Adonis Jimenez
New York City Student, Accounting
Veteran
Acrylic Paint
The peacock symbolizes vision, royalty, awakening, guidance, protection, and watchfulness.
Adonis Jimenez
New York City Student, Accounting
Veteran
Acrylic Paint
Releasing your inner thoughts.
Annell Batista
Woodland Park Student, Legal Studies
Acrylic Paint
During a test of emotional turmoil, I painted the blue butterfly to represent recarnating into something new and beautiful but still blue representing cold , sadness and disappointment.
Sugyeong Jang
Woodland Park Student, Graphic Design
Watercolor
I thought detail was important by working on it. It shows the night sky and famous shops in New York, and I think it is neighbors because there are many stores in one place.
Cyndy Marchese
New York City Associate
Oil on Canvas
I took a photo of this Ashwam in Agra, India in 2009 during my first trip to India. I found the India to be a colorful and exciting place and I wanted to remember it. This is the first painting that I ever did.
Cyndy Marchese
New York City Associate
Oil on Canvas
I started the International Office of Berkeley College in 1991. Since its inception, we have had students come to Berkeley from over 100 different countries. Through my work, I have traveled far and near and have met students from every single continent. In 2009, I traveled to India. I found the country truly inspiring. The positive attitude of the people, the spices, the colors, and the beauty of India captured my heart. With this in mind, I thought I would start a series of paintings that showed life in this vast country. Painting 1, the Ashram, was my very first painting. The Lady looking out to the world was the second painting, and the Oxen mowing the lawn in front of the Taj Mahal was my third. They represent fond memories for me.
Cyndy Marchese
New York City Associate
Oil on Canvas
The Oxen Mowing the Lawn in front of the Taj Mahal was my third painting in a collection that represents fond memories for me.
Melanie Castano
Online Student, Fashion Merchandising & Management
Acrylic Paint
My inspiration was the variety of different gumballs and a brush stroke technique.
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Inspired by a visit to Pearl Harbor.
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Inspired by the music "Box of Rain" by Phil Lesh & Robert Hunter
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Inspired by "Rhapsody in Blue."
Kurt Ackerman
New York City Faculty
Oil Paint
Laylanie Reinoso
New York City Student, Criminal Justice
Acrylic
The artist took the inspiration from a cloudy night at the beach.
Briana Saccheri
Online Student, Marketing Communications
Briana Saccheri
Online Student, Marketing Communications
Acrylic Paint
Briana Saccheri
Online Student, Marketing Communications
Acrylic Paint
Clarissa Miranda-Simmons
Woodbridge Student, Fashion Merchandising and Management
Acrylic paint, canvas, plaster and mod pog
Stephanie Rodriguez
Woodland Park Student, Interior Design
Acrylic on Canvas
Liza Biswas
White Plains Student
Eva Gidova
Newark Student
It brings out my feelings of freedom. Do stuff that I love and want to do.
Eva Gidova
Newark Student
It is my second relaxation painting. It brings out my inner feelings after being free and feel safe at my home with my daughter.
Eva Gidova
Newark Student
I made this as a relaxation during my hard time, when I was going through fighting for my freedom and becoming Domestic Violence Survivor. Some of survivor put their emotion in dance I put it in paintings. Half woman was my first picture, representing me, in years of terror.
Angelica Montoya
Woodland Park Student, Graphic Design
Acrylic Paint on Pine Wood
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Armenia Bell
NYC Student, Criminal Justice
This piece is called "Stainglass Wings". I am a huge fan of Stained glass windows. I also love butterflies. But my mother is really the blame for the way the butterfly came out. I was in the middle of painting in a section of the wing. When my mother walked in and said I should leave it that way. So I decided to paint the rest of my butterfly that way. I started with a corner and worked my way through the butterfly. Painting one section darker than the rest.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
Different canvases, cardboards, foam boards.Random inspiration.
Ana Pavicevic
NYC Student, Marketing
Oil paint and acrylic paint. This is a painting of a beautiful semi-naked woman who's hands are in the praying position, her hands form an eye shape where her third eye is. This painting is inspired by a personal realization and self knowledge to forgive and move on.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
I Really Want Birds of Paradise in My Wedding Bouquet
Lorena Ramos
Dover Student, Medical Assistant
Acrylic, oil, spray on canvas. My work is through my eyes of places, thoughts, culture, nature and ideas. The mind is set free to explore the above.
Yamilex Rivera
Woodbridge Student, Business management
This art work is composed of glow in the dark acrylic paint. This painting is based on the movie Holes and I painted this picture in the dark with glow in the dark paint.
Lorena Ramos
Dover Student, Medical Assistant
Acrylic, oil, spray on canvas. My work is through my eyes of places, thoughts, culture, nature and ideas. The mind is set free to explore the above.
Isabella Ramirez
Woodland Park Student, Interior Design
Lorena Ramos
Dover Student, Medical Assistant
Acrylic, oil, spray on canvas. My work is through my eyes of places, thoughts, culture, nature and ideas. The mind is set free to explore the above.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
This was for a class project based on culture, I chose the "graffiti culture."
Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri
Faculty, School of Liberal Arts
Watercolor and pencil on textured paper
Everywhere, I see bright pink reminders of breast cancer. What if I want to forget about it?
I've done my time.
Still, as a survivor, silence is not an option.
My voice must join the many others.
Pink warriors, men and women,
more deserving than I have fallen.
I inhale their stories of bravery.
Bright pinks saturate my senses.
I exhale appreciation for life.
The wind scatters my messy thoughts
in curly waves of hair.
Hair restored, new eyes irreparably transformed.
I see everywhere messages of pink.
Messages of hope.
Silvana Lopez
Online Student, National Security
Acrylic paint on canvas
This is a portrait of my cat Hunter. I wanted to accentuate his most prominent features, which are his bright yellow eyes.
Briana Saccheri
Dover Student, Fashion Merchandising
Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri
Faculty, School of Liberal Arts
Watercolor and waterproof ink
I see a symphony of color in a single leaf
Fatimaezzahra Ejjennane
Online Student, Bachelor of Business Administration / Communication and Marketing
Just a hopeless cry for help.
Fatimaezzahra Ejjennane
Online Student, Bachelor of Business Administration / Communication and Marketing
We all need some love and some tenderness: they can be pretty inspiring.
Kelly Bennett
Reference & Instruction Librarian, Woodbridge
Acrylics
Suzanne Dinse
Administrative Asst. to COO, Woodland Park
Student, Graphic Design
Intro to Painting - class assignment was to paint 7 eggs.
Mark Maddalena
Web Designer, Paramus
The artist likes to use a 3D modelling program called Poser to design, model and render 3D figures. He often then incorporates them into backgrounds created in PhotoShop and Painter. This piece was inspired by a series of stories written by Isaac Asimov centered around robots.
BIO: I am a graphic designer and I have always been drawn to the "virtual reality" of creating on the computer. I was trained as a designer just before desktop computers sarted infiltrating the field, and I love being able to create without having to clean up afterwards (as in "real" paining, etc.)
Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri
Faculty, Liberal Arts, Woodbridge Campus
Sunflowers haunt many of my old and new paintings. I love the shapes within and without this complex flower. Odd color combinations and textures become means for exploration.
Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri
Faculty, Liberal Arts, Woodbridge Campus
Watercolor and glaze:
Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri
Faculty, Liberal Arts, Woodbridge Campus
Watercolor and permanent blue ink on cold press (textured) paper: This painting is inspired by the challenges faced by my sixteen year old daughter, who is on the autism spectrum. In the painting, I imagine how our world appears to her. It seems to me that life's beautiful colors are blocked by autism's interference. To survive, she retreats into her world beyond daily sensory attacks. During the act of painting, I reach for her.
From left to right starting in the back are the names: Lilibeth Taveras from Woodbridge FA and her pet Nicky; Joey Tuason from Woodland Park Admissions and her pet Bailey; Cristina Carnemola Director of FA Online and her pet Blazey; Donna Daidone from Online FA and her pets Lily & Ella ; Andrea Garzon from Online FA and my pet Cleo; Pilar Vasquez from Online FA and her pet Mily; and Pamela Arnold from Woodland Park Financial Literacy and her pet Cali.
This event was created to not only appreciate our pets as they are considered family members but also to help create a good work environment amongst each other. Blank canvas, paint, and personal picture of our pet.
Pamela Snyder-Gallagher
Faculty, Online
Watercolor on paper. Painting of a "book cover" of an Edgar Allen Poe short story.
Lorena Ramos
Dover Student, Medical Assistant
Acrylic, oil, spray on canvas. My work is through my eyes of places, thoughts, culture, nature and ideas. The mind is set free to explore the above.
Yamilex Rivera
Woodbridge Student, Business management
This particular artwork was made completely of crayola crayons. This art work was created for the Center For Academic Success here at the Woodbridge campus. I used Hot glue crayons and a blow dryer to make this art work.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
Foam board, acrylic paint.
In order for an arrow to be shot forward, it needs to be pulled back. My zodiac sun sign is Sagittarius and I love being one.
Lorena Ramos
Dover Student, Medical Assistant
Acrylic, oil, spray on canvas. My work is through my eyes of places, thoughts, culture, nature and ideas. The mind is set free to explore the above.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
This was painted during a time where I was trying to get out of a funk.
Melissa Espinoza
Woodland Park Student, Criminal Justice
Just looking for love. Acrylic paint, faux flowers.
Fatimaezzahra Ejjennane
Online Student, Bachelor of Business Administration / Communication and Marketing
Made by acrylic, and a Pebeo "All surfaces" painting. I melted the colors by blowing in a straw so the different colors will push each others and create this effect. Before painting I'd stick stars in the canvas to create a 3D image.
Just a simple happy art: stars lost in a colorful universe, just like humans lost in a colorful world.
Stephanie Rodriguez
Woodland Park Student, Interior Design
I tend to just go with the flow of how I am feeling. My work is done to make people smile and enjoy what they are looking at.
Fatimaezzahra Ejjennane
Online Student, Bachelor of Business Administration / Communication and Marketing
Made by acrylic, and a Pebeo "All surfaces" painting. I melted the colors by blowing in a straw so the different colors will push each others and create this effect.
This is obviously a broken heart.. made in a pretty bad period of my life. But I guess the bright colors inspire a bit of unconscious hope maybe, that probably helped me made my heart happy again today.
Briana Saccheri
Dover Student, Fashion Merchandising
My motivation for this acrylics painting is simply, life. I painted this around the same time I was learning to play the piano.
Fatimaezzahra Ejjennane
Online Student, Bachelor of Business Administration / Communication and Marketing
A zebra shouting. A need to be heard. A need to expel all the suffering of an unhappy person in a happy life.
Briana Saccheri
Dover Student, Fashion Merchandising
Lisa St. Hilaire
Carreer Councelor, Career Services, Online
Suzanne Dinse
Administrative Asst. to COO, Woodland Park
Student, Graphic Design
Welcome Lake Pa. Acrylic on canvas
Kelly Bennett
Reference & Instruction Librarian, Woodbridge
Acrylics
Katie Maricic
Librarian, Woodbridge Campus
Oil on Canvas
Katie Maricic
Reference/Instruction Librarian, Woodbridge
Eric is an oil painting based on a photograph of Katie’s cousin when he was in Little League baseball.
Katie Maricic
Reference/Instruction Librarian, Woodbridge
The mural, “There’s No Place Like Belmar,” was painted in December 2012 as part of the Belmar Arts Council’s project to beautify the drab, depressing barricades blocking off storm-ravaged Ocean Avenue in Belmar. Katie designed and drew the concept, and painted it with help from her mother Bernadette, sister Elizabeth, and friends Danielle and Emily Brennan. As a true beach bum and Belmar local, this project was near and dear to Katie’s heart.
Dr. Melissa DuBrowa
Faculty, Woodbridge Campus
This painting is a result of my “right brain” need to create. I enroll in a watercolor class year-round to keep my sanity and to feed my need for creativity.
