Feature New American Gallery Artists

		Featured Artists

This is our core group of exhibiting artists, all of whom have had their work highlighted in New American Gallery juried or invitational shows. Each of these artists displays his or her work in a gallery page that changes periodically as old paintings are sold and new ones are added. For each artist you will also find current contact information that makes it easy for you to inquire about existing work or commissioned pieces. We invite you to visit this corner of the Gallery often since we add new work and new artists on a regular basis.

Theresa Troise Heidel	Beth Alyse Kantor	Marge Levine
Elissa Prystauk	Muriel Rogers	Mel Stabin
Thomas Valenti	Tony Ventura	Steven J. White
Fran Wood	Russ Johnson

Theresa Troise Heidel

Theresa Troise Heidel's watercolors reflect her deep interest in excellent and solid drawing, the power of color as influenced by light, the forms of nature, and the fantastical elements of great architecture, most recently as revealed in the Casino complex and Convention Hall of Asbury Park, New Jersey. More than 50 of her watercolors were reproduced in a pair of exceptional coffee table books, To the Shore Once More, Volumes I and II [Frank Finale, Jersey Shore Publications, Bay Head, N.J.], and she has been featured in American Artist Magazine as well as a June 2004 article written by Marie Maber, “The Many Faces of Asbury Park,” in the Asbury Park Press. A graduate of St. Peter's College in Jersey City , she did postgraduate work at the Accademia delle Belli Arti, Florence , Italy . Theresa has been a watercolor instructor at the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey and presently teaches at her studio in Ridgefield Park .

To learn more about Theresa Troise Heidel’s work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please visit www.theresatroiseheidel.com or call 201-440-2976.

Beth Alyse Kantor

An artist since the age of six and an award winner since her early teen years, Beth Alyse Kantor is one of the country's most promising young talents. Since earning an art history/fine arts degree from Princeton University in 1998, Beth has had her work exhibited in such settings as the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and the Forbes Magazine Galleries, the National Arts Club, and the Salmagundi Club in New York City. Her work has also been featured in a variety of publications, including The Artist's Magazine, American Artist, and Watercolor. Beth's work has appeared in several juried shows sponsored by The New American Gallery, and her painting “Prince of the Desert” captured the Best in Show prize for our 2003 National Juried Watercolor Exhibition. She presently teaches watercolor painting at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, NJ.

To learn more about Beth Alyse Kantor's work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please contact her at alyseart@aol.com or visit www.fineartanddesign.com.

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Marge Levine

Long before Marge Levine turned to pastels three years ago, she had already built an enviable resume as a textile designer, book illustrator, greeting card publisher, and colored-pencil landscapist. But it is undoubtedly her rich impressionistic pastels that art lovers will still be talking about and admiring 100 years from now. The nine paintings you’ll find in this current exhibition are the work of a superb draftsman whose impeccable eye for color enables her to transform the commonplace into the timeless. A New Jersey resident, Marge is a juried member of the Degas Pastel Society and the Pastel Society of America as well as a signature member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. Her works may be found in the following galleries:

B. Beamesderfer Gallery 6 N. Second Avenue Highland Park, N.J. 08904 732-249-6971	Atlantic Artisans 68 First Avenue Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 07716 732-291-0100
Evergreen Gallery 310 Morris Avenue Spring Lake, N.J. 07762 732-449-4488	Riverbank Arts Stockton, N.J. 08559 609-397-9230
Jacklyn Kling Gallery 106 Walnut Street Montclair, N.J. 07042 973-746-6800 www.klingarts.com

To learn more about Marge Levine’s work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please contact her at or visit www.mlevine.artspan.com.

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Elissa Prystauk

New Jersey artist Elissa Prystauk works in both oil and pastel, and her remarkable resume lists more than 70 national and international awards, solo shows, juried exhibitions, public collections, and galleries; in addition, her paintings have been featured in The Best of Oil Painting, Savvy Living magazine, and Morris magazine. In 2004 she received the Medal of Honor at the 76th Grand National Exhibition of the American Artists Professional League for her pastel “Fall Day,” and she was recently named to “Who’s Who in American Art.” She is an artist member of the Salmagundi Club, a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, a resident member of the Pen & Brush, a member of the Hudson Valley Art Association, and a fellow of the American Artists Professional League. Elissa earned a BFA degree from Rutgers University and continued her studies at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Urbino University in Italy.

To learn more about Elissa Prystauk’s work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please contact her at or visit www.elissaprystauk.com.

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Muriel Rogers

Muriel Rogers' world is ablaze in color, and this current exhibition reveals her passion for capturing nature's many moods in both watercolor and oil. A lifelong New Jersey resident whose paintings have been featured in such publications as To the Shore Once More, Vols. I and II, Jersey Shore Home and Garden , and Jersey Shore Magazine, she has studied for more than 30 years with some of America's leading artists and has taught watercolor classes from her home studio in Colts Neck. Muriel is a frequent award-winner and is listed in Who's Who in American Art ; she is an elected member of the New Jersey Watercolor Society, the Garden State Watercolor Society, the Guild of Creative Art, the American Artist Professional League, and the Manasquan River Group of Artists. Muriel's work is collected nationally and hangs in the collection of her alma mater, Georgian Court College , as well as those of the Monmouth County Park System, American Reinsurance Corporation, Nationwide Insurance, and numerous others.

To learn more about Muriel Rogers' work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please contact her at or call 732-842-6858. Her work may also be seen at:

    Anchor and Palette Gallery
    45 Mount St .
    Bay Head, N.J. 08742
    732-892-7776

Mel Stabin

Mel Stabin, AWS, NWS, is an internationally known teacher, author, and award-winning watercolorist whose paintings have been part of major exhibitions by the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, National Academy of Design, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and many others. He has had 16 one-man exhibitions of his work, and his paintings now hang in numerous private and corporate collections. For more than 18 years he has conducted extremely popular on-location watercolor workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. A graduate of Pratt Institute and student of the legendary Edgar Whitney, Mel is the author of Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused and The Figure in Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused, both published by Watson-Guptill.

To learn more about Mel Stabin’s workshops or to add one of his paintings to your collection, please contact him at or visit www.melstabin.com.

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Thomas Valenti

A master of realistic urban landscapes in both oil and watercolor, Thomas Valenti believes that “the artist has within his or her power the ability to allow people to see and appreciate those things normally taken for granted.” In this current exhibition you'll see why over the past 25 years he has received numerous awards and honors, most recently acceptance into the “Contemporary Realism 2005” exhibition held at the Cavalier Galleries in Manhattan (a show which featured only five of the 600 artists who submitted work for judging), and why his work hangs in the permanent collections of Rutgers University, Hoffman-LaRoche, and the Lipton Tea Company. His long list of exhibitions includes the American Watercolor Society's international juried exhibition, the American Artist's Professional League grand national juried exhibition, the Allied Artists of America annual juried exhibition, and both the New Jersey Watercolor Society and the Garden State Watercolor Society. A New Jersey resident who maintains a studio in Washington Township , Thomas has also taught throughout the state at places like the Montclair Museum's Yard School of Art and the Summit Art Center .

To learn more about Thomas Valenti's work or to add one of his paintings to your collection, please contact him at or visit www.thomasvalenti.com.

Tony Ventura

Tony Ventura, AWS, is one of America’s most gifted painters, and as this Featured Artist collection reveals, he moves easily between oils and watercolors. Among his more than 100 awards are the American Watercolor Society’s William Church Osborne Memorial Award, three AWS traveling shows, three Silver Medals of Honor from the New Jersey Watercolor Society, a Grumbacher Silver Medal, and the Winsor & Newton Purchase Award. He is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society as well as a member of the Hudson Valley Art Association, the Salmagundi Club, the Knickerbocker Artists (signature member), the Garden State Watercolor Society, and the New Jersey Watercolor Society, which he served as president. Tony maintains a studio-gallery in Neptune, N.J., where he lives and conducts classes in oils and watercolors. His work has appeared in several New American Gallery juried shows, and his painting "All's Quiet" was named "Best in Show" for the Gallery's “Watercolors from the Garden State” exhibition in 2003.

To learn more about Tony Ventura’s work or to add one of his paintings to your collection, please call him at 732-922-9127 or visit one of the following galleries:

The Lambertville Gallery of Fine Art 20 North Union St. Lambertville, NJ 08530 Oils	Anchor & Palette Gallery 45 Mount St. Bay Head, N.J. 08742 Oils and watercolors
Guild of Creative Art 620 Broad St., Route 35 Shrewsbury, N.J. 07702 Oils and watercolors

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Steven J. White

Steven J. White has learned that great paintings often spring from exceedingly humble origins: the weathered siding of an old farmhouse; a boarded-up door in a dark alley; or a quilt of late-day shadows nestled on an icy pond. As our small collection of his work demonstrates, this self-taught artist has become a master at transforming the ordinary into the memorable. Although he generally paints near his home in Lansdale , Pennsylvania , Steven's reputation has been growing rapidly in recent years, and in 2003 alone his paintings appeared in 18 juried shows and exhibitions. He is a signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society as well as a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Society, the Perkiomen Valley Art Center, and the Greater Norristown Art League. His works may be found in the following galleries:

Chadds Ford Gallery US 1 & 100 Chadds Ford, PA 19317 610-459-5510	Hardcastle Gallery 5714 Kennett Pike Centreville, DE 19807 302-655-5230
The River Gallery Main Street Narrowsburg, NY 12764 845-252-3230

To learn more about Steven J. White’s work or to add one of his paintings to your collection, please contact him at or visit www.whitefineart.com.

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Fran Wood

Fran Wood has won national and regional awards both for her plein-air oil landscapes and for her oils and watercolors of people in everyday settings. Her recent awards include second-place honors in The New American Gallery’s 2004 national watercolor competition, first prize in oils at the All-Island Art Show on Martha’s Vineyard, and a Watercolor Magic magazine award for her painting “Appreciating Sargent,” which was selected for the National Watercolor Association’s year-long traveling exhibition in 2000. While Fran’s paintings represent widely diverse subjects, they share a common emphasis on capturing dramatic light, as our current exhibition reveals. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she has also studied art at the Centro d’Arte Verrocchio in Casole d’Elsa, Italy, and at the Scottsdale Artists’ School in Phoenix, Arizona.

To learn more about Fran Wood’s work or to add one of her paintings to your collection, please contact her at or visit www.franwood.com.

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Russ Johnson

With rare exception, Russ Johnson paints what he finds within a day's drive of his home in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. And whether he's studying the ruins of an old barn in Pennsylvania or the play of light on a Maine marsh, he believes that less is generally more – and that successful paintings come from editing reality down to a strong design. For certain subjects, including a number of the tree studies found in his “Weathered Wood” series, he relies on a patient drybrush technique mastered 500 years ago by Albrecht Dürer.

To learn more about Russ Johnson’s work or to add one of his paintings to your collection, please contact him through his online gallery, www.rhjart.com. For a musical tour of some recent paintings, visit his exhibition on YouTube.

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