Opening November 23: Visions of Two Artists - Sandy Brandman and Elaine Ralston
Hudson Valley painter Sandy Brandman received her degree in Art History and Music at the State University of New York. She has worked in the music industry for over 30 years as a music copyist and editor in both New York City and San Francisco. Her acclaims include copying music scores for major motion pictures such as Altered States and Fame, the revised score of Broadway’s production of Pirates of Penzance starring Linda Ronstadt, as well as working for the American Ballet Theater and the San Francisco Opera Company. As an editor, she has repaired musical scores in the archival departments of G. Schirmer and Boosey and Hawkes.
Her musical talents include viola and violin performance in symphonic and chamber groups throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. Sandy also serves on the executive board of the Hudson Opera Theatre, as well as a full-time chorus mezzo-soprano. Her passion for music has inspired her love of painting still lifes, portraits and landscapes of the Hudson Valley.
Her pastel work has been exhibited by the Hudson Valley Gallery and the Gayle Clark Fedigan Gallery in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY; the Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT; the Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, NY; Hudson Valley Pastel Society; the Howland Center, Beacon, NY; the Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY; Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, NY; The Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, NY; Painters, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY; Eric Jarmin Gallery, Newburgh, NY; Bertoni Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY; Desmond Campus Galley, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh, NY.
Recently, her painting, “Pear Ware” won an Honorable Mention in the Art Society of Old Greenwich Annual Show, juried by Daniel E. Greene, NA, PSA.
Sandy Brandman had the opportunity to paint landscapes in scenic County Clare, Ireland and Tuscany, Italy. Her pastels have sold internationally as well as in the United States.
Elaine Ralston was introduced to artistic expression early in life with weekly art classes as a child. She later attended an arts & music high school and then the Fashion Institute of Technology. She studied pastels with Gayle Clark Fedigan at Mt. Saint Mary College and also at the Art Student League.
She is a member of the Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Woodstock Artist Assn. & Museum, Kent Art Assn., and The Garrison Art Center. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows and was awarded 1st place in 2006 “Artists on Campus Wildlife Award” for a pastel portrait of the oldest of her 5 cats.
As an artist she believes that everything we see in the universe is vibratory in its being. Each object vibrates at different rates and it is through our process of realizing these vibrations through color and light that certain forms appear to us. In her art she tries to be open to this process and allow nature to speak to her on all levels and works to capture the essence of a scene using both her inner and outer eye.
Group, Solo, and Juried Shows:
· Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
· Kingston Art Society, Kingston, NY
· Mt. Saint Mary College, “Artists on Campus 2006 - 08 ”
· The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY
· Rage, Kingston, NY (solo)
· Olive Free Library, West Shokan,
· Kent Art Association, Kent, CT
· Rosendale Café, “Celtic Holiday” Rosendale, NY
· Vanderbilt “Artists in the Garden 2006 + 07” Hyde Park, NY
· Emmanuel’s, Stone Ridge, NY (solo)
· Catskill Mt. Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY
· NY Bannerman's Island Gallery, Beacon, NY
· Desmond House "Tuscany", Balmville, NY
