Summer Playlist
ON VIEW JUNE 30 - SEPTEMBER 8
About the Exhibition
There are songs that belong to summer — not just songs you hear in summer, but songs that are summer. They find you at a certain age, in a certain place, and from then on they carry the whole season with them: the light, the heat, the feeling that anything could happen.
Summer Playlist is Atelier Modern's love letter to that experience. This invitational exhibition gathers twelve artists from our community and asks them to bring the energy of a summer song into their work — bold color, vivid feeling, the kind of brightness that lifts you. Each piece is accompanied by the song its maker chose for it, and together they form a soundtrack as well as a show.
Featuring work by Adina Andrus, Amanda Arbeter, Melissa Benedek, Joseph Dermody, Debra Graham, Gali Katz, Jill Krutick, Sarah Mallin, Sushma Shadaksharappa, Sonjie Feliciano Solomon, and Priya Tambe — Summer Playlist is a celebration of a community we are proud to call our own.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8th, 4-6pm
The artists
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Adina Andrus
Adina Andrus (born in Bucharest, Romania) makes work centered around rituals and visual culture across time and space. A recipient of the Queens Council for the Arts New Work Grant, she has exhibited in the U.S. and Romania and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Students' League.
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Amanda Arbeter
Amanda Arbeter is a local painter with a background in Art History. She paints abstract artwork with energetic brushstrokes and dramatic color, with work seen throughout homes in Westchester, Manhattan, Connecticut, and across the country.
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Melissa Benedek
Melissa Benedek is a contemporary artist born and raised in New York City. Her work is a dynamic interplay of color, movement, and texture, creating pieces that evoke emotion and invite personal interpretation.
Joseph Dermody
Joseph Dermody grew up in Rhode Island studying art and music from early childhood and received his degrees in music performance. He has been featured in Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, and HGTV's Property Brothers, and currently resides in Stamford, CT.
Debra Graham
Debra Y. Graham explores whether the whole surpasses the sum of its parts through collage, drawing, and photography. Her work delves into the dynamic tension between line, form, and movement, capturing the kinetic energy of swirling fields.
Gali Katz
Gali Katz (American, b.1979) is a Connecticut-based artist working across printmaking, drawing, and collage. Her work weaves together personal memory and contemporary domestic life — themes include nostalgia, childhood invention, and simple pleasures.
Jill Krutick
Jill Krutick is an American contemporary abstract expressionist who studied at The Art Students League of New York. She has had four solo museum exhibitions and scores of group shows in the U.S. and Europe, and maintains a studio in Westchester, NY.
Sarah Mallin
Sarah Mallin is a mixed media artist whose work explores resilience, transformation, identity, and emotional connection through layered texture and expressive mark-making. Her practice is deeply influenced by lived experience, personal narrative, and the shared stories of others, exploring themes of identity, resilience, vulnerability, and empowerment.
Sushma Shadaksharappa
Sushma Shadaksharappa is a self-taught abstract artist based in Scarsdale, NY. Drawing from her Indian background's rich culture and vibrant colors, she uses color to undo form and create emotion — painting large-scale works with deep energy.
Sonjie Feliciano Solomon
Sonjie is interested in the phenomenon of awe in response to our natural world and aims to echo patterns and elements in nature to evoke feelings of calm, wonder and peace. The processes she creates are metaphors for lived personal stories and the actual processes that create our physical and emotional environments.
Priya Tambe
Priya Tambe is inspired by natural imagery to create work that is beautiful and timeless. Her practice combines encaustic painting — an ancient Greek method using beeswaxes, pigments, and damar resin — with paper sculpture elements for added texture and depth.
Grab the Playlist!
Summer Playlist Collection
ARTIST RECEPTION
Saturday, August 8
4–6 pm
Light refreshments. Free and open to the public.