2024 EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Group Art Show
Rockaway Beach Surf Club | Opening Reception | Thursday Sept 5th, 2024 6pm
Cate Brown discovered her passion for still imagery at a young age, starting with her mom’s old Canon AE-1 35mm camera and continuing through her studies at Fitchburg State in Massachusetts. After earning her degree in photography and communications media, she returned to Rhode Island to reconnect with the coastal community. Cate’s fine art work blends ocean abstractions with aerial perspectives, capturing the unique beauty of places defined by both land and sea. As a lifelong sailor and surf photographer, she brings artistic vibrance to marine sports, chasing light and texture during swell events to create ethereal images of surfers and ocean play.
Her work has taken her across North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, always focusing on creative expressions of life outdoors and by the sea. Cate’s fine art reflects her coastal explorations, sailing adventures, beach walks, and winter swims in New England. She has exhibited her work from Los Angeles to Cape Cod, North Carolina, and Miami Beach, earning honorable mentions and finalist placements in numerous juried photography shows. Through her work, Cate aims to evoke the sensory experience of the ocean and foster appreciation and respect for our seas, inspiring others to find their own connection to the sea.
Cate Brown
Based in Rockaway Beach, New York, Riley embraces the Atlantic Ocean as a natural backdrop in her photography and storytelling. Shooting most often outdoors, she focuses on surf, landscape, wildlife, coastal lifestyle, travel, and water people. Whether shooting here at home or traveling to intimate European seaside communities, Riley always searches for those unique stories that have a way of connecting us all.
Currently, she’s working on a love of water photo project with the first installment paying homage to New York waves. Her work has appeared in Daughters of the Sea Magazine, Downtown Magazine NYC, Oceans Magazine Tokyo, STAB Magazine, CNN, and Kelp Journal. You can check out some of Riley’s work on the walls at Locals Collective in Rockaway and visit her website at lifeofrileynyc.com.
Maria Riley
Brooke Rosell is a surf photographer, content creator, and storyteller from the stunning and proud Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Brooke’s collection of work storytells female joy and power around the ocean, and highlights the female surf experience especially within communities on the East Coast and Central America. When the water temps drop below 50 in North Carolina, you can find her posted up in Costa Rica and other chronically warm places, creating with communities of ocean inspired women, creators, brands.
Brooke Rosell
Marta Caro is a surfer, art director and photographer from Barcelona, based in Rockaway Beach. A few years ago, a knee injury sustained while surf-skating temporarily grounded her from the waves. Frustrated yet inspired, she turned her lens towards capturing the essence of her vibrant community in Rockaway, especially her friends with whom she used to share the lineups.
What began as a creative outlet during her recovery quickly evolved into a passion project. She became immersed in documenting the spirited moments of her friends catching waves, aiming to encapsulate the beauty and energy that define her days by the sea. Her photography became a way to experience these fleeting moments in a different way, but still connecting her to the sport she most loves practicing: surfing.
Her work now focuses not only on celebrating the majestic beauty of the ocean and the experiences surrounding it but also on revealing the serenity and nostalgia that water evokes in all of us. She strives to capture the essence of those adventures and the profound connection we all share with the ocean.