Nancy Atlas

Nancy Atlas is the missing link between Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow. Original Americana Rock with a touch of Southern Comfort. She walks the line between swaggering rock chick and thread bare poet, garnering her a legion of die hard fans and in house respect.
     Atlas was born with gypsy blood... in Commack, Long Island. After a successful spell at public school she continued her education by studying art and art history abroad at Cambridge University and Richmond College in Florence Italy. Three months before graduating early, Nancy bought a guitar down on London's famous Portobello Road for sixty quid and never looked back. In the past 14 years she has produced four albums under her own label, Neptuna Records, amassed a staggering posse of fans and received over 4 million hits on her website, nancyatlas.com. Known for her raw live performances and stellar songwriting, Atlas and her band of journeymen have been able to sustain several grass root tours across the US, sell thousands of CD's and have opened for just about everyone under the sun!
     Nancy has spent every summer of her life on the East End of Long Island. It is where she calls home with her son Cashus Lee, her husband Tomas and her van Large Marge. Her Plum TV television show, East End Legends, is a tip of the hat to the real 'celebrities' of this region. Her show highlights everyday people that have a true passion for what they do. The show has gained a cult like following and been airing since 2005. Nancy's own personal flavor seems to connect to a very broad base. It is summed up best by Tim Donnelly who wrote, "Nancy Atlas is the real deal. She's as authentic as a pair of well worn Levi's or a shot of Jack with a Bud Chaser. Never mind the fact she's a great singer (Dare we say a female Bruce?) & an inspiring songwriter (there's always room on the island for one more great songwriter, right?). She was our shining beacon on the Hamptons Documentary, where she told it like it was, not the way it was portrayed to be. Nancy Atlas loves her backyard, her art and all things simple. She is no bullshit. She is a patriot." Amen.

www.nancyatlas.com - for images, music, video, and more...

Linda Capello

Linda Capello is a master of figure drawing. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she worked in the NYC fashion industry for over 20 years. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, and received the Miriam Russo Enders Award: For Works on Paper, from the National Association of Woman Artists (May 2009), for her red conte drawing, So Inclined.

"All I have ever wanted to do was draw, and all I have ever wanted to draw were people. I am a classically trained anatomist, but instead of the rigid, mechanical representation of muscle, bone and flesh, I look for the subtlety of the line; the strength and sensuality of the thick, thin and lost line. The curve of the neck and arch of the spine speak volumes."

She teaches extensively on the East End at Guild Hall, the Veterans Hall in Southampton, The Art Barge, the Southampton Cultural Center and is a member of Southampton Artists and the Artists Alliance of East Hampton.

Doug Dwyer

Back in the 50s, Doug grew up listening to Elvis and Buddy Holly, leading him to begin singing and playing guitar. By the late 60s he was recording with the bubblegum pop group Good & Plenty, for ABC Records.
     During the 70s he played up and down the East Coast from Vermont to Florida, with spring and summers spent performing in the Hamptons before a long break set in. Twenty years later an opportunity to play '60s covers' with a band called Prune Juice led Doug back into perfoming, eventually hooking up with Bruce Davenport and Bruce Dinsmore.
      With Davenport also on guitar and Dinsmore playing keyboards, The Doug Dwyer Trio now plays regularly at Regulars on North Sea Road. During July and August the band will be there Tuesday nights. They also play a variety of parties and functions throughout the summer, so keep an eye out for them or get in touch at 631-495-5653.

dwyerwir@optonline.net

Three Car Pile-up

     In between these academic respites, he lived in Japan working as an apprentice to a Japanese woodblock artist, studied Zen meditation, and was employed as a disc jockey at a Tokyo radio station under the pseudonym of “Reckless Eric, The Mad Artist of the Airwaves”. More importantly, his studies there were to later imbue his work with varied elements of Japanese and Oriental aesthetics in terms of coloration and concepts of rhythm and asymmetry in design.

Sumo Wrestler (side A)

     Structurally arranging the works to be viewed as small scale architectonic spaces, Ernst recently has begun incorporating elements of representational imagery into his constructions. These serve to create an interaction of forms, shapes, and colors that, mixed with musical and harmonic elements, conjure a more immediate narrative and strive to transcend the limits of pure geometric abstraction.

www.artistsecretsociety.com

Secret Conversations (B)

The Sound of Glass

Gerry Giliberti

Gerry Giliberti is a multimedia artist who uses photography and digital imagery to create abstract, surrealistic images that bring the viewer into a new visual world. Having pursued a classical New York Fine Arts education including photography, oil and watercolor painting, illustration, silk screening and various printmaking techniques, including archival photographic processing techniques, Giliberti laid the foundation for his unique ability to see simple images among complex textures.
     His Fine Art photography incorporates a wide variety of techniques including film and digital work, hand-colored Japanese albumin, lumen prints, and mixed media photo constructions. He has been exhibited at Guild Hall, East Hampton, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, and many other venues. A leader at the East End Photographers Group, Gerry’s commitment to the local art scene does stop with photography.
     He is also the drummer with The Surf Dogs, a local band playing Surf and Retro Rock instrumental music (The SurfDogsBand.com), and a rock group doing original and 70's rock music – the Blue Collar Band.

www.ggiliberti.com
www.thesurfdogsband.com

Jim Turner

In over 25 years as an acclaimed guitar and harmonica player, Jim Turner has shared the stage with such greats as Paul McCartney, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Dave Mason, Taj Mahal, Nell Carter and G.E. Smith, among others, both as a solo performer and with his band—The Jim Turner Band. He has also appeared in musicals, both on and off Broadway.
     Whether playing solo or with his band, Jim Turner currently appears at over 200 engagements a year, in concert halls, nightclubs, musical theaters, music festivals, private parties, weddings, colleges, schools and libraries, benefits and special events. He also plays on and produces studio recordings. He has appeared, written songs for and played on local and nationally broadcast television and radio programs and commercials.
     Jim Turner is a certified Arts-in-Education performer, who conducts workshops and concerts in public and private schools. He also plays his unique trademark children’s participatory rock concerts and parties — "Jam with Jim."

www.jimturnermusic.com

Peter Waldner

Peter Waldner began writing and drawing editorial cartoons for his local newspaper, The Shelter Island Reporter, in 1993, and later for The East Hampton Independent. Over the past ten years he has won seven awards from the New York Press Association in the Editorial Cartoon Division, including both the first and third place awards this past year.
    Since 1999 he has also had the nationally syndicated cartoon, "Flight Deck," which is distributed by Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. Flight Deck has appeared in numerous newspapers over the years, from South Carolina to San Francisco and has appearing over the past several years in The New York Daily News.
      Peter's fine artwork, oil, acrylic, colored pencil and pastel paintings, and many of his original cartoon drawings are hanging in numerous private collections as well as in Wish Rock Studio, an Art Gallery and custom framing shop he and his wife, Sandra, own on Shelter Island, N.Y.
      His artwork, along with work by fellow artists showing at Wish Rock Studio, can be viewed online at wishrockstudio.com.

www.wishrockstudio.com