Amagansett - During the month of April, the Crazy Monkey Gallery will feature the work of three artists, as well as a group show. The featured artists are Jim Hayden, Jana Hayden and Wilhelmina Howe.

Jim Hayden's Sumi abstraction. (Courtesy Photo: Crazy Monkey Gallery)

Jim Hayden is a native New Yorker. Born and raised in Rockaway Beach, he was influenced since early childhood by nature, the ocean and the changing moods and textures of the beach. His art education took him from The School of Visual Arts in New York to summer residency at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts Degrees. Jim has been a resident of Springs for 11 years. He constantly experiments with new ways of producing abstract visual images. Series of fluid, metamorphic images were created on glass, using oil-based printing inks as a medium. Making his own brushes, and using Sumi ink, he has produced large, seemingly three-dimensional drawings on paper. Recently he has embarked on a series of mixed media panels in luminous, metallic tones.

Jana Hayden was born and grew up in Prague, Czech Republic, and studied photography there, at the School of Graphic Design. Later she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She, along with her husband Jim, lives in Springs, and for the past several years has produced a variety of wall sculpture and mixed media art, using several methods of firing and glazing. In the past year, she has mainly concentrated on photography. A month-long visit to Hawaii inspired the series of photographs of colorful images the ocean, tropical fish and water reflections, some of which are exhibited at the current show.

Wilhelmina Howe grew up in East Hampton. She began focusing on painting and photography while living in Washington, DC, and is currently studying photography at Stony Brook University, where she is a psychology major with a Studio Art Minor. Her abstract paintings explore emotions and movement though color; some of her work also focuses on the human condition, the pleasure and pain we share that connects us to one another. Wilhelmina has always found peace at the local beaches and her photographs, on view at this exhibition, capture this feeling of peacefulness.

Also on display will be the art of Mark E. Zimmerman, Andrea McCafferty, Daniel Schoenheimer, Ellyn Tucker, Bob Tucker, Ruth Rogers-Altmann, Lance Corey and Len Bernard.

The exhibition will be on view from April 1 to May 1, 2011. Reception will be held on Saturday, April 2, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.