Andrew Lattimore is a Peekskill artist intensely involved with traditional portraiture as well as anatomy and landscape. His portrait works are truly magically in craftsmanship and presentation. It is evident that a particular eye is at work here giving to his models both accuracy and wonderment. Schooled at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, his resume displays an outstanding list of awards as well as portrait commissions throughout the world.    
 
     
                           

Jessica Miller-Smith   
recently located from NYC to Croton-on-Hudson, is fascinated by faces. She captures both mood and likeness through a unique use of color and composition. Having received her degree from the University of Michigan, her portraiture training has been with several artists/ teachers at the Arts Students League.

             
                                               
    Bruce Waldman is an illustrator's illustrator whose drawing and etchings of faces, bodies, and animals provide a special and very unique look into the psychology of the human condition. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts and a recipient of the Gerome Foundation Grant having had shows in Oregon, New Mexico, Michigan, The Netherlands, Belgium and New York City. His work has been published nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of the Hackley Museum of Art, the Erin Harode Museum of Israel and The Franklin Mint Collection.
       
       
 
Tricia C. Riebesehl
is a more recent BFA graduate of The College of New Rochelle who presents a unique exploration of the self-portrait which forces the viewers to look within their selves both for narrative and interpretation. These personal yet universal portraits are rich with color and blendina through the use of oil glazing.
          
               
                   
                     
      Gina Pierleoni received her BFA from The College of New Rochelle in 1981 and her MFA from the Maryland Institute's Mt. Royal School of Painting. Her "Faces" series offer us a contemporary corollary to ancient idealized funerary portraiture that are contemporaneously filled with life. These anonymous faces a re a "visual panoply of human mind and soul."      
                     
 
Justin Schorr  
has been painting and drawing for the last 40 or more years. As a well established artist, he also has the honor of faculty status at Columbia University for 30 of those 40 years. Recently retired, he is pouring his energies into his drawing and painting, producing some of the most enlightened and dynamic work yet. Known primarily for his abstract acrylic and oil paintings, he privately has completed a series of portraits that are not specific to any one person but operate as companions to his life.
     
     
       
This group of artists is being brought together by MAXWELL FINE ARTS in an attempt to understand and extend the long and uninterrupted history of portraiture and to investigate some of its recent dialogues in contemporary art.
A visit to MAXWELL FINE ARTS can also include visits to other Peekskill galleries, the Paramount Center for the Arts, and an array of unusual shops and fine restaurants within the designated downtown Artist District. The public is invited to an opening reception to be held at the MAXWELL FINE ARTS gallery between the hours of 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, 2003 in conjunction with Peeskill's Open Studios: face to face 2003, scheduled for Saturdav and Sunday, June 7 & 8. Refreshments will be served. Call the gallery for further information at 914-737-8622.