Artist Directory
BAAโs Artist Directory is comprised of Artist Members within our Berkshire community. Listings are included in annual Berkshire Art Association Artist Membership.
Laura Christensen
Laura Christensen is a visual artist who paints on found vintage photographs. Her work combines past and present, photograph and painting. Many galleries and museums, including Simmons College, Kidspace at MASS MoCA, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, and M.A. Doran Gallery, exhibit her work. Recent awards include an A.R.T Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Elizabeth Cassidy
Elizabeth Cassidy is a lover of colors and movement, but she so appreciates the crispness of black & white and stillness. Whether Elizabeth paints in acrylics, or draws in ink and colored pencils, or cuts up papers, her personal success comes from drawing people into her art and her world.
Natalia Bystrianyk
Natalia is best known for her powerful use of color in deeply layered intuitive paintings which bubble up from years of life experience. Her instinct of where to go with it and when to stop is informed by her spirituality - a regular practice of mindfulness, yoga, and meditation.
Lori Bradley
The decorative arts, photography, landscapes, and plants are all integral to Lori Bradley's paintings and ceramics. She views the language of decoration as a pathway to memories, cultural habits, family, friends, and community rituals.
Kim Arre-Gerber
Kim combines her love of art and compassion for animals in her favorite medium, acrylic. Creating pet portraits in a unique and whimsical light (no one does smiling dogs better), Kim has a unique talent of capturing the essence of the pets she paints.
Mark Mellinger
In the '60s, I studied at Cooper Union Art School. I worked in commercial art, biology research and psychology. While continuing my practice of psychoanalysis in New York City, I relish my return to, and immersion in the nonverbal realm of painting, collage and construction, half the week in the Berkshires.
Ilene Spiewak
Ilene Spiewak engages colors in a fearless application of paint as if they were having an intimate conversation; the discourse is passionate. Spiewak paints in ways that embody sensitivity, vulnerability, and fragility; she makes images of objects to trace beyond a replica of her own life. When painting, whether still-life or figure, everyday things become objects for her gaze. Spiewakโs work is driven by subconscious instincts and her life- long love of paint.
Katherine Borkowski-Byrne
Katherine studied painting at the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She maintains that painting is its own language that speaks from within. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has been recognized with awards and reviews.
Susan Robinson
Susan is a graphic designer, illustrator, and fine artist living in the hills of Peru, MA. Her work is inspired by interesting things that just happen to stand out to her during a day - patterns & textures, stories, quirky people or animals, and of course, her children.
Jesse Tobin McCauley
Jesse Tobin McCauley is a painter and graphic designer working in the Berkshires. Her paintings are acrylic on canvas โ bursts of bold, bright, saturated color โ that evoke a feeling of happiness through the flood of interacting abstract color, finding the beauty in the chaos of color and shape.
Muriel Angelil
Inspired by the ebb and flow of nature, the colors of the trees, the sky and the ocean, Muriel Aneglilโs abstract art is inspired by music, poetry, and dance.

