An exciting exhibition cultivating local artists and local plants.
Sited in a commercial greenhouse on the North Fork, this show
will pair forward-thinking local art practitioners with gorgeous
Fall flora produced exclusively in our area.
Artists featured:
Bill Albertini
Cliff Baldwin
Marta Baumiller
Ben Blackburn
Sylvia Cedeño
Louise Eastman
Seung Lee
Arden Scott
Michael Stoughton
Adam Straus
Peter Trieber
Annemarie Waugh
Marianne Weil
Allan Wexler
Ellen Wiener
John Wittenberg
Join us!
Special Preview Friday September 18th, 2026
Opening Saturday September 19th, 2026 5 – 7pm
Colorful Gardens
1636 Main Rd
Jamesport, NY 11947
Gallery Hours Saturdays 12 – 4pm through 10/3
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Growing America Artists:
Bill Albertini
Bill Albertini is an Irish born artist, he has an MFA in sculpture from Yale University and studied as an undergraduate at Crawford College of Art and Design in Ireland and Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in England.
Albertini lives and works in New York where he has exhibited regularly since 1986, his recent solo exhibitions include “Baroque-O-Vision Redux” at Glen Hansen Studio and New Art Projects in London (2024 and 2025) “Hands Off” (2022) at Theodore in Manhattan “Summer Catalog” (2019) at LMAK Gallery in Manhattan and “Pipe Dream System” (2018) at Theodore in Brooklyn
Cliff Baldwin
Cliff Baldwin is an artist, composer, designer, and filmmaker. He lives/works in Aquebogue, NY. His work is in numerous collections including MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Canada, Stanford Library, UCLA, San Francisco MoMA and Whitney Museum.
Baldwin’s visual work utilizes language as books, multiples and public sculpture. His music and films have been shown at Parrish Museum, Guild Hall, Galapagos, The Kitchen and Anthology Film Archives. He taught graduate studies at Pratt Institute (from 1992 – 2000), Kansas City Art Institute and William Paterson University.
Baldwin directs Aqui Editions, a source for artist’s books and prints. He founded ACME, the Aquebogue Contemporary Music Ensemble, he is partner at Lampa, his lighting design firm since 1991 and he directs the Long Island art non-profit North Fork Contemporary.
Marta Baumiller
Marta Baumiller was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has travelled the world, studied languages, been a costume maker, fashion designer, milliner and product designer and always an artist. Presently 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 of accepted social norms.
Marta’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 to tech offices in Silicon Valley and Westin Hotels worldwide. Her work has also been published in the New York Times, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine among others.
She currently lives and works on the North Fork of Long Island.
Ben Blackburn
Bennett Sykes Blackburn has been carving wood for 60 years. He did woodwork with hand tools well before adolescence.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Scarsdale, New York from the age of four.
He entered Wesleyan University, Connecticut, as an English Major. Two trimesters at Marlboro College, Vermont, introduced him to power tools in a wood shop. He graduated with an Honors Thesis, Sculpture and Design, from Wesleyan.
Undergraduate counsel advocating the addition of practical skill led to the design and craft of sculptural furniture, especially rocking chairs.
On moving to Long Island’s North Fork, Bennett became steward of the ca. 1815 Overton/Fitz House in Peconic, which has almann hann in hin wife’s family.
Practical accomplishments then embraced architectural woodwork as the means to a living. Architecture has been a life long study. Sculpture practice has remained devoted to the Physical Object as a focus of aesthetics.
Local venues have offered exhibition opportunities over the years, including a Juried Show at the Parrish Art Museum.
Over a period of five years there was participation in the Long Island City Arts Open, including a one man show at The Factory Building, LIC. His work was featured recently in a group show at Cutchogue Library in 2026.
Sylvia Cedeño
Sylvia Cedeño is a Venezuelan born designer, ceramicist and artist. She began her career at the National Gallery of Art in Caracas, Venezuela, working as an exhibition designer and as an assistant to Gego, a German/Venezuelan Artist for the installation of the “Reticularea” (permanent exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Caracas). Thereafter she was awarded a FGMA scholarship to study Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, and practiced the discipline in New York City for over three decades.
Cedeño has been a guest lecturer at Parsons School of Design and was an adjunct Professor at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She now runs a ceramic and art studio, bringing her background to works influenced by Afro Caribbean, Spanish Colonial and South American contemporary and modern art.
Louise Eastman
Louise Eastman is an artist working in Sag Harbor. She has shown her work around the Northeast for years and last year she exhibited at Arts at Duck Creek in East Hampton. She is currently quilting and working in clay.
For over a decade, Eastman has worked with slip-cast bricks, beginning in 2014, casting one brick a day. Since then, she has continued to work the form—reglazing existing bricks, making new ones, and exploring the possibilities within a shape that has become a familiar and comfortable language for her.
Seung Lee
Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist. He is currently a Professor at Long Island University, Post. He received a BFA in Drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
His paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally: Germany, Turkey, China, Italy, France, Japan, and Korea. He has received numerous reviews in the New York Times, Newsday, Kyoto Times, Korea Daily News, Art Word Magazine, Art in Culture Magazine, Art Price Magazine, WLIW-FM, Honh Kong Radio, and Art and People Magazine. He has been featured in “Artist Profiles of Korea and Japan” several times.
Seung Lee received many awards; New York State Governor, Nassau County Supervisor, Suffolk county Supervisor, New Jersey City Mayor, Best Artist of the Year Award from Korean American Professors Association in 2022 and in 2011, Seung was awarded as “Best International Korean Artist” from Korean Art Association. Seung Lee was invited twice to give lectures as “NY Artist Series: Seung Lee” which was part of National Art Educators Association Conference in NYC. Seung has been a judge in Decentralization Grants for New York Artists, International Documentary Film Festival, Berkshire Museum, Islip Art Museum’s Cottage House Project, and International Nature Art Biennial, Heckscher Art Museum, Long Island Museum, Long Island Art League, Art Guilds in LI, Mill Pond House.
Arden Scott
Arden Scott is a sculptor who lives and works in Greenport, Long Island, NY. She shows extensively in the US and abroad. As a guest artist at Bob Blackburn’s printmaking workshop, she was seduced by etching as a creative form complementing the sculpture.
She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, NY Foundation of the Arts, and most recently, a Pollock – Krasner Foundation Fellowship. She has also appeared in the New York Times in an August 2002 article entitled “Far from Midtown, She’s Fallen in Love with the Sea.”
Arden Scott is a lifelong sailor who moved from New York City to Greenport in 1978. Scott remembers sailing to Shelter Island to visit fellow artist Alan Shields before she moved to Greenport—a move that would have a profound effect on her work. Looking back at her Minimalist sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s, Scott realized that the forms often recalled ships and ship-like contours. She was building her own boat at the time, and was propelled into a study of the form in man-made metals such as bronze and steel, and natural materials including eelgrass and bramble.
Scott has received numerous grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
Michael Stoughton
Michael Stoughton lives and works in Memphis , TN
Adam Straus
Adam Straus is known for his majestic and luminous depictions of the sublime in his paintings,
which are often saturated with a deep concern about social and environmental issues. His
penetrating dark humor can transport the viewer to post-apocalyptic worlds and often offers a
wry observation on how humans have altered the natural landscape. A monograph on his work
was published by Gli Ori, Italy, in 2016, with an essay by author and critic Amei Wallach who
writes that “The tradition (of landscape painting) into which Straus dared to tread … was sorely
in need of reanimation. His disruptions in the years since have unsettled received assumptions
as much through dark humor and bravura painting as through offering a reassessment of what it
means to paint the beauty of nature in ugly times. It is important to him that his paintings are
accessible… But that is only the first, skin-deep level, and it is animated by compound
subterranean layers of passionate conviction, cosmic yearning, and comedy.” Work by Adam
Straus is in numerous museum collections including the Parrish Art Museum, Bridgehampton,
NY; Guild Hall Museum. East Hampton, NY; List Visual Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA; Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; The Art Museum at F.I.U., Miami, FL; Mead Art
Museum, Amherst, MA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Somerville, MA; and the William College
Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, among others. Straus lives and works in Riverhead, NY.
Peter Treiber Jr.
Peter Treiber Jr. is an artist, farmer, and carpenter. He lives and works on his farm on the North Fork of Long Island. Drawing from life on the farm, his works demonstrate the tremendous value he places upon the handmade. With art making indiscernible from his other daily pursuits, his work includes tools, art and furniture objects, clothing, and plant material, all of which is from and of the land. He hopes to bring attention to the myriad ways in which agriculture can be adjacent to art and art adjacent to agriculture.
Marianne Weil
Marianne Weil received her B.A. in sculpture from Goddard College and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts. Her sculpture training continued in Pietrasanta, Italy, apprenticing both foundry artisans and stone carvers. Weil is Professor Emerita of Sculpture at the City University of New York. Prior to her teaching appointment there, she taught sculpture and metal casting at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at Haverford College in PA, where she received several Mellon grants to collaborate with Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr College faculty on interdisciplinary projects in art history, anthropology and archaeology.
Weil’s recent sculpture combines welded upcycled bronze with newly cast bronze in combination with blown and cast glass. Her abstract bronze sculptures are created using the lost-wax casting process. Each unique work is constructed from wax—assembled, welded, chased and patinated in her Orient, New York studio. Weil frequently incorporates printmaking into her studio practice, providing a window into her creative process.
Numerous international awards, grants and visual artist residencies include: several MacDowell Colony Fellowships, an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, Hospitalfield Trust award, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Fellowship, Fondaçion Valparaiso Grant, Casa de Mateus Foundation and a 2005-06 New York State Council for the Arts Community Connection Grant for a public art installation for the Village of Greenport, New York. A bronze commission for the Village of Water Mill, New York and the Order of the Sisters of St. Dominic is installed on the Water Mill Village green. Weil received five PSC-CUNY research awards for her creative scholarship combining glass and bronze.
Weil’s sculpture is exhibited internationally, featured in public and private collections here and abroad.
Allan Wexler
Allan Wexler has worked in the fields of architecture, design and fine art for forty five years. He is represented by the Jane Lombard Gallery in New York City and teaches at Pratt Institute in New York City. Allan’s works explore human activity and the built environment. He works as an investigator using series, permutations and chance rather than searching for definitive solutions. He makes buildings, furniture, vessels and utensils as backdrops and props for everyday, ordinary human activity. The works isolate, elevate, and monumentalize our daily rituals: dining, sleeping, and bathing. And they, in turn, become mechanisms that activate ritual, ceremony and movement, turning these ordinary activities into theater. Allan Wexler and Ellen Wexler are a collaborative team involved in projects that are interdisciplinary. They have included architecture, public and private art commissions and museum education environments. It is by dissolving the boundaries between the fine arts and the applied arts, between furniture design, architecture and theatrical performance, between sculpture and interactive exhibition design and between the practice and the research of architecture, that new ideas and innovation flourishes. From Aaron Betsky’s introduction for the 1999 catalog to the exhibition Custom Built: A Twenty-year Survey of Work by Allan Wexler which traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati and The Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis: “Allan Wexler is an artist whose gallery objects brings us back to first thing: how we keep rain off our heads, how we define space, how we measure our time. He elaborates on these simple acts in form. This is the core of his work.
Annemarie Waugh
Annemarie Waugh works within the intersections of painting and social practice installation exploring memory, the environment, and human connection. Many of her projects invite participation from the audience, allowing the work to unfold through shared experiences. She has lived and worked internationally, with projects spanning Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Annemarie received her BA (Hons) from Central St Martins, UAL, London. She received her MFA from Stony Brook University. She was awarded a teaching Fellowship and received the Stephanie Dinkins Yayoi Kusama award for her performance, The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy (2021) and the Princes Trust Artist Award for Excellence in Painting, London.
She was awarded a Huntington Arts Grant in (2025) for her installation Bitterest Sweet. Her work has been shown at The Lyceum Gallery, The Long Island Museum, Orchard Street Gallery, NYC, Front Street Gallery, Brooklyn, Christie’s, London, MoCA LI Patchogue, The Islip Museum, Serendip Gallery, Kobe, Japan, Artist Films Berlin, among many others. Annemarie curates The Lyceum Gallery at Suffolk Community College.
Ellen Wiener
Ellen Wiener is a visual artist whose primary subjects revolve around literary themes, landscape and the expansive qualities of reading. She has lived on the North Fork of Long Island since 1989.
Her work can be found in the permanent public collections at: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian, Yale Arts Library Special Collections, The Staats Bibliothek- Berlin, Smith College Museum, Hood Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Albright-Knox Museum, Rosenwald Collection, Reed College, Swarthmore College, Sweet Briar College, Washington University, Maslow Collection, Bainbridge Museum and in many private collections.
She has been included in over 100 exhibitions including; PS1-Moma, The Center for Book Arts, The National Academy, Parrish Museum, Hudson River Museum, Heckscher Museum, Princeton Theological Society, Islip Art Museum, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook Museum, Hood Museum, Vanderbilt University, The New York Botanical Gardens- for the Poetry Society of America, Constellation Studios, VSOP Gallery, , Central Booking Gallery, Indiana University Library, Lori Bookstein Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, University of Iowa Center for the Book, 23 Sandy, Abecedarian Gallery, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Cincinnati Public Library, Denver Public Library, Marriot Library Utah, Emory University, Art Sites, Art on Paper Pier 36, Lafayette College, East End Arts, Glen Hansen Gallery.
Faculty positions have included; Princeton, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence Writer’s Institute, Stony Brook SUNY, Queens CUNY, University New Mexico, Suffolk Community College, St Mary’s College, Sweet Briar College, LSU.
She has studied at; The Royal Botanical Society Kew, London, The New York Botanical Garden, The Morgan Library-Rare Books School of the University of Virginia, The Center for Book Arts, The New School, Queens College CUNY & Bennington College.
John Wittenberg
John Wittenberg is a Southold, NY-based artist working with stone, steel, wood, graphite, and handmade paper. His practice ranges from finely detailed, intimate pieces to large-scale installations that engage directly with the landscape.
Much of Wittenberg’s work is rooted in natural forms and their relationship to the environment. In recent years, He has also focused on the broader story—how we, as a society, interact with and impact our planet. Paper and pulp have become central to my work, offering a powerful medium to explore these ideas visually and socially.
He developed a strong connection to printmaking and paper-based work through a residency at The Church in Sag Harbor and ongoing involvement with Dieu Donné in Brooklyn. These experiences have significantly expanded his visual language and deepened his engagement with materials.
John studied at the Boston Museum School and the University of Vermont, and I spent several years working closely with internationally known sculptor Paul Aschenbach in Charlotte, VT.
Wittenberg’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows at galleries and institutions including , The Church (Sag Harbor, NY), VSOP Projects (Greenport), East End Arts (Riverhead), Guild Hall (East Hampton), Dieu Donné (Brooklyn), and The Carter Burden Gallery (New York City). He has also completed public art commissions for South Burlington Middle School, Battery Park Urban Renewal in Vermont, and the Brooklyn Public Library.