Artists

Galvin P. Bisserup, Jr. is the owner and principal portrait photographer of Glickman Studio Photographers which has been in Freeport, NY for 98 years.

“Tulip Dreams” – “The influence of computer technology will be inescapable in the future of photography…

“Graffiti Man”

“Absolute Freedom”- Computer & Digital Art

 

” My camera is an extension of me and it allows me to share my experiences and views with others through my art.”

“Attended Pratt Institute – Studied photography- Started with 35 mm camera and exhibited photography at Pratt.

Featured in:
“Bits & Pieces” December 2017

 “Beach at Evening”  “In photography, as in psychotherapy, the goal is to see or experience something that has been seen before, to pause and then reflect. 

Steppingstone Pier” – “There are always two people in every picture… the photographer and the viewer”.
Ansel Adams


Janet Dansbury is a retired Great neck Public Schools art teacher with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz. 


John Bruno became interested in photography during a tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force in Spain (1966-70).

My parents gave me a box camera for my fifth birthday and I haven’t stopped taking pictures.

I concentrate on travel and street photography.  I look for the funny, the curious, the remarkable, the outlandish, the stimulating, and sometimes simply the mundane because it looks good.

I like to combine photography with travel, and when I am away from home I like to play the role of flaneur, looking for interesting people, places, things and shapes.

I do most of my work with APS-C DSLR, but still shoot film occasionally- typically, medium format.  There will, I hope, always be a place for that.

“I was born to art, drawing as early as I could pick up a pencil, and took lessons throughout my childhood and all during high school, along the way falling in love with watercolor. 

The contemporary works here feature music and motion.  The compositions are complex, inviting the viewer to discern new meaning with every glance.

Raised by a family who appreciated art, Katherine Trunk has created a large collection of art since youth, entering exhibits and displaying her work in different venues in the metro area.

 

Kathy P. Leistner was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in West Lafayette, Indiana where she was a photographer for Purdue University’s newspaper, and upon graduation was a Media Specialist for Purdue Photographic Services. 

Leo Bliok came to Great Neck in 1942 with his parents, a young Belgian refugee escaping the Nazi onslaught in Europe. 

Featured in:

“Bits & Pieces” December 2018

“What is watercolor?  A simple answer- it is colored water that can be expressive, ethereal, transparent, and enormously surprising and mysterious. 

Marc Josloff, who was recently honored as one of Long Island’s Top 25 “Advocates of the Arts” by the Long Island Arts Council in Freeport, is a painter, photographer and art educator who teaches painting and drawing at the National Art League in Douglaston, Queens.

“I have always loved art.  The challenge of the creative process- the ability to turn a blank piece of paper into art, and the actual use of paint, never ceases to attract me.

Mary Ann is a retired New York City educator who is now focused on her lifelong interest in painting.

 “Fence”  “I am a financial executive who’s career has been in the financial services industry.