Les Fleurs
I was born and raised in NYC, but mostly in The Bronx. I attended CCNY, where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in the Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase. I have had paintings in 8 live group shows at Jones Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, paintings at 5 live group shows in Arbor Gallery, Carmel, NY, paintings and photos in 6 live group shows at Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, NY, and 1 painting in a live group show at the Mahopac Public Library. Also, I have exhibited in many online shows. I have exhibited at HMVCGalleryNewYork virtually since its inception for 3 years. A wonderful state-of-the-art gallery with outstanding artists! My poems have been published.in magazines, books, and at HVMOCA. I performed some of my poems in April 2024 and 2025 at HVMOCA with numerous other artists at Writing The Walls. I self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor,” in 1993. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 12 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY
My work in fine arts has principally been in 2 classes of abstract paintings: oils and water-based paints. However, I have completed numerous works in drawing. Recently, I have experimented with spray paints. I focus on color, texture, methodology of delivery, and composition. In composition, I am interested in positive space and negative space as well. I believe the painting/drawing is a manifestation of my emotional state of both conscious and unconscious feelings.
Les Girls
Christine grew up in Princeton, NJ, and began her undergraduate work at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, eventually moving to the Boston area to continue her studies at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and received her BFA degree from Tufts University and a diploma from the SMFA.
Throughout her life, she has painted in oil and other media and has exhibited consistently and extensively in national and regional competitions and in notable art associations, winning numerous awards and accolades for her work. Her work has been part of many prestigious exhibitions in the greater Northeast region, including The Copley Society of Art, Boston; the Rockport Art Association & Museum; and the North Shore Art Association. Her work has been exhibited at the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City, the St. Botolph Club in Boston, the Academic Artists Association, (MA) and the Princeton (NJ) Art Association, and other venues.
She is an elected artist member and Signature
“My earlier works were characterized by their discipline, scrupulous technique, and faithfulness to my vision of reality. In recent years I’ve challenged myself by embracing experimentation, and intuition, and enjoying the unexpected results of engaging in the process of creation without a destination in mind; letting the fusion of emotion and materials take me on an expansive journey of self-discovery.
My current work explores my deepening interest in combining and synthesizing figurative elements and abstraction.”
Lester’s Snake Dance
Soteris Sam Roussi was born in Niagara Falls and studied painting at SUNY Buffalo (B.A., ’67) and Ohio State University (M.A.,’69). He taught at the university level for ten years, five at Georgia State University. Sam received numerous awards in his early career including a Fellowship for Drawing from the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts and Humanities (1977), and an invitational exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, “Seven Artists in Georgia” (1979). During this period Sam had gallery affiliations in Atlanta, Dallas, and Chicago. In the early 80s, circumstances required a return to New England where Sam turned to carpentry to support his family while continuing to maintain a studio in his home. A solo exhibit at the Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA (2017) sparked Sam’s return to promoting his work online, in print, and in juried exhibitions. He continues to be recognized for his unique style of painting. Sam resides in Westfield, Massachusetts.
My work in acrylic and dry pigment appears visually to be a fusion of fresco and encaustic techniques. The marks have their own presence independent of figurative imagery and are an expression of creative energy. Originally inspired by hobo iconography, I’ve developed a vocabulary of marks that play with rich forms and symbolic references competing on the painting’s surface like participants in a contentious visual debate. The composition emerges organically as random marks gel into clusters of rendered dilemmas. The marks become entanglements… a melee of forms, often whimsical, occasionally raw, and visceral. Moments of action and stagnation – you must have both to reach the viewer’s nonverbal collective unconscious, which in turn, provides the observer an encounter with angst, and an opportunity to ponder. Through dissonance I aspire, struggle, reconcile and proceed forward. Create then reject. Rebuild, reject then create again.
Let Freedom Ring
J. Vadala is an abstract artist working in acrylic and mixed media. A self-taught artist, she discovered painting during a challenging period in her life and found it to be more than a creative outlet; it became a path toward healing, growth, and self-discovery.
Her work is driven by emotion, intuition, and movement. Through layers of paint, texture, and expressive mark-making, she creates pieces that explore resilience, transformation, vulnerability, and renewal. Rather than telling a specific story, her paintings invite viewers to find their own meaning and connection within the work.
A fatal accident in 2017 became a turning point in Vadala’s journey and continues to influence her artistic voice. While rooted in personal experience, her work focuses on the universal emotions that connect us all.
Music plays a central role in her creative process. The rhythm, energy, and emotion of a song often guide her movements, helping shape the atmosphere and direction of each piece. For Vadala, art and music work together to express what words often cannot.
Through J. Vadala Unrefined, she shares original artwork and select reproductions while encouraging authenticity, resilience, and personal growth. Her goal is to create opportunities for others to experience the freedom she found through art, whether supporting those living with PTSD, veterans, first responders, or anyone who simply wants to turn up the music, throw some paint on a canvas, and let go for a while.
Though her path to becoming an artist was unconventional, Vadala’s work reflects a life shaped by perseverance and transformation. Her mission is simple: to create honestly, live authentically, and inspire others to do the same.
Unfiltered. Unbound. Free.
My work is rooted in disruption – moments that fracture perception and redefine identity. In 2017, a single moment altered the course of my life, challenging my sense of ability, independence, and self. That moment became both my deepest fear and the course of my creative force.
My work emerges directly from lived experiences. Painting is not an escape; it is confrontation. It is a language for what cannot easily be understood: tension, uncertainty, and endurance.
I explore the space where vulnerability and strength coexist – where breaking and becoming unfold simultaneously. Resilience is not linear or refined; it is uneven, layered, and charged with contradiction.
Instinct governs my process. I resist formulas and allow each work to evolve through response rather than control. Interruptions across the surface function as evidence of experience rather than embellishment. What feels fractured remains visible. What feels unstable carries weight. Layering and surface disruption become metaphors for integration – not erasing damage but absorbing it into form.
Music plays a critical role in shaping the emotional atmosphere of my studio. Sound establishes rhythm and intensity before the first mark is made. It heightens sensation and allows feelings to lead. Shifts in temp and tone influence movement and pacing across the canvas.
For me, influence is not aesthetic lineage but accumulation, the imprint of lived moments that reshape perspective. The canvas becomes a site of reclamation. Emotion – embedded, not softened. Disruption – illuminated, not concealed. Each composition carries endurance and the structure of survival.
My work mirrors life’s complexity and invites viewers to encounter their own thresholds within it. Creation transforms internal rupture into material force. What once threatened to break me now defines me. Unfiltered, unbound, free – this is me.
Let Love Light The World
Bobby J. Jones was born and raised in Texas from 1966 to 1989. Jones attended Texas Tech University and graduated from his family’s alma mater with a BFA in Art (Painting and Drawing) in 1989. Bobby moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and attended The University of New Mexico. He received his master’s degree in Art Education (Museum Education, Ceramics, and Photography) in 1994. Jones worked in Retail Management in California for 12 years and Customer Service for 4 years in New Mexico. He currently works for Albuquerque Public Schools. Even though Bobby has lived in Texas, California, and New Mexico, he considers New Mexico home!!!
Bobby is a Lifetime Member of Alpha Phi Omega, Golden Key National Honor Society, and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. He was a member of the now-closed Matrix Fine Art Gallery. Jones is also a member of The New Mexico Imaginative Arts Collective and The Art Posse at First Unitarian Church.
He continues to exhibit his artwork at different art galleries in Albuquerque (The Tortuga Gallery, The South Broadway Cultural Center, The Albuquerque Open Space Visitor’s Center, and The Gallery With A Cause at The New Mexico Cancer Center). He also exhibits his art online through international art exhibits through The Biafarin Company in Ontario, Canada. Jones also creates publications of his coloring books, his photography, and his artwork. These publications are available on Amazon and online through Barnes & Noble. Jones has a website through Art Storefronts. www.bobbyjonesart.com. Where art lovers can buy prints and artwork from this artist!!!
Living in New Mexico, I have been invited to participate in The Our Lady of Guadalupe Art Exhibit at The South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque for the past five years. I love using vivid, contrasting colors and patterns to create mixed-media acrylic paintings of The Virgin Mary. I am proud to submit this iconic image to HMVC Gallery New York for the December 2023 Exhibit.
Let Out
Vince Quevedo is a national and international award-winning designer/artist in the areas of fashion design, wearable arts, and creative teaching methods. Professor Quevedo received his Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing and Textiles and his Master of Science degree in Workforce Education and Development with a focus on college teaching at Southern Illinois University. He received his Master of Fine Arts in textiles/fiber from the University of Nebraska.
For many years he was selected as one of four Americans to represent the United States at the Busan International Fiber-Fashion and Art Biennial in South Korea. He has been a finalist/winner in the American Quilter’s Association’s design competition for the past 20 years and has been selected to design for the prestigious Bernina Fashion Show which travels throughout the United States and at times in Asia and Europe. Vince has 4 patents in functional and aesthetic design and is an associate professor at Kent State University.
My artwork is grounded in human experience, reflective practice, and learning through making. It uses the methods of quilting, craft (making by hand), photography, and exhibition, and to critically question elements of contemporary culture and society. It sits within the context of arts and culture via the celebration of our human imagination that is manifest through art and celebrated via exhibitions in museums and galleries. A component of design thinking is translating my personal thoughts and concepts through a lens particular to a perspective I can translate for others to see in a tangible state. Communication using digital technology, I can form a cohesive understanding of how I will present my art/design.
Let The Clouds Carry Her Back To Sleep
My name is Susan Harmon. I was born and lived much of my life in Chicago. I hold a BFA, Painting, from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and another BFA, Graphic design, from The University of Illinois. I received my MFA degree from Georgia Southern University, and I spent one year working on a Ph.D. in Studio Art at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. I received a generous fellowship to pursue my Ph.D. art research at The Julia and David White art residency in Costa Rica. I am an Abstract Expressionist painter. My work is large, typically 12’x5’. I work on unstretched and unprepared canvas, on the floor or wall. My works are informed by books; stories about women who have suffered trauma and their road to recovery. Recently I was awarded a commission to complete 5 murals for the city of San Marcos, 60’ long and 20’ tall. The University of Central Oklahoma chose 5 of my artworks to use for their costumes for the play, Trojan Women 2, April 2019. Lastly, I teach art courses at Northern Marianas College on the island of Saipan. Currently, I teach art courses online. I am married for 40 years and have 4 sons.
My work is a visual collection of emotion.
All art surfaces are rich in color and texture, coming from my emotional, intellectual, and spiritual states of being. My work is free from the boundaries of traditional picture-making; thus, it is easier to explore my own psyche. Abreaction, a Greek term, first used by ancient Greek dramatists to describe the purging or cathartic effect that the release of emotion gives one, is an important part of my process. The unleashed, splattering of gestural paint strokes on fabric with a handsewn border and backing a part of the release of angst as in Abstract Expressionism, are evident in my own work and combined with a textural layering of paint, and sometimes added materials of sand, string, discarded drawings, lead to expressive mark-making in meaningful contexts evident in this body of art. That the subconscious is at work, there is no doubt. These paintings were not made with only sheer logic in mind. Rathe, painting is a journey, a process for me, that is almost scary and where I strive to prepare my subconscious for painting in a ritual that may involve a more pensive/meditative state of being. All of these artworks were informed by literature about people who have suffered trauma and their journey to survival and more recently informed by stories from the island of Saipan where I was teaching and living prior to the Pandemic. These artworks strive to heal and evoke positive feelings in the viewer.
Let You Go
Romanian, based in Rome. Engineer, Entrepreneur, and former fashion model. Painting since 2019, women portraying, figurative & abstract.
Patricia was born on the 13th of March 1971 in Patirlagele, a small Romanian village, the first daughter of Ana and Petre Titeica, a young loving couple, careful parents, and respected professionals. In 1989 she became a Mechanical Engineer graduating from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
Right after graduation in July 1994, she will emigrate to Italy as the winner of the international fashion contest “The Look of the Year” held in Bucharest. In 2001 she obtained a second Mechanical Engineering Diploma (Power Plants) from the Polytechnic University of Milan, a reason to be proud of, seeing all the sacrifices she made for herself and her family in all the years abroad. In 2007 she will establish her own Global Engineering & PMC Staffing Agency company at the age of 36 and she successfully continues on this path.
Thank her man who encouraged her to paint, she tries to find a daily balance between engineering and her passion for painting.
Lets Be Friends
Susan is a member of the South Jersey Camera Club and the “Medford Art Center,” which sells her work. Susan has participated in multiple exhibits at The Historic Smithville Mansion, winning “Best in Show” for her Great Blue Heron image, “Misty Morning Memories,” and obtaining an award during the Hopkins House Gallery exhibition, “Haddonfield Dreams.” Other juried shows in which she has participated include “Artistic Impressions of Haddonfield, a Tercentennial Celebration,” the fall exhibit at Markeims Art Center, “Russet, Rouge, and Bronze,” and many exhibits organized by “Norm Hinsey” at The Markeim, including “Inspired” and “Mysterious.” Susan’s work has been in the “Croft Farms Arts Center” in Cherry Hill, “Main Street Arts” in Maple Shade’s awarded exhibit, and a Deptford Galleria exhibit. Recently Atlanta-care purchased two of her pieces for their new medical building
Susan considers “nature and wildlife” to be her favorite style of photography. That is where her heart is. She enjoys photographing both magnificent landscapes and delicate close-ups of bumblebees getting nectar from flowers. Another passion of hers is photographing neglected architecture and things from the past, capturing their beauty and preserving their history with her camera. Susan enjoys integrating photographs into a single image in order to create a lovely, surreal vision.
Susan finds it enjoyable and interesting to participate in competitive photography shows. Her ultimate gratification comes from producing something beautiful for others to appreciate and connect with.