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Jean Allemier earned a BFA degree in Studio Art, with a minor in Art History.
"My artwork is a personal interpretation of my surroundings, and my paintings reflect the connection that I have with the natural world. The creation of a work of art for me involves a balance; how to simplify the visual information before me…what to leave in or out, as I strive to capture the essence of my experience.”
Jill Barthtorpe graduated from the Slade School of Art in London. "For me the excitement of painting is trying to capture the 'likeness' of things without slavish description. Paradoxically, I find the most interesting way to carve out this reality is to use objects of an ephemeral nature: trees, clouds, flowers; their constant movement and the passage of the light during the day forces me to make decisions about their essential character and to attempt to draw that, rather than rely on an impression based on the moment. "
Daniel Ambrosi is recognized as one of the founding creators of the emerging AI art movement and is noted for the nuanced balance he achieves in human-AI hybrid art. Based in Park City, Utah, Ambrosi has been exploring novel methods of visual presentation for over 40 years since entering the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a Masters in 3D Graphics.
After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 22, 1980 with a B.S. degree in Art, Gail Bach received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in August 21, 1982 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. In September 1988, she was accepted into the yearlong studio program at the Whitney Independent Study Program affiliated with the Whitney Museum in New York City which she completed in May 1989.
Karine Bartoli graduated at the National School of Fine Arts in Marseille. Since then, he has dedicated himself to practicing his art of painting. Karine Bartoli's works are figurative and are now challenged by new media imagery, which can produce instantly seductive visual results. His subjects are primarily beaches and scenes from everyday life. Most of Bartoli's paintings are inspired by the Southern Lights, Corsica, where the artist lived, and by the interaction between the subjects and their surroundings.
A native New Yorker, Frederick Brosen graduated at the City College of New York. He also studied art at the Art Students League and at Pratt Institute, receiving his MFA from Pratt in 1979.
Having spent an entire career painting New York City, Frederick Brosen is intimately aware of a city’s romance. The drama of his hometown’s skyline and the allure of its back alleys have long been celebrated in Brosen’s masterful paintings.
Julie Bowers Murphy has a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"As an artist I feel compelled to tell a satirical story of modern times: where lying is normalized, art is held hostage, the greedy get greedier, hatred and division is at its worst: all factors combined forcing many to dig deeper into their vices as coping mechanisms. It poses the question: Will we be forgiven for our sins?."
Tracy Burtz received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Boston University School for the Arts, and her Master of Fine Arts Degree from City University of New York, Queens College.
Tracy Burtz is an artist whose paintings of women explore intimate moments of everyday life and the emotions those moments evoke. They project a variety of patterns and moods in often subtle but radiant palettes. The paintings reflect the harmony and tension created by the interplay of images on the flat surface.
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
Nancylee Cidoni received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
While it is common for an artist to specialize in one particular genre, Nancy Lee Cidoni is drawn to many. Nancylee Cidoni takes a completely organic approach to her artwork, making sure she incorporate the various elements of nature, feelings and emotions while continually striving to express her lived experiences into her work.
Carolina Crespo artistic journey is driven not merely by a passion, but by a profound necessity. For her, painting is a conduit through which she explores the intricacies of human emotion and perception. While her admiration for figurative painting and impressionism is evident, Carolina Crespo recognizes the need to delve into the realm of abstraction. It is within the abstract that she finds a canvas for her emotions and visions, offering viewers a gateway to uncharted territories of the mind.
Denise Dalzell has a Bachelor of Arts from California State University.
"My current work centers on my consideration of the relationships that develop between us and around us; how our common experiences affect us collectively and influence us individually. What causes us to become lost and find out way together, how we ultimately all live with each other inspires me, and my images are inspired by these encounters".
Anne Delaney has a MFA from Hunter College ofNew York and a BFA from University of Michigan.
The artist’s work invites us to see the world coming into being in unique visions balancing representation and abstraction, observation and interpretation. Through an eager pursuit of the seen, trees become vertical bands of color evoking sequences of time, and rocks shift to anchor entire landscapes.
Brad Davis is a painter from Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His paintings are typically centered around the urban environment and seek to transform its banality through careful and personal reconstruction.
Olivier Desvaux studied in Paris at the Estienne school, in the field of applied arts and then orient himself at the National School of Decorative Arts from which he graduated.
“A fascination with nature and light naturally led me to plein air painting. Painting is a living experience for me. I need this intimate exchange with my subject to represent it and convey my feelings with sincerity. My contemplative and optimistic approach to the world aims to share a certain poetry of light.”
“A fascination with nature and light naturally led me to plein air painting. Painting is a living experience for me. I need this intimate exchange with my subject to represent it and convey my feelings with sincerity. My contemplative and optimistic approach to the world aims to share a certain poetry of light.”
Angela Edwards is a contemporary painter who graduated with a first class (hons) degree in fine art.
Angela creates work in a response to the digital way we remotely view the world. Working somewhere between the figurative and abstract she can draw inspiration from many sources including film, news stories and video. Her work has been likened to a digitally inspired contemporary impressionism.
Erno Enkeberg is Helsinki based visual artist working with paintings and installations.
His studies comes from the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, MFA, Wimbledon School of Art, BA (Hons) and the Free Art School.
Erno Enkenberg builds models, that he uses as a starting point for his paintings. These models are either scale models, made out of paper or digital models built with Blender 3D software. He sees the models as a miniature film sets or scenes from video games.
Elena Foster has a BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
The dream-like characters and scenes in Helena Foster paintings vary from daily life to verging on the mystical. They are concerned with psychological or spiritual states, and subjects’ agency in those circumstances. These heightened feelings are compounded by Helena Foster rich use of colour and layering of paint, which often results in figures becoming framed by, yet sometimes indistinguishable from, their surroundings.
Barbara Friedman holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Consistently interested in memory, Barbara Friedman uses the act of creating as re-actualization of a moment, a way to hold onto a memory before it slips away. These “memory moments” are an opportunity to revisit spaces and places now gone, a viscerally connective way to hold onto a memory. She likens it to that thing you see out of the corner of your eye while driving.
Tim Goffe gained his BA Hons in Fine Art at Brighton and Photography at the PCL. Tim Goffe’s work captures an urban realism that is both intimate and expansive. His use of light adds a warm or moody glow, imbuing seemingly mundane scenes with unexpected beauty. Goffe’s compositions are subtle yet powerful, creating an almost cinematic atmosphere. His scenes are devoid of people, which heightens the feeling of solitude and timelessness, almost as if the viewer has stumbled upon a hidden or forgotten place.
Henry Finkelstein received a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA from Yale School of Art. His father, Louis Finkelstein, was an American painter, art critic and professor who taught at Queens College, City University of New York.
His extravagant brushwork delivers, energetically, the effect of the frittering of clouds in a wide sky, the craggy tower of a tree trunk, and the scruffy edges of the late afternoon shadows on grass. - John Goodrich
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lindsey Hambleton educated at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester, where she studied art and environmental science, Hambleton realised during her studies that her true passion lay in full-time creative work. However, her love for the environment and the scientific details of zoology and ecology continue to inform and inspire her paintings.
Bill Heard studied at Ball State University, Bachelor of Science - Art, Muncie, IN
His focus on current trends has always influenced his painting themes and photography and film images continue to serve as inspiration for his work. An early-adopter of technology, he began using the computer to help establish ideas for his paintings.
Jaume Coll has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Sant Jordi in Barcelona. He has been a professor at the Jaume Balmes Institute in Barcelona and technical director at Montserrat Contemporary Art in New York. His work strives to represent moments within the timeline, which the artist wants to save, because he thinks that some of these images and moments have a special and aesthetic charm, to which he gives value.
"Art is soul, and soul has no gender." - Jaume
"Art is soul, and soul has no gender." - Jaume
Andrew McNeile Jones graduated from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art.
McNeile Jones’ paintings usually reflect a cool, almost melancholy atmosphere. His work aims to capture a certain atmosphere in a moment of light and shadow and reflection. Sometimes he hints at an off-stage narrative. The subject matter of his work ranges from domestic interiors glimpsed through doorways and shutter and still lives, lit by raking sunlight, to occasional exteriors caught in the first or last light.
James Moore studied a Fine Art degree at Manchester School of Art and a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in London. James Moore's paintings are fundamentally inspired by landscapes. Dramatic skies, open spaces and distant horizons are painted in a subtle way that plays with beauty of the genre. James Moore works repeatedly pick up on cues from artificial environments, such as the landscape from a video game, a film backdrop or a theme park, and these starting points are used to launch into a meticulously constructed painting.
Helene K. Manzo has a Master of Fine Arts in Painting, and a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts, Syracuse University. Helene has a deep fascination with water, a recurring theme in her artwork over the years. Manzo sees water as a powerful life force that is ever changing yet constant. She captures its movement, reflections of light, and colors as a counterpoint to the still forest around it.
Tony Lombardo earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts.
“As a realistic painter, I am drawn to the traditional, classic poses and scenes, but I wanted to insert some kind of personality,” said Tony Lombardo.
“I grew up with video games in the ‘80s with early graphics that were colorful, bright, and fun,” said Tony Lombardo.
Marco Manzella has a degree in Fine Arts.
"My work is a journey among different materials inspired by of the old Italian painting, mainly using powdered pigments and the tempera technique. By painting I need to “tell”, as well as to look for a narrative dimension, the hint of a little tale that starts with my image. To do that I built a kind of small theatre, something deliberately artificial: I can say my figures are not representing, they are “acting”.
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle
Alain Pontecorvo after studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he attended the Éscole Estienne. A fine eye and a desire to extend the look towards a priori ordinary subjects make Alain Pontecorvo an artist in its own right. Its still lifes, its portraits, its urban landscapes or its interiors are all recurring subjects but explored in a thousand and one ways.
Gage Opdenbrouw earned an arts degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco.
Gage Opdenbrouw is a painter whose works bridge representation and abstraction. He aims to distill his imagery to a point of powerful emotional resonance while maintaining a deep sense of mystery, allowing the viewer's experience to be an important part of completing the picture.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
Ramon Moscardó has a degree in Fine Atrs at Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, Barcelona.
Ramon Moscardó does friendly paintings with a strong regional flavour of traditional exteriors, cafés and bars in Barcelona, Cadaqués and so on. He also does shop interiors with characters, cats and violins. Nostalgia is often found in these spaces and in their still lives. His barely defined, yet virtuous and brave drawing makes the painting something magic.
Ramon Moscardó does friendly paintings with a strong regional flavour of traditional exteriors, cafés and bars in Barcelona, Cadaqués and so on. He also does shop interiors with characters, cats and violins. Nostalgia is often found in these spaces and in their still lives. His barely defined, yet virtuous and brave drawing makes the painting something magic.
Mary Salstroms has a MFA from Brooklyn College, NY and a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Mary Salstrom’s landscape paintings and oil pastels are of her native northern Illinois and of southern Sweden, the home of her ancestors. Essence of place and human presence is found through compositions that juxtapose man-made structures with nature. Contrast of vivid hues, values and intensities shape space and quality of light in the open air.
Tim Saternow received his BFA, State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase, Purchase, NY and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Yale University.
Tim Saternow is an American painter whose watercolor paintings explore the lost and forgotten areas on the edges of the urban scene. His work encompasses the old High Line train trestle above the gritty industrial streets of New York City, the empty homesteads of Joshua Tree, California, and the dignified and genial old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.
Doug Safranek received a M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
New York: America’s great metropolis. Its architectural bones are enormous; its pace of life so fast that the human panorama goes by in a blur. But for artist Doug Safranek, New York is a city of details; human, structural, neighborhood, intimate.
Hiroshi Sato holds a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Art from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. Hiroshi Sato implements a kind of fan fiction based on past paintings, using art historical references to create his own compositions. He includes paintings and objects in the scene to allude to a set pictorial narrative.
"I always start my paintings with watercolour on paper, looking forward to the challenge of the watercolour medium and the opportunity to experiment.
I use different kinds of papers and my experimenting often results in a mixed media/ collage piece.
I try to produce energetic, visually stimulating and accessible work. In general, subject matter interests me in that it offers visual problems to be resolved."
Kate Sherman completed a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art at Birmingham University. “Quite often I paint things that remind me of something else; a memory, a feeling, a scene - real or imagined. The initial pull of a subject isn’t always clear, sometimes I work it out along the way, other times not. But always the subject or idea will have resonated first in an emotional way, and this is the starting point, with the formal and visual coming along close behind. "
Chris Temple attended Ontario College of Art graduating with honours from the Department of Fine Art. Temple’s work captures precise architectural details while evoking, through light and colour, the psychological impact of being in a given space. He examines structures that vie for attention in the urban landscape, and later paints them with lyric realism. The artist’s medium is well suited to his artistic vision. Over weeks, Temple often reworks the slow-drying oil paints. In this way, his paintings seem to grow much like the cities and structures they depict.
Susan Sussman received a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a Master’s in Film from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Painting from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, where she studied with Graham Nickson. Her paintings are in private collections including The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection. Sussman lives in New York City and Dubois, Wyoming.
Barbara C. Tracy obtained her undergraduate and master degree in Art Education from Kutztown University. Barbara C. Tracey work reflects her enduring fascination with the sensuousness of nature. She strives to engage the viewer in a moment in time which she endeavors to capture through paint. Acrylic and watercolor as well as oil are her mediums of choice and though she considers herself primarily a landscape painter she has also used wildlife and florals to communicate her message of fleeting time and the impermanence of nature.
Ken "Tsunami" Shep transcendent creations have captured the attention of cultural luminaries including Kanye West, Cardi B, Rick Ross, and Dawn Richards. Blending elements of pop culture with fine art, his work seamlessly transcends the boundaries of commercialism, adorning album covers, music videos, and cinematic productions. Noteworthy collaborations with industry leaders such as Disguise Systems for Disney’s Mandalorian.
Pamela Tucker studied at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, BA in Art History.
"My final painting represents what was in front of me, but it has been transformed through my imagination, my process, and the alchemy of combining canvas and pigment."
Described as a “dynamic and visionary painter” by art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, Ana Tzarev’s works engage viewers with their intricate textural surfaces and vibrant colours. Her “sculpted” paint surfaces rise off of large canvases and into the viewer’s space, involving them in Tzarev’s distinctive visual language.
Licenciado en Bellas Artes y en Psicología, Terapeuta Gestalt y Terapeuta Humanista Integrativo, este artista elige la fotografía como su medio privilegiado de investigación, explorando sus límites como lenguaje, y haciéndolo dialogar con la pintura, el vídeo, la performance, la palabra o la instalación.
Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Painter and muralist, Miquel Wert approaches everyday life’s theatrical nature and questions the representation of the collective subconscious with fascinating evocative illustrations that reconstruct a recent past that seems to fade away from memory.
Christopher Witchall studied Fine Art painting at York School of Art
Christopher Witchall’s paintings are a celebration of the beauty and power of the natural world in stunning realism. He considers nature to have never been a more important and appropriate subject for art as it is today. His main preoccupations are landscape, particularly forest and undergrowth, and the colours and movement of the sea – a movement frozen in time between an ancient past and an endless future.
Dennis Wojtkiewicz, a graduate of Southern Illinois University, is an artist recognized for his hyperrealistic style, particularly famous for his large-scale paintings of sliced fruit and flowers, which he meticulously creates using traditional oil paints and brushes with a classical application, alongside pastels for his drawings.
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo
Liyu Wu graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts in 1990, obtained her master's degree from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University in 2004, and completed her Ph.D. in Art Creation and Theory Research.
Liyu Wu paintings are about the new modern Taiwanese women living in their rapidly changing world that embodies a new pace both fast and exciting.