DEREK STENBORG Artist and Curator

Is a resident of Ellenville since 2020, and he splits his time living and working in Brooklyn, NY.  Derek is a conceptual artist, with roots in theater, film & tv design, painting and music writing and performance. In 2003, Derek joined United Scenic Artists 829 in the categories of Scene Design and Scenic Art. Derek became the Scenic Charge Artist at The Juilliard School in 2003 and taught scenic painting at Brooklyn College. Moving into commercial projects 2012, some of Derek’s career highlights include: designing the Macy’s “Pop-Up” Holiday Windows, designing and painting on Broadway shows including Spamalot, painting at the MET Opera and on countless TV shows including SNL. Derek’s latest passion is studying and building Earthships and reimagining discarded materials.

JASON BOYD Artist and Curator

Is a lighting designer, artist, contractor and 20 yr resident of High Falls, NY and has been a long time collaborator of Derek. Jason has toured internationally with many Theatrical and Musical acts. He designed extensively for Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines, Natalie Merchant, John Mayer, Blues Traveler, Anne Bogart, Gale Gates et.al.

After years of touring he began exploring lighting design inside of abstract oil paintings.  His “Illuminated Oil Paintings” have been shown in NYC at The Wild Project in the lower east side, the Limner gallery in Hudson NY and at the Grey Owl Gallery in New Paltz.  

Derek & Jason 30+ years as friends and collaborators have brought them to an exciting juncture as they continue to bring their projects to Ellenville.

KATHLEEN ANDERSON Artist

(born New Haven, CT) lives and works in the Hudson Valley since 1990.  An interdisciplinary artist who explores interconnectivity through material sentience and information patterns through drawing, painting, sculpture, language, sound, and textile. A drummer, and certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner Anderson applies physio-philosophical principles of vital materiality, pulse listening and percussive drum rhythmic patterns to her art practice.

 Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Bronx Museum of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Oberlin College, Brown University, Dorsky Museum, SUNY, New Paltz and Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY. She is a dharma teacher at Catskill Zendo, a Korean Zen temple in Summitville, NY and a museum educator at Dia Beacon, a contemporary art museum in Beacon, NY.

ALEJANDRO LOPEZ Artist, Photographer

was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, where he studied painting and drawing at the Academia de Artes de San Alejandro. In 1994 he emigrated to Caracas, Venezuela, and three years later he arrived in Miami, FL, after exhibiting two of his multimedia art pieces at Rice University in Houston, Texas. From 1988 until 2010 he was actively working in his art projects, while also doing some theatrical incursion as set designer and painter. In 2019 he started taking photos. 

JEFFREY GLAVE Artist

recently retired from Local 829 of United Scenic Artists. After 40+ years of painting for film, theatre, and television, he decided to stop painting for other people and create something that (hopefully) wouldn’t end up in a dumpster. He started oil painting a dozen years or so ago to prepare for this moment. He is in love with the way light can make ordinary scenes extraordinary, whether spilling across a rural landscape or splintering through urban architecture. He paints to grow and seeks an impressionistic treatment of a subject that offers the viewer a glimpse of our shared connections. 

SABRINA JONES Artist

creates comics and graphic novels on social justice and radical history. Her books include Race to Incarcerate, and Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist’s Encounter with Margaret Sanger. She  has created graphic biographies of Isadora Duncan, Jane Jacobs, Walt Whitman, FDR, and Jesus. She began cartooning in the political comics magazine World War 3 Illustrated, and has continued to edit and contribute to many issues, including the recent, My Body/Our Rights. She paints scenery for Saturday Night Live and other shows, as a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.photos. 

PAWEL ZOLYNSKI Artist

is a Polish-American multidisciplinary artist with degrees in graphic design, animation, and videography. He holds an MFA in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. He showcases his work in Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the US.

His work includes sculpture, painting, mixed media, video, and visual experimentation. His creative practice effortlessly merges irony, cultural critique, and absurdity into a unique visual language that is both sharply disarming and thought-provoking. 

At the heart of Zolynski’s philosophy is the notion of redeeming the useless, embracing banality, and intentionally engaging with the overlooked or discarded. His art reclaims the crude and the trivial, using them to challenge seriousness, puncture pretension, and reflect the paradoxes of contemporary culture. Zolynski’s process is unapologetically instinctive, favoring imperfection, contradiction, and humor as tools for insight. He draws on everyday absurdities, national clichés, and aesthetic “mistakes” to create objects and images that prompt viewers to reconsider what deserves attention, preservation, or critique.

MARCELE MITSCHERLICH Artist