards for her commercial photography, and over 5 dozen Graphic Design Awards for her Art Direction and Design work.
Cangemi’s love for ‘POSITIVELY EXPRESSING’ through VISUAL ART has kept her involved in painting and creating. She began exhibiting with art leagues in 1991. She is the President of TriCounty Artists of Long Island, and an active member of Long Beach Art League, and TriCounty Artists of Long Island. Cangemi has won over 3 dozen fine-art awards. Cangemi later went back to NYU and SVA to complete her MFA in Graphic Design, Art Therapy.Cangemi became an adjunct college professor in 2002. She has taught at various colleges in New York State and Long Island. Cangemi is ADOBE Certified, and has taught numerous Graphic Design courses, B&W Photography, Art History, Color Theory. She was honored in 2006 and 2007, with an Alpha Beta Kappa Award for being one of the top 10 teachers Nationally, teaching the subject of graphic design and art, what her profession is.
Lisa has been teaching art at many Long Island locations, as well as teaching through her own TEACHING COMPANY, TakePartinART since 2008.
Cangemi was a NASSAU COUNTY WINNER in 2017 and 2018 for Women in the Arts Award.
Cangemi is a winner of Artists in Partnership's 2020 Women in the Arts Award.
Please visit my webpages by clicking below! If anyone is interested in purchasing my art, please email me directly at lisacangemi@ccgraphics.net.
Lisa has her gallery & studio in Long Beach, BEACHHOUSE21, www.beachhouse21.com, and CANofGems Art, www.canofgems.weebly.com. You can view art, and contact Lisa about any purchases.
Cangemi, is a native to Long Island. Cangemi excelled with ARTS, and continued her studies at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in 1981. She double-majored in Graphic Design & Illustration, studied psychology,cartooning & animation & film. Cangemi began her Graphic Design company in 1985, C&C Graphic Design, worked out of Richmond Hill, Queens, and Lynbrook. Cangemi has won over 5 dozen National Graphic Design awards, and over a dozen professional Photography Awards in the Art Direction field.
Lisa has been a member of TCA since 1991 and has been exhibiting since then. She is also a member of the Long beach Art League and Huntington Arts Council. She has won over 3 dozen awards in the Fine Arts categories, over a dozen professional Photography Awards for her commercial photography, and over 5 dozen Graphic Design Awards for her Art Direction and Design work.
Cangemi’s love for ‘POSITIVELY EXPRESSING’ through VISUAL ART has kept her involved in painting and creating. She began exhibiting with art leagues in 1991. She is the President of TriCounty Artists of Long Island, and an active member of Long Beach Art League, and TriCounty Artists of Long Island. Cangemi has won over 3 dozen fine-art awards. Cangemi later went back to NYU and SVA to complete her MFA in Graphic Design, Art Therapy.Cangemi became an adjunct college professor in 2002. She has taught at various colleges in New York State and Long Island. Cangemi is ADOBE Certified, and has taught numerous Graphic Design courses, B&W Photography, Art History, Color Theory. She was honored in 2006 and 2007, with an Alpha Beta Kappa Award for being one of the top 10 teachers Nationally, teaching the subject of graphic design and art, what her profession is.
Lisa has been teaching art at many Long Island locations, as well as teaching through her own TEACHING COMPANY, TakePartinART since 2008.
Cangemi was a NASSAU COUNTY WINNER in 2017 and 2018 for Women in the Arts Award.
Cangemi is a winner of Artists in Partnership's 2020 Women in the Arts Award.
Please visit my webpages by clicking below! If anyone is interested in purchasing my art, please email me directly at lisacangemi@ccgraphics.net.
Lisa has her gallery & studio in Long Beach, BEACHHOUSE21, www.beachhouse21.com, and CANofGems Art, www.canofgems.weebly.com. You can view art, and contact Lisa about any purchases.
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NAOMI DIRACLES: From the time of the Old Masters to the present time, "COLLAGE" has been respected and dynamic ART FORM. The technique of pasting paper or other foreign elements onto the picture surface is NOT new. I have been creating COLLAGE/MIXED MEDIA ART WORK for sevreal years. My work reflects both traditional and contemporary themes. It is the selection of materials or images to be used — that becomes the most thoughtt-provoking and challenging process for me. Once the selection is made, the collage material is combined with other art techniques to create a visually balanced composition. My focus is always the same— COLOR, FORM and COMPOSITION. Also important to me — are the principles of design- which enable me to achieve visual harmony and unity in my work. ART has always been an important part of my life and now more than ever creating is my passion. My earlier years involved painting, printing and experimenting with all techniques. Finally it was NO surprise that I became a 'MIXED-MEDIUM" artist. Although COLLAGE is not a new art techique- for me it opened the door to new interpretations and experimentation using and changing images (both mine and others) to create my artwork. It requires a great deal of time, talent, and concentration to execute a successful piece— and I am hooked! Naomi Diracles is currently retired, and all of her artworks are for sale to benefit animal welfare. |
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lightworksarts@gmail.com JESS EPSTEIN Clouds, wings, ladders and lightbulbs are all images that can 'Lift Me Up." My art is symbolic for society's way of climbing out of the miasma into a more beautiful and spiritual place. I use wood, paint, encaustic, ceramics, metal and found objects in an attempt to raise humankind's hope and connection to our higher nature. |
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kathyepstein40@gmail.com.
KATHY EPSTEIN: I used to be a South Florida and Long Island, New York artist. Since 2021, I am now a Saratoga Springs, NY artist! I studied art under Jules Olitsky at C. W. Post College, (LIU) and have attended the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute, The Art School in Boca Raton, The Academy of Art in Fort Lauderdale, and have worked in a studio environment in upstate New York. I currently reside in upstate New York. I like experimenting with many types of media. Among some of these are collages with a social message. In my work, I use found objects, recycled materials, tissue paper, newspaper, and photos I have taken. I believe in trying to help the environment where I can. Creating “outside of the box” appeals to me and my work slants toward the abstract, expressionism, and/or impressionism. I am looking for a style and I think the search may be the style. In any event, my art is still evolving and I am enjoying the process. For questions about my work: kathyepstein40@gmail.com. |
Contact by email: mfeartist@gmail.com Instagram: meri_creates
MERI EZRATTY: Meri Ezratty Biography
I am a painter, retired NYC art teacher, private art instructor, and team teacher for Tzipora Hadassah’s Jewish Women in Art & the Bible Class. I am married, and a mother of two.
I received my Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University and my Masters from Queens College. In addition to the Provost Purchase Award for two of my paintings at SUNY Stony Brook and the Marc Belth Award for my thesis “Making Art with Meaning and Purpose”, I have also won prizes at several juried competitions. These include: Long Beach Art League at the Allard K. Lowenstein Library, The Visual Alliance of Long Island at the Chelsea Center in Muttontown; South Shore Arts Fest in Rockville Centre; Bible Art Summit at The People’s Church; and Tri County Artists Juried Exhibit at the C.W. Post Campus Gallery.
Resident of Long Beach, my solo shows include: Coffee Nut Café; Long Beach Magnolia Gallery; Peninsula Public Library; and the Rockville Center Library. My group exhibits include: Lawrence High School Art Alumni Association at the Christina Mazzitelli Gallery; the NYC Art Teacher’s Association at the Broome Street Gallery in NYC, and the Cork Gallery in Avery Fisher Hall. Four of my paintings where on exhibit at Sotheby’s with the Friends of NYC Schools. I have exhibited with the Artist Mother’s Group at the Hewlett-Woodmere Library; UUCSR Art Gallery in Manhasset; the South Ocean Art Gallery in Freeport; Sandel Senior Center in Rockville Center; and the Baha’i Center Gallery in Valley Stream. I have also participated in the Artists in Partnership Annual Barrier Beach Blues Art Show.
I have worked with designers and decorators in the Glen Cove and Sands Point Designer Showcases, doing faux finishing and ceramic tile painting. I taught ceramics, painting, collage, drawing, art history, and mural making. My students have exhibited at Sotheby’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flushing Town Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, and the Queens Museum of Art and the Queens Library. I formed partnerships with music and language arts teachers to produce literary based digital arts projects employing live action, drawn animation, and Claymation. I taught my students to work with gold leaf, make their own paints, and create Illuminated manuscripts as part of the Morgan Book Project. My work on Mayor Bloomberg’s “Make A Difference” projects enhanced the Queens community with life size, multicultural, outdoor sculptures and a marine themed triptych for Flushing Hospital’s Pediatric Radiology Unit.
Many of my artworks have been sold to private collectors. My current paintings are about family and heritage. Most of my work is with acrylics and watercolors. My main focus is on portraits, still-life, and figure painting. More than an accounting of emotions and concepts, my art is symbolic. It is meant to bridge the present and past. I strive to honor relationships with people, and places through the act of painting. My goal is to open a visual dialogue with viewers, allowing people to feel connected to others and the world around them. I hope that in freeing people from their own particular frame of reference, they might see things differently, and open their hearts to new ways of understanding.
Contact by email: mfeartist@gmail.com Instagram: meri_creates
MERI EZRATTY: Meri Ezratty Biography
I am a painter, retired NYC art teacher, private art instructor, and team teacher for Tzipora Hadassah’s Jewish Women in Art & the Bible Class. I am married, and a mother of two.
I received my Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University and my Masters from Queens College. In addition to the Provost Purchase Award for two of my paintings at SUNY Stony Brook and the Marc Belth Award for my thesis “Making Art with Meaning and Purpose”, I have also won prizes at several juried competitions. These include: Long Beach Art League at the Allard K. Lowenstein Library, The Visual Alliance of Long Island at the Chelsea Center in Muttontown; South Shore Arts Fest in Rockville Centre; Bible Art Summit at The People’s Church; and Tri County Artists Juried Exhibit at the C.W. Post Campus Gallery.
Resident of Long Beach, my solo shows include: Coffee Nut Café; Long Beach Magnolia Gallery; Peninsula Public Library; and the Rockville Center Library. My group exhibits include: Lawrence High School Art Alumni Association at the Christina Mazzitelli Gallery; the NYC Art Teacher’s Association at the Broome Street Gallery in NYC, and the Cork Gallery in Avery Fisher Hall. Four of my paintings where on exhibit at Sotheby’s with the Friends of NYC Schools. I have exhibited with the Artist Mother’s Group at the Hewlett-Woodmere Library; UUCSR Art Gallery in Manhasset; the South Ocean Art Gallery in Freeport; Sandel Senior Center in Rockville Center; and the Baha’i Center Gallery in Valley Stream. I have also participated in the Artists in Partnership Annual Barrier Beach Blues Art Show.
I have worked with designers and decorators in the Glen Cove and Sands Point Designer Showcases, doing faux finishing and ceramic tile painting. I taught ceramics, painting, collage, drawing, art history, and mural making. My students have exhibited at Sotheby’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flushing Town Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, and the Queens Museum of Art and the Queens Library. I formed partnerships with music and language arts teachers to produce literary based digital arts projects employing live action, drawn animation, and Claymation. I taught my students to work with gold leaf, make their own paints, and create Illuminated manuscripts as part of the Morgan Book Project. My work on Mayor Bloomberg’s “Make A Difference” projects enhanced the Queens community with life size, multicultural, outdoor sculptures and a marine themed triptych for Flushing Hospital’s Pediatric Radiology Unit.
Many of my artworks have been sold to private collectors. My current paintings are about family and heritage. Most of my work is with acrylics and watercolors. My main focus is on portraits, still-life, and figure painting. More than an accounting of emotions and concepts, my art is symbolic. It is meant to bridge the present and past. I strive to honor relationships with people, and places through the act of painting. My goal is to open a visual dialogue with viewers, allowing people to feel connected to others and the world around them. I hope that in freeing people from their own particular frame of reference, they might see things differently, and open their hearts to new ways of understanding.
Contact by email: mfeartist@gmail.com Instagram: meri_creates
SHOSHANAH FINDLING : Shoshanah Siegel-Findling was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.
She has been drawing since she was a young girl with her 'canvas' being the walls in her parent's home.
Early inspirations came from a neighbor, who taught her how to paint flower petals by 'bending the brush.'
His (Mr. Orloff) influence lives on today when Shoshanah uses the original easel that he gave her.
Shoshanah is a self-taught artist and has no 'formal' training. She has been creating her beautiful pieces of art from what she experiences, knows, sees, and feels.
If you are interested in contacting Shoshanah about purchasing any of her works, please email her directly at:
artdoctor@optonline.net
She has been drawing since she was a young girl with her 'canvas' being the walls in her parent's home.
Early inspirations came from a neighbor, who taught her how to paint flower petals by 'bending the brush.'
His (Mr. Orloff) influence lives on today when Shoshanah uses the original easel that he gave her.
Shoshanah is a self-taught artist and has no 'formal' training. She has been creating her beautiful pieces of art from what she experiences, knows, sees, and feels.
If you are interested in contacting Shoshanah about purchasing any of her works, please email her directly at:
artdoctor@optonline.net
JACLYN FELDMAN : I am a conceptual artist, inspired by the physical and emotional world around me. I use my visual and perceptual experiences to create something original that stimulates interactions of the sensations of self, desire, fear, love, hate, etc. I want the viewer to be drawn in to the emotion of my art, regardless of whether these works are representational, surreal, or abstract. My earlier pieces were done to capture what I saw, and/or to make a statement. My more recent works are more complex and bizarre. They are apt to prod the viewer to think about what they are seeing and perhaps ask themselves,
My work has been displayed in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery in Dix Hills, The Petite Gallery in Huntington, Lazy Days in Long Beach, Circulo de la Hispanidad in Long Beach, the Hewlett Library, Lynbrook Library, Long Beach Library, West End Library in Long Beach, the Wisser Library at NYIT, Unitarian Church in Manhasset, and Garden City, Freeport Recreation Center Gallery, Greis Park, Temple Emanuel in Long Beach and other venues. For interest in purchasing my work, please email me directly at: jaclynfeldman@me.com,
KATHRYN PARISE: has been doing art since she was a young child. She has a fine arts degree from Queens College, and has utilized her art and design training throughout her 40 year career as an interior book designer for many major publishing companies in New York. Throughout her career and full time job, she continued to maintain doing her art work, using oils, pastels, and pen and ink, to name a few mediums. She has also illustrated various cookbooks. Upon retiring a few years ago, she has been re-exploring her painting, this time trying her hand at water colors, and at times incorporating dried seaweed from the ocean, which continues to sustain and inspire her. Kathryn Parise has been a Long Beach resident for 22 years and she can be reached via email at beachkat526@gmail.com if anyone is interested in her work.
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FELICE ZASLOW: After retiring from my teaching career in 2010, I returned to "my path not taken," painting. Having created art at different periods in my life, I am delighted to now to make it my primary focus.
As a youngster I spent time studying at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. This led to a life-long interest in painting and drawing, and then, to an avocation. I enjoy painting the natural world as well as the man-made one using original photos as my inspiration. My paintings are often influenced by the feeling of oneness I have with nature in certain settings, particularly in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Some of my paintings are reflections of life's challenges and the strengths I have used to meet those challenges. In recent years I have studied at the ART STUDENTS LEAGUE in New York City, as well as with local artists, including the late Ivan Kamalic. Currently I am a member of the TriCounty Artists of Long Island, The National Art League in Queens, New York and the Art League of Nassau County. At the National Art League I am studying with Pedro Pacheco, from whom I have learned new techniques which I incorporate in my work. Pedro has inspired me to expand my art with new vision, moving from the traditional to experimenting with iconography, color and composition of my paintings. I have moved into exhibiting my work, participating in many of the NAL shows as well as TriCounty Artists of Long Island. I look forward to continuing to develop my art and am inspired by the TriCounty members. For more information about my work, please contact me at: felicie@optonline.net |