Artist Directory
BAA’s Artist Directory is comprised of Artist Members within our Berkshire community. Listings are included in annual Berkshire Art Association Artist Membership.
Jordan Stone
Born and raised in Berkshire County, my artistic practice is an intuitive exploration of color and form, born from a deep connection to the natural beauty of the Berkshires. As a self-taught acrylic fluid artist and abstract painter, I embrace the unpredictable nature of flow, allowing vibrant hues to mingle and merge on the canvas. Through the strategic use of stencils, I introduce moments of deliberate structure within the fluidity, creating a dynamic interplay between chance and intention.
Brent Ridge
Brent Ridge is a Berkshires-based artist whose work delves into themes of industrial decay, natural beauty, and human resilience. With an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and a decade of the vibrant art scenes of Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA, Ridge brings a unique perspective to his art- local, global, rustic and urban.
Michael P. Kusek
Michael Kusek is both an artist and STEAM enthusiast! Mr Kusek has been working as an engineer in Pittsfield for nearly 20 years, originally holding degrees in computer science and math. More recently, Michael decided to pursue his childhood interest and returned to college to earn a studio art degree.
Karen Khan
Karen Khan is currently working on a Reflection Series of drawings and paintings that explore expanding the thinking of Contemporary Realism. She juxtaposes every day objects abstractly into compositions.
Karen was born in Pittsburgh, PA and obtained a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown in The Goforth Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia and The Mendelshon Gallery in Pittsburgh.
Katherine Haig
Raised in the Berkshires, and inspired by local art and nature, Katherine is a self taught artist, and local community organizer.
Diane Firtell
Not a photographer….but an artist who uses a camera, almost all of Diane's work, over the years, has originated from the photograph. Making art; a mystery to some, a mandate to others. And while she clearly fall into the latter category, the why still, often times, remains a mystery. Easily bored and not terrifically skilled technologically but, she enjoys being ever engaged in the "what is there for me to do that is different” experience…not necessarily to be different from other artists, but mostly to have a new creative experience for herself. While she continues to do what she enjoys doing, it is exciting for her to know that a year from now something she currently has no conscious awareness of will become part of a fresh and new body of work.
James Badore
Jamie is a retired, visually impaired self taught watercolor artist obsessed with landscapes and botanicals. He has recently begun painting Plein Air (outdoors, on location) with a local group and on his own. He is starting a journey learning Encaustic (painting with melted wax pigments).
Kara Anton
From her earliest memories, Kara Anton was immersed in the captivating world of the arts. By five, she was mesmerized by Pablo Picasso's bold strokes and fearlessly began painting on large canvases, creating works three-times her size. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan and raised in Laguna Beach, California, Kara embarked on a lifelong love affair with creativity.
Danielle Allison
Danielle is a self-taught artist with a home business DAFoxDesigns. She went to school for Psychology and graduated from MCLA with a BA in Behavioral Analysis in 2020. She works primarily in acrylic paints on canvas and aspires to become an art therapist. Danielle's life goal is to use her art to help others reach a deeper understanding of themselves and others.
Aiden White
Aidan White was born in Princeton, NJ and moved to the Berkshires when he was 8. He has always enjoyed visiting museums -- Princeton University Art Museum, The Clark, MASS MoCA, and the Rockwell.
Shany Porras
Shany Porras's abstract paintings visually translate what one experiences through music. She started studying classical music when young, which has meant that music remains an essential part of her daily living.
Judy McNutt
Judy lives in Pittsfield, and is driven by a love of all the arts. She is an actress, singer, playwright, Director, seamstress, acrylic painter, & also does: watercolors, mixed media/collage/recycling, printmaking, photography, & jewelry making.
Nina Lipkowitz
Nina Lipkowitz was born and spent most of her adult life in New York City, where she received her degree in art history and later studied almost everything offered at the Art Students League. She has been a sculptor, a potter, a painter, and a yoga teacher.
Karen Kane
Karen Kane's art is primarily generated through a visual and tactile discussion with internal and external forces -- emotion, memory, color, nature, structure, light, language, poetry. This discussion becomes the process and the expression itself. Her paintings and drawings begin in a place -- an image, an idea, a color, a feeling -- and evolve into form and color that are derived from that origin. Her work, however, quickly transfers to activity in a spatial environment that relates primarily to itself. The energy she feels when interacting with a point of inspiration and her materials moves her to create a visual that is an improvisation of color and form, thus evolving beyond representation of visible life to a place where new relationship is created, where energy develops beyond reasoning.
Karen Kane has studied art, beginning in her post-college years, as an independent student at various institutions including UMass Amherst and Hampshire College, and with independent teachers in Massachusetts, Vermont and California.
Nicole Irene
Curious and determined Nicole’ recent work is a quest through life about life itself; bridging the visual link between microcosm and macrocosm.
Susan Himmel
Susan Himmel is a watercolorist and mixed-media painter who has been creating art in one form or another all her life. Himmel's original focus was on three-dimensional art, primarily pottery, jewelry, and wall hangings until 2006.
Richard Haskins
Drawing on the people and events of his childhood primarily, Richard’s art is a mix of memories and imagination. This era has been his primary source of inspiration and has allowed him to return to a time when things were much simpler.
Marion Grant
Marion H. Grant works out of her studio barn in Richmond, MA. There she paints a range of subjects in oil, acrylic, and mixed media with a concentration on still-life imagery. She is opening a small gallery attached to the studio in spring 2018.
Patricia Eddy
I started painting in 2017 after retirement from a career in nursing. I have had no formal training but have continued to be I tested in landscape paintings and funny animals. I work with acrylic on canvas. To date I have done over 500 paintings. I have sold some and gifted many but have had no formal exposure.

