Past Exhibits

We extend sincere gratitude to JoAnn Bonady for being the initial inspiration for this exhibit when it originally made its debut over 30 years ago! We are grateful to JoAnn and her Son, Joseph P. Bonady, for their generous support over the years.

Myers speaks of his newest collection of paintings beginning with a quote from Lui Barragán: “Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement. […] They have never ceased to be...

I paint because I need to express things about the visual world that only painting seems to satisfy. I am often inspired by the way light falls on objects both living and non-living. If I can capture on canvas a gesture or strike a mood based on a...

Trish Coonrod is a still life painter living in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. She earned a BFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in New York City. She has been exhibiting her...

Gina graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1998 with a Bachelors of Art in Graphic Design and a Bachelors of Science in Communication. In 2000, she decided to pursue her Master of Arts Education at Elmira College while also...

Becky Congdon is a professionally trained glass flamework artist. She uses a torch to melt rods of glass. Each bead/object is decorated with layers of glass, stringers, latticino, goldstone, foils, etc. She enjoys capturing these decorations in...

This Summer, I was glued to the Olympic games in Paris. While I was amazed and inspired by the world-class athletes, I also was saddened by being far removed from my athletic prime. I was a wrestler in college and ran 5Ks as a younger man, but after...

West End Gallery has represented Martin Poole for more than 45 years. He began working with Tom and Linda Gardner, founders of West End Gallery, in 1979. Poole originally went to the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he majored in Fine...

View MORE available artwork by Tracy Fiegl:I live in a rural area in Western New York State on land once owned by my Great Grandfather and his brother. One of my earliest memories is of a trip to our woods with my father on a...

Born in Upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes Region, Tom Gardner has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. He has won awards from the National Academy of the Arts, Arnot Art Museum, Roberson Museum and American Artist Magazine...

I am a painter living in the glorious Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York. In my paintings I try to capture everything about a moment in time: the light, the feeling, the sense of space, the action, the stillness. My paintings are colorful and...

My art journey began with drawing cartoons to amuse myself and my three younger brothers. We lived on a farm, and I think my love of nature first started there. Every season was a wonder to me. An ice storm was like a fairyland, the cool place...

Kathe Umlauf began sculpting as a child having had the good fortune to have been raised in an artistic climate. Her father was a Bauhaus architect from whom she learned the importance of “Form Follows Function” in nature. Her mother was a studio...

You're invited!Painting demonstration with Brian S. KeelerSaturday, May 3rd from 11am-1pm Join us and watch Brian S. Keeler create an original oil painting of the beautiful Finger Lakes region in his signature style! West End Gallery regularly...

You’re invited!Gallery Talk with Treacy ZieglerSaturday, May 10th from 11am-Noon Join us and listen to featured artist, Treacy Ziegler, speak about her most recent creations. Whether you’re an art collector, an art appreciator, a fellow artist, an...

Richell Castellón Ferreira is a Cuban-born impressionist artist based in the United States. His style is loose, improvisatory in feel, but there is a strong sense of place in each of his paintings — be it a scene from Cuba, NYC or Syracuse, New...

Amy Hutto is an acrylic fine artist living in Upstate New York. Originally from Texas, and having lived in Colorado as well, her time living and traveling in such varied places has greatly influenced Amy’s art from her unique renderings of wild and...

We extend sincere gratitude to JoAnn Bonady for being the initial inspiration for this exhibit when it originally made its debut over 30 years ago! We are grateful to JoAnn and her Son, Joseph P. Bonady, for their generous support over the years.

Born in Upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes Region, Tom Gardner has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. He has won awards from the National Academy of the Arts, Arnot Art Museum, Roberson Museum and American Artist Magazine...

West End Gallery is celebrating 45 years representing painter, Martin Poole! He began working with Tom and Linda Gardner, founders of West End Gallery, in 1979. Poole originally went to the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he majored in...

A Tribute to the lateThomas S. Buechner1926-2010Born in New York City in 1926, Thomas Scharman Buechner attended Princeton University, the The Art Students League of New York and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied old master painting techniques in Amsterdam...

We're pleased to announce this is the 30th year West End Gallery has represented Brian Hart!This Summer, I was glued to the Olympic games in Paris. While I was amazed and inspired by the world-class athletes, I also was saddened by being far removed...

I paint because painting makes me feel more alive. My paintings each tell a story, but it is not a narrative story. It is a story of how I am inspired — by nature, by light and color, by connections with people, or by looking at art or listening to...

Gina graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1998 with a Bachelors of Art in Graphic Design and a Bachelors of Science in Communication. In 2000, she decided to pursue her Master of Arts Education at Elmira College while also...

We’re pleased to announce this is the 30th year West End Gallery has represented GC Myers!I am in my 30th year with the West End Gallery. Over the past twenty plus years it has been an honor and privilege for me to have an annual solo show there....

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist's Statement My vision has evolved from capturing individual images in watercolor/acrylic to searching out and elaborating upon the common thread that ties a series of my works together....

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist’s Statement My creative journey? Because I find Journey implies a difficult movement, I prefer to think of it as a long slow creative evolution. And this has largely been on my own...

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist’s Statement Each day I observe. That’s the goal, to experience the beauty in simple, seemingly mundane moments. I use oil paint as a vehicle to figure out how the things that capture my...

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist’s Statement I remember as a child looking at the thin paper edge of the page of my copy of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I was mesmerized by how much illusion and meaning...

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist’s Statement There is much to think about during the quiet moments of reflection. This has been the primary thrust of my landscape work. The contrast of turbulent skies versus unscathed...

Summer Feature Exhibit: Celebrating the Creative JourneyArtist’s Statement My art journey began with drawing cartoons to amuse myself and my three younger brothers. We lived on a farm, and I think my love of nature first started there. Every season...

  Brian Keeler has established himself as one of the preeminent realist painters working in the Northeast today. His distinctive use of color, fine draftsmanship, attention to proportional harmony and compositional relationships have made his work...

  “My intention in creating art is irrelevant.  I like to believe that art exists in a state of ‘without why’ and ‘just because’.  Not in the sense that the art speaks for itself as this suggests that the art has to fit into the conceptual...

"I paint because I need to express things about the visual world that only painting seems to satisfy. I am often inspired by the way light falls on objects both living and non-living. If I can capture on canvas a gesture or strike a mood based on a...

Richell Castellón Ferreira is a Cuban-born impressionist artist based in the United States. His style is loose, improvisatory in feel, but there is a strong sense of place in each of his paintings — be it a scene from Cuba, NYC or Syracuse, New...

Amy Hutto is an acrylic fine artist living in Upstate New York. Originally from Texas, and having lived in Colorado as well, her time living and traveling in such varied places has greatly influenced Amy’s art from her unique renderings of wild and...

It is with heartfelt appreciation that we thank JoAnn Bonady and Son, Joseph P. Bonady for their unwavering support of the Gallery, the Artists it represents and sponsorship of the the Little Gems Exhibit for 30 years!

  "I just paint", says Tom. Unpretentious, in fact, anti-pretentious, Tom Gardner is an artist full of both feeling and thought who believes that art should be accessible to everyone without explanation. Like many artists, Tom Gardner paints...

West End Gallery has represented painter, Martin Poole, for more than 40 years. He began working with Tom and Linda Gardner, founders of West End Gallery, in 1979. Poole originally went to the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he majored...

2023 Tribute toThomas S. Buechner1926-2010Born in New York City in 1926, Thomas Scharman Buechner attended Princeton University, the Art Student’s League in New York and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied old master painting techniques in Amsterdam with...

Trish Coonrod is a still life painter living in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. She earned a BFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in New York City. She has been exhibiting her...

“This current body of work is my connection to the community around me and I hope the landscapes and florals speak to you in some way. I spend most mornings painting for usually three to four hours. Before I go to bed each night, I try to study what...

“I live in rural NY State in the USA, where I am surrounded by all I love most: a natural setting of eastern deciduous forest and wildlife, where visiting birds are a special delight. In addition to the company of wild birds, I happily keep a flock...

"I’ve been exhibiting my paintings at the West End Gallery since 1995, doing many group and solo shows. I believe this year’s solo show, Eye in the Sky, is my 22nd at the place I consider my home gallery. Like many other things that take place over...

  Brian Keeler has established himself as one of the preeminent realist painters working in the Northeast today. His distinctive use of color, fine draftsmanship, attention to proportional harmony and compositional relationships have made his work...