Nautical Wheeler

Recent works by Monica Church

"The cuts I use in my collages are taken from patterns found in nature. I’m fascinated with the repetition of a shape, like leaves on a tree, when viewed at a distance creates the perception of that object being whole, when in actuality it is made up of distinctly different pieces.
My work, similarly, upon close examination, is an image fragmented and then reassembled to create a new whole. Unification of the image is done through context, color, hue or texture.
In some of my work I intentionally pick an image that will meld with it’s background and in others it is a selection of images assembled to convey a mood, but in all the works I want the texture of the cuts to come through in juxtaposition to the flatness of the images I started with."
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Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and worked for several years in advertising and magazine production in NYC. It wasn’t until her move to the Hudson Valley from her home of many years in Brooklyn that she found the time and space to work creatively again.
This time, she enlisted magazines quite differently and art books to
create collages. The choice to change mediums was the desire to have a more textural, hands-on art practice. Her love of nature, one of the main reasons for her move to upstate NY, is reflected in the cuts in her collages as she captures the patterns in nature and applies them to printed material.
She has exhibited in juried shows in New York at Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, Sketchbook Gallery and Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in Woodstock, Muroff Kotler Gallery SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge, Create Council on the Arts in Catskill and Limner Gallery in Hudson.
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December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026​
Opening Reception: Saturday December 6, 5-7pm

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