Lyceum Gallery

The Lyceum Gallery at Suffolk County Community College, Eastern Campus is pleased to present Human NATURED, a group exhibition curated by Annemarie Waugh, on view from January 26 through March 13, 2026.

Human NATURED brings together painting, photography, prints, sculpture, and poetry produced over the past two decades. The artists engage with the natural world, cultural memory, and personal experience through tactile, thoughtful processes. From Howardena Pindell’s meticulous abstractions built from hole-punched dots to Agathe Snow’s sculptures incorporating found materials, and from Terrance Hayes’s poetic portraits to Lisa Corinne Davis’s vibrant geometric paintings, the exhibition presents diverse approaches united by a commitment to meaningful expression and the human hand. Human NATURED invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and reconnect with the nature of artmaking itself.

Gallery Event

Reception: Thursday, February 5, 2026

Time: 5:00–7:00 PM

Location: The Lyceum Gallery, Montaukett Library

Artists on View

Isak Berbic | Darlene Charneco | Andrea Cote | Lisa Corinne Davis Tomory Dodge | Terrance Hayes | Howardena Pindell | Agathe Snow

Inspired by

Ōsawa Agathe’s The Lantern of Lost Memories; Mariana Leky’s What You Can See from Here; Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library; Terrance Hayes’s How to Be Drawn; and Thom, Kai Cheng’s Falling Back in Love with Being Human.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Isak Berbic is a visual artist living and working in New York. His research is concerned with social histories, translation, the limits of representation, and the circulation of images. His recent projects unearth contested histories, investigating forms of representation within intersecting ecologies, geographies, economies, archeologies, exchange and transformation. He uses fiction and documents, found and primary material, the image and the literary, in the construction of his artworks, which take on interdisciplinary forms, including photography-text-object installations, films and videos, drawings and objects, actions, cooking, speeches, texts and publications.

Darlene Charneco is an East End-based Latinx artist who creates mixed-media mappings to explore and navigate the layered spaces we live in, both in the real and virtual world. She examines human settlements, forms of interaction, and evolution through a biological lens and as part of a larger organism. Developing her own tactile language—such as painstakingly hammering nails into wooden panels—the artist builds large-scale, three-dimensional, patterned Touchmaps for viewers to experience a world that continually shifts and changes through our expanded communication networks.

Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, printmaking, and performance. Her practice encompasses studio-based work, mixed-media installations, and
public projects that involve community participation. Based In Hampton Bays, NY, she has exhibited her work in North and South America at venues including Islip Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, and PanAmerican Art Projects. Her performances have been featured at The Watermill Center, The Neuberger Museum, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Peekskill Project, Chashama, The Dumbo Arts Festival, and Photo Buenos Aires. In 2012 a 13-year survey, “Body of Evidence,” was presented at Dowling College. She is the recipient of several grants including NYSCA Creative Individuals Grants in 2014 and 2018 and a SIP Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She received a NYSCA Artist Support Grant with the Patchogue Arts Council for a community project for 2023. Residencies include The Church Sag Harbor, the Uncommon Residency at Sound View in Greenport ,NY, and the Miami Paper & Print Museum.

Lisa Corinne Davis makes geometric abstract paintings alive with joyous color. Her canvases layer pattern and hue to create dynamic visual experiences that pulse with energy and invite extended contemplation. Since 1993, Davis has held teaching positions at some of the top art schools in the United States; she is currently Professor of Art at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts, and a 2024 fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts. Additionally in 2024, Davis was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design Program to create several permanent mosaic murals for the 68th Street-Hunter College subway station, which is a site of particular resonance for Davis, having taught at Hunter College for over two decades.

Tomory Dodge received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. While at RISD, he completed their European Honors Program in Rome, Italy in 1997. In 2022, Dodge completed a residency by the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. Dodge has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; and ACME., Los Angeles, CA.

Terrance Hayes is a National Book Award-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow who also paints. Trained in painting before turning to poetry, Hayes continues to create visual art that explores themes of masculinity, identity, and perception. His paintings appear on the covers of his poetry books, merging his two creative practices. Terrance Hayes’s most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry
Criticism and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin won the Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Poetry and was a finalist the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry, the 2018 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A collection of poems, So To Speak, and collection of essays, Watch Your Language, (Penguin 2023). Hayes is a Silver Professor of English at New York University.

Howardena Pindell was born in Philadelphia in 1943 and studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked from 1967–1979, first as Exhibition Assistant, then as Assistant Curator in the Department of National and International Traveling Exhibitions, and finally as an Associate Curator and Acting Director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. The role made her the museum's first African American curator. In 1979, Pindell began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. In 2019, the university honored her as a distinguished professor. Her work explores color, texture, and the language of abstraction through a meticulous process involving hole punches, layered dots, and intuitive arrangements of form.

Agathe Snow (b. 1976, Corsica, France) is a New York-based artist who has shown nationally at New Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY. Snow has also achieved international recognition, exhibiting at prestigious institutions, such as Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; and Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Agathe Snow’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, and in The Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO.

For additional information, please call 631-548-2500.

For Press information contact: Mary Feder federm@sunysuffolk.edu

August 28 – October 25 Opening reception: September 9, 3–7 pm

This group exhibition, curated by artist and curator Annemarie Waugh, features works by 12 artists including Jeremy Dennis, Sue Beyer, and Stephanie Dinkins. The show invites us to reconnect with the beauty of the world, with each other, and with the rewards that come from a closely observed life. The artworks serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight. The show of delight invites you to linger.

The Show of Delights in Contemporary Art is inspired by:

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews

For press inquiries, interviews etc: waugha@sunysuffolk.edu

About the Lyceum Gallery
Located at SCCC Eastern Campus, on a 192-acre site in the Pine Barrens of eastern Long Island. Inside The Montaukett Learning Resource Center and includes a state-of-the-art library, a large lecture hall, computer classrooms, a multi-media room, the Academic Support Center, gallery space and varied learning spaces for students. The Lyceum Gallery is a contemporary art gallery established in 2011 with an interdisciplinary focus. 

Our mailing address is: The Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, 121 Speonk Riverhead Road, Riverhead, NY 11901

The Show of Delights
Artists Bios:

Cliff Baldwin is an artist, composer, designer, and filmmaker. He lives and works in Aquebogue, New York. His work is in numerous collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Canada, Stanford Library, UCLA Library, Serralves Museum (Porto, Portugal), and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Baldwin founded and curated the large-format artist publication ¡AQUI! in 1983. From 1989 to 1995 he exhibited large-scale installations and multiples with Fluxus artist Davi Det Hompson as Baldwin+Hompson, and he has exhibited public sculpture in New York, Mexico City, and Stockholm since 1989. He taught graduate design at Pratt Institute from 1992 to 2000. Baldwin is the founder of the Aquebogue Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) a multi-instrumental group devoted to contemporary electroacoustic music. ACME performed at the Rites of Spring Music Festival from 2016 to 2019 on the East End of Long Island. Baldwin’s films and videos have appeared at The Kitchen, Galapagos Art Space, and Anthology Film Archives. cliffbaldwin.com

Nuveen Barwari was born in Nashville, TN, grew up in Duhok, Kurdistan, and currently resides in Albany, NY. She received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022 and her B.S. in Art from Tennessee State University in 2019. Barwari has exhibited work at Zg Gallery (Chicago), NGBK Gallery (Berlin), Duhok Gallery (Duhok), Ortega y Gasset Projects (New York), Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery (Nashville), and Art Toronto Canada’s Art Fair. Barwari was the 2023 Fellow in the Skidmore Art Department’s Workspace Residency program. Her work has been featured in publications including Nashville Scene, New American Paintings, Yahoo! Nachrichten, Gazete Duvar, and Botan Times. nuveenbarwari.com

Marta Baumiller was born in Warsaw, Poland, and currently lives and works on the North Fork of Long Island. She has travelled the world, studied languages, been a costume maker, fashion designer, milliner, and product designer—and always an artist. Presently, Baumiller is working across media with a focus on project-based installations. Her interest lies in the environment and merging the functional object with process, form, and politics. She incorporates the viewer experientially in playful challenges to accepted social norms. Baumiller’s work, in all its various forms, can be found in galleries, hotels, and stores around the globe from the Straw Hat Restaurant in Anguilla (Eastern Caribbean), to Salesforce offices in Silicon Valley, and Westin Hotels worldwide. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Wallpaper, and Interior Design, among others.​ martabaumiller.com

Sue Beyer is a New York/Melbourne-based interdisciplinary artist who explores what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence and big data. Working across traditional and new media, her practice investigates the boundaries between fact and fiction through autofiction—a storytelling technique that merges reality with fictional elements. Beyer’s recent work examines how technology shapes our understanding of identity and humanity. Her 2025 exhibition Personality Test: An Autofiction at NARS Foundation (Brooklyn) combined painting, 3D printing, electronics, and wall decals to explore these themes through both personal narrative and technological mediation. This intermedial approach allows her to investigate the complex relationships between different materials and media forms. Her work has been exhibited internationally and supported by prestigious cultural agencies including the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, University of Melbourne, and the Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation. She has been a finalist for multiple prizes, won the Emerging Artist category in the Stanthorpe Art Prize (2014), and received the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award (2018) for work created during her MFA. Her pieces are held in numerous corporate and public collections, including the Australian Government’s Artbank. Beyer holds an MFA from the University of Melbourne and is currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University in South East Queensland. She previously served as a sessional lecturer at RMIT in Melbourne. Currently participating in the Oolite Arts’ Live.In.Art Residency Program in Miami, she is represented by Gallerysmith in Australia. suebeyer.com.au

CHIKA is a Japanese-born artist, researcher, technologist, and educator based in New York City. She is an alumnus resident fellow at NYU's ITP, Eyebeam, the Made in NY Media Center by IFP Residency, and the Experimental TV Center Residency. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, FCA Emergency Grants, City Artist Corps Grants, The Manhattan Community Arts Fund, NYSCA Presentation Funds, and the New Mexico Art Fund.

Her work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Exploratorium, the New York Hall of Science, the Bronx Museum, the Kiewit Luminarium, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Mapping Festival, Mutek, and more.

She holds a BFA from SVA and an MPS from ITP at NYU. Additionally, as an educator, she focuses on projection and LED mapping to empower students to bring their dream projects to life. She serves as an adjunct professor at NYU, The New School, Hunter College, and Queens College. She is also a founder of Mappathon™ and various projection mapping workshops. imagima.com/

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a non-profit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and BIPOC artists. His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation, using photography to stage cinematic, otherworldly narratives rooted in Native oral stories, history, and contemporary experience. Dennis is a Stony Brook University alumnus (2013) and Forty Under 40 honoree (2017), and earned his MFA from Pennsylvania State University (2016). His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at The Armory Show, Expo Chicago, ZONAMACO FOTO (Mexico City), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Notable exhibitions include Speaking With Light at the Denver Art Museum, and In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Among his numerous honors are a 2025 NYSCA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency Fellowship, Andy Warhol Visual Arts Residency (2023), Getty Creative Bursary Award, and Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter Grants (2016, 2020). Most recently he was awarded the Artist to Artist Fellowship from the Art Matters Foundation. jeremynative.com

Stephanie Dinkins is a transdisciplinary artist and educator whose work intersects emerging technologies and our future histories. Her art practice is deeply committed to creating platforms for dialogue about AI as it intersects with these critical societal issues. As an LG Guggenheim Awardee, and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI (2023), Dinkins leverages technology and storytelling to challenge and reimagine the narratives surrounding marginalized communities, particularly those of Black and brown individuals. Through her installations, digital platforms, and community-based projects, Dinkins seeks not only to question the current paradigms of AI development but also to forge paths toward more equitable and inclusive technological futures. Her work emphasizes the importance of incorporating diverse voices and perspectives into the design and application of AI, advocating for a future where technology uplifts and amplifies underrepresented histories and experiences, and fostering a tech ecosystem that is truly beneficial for all.

Dinkins is the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art at Stony Brook University and a Schmitt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellow. Dinkins’ work in AI and other mediums uses emerging technologies and social collaboration to work toward technological ecosystems based on care and social equity. She exhibits and publicly advocates for inclusive AI internationally at a broad spectrum of community, private, and institutional venues. Dinkins’ experiences with and explorations of artificial intelligence have led to a deep interest in how algorithmic systems impact communities of color in particular and our futures more generally. Her experiments with AI have led full circle to the realization that the stories, myths, and cultural perspectives, aka data, that we hold and share form and inform society and have done so for millennia. She has concluded that our stories are our algorithms. We must value, grow, respect, and collaborate with each other’s stories (data) to build care and broadly compassionate values into the technological ecosystems that increasingly support our future.

Dinkins previous fellowships and support include the United States Artist Fellowship, Knight Arts & Tech Fellowship, Sundance Artist of Practice Fellowship, Lucas Artists Fellowship in Visual Arts at Montalvo Art Center, the Soros Equality Fellowship, Data and Society Research Institute Fellowship, and awards from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Creative Capital, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works Tech Lab, NEW INC, Blue Mountain Center, The Laundromat Project, Santa Fe Art Institute and Art/Omi. Wired, The New York Times, Art In America, Artsy, Art21, Hyperallergic, BBC, The Nod podcast, Rightclicksave.com, and many popular podcasts and online publications have highlighted Dinkins’ art and ideas. stephaniedinkins.com

Jodi Hays is a Tennessee-based artist whose work explores the material vocabulary of painting filtered through visual habits of the American South. She has exhibited her work at galleries and museums across the United States including Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Cooper Union, and Boston Center for the Arts. Her work can be found in collections including Birmingham Museum of Art, The J. Crew Group, and the Tennessee State Museum. She is a recipient of several awards including from NYFA/Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and Hopper Prize. Originally from Arkansas, Hays holds a BFA from the University of Tennessee and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art. Notable scholarship includes close work with the late Pope.L and fostering collaborations with other artists. Residencies include Yaddo, the Cooper Union, Stoveworks, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Hyperallergic, mentioned in The New York Times, and positively reviewed in Artforum International and Two Coats of Paint. Her work has been exhibited most recently in a solo exhibition at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Susan Inglett Gallery (New York), and Devening Projects (Chicago). She is represented regionally by David Lusk Gallery. jodihays.com

Linda O’Keeffe is a sound artist based in New York. She holds a professorship in art at Stony Brook University, New York. A passionate advocate for the role of women in the sonic arts, she founded the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation. Additionally, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Interference Journal, a publication dedicated to audio cultures, from 2012 to 2022. In 2009, she co-founded the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association, leading as its President from 2015 to 2017.

Her professional focus lies at the crossroads of art, science, technology, and community. This interest has led to the creation of numerous artworks, published research papers, and keynote presentations. As a member of the artist collective, Non Random, she aims to emphasize the union of arts and science to foster dialogues around research and art practices. Non Random is currently engaged in "Evolving Ourselves with Unnatural Selection", a project funded by Creative Scotland. This collaboration between artists and researchers aims to investigate and illustrate the ethical implications and future prospects of gene editing through a digital multi-arts approach. More about these collaborative works can be found at non-random.co.uk.

In 2017, she was commissioned to create the artwork "Hybrid Soundscapes I-IV" for the "Sounds Like Her" touring exhibition. The work explored the impact of renewable energy technologies on natural soundscapes, landscapes, and rural communities. This piece was showcased in major UK art galleries from 2017 to 2020 and featured in publications discussing the role of women in sound. lindaokeeffe.com

Kirstin Lamb is a painter living in Providence and working in Pawtucket, RI. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her A.B. in Visual Art and Literatures in English from Brown University in 2001. Lamb’s work has been shown in venues across the country and abroad, recently showing at the Wassaic Project (Amenia, NY), Sarah Crown Gallery (Tribeca, NY), Overlap Gallery (Newport, RI), Geary (Millerton, NY), Cade Tompkins Projects (Providence, RI), Spring/Break Art Show (New York), the Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA), and Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), among others. She has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, the Wassaic Project, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Ora Lerman Trust Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Lamb recently completed a two-year contract curator position at The Yard, a co-working space in Brooklyn that hosts solo and group shows quarterly. She has begun planning online and new curatorial projects in New England. Her work is in the collections of Fidelity Investments (Boston, MA), the Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA), and Providence College, among others. Lamb’s work is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston. nitsrik.com

LoVid’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary and experimental, incorporating diverse mediums such as installation, sculptural synthesizers, video, textiles, and performance. They blend analog and digital methods with traditional art forms. Their projects examine technology’s impact on consciousness and perception of the body, place, and nature. LoVid frequently explores the connection between media, physical objects, spaces, and the human touch, emphasizing the importance of handmade production in a technology-driven world. Their work has been shown and performed internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Their videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). LoVid has received support from various organizations, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Graham Foundation, and has collaborated on large-scale projects combining technology and social interventions with institutions including Rhizome and Franklin Furnace. LoVid is an innovative duo using various media to investigate the complex relationship between humans and technology. lovid.org

HAN QIN 韩沁 is a visual artist, curator, and researcher. Born and raised in Hangzhou, China, Han now calls Long Island, NY, home. Han earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Printmaking from China Academy of Art, followed by an M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute. Recognized for her outstanding contributions, she is the recipient of the prestigious New York State Council of Arts artist award in 2023 in the category of Film, Media, and New Technology and served as a jury member for the New York Foundation of Art on Digital Arts in 2020. Han is a founding member of the US Immigrant Artist Network and an Executive Committee member of the Chinese American Art Faculty Association. Currently, Han shares her expertise as a Chancellor Award adjunct professor in the Art Department at Stony Brook University. Han’s artistic journey includes notable residencies at the Powerlong Museum in Hangzhou, China, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, with upcoming residencies at the Swatch Art Project in Shanghai, China, and EFA North Fork Residency in New York. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, China, Japan, and Korea, gaining recognition in public and private collections worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include the Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY), Modern Museum of Long Island, Nassau County Museum of Art (Roslyn Harbor, NY), Gallery North (New York), and Fou Gallery (New York). Her work has been featured in Artforum, e-flux Education, askART, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Neocha magazine, SinoVision, CAFA, China Academy of Art Media, Qianjiang Evening News, Zhejiang Daily, and Heyshow.com. hanqin.myportfolio.com

Across the Pond, an exhibit of paintings and prints by Annemarie Waugh, will be on view at the Lyceum Gallery in the Montaukett Building on Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus from March 12 through April 17, 2025. A reception for the artist will take place on Thursday, April 3, from 4 – 6 p.m., with light refreshments provided. The event is free and open to the public.

Born in Birmingham, UK, Waugh explores British culture in her work, painting glimpses of tartans, animals, foliage, and iconic characters from British television. She also incorporates silkscreened expressions of British colloquialisms from her upbringing, layering them into abstract compositions on canvases that reach up to six feet in size. The exhibition also features original illustrations from her upcoming book, Across the Pond, set to be published this spring.

Waugh’s exploration of language began in 2015 as an art installation, where she chalked British expressions onto a 10 x 20 ft. wall, with their meanings decoded on an opposite wall. This project later evolved into a book examining the richness of British phraseology. In Across the Pond, she invites viewers to embrace the humor and nuances of language, incorporating English, Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, Scottish, Cornish, and Yiddish sayings. 

She writes: “The England I grew up in was chockablock with clotted cream, loaded baked potatoes, pints of beer, jumble sales, Victorian seaside piers, Ribena, soggy vegetables, and drizzle that never quite let up. My memories include moss, wit, tea

shops, scrummy cakes and biscuits, fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce, dampness, nincompoops, and an aversion to taking life too seriously.”

Waugh emigrated to New York in 1994 and now resides in Setauket, NY. She earned a BA from Central Saint Martins, London (1992) and an MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University (2021). Her work has been exhibited at:

• The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook (2023)
• Serendip Gallery, Kobe, Japan (2023)
• Front Street Galleries, Brooklyn (2013)
• Orchard Street Gallery, NYC (2015)
• The Islip Art Museum (2015)
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Patchogue (2019)
• You + Me Artist Films, Berlin (2021)
• The Royal Academy of Art in conjunction with Christie’s, London (1993)

She has received several accolades, including The Prince’s Trust Scholarship (UK, 1993) and The Stephanie Dinkins Kusama Scholarship (SUNY Stony Brook, 2021). With sponsorship from the Ashley Schiff Preserve and the Office of the President at Stony Brook University, Waugh created The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy (2021), a multidisciplinary environmental installation that combined original music, live musicians, poetry, neuroscience, and dance.

Before turning to fine art full-time, Waugh worked as a graphic designer in New York City during the 1990s, designing logos, posters, press materials, and billboards for Showtime, VH1, Radical Media, The World Financial Center (a David Byrne performance), and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. She has also created illustrations for The New York Times, Raygun Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Doctors Without Borders. Her paintings have appeared in storefront window displays for Hyper-Hyper (London) and Warehouse stores across the UK.

Her artwork is part of several private collections, including those of The Long Island Museum, VH1, ManMade Music, Showtime, and Doyle Partners.

In addition to her artistic practice, Waugh is an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk County Community College, where she teaches 2D & 3D Design, Drawing, and Art Appreciation.

 

January 29 - March 7, 2025

The Fifth Annual MLK Portrait Project exhibition will be on view at the Suffolk County Community College Eastern Campus’ Lyceum Gallery, located in the Montaukett Learning Resource Center on the Riverhead Campus from January 29 through March 7, 2025.

In homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the enduring legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, local high school art students have created collaborative mosaic portraits of civil rights heroes. The exhibition will feature over fifteen 48 x 48-inch portraits. Over the past four years, East End Arts (EEA) has collaborated with students from more than 16 local high schools. All portrait proceeds will support the EEA’s Scholarship Fund. Visit https://eastendarts.org/featured-events/mlk-portrait-auction/ for additional information about the specific work from the exhibition and the way the art has been coordinated.

Opening reception: Thursday, February 27, from 4–6 p.m. Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome.

 

September 4 – October 19, 2024

Cliff Baldwin: “In All Languages,” an exhibit of paintings, films, and prints was on view at the Suffolk County Community College Eastern Campus’ Lyceum Gallery located in the Montaukett Building from September 4 through October 19, 2024.

Cliff Baldwin is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, music, and design. Baldwin is fascinated by languages that cross cultural boundaries. In his exhibit, “In All Languages,” Baldwin will display multiple forms of universal language: first are his non-verbal protest or parade signs that silently holler the language of art for a rally in the name of color and pure form. Complete with handles one may parade with them affirming colorist beauty and pleasing shapes.

Opening reception: Thursday, April 25 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

April 17 - May 7, 2024

The spring Eastern Campus Student Fine Arts Exhibit is a lively show highlighting exceptional art work created by students on Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus. The spring student exhibit displays works created in fine art disciplines, including Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design, Color Theory, and Art Appreciation. There will be works on view in a variety of media and sizes. Community members and prospective students are welcomed to attend the exhibit to see the high proficiency attained by the students enrolled in Suffolk’s Eastern Campus Art Department.

Opening reception: Thursday, April 25 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Hector Leonardi: Light Passages, an exhibit of paintings was on display at the Suffolk County Community College Eastern Campus’ Lyceum Gallery.  The exhibit ran from January 23 through February 25, 2023.  

About The Artist

Leonardi is a master of color. In his light filled Bridgehampton studio, he recounted the teaching of his Yale University mentor, Josef Albers, “Albers would point to a color area in my work and ask ’What is this doing?’” Questions like this would lead Leonardi to discover a myriad of color phenomena throughout his 60-year painting career.

Hector Leonardi’s 5 ft. high textured canvases contain lush cobalt blues or reds that create painterly filigrees that allow soft yellows and oranges to peek through. His color passages are structured in stripes, floating shapes, and atmospheric compositions in weightless color fields. Horizontals beckon one to enter these hallowed environments that harken to the natural world. In them, one can see influences of Gustav Klimt’s forests, Seurat’s optical mixing, and Klee’s abstractions.  

Leonardi described the open-ended process that leads to his ethereal, colorist works. He paints an initial layer on his canvas, and then he adheres patterned paint swatches that he creates previously from built up paint layers.  As Leonardi experiments by adding color elements, a visual dialogue takes place, in a back-and-forth conversation over time a finished work emerges. 

Hector Leonardi was born in 1930 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University in 1955 after earning a Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Rhode Island School of Design. Leonardi worked for Industrial Designer, Russell Wright for 7 years before gaining a professorship at Parsons School of Design where he taught for 25 years. Leonardi was awarded a McDowell Fellowship in 1964.  In the early 1970s, Leonardi moved to Bridgehampton where he has devoted himself to his experimental studio practice.  Leonardi has exhibited his work in NYC, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Connecticut and internationally in Japan, Paris, and Venice.  For more information about Hector Leonardi’s work, please contact the artist at 631 537-7450.

Ruby Jackson: Delicious Inspiration, an exhibit of sculptures will be on view on-line at Suffolk County Community College’s Lyceum Gallery on the Eastern Campus.

Ruby Jackson, of Sag Harbor, has created a large and distinctive body of work in wood, ceramic, paper, pen and ink, and polymer clay.  Her imagery is inspired by natural forms which she abstracts and explores.  In them, one can see her love of the east end, and particularly her interest in underwater sea environments.  On view are Jackson’s miniature sculptures of food and under water seascapes created in multi-media.

Jackson’s work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, Long Island, and Sarasota, Florida.  Jackson was featured in “Takeover,” at the Southampton Art Center in 2019 where she shared her artistic process along with her work.  Jackson is a two time recipient of the “Best Sculpture” award at the Guild Hall Members’ Show (East Hampton, 2017, 1996). Her work has appeared in a number of reviews and publications including Newsday “Tiny Food Made of Clay by Sag Harbor Artist,” by Kay Blough, (4/16/16) and Hamptons.com, (TAKEOVER! Artists In Residence – Curated By Amy Kirwin Debuts At Southampton Arts Center - Hamptons.com ).

Jackson grew up in Queens, New York and developed a variety of sculpture techniques while living in NYC.   After moving to the East End of Long Island, Jackson earned a degree in Art Education from Long Island University.  For more than a decade, she served as Assistant to the Director of the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York.  Jackson is passionate about teaching art to children and has conducted workshops in the public schools, as well as for the Nature Conservancy, The South Fork Natural History Museum, and the Children’s Museum of the East End. Below is a link to a 2016 talk that Jackson gave about her work at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY

Watch this video to see how Ruby creates her artwork.

The Student Fine Arts exhibit is a lively display of work created by students studying Drawing, 2D Design, and 3D Design. Due to the pandemic students have been creating art remotely. The Lyceum Gallery is celebrating their accomplishments in an on-line exhibit. Prospective students are encouraged to view the exhibit to see the high proficiency attained by students in Suffolk’s Eastern Campus Art Department.

Celebrating Women’s History Month, Suffolk County Community College’s Lyceum Gallery presents Elaine Grove: Welded Steel and Paint, an on-line exhibit of sculpture and painting.  Grove, working with steel and cast iron, creates an aesthetic play of found objects.  The artist speaks about her work from her East Hampton studio, leading viewers on a tour of her War Wagon, Line, and Block series, along with her paintings on metal.

Grove’s War Wagons are outdoor, welded steel works that roll on wheels and range up to 12 feet wide.

“War Wagons were Pre-Renaissance Italian wagons sent out to announce war on neighboring towns.  I consider the different types of war, such as political, class, race, gender, and by extension, types of war wagons possible for today,” Grove said.

Grove brings us inside her studio showing viewers her Line series.  Food Chain is a welded steel, linear progression of objects that relate to each other in an anthropomorphic interaction. 

In Grove’s Block series she incorporates the paint splashed wooden blocks that her late husband used to prop his canvases on while working, incorporating memory and personal history into her work.

Originally from Oklahoma, Grove moved to New York City in 1969 after earning a BA/BFA in art, with concentrations in world literature and philosophy.  In New York City, Grove worked as an actress, model, set designer, and illustrator.   She learned to weld at the Sculpture Center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.  This began her 30-year sculpting career.  She and her husband, abstract expressionist Dan Christensen, moved to East Hampton in 1983 joining the vibrant artist community of the east end.

Grove has exhibited her work in Chicago, Illinois and throughout the east coast of the United States, including New York, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Grove’s work was included in the Telfair Museum, Jepson Center exhibit, Sculptures from the Permanent Collection in Savannah, Georgia (2014, 2007), The Heckscher Museum Biennial in Huntington (2014), and solo exhibitions in a number of galleries in New York City and the east end of Long Island. Elaine Grove was a featured artist in 100 Artists from the Mid Atlantic by Ashely Rooney, 2011. 

For more information about Elaine Grove visit: http://www.elainegrove.com

 

Journey: Travels North, an on-line exhibit of black and white photography by Christine Morro will be presented by Suffolk County Community College’s Lyceum Gallery. The exhibit includes images from Morro’s experiences in four northern regions: North Jutland, Denmark; The Isle of Lewis, Scotland; Faroe Islands, Denmark and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Describing herself as a “Creative Ritualist,” Morro’s artistic process is a form of meditation. Each year Morro travels north on a pilgrimage, connecting to the land for a spiritual grounding.  Morro encounters unfolding imagery, discovering sacred qualities in what some might consider ordinary. 

Walking. Sensing. Exploring.
Listening to an inner compass, the artist is drawn to light on water, rock formations, and textures of sand and grasses.  Working in photography and poetry, Morro has narrated her virtual exhibit with her original writing. With an emphasis in the artistic process, Journey: Travels North is the physical evidence of Morro’s creative ritual. 

Morro describes her artistic process:

“The 17th century poet Matsuo Basho wrote Narrow Road to the Deep North. It is a book I turn to again and again. In the Narrow Road fragments of prose and haiku trace Basho’s last journey, a kind of pilgrimage. Bearing witness, the traveler and poet draws on the tradition of diary and travel writing. This style became known as Haibun, braiding external images observed enroute and the internal images that move through the traveler’s mind. I have tried to honor the same tradition in Journey: Travels North.”

Originally from Northport, Morro lived in Sag Harbor for the past 11 years and currently resides on Nantucket Island in the village of Sconset. 

Morro earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Textile Design and International Marketing with a minor in Spanish from the Fashion Institute of Technology and studied painting at the Art Students League (1987 – 1991) where she worked under renowned figurative painter, Harvey Dinnerstein.  Morro was awarded a four-week painting fellowship at the Vermont Studio School in 1998.

Morro’s photographs, paintings, and monoprints are in collections in the United States, Denmark, England, and Spain and she has exhibited her work throughout the east end of Long Island, in New York City and at the Cheekwood Fine Arts Center in Nashville. 

Morro teaches a writing workshop which she calls, Creating As Ritual and has taught at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School and at Hunter College High School. 

For more information about Christine Morro’s work visit: https://forthetimebeing.weebly.com/

Morro’s writing and other works:

• Humans and Nature
  Morro writes about the Poqueira Valley of Capileira in Spain
• Morro’s work in Spain

• Morro is currently working on a book of poetry, Earth’s Vespers.  Morro’s poetry appeared in the spring 2020 publication of the Corbel Stone Press

• Morro’s writing can be found in The Land Lines Project

The Lyceum Gallery presents the Eastern Campus 2020 Student Applied Arts Exhibit. All works were created by students who live locally in areas surrounding the Eastern campus.

The Lyceum Gallery presents, SPLASH, an on-line exhibit of abstract photography by Meryl Spiegel. SPLASH is a visual commentary on Climate Change with photographic abstractions that are rich with colors and motion. The artist depicts a celebration of nature and the wonders of creation, while expressing a lament for the losses in our natural world due to man’s inability to protect our environment. Images engage the viewer’s imagination with a hint of recognizable imagery that alludes to speed, heat, and sound, harkening to extreme weather patterns. The artist narrates the exhibit with her original writing.

Spiegel works with digital and medium-format cameras to create images that look more like paintings than photographs. Spiegel studied at the International Center of Photography and the Center for Media Studies in Manhattan as well as the Image - Ouverte School of Photography in the South of France. A former freelance journalist for The New York Times, she is also a writer with a Master of Fine Arts in English & Writing.

Spiegel has exhibited her work widely on Long Island at venues that include The Parrish Art Museum, Art Sites, Ille Arts, The Westhampton Performing Arts Gallery, The Islip Museum, St. Joseph’s College, Ashawagh Hall, The Southampton Cultural Center, The Remsenburg Academy, The Quogue Library, and The East End Arts Council (EEAC).

in 2019, Spiegel was invited to exhibit her photography at the prestigious Venice Biennale. Her photograph, Fountain Play, received an Honorable Mention from the Julia Margaret Cameron GALA Awards. In 2016, her series, PHANTOMS and SPLASH, were awarded as nominees by the Fine Art Photography Awards. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Mark09 professional development participant and a recipient of two NYFA Special Opportunities Stipend awards (2011, 2006). Spiegel’s photography received a Best In Show at the EEAC Annual Photography Exhibit (2008). Spiegel’s photography was featured in the Stony Brook University Literary Journal, The Southampton Review (2012).

For more information about Meryl Spiegel visit merylspiegel.com.

Meryl Spiegel teaches photography workshops that were sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts in 2019 and 2017. She also writes a Blog called, “An Evolving Life,” for the The Hummingbird Post.

Howard Kanovitz is perhaps the most poetic of the group of New Realists who began to forge novel expressive truths from the camera’s photographic image in the Sixties.

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Howard Kanovitz: Visible Difference

This volume offers the first overview of American photorealist and Pop painter Howard Kanovitz (1929–2009), dubbed by Barbara Rose the grandfather of photorealism. Kanovitz's landmark 1966 Jewish Museum solo exhibition is widely deemed to have launched the genre.