Artodyssey

Camargo Valentino

2012-02-02T11:14:00.006Z

Born, 1980 Houston, TX

Camargo Valentino was born and raised in Houston, Texas. As the youngest of three siblings (the only male) he spent a lot of alone time drawing pictures of his toys and other items from his imagination learning the quiet patience that he would revisit later on in his adulthood.

At the impressionable age of nineteen, while serving in the US Army, Camargo had an epiphany and realized that he was no longer interested in a life of military. He soon opted out to seriously pursue a life in the arts. After returning from the brief stint in the military he immediately enrolled at the Art Institute of Houston where he studied animation. His love for images grew and he eventually moved onto painting where he found his passion. His journey into the ancient craft of painting took him to Mexico where he took several art classes concentrating on the basics, sculpture, painting, figure drawing and studies of landscapes - all central to a sturdy foundation of any serious artist.

Upon returning to the United States he continued his studies attending several workshops focused on classical techniques of renaissance painting. It was at one of these workshops that he met and befriended iconic painter Odd Nerdrum who invited Camargo for a more in-depth study of the craft of painting at his studios in Iceland and Norway. Under the tutelage of Odd Nerdum, the young artist’s technique evolved vastly. After several months of intensive study under this contemporary master of painting Camargo returned home to hone his craft and discover his unique identity as an artist.

His style is a mash up of classical painting with Pop culture iconography. His mash ups often borrow the essential parts of iconic personalities, celebrities, myths and Latino imagery.
Camargo states, "I paint what I am most attracted to; icons, comics, movies, history, art, sports figures, hip hop, my heritage and world myths. So my paintings are a combination of all these things rolled into one with a splash of myself.”

His reverence for techniques of the old master use of the figure is apparent in his depiction of the human form which he uses to tell his stories through his paintings. Often his paintings can take from 40 hours to close to 200 hours each to create. The biggest influences on his art have been Diego Velasquez, Odd Nerdrum, Norman Rockwell, and contemporaries John Currin, Kris Lewis and Aron Wiesenfeld.

"When someone sees my work I want them to appreciate both the story and the technique. I hope they enjoy seeing it, as much as I enjoyed creating it".

Carlos Cortés - Chuchumuru

2012-02-01T21:52:00.005Z

México

premios y ditinciones
Premios y Distinciones:

Seleccionado en el Salón de Octubre 1998
Primer Lugar en el IV encuentro de arte Joven Jalisco 1999
Primer Lugar. Categoria Pintores Avanzados . VI Premio de Pintura José Atanasio Monroy 2004
Mencion de Honor en el Salon de Octubre 2007

Carlos Cortés 1977

CURRICULUM
Egresado de la Escuela de artes Plásticas del Instituto Cultural Cabañas (1995-1999), y Egresado de los Talleres de Animación Clásica , Apreciación Cinematográfica y Guión Cinematográfico en el Centro de Arte Audiovisual.

Premios y Distinciones:

Seleccionado en el Salón de Octubre 1998
Primer Lugar en el IV encuentro de arte Joven Jalisco 1999
Primer Lugar. Categoria Pintores Avanzados . VI Premio de Pintura José Atanasio Monroy 2004
Mencion de Honor en el Salon de Octubre 2007

Publicaciones:

Revista la Vértebra
Portada del poemario ¨Todo es Babel¨ de Hugo Plascencia
lustración de cuentos en ´Cronicas de Hospital´ de Rafael Medina
Portada del cuento ¨La lejania¨ de Eugenio Partida

Lisa Falkenstern

2012-02-01T21:38:00.003Z

Lisa Falkenstern has been a professional illustrator for more than twenty years. She graduated from Parsons School of Design and has studied at the New York Academy, School of Visual Arts, Art Student's League, National Academy School of Fine Arts and Cooper Union.

Her client list includes: Borders Group, Simon and Schuster, Random House, Putnam, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Pocket Books, Scholastic, Marshall Cavendish and Golden Books. She has been in numerous shows including, the Society of Illustrators Annual, CA Annual, and Print. She was in the show The Fine Art of Illustration at the Hunterdon Art Museum.

Recently Lisa has been chosen to be in the Showcase’s 200 Best Illustrators 2007 edition.

She is a member of the Society of Illustrators and is in their permanent collection. She is a Gold Medal winner of the Society's Member Show.
She has had shows in the Metropolitan area. Besides her illustrations she also does portraits.

Lisa generally works in oils, but also in egg tempera, acrylic, and digital.

Christoph Schmidberger

2012-02-01T15:49:00.008Z

Christoph Schmidberger

1974
Born in Austria
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION:

1989 -1994 Higher Technical College of Graphic Art, Graz , Austria
1994 -1998 Akademy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria, MFA in Painting

Christoph Schmidberger (b.1974, Eisenerz, Austria) is a painter based in Los Angeles. He studied from 1989-1994 at the Higher Technical College of Graphic Art in Graz, Austria, and graduated with an Honours and Master of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2002.

His works, drawn or painted in a hyperreal style, typically use traditional compositional forms (woodland scenes, reclining lovers, portraits with pets, etc.) to portray youthful eroticised figures relaxing in modern suburban settings. ("Christoph Schmidberger paints a kitschy dream of pre-Raphaelite surrender, revelling in pornography's influence on today's sexual economy").

Schmidberger’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art in California, the Landesmuseum Joanneum (Joanneum National Museum) in Graz, Austria, and the Royal Academy in London. His work features in several important collections including the Saatchi Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Joslyn Museum of Art, and Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Huang Guofu

2012-02-01T14:35:00.003Z

Huang Guofu, is a 42 year old disabled genie in art. lost his arms in dreadful electric shock accident, at the tender age of four, but that didn’t stop him from following his dreams, and at age 12 he began painting with his feet. The gifted artist remembers that in the start, his artworks didn’t look at all like what he future to paint, but as the years went by his skills improved significantly

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Wendy Ng

2012-02-01T14:08:00.007Z

Wendy Ng was born in Hong Kong, Educated in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Art has always been at the heart of all Wendy’s career decisions.Trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.

Leigh Kitching

2012-02-01T13:48:00.008Z

Christopher Harrison

2012-02-01T13:37:00.003Z

Christopher John Harrison.
(1935 - )

(Specialist Painter of Trompe l'Oeil)

Christopher is firmly dedicated to combining the effects of illusion, mystery, artistry and technical brilliance to the optimum. He has always maintained a parallel passion for music and embarked on a career as a professional musician on leaving public school. However, love and fascination of his father's (the famous artist Frederick Clifford Harrison) pulled him further into the enigmatic and intriguing world of art and illusion.

Valuable experience as a carpenter, coupled with the study of pottery and musical instruments, has enabled him to portray on canvas the skills of the craftsman. He trained initially with his father, followed by four years intensive study at London's leading commercial studio where he mastered the techniques of all mediums. After a further eight years in the commercial environment and study with his father, he finally achieved the highest standard possible to complete his first Trompe l'Oeil.

Christopher Harrison is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition with eleven paintings hung since 1974. Four paintings have been reproduced in the Academy illustrated catalogue and he is also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Society of British Artists.

His work is constantly in demand having been commissioned by collectors worldwide, including most of Europe, Scandinavia, Austria, South America, Saudi Arabia and the USA. His latest and most ambitious commission is for the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Juan Palomo Reina

2012-02-01T12:52:00.006Z

Juan Palomo Reina continúa la tradición pictórica de los paisajistas de Alcalá. En la estela de los Sánchez Perrier y compañía, Palomo ha ilustrado revistas, ha realizado carteles, ha abordado detalles y totales y paisajes, pinturas y métricas. Una pintura en verso que se traduce en un bodegón donde la mujer es una parte tan importante como el todo. Un rincón donde no habita el olvido, donde geranios, paleta de pintor y retrato de mujer hacen un hermoso canto a la poética de lo cotidiano.

the site - www.galeriasokoa.com/artistas/reina/INDEX.html - doesn't exist anymore

Patrick Maisano

2012-02-01T11:55:00.006Z

"I paint in an attempt to create a beautiful object; an object that resonates with some quality of soul or magic. The scribe is aware that the subject of his record is sacred and therefore he labors willfully to infuse his work with beauty. I share this same willfulness in creating a painting."

The enchanting imagery found in Patrick Maisano's paintings tells a universal story in the timeless language of myth. This is art that elicits a response from our most basic level; pure,instinctual, spiritually primal. Mythical beings, mystical beasts, and religious iconography combine to create magicalcompositions that are joyful, haunting, metaphysical, and verybeautiful. His work is transcendental and immediate, masculineand feminine, testimonial and celebratory.

" The imagery speaks to the mystery of our existence, it does not provide answers, rather it testifies to the presence of themystery." Maisano believes that CarlJung's idea of acollective unconscious, "the part of the psyche that retains and transmits the common psychological inheritance of mankind" is useful in explaining the archetypal imagery contained in his work.

Regarding his creative process Maisano states, "My paintings begin without a preconceived subject. Paint is applied to the canvas in a manner which establishes variations in values; within these light and dark patterns, forms are suggested. Once
a form is accepted, it is then deliberately developed into the imagery of the painting."

Born April, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut, Maisano graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1986. He was about to enter graduate studies in pursuit of a fine art teaching credential when a compelling force drew him in a different direction. Maisano spent a year contemplating a religious vocation at a Franciscan Community in New York City.
During this period of deliberation over a religious life, a reading of Otto Rank's Art and Artist resonated with personal truth and Maisano decided that his intended path was that of an artist imagery of the painting." rather than a priest. In 1992, Maisano left New York for California where he constructed a reclusive lifestyle devoted solely to his art. Since 1992 Patrick Maisano has shown his work annually, and his paintings have been placed in distinguished American collections.

To clarify esthetic theory, Joseph Campbell looks to James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce distinguishes "proper art" as that which truly belongs to Art, and affirms Aquinas' statement that the esthetic object renders three moments. Translated from Latin the moments are, "Wholeness", "Harmony", and "Radiance." Perhaps these are the qualities that best define the Art of Patrick Maisano.

Patrick Creyghton

2012-02-01T11:04:00.004Z

Creyghton Patrick was born in 1934 in Nijmegen
Studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie.
Creyghton's paintings focuses on landscapes, oil paint and occasional, still life of flowers, full of details, each petal carefully applied, usually with delicate colors.

Reinhardt Sobye

2012-02-01T10:06:00.006Z

Photographs manipulated with charcoal and pastel

"In many cultures around the world, domestic abuse is rarely spoken of, let alone written about. But, for Norwegian artist Reinhardt Sobye, it has become the subject of his art recently"

"Whoever views the work of the contemporary Norwegian painter Reinhardt Sobye must be prepared to feel uncomfortable. Perfectly ordinary portraits though they seem at first sight, they show no trace of idealization. The expressions of their subjects, rather, exude a sense of suffering, loneliness, and resignation; even their seemingly mild gaze harbors a troubling light that transfixes the viewer.
Born in Oslo in 1956, the artist has held annual one-man exhibitions in Japan for the pas t five years. The present exhibition is a retrospective placing on show 57 works painted between 1992 and last year. The gloomy, unsettling images may recall the painter's compatriot Munch, but lack the burning sense of life peculiar to the latter. The gaze that Sobye turns on humanity is dryly dispassionate."

"...Reinhardt Sobye has found a way to peel back the innocence of childhood and reveal the deepest of emotions,ones we all have felt in one way or another in our young lives, feelings of loneliness, loss and despair."

"n the series of new works, Søbye paints the devastation creeping into poetic landscapes. There is restlessness in the bottom of the space, which lets you foresee that something strange may happen. Children are there unguarded. Where do the lights lead us? The pictures are full of strange lights. It is different from the light shining into the picture. It seems that the picture is a luminant itself. He also portrays more cruel devastation caused by human beings. Søbye focuses on the future of humanity. He cares about others and neighbours. He used to paint in gouache or draw with crayons. Recently he processes various parts of the pictures with a computer, adds images by hand and creates more flexible images. "

"In both style and subject matter Reinhardt Sobye is, it seems to me, far removed from contemporary taste.
The mainstreams of painting today lie in the abstract, the fanciful and the expressionistic. Sobye, on the other hand, sticks firmly to traditional realism, The contemporary art world, moreover, is interested primarily in embodying concepts that nobody ever thought of embodying before, whereas almost all Sobye's work falls within the field of portrait painting, which has has been around for centuries already."

Michael Gallarda

2012-01-31T18:24:00.004Z

Michael Gallarda (b. 1953), American, is a Hispanic native of California now living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Gallarda, a self-taught painter in oils, is one of America’s leading contemporary trompe l’oeil artists. His work has elevated this ancient genre to a thoroughly modern aesthetic through his realism, his adherence to traditional trompe l’oeil principles, and his signature use of portraits of women of haunting beauty.
Gallarda’s paintings, although cutting edge in imagery and ideas, are solidly grounded within the traditional field of easel trompe l’oeil. To him, every image in the painting must fool the viewer’s mind or else – “it’s just a still life.” This strict commitment to the traditional requirements of the genre, combined with his skill, is what renders a Gallarda trompe l’oeil painting truly convincing.
He also firmly believes that there must be something more to a trompe painting than just the ‘trick.’ His paintings, especially those that incorporate dramatic portraits of beautiful women, present as complete works of art long after their illusions are understood.
A highly awarded artist, Gallarda exhibits in prestigious galleries in England, Mexico and the United States. His work is featured in art museums and collections from Hollywood, California to the Royal House of Saudi Arabia with many countries in between. He can truly be described as an internationally collected artist.
From 2005 to 2007, Gallarda’s work was featured in the Smith Kramer Traveling Exhibition, ‘The Art of Illusion,’ which exhibited in seventeen art museums across the United States. In the Spring 2008 edition of the Collector’s Sourcebook, Art & Antiques Magazine anointed Gallarda as the ‘Master Trickster.’
Meyer Gallery is delighted to have represented the masterful paintings of Michael Gallarda since 1995.

Fiona Vermeeren

2012-01-31T17:08:00.005Z

"I’m a artist, illustrator and muralist working in Melbourne, Australia ..."

Fiona Vermeeren

Jennifer Croom

2012-01-31T16:49:00.004Z

Melbourne artist Jennifer Croom studied tonal painting under Lance Mc Niell and portraiture with Barbara August.

For several years Jennifer successfully painted impressionist landscapes in oil and pastel,winning awards in local and interstate exhibitions.During this time she was a demonstrating artist at Toorak College 'Art Week' in 1995 and 1996, taught a children's class at the McLelland Studio and currently teaches 'painting as therapy' to aged members of the community. Jennifer has also written articles for 'The Australian Artist's Magazine','Antiques and Art' and the Mornington Peninsula Visitors Guide. She is a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Mclelland Guild of Artists.

In 2005 Jennifer changed her tradditional style of painting in search of a more individual way of expression. She experimented with abstract and modern approaches and is now enjoying the exploration of modern figurative works blending a traditional approach with a contemporary twist.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

'To paint using imagination, jewel-like colour, symbolism and the wonder that is the human face is a joy for me. I like to combine skills I learned during years of more realistic painting, with the excitement of going beyond what reality allows. Bold design, glorious colour and engagement with an idea beyond the visual, are what drive my work. At present I'm exploring added elements such as rocking horses, birds, or dolls, items loaded with memories and meaning, to add another dimension to the figures in my work.'

Exhibitions & Awards
2011 Derinya Art Show Highly Commended
2010 Dromana Art Show Highly Commended
2009 McClelland Guild Biennial Exhibition
Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Prize
2009 McClelland Guild Biennial Exhibition
Best Modern/Contemporary
2008 St Kevin’s College Toorak Best Modern Painting
2006 Dromana Rotary Exhibition Best Oil or Acrylic
2006 St Francis Xavier Exhibition Best Work under $1000
2006 Rotary Club of Altona Exhibition
Kiema Press Acquisitive
2003 Sherbrooke Art Society Streeton Award
2003 Frankston High School Best Local Scene
2002 MSWPS Lesley Sinclair Memorial Landscape Prize
Highly Commended
2002 MSWPS Annie Davison Oliver Award
Highly Commended
2001 OLSH Exhibition Best Landscape under $500
2000 OLSH Exhibition Best Pastel
2000 St Christopher’s Art Exhibition Best Oil
1996 Royal Canberra Show Art Exhibition 3rd Prize
1996 Royal Canberra Show Art Exhibition 3rd Prize
1996 Royal Canberra Show Art Exhibition 1st Prize
1995 St Leonard’s College 9X5 Exhibition Best Work
1995 McClelland Guild Best Oil
1994 McClelland Guild Best Oil

1992 McClelland Guild

Jo-Ann Hunt

2012-01-31T16:33:00.004Z

A unique and personal vision drawn from her imagination and emotive responses to a subject.Jo-Ann works in different formats,concepts and media,frequently returning to a series as her ideas progress and evolve.

Prominent in Jo-Ann's art is joyful,confident use of colour combined with the unique graphic underpinnings of a competent and verasitile illustrator

Justin Balliet

2012-01-30T21:22:00.003Z

Justin Balliet is a realist artist based out of Northeast Pennsylvania and a former apprentice of The Waichulis Studio. Balliet seeks to push his realism as far as possible, resulting in some of the most technically proficient work available today.

Awards:
Semi-Finalist The Art Renewal Center Salon competition 2008-2009
First Place in The Art Renewal Center Scholarship Competition 2008
Sophia J. Byorek Award- The Hazleton Art Leaugue's 50th Juried Regional Art Exhibition 2008
Finalist in Portrait/Figure The Artist's Magazine 25th annual competition year 2008
Finalist in Still Life The Artist's Magazine 24th annual competition year 2007
The Hazelton Art League Award- The Hazleton Art League's 48th Juried Regional Art Exhibition 2006

Education:
The Waichulis Studio 2004-2010
Luzerne County Community College 2001-2004

Helen Crispino

2012-01-30T20:53:00.005Z

Helen Crispino has spent the last several years establishing her reputation as a truly gifted contemporary fine artist. Hailing from Dalton, Helen received her primary education in the arts within Northeastern Pennsylvania including a Liberal Arts degree from Keystone College in Laplume and a degree in Painting and Illustration from Luzerne County Community College. Helen completed her training under the guidance of nationally renown realist Anthony Waichulis at The Waichulis Studio.

Helen continues to exhibit nationally and her work is sought after by many knowledgeable collectors. Across the country Helen's work has continued to garner attention and accolades. While she continues to appear in most major art publication regularly, Helen's work recently touched upon international publication with her top honors in the U.K. Wildscape's Wildlife Painter of the Year competition.

Helen's work reflects her passion for animals and her love of nature. She is known to be extremely proficient working with traditional media in which her artistic concepts are brought to successful fruition. Helen continues to reside in Dalton, Pa. with her husband and maintains a studio where she continues to pursue her career with unwavering dedication.

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Jt Harding

2012-01-30T19:28:00.005Z

ARTIST STATEMENT

Through a systematic cooperation of sentiment and skill, I strive to produce art infused with thoroughness and sincerity. By combining the seen, with the felt, I hope to elevate the everyday to the poetic.

Sensual in subject matter, composition, and technique, my paintings transform the inherent beauty of exotic people, places, and objects into imagery that stirs the hearts and minds of viewers.

I want a new kind of realism...a more sensual realism.

BIOGRAPHY

JT Harding is an American-born representational painter who values the aesthetics and philosophical principles of the Humanist Realism Tradition. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he now resides in East Walpole, Massachusetts.

Like most important painters throughout history, Harding gains inspiration and influence through studying the styles and techniques used by the Old Masters including Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent, and Henry Hensche. He believes in building solid fundamental skills that provide a strong foundation for developing art with depth, meaning, and intrinsic value. To that end, Harding has studied under living masters from Studio Incamminati, an Atelier, founded by the Maestro Nelson Shanks. He has also been taught by notable artists including Cedric Egeli, Robert Douglas Hunter, and Sam Vokey. It is his aspiration to teach and inspire future generations of artists to carry on this important tradition.

The thread that weaves through Harding's depictions of contemporary concepts and subject matter is a bravura painting process that emphasizes minimal fresh and loose brushstrokes that, when viewed from a distance, come sharply into focus. It is evident through his sensually painted surface, the pleasure the artist derives from a deftly handled brush.

Mr. Harding is a member of the Oil Painters of America, The Portrait Society of America, and is an Associate member of The Guild of Boston Artists. In 2010, JT was selected for the Artist-in-Residence program at The Cape Cod Art Association. His original paintings and commissioned works hang in many private and corporate collections in the U.S. and in England. Harding collectors can anticipate owning a valuable, well-constructed painting that captures the spirit of the subject while forming a strong emotional bond with the piece over time.

Yang Gao

2012-01-30T18:38:00.007Z

Born in Inner Mongolia in 1963. He graduated from Harbin Architectural University in 1984. He was living in Guangdong and Beijing as a professional painter. He’s migrated to Australia since 1997.
His works have been selected to attend the 8th National Art Exhibition and the 96’ Classical Paintings Exhibition.
He was invited to join the China Young Artist’s Investigation Group to travel and investigate in European countries such as France, Italy, Holland and Germany. He took part in many grand exhibitions as the Exhibition of Selected Oil Paintings by Contemporary Chinese Artists, the Exhibition of 7th Female Image held in Schoeni Art Gallery in Hong Kong, the 2nd Guangdong Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, the 2004 Tour Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Chinese Masters (Shanghai- Beijing- Guangdong- Hong Kong), and Hinted Historical Discourse-- Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Yang Gao in Hong Kong Wan Fung Art gallery in 2005.
His paintings were selected as the covers or introduced by many magazines and TV stations such as China Oil Paintings, Chinese Talents, Eastern Air Connections, Cosmopolitan, Shandong Pictorial, Collection (Taiwan), Asian Private Capital, CCTV International, Beijing Television Station, Shanghai OTV, ect. Many of his paintings were collected by galleries and collectors both at home and abroad.
The spotlight of his painting is the unique form of coherence between the modern and ancient style, and that gives the inner spirit of the painting itself. Time is lingering in the painting and that guides the viewers to give the human nature a more in-depth reflection.

Alicia Brizzio

2012-01-30T17:27:00.004Z

Nació en Mar del Plata, Argentina y reside desde 1992 en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, República Argentina.

Se recibió de Contador Público Nacional y paralelamente
comenzó a pintar en forma autodidacta, para luego seguir perfeccionándose con destacados maestros tales como:
Marcos Borio, Silvia Pieruzzi , Adelia Dálessandro y Ricardo Celma.

Sus trabajos se encuentran en Colecciones Privadas e Institucionales de Empresas en Argentina y en Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Chile, España, Italia y Dubai.

Javad Soleimanpour

2012-01-30T17:03:00.005Z

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Chen Mantian - 陈漫

2012-01-30T15:27:00.010Z

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Rémi LaBarre

2012-01-30T13:37:00.006Z

In 1977, in Thetford Mines, Remi LaBarre gets a first glance of the world.

In his childhoold, he draws, often, on paperboards and paper… One day, a friend who paints suggests testing this medium. He thus gets some brushes, a few colors and his first painting will dry throughout the days of September 1994.

Since then, several paintings, whether portraits or still life, all tales told. These canvases reflect the lighting of hushed environments pointing to the sensitivity of his influences, John Singer Sargent, Richard Schmid, Fabian Perez and Jack Vettriano.

Rémi LaBarre has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions; has won different prizes and has received an important press coverage. Mr LaBarre's work is getting international recognition and is now part of both private and public collections.

One of the finest artistic satisfactions for this young man is knowing that Leonard Cohen and his entourage own and appreciate his portrait of this great songwriter and singer.

His inspiration comes from these evenings of shared looks between a man and a woman, from the drink that perhaps changed everything and from the musician who noticed it all from the stage…

C’est en 1977, à Thetford Mines, que Rémi LaBarre jette un premier coup d’œil sur le monde.

Tout jeune, il dessine, beaucoup, sur des cartons et du papier... Un bon jour, un ami qui fait de la peinture lui suggère d’essayer ce médium. Il se procure donc quelques pinceaux, un peu de couleurs et sa première peinture sèchera au gré des jours du mois de septembre 1994.

Depuis, plusieurs toiles ont été réalisées, que ce soit des visages ou des natures mortes; autant d’histoires racontées. Ses toiles renvoient aux lumières des ambiances feutrées rappelant ses influences John Singer Sargent, Richard Schmid, Fabian Perez et Jack Vettriano.

Rémi LaBarre a participé à de nombreuses expositions de groupes ou en solo; a gagné différents prix et s'est vu offrir une couverture médiatique importante. Le travail de M.LaBarre obtient une reconnaissance internationale et fait maintenant partie de collections publiques et privées.

L’un des beaux moments artistiques de ce jeune homme fût l’opportunité d’échanger et de remettre une toile à M. Jean-Pierre Ferland.

L’inspiration lui vient de ces soirées de regards échangés, du verre qui a peut-être tout changé et du musicien qui a tout vu de la scène...

Dan McCaw

2012-01-30T11:50:00.010Z

BORN
Dec 16, 1942
Seattle, Washington

EDUCATION
Montana Institute of Technology Butte, Montana
Academy of Art University San Francisco, California
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California
Bongart School of Art Santa Monica, California
Honorary Doctorate Academy of Art University San Francisco, California 2007

Ali Miller

2012-01-26T19:07:00.004Z

Ali Miller is from Long Island, New York and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She is happy to be surrounded by such an eclectic group of talented painters.

BFA from Alfred University in 2008, and is currently working towards an MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

I have a need to direct the misen-scene of the spaces I inhabit. In painting, I am able to peer down upon my reality, and carefully orchestrate the placement of objects, the colors and embellishments of the scenes. I inject my ideal fantasy into the real, in turn, intertwining and sometimes confusing the two.

My work, once rooted in constructing spaces as hideouts, or escapes from reality, has evolved through my attempt to improve reality, to shape it to fit my dream version. As a result, I often construct physical sculptures to use as loose references for my visions of the ideal. These sculptures are born out of the real scraps of my life: fabric, lace, brightly colored string, tangled bits of broken accessories.

Surrounding my depictions of the real, tactile sculptures, I paint the relics of my fantasy: a fantasy informed by extravagant pop artists, feel-good romantic comedy moments, elaborate theatre costume, and the contrived scenes of music videos. My tendency to exaggerate reality, to think in extremes, manifests in saturated colors and theatrical portrayals of a fantastic world.

A penchant for control materializes in painstaking textures, patterns, miniature designs and fastidious detail, all executed with tiny paintbrushes. I find solace in the minutia of my work and tension when painting thick strokes with larger brushes. The satisfaction that comes with rendering figures to appear realistic is interrupted by my attempts at liberal technique and less formulaic moments in painting. Closure eludes me as I work to perfect the ideal forms, whilst my reality unravels about me in chaos that I attempt to contain with string. The stakes are high and the repercussions of letting the chaos spill about my painting uncontrolled are catastrophic.

The result of my process is a space more ornate and more beautiful than that which I inhabit: it is at once the stage for my life’s fantastical expectations and the contemplative space for understanding my disappointment with the real and its relation to the imagined.

Ali Miller

Alain J. Picard

2012-01-26T14:15:00.005Z

Alain Picard earned a BA in illustration from Western CT State University and went on to study at the Art Student's League in New York City. Picard cites Sargent, Degas, and Sorolla among his artistic influences. A love of light and beauty are immediately apparent in his pastel and oil paintings. Alain's work has been featured in such publications as The Artist's Magazine and The Pastel Journal. He has garnered top awards throughout the Northeast in esteemed exhibitions including the Portrait Society of America, the Hudson Valley Art Association, the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, the Connecticut Pastel Society and the Pastel Society of America. Alain is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America as well as the Connecticut Pastel Society where he serves as President. In 2004, The Artist's Magazine highlighted Alain as one of 20 contemporary artists "On the Rise". He later won the Best Portfolio Award at the 2009 Portrait Society of America Conference in Washington, DC. A frequent workshop instructor and demonstrator for art associations, schools, galleries and museums, Alain was recently invited to demonstrate a portrait in pastel at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He lives with his wife and two sons in Southbury, Connecticut.

John Woodrow Kelley

2012-01-26T13:15:00.006Z

Greek Mythology Paintings

Mr. Kelley is an artist whose entire life's work is devoted to creating a contemporary interpretation of the classical tradition in western civilization. This ambition is expressed through a series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology, as well as a study of the uniqueness of the human individual through the genre of portraiture. Mr. Kelley's attraction to Greek mythology is born of the belief that it embodies everything that is timeless about the human experience, and therefore is worthy of an interpretation expressing our own age.

Mr. Kelley dates the beginning of his interest in classicism to the time when, at age six, his parents took him to the world's only full scale replica of the Greek Parthenon in the capital of his home state, Nashville, Tennessee. The human oriented proportions of that building, and the canon of beauty expressed in the collection of plaster casts of the great fifth century b.c. statues by Polykleitos and Pheidias which are inside, began his lifelong ambition to express the classical tradition. Mr. Kelley took a degree in art history from the University of Tennessee and a degree in architecture from Pratt Institute in New York before turning to the study of painting and drawing at the Art Students League and the New York Academy in New York. His Principal teacher was Mr. Ted Jacobs, who teaches the precepts of the academic tradition, with it's emphasis on accurate drawing and the study of anatomy. Mr.Jacobs now presides over his own school in the south of France.

During the course of his career Mr. Kelley has received commissions from such institutions as the Morgan Library, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Yale University. Mr. Kelley has shown his work at, among others, the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, Ca., and Fischbach Gallery in New York, and is currently showing in the More Gallery in Philadelphia, Pa., and Pandora Old Masters in Milan, Italy. His work is represented in the private collections of the senior vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mr. Ashton Hawkins, and the writers, Mr. Reynolds Price and Mr. David Halberstam. His work has been published in the New York Times, the American Arts Quarterly, the Italian magazine,"Amica", and the architectural publication,"The Classicist." Mr. Kelley is a fellow of the Morgan Library, and a fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture. He divides his time between his studios in New York City and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Mr. Kelley's conviction about the perennial relevance of classicism to human sensibility, and his determination to create a body of work expressing a contemporary interpretation of that tradition, places him squarely in the growing body of artists who are rebelling against the meaningless gimmickry and vacuity of modernism in the visual arts. The writer Tom Wolf recently predicted in the New York Times that the modern giants so touted today by the art mafia will be as forgotten in the coming century as the great academic masters once were in the last. Mr. Kelley firmly believes that the truly revolutionary art of the twenty-first century will not only employ the universal language of representationalism, but will also embody a spiritual continuity with the great classical tradition of humanity.

Statement of Intent

The Greek myths embody everything that is timeless about the human experience. They reveal truths and acknowledge mysteries. They survive in the subconscious of Western man to the point that to learn about them is to experience a shock of recognition. They have been a successful vehicle for man's pursuit of self knowledge for countless generations, which is the reason I have chosen to make yet another interpretation of them through my paintings. Each generation has been inspired to a unique interpretation, and I have tried to present the old myths in a new way, showing all the irony and conflict of the modern world. The figures are contemporary, but the situations are ancient. It is a way of saying,"we are new, but we are old," "we are young, but we must die". History continually humbles the arrogance of man. The Greek myths tell us that this is our fate as well as our redemption.

John Woodrow Kelley

Chen Wan Shan - 陈皖山

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Chen Wan Shan - 陈皖山

Chen Wan Shan was born in 1962. After his graduation from Che Chiang Fine Arts College in 1985, he taught at the Central fine Arts and Technological Institute in Peking. Both his sculptures and paintings have been exhibited frequently in art and sculpture exhibitions held in the country.? Chen is especially interested in the beauty of human anatomy. He is also excellent in presenting the round human figure in a flat two-dimensional plane. Imaginative and unconventional, he enjoys depicting the nudes in their different features. In January 1989, the Fine Arts Magazine in Peking held an exhibition of “the Nude” for him in the China Art Gallery. In this exhibition, 30 of his oil paintings on this subject, completed during the last two years, reflected the unique charm created by the sculptor. Chen is the first artist who has had his own exhibition held under the subject of “the human figure in the nude”.

Dai Ze - 戴泽

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戴泽 Dai Ze

Sichuan Yunyang
March 23, 1922 Born in Kyoto, Japan.

Ellen Buselli

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"...they (Buselli’s paintings) seem to borrow something from the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi in the way in which they take familiar objects and impart a sort of metaphysical presence."
— Newsday

Painter Ellen Buselli uses her personal collection of antique vases, old Roman glass, pottery from the American Arts & Craft movement, pueblo pottery, and other artifacts for subject matter. Her influences have been the Dutch Masters, as well Chardin, Fantin la Tour, Sargent, Chase, Emil Carlsen and Morandi. Buselli has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the country and has collected awards and recognition from the National Academy of Design, American Artist magazine, The Artist's Magazine, Oil Painters of America (Signature Member), American Women Artists (Master Signature Member), Allied Artists of America, Knickerbocker Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, the Ridgewood Art Institute, American Artists Professional League, and the Salmagundi Club. She studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy, and Cornell University where she received a bachelor of fine arts degree.

Harry Kwinkelenberg

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Kwink-art ....art of Kwinkelenberg...

"His profile has made a clear presence through "Kwink Art; and in presentations at exhibitions and through the co-operation with art-galleries."

Luo Zhongli - 罗中立

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Luo Zhongli Born in Chongqing. Following his graduation from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, Luo took his Master’s degree at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Chinese Artists’ Association. In 1984 and 1985 respectively, Luo held solo exhibitions in Brusells and Boston. At ’The 2nd National Youth Arts Exhibition’, ’Father’ was awarded a First Class Prize and has subsequently been added to the collection of Luo Zhongli’s work housed at the China Gallery of Fine Arts. This collection also includes two pieces from his well known ’Ba Mountain’ series

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TORREGAR - José Antonio Torregrosa

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José Antonio Torregrosa 'Torregar' Ceutí (Murcia), 1978

José Antonio Torregrosa, que firma con el pseudónimo 'Torregar', es un joven pintor de vocación figurativa, con ciertas afinidades neorrealistas. El artista pinta con una técnica que recuerda encuadres y perspectivas de la técnica fotográfica, aunque salvando los efectos ópticos de la cámara.

Se trata de una figuración con trazos impresionistas, de matices terrosos, con una cierta preponderancia de la figura humana, que realiza sobre fondos descontextualizados para concentrarse en el argumento central, único las más de las veces.

Infancia

José Antonio Torregrosa es un pintor de vocación extremadamente temprana, tan temprana como imperiosa, pues desde muy niño no sólo comenzó a dibujar y a manchar todos los papeles que caían a su alcance sino que se empeñó con una inusitada voluntad en proclamar a los cuatro vientos 'yo soy pintor'.

Estudios

Su afición le condujo irremediablemente a cursar la Licenciatura en Bellas Artes, que estudio en la Facultad de San Carlos de Valencia, tras realizar el cuarto curso de su carrera en la Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

Posteriormente ha ido ampliando su formación con conocidos pintores como el murciano Pedro Cano, en el Taller de Pintura impartido por éste en Blanca, en 1999; y con el neorrealista Antonio López, en el Taller de Pintura que impartió en Madrid en 2001.

La fotografía es otra de sus pasiones, mostrada también a través de exposiciones públicas, y, al igual que la pintura, alimentada mediante la especialización orientada por maestros como Joan Fontcuberta y Pablo Genovés, en sendos Talleres impartidos en el certamen "Fotoencuentros' durante 2002.

Su formación la ha completado con un taller teórico sobre performance impartido por Marina Abramovic y organizado por el Cendeac en el Centro Párraga de Murcia en 2005; y con un curso titulado "El Paisaje Antropomórfico" impartido por Javier Pérez en Blanca. En la actualidad prepara estudios de Doctorado en el Departamento de "Pintura" de la Facultad de BB. AA. de San Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Becas y premios

Junto con la Beca Erasmus que José Antonio Torregrosa consiguió en 2000 para estudiar en la Academia di Belle Arti di Venecia, el pintor ha sido becado por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid para los cursos de El Escorial, en 2001; por la Beca Talens de creación plástica, en 2004; por la Xuntanza Internacional de de Artes Pásticas, de Piloño, Pontevedra, en 2002, y por la Fundación Antonio Gala, con una Beca de residencia en Córdoba.

El artista ceutinense ha sido distinguido en el año 2006 con el Premio Nacional Art Nalón de Artes Plásticas de Langreo, Asturias; y el Segundo Premio del XXIV Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo.

Ganó en 2005 el Tercer premio en el XXIII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo.

En 2003 obtuvo la Mención de Honor en el IV Premio de Pintura de la Universidad de Murcia, el Premio adquisición en la VI Bienal de Lalín (Pontevedra) y el Premio adquisición en el VIII Premio de Pintura Ciudad de Burriana.

En 2002 consiguió el Primer premio en el "IX Concurso Autonómico de Pintura de la Vall D'uixo" Castellón. Tercer premio en el Concurso de Pintura al aire libre "Ciudad de San Javier 2.002" Murcia. Primer premio en el IX Concurso de Pintura al aire libre "Rincones de Puerto Lumbreras". Murcia. Segundo premio en el V Certamen de Pintura al aire libre de Puente Tocinos, (Murcia). Segundo premio en II Concurso de Pintura al aire libre "Casco antiguo de Cehegín", (Murcia).

En 2001, fue Premio "Consorcio Turístico de Mazarrón" V Certamen de Pintura al aire libre "Paisajes de Mazarrón". Mención de Honor en el I Premio de Fotografia de la Universidad de Murcia. Mención de Honor en Dibujo en el IV Concurso de las Artes "Galileo Galilei" Valencia y Mención de Honor en el IV Premio de Pintura de la Fundación Mainel .Valencia.

En 2000, Primer premio en el Certamen de Pintura de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Primer premio en el III Premio de Fotografía "Cuenta Master" Caja Rural de Torrent .Valencia. Premio de Honor a la mejor colección en el VI Concurso de Fotografía CAM. Alicante. Segundo Premio en el III Certamen de Pintura al aire libre de Puente Tocinos. Murcia. Accesit en la 1ª Mostra Concorso Extemporánea di Pittura di Campagna Lupia, (Italia). Tercer premio en el Concurso "Arte Per II Nuovo Millennio ESU". Venezia, (Italia). y Primer premio en el VI concurso internacional de fotografía Ciudad de Cieza. Murcia.

En 1999, fue Finalista en la 83.ma Mostra Collecttiva de la Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venecia (Italia). Premio de Honor II Certamen Nacional de Fotografía "Villa de Caudete", Albacete. Accesit en el VI Concurso de Pintura al aire libre "Rincones de Puerto Lumbreras". Murcia. 1º Premio lX Certamen de Fotografía "Villa de Paterna" Valencia. 1º Premio de Dibujo en el II Concurso de las Artes "Galileo Galilei" Valencia.

En 1998 consiguió el 1º Premio de Dibujo en el I Concurso de las Artes "Galileo Galilei". Valencia.

Información elaborada por: José Alberto Bernardeau

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FORMATION:

Lawyer in Fine Arts by the Faculty of San Carlos. Polytechnical University of Valencia.(4ª Course in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. Italy). Doctorate courses in the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Polytechnical University of Valencia.
Painting workshop with Pedro Cano. Blanca. 1.999.
Painting workshop with Antonio Lopez. Madrid 2.001.
Photography workshop with Joan Fontcuberta “Fotoencuentros 2002” Murcia.
Photography workshop with Pablo Genovés “Fotoencuentros 2002” Murcia.
“Performance the body” Workshop. A subjective history of the Body Art, with Marina Abramovic. Cendeac. 2005
”The Classic Sorts of Modernity” Workshop, with Antonio Lopez. Torrevieja 2006.
“The Anthropomorphic Landscape” Workshop, with Javier Perez. Blanca 2006.

SCHOLARSHIPS :

Scholarship VII International Xuntanza of Plastic Art. Piloño. Pontevedra. 2004
Scholarship Antonio Gala Foundation. Córdoba ,course 2003-2004
Talens Scholarship of Young Art. 2002
Universidad Complutense of Madrid Scholarship for the “Cusos de El Escorial”. 2001
Erasmus Scholarship at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (Italy), course 1999-2000

Roberto Alberto

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(Roberto Alberto Elías)

Sevilla, 1973.
Licenciado en BBAA, Universidad de Sevilla.

Desarrolla su actividad profesional desde hace más de 15 años, exponiendo en Sevilla, Córdoba, Madrid, Girona, Barcelona, Marbella e internacionalmente en Pittsburgh, Fráncfort del Meno y Nueva York, logrando numerosos premios entre los que destacan el Cartel de fiestas de Primavera de Sevilla de 2002 y su selección por la revista Artis Spectrum de Nueva York como artista emergente destacado, marzo de 2002.

Desde 2004 colabora con el Departamento de Lenguas Modernas de la Slippery Rock University de Pensilvania, donde ha estado becado 2 veces como "Artista en residencia".
Trabaja con la galería de arte Mada Primavesi (Madrid) y Fornara Gallery (Marbella) y otras galerías repartidas por todo el territorio nacional.

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Yoel Díaz Gálvez

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Nace en La Habana, Cuba el 24 de mayo de 1979; actualmente vive y trabaja en Guadalajara, Jal.

ESTUDIOS:
Taller de Artes Plásticas "Eduardo Abela", hoy Taller de Manero.
1998
Graduado de la Academia de Bellas Artes San Alejandro en la Especialidad de Pintura y Dibujo.

DOCENCIA:
Subdirector de la Academia de Bellas Artes San Alejandro.
Jefe de la Cátedra de Dibujo.
Profesor de Anatomía Artística y Dibujo del natural.

PREMIOS Y DISTINCIONES:
1999
1er Premio de pintura. Salón Flora. C. de La Habana.
2006
1er lugar en la categoría de pintura. LILLY ONCOLOGY ON CANVAS. Londres, Reino Unido.
2006
Mención Honorífica 1era Bienal de las Américas de Dibujo. Tijuana, Baja California. México.

Carmelo Gonzaléz

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Carmelo González Gutiérrez

Artist, writer, graphic design and advertising, cartoonist and photographer. Born September 20, 1956, in La Havana, Cuba. Her parents engravers and painters: Ana Rosa and Carmelo both leading figures of the Cuban plastic arts of the twentieth century, standing in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Since 1976 works as a cartoonist (comic artist) in the Directorate of Publications PRENSA LATINA, there happens to be performed Advertising until 1986, that year becomes the graphic designer and advertising of the Company for Foreign Trade Publications Ediciones Cubanas, until 1998, since then has used the law of Independent Artists Cultural Property Fund. Since 2002 when he married the painter Sandra canaria Perez lives in Tenerife and next to it, he teaches drawing and painting at the Municipal School of Painting in The Killing Acentejo GRADUATE: Academy "San Alejandro". Painting. National School of Design. Instituto Superior de Arte. Engraving. Foreign Trade Institute, Post-Graduate in Marketing and Advertising. MEMBER OF: Union of Journalists of Cuba, UPEC Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, UNEAC Cuba& 39;s Yoruba Cultural Society. In which part of the Board of Directors, Fine Arts Director was the same and its Gallery "Mercedita Valdés, was Art Director of the Museum of the Orishas, where 6 frames painted murals at the headquarters of this company. He confessed, Commonwealth Association of Artists of Czechoslovakia. World Council of Visual Artists, based in city Mexico. AWARDS: 1973 .- 3rd Prize, Hall Brothers Sainz. 1976 .- Mention in engraving, etching Hall. 1979 .- Prize Comics, Biennial Exhibition of Gijón, Spain. 1980 .- Photo 1st Prize, National Hall AP XX Anniversary Movement 1985 .- 1st Prize for Photography, Palace of Fine Arts. 1990 - Silver Award of Merit Order of Arts and lyrics of The Republic of Zaire, Africa. 1993 .- Painting Prize, Living Fayad Jamis. Arab Union of Cuba. 2003 .- 2nd Prize Painting outdoors, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife. 2004 .- 1st Prize Painting, Tenerife Casinos

Nancy Cuevas

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Nancy Cuevas is an artist living in the Portland metro area of Oregon. She primarily works in oils but also explores pastels, charcoal, printmaking and crafting.

She studied at the Art Center in Pasadena while still in high school. Attended two years in the Fine Art department at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and studied character animation at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California.

She apprenticed under Portland painter Alexander Rokoff for five years and has since attended workshops with Gabriel Mark, Jeremy Lipking, and Michelle Dunaway. Recently she attended a very inspirational demonstration by artist Richard Schmid with Daniel Keys in Putney, Vermont.

Nancy is enjoying working in different painting styles as she explores her own creative vision. Her love of animals has led her to paint them and sell prints contributing 10% of sales to her favorite animal rescue charities.

Nancy teaches drawing and painting. Her classes are small and her students are dedicated. She loves seeing her students learn to develop and trust their artistic instincts.

Renee Foulks

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Born

1958 Trenton, NJ

Education

1982 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1980 BFA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Awards and Publications

2001 Mellon Foundation, University of the Arts Venture Fund Painting Grant
1999 Figure Sketching School. Readers Digest Books
1997 American Artist Magazine, "Paintings That Tell a Story"
1996 Mellon Foundation, University of the Arts Venture Fund Painting Grant
1994 Mellon Foundation, University of the Arts Venture Fund Painting Grant
1992 Mellon Foundation, University of the Arts Venture Fund Painting Grant
1988 Mellon Foundation, University of the Arts Venture Fund Painting Grant
1987 "American Artist Golden Anniversary National Art Exhibition" 1 st Place Oil Prize
1985 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Grant

Selected Teaching Experience
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1991 Present Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986 Present University of die Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982 - 1985 Keystone College, LaPlume, Pennsylvania

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