Eileen MacAvery is a Hudson Valley multimedia artist whose work explores the intersections of memory, nature, family, spirituality, and place. Her practice is rooted in a fascination with the connections—both visible and hidden—that shape our experience of the world.

Working across painting, encaustic, mixed media, photography, video, and installation, MacAvery layers materials, imagery, and symbolism to create spaces that are both familiar and ambiguous. Her work often begins with personal experience but expands into broader questions of belonging, transformation, loss, resilience, and our relationship to the natural world. She is particularly drawn to the ways landscape, memory, and human experience overlap and transform one another.

MacAvery brings more than three decades of experience as a graphic designer and creative director to her evolving fine-art practice. She is a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a professor of graphic design at SUNY Rockland Community College. She also teaches yoga and leads movement, meditation, and sketching workshops, extending her interest in observation, presence, and the experience of place.

Her evolving perspective is shaped by a lifetime of looking, making, and experiencing the world through multiple creative disciplines. She is increasingly interested in how time and accumulated experience influence perception—what we notice, what we remember, and what remains with us. Her work continues to explore the shifting boundaries between the personal and universal, the visible and hidden, and the human and natural worlds.