Ellie Stover Studio

Artist Bios

Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary artist who works in collaboration with the materials and
the unknow outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi and plants in the
more-than-human world. A background in science and a love of the earth result in an
interweaving of macro/micro-observations and deeply personal stories. Roberta has been
experimenting with mushroom paper for the past two years. Her goal is to provide artists with
an alternative and regenerative material that protect the forests from extractive processes. In
her practice, Roberta uses the paper to create sculptural assemblages that speak about,
life flows and entanglements. Roberta splits her time between the forests of the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn.

Zoë Cone is an artist living and working in Warwick, NY. She received a degree in Visual Arts from SUNY New Paltz in 2010. She currently works in a variety of media, most specifically, oil paint, watercolor, gouache, and graphite, exploring personal experiences, fleeting moments, and surroundings in the natural world. Her greatest inspirations are found in the intricate details and beauty of nature, and the unusual mutations of thoughts, feelings, and faces within dreams.

Lauren Hollick is a rising Artist and Art Educator who has been residing in the Hudson Valley their whole life. Lauren lives, breathes, and sleeps art and education. As an artist, they use color, texture, and multiple mediums to develop visual representations of personal observation, thought, and emotion. There is strength in an ever changing artistic practice; power in switching between mediums, learning new techniques, and continuous learning. A proud graduate of Dutchess Community College and SUNY New Paltz.

As an educator, Lauren accommodates people from all walks of life to use art making as a powerful, expressive, and personal tool. Art tells a story. Your mind is working to focus, to choose your colors, to make your next move. Your hands are in action shaping the clay, brushing on paint, or constructing. Your heart is learning how to visually communicate, how to share your personal experiences, traumas, and dreams. Lauren believes their role as an Art Educator is to encourage, inspire, and never give up on their students and implements that in their classroom every day.

Goodnight Stetz is a multi disciplinary New York based rambler and full time mixed media artist.

Ranging in style and technique the artwork of Stetz has been featured in galleries, private collections, and museums all over the globe. His artistic endeavors often break away from traditional studio works to roam the world painting large scale murals and creating fully immersive installations for all age groups to enjoy. The culmination of these practices come together in an organic rhythm of flora and fauna set in a vivid technicolor and sometimes dark ethereal landscape representing all walks of life both vertebrate and invertebrate.

When not creating or producing artworks and installations for festivals and commissioned clients, Stetz curates for a museum in Kingston, NY, co-owns a gallery space in Poughkeepsie, NY, and holds the the role of Art Director for multiple festivals, as well as managing a number of artists and artist spaces in NY, Florida, and Texas.

 Jean Brennan

As an interdisciplinary thinker, I work at the intersection between ecology, language, alchemy, and the body. Recurring themes include a fascination with atmospheric forces, plants, phenomenology, and color. Using the lyrical essay as method, I loosely assemble scientific research, historical and pop culture references with personal reflection, to explore our relationship to the natural world, interspecies dependency, and models of resiliency. I use design to publish, archive, and visually score projects that may include installation, video, sculpture and performance. I teach design at Pratt Institute. My work is represented by Melhop Gallery.