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FEATURED ARTISTS
For artists that would like to show work in our gallery,
In our Main Gallery Space:
Christina Nalty
Christina Nalty, sculptor, is a native of the west of Ireland. She emigrated to the United States in 1989 and currently lives and works in New York City. Christina holds a MFA degree in Sculpture from The City University of New York at Brooklyn College and a BA degree in photography from the University of Arkansas, where she received the University's Fulbright Award in the fine arts. She apprenticed in direct stone carving and hand polishing techniques with sculptor and master stone carver Alfredo Cardenas in New York City. new work from her studio. Her artistic focus is the interaction of nature with the human body, particularly in relation to form, and sensuality. Her sculpture shows an intuitive understanding of classic form and reverence for the material, but with a contemporary twist. She sculpts using a wide range of stone, including marble, alabaster, and limestone. stage set design, and sculpture commissions to college teaching at Suffolk County Community College, Kingsborough Community College, and Empire State College, State University of New York. Kevin Van Buren Kevin Van Buren has worked with Northlight Photography for almost 20 years exploring and developing a photographic vision capturing the natural landscape. Kevin works in both color and black and white in image capture. Images are captured using a Medium Format 6X7 camera system onto film. Images selected for printing are digitally scanned and processed capturing maximum detail and providing greatest longevity. Kevin has worked with numerous local groups assisting fund raising for their organizations as well has numerous collectors in the Hudson Valley as well abroad. Many of the images are limited editions with only 75 available per image size. Kevin and his life partner, Toni Hokanson, continue to promote and help artists to succeed with the opening the Van Buren gallery, Inc. which utilizes the incubator theme as a model to help promote and hone the skills of aspiring artists. Keum Won Chang Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (B.F.A.)
Solo exhibitions 2007 Growrich Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2006 Growrich Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2005 Gallery Korea, Washington D.C, U.S.A. Campbell Steel Gallery, Marion, Iowa, U.S.A. 2004 Gallery 202, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 2003 Design Ranch, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 2002 Gallery Wooduk, Seoul, Korea 2001 Studiolo Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 2000 Gallery Samtuh, Seoul, Korea Coralville City Hall, Coralville, Iowa, U.S.A. 1999 Project Art, The University of Iowa, Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. Arts Iowa City, Center and Gallery, Iowa, U.S.A. 1995 Arts Iowa City, Java House, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 1988 Hilton Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1987 Brewery Square, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 1985 Seoul American Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
Group exhibitions 2001 “Making Waves in the Midwest”, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A. 2000 Hankook-Hwa Hwe, Seoul, Korea Hanwool, Seoul, Korea 1998 Art Iowa City, Members Show, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. 1991 “Women and their Arts”, Singapore National Museum of Art, Singapore 1986 63rd Annual International Competition, Philadelphia Print Club Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1985 Print Media, Seoul, Korea Seoul Print, Seoul, Korea 1980 “3 Painters’ Show”, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S.A. 1975 Minnesota Arts Fair, Minnesota, U.S.A.
***** "The Emotionalism" May 2010 Basha Maryanska Art has it’s own life and showing Art makes sense of it.
My Art is all about the Beauty of Nature and Natural Environment. I paint mysterious landscapes, using luscious, rich layers of paint, deep glazers to create three- dimensionality and dramatic light and it is all derived from memory, imagination, feelings and emotions, sketches, occasionally life and various travels. To me the vibration of the color and texture have a significant role in painting. Although my images sometimes appear to be abstract, they are all clearly recognizable as landscape and the portrait of the nature. I actually use landscape motifs to paint my feelings and emotions. I portrait light and air with it’s magic transparency. The deformations come from my subconscious mind.
Basha Maryanska’s paintings have been exhibits In the US, Europe and Asia. She has received numerous awards. Basha’s artworks can be found in many private collections and museums all over the world. She is a member of the Emotionalists. She lives and creates in Athens, NY. Gallery representation: Agora-Gallery and New Century Artists Gallery, NYC.
LUBOMIR TOMASZEWSKI
Tomaszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His interest in the visual world started very early in his childhood; he drew before he could speak. He is the third generation of artists from his mother’s side of the family. Influenced by his father, an engineer and inventor, young Lubomir turned toward engineering, but not for long. After couple of years of technical education, Tomaszewski attended a school of drawing. His higher education started with engineering, then gradually switched to architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic, and then to sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was quickly recognized as a leading sculptor of his generation by winning many national competitions. Tomaszewski created numerous sculptures and projects for the reconstruction of the Old Town in Warsaw, and he took first prize in the sculpture competition for decorating the square of the Palace of Culture and Science (1955). A great patriot, who at 16 became an army volunteer in 1939, participated in the Warsaw Insurrection, and was taken as a prisoner of war to Germany in 1944, could not allow himself to become one of those artists bowing to the communist regime. He returned to his roots as an inventor/engineer and worked as an industrial designer, again becoming recognized nationally and abroad, with exhibits in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Norway. In 1966 he immigrated to the United States, looking for the freedom to create his art, as he wanted it to be, and not what the government allowed in Poland. He could now pursue his ambitions in sculpture. He started in a new direction, which he called ‘Inspired by Nature’. Remnants of nature – freshly unearthed rock and fallen tree limbs – that stimulate his imagination, are dramatically utilized in combination with copper, bronze, and other metals to create his figurative sculptures. “When Lubomir Tomaszewski looks at a rock, he sees a piece of sculpture. Something in the layering, the shape, the natural formation suggests to him the body of an animal or bird.” (New York Times 11/5/76). His sculptures and paintings are in many corporate and private collections, as well as museums in the Unites States, Poland, Germany, France, England, Japan and South America. Tomaszewski’s paintings, using burned, charred or singed paper, are two-dimensional works depicting strong emotions such as the tragedy and joy of life. As with his sculptures, he uses a manmade material, paper, with a natural element, fire. In 1994, Tomaszewski, along with another artist and dancer, established a group called “In Tune With Nature.” Their evocative art had strong ties to Nature and elicited dramatic emotional responses from audiences. Attracting other artists who were equally passionate and humanistic, the group expanded into a multimedia movement with a strong emphasis on feeling, mood and expression. They call their movement, “Emotionalism.” Their successful shows in USA, France, Germany, Denmark and Poland have created powerful ties between the members of the group, all of whom ambitiously promote its views.
Malina Boreyko
Always interested in the miniscule details and microorganisms composing my surrounding environment, I spent many years observing and absorbing myself in every color, texture, and surface of life. Along this journey, I found that the bigger picture, the organic whole, disappeared entirely from my vision and composition. This realization acted as a catalyst for my present work. I am in a current state of exploration, understanding the process of representing an organic whole through enigmatic microorganisms. My works, drip, melt, fuse, and outline abstractions that represent our environment as a whole. Each line serves as a mentor to a color - it opposes soft melts with harsh realism, mimicking the fluctuations of our existence. Lines fluctuate, appearing delicate only to voraciously and demonically consume existing marks. The congregation and dynamism of the lines and colors represents congregations - of flowers, buildings, people, life. The viewer can catch hints of recognizable substances, yet as soon as a line or color is used as a mnemonic device, the lines and colors quarrel with the eye, calling into question the identity of the components that create a whole.
Malina Boreyko lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is a recent graduate of Skidmore College with a major in art history and minor in studio art. Most of her time is spent working at several art institutions in New York City and as an artist assistant. During her free time, she continues her artistic practice, cultivating her love of line, color, and dynamism.
Paul Sandiford I have most recently been showing at the Unframed Artist Gallery in New *** http://www.wix.com/foolperiod/foolperiod34 "i like to create art that is able to induce an emotional reaction to That would qualify, in my opinion to describe in one sentence why
********************************** April 2010 Richard Morris
I believe that art should change you. Lingering over an image and exploring what it has to offer is a pleasure. In my painting, I focus on the mix of randomly occurring forms and colors found in the earth and sky and I find faces and human forms intermingled among them. We are united by our origins in the same speck of primordial dust and we return to it in the end. The mind pulls us through our own universe in a sort of dance amidst the light and clouds. There is no other experience beyond our own. We dance with the stars that flow through the universe. Over my life thus far, I have found creative expression in many forms. I have found joy in a long, happy marriage, raising three sons, and my practice of the dance that is Family Therapy and Counseling with young children. I returned to painting with a passion and I am thankful for the rush of expression that I now enjoy. *********************March 2010 "Local Woman Artists: Working in Paint, Pencil and Photography" Featuring: Helen Gutfreund
Helen Gutfreund is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist working primarily in painting and drawing media. Trained as a multidisciplinary artist at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, SUNY Purchase and SUNY New Paltz, Ms. Gutfreund is currently involved in an "Art All Year" project, immersing herself in visual arts for a period of one year with the intent of entering a Master's of Fine Arts program in 2011. Her current work focuses on a personal mythology based on the use of particular numbers. To find out more about Ms. Gutfreund's Art All Year project, please visit http://artallyear.blogspot.com or http://www.facebook.com/artallyear ***** Patti Hokanson-Murphy
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and starting its new life cycle, Patti is just beginning her new life as an artist. Although Patti has enjoyed the arts for many years, it wasn't until recently that she allowed her inner artist to have freedom of expression. This renewed expression has allowed Patti to feel alive and has reignited her passion towards life. As a teenager, Patti enjoyed drawing and sketching. Over the years, she became interested in jewlery design and began making and selling her one of-a-kind and custom pieces. More recently, Patti has enjoyed experiencing other mediums such as pottery, in which she continues to study. In addition, Patti enjoys painting. She creates both abstract and mixed art. This has beome her "therapy," she uses it to relax, reflect, and renew. **** Polly Reina
Many a day and night I paint in a style quite familiar to myself; one of frenzied abandonment. In my opinion my best work has emerged from this state of near madness; using bold colors and distorted perspectives, my canvas seconds away from being destroyed only to be pulled together with the last strokes. For me, life emanates from a painting done in that passionate state where imagery comes alive, pulsating with breath and movement. This commonality is present in all my work; the signature of my inner psyche. substances; in the grain patter in a piece of wood, in the contours of the tree line silhouetted against the sky, or the peeling of the paint on the side of an old building. As I lay down a form it is if I am feeling with my fingertips the essence of the beast I am bringing into existence. Robin Arnold both of whom integrated the formal studies in technique while nurturing and enabling me to take my intuitive visions to a new level. ***** Maureen Rogers
Eileen Quinn A trip to Kenya in the Summer of 2008 re-energized my love of photography. Always drawn to nature, I found the lush Central Highlands and the great expanses and wildlife of the Masai Mara to be alluring. Photography allows me to perceive and feel at a level far beyond “just looking.” The process of working with these images with Kevin Van Buren at the gallery, doing my own framing for the first time, and now sharing them has brought me the joy that comes with creative expression.
Yong Sook Kim
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January 2010 Rob Couteau “ A Year with Picasso: A reinterpretation of major and minor works." Rob Couteau was born in Brooklyn, NY, and studied fine arts at the State University of New York, at New Paltz. In the mid-1980s he was director of a nonprofit agency that provided advocacy, housing, and counseling for former psychiatric patients, in New York City. In 1985 he won the Fourth Annual North American Essay Award, a competition open to writers throughout North America and sponsored by the American Humanist Association. He has published poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews in such publications as The Alembic; Arete; Bloomsbury Review; Chrysalis; Croton Review; The European; The Hawaii Pacific Review; The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy; Raintaxi Review of Books; Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture; West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal; White Pelican Review; and Z Miscellaneous. upstate New Paltz, New York. His work inspired by the time he spent at Musee Picasso, Paris is entitled “ A Year with Picasso: A reinterpretation of major and minor works." A new book of poems which features work that is part of the Picasso project will soon be available. In the book, Couteau takes a number of his paintings and "portrays" them in poetic form. These include pieces that are also featured in the "Year with Picasso" show as well as a number of poems about Paris and some prose that deals directly with the inspiration of Picasso in his own work and in 20th century art. The book of poems will include an introduction by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, a well-known biographer of poets and writers (including e.e. cummings and Paul Bowles) and who has translated many collections of poetry by major poets for City Lights Books.
Couple with Dog, after Picasso by Rob Couteau January/ February 2010 ---------
Cathy Law November 2009
VISIT CATHY LAW'S MOST EXCELENT WEB PAGE Read About the "China Rocks" show in the New Paltz Times
Gregory B. Martin Large Format Landscape Photographer
Growing up, I took my point and shoot camera with me on every vacation. Perhaps it’s the scientist in me or perhaps it’s the first four letters of analysis, but I found myself seemingly documenting everything and everyplace when I traveled. If there were four mountains, six building and five rivers, I’d make sure I took pictures of four mountains, six building and five rivers. Vacations started to become a time to catalog rather than a time to enjoy, so, fifteen years ago, I stopped taking pictures and started to just relax during my travels. About ten years ago, my interest in photography was rekindled when it became necessary to do some macro-photography for another hobby. After purchasing a midrange modern 35 mm SLR, taking a local continuing education course, and completing my project, I decided to use my new camera to take some local landscape shots, landscapes being my favorite subject. Of course this lead to taking the camera along on almost all of the trips that my wife and I take across North America. I started to display my early photographs on a couple of bare walls in my office. As I studied the prints made by my local photo lab I noticed that they just didn't seem sharp enough and did not seem to match my memory. I bought a medium and then a large format camera to address the first and Photoshop and a digital printer to address the second. My goal is to have my prints match both what I remember what the camera actually recorded. I now try to balance the enjoyment of the vacation and photography by becoming somewhat more discriminating on both what and how I photograph. I patiently compose my photographs and wait for the best lighting and can now drive by three of those four mountains and a couple of the rivers without stopping. I even occasionally set the camera up, examine the scene before me, sigh, pack up, and leave without ever tripping the shutter.
"Painters' Palette" Group Show September 2009 Franz Heigemeir Painter, Sculptor
Graduate of the Kunstschule Augsburg, Germany Group exhibits: One-man shows: Awards: Other: Since 1990 the design and calligraphy of the annual “Four Freedoms” Awards for the Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, NY
MARIANNE R. HEIGEMEIR
Graduated from the Kunstschule Augsburg, Germany Active member of The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum since 1986 Exhibited at: Winner of the Finalist in the 4th Annual Pastel 100 Competition, heifranart@hvc.rr.com Patti Hokanson-Murphy
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and starting its new life cycle, Patti is just beginning her new life as an artist. Although Patti has enjoyed the arts for many years, it wasn't until recently that she allowed her inner artist to have freedom of expression. This renewed expression has allowed Patti to feel alive and has re ignited her passion towards life. As a teenager, Patti enjoyed drawing and sketching. Over the years, she became interested in jewelry design and began making and selling her one-of-a-kind and custom pieces. More recently, Patti has enjoyed experiencing other mediums such as pottery, in which she continues to study. In addition, Patti enjoys painting. She creates both abstract and mixed media art. She says that she enjoys this as it has become her “therapy.” She uses it to relax, reflect, and renew.
Kathleen McGuiness
My work is the product of circumstances that surround us all universally. I consider myself an expressionist. My love for drawing the figure has been a continuing passion for more than thirty years. The classical approach is the basis for my work, offering stability to my freedom of color and line. Training: Primarily Self Taught New York City: Art Student League, 1960's Woodstock: Nicholas Burhalis, private group, 5 years Woodstock School of Art: Staats Fasoldt, watercolor- Deanne Keller, drawing and anatomy- Zhang Hong Nian, oil painting Kathleen McGuiness teaches art including:
www.woodstockartists.com
Richard Morris
I believe that art should change you. Lingering over an image and exploring what it has to offer is a pleasure. In my painting, I focus on the mix of randomly occurring forms and colors found in the earth and sky and I find faces and human forms intermingled among them. We are united by our origins in the same speck of primoridal dust and we return to it in the end. The mind pulls us through our own universe in a sort of dance amidst the light and clouds. There is no other experience beyond our own. We dance with the stars that flow through the universe. Over my life thus far, I have found creative expression in many forms. I have found joy in a long, happy marriage, raising three sons, and my practice of the dance that is Family Therapy and Counseling with young children. I returned to painting with a passion and I am thankful for the rush of expression that I now enjoy.
Erin Parsch
Erin Parsch's art draws on the traditions of cubism, color field, and abstract expressionism. Erin grew up attending Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied dance, piano and music theory at the University of Louisville. At the age of seventeen, Erin moved to New York to study art history, dance, choreography, and improvisation at the State University of New York at Purchase. She joined the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in 2001 as a principal dancer and was featured in such works as New Moon (originally created in 1989). The Hawkins Company successfully integrated dance with live music - such as Lucia Dlugoszewski’s stark, experimental compositions - and art, exemplified in the sets designed by Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, and Ralph Dorazio. While dancing with Hawkins, Erin also designed and created sets for the company's performances. Erin has had several shows in NYC. She was commissioned to paint a 12’ x 18’ painting for a dance piece that premiered at Lincoln Center on April 1, 2005. She has had solo shows at the Wooster Arts Space in SoHo, and her work was exhibited in a group show along with paintings by Basquiat and Hinmann. Since moving to the Hudson Valley,Since moving to the Hudson Valley, Erin has continued to be active as a dancer, appearing in Susan Osberg's 'The Monk Project', and video art such as the "Two Simultaneous Videos" by the noted photographer Angelika Rinnhofer. Erin's studio is in New Paltz, New York.
Fran Sutherland
A native New Yorker, Fran Sutherland is a painter, teacher, and restorer of Sutherland (nee Murano) synthesizes both Eastern and Western aesthetics Fran Sutherland's paintings enhance numerous public and private collections Lynn Walcott
Education: BA Philosophy and Photography - New School for Social Research (1968-1969) MA Ed. Antioch Graduate Philosophy - University of New Hampshire (1970-1972) MSW Clinical Social Work- Fordham Graduate School of Education ( 1991-1993) Student of Kathleen McGuiness Woodstock Artist (1999- present) Lynn Walcott is a practicing Psychotherapist in private practice since 1993
Paul Osgood August 2009
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Paul has worked with Northlight Photography for more than 10 years. Each year he dedicates time to concentrate exclusively on creating unique landscape images, traveling to many of the more remote and scenic places in North America. Usually only a few distinct images result from one of these trips. He will often visit the same scene many times before conditions are right. Once an image is composed, he will usually have to wait, studying the changing light waiting to capture the perfect moment. His images may be viewed on the web at PaulOsgoodPhotography.com.
Keri Gould July 2009 "This is my first gallery exhibit although I have been experimenting with photography as an art form since high school. What interests me most is capturing the patterns of life; whether visual patterns like the ceiling of the mosque in Oman, flora in Hawaii, sunflowers in Provance; patterns of behavior like young girls learning to balance dishes on their heads in a mountain village, a man carrying water buckets in cambodia horses grazing in a field of lavender. Likewise, I am fascinated with trying to capture the emotional responses to life's patterns. These interests inform other parts of my life, like being a lawyer and a law school professor. After all, what is the law, other than a codification of society's patterns? Law has offered me opportunities to explore patterns around the world and I am delighted to bring my photographs back to you."
Resident Artist & Landscape Photographer Kevin Van Buren Featured June 2009
Kevin Van Buren has worked with Northlight Photography for almost 20 years exploring and developing a photographic vision capturing the natural landscape. Kevin works in both color and black and white in image capture. Images are captured using a Medium Format 6X7 camera system onto film. Images selected for printing are digitally scanned and processed capturing maximum detail and providing greatest longevity. Kevin has worked with numerous local groups assisting fund raising for their organizations as well has numerous collectors in the Hudson Valley as well abroad. Many of the images are limited editions with only 75 available per image size. Kevin continues to promote and help artist succeed with the opening of a new type of gallery the Van Buren gallery,Inc which utilizes the incubator theme as a model to help promote and hone the skills of aspiring Artist.
FIVE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN IN ART May 2009 * PATTI HOKANSON-MURPHY *
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and starting its new life cycle, Patti is just beginning her new life as an artist. Although Patti has enjoyed the arts for many years, it wasn't until recently that she allowed her inner artist to have freedom of expression. This renewed expression has allowed Patti to feel alive and has re ignited her passion towards life. As a teenager, Patti enjoyed drawing and sketching. Over the years, she became interested in jewelry design and began making and selling her one-of-a-kind and custom pieces. More recently, Patti has enjoyed experiencing other mediums such as pottery, in which she continues to study. In addition, Patti enjoys painting. She creates both abstract and mixed media art. She says that she enjoys this as it has become her “therapy.” She uses it to relax, reflect, and renew.
* SIDELLE JOFFEE *
Sidelle's artistic endeavors began later in life. In her 40's she set up shop on the kitchen table. Spreading out newspapers, she began to teach her shelf how to paint. Her children recall that as dinner time crept nearer their mother would scramble to convert her make shift art studio back into place for plates, food and family. Her closest encounter with the classroom was when she bartered with a local art student, she would clean his paintbrushes if he would frame her finished paintings. Later in her art career, around the age of 60, she began experimenting with clay. She audited a couple of art courses, but then took the medium into her own hands. Sidelle says that many of her works are "inspired by the unique relationship between mother and child." The majority of her works, both her paintings and clay, are created from memories of her travels and family. Her pieces are an evolution, flowing with the tides of her mind. * DOLORES LYNCH *
" Life and Art are Inseparable" This has always been my belief since art exists in many forms and contributes to the development and growth of our life experiences. Throughout my life, the necessity of art has been a fine thread that weaves in and out of my everyday life. I would perform in theater, dance, and do choreography. I study art, visit museums and have always been aware of the fine sensibilities that abound in our world. Without art in our lives, our souls and spirits would surely die.
Training: Art Classes: 1950's Oil Portraits: 1962 Figure Study: 1980 Ikebana - Japanese Flower Arrangement: 1996-1998 Water color Study: 2000-2005 Woodstock School of Art - Sculpture & Portraits: 2005 Portrait Art Study Kathleen Mc Guiness 2000-2009 * KATHLEEN MCGUINESS *
My work is the product of circumstances that surround us all universally. I consider myself an expressionist. My love for drawing the figure has been a continuing passion for more than thirty years. The classical approach is the basis for my work, offering stability to my freedom of color and line. Training: Primarily Self Taught New York City: Art Student League, 1960's Woodstock: Nicholas Burhalis, private group, 5 years Woodstock School of Art: Staats Fasoldt, watercolor- Deanne Keller, drawing and anatomy- Zhang Hong Nian, oil painting Kathleen McGuiness teaches art including:
www.woodstockartists.com * BRIANNA C. STACHOWSKI * I like to think of photography as a window into the mind of the artist. My photographs are a way for me to show the more profound side of subjects that may have become mundane or ordinary for the viewer through routine, and so that I may illuminate the beauty in my subjects and enlighten my audience's perspectives. Education: BA in Business and Photography- Eckerd College (2003-2008) Brianna is the Manager of Van Buren Gallery, Inc. and is working on her professional portfolio * LYNN WALCOTT *
Education: BA Philosophy and Photography - New School for Social Research (1968-1969) MA Ed. Antioch Graduate Philosophy - University of New Hampshire (1970-1972) MSW Clinical Social Work- Fordham Graduate School of Education ( 1991-1993) Student of Kathleen McGuiness Woodstock Artist (1999- present) Lynn Walcott is a practicing Psychotherapist in private practice since 1993 Lynn will be giving Psychic Consultations May 16 1-4 at Van Buren Gallery $10 for 15 minutes. She has over 30 years experience. ************************************** Resident Photographer Kevin Van Buren
Brent McCullough Photography www.ordovergallery.com/artist/BrentMcCullough
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