BLOOMING SUMMER

KATHLEEN MIGLIORE-NEWTON

Kathleen Migliore-Newton lives and works in New York City. While her recent body of work has been inspired by daily encounters of the city’s diverse humanity—on its streets, in its subways, and throughout her travels—she also finds inspiration in the intimate landscape of her Brooklyn home and studio.

Whether depicting the subtle dynamics of human interaction or the quiet beauty of the natural world that surrounds her, Newton approaches her subjects with remarkable sensitivity and empathy. Her paintings celebrate the richness of everyday experience, revealing moments of connection, observation, and wonder. Regardless of subject matter, her work is united by an innate compassion and an abiding appreciation for life.

RUTH EPSTEIN

Ruth Epstein, primarily a New York artist, now lives and works in Naples, Florida. A representational painter, her work is inspired by the beauty of her natural surroundings as well as portraiture. Translating everyday subjects into vibrant, expressive compositions. Working primarily in oil, Epstein describes her style as “interpretive realism,” using luminous color and fluid brushwork to capture not only the appearance of flowers, landscapes, and people, but also the emotion and vitality they evoke. Her paintings celebrate the richness of the visible world, transforming familiar subjects into dynamic expressions of color, light, and life.

ILIYAN IVANOV

One Flower Garden is a series of acrylic paintings on unprimed canvas created in 2022. Through vibrant, flower-inspired palettes and dynamic compositions, the series explores both the visual language of color and the conceptual possibilities of the garden as a metaphor. The works invite viewers to contemplate playful yet profound questions: Can a single flower constitute a garden? Can a garden consist of only one variety of flower? Can an entire garden begin with a single bloom?

The individual paintings further enrich these ideas through the symbolic associations of their subjects. Crocuses evoke resilience and renewal, emerging through the last snow as heralds of spring, while lilacs suggest the season’s abundance, fragrance, and sensuality. Together, the paintings celebrate growth, transformation, and the expansive potential contained within even the simplest beginnings.

HOLLY GORDON

Holly Gordon is a Bay Shore, Long Island–based photographer who creates fine art and documentary photography. In recent years, she has become widely recognized for pioneering photo-liminalism, a process that achieves a painterly quality in photography previously unexplored.

Gordon’s creative origins date back to film photography in the 1960s and the aura and aromas of the traditional wet darkroom. While many viewers assume her work is painting, it is in fact photography in transition.

Gordon is an artist deeply committed to engaging with important social issues while blazing new creative trails. Her ability to clearly articulate her creative process and inspire others makes her an indispensable advocate for the arts. She is on the board of the participatory photography 501-c3 Seeing for Ourselves and the Islip Arts Council.

JAN WUNDERMAN

Jan Wunderman’s richly painted, gestural abstractions investigate the dynamic relationships between form, space, and color. Her work embraces the challenge of creating order from apparent disorder. While the shapes within her paintings may initially seem independent of one another, they are unified by a compelling compositional structure and rhythmic balance. This painting, Zenia, is different from Wunderman’s work, yet it explores the same type of dynamic relationship between form and color in nature. Although the work appears primarily representational, Wunderman still investigates form, space, and color, as in the works for which she is noted.

Underlying Wunderman’s work is a broader meditation on the balance between what we can shape and what remains beyond our control. She is fascinated by life’s immutable forces—such as our genetic inheritance and unforeseen events—and by the ways they intersect with personal agency. Her paintings invite viewers to consider how intention and happenstance coexist, revealing beauty and meaning through the interplay of conscious choice and chance.

NORA SPEYER
1923–2024

Nora Speyer was primarily a representational artist whose work was grounded in extensive classical training in the figure and landscape. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lived and created art in New York City for decades.

Over more than eighty years of artistic practice, Speyer continually explored the expressive possibilities of painting, creating richly narrative works distinguished by their depth, imagination, and emotional resonance. Her unique approach—characterized by lush, layered brushwork, exquisite draftsmanship, and the inventive use of collage—resulted in a magnificent body of work that reflects a lifetime of creative dedication.

For many decades, her summer home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, was a source of great joy, inspiration, and fulfillment. The works presented here stand as a testament to the beauty and creative spirit she found there.

ROSLYN MEYER

Roslyn Meyer lives and creates in New York City and Connecticut.