Arthur Yanoff was born in 1939 in Boston, MA. He studied painting at the Museum School of Fine Arts. In 1983 his watercolors were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts where the curator Kenworth Moffett wrote, “These paintings are very fresh. Subjects are pushed to the brink of abstraction. There is a dynamic sense of color, reminiscent of Matisse and the Fauves.” In recent years Yanoff has moved from oils to abstract acrylics on canvas with Jewish themes that are full with bold expanses of color. Yanoff’s great-grandfather was Shlaime Malinsky who was a very influential Chassidic Jew. Yanoff sees a connection to his ancestors and sees himself as a possible messenger to the next generations through his art. Many of Yanoff’s paintings are painted from nature in a style that combines Post-Impression influences with abstraction.
In June 2010 Arthur Yanoff received the Israel Ambassador’s Ball Award in Washington, DC. Past recipients have included such artists as Annie Liebovitz and Peter Max. Over the past 30 years Yanoff has appeared in numerous one man and group exhibitions including the Boston Center for the Arts, 1974; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983; Babson College, Wellesley, MA, 1988; Yeshiva University Museum, NYC, 1996; Bobbie Lefenfeld Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, 2003; Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, NY, 2004; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 2009; Brill Gallery, North Adams, MA, 2010, etc. Yanoff’s watercolors and paintings are in the collections of several museums and international corporate collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Sante Fe; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; Lee Bank, Lee, MA; Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Great Barrington, MA; etc.
Kay Canavino grew up in a small farming community outside of Chicago. The images of those natural surroundings provided a major influence for her photography. Canavino attended Northeastern University and during that period became exposed to the photographs in the Boston Globe library. Eventually, she went on to receive a Professional Diploma from the New England School of Photography and began her serious pursuit of photography.
Canavino has been exploring themes of the natural world via fine art photography for more than 20 years. Her original images are beautiful with a mysterious quality underlying a surface tranquility. She developed a highly regarded series of hand-colored vanitas still-lifes and night landscapes using her light painting techniques.
Canavino was one of the founding artists of the Brickbottom Artists Building in Somerville, MA. She is now based in Adams, MA. Her photographs have been included in various exhibitions including the Danforth Art Museum, Berkshire Museum, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Tufts, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern University, Eclipse Mill Gallery, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts and in various corporate and private collections.
Samantha Pinckney is based in Connecticut where she lives with her family and is an Adjunct Professor in Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University. Pinckney studied Art History and French Literature at Johns Hopkins and Tufts Universities. She received M.A.'s in Art History and French Literature from Johns Hopkins and New York Universities. Pinckney was a Curatorial Assistant at Yale University Art Gallery and was the Curator at the Guilford Art Center from 2007 - 2009 where she curated About-Face: The Relevance of Portraiture in the 21st Century. In 2009, Pinckney wrote the essay for the "Commentary/Herself" exhibition at the Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville, MA.