on view july 12 - sep 7

We are so pleased to present a collection of works featuring a potent ensemble of hudson valley artists

OLIVIA BARRY

In her Tarrytown studio, Olivia Barry designs and makes lighting and artwork installations for interior designers and architects. A ceramist since childhood, and trained as an Industrial Designer, her inventive works are the product of these passions. Crisp Luminaire-style sconces are made of bright white clay, rolled flat and shaped, or cut and folded like paper to hide the glare from the lamp but project a bright, ambient light from within. Round ceramic paintings are moody and meditative. These Tondos vary from mirror-finish minimalism to heavily glazed and layered with up to 50 colors and textures within a piece, rich with detail and often with Kintsugi. Using glazes as paint, and clay as canvas, Olivia used the materials in unorthodox methods and makes multiples in installations. Commissions have included the British Airways Executive Lounge at JFK, and two 9-piece groupings for new developments in Long Island City. For the third year in a row, she took home a First Place Award at NYCxDesign 2025 during Design Week. Olivia previously assisted the designer Eva Zeisel for 15 years, and designed dinnerware for Crate and Barrel, Royal Stafford and others before opening her own studio in 2019.

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ANGELA BASILE

When not painting or teaching, you can find her running a small business, coaching youth soccer, or promoting local environmental initiatives like the Walking School Bus—all while raising two energetic boys who—despite their museum eye-rolls—are her greatest (and most chaotic) inspiration—they’re also her most honest critics, and constant reminders that art and life are beautifully, and hilariously, inseparable.

Angela Basile is an artist based in the Hudson Valley, where she lives and works alongside her family, a messy studio, and a lot of coffee. Her work explores quiet moments and everyday imperfections, often drawing from slow observation and a love for the understated beauty in the world.

She earned a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She has painted large-scale murals in places like San Francisco, Harlem, Syracuse, and Brooklyn, and was honored to be named a NYFA Painting Fellow. Angela also spent time at the Hungarian Multicultural Center’s artist residency program in Csopak, Hungary, where limited accessibility, the pace of life, and the landscape deepened her desire to find new pathways of expression. In addition to her painting practice, Angela co-founded 5'7 Studios—a creative space built on curiosity, collaboration, and community.

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TONI BROGAN

As a New Zealand born, NY based fiber artist I have always loved textiles, texture and all forms of fiber, wool and warmth is one of my earliest childhood memories. I am particularly interested in creating texture and the tactile nature of how various fibers feel, react, and appear with and against each other.

I was initially drawn to the woven medium by its limitless possibilities to create and the “no rules” techniques and free form style that can be applied. Through exploration and development I have created some of my own techniques to make my work completely unique.

With the beautiful Catskill Mountains as my inspiration and backdrop, the colors on view with the dramatic changes in seasons is what inspires me to work more with color, the icy whites of winter, the dull browns of spring, the acid greens of summer and the vibrant mixture of hot reds/pinks/yellows and oranges of fall... a never ending palette to pull from.

I have recently begun spending time in Merida, where the abundance of natural fibers from the Yucatan have inspired a new body of work.

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DEMETRIA CHAPPO

Demetria Chappo is an artist and educator who creates ceramic home objects, sculptures and wall hangings. Her work speaks to her ongoing celebration of nature, its movement, energy, and transformation which she explores in form, expressive textural elements and using clay as canvas. She is inspired by nature’s forms and landscapes, the resonance of water, and the play between earth materials and the cosmos.

Her Smoke Collection is open-air fired using sawdust, wood, and other natural materials, a process that is both intentional, carefully wrapping and placing pieces against specific materials, and is experimental working in tandem with the flame and the excitement of alchemy and chance. The resulting magic of each firing creates dramatic surfaces indelibly marked with ephemeral memory of material and the flame.

Her studio was founded in 2012, now located in New York’s Hudson Valley where every piece is handmade. Chappo appreciates a process-driven approach, handbuilding by coiling, pinching and slab forms, or throwing on the potter’s wheel then firing into ceramic capturing the tactile magic of clay in surface and form.

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AMY DECKER

New Jersey native (b.1981) Amy Decker received her BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts (2003), and holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Lesley University (2023, the program has now moved to Clark University, Worcester, MA). Her work has been exhibited at the Governor’s Academy in Byfield, MA, the Art Students League, NY, Knockdown Center, Petty Cash in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and ChaShaMa at Brooklyn Bridge Park, among other venues. The artist currently lives in Brooklyn, and also works as a textile designer.

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MIMI GRAMINSKI

Currently, through July 27, Graminski has an installation with Bibiana Huang Matheis at Conveyer/or Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY which was highlighted in Hyperallergic - “10 Shows to See in Upstate New York in July”. The show is part of InspirationArt Group International’s Address: Earth 2025.

In 2024 she exhibited a textile installation, and embroidered pieces coupled with poems by Sarah Stern, at Art Spaces at Krasdale, corporate headquarters in White Plains, NY. Also, in 2024 she and poet Sarah Stern exhibited their collaborative work at Vassar College-Palmer Gallery, Cocoon Theater, Starr Library and The Little Gallery of Rhinebeck.

Graminski’s exhibition history includes recent shows with ODETTA Gallery in Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and AquaArt Fair in Miami. The Jonah Bokaer Foundation awarded her a grant as part of The Hudson Eye Festival for a solo show at Window on Hudson which was part of the Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl sponsored by Two Coats of Paint. Other exhibitions include a solo show at Unison Arts and a two-person show at the Hammond Museum. Recent publications include ArtSpiel, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, the Dutch publication Textiel Plus, Conversations with Artists and an interview with NPR Radio WAMC.

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TARA HOGAN

From the daily grind as an in house web and print designer to an early career as a young entrepreneur of the stationery brand, INK&WIT, and now the founder and artist behind Tulsi, Tara Hogan has been steadily climbing a creative journey full of intuitive drive and spontaneous trust in what she feels to be an honest moment in time. Tulsi is an art and textile studio reflective of nature and the space we feel at home with inside and outside. That space we want to return to day to day and be authentic and peaceful. We create designs that are timeless and that have a soft intensity where shapes wave and run and grace abounds. Tara’s work is inspired by Vedic philosophy, Native American art, Nepalese vintage textiles, the Bauhaus, aerial topography, and forms in nature. The Tulsi line represents the spontaneity of nature and the reciprocal beauty we innately feel to it.

After a long evolution as a designer and illustrator for children’s products from posters to stamps to notecards, her conquest swung towards textiles and circled back to photography, abstract art collages and paintings.

Every corner turned on this adventure was a new story but the common thread that remained was her love for nature and raw organic textural forms. Her current trajectory as an artist has always been the goal and it has taken nearly twenty years to come full circle. What was once brewing as a young college girl in the 1990’s grunge laden studios of Syracuse University painting cathartic moments of a stalwart childhood pivoted to an auspicious path photographing landscapes and tearing paper creating delicate fragile collages. At present, Tara travels regularly to Iceland to photograph the landscape and draw from the vortex of vast open spaces of black sand and mountains bathed in white. The Iceland photo series was a journey from West to East Iceland stopping roadside to capture any piece of information that added up to a complete work of solemn beauty in the space of nature. The photo series exemplifies shapes of minimal color or morsel of saturated life such as moss which in the blink of an eye feel like the glare of information last seen awakening from a dream.

Born and raised in Connecticut but raised in multiple places — Texas and Florida — Tara predominantly grew up in New England’s brassy parts of New Haven and in the countryside parts of Southern CT. Her family lived from place to place sometimes in the back of a pickup truck with a camper as well as turn of the century apartment buildings and a home near a river. Moving constantly has filled the passion of living in the moment and that moment is reflected in Tara's art. The influence of Northeastern beaches with weathered driftwood and washed out tones are a tonal language in Tara’s work. A photograph with the feel of a monoprint muted with washes that almost feel like stumbled watercolor and etched in lines tell a story of the past and present moment and the space between. That mystic space between that feels like an epiphany suspended in time is what drives Tara’ work. Tara splits her time between upstate New York and her native state of Connecticut with her husband and two sons.

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BETH HUMPHREY

Beth is an artist working in drawing, painting and sculpture. She makes work about evaporation, respiration, erosion, gravity, gentle and violent forces at a moment of change. She is particularly interested in how these forces influence and shape the human connection to place and the environment, encompassing both built and natural surroundings.

“My current work is inspired by the infographics from the 1950’s & 60’s encyclopedias that attempted to distill information and inspire curiosity about natural systems, depicting individual parts removed from the whole. These were sanitized, clinical, colorful imagery, removed from the exploitation and rampant destruction of these systems. Working with paper as a ground, building up surfaces with paint, drawing, accident, light and shadows,

I am reimagining components of natural forces inspired by my own sense of awe and wonder around these systems that support us all.”

Beth comes from a background in art education as a teaching artist and museum educator. In addition to her studio practice, she currently works for D.R.A.W. Kingston NY connecting youth to jobs and opportunities in the arts in the Hudson Valley of New York.

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SUSAN STOVER

Susan Stover is a multidisciplinary artist whose work draws from a deep foundation in textile traditions, sculpture, and contemporary painting. Originally from the Midwest, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California—both degrees emphasizing her multi-media passions. With a professional career that spans several decades, Susan has cultivated a unique voice that merges cultural textile practices with modern abstraction. She spent ten years working with Jacquard Products, a leading manufacturer of textile paints and dyes, where she gained technical expertise that continues to inform her practice. In addition to her studio work, Susan has served on the faculty at the University of California, Davis, and on the staff of California College of the Arts. She has taught extensively across the globe with workshops in Australia, India, Italy, France, Mexico, and throughout the United States. After many years in Northern California’s wine country, Susan recently relocated to the Hudson Valley in New York. Her work is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY, and Cura Contemporary in Morgan Hill, CA.

These featured artists of Talk Shop 8.0 are in the good company of the continued works by
the following regional artists + makers

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Emi Winter

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Saboon Maazeh

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