AMR Artists Show Talent

AMR Artist Ted Sheridan

“My new work is a lot of work with iron powder and rust and corrosion still. I’m beginning to play around with adding some color to some of the images.

In past years, everything has been pretty much black, gray or brown. This year, I’m trying to add another element to it and trying some color out for the first time. (bluish gray and reds and pinks) So, sort of primary colors for starters, and then, I’ll play around with that and maybe they’ll get a little bit more complex over time.”

Oneida Hammond

For decades Oneida Hammond has been preserving the history of the countryside architecture and landscapes of Delaware County, with great style and color 

“I go to many locations and I have permission to the owners and I do the drawing and then later on I do the painting of them in watercolors  

So my drawings are impending. with such details.  I love details.. I want to be free, but I keep going and put all the details I want to represent everything. 

Some of the people say that my painting has the essence of his objects or the places. I enjoy when they say, oh, I see the essence that you have from the places. And but most of my subjects are buildings, my expertise are buildings.”

Richard Tazzara

Richard Tazzara on the @amr.open.studios.tour with his decades work of photography and abstraction full of amazing color and explosive design

“So about 20 years ago, I was building viruses and virus machines, metaviruses, and metairus machines, where I was basically creating images in the likeness of, which virus was it? I think it was at the time, it was Anthrax, which was very popular and was being distributed to politicians in the news, and I had come across a process of my own work that felt somehow inspired, but also poignant and creating a universe, an internal an expression of an internal universe onto a public space that was safe and allowing people to have an interaction with a metavirus that they could define in their own terms to be less concerned about the public panic that was being set out upon the national public.“

Sheila McManus

Sheila McManus, AMR’s graphic designer and the artist behind the Open Studios Tour map since 2023, spoke of the inspiration for her latest body of work, one of colorful patterns, a departure from her typical landscape paintings.

“I went to the Thomas Cole house in Catskill, and I was really taken with the wallpaper, and the rugs were really intense colors, so I took a picture of the carpet and these paintings are based on a section of this carpet…I kind of like picking random colors and trying to match values. It’s this whole process. It’s different from my oils.”
Profiles by Robert Brune.

Sara Stone

@amr.open.studios.tour visit with the multi disciplinary artist @sara.c.stone

As she guided me around the beautiful cabin studio…

“So there are things like photography that I used to do a lot of photography. 
I still do it just for myself as I used to do more work as a photographer. I’ve got silk screen print or printing at least one of those pieces that I used to do a long time ago. I did ceramics for years, so this is like the Hall of shame of ceramics over here and bits that things that cracked or broke, but I wanted to keep them around and just remind me of techniques or designs. 
Then there are some other ceramic pieces that are like caviar servers and some fun things that were just neat, you know, fun things to produce. and there are paintings and there are forays and various various other medias, a little bit of encaustic from my class that I took from Regina Quinn”