Our Artists

Efrat Baler-Moses is an Israeli-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans 3D sculptural paintings, reliefs, traditional painting, and Yupo paper art. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, she is a recipient of the Helena Rubinstein–American Israeli Culture Foundation award and was named one of the ten most promising artists of the 1980s. Her work has been featured in over 50 group exhibitions and 5 solo shows across the United States, Israel, and Germany.

David Brill is an emerging artist and photographer who works intuitively, trusting pattern, instinct, and feeling over formal structure. His autism sharpens his eye for the details others miss — the way light fractures across water droplets, the quiet geometry hiding in an ordinary afternoon. Though largely self-taught, he continues to develop his voice across photography and digital art with quiet persistence and genuine wonder.

Jaclyn Feldman is a self-taught conceptual artist whose work draws from the physical and emotional world — exploring sensation, desire, fear, and connection through representational, surreal, and abstract forms. Working primarily in mixed media, she has exhibited widely across Long Island and the greater New York area, including the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, the Hewlett Library, and Temple Emanuel in Long Beach. Her art invites viewers to pause, feel, and ask themselves: What is that all about?

Mitchel J. Greenspan is a retired creative professional whose career spanned miniature set design and stop-motion animation for film, executive leadership at a New York voice-over and music studio, and music production for television and radio — including a 2014 Regional Emmy for the documentary The Typist. Now returned to his first love, he brings a lifetime of visual and narrative craft to his painting. He lives in Oceanside, where he grew up, with his wife.

Michele D. Huttler is a photographer, artist, and photographic documentarian whose work explores the meaningful moments in people's lives. A graduate of Touro College with studies at NYU and the International Center of Photography, she brings over two decades of experience to her craft. Based in Long Beach, New York, her lens is guided by a lifelong dedication to storytelling.

Jacqueline Nussbaum is a Long Island-based painter whose work celebrates family, heritage, and the natural world — from intimate domestic moments to the holy sites of Israel and the vivid textures of coral reefs. A member of the Long Beach Art League and the Art Guild, she has exhibited at the Peninsula Library, Hewlett Woodmere Virtual Art Gallery, and libraries throughout the region. Her background in computer science informs a creative process grounded in curiosity, analytical thinking, and a deep love of color.

Lillian Reznicek is a Long Beach-based artist with a BFA in art who has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions and taken on a variety of commissioned projects throughout her career. Her long-standing presence in the local arts community reflects a quiet, enduring commitment to her practice.

Shelley Wapniak is a Long Beach-based independent artist and educator trained at the Art Conservatory of SUNY Purchase, with a degree in Landscape Architecture from SUNY ESF and further study at the Art Students League of Manhattan. Working in acrylic, spray paint, body paint, and pencil, her signature style blends pop culture and classic imagery with graffiti, cartoons, and playful doodles — a visual language that is both personal and culturally engaged. She is perhaps best known for her appearance on Game Show Network's Skin Wars Season 3, and is currently creating a body of Judaic-themed work.

Marilyn Weiss is a classically trained artist with a BFA from Queens College and foundational studies at Pratt Institute, and a former Art Director at Grey Advertising and News America Publishing. Her landscapes and cityscapes — painted primarily in acrylic on canvas from her own travel photography — reflect the compositional clarity of Edward Hopper, the freedom of Van Gogh, and the rich palette of Richard Mayhew. She has exhibited at the Washington Square Outdoor Arts Festival, the Long Island Museum of American Art at Stony Brook, and galleries throughout the New York area.