Kathryn Maher (b 1967) in Bayside, New York currently resides and works in Rockville Centre, New York. Maher attended Boston College and graduated with honors in English and a concentration in Fine Art. She attended St. John’s Law School and enjoyed a long successful career as a partner in a Bronx law firm, and ultimately left the law to pursue her love of painting when her children were grown. Maher continued her art education under the instruction of Steve Forster at the Long Island Academy of Art
(LIAFA), the Art Students League of New York as well as various master workshops in the US and Italy. She is a contemporary landscape painter best known for her large scale urban landscape oil paintings.
Maher’s work considers ordinary moments that are gritty, evocative and atmospheric and allow the viewer the freedom to experience the piece for themselves.
Maher’s Cityscape collection was showcased in the George Billis Gallery (NYC) in Spring 2024, again at the Patchogue Performing Arts Exhibition in 2025 and are the subject of a solo show in the Spring 2026 in the Christensen Gallery (Bayshore, NY)
She has studied with world renown master artists including Steve Foster, Stephen Bauman, Amy Weiskopf, Hollis Dunlap, MaryBeth McKenzie and Israel Hirshberg. She takes to the road for several high end art fairs from New York and Philadelphia to Virginia, Connecticut and Chicago. She enjoys talking about her work and process to art savvy clientele as well as newcomers to the art scene and aspiring artists of all ages. Her work has been shown in galleries in Chelsea and the Hamptons. All in all, a moveable feast.
Education/training:
2016 – present LIAFA (Long Island Academy of Fine Art), independent study with Steve Foster since 2025
2026
Composition in Portrait Drawing, Stephen Bauman, Eva Atelier (Brooklyn, NY),
Independent Study, Steve Forster, Long Island Academy of Fine Arts (Glen Cove, NY)
2025
Heavy Metal Portrait Drawing, Stephen Bauman, The Rome Workshops (Rome, Italy)
Painting from Life: A Workshop with Marybeth McKenzie
2024
Modern Baroque Portrait Painting, Hollis Dunlap, The Rome Workshops (Rome, Italy)
Mastering Structure & Color in the Portrait,
Manu Saluja, The Art Guild of Port Washington (NY)
Figures and Features Paint Along, Peggi Kroll (Blackridge Studios), Buildings in the Landscape, Claudia
Rilling (NY)
2016-23
Art Students League of New York (Amy Weskopf, Robin Smith, Max Weinberg, Ellen Eagle)
Master Plein Air Painting, Israel Hirshberg, Diana Horowitz & Yael Scalia (Civita, Italy)
Painting from Life: Alla Prima Realistic Oil Painting, Max Ginsberg (NY)
2022
Still Life Master Workshop, Amy Weiskopf & Xico Greenwald, (MonteCastello de Vibio, Italy)
Painting the Interior Landscape, Peter Van Dyck, Penn Studio School of Art (PA)
How I Paint: Interaction, Idea and Process, Patrick Lee, Penn Studio School of Art (PA)
2021
Master Series, Plein Air Watercolor Workshop, Antonio Masi (NY)
Figure Drawing and Painting, Tobias Hall, The Teaching Studios of Art (NY)
Figure Painting Townsend Atelier, Hollis Dunlap, Chattanooga (TN)
Perspective, Peter Van Dyck, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga (TN)
Watercolor, Antonio Masi, The Art Guild of Port Washington (NY)
2019
Seascapes and Winter Scenes, Lana Ballot, Art Guild of Port Washington (NY), Anatomy,
Frank Porcu, Art Guild of Port Washington (NY)
Quang Ho, Chesapeake Fine Art Studio, Stevensville, (MD)
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2026 Urban Transformation through Light & Color, Christensen Gallery, (Babylon, NY)
2025 City Lights, Patchogue PAC, Patchogue Theatre Gallery, (Patchogue, NY)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025
Detour VI, East End Arts, Afterglow, Night Moves (Riverhead, New York)
George Billis Gallery , Yellow Skirt, Bridge, with Shadows, Spring 2024 (NYC)
George Billis Gallery, Cityscape Collection (NYC)
Art Studio Hampton, Prelude to Summer (Westhampton Beach, NY)
Juried Art Fairs:
2026
Tephra Fine Art Fair (VA), Bethesda Fine Art Festival (MD)
Westport Fine Art Fair (CT), Gracie Square Fine Art Show (NYC)
Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show (PA), Armonk Outdoor Art Show (NY), Bruce Museum Fine Arts
Festival (CT), Brookdale Fine Art Show-Fall (NJ)
2025
Hempstead House Fine Art Show, Sands Point Preserve (NY), Tephra Fine Art Fair (VA), Bethesda Fine
Art Festival (MD), Westport Fine Art Fair (CT), Rehoboth Arts Festival (DE), Gracie Square Fine Art Show
(NY), Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show (PA), Armonk Outdoor Art Show (NY), Bruce Museum Fine Arts
Festival (CT), Brookdale Fine Art Show-Fall (NJ)
2024
Hempstead House Fine Art Show (NY), Old Town Art Fair (IL), Westport Fine Art Show (Westport, CT),
Brookdale Fine Art Show-Spring (NJ),Bethesda Row Outdoor Art Show (Bethesda, MD),Rittenhouse Fine
Art Show (PA),Armonk Outdoor Art Show (NY),Bruce Museum Fine Arts Festival (CT),Brookdale Fine Art
Show-Fall (NJ)
2023
Tephra ICA Fine Art Show (VA),Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show (PA),Westport Fine Art Show
(CT),Southampton Fine Art Show (NY), Easthampton Village Fine Arts Show (NY),Gracie Square Fine Art
Show (NYC), Rittenhouse Fine Art Show (PA),Armonk Outdoor Art Show (NY)
2022
Westhampton Beach Festival of the Arts (NY), Marie Fritchie Arts & Crafts Juried Show (NY), Montauk
Show on the Green (NY), Westhampton Fine Arts Show (NY)
2021
Bruce Museum Fine Arts Festival (CT), Westhampton Beach Festival of the Arts (NY), Montauk Show on
the Green (NY), Marie Fritchie Arts & Crafts Show (NY), Easthampton Village Fine Arts Show
(NY),Amagansett Fine Arts Festival, Amagansett (NY)
Awards:
2025: Best in Show, Bethesda Fine Art Festival
Best in Show, Westport Fine Art Fair
2024: Best in Show, EEA Gen Art Exhibition Man on Subway & Intersection with Crosswalk
First Place, Painting, Armonk Outdoor Art Show
2023 Award of Excellence, Painting, Westport 50th Year Fine Art Show
2022 First Place, Path in Dune, Westhampton Beach Art Show Poster Competition
Selected press:
Friedman, New York Lawyer-Turned Artist Captures Familiar Moments with a Brush,
https://rosesquared.com/new-york-lawyer-turned-artist-captures-familiar-moments-with-a-brush
(2025 August)
Panel Member, Women of Detour VI, hosted by WLIW “Heart of the East End” Radio Station Gianna
Volpe (2025)
Radio Interview, hosted by WLIW “Heart of the East End” Radio Station, Gianna Volpe (2026)
Service and Community:
2021-present: Teacher, Memoir & Creative Writing Workshop, Sandel Senior Center, Rockville Center
2022-2023: Teacher, Memoir and Storytelling Workshop, Atria Assisted Living, Huntington, NY
2026 Artwork Donation, Weekday School at Riverside Church, for the School Tuition Fund Fundraiser,
Night Moves, 24 x 24 (Limited Edition Signed and Framed Print)
2024-25 Artwork Donation, Katie Oppo Research Fund (KORF) Still Life with Eggplants (12 x 16 Oil on
Canvas) and Figure on Platform Walking 24 x 48 (Limited Edition Signed and Framed Print)
2023 Artwork Donation, Katie Oppo Research Fund (KORF) Rising (36 x 72 Oil on Canvas)
Membership:
Art Students League of New York