Fountain House provides an environment for their artist-members to express their creative visions and exhibit their work, and the gallery sells the original works throughout the world by collaborating with a wide network of artists, curators, and institutions.

 

The different pieces of art hanging in our NYC Engagement Center were made by two artists, Barry Senft and Martin Cohen:

 

Barry is a self-described “artist of many styles,” and he works in mediums from pencil and painting to sculpture and collage, favoring intense colors. His work was featured in the Fountain House Gallery two-person show Urban Faces. While Barry has a formal art education through the School of Visual Arts, the Center for the Media Arts, and Pels School of Commercial Art, this is not a requirement for Fountain House artists.

 

 

Martin incorporates mixed media in his art, including photographic cutouts and found objects in his abstract expressionist oil paintings and paper pieces. He received a BFA from SUNY Purchase and a MFA from Carnegie Mellon, and has had a number of solo art shows in his career. Martin was a winner of the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Award in 2012, which provides grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities.