Amanda Greive

Amanda Greive
Amanda Greive's hyper-realistic compositions reference both classical and contemporary symbolism and iconography. While the primary motivation behind her work is to tease out the nuanced emotions embedded within the human condition and to confront isolation and anxiety born of gender-based stereotypes, She also looks to comment on the contradiction between creating realistic imagery and portraying emotional rawness, as well as the uncompromised truth in the imagery portrayed versus its symbolic ambiguity.

Artist:
Amanda Greive

​Amanda Greive graduated with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2008 and has exhibited her work both locally and nationally. She has exhibited her work at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and the Louisville, KY, Visual Arts Association. Most recently, she had solo shows at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria and the Springfield Art Association. She was also a juried member of the Chicago Artist’s Coalition’s HATCH project for 2011-12. One of her pieces, “The Last Judgment”, was also published in Manifest Gallery’s fourth edition of the International Painting Annual.

Education

2008: University of Illinois at Springfield Bachelors of Arts in Visual Arts 2003: University of Illinois at Springfield Masters of Public Health with an emphasis in epidemiology 2001: University of Illinois at Springfield Bachelors of Science in Biology, graduated cum laude

Exhibitions

2019: Market Art + Design, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Towards New Ways, invitational group show hosted by Hyperrealism Magazine, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Painting the Figure Now 2019, traveling exhibit, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL LA Art Show, in association with Rehs Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 2018: SCOPE New York, Amelchenko Art Advisory, New York, NY Market Art + Design, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Modern Muse, ARC Salon Group Exhibit, Rehs Contemporary Art Gallery, New York BIG ART. small canvas, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 2017: Drowning in the Delicate, solo exhibition, The Victorian House Art Gallery, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL Figurativas 2017, finalist, Fundacio de las Artes y los Artistas, Barcelona, Spain ARC Visions, group exhibit, Arcadia Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA LA Art Show, in association with Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Place Kinder Than Home, group exhibit, Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL (upcoming) Big Art. Small Canvas, group exhibit, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 2016: 2016 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Mirror | Mirror, Two-Person Exhibit, University of Illinois-Springfield Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL Invitational Art and Artisan Festival, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN Art Renewal Center 12th ARC International Salon, finalist 2015: Amanda Greive: Symbolic Realism, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL BIO-fied, Group Exhibition, University of Illinois-Springfield, Springfield, IL BIO-fied, Group Exhibition, State Street Gallery, Chicago, IL St. Louis Art Guild’s Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition, St. Louis, MO

Awards

2017 Rehs Contemporary Award, 13th ARC International Salon 2016 Arcadia Contemporary Award, 12th ARC International Salon 2015 Ann Metzger Award, St. Louis Art Guild’s Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition 2014 Best of Show, Liturgical Art Juried Exhibit 2013 Painting Award, Illinois State Fair Professional Art Exhibit 2010 Realism Award, Watertower Regional Juried Exhibit Realism Award, Traditions in 2-D juried Exhibit 1st place, painting, Illinois State Fair Professional Artist Exhibition 2009 OSF Hospital Painting Award, 64 Arts National Juried Exhibit 2008 Cover art, Lincoln Land Community College Harvester Chancellor’s Award, III Space, UIS Senior Exhibition 2007 Merit award, Illinois Community College Juried Art Exhibition Cover art, Lincoln Land Community College Harvester Painting award, Lincoln Land Community College Student Art Exhibit 2006 Best of Show, Lincoln Land Community College Student Art Exhibit

Photorealistic Watercolours, by González Bueno - Artist Statement

Photorealistic Watercolours, by González Bueno - Artist Statement
"For several terms, I attended an Art Academy where I learned the fundamentals of sketching and oil painting, but most of all, the theory of color and composition. I then became interested in the possibilities of Watercolour, mainly because of the endless tonal variations possible, and it suited my draughtsmanship abilities very well. I am totally self-taught, studying closely the technique of the British masters of the 19th century, primarily the Victorian period between 1850 and 1900. I have focused as well on Viennese watercolors of the same period, and Orientalists in general."

Artist:
José González Bueno

Jose was born in 1957 in Malaga, the birthplace of Picasso. He went to the local art academy where he learned the fundamentals of drawing and painting, applying special emphasis to color theory and composition. He then became fascinated with the medium of watercolor as he realized that not only did it suit his extraordinary skill as a draftsman but also the tonal variations were infinite. It was not long before he had exhausted all the academy could teach him and so he began to study the technique of British 19 century masters and also the Viennese watercolor painting of the same period. Bueno has also worked in the Jordanian Royal Household, and in private collections throughout the world. He is the founder Member and Vice-president of the Malaga Watercolour Association and represented in London by Mathaf Gallery and in Zurich-Montreux by Laurent Marthaler Contemporary.

Exhibitions

Since 1988, González Bueno has exhibited more than 30 individual exhibitions in Art Galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, Marbella, Almería, Granada, Seville, Málaga and London (Arthur Ackermann Gallery).In 1994 Jose was commissioned to paint several pictures of the Spanish Foreign Legion one of which was presented to the king of Spain, H.M. Don Juan Carlos 1. Since 1988 he has had over 25 “one-man “shows in Madrid, Barcelona, Marbella, Almeria, Granada, Seville, and Malaga. He has also participated in numerous Competitions and groups, amongst others the Top 100 of the Arts for the Parks Contest of the United States National Academy for the Arts, years 2003 and 2004. In 2010 Jose held an exhibition at Arthur Ackermann’s Gallery in London’s Belgravia. The show was a great success with five paintings being bought by the Royal house of Jordon and they are now hanging in the Palace in Amman. Three years ago he had an exhibition in Malaga during Samana Santa and five of his larger paintings were bought by Antonio Banderas. The following year he was given the honor of being commissioned to design the poster for Malaga’s Samana Santa.

Awards: ​

-First Medal in Watercolour in the 64th Salón de Otoño de la Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores, y Premio Talens. Madrid, 1997. -Certamen de Dibujo Felipe Orlando. 2º Premio. Benalmádena, 1999. -3er Certamen de Pintura Ciudad de Málaga, de la Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores, 1st Prize. Málaga, 2000. Amongst works done for the Spanish Foreign Legion, a painting presented to H.M. The King of Spain D. Juan Carlos I in June 1994.

RICHARD T SCOTT - Post Contemporary Figurative Painting

RICHARD T SCOTT - Post Contemporary Figurative Painting
Working between New York and Paris, Richard T Scott is known for his post-contemporary figurative paintings and his writing on aesthetic theory. His work has exhibited at Le Grand Palais in Paris, Palazzo Cini in Venice, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and is part of collections worldwide such as the The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, MEAM, MACS, former British Arts Minister Alan Howarth of Newport, Prince Morad El Hattab, and Robert C. Kennedy PhD. Richard designs coins and medals for the United States Mint under the Artistic Infusion Program. Scott was honored as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center.
Scott is known for his classically influenced paintings. Scott's figurative work involves a synthesis of narrative and iconic symbolism and draws upon memories, dreams, and reality. "Whether it is in his portraits, his compositions, or either still in his interiors, Richard T. Scott always tries to produce, on his spectators, a certain effect of strangeness, or at least, something like a feeling of longing. That's why, maybe, his compositions are populated for the greater part with mirrors in which appear, not simply beings just like those who face us - but of real spectres having the function to destabilize our glance while giving the fourth dimension for us to see” - by Frédéric Charles Baitinger, Critic, Artension

Artist:
RICHARD T SCOTT

Richard T Scott is a Contemporary History Painter working in New York. A Georgia native, his work pairs the complex influences of his southern heritage with the conceptual sophistication of the New York art world. Known for his mastery of light and color, his portraits, interiors, and large scale compositions have exhibited across North America and Europe: Le Grand Palais in Paris, Palazzo Cini in Venice, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and are preserved in permanent collections worldwide such as the The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, MEAM, MACS, former British Arts Minister Alan Howarth of Newport, and Robert C. Kennedy PhD. Among many honors he has recieved, Richard has designed coins and medals for the United States Mint, including the Fort Moultrie quarter, presently in circulation, and was honored as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. Richard has given lectures and workshops at some of the most prestigious institutions, including the Tyler School of Art, The Florence Academy of Art, The University of Georgia, The Lyme Academy, Laguna College of Art and Design, and the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. His interviews, writing, and art have been feature on NPR, PRI, and countless national and international publications.

Education

Education 2005-2007 New York Academy of Art, New York,Master of Fine Art - Painting 2002-2005 University of Georgia, Athens, Bachelor of Fine Art - Painting Professional Experience 2014 United States Mint, Washington D.C., Coin and medal design 2009-2010 Odd Nerdrum, Stavern, Norway & Paris, France, Studio Assistant 2007-2009 Jeff Koons Studio, New York, NY, Painter

Exhibitions

2016 Fourth Wall, Paul Booth Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Americana, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2015 The Nerdrum School, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain 2015 Syzygy, Hotchkiss Tremaine Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2015 The Artist's Gaze, Sirona Fine Art, Miami, FL 2014 Into that Darkness Peering, Poe Museum, Richmond, VA 2013 Strange Symmetry, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2013 Effigies and Idols, Last Rites Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Nocturnes, National Arts Club, New York, NY 2012 Converge, 25CPW Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Art Takes Time's Square, New York, NY 2011 CHIC Art Fair, Paris, France 2011 "O Miroir," Galerie Maubert, Paris, France 2011 L'esthetique, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2011 ArtParis, Saatchi Gallery, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France 2010 The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2010 Kitsch Biennale, Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy 2010 Corpus Hermeticum, New York, NY 2010 Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France 2010 Erotik Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Knut Hamsun, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Mer Enn Kunst, TelemarksGalleriet, Norway 2009 Carnival, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby's, New York, NY 2009 Fall Kitsch, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Master Copies, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Tribeca Ball, New York, NY 2009 The Metamorphosis Project, Richmond, VA 2008 Kitsch Biennale Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany 2008 Take Home a Nude Phillips de Pury & Company, NY 2007 Art on the Block Oct., Benefit auction, nAscent Art Gallery NY

Selected Collections

The Georgia Museum of Art The New Britain Museum of American Art MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) MACS (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Sicilia) The Austrian Embassy in Oslo, Norway Robert C. Kennedy PhD Alan Howarth Gary and Margaret Motley Morad El Hattab Dr. Richard Eppes Odd Nerdrum
ISLANDS - Antoine Renault

ISLANDS - Antoine Renault
Antoine Renault's painting suspends time, catches the instant, the souvenir. Not in a nostalgic way, but to dip or dive in. Renault focusses on slow-motion atmosphere, time still on the beach, with a soft sensuality floating. His work constantly plays with the borders of realism. Yet, get closer to the canvas and visible brushstrokes push the reality back, offering space for emotions and echo.

Artist's Statement
" Summer and ocean side atmosphere has always been in my inspiration. Sunny days and short nights, dune smells, slow time on the beach, … To paint this, for me, is like sharing feelings of freedom and happiness because this is just where I feel the best. I have not spent one year of my life without sailing in this bay. And actually all the key moments of my life happened on the ocean side, if not on the beach. After some years working with oil and pastel, I moved to watercolor and eventually to acrylic. I simplified my palette at most, using exclusively the same 4 colors. Light, water, feelings, and some subtle sexiness are what I want in my paintings."

Artist:
Antoine Renault

Born in Nantes in 1963, Antoine Renault is a self-taught painter. His series « Ocean Paintings » brings him international recognition in 2012. Antoine lives between Noirmoutier and Amsterdam since 2014. Between canals and seashores. Antoine went to painting from photography he improved in the 80’s in New York, Keith Haring SoHo, and Edward Hopper Long Island. Back to France, husband, and father of 3, he catches a brush for the first time from his grandmother who discovered the fun of painting at the age of 70. She is the one who initiated him, allowing him to enter this very intimate bubble. Her work was a testimonial of her little pleasures, pictures of her world, while he tried to catch the dune, sunsets and the warm blues of a summer at his dear island of Noirmoutier. It’s in Barcelona, close to Sorolla’s shores for some years, that a passion for light and water develops. Reflections and transparencies become his favorite themes. « Light is my real motivation. Water is my favorite catalyst. Both are the guiding threads of my inspiration ». From then, his work becomes flow, movement, ripple…

Education

Self-taught
Tanya Atanasova - Project YOU MY DEAR

Tanya Atanasova - Project YOU MY DEAR
I’m working on a large series of portraits of people I know very well or people that have played an important role in my life through the years. This two-and-a half-year project, in which I want to capture more than just the outer appearance of my models is called “You my dear” and is all about friendship. I have started this project one year ago doing everything on my own: traveling far to interview my models and get some pictures, working long days in my atelier, developing the website, buying materials, painting for months, crating, shipping, writing, publishing ... These paintings are not commissioned and there is no guarantee of sales. In fact it is quite unusual to sell existing portraits to customers/collectors who don’t really know the person on the canvas. But it still is a project of a great importance to me - this is my way of saying “thank you” to these people for being next to me all these years. I’m telling their stories, I’m painting/celebrating the link with them! In my artistic practice I use a lot of modern painting techniques to create the different “layers” of a personality, character, spirit, presence… I devote a lot of attention to the construction of my character’s personalities. Being interested in the psychology of my models, I want to become an intermediary between subject and viewer – building a connection that goes beyond painted realism. My gaze is directed deep into the story of every personage I create, his/her identity and unique complexity. Looking at the paintings should be like taking a glimpse into the character’s diary or reading a page out of his/her biography.

Artist:
Tanya Atanasova

Since her graduation from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Tanya Atanasova has worked in several different media: painting, ceramics, sculptures and installations… She grew up in an environment where different artistic disciplines were in constant interaction. But although she has been drawing and painting all her life (her secondary and BAA educations were art related), she has only discovered her great passion for oil painting in 2016. Inspired, after visiting the studios/taking master classes by some of her most favorite contemporary artists - she decided to become a full time painter. Dedicated to big size non-traditional portraits, she started weaving her way through contemporary realism. She is now working from her own studio in Antwerp – one of Europe’s most important cities for art and culture. In 2018 she is preparing a solo exposition of portraits (to be completed in 2019) and she was pre-selected for some of world’s most remarkable competitions. In her artistic practice Tanya uses a lot of old and modern painting techniques to create the different “layers” of a personality, character, spirit, presence… Each of her paintings tells a story and she devotes a lot of attention to the construction of her character’s personalities. Being interested in the psychology of her models, the artist wants to become an intermediary between subject and viewer – building a connection that goes beyond painted realism. Her gaze is directed deep into the story of every personage she creates, his/her identity and unique complexity. Looking at the paintings should be like taking a glimpse into the character’s diary or reading a page out of his/her biography.

Serena Potter

Serena Potter
Artist Statement My early school report cards all said the same thing; “Serena day dreams too much”. They were such vivid imaginings that they scored onto my long-term memory. As I have matured I have become more conscious of my two selves, the one on the inside and the one on the outside. My art acts as a bridge between the two. Inside Out is an apt description of my work, reaching deep within to find that portion of my self thatdesires exposure and revelation. This show is comprised of pieces from several series, both oil paintings on canvas or birch panel, and charcoal drawings on cotton rag paper. Though they differ in medium and aesthetic, they are united in that they all tell a story. Certain imagery has begun to emerge and re-cycle through the work, eggs being one example. They represent those things that women nurture and protect; they are fragile but also embody a certain strength. The drawings employ themes of reflection, duality, private self versus public self and the pressure we feel to present a certain imposed standard of youth and perfection to the world. These drawings represent moments of self-appraisal where the viewer often takes on the roll of the mirror, creating a sense of voyeurism as if they have stepped into a private space. They, and the more tenebristic paintings included in the show, are notable for their use of chiaroscuro inspired by the dramatic cinematic lighting and compositional elements used in film noir. The paintings reflect the still, luminous light and close space of masters such as George De La Tour and Caravaggio. Then we have a series of paintings that contrast the vibrant hues and higher key palette reminiscent of the golden age American Illustrators (such as Norman Rockwell and J.C. Lyendecker), with a sardonic narrative, which places adults in childlike situations. 

Artist:
SERENA POTTER

Serena Potter’s work focuses on themes of sense of self, perceived change or imperfection, private pain vs. public persona, and interpersonal connections. She creates drawings with mixed media charcoal and pastel, on cotton rag paper, as well as paintings in oil on birch panel or canvas. Her drawings and paintings are notable for their use of chiaroscuro inspired by the dramatic cinematic lighting and compositional elements used in film noir. In her paintings you will find elements color and light from the golden age illustrators such as Norman Rockwell and J.C. Lyendecker in one series and the still luminous light of masters George De La Tour and Caravaggio in another. Potter received her BFA from the University of Utah and her MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design, where she is currently a mentor in their MFA program. She teaches at National University, Mt. San Antonio Community College. Her paintings are included in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico, as well as in the permanent collection of the Hilbert Museum of California Art.

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOWS 2019 Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2016 Long Beach Museum of Art, Artist in Residence, Long Beach, CA 2014 Warehome, Orange, CA 2013 “Featured Artist”, Blood Orange Info. Shop, Riverside, CA 2011 Arena I Gallery, Graduate Show, Santa Monica, CA EXHIBITIONS 2018 Golden West College Art Gallery, group show, curator: Evan Senn, Huntington Beach, CA 2018 Coastline Art Gallery, group show, curator: David Lee, Newport Beach, CA 2018 California Center for the Arts Museum, Group Show, Escondido, CA 2018 Sp{a}ce Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Scott Hess, Pasadena, CA 1017 Arcadia Contemporary, Group Show, Curator: John Seed, Culver City, CA 2017 Neutra Institute Museum, Group Show, Curator: Dulce Stein, Lost Angeles, CA 2017 Abend Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Aliah Chapin, Denver, CO 2017 Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Faculty show, Walnut, CA 2017 Studio C Gallery, Group show, Curator: Fatemah Burns, Los Angeles, CA 2016-18 Coastline Art Gallery, Group Shows, Curator: David Lee, Newport Beach, CA 2016 Q Art Salon, Group Show, Curator: Santa Ana, CA 2015 Q Art Salon, Group Show, Curator: Evan Senn, Santa Ana, CA 2015 Paul Williams Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Jean Carvelis, Ontario, CA 2015 Jamie Brooks Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Eric Swenson, Costa Mesa, CA 2015 Studio C Gallery, Group show, Los Angeles, CA 2015 LCAD Fine Art Faculty Show, Ocean and Forest Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2015 Red Pipe Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, CA 2014 “First Place Award”, Juror: Peter Frank, Lark Gallery, Yes! Competition, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Torrance Art Museum, Mas Attack, Juror: Lisa DeSmidt, Torrance, CA 2014 Studio C Gallery, Annual Women’s show, Juror: Ada Brown, Los Angeles, CA 2014 “Honorable Mention Award”, Contemporary Art Center, 25th AJS, Juror: John Seed, Las Vegas, NV 2014 University North Carolina Ashville, 5th Annual Drawing Discourse, Juror: Tim Lowly, Group Show, Ashville, NC

AFFILIATIONS

2008- Plein Air Artists of Riverside, Riverside, CA 2008- Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 2005-2007 Westlake Village Art Guild, West Lake, CA 2004- New Hampshire Plein Air Painters, NH 2001-2002 Chairman, Norwich Artists, Norwich, Norfolk, UK 2000-2002 Norfolk Festival, Artists Open Studios, Executive Committee, UK

PUBLICATIONS

2016 Poets and Artists, 100 Great Drawings of 2016, issue 78 2015 Poets and Artists, 50 Memorable Artists of 2015, Issue 65 2012 BlueCanvas magazine, Featured Artist, 12th edition, April 2011 BlueCanvas magazine, Featured Artist, online edition, July 2010 Calendar Art, Coldwell Banker International, Laguna Beach, CA November 2010 BlueCanvas Magazine, online edition video interview, Octoberhttp g5n7EuVm 2004 Cover Art, ForeWord Reviews Magazine, Traverse City, MI August
Cesar Santander - Artist's Statement

Cesar Santander - Artist's Statement
"Once I conceive an idea for a painting, I arrange the objects and then use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea." - Cesar Santander

Artist:
Cesar Santander

Born in June 26, 1947, near Cadiz, Spain, Cesar Santander received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1969 and MFA in 1972. He began painting full time in 1980 and has had solo shows in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London, England. He has been painting in a photorealist style of almost 30 years. His specialty is still life objects, toys, antique boxes, and other nostalgic items. Cesar’s photorealist paintings vary in subject matter from food to vintage toys. His donuts and crayon paintings are among his most famous. Cesar is represented by Gallery Henoch in New York City, Plus One Gallery in London, and Gallery Biba on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Education: 1975-77 Florida International University, Florida 1972 Pratt Institute, New York, M.F.A. 1969 New York University, New York 1969 Pratt Institute, New York, B.F.A.

Exhibitions

2020 A Dash of Red, Rehs Contemporary Galleries, New York 2019 Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts at CONTEXT Art Miami 2019, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY at Texas Contemporary 2019, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY 2019 Five and Under, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY, Pasadena 2018 Rehs Contemporary Galleries at Texas Contemporary 2018, Rehs Contemporary Galleries 2018 Romantics, Rehs Contemporary Galleries 2005 Plus One Gallery, London, England 2003 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario 2001 Modernism Inc., San Francisco, California 1999 Modernism, San Francisco, Recent Paintings 1998 Gallery Henoch, New York, Recent Paintings 1996 Bruce Lewin Gallery, New York, Movie Goddesses 1991 Gallery Henoch, New York, Recent Paintings 1988 Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Toys and Carousels 1988 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, New Paintings 1986 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, Carousel Paintings 1985 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, New Paintings 1985 Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Paintings; 1979-85 1983 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, Paintings of Toys 1982 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, Recent Paintings 1981 Harris Gallery, London, Ontario, Still Life Paintings 1974 Miami Art Center, Miami, Sepia Prints 1972 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Drawings and Prints

"Once I conceive an idea for a painting, I arrange the objects and then use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea." - Cesar Santander

Selected Public Collections

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario Art Gallery of St. Thomas/Elgin, St. Thomas, Ontario Burdines Department Stores, Miami CFPL T.V., London, Ontario Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Clarkson-Gordon Collection, Toronto Connor, Clark, Toronto F.H. Deacon Hodgson, Toronto Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario London Free Press, London, Ontario London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario Mariposa Communications, Toronto, Ontario Northern Life Insurance Corporation, London, Ontario Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia Sifton Properties Limited, London, Ontario University Hospital, London, Ontario Victoria Hospital, London, Ontatio Walt Disney Company, Pasadena Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Kimberly Dow

Kimberly Dow
"One works (paints) because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows how to do. The days one works (paints) are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going. You get the garden planted. You get the roof fixed. You take the dog to the vet. You spend a day with a friend. You learn to make a new kind of bread. You hunt up photographs for someone who thinks he needs them. You certainly have to do the shopping. You may even enjoy doing such things. You think they have to be done. You even think you have to have some visitors or take a trip to keep from getting queer living alone...(). But always, you are hurrying through these things with a certain amount of aggravation so that you can get at the painting again because that is the high spot - in a way it is what you do all the other things for...The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life." -Georgia O'Keefe

Artist:
Kimberly Dow

Knowing she would make her living as an artist since she was a child, Kimberly Dow has been gallery-represented and selling her work since she was nineteen. With some college studies, self-study and workshops with artists she admires, she has crafted her figurative paintings to express narratives in a modern realism style. She has received many awards and been published internationally. Her voyeuristic obsession with people and their stories continues. The narrative figures, nudes and portrait commissions she paints from her mountain top studio in North Carolina hang in collections around the world.

Group & Individual Shows

2019 - July-October - 'Alluring' included in the Painting The Figure Now Exhibition at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and then traveling to Zhou B Art Center (opening October 18, 2019) in Chicago. 2019 - March, April - MEAM - Painting Today, International Women's Day - The European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain - Includes 'Soft On Soft' and 'Bewitched' 2019 - February - Show: Adorn Me - sponsored by Poets & Artists and the Gallery at Zhou B Art Center - shown on Artsy 2018 - December - Poets Artists Magazine - Figurative Realism - PA's 100th Issue, including 'Beguiled' - show through the GALLERY AT ZHOU B ART CENTER & Artsy 2018 - October - Poets & Artists Magazine - The New Nude - show through the GALLERY AT ZHOU B ART CENTER & Artsy 2016 - Oct 8 - 'Women Painting Women' show - www.rjdgallery.com, Sag Harbor, NY 2012 - September 15 through Oct 19, 2012 - 3rd Coast National/International juried exhibition - K Space - Corpus Christi 2012 - September - IGOR - International Guild of Realism 7th Annual Exhibition - Jones & Terwilliger Galleries, Carmel, CA 2011 - April 2-22 - Masters of Realism Salon International 2011 - Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX www.greenhousegallery.com 2011 - The Dirty Show, Detroit - Erotic Art Show, Feb 11-19, 2011 www.dirtyshow.org 2010 - The Jade Gate: Seattle, Washington. "Smokin'" 2010 - Providence, RI - through Lyman/Eyer Gallery - The Coming Out Show - Urban Arts & Culture Program, October 2010 2010 - April 2010 - Masters of Realism Salon International - Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2009 - Art Center of Corpus Christi, All Member Show 2009 - April 2009 - Masters of Realism Salon International 2009 - Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX www.greenhousegallery.com April 2008 - Masters of Realism Salon International 2008 - Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX www.greenhousegallery.com April 2008 - Art Center of Corpus Christi All Member Show - Corpus Christi, TX May 2007 - Masters of Realism Salon Int

Publications

2019 - MEAM Publication - Painting Today - International Women's Day - European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain 2018 - Adorn Me - Poets Artists Magazine - 'Birds Of A Feather' is included. 2018 - The Figurative Realism Issue #100 - Poets Artists Magazine - 'Beguiled' is included. 2018 - Poets Artists Magazine - The New Nude 2017 - Finalist for Art Renewal Centers 2017 ('Unprotected') - published in catalog 2017 - January - 'Unprotected' is a finalist in the 13th annual Art Renewal Center's Salon competition. December 2017 - 'Unspoken' is a finalist in the Artist Magazine's Annual Competition. December 2009 issue of the Artist's Magazine will list Kimberly Dow's painting ''Soft on Soft" as a finalist in the 2009 International Competition, Portrait/Figure category. December 2008 issue of the Artist's Magazine will list Kimberly Dow's painting ''No Evil" as a finalist in the 2008 International Competition, Portrait/Figure category. December 2007 issue of the Artist's Magazine will list Kimberly Dow's painting 'Unruly' as a finalist in the 2007 International Competition, Portrait/Figure category. December 2006 issue of the Artist's Magazine will list Kimberly Dow's paintings 'Pensive', 'Charity' & 'Allison' as Finalists in the 2006 International Competition, Portrait/Figure category November 2006 issue of South West Art Magazine - article about Kim and her figurative art - as well as featuring one of her paintings on the cover. The painting "Rose Arbor" is featured in the book published by International Artist entitled "How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Flowers & Gardens" - available from www.internationalartist.com Numerous newspaper articles in such papers as the Boston Globe, Manchester Union Leader, Uvalde Leader News and Laconia Citizen.

Awards

2018 Honorable Mention - Jerry's Artarama Self-Portrait Competition for 'Nevertheless' 2008 - Corpus Christi Art Center All Member Show - 'Fragile' awarded second place. 2007 - International Masters of Realism 2007 Salon - Honorable Mention for 'Allison' in the portrait category & Top 50 in show for 'Pensive'. 2007 - 'My Turn' awarded Best in Show and First Place for oils at the All Member Show, April 2007 - Art Center of Corpus Christi 2007 - Corpus Christi Art Center's All Member Show - - 'My Turn' wins First Place for Works on canvas and wins Best of Show. 2006 - ARC International Competition - Art Renewal Center - Staff Award for 'Allison' and 100 top finalist for 'Charity' 2006 - Dimensions Show - Art Center of Corpus Christi - November - 2nd Place for 'Unabashed' 2006 - Independent's Show - Art Center of Corpus Christi - July - Best of Show for 'Gypsy Wind' 2006 - Museum of the Southwest - Midland Arts Association Spring Exhibition - First Place for 'Intuition' and Honorable Mention for 'Alyssa' 2006 - Art Center of Corpus Christi All Member Show - First Place for 'Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil' 2005 - Museum of the Southwest - Midland Arts Association Spring Show - Best of Show - "Gentle Touch" 2004 - Salmagundi Club, New York, NY - The American Artists Professional League - 76th Grand National Exhibition - Director's Award - "Gentle Touch" 2004 - Art Center of Corpus Christi, Dimension Show - Honorable Mention - "Eve's Alternative" 2004 - Midland Arts Association - First Place oil - "Caleb" - at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX 2004 - Art Center of Corpus Christi, Independent's Show - Honorable Mention for "Overachiever" 2004 - El Progreso Memorial Library Art Competition, "The American Experience" - 3rd Place for Works on Canvas, Uvalde, Texas for "In His service" 2000 - Corpus Christi Art Center, "Independent's Show" - for "Gerber Daisies & Mirror" - Honorable Mention 1996 - Laconia Artists Guild, "Best of Show" - for "F
Diana Rosa

Diana Rosa

Artist:
Diana Rosa

Dream of compelling magic

I am always fascinated with the human story that all of us are living- often untold, sometimes unrecognized, but always significant. My paintings reflect the natural beauty of human emotions. They are a bridge from my imagination to theirs, and although the story I mean to tell may differ from what the viewer ultimately takes away, what is most important is that we have shared the tale. Elegance and sensuality are combined with spirituality in a contemplative surreal environment. I explore the human dimension: themes of the real and virtual world, a nostalgic state of adaptation. Adapting to survive like succulent plants in unfavorable environment and conditions, expecting a change to occur. I strive to draw honest and intriguing lines, to investigate the beautiful, as well as the odd, and to illuminate the common in an environment of graphic symbols and layered patterns. I create a visual dialogue where everything is possible and magic is the queen. Humans, animals, and plants are some of the themes that I use in my drawings, a subtle injection of ambiguity that blurs the gap between the ordinary and the fantastic. The background of this sub-world appears to be transformed into an innocent children’s fantasy that almost looks like a dream. When creating a piece, I take what is most personal and assume it is universal. I use my own experiences and emotional responses, and turns them into a narrative work that suggests to the viewer a peek into their own life. The stories I tell are about inner worlds revealed - the things that we are supposed to talk and feel, about our bodies, our families, and our life’s choices All elements drive my creativity along with a light touch of the paintbrush, feeling of peace and sense of a place. I strive to re-create the peaceful, contemporary landscape in my art to expand upon the beautiful palette that nature provides us. I appreciate the human form and the emotions within, so I explore acrylic mediums to convey the limitless individuality the human form embodies. I think of my drawings as portraits of a soul, not an actual person–pulling from the universal level instead of our clouded worldly view. They are more than their surface, much like us. They are my perspective and appreciation of who I am and what I know: a woman who embraces adaptation in a virtual world.

Oceana Rain Stuart - BIOGRAPHY and ARTIST STATEMENT

Oceana Rain Stuart - BIOGRAPHY and ARTIST STATEMENT
OCEANA RAIN STUART is an American, bronze sculptor, and poet. Stuart grew up in a multi-generational family of artists, and has been a dedicated artist since childhood. She attended California College of the Arts on a full scholarship for Fine Art, with a double minor in Writing and Literature, and Ecological Practices. "I am a figurative, bronze sculpture artist with an emphasis on contemporary realism. My purpose is to find empathy in the work I create, and to explore tension and complexity of the subject matter. I’m fascinated by subtle physical gestures, like the movement of a hand, the gaze of the eyes, as well as contradictions that are enclosed in body language and how each face shares a lifetime of stories. My passion is in expressing this through my work. Something powerful happens when we let our guard down - we become vulnerable, instinctively primitive, and essentially raw. It is an honor to witness moments in life like these, that lure the viewer in, if only for a moment, it is an experience and an opportunity, so naturally expressed by life that it is inspiring artistic material for me. And in these moments the human condition gives me endless ideas for my practice. I am particularly interested in emotionally evocative subject matter, expressive of humanity and often use symbolism in my work. My molding techniques and surface treatments often blend qualities of realism, surrealism, and symbolism."

AWARDS and ACCOLADES
Stuart’s work has been exhibited in numerous accredited museums and galleries world-wide, such as the Leonardo Da Vinci Society, Natural History Museum, Butler Museum of American Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, National Sculpture Society, Salmagundi, Haggin Museum, National Arts Club, Poets and Artists and Louvre Museum. Stuart is a board member of American Women Artists, and an Elected Member of National Sculpture Society, American Artists Professional League, and Allied Artists of America. Stuart has curated and juried multiple international exhibitions. Some of Stuart's awards include: The Icon award by the Los Angeles Beverly Awards (LABA), National Portrait Society, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, California Art Club; Finalist for 14th, 15th and 16th annual Art Renewal Center (ARC) Salon; Representational Figurative Art Conference; Figurative Artist of the Year by Blink Art/Art Comes Alive; and Pre-Selected Artist of the “Figurativas” competition of the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona (MEAM) on two occasions.

COLLECTIONS
Stuart’s work is featured in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art in Catania, Sicily (MACS), Haegeumgang Museum, Geoje, South Korea, and Lunar Codex Museum, located the lunar surface of the Moon. Her work is also within the LifeShip Museum- a time capsule on the Moon that features DNA from Earth and is unrelated to the Lunar Codex. Stuart is amongst the first women artists to display art on the Moon. Stuart's work is numerous private collections world-wide.

Artist:
OCEANA RAIN STUART

Biography

OCEANA RAIN STUART is an American, bronze sculptor, and poet. Stuart grew up in a multi-generational family of artists, and has been a dedicated artist since childhood. She attended California College of the Arts on a full scholarship for Fine Art, with a double minor in Writing and Literature, and Ecological Practices.

Awards and Accolades

Stuart’s work has been published in numerous books and art magazines and has been exhibited in over 100 accredited museums and galleries world-wide. Some of the exhibitions include Leonardo Da Vinci Society, Natural History Museum, Butler Museum of American Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, National Sculpture Society, Salmagundi; National Arts Club, Poets and Artists and Louvre Museum. Stuart is a board member of American Women Artists, and an Elected Member of National Sculpture Society, American Artists Professional League, and Allied Artists of America. Stuart has curated and juried multiple international exhibitions. Some of Stuart's awards include: The Icon award by the Los Angeles Beverly Awards (LABA), National Portrait Society, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, California Art Club; Finalist for 14th, 15th and 16th annual Art Renewal Center (ARC) Salon; Representational Figurative Art Conference; Figurative Artist of the Year by Blink Art/Art Comes Alive; and Pre-Selected Artist of the “Figurativas” competition of the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona (MEAM) on two occasions.

Collections

Stuart’s work is featured in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art in Catania, Sicily (MACS), Haegeumgang Museum, Geoje, South Korea, and Lunar Codex Museum, located the lunar surface of the Moon. Her work is also within the LifeShip Museum- a time capsule on the Moon that features DNA from Earth and is unrelated to the Lunar Codex. Stuart is amongst the first women artists to display art on the Moon. Stuart's work is numerous private collections world-wide.

Artist Statement

"I am a figurative, bronze sculpture artist with an emphasis on contemporary realism. My purpose is to find empathy in the work I create, and to explore tension and complexity of the subject matter. I’m fascinated by subtle physical gestures, like the movement of a hand, the gaze of the eyes, as well as contradictions that are enclosed in body language and how each face shares a lifetime of stories. My passion is in expressing this through my work. Something powerful happens when we let our guard down - we become vulnerable, instinctively primitive, and essentially raw. It is an honor to witness moments in life like these, that lure the viewer in, if only for a moment, it is an experience and an opportunity, so naturally expressed by life that it is inspiring artistic material for me. And in these moments the human condition gives me endless ideas for my practice. I am particularly interested in emotionally evocative subject matter, expressive of humanity and often use symbolism in my work. My molding techniques and surface treatments often blend qualities of realism, surrealism, and symbolism."

Hans Wolfgang Muller Photography - About gallery

Hans Wolfgang Muller Photography - About gallery
Hans Wolfgang Muller has an Oldschool style of Photography. He reminiscence the gone era, times and recreate it in his work, with little sprinkles of digital Retouching. His photographs are clearly a combination of both realistic and surrealistic world.

Artist:
Hans Wolfgang Müller

Education, Awards

Education Fotoclub Buenos Aires - Argentina Awards Recognitions: (2016) 2th MIROC Exibition Edenvale 2016 - SOUTH AFRICA - GOLDEN ICS MEDAL - Encuentro de amor (2016) 4 TH OZONE ZONE INTERNATIONAL PHOTO SALON COMPETITION 2016 - PORTRAIT SECTION - "Mr. Oscar" - PSA SILVER MEDAL (2016) MONOCHROME AWARDS INTERNATIONAL BLACK&WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - HONORABLE MENTION - My Cool firend, Portrait Section (2016) 3rd Bangladesh Photography Society BPS international photography competition & exhibition 2016 - FIAP SILVER MEDAL - Monochrome - Mr Hairs - BPS HONORABLE MENTION - Monochrome - Bar de Cao (2016) 66è TROFEU PELL - Barcelona - PSA GOLD MEDAL - Obra: El Hippie (2016) PRIMER SALON NACIONAL GRUPO FOTOGRAFICO PAMPA - RETRATO - 1º PREMIO - El Hippie (2016) XXXVIII CONCURSO DE FOTOGRAFIA VILA D´ALMENARA - II SALON INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL 2016 - FIAP Bronze Medal - Color - Obra " El catalán" - CEF Mención de Honor - Creativa - Obra "El enviado" - Aceptada Color - Obra: Zelasken - Aceptadas Monocromo - Obras El Malevo, El Hippie, Bar de Cao y Don Oscar (2016) Europa 2016 XV Salo Internaional de Fotografía (FOTOARTREUS) CEF MEDALLA DE PLATA Sección Monocromo - Obra: Bar de Cao 5 obras aceptadas Francisco y su manzana, Zelasken, Je suis sauvage, Vieja estación y El Vasco (2016) VII INTERNATONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST SANT JUST DANVERS - Monochrome - Honorable Mention FIAP - Obra : El hechicero (2016) CIPAE CHINA 16º Salon Internacional 4 obras finalistas (2016) Salon Internacional F2 - Mención de Honor - Sección Monocromo . Obra " La soledad del poder" (2016) Premios Cóndor FAF - Medalla de Honor - Sección Creativa - Obra "El Enviado" - " Taller de ayer" Aceptada seccion color (2015) 2º PREMIO 28º Salon Concurso Fotografico Nacional San Cristóbal Seguros Obra La manzana de Francisco (2015) 2nd Prize "URBE" Contest Fotocommunity.es - "Lluvia Nocturna en San Telmo" - Samyang 14 mm Lens (2015) 2 nd Bavarian International Circuit 2015 Monochrome open - 2 Accepted Stop boy Loneliness at midnight (2015) 26th Colour Print Biennial England - FIAP - World Cup Winner Argentina Obra: El Vasco (2015) Hamdam Bin Mohamed Bin Rachid Al Maktum Finalista HIPA International Contest - DUBAI - Categoría "Fotografía Nocturna" Obra: Dark chat (2015) Premios Cóndor FAF - Medalla de Honor "Seccion Color" Obra "Vieja Estación" (2015) 1º Premio Concurso "Amanece en Buenos Aires" - Asociación de Hoteles, Restaurantes, Confiterías y Cafés de Buenos Aires $ 6.000 (2014) 1º Premio Concurso "El riesgo" Prudencia Seguros. Obra: El riesgo de la imprudencia ( $ 15.000) (2014) 2º Premio Concurso “Finding Italy Beyond Italy” THE NATIONAL AMERICAN ITALIAN FOUNDATION - http://www.niaf.org (2014) Mención de Honor - Monocromo - IV Salón Anual de Arte Fotográfico Foto Club Concepción FAF - Obra: "Bar de Cao" (2014) 2º Premio Open House Buenos Aires - Festival de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Obra: "Mi pedacito de sol" (2012) Mención de Jurado Concurso "Bares de Buenos Aires" Asociación de Hoteles, Restaurantes, Confiterías y Cafés de Buenos Aires (2012) Obra: "Desayuno bohemio" 1º Premio Asociación de Hoteles, Restaurantes, Confiterías y Cafés de Buenos $ 9.000 (2012) Mención de Jurado Concurso "Bares de Buenos Aires" Asociación de Hoteles, Restaurantes, Confiterías y Cafés de Buenos (1981)Concurso interno Fotoclub Buenos Aires - LA BOCA - Diapositiva Color (1981)

Esther Huser Oil paintings - Artist Statement

Esther Huser Oil paintings - Artist Statement
In my work, I reconsider the question of Mimesis, traditionally related closely to realism art. My picture language consists of the false pretense that my paintings copy nature. In fact, I start out with a subject matter entirely designed and drawn in a digital medium like photoshop. I first create my own idealized view solely on a computer screen. The basis for these steps is my thousands of pictures I took over the past years. After having assembled a composition in photoshop, I have to adjust matching light and shadows and the value conditions on all the different pictures, before I start to paint my creation in oil. My artistic goal is to virtually design my own view of nature and pretend with the technique of realism art, that the viewer sees an existing part of a cabbage field. I create a paradox by taking advantage of a false pretense lying in realism art: that it is copying nature.

Artist:
Esther Huser

Her work

Award-winning Swiss artist Esther Huser has mastered the style of contemporary realism to create astounding works of great beauty and intimate detail. Huser explores the intricacies of the natural world with close-up figurative renderings of plants and natural objects consisting only a minimal palette of five colors. Above all, Huser seeks to uncover the “unseen details,” that surround us in everyday life yet are still invisible. Rather than inviting the viewer to perceive, say, a plant as a general shape, she delves into the visual minutiae to introduce the viewer to something entirely new. Since 2019, Huser is making her own perfect images of nature. She composes her painting first virtually out of hundrets of her pictures. Each cabbage or flower is not a copy of a photography but a painted version of her invented plants.

BACKGROUND

2023 My painting ‘My vision of hope’ on its way to the moon! As part of the Art Renewal Competition my painting will be included in the Lunar Codex "The Polaris Collection". Here are the ▶ Details. Selected for the 16th International ARC Salon at Sotheby's in New York with the painting 'My vision of hope'. Exhibition ▶ Real'23: 'Realistic Painting in Switzerland', Rapperswil CH. 'Open Atelier', organized by the Weinfelden municipality. ​ 2022 Special Price 'Fashion Week San Diego' in the 16th International ARC Salon. International Guild of Realism (IGOR): Selected for the fall online exhibition with the patining 'My vision of hope'. ​ ​2021 Selected for the fundraising group exhibition 'birds for Sofia' at ▶ Sugarlift Gallery in New York. Art Show of the 'Swiss Art Project' in Zurich, Switzerland with the painting 'Brassica' and a final place in the judging. ​ 2020 Selected for the 14th International ARC Salon online exhibition (due to Corona Pandemic) at Sotheby's in New York with the painting 'In the field'. Selected by the ▶ Internet Art Review 'The Blue Review' for an article titled '20 most Important Female Artists of 2020'. ​ 2019 Selected for the ▶ 14th International ARC Salon Exhibition at the Eureopean Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Spain with the painting 'In the field'. Finalist in the ▶ International art competition 'Arte figurativas 2019' at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Spain, with the painting 'Brassica'. 1st price at the 13th International fine art competition 'Premio Arte Laguna' in Venice, Italy: Prestige award Biafarin: 1st price category painting. February - September: Artist in residence 'Remise' Weinfelden, Switzerland. ​ 2018 October: Solo show in the gallery Vogtei in Herrliberg, Zurich Finalist for the prestigious 13th International ARC Salon Competition with five paintings at the ▶ Art Renewal Center. American 'Artist Magazine': Honorable mention in the category 'landscape'. Published march 2018 in the

2016: ▶ 11th International juried exhibition, Gallery 1261 August 24 - September 17, 2016, Denver Colorado with the painting 'Abu Markub' ▶ 31th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition : Selected to show at the collective exhibition, August 11-23, 2016, in New York with the paintings: 'Trachystemon', 'Gunnera I', and 'Gunnera II' Member of The International Guild of Realism (IGOR) Represented on 'artsy' by 'Gallery 1261', Denver Colorado 2015: Second place in the still life / interior category of The Artist's Magazine's 2015 Annual Competition with the painting 'Fridge' Finalist in the category 'animals' of The Artist's Magazine's Annual Competition with the painting 'Abu Markub' 2014/2017: Workshops for contemporary realism in Austin, TX and at the Grand Central Atelier, NY. 1998-2006 Master of Science and PhD in Psychotherapy, Universities of Friborg and Zurich, Switzerland 1991-2013 Abstract sculptures and decorative art with polymer clay 1982-1991 Navigator on offshore sailboa
Thuan Le Cu - My oil paintings depict ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam.

Thuan Le Cu - My oil paintings depict ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam.

Artist:
Lê Cù Thuần

LE CU THUAN. Born in 1981 in Tuyen Quang Graduated from Vietnam Viet Bac School of Culture and Arts in 2001 Graduated from Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2006 Member of Vietnam Association of Arts and Sciences, Member of Association of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, Member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association. Reality Team Membership. Writing point of view: Drawing is telling stories. Technique: Draw many classes according to classical master. Exhibition: Regional art exhibition from 2000 to present. 2001 Vietnam Students Exhibition in Hanoi. Exhibition About Tuyen 2010 in Hanoi. Exhibition of works in the collection of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2011 in Hanoi. Exhibition of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2011, 2012 in Hanoi. The 2012 Imperial Energy Exhibition in Hue. 2014 National Youth Festival Exhibition in Hanoi. 2014 Back to Top Exhibition at Thanh Trung Gallerry. Exhibition of armed forces and revolutionary war 2014 in Hanoi. Exhibition of works in the collection of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2014 in Hanoi. Exhibition of Photographic Art on the theme HTVLTTGĐHCM by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism 2015 in Nghe An, 2015 National Exhibition in Hanoi, Contemporary TET Painting Market-TET ART 2015 in Hanoi, TODAY Exhibition in Hanoi 2016, Domino Art Fair in Hanoi 2017, Exhibition of silk paintings and silk products in America 2017, Real Group Exhibition 2015, 2017 at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. The Reality Group Exhibition at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts 2018. Award: Young author award of the National Committee of the Union of Vietnam Fine Arts Associations 2001. The same prize of Vietnam Fine Arts Association in 2011, 2012. Prize of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2013. Awards C of the Vietnam Ethnic Minority Association in 2014, C Prize of Photography Fine Arts Exhibition on the topic of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2015, Consolation Prize of the Association of Ethnic Minorities in the region year: 2015, 2016, 2019 Prize B of the Vietnam Association for Ethnic Minority Studies: 2016, 2019. Contact address: village 4, Trung Mon commune, Yen Son, Tuyen Quang, Viet Nam. Tel: (+84)766300991. Email: lecuthuan81@gmail.com. https://www.instagram.com/lecuthuan81. https://www.facebook.com/lecuthuan81
Exhibition of Frédéric Blaimont

Exhibition of Frédéric Blaimont
With a fabulous technique, a mixture of accomplished dexterity and the clever exploitation of the weft of the canvas, the bristles of the paintbrush or the brush, the ambient light, defying all the laws of composition, he invents balances tightrope walkers, always on the verge of breakage and ideal stability. Through his characters, Fréderic Blaimont translates real life in a tender yet uncompromising manner. What one notices, at first sight, is the banality of his subjects. Something unusual happens, the solitude of his characters is particularly present. His painting is a mixture of benevolence and wickedness. Sometimes unpleasant with his characters he nonetheless paints them with gentleness and attention. Ordinary passers-by, anonymous, transparent like the air we breathe, are pretexts to seize the chatter of these tiny heroes. If we listen, they tell us their past, their hopes, and their fears, one may recognize some of them.

Artist's Statement
The truth is found in observation. I am curious about my contemporaries, people in their everyday life. I like to watch their attitudes without complacency; I like their faults. Their imperfections are sympathetic to me, their authenticity makes them touching, moving, endearing, close to us. I try to reproduce in my paintings these characteristics and the feelings they arouse in me. And it is with great sincerity that I would like, through my painting, to share with you my interest and my look for these transparent anonymous and so common.
Moving, natural, captured by a lucid unforgiving vision, these portraits represent an image of society that the artist brushes with benevolence. –Luis Porquet / Journalist and art critic

Artist:
Frédéric Blaimont

Frédéric Blaimont is a brilliant portrait painter. With a fabulous technique, a mixture of accomplished dexterity and the clever exploitation of the weft of the canvas, the bristles of the paintbrush, ambient light, defying all the laws of composition, he invents balances tightrope walkers, always on the verge of breakage and ideal stability. Living in South West France, Blaimont exhibits mainly in galleries in France and Europe. He was distinguished by the magazine “Miroir de l’Art” as one of the 100 leading artists followed by gallery owners, collectors and art lovers. In 2017, he received the Renée Bernard Award from the Taylor Paris Foundation.

Distinctions & training

• Distinguished by the magazines "Mirror of Art" and "Aesthetica" as part of the 100 contemporary artists of the future. • Laureate "Renée Bernard Award" from the Taylor Foundation (2017) • Nominated in the Luxembourg Art Prize (2015) by Galerie Hervé Lancelin • Grand Prix at the Salon des Artistes Méridionaux (2008) Education • School of Graphic Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) - Basel - Switzerland • National School of Decorative Arts - Paris • Massier at the Met de Penninghen workshop - Paris • CAP as a painter - Meaux

Personal exhibitions

2019 • Airial gallery - Mimizan • The blue donkey gallery - Marciac 2018 • Galerie Art du temps Luxart in collaboration with Delem Private Bank Arlon - Belgium • Galerie De l'Ancien Courrier - Montpellier 2017 • Galerie Courcelles Contemporary Art - Paris • Art Gallery of Time - Cleon of Andran - Drôme 2016 • Gallery Of The Old Courier - Montpellier • Galerie Duchoze - Rouen 2015 • Center of Contemporary Art - Mont-de-Marsan 2014 • Sakah Gallery - Toulouse 2013 • Anagama Gallery - Versailles 2012 • Sparts Gallery - Paris 2010 • Gallery "of all colors" - Saint-Clar • Yves Callet-Molin Gallery - Vevey - Switzerland 2009 • "Nothing" Gallery Aix en Provence • Roger Betti Gallery - Toulouse 2008 • The Blue Donkey Gallery - Marciac

Collective exhibitions

2019 • Galerie L'Angélus New Art - Barbizon • Anagama Gallery - Versailles • Art Gallery of Time - Cleon of Andran - Drôme • Gallery of the Ancient Courier - Montpellier • Biennale of Contemporary Art André Malraux Cultural Center - Le Pecq • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • Passage to Art - Cherbourg 2018 • Salon Art Up - Castle Gallery - Lille • Salon Saint Sever de Rustan - Guest of Honor • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • The 111 arts - Toulouse 2017 • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • The 111 Arts - Toulouse • Art Up Salon - Duchoze Gallery - Rouen • Salon de la Figuration Critique - Paris • Taylor Foundation - Paris Winner "Renée Bernard Prize" 2016 • Salon de la Figuration critique - Paris • International Fair of Contemporary Art in Pouilly smoked • Salon Art Karlsruhe - Roy Sfeir Gallery - Germany • Art Up Salon - Nicole Evin Gallery - Lille 2015 • Macparis Salon - Paris • Hervé Lancelin Gallery nominated in Luxembourg Art Prize 2015 - Luxembourg 2011 • Lacroix Gallery - Quebec - Canada • Pont Neuf Gallery - Paris 2010 • Roger Betti Gallery - Toulouse 2009 • Salon of Southern Artists - Toulouse 2008 • Salon des Artistes Méridionaux - Grand Prix - Toulouse • Galerie L'Etang d'Art - Bages - France 2007 • Espace Saint-Nazaire - Sanary-sur-Mer
Mohamed Erraad

Mohamed Erraad
Mohamed Errad's school is oral tradition, religious festivals and rites of passage that mark life from birth to the gravestone. His second source of inspiration, he claims he found it in the beautiful Atlantic plain where he lives, dominated by the green of olive trees, the yellow of passion flowers and the red of poppies. Focusing on to Erraad, He portrays its viewer two completely different styles of painting: in his first way, the artist first paints the support of his canvas in a single color, usually yellow, and above a multitude of animals nested and layered with very bright colors. Subsequently, he scrapes, with a piece of wood, the bodies of this fauna, thus giving them decor and relief. In his other style, Errad paints phantasmagorical characters and animals, of African inspiration, tightly pressed against each other, jostling each other as if the place had to run out. We notice that the heads of the characters are like masks with large holes in place of the eyes.

Artist:
Mohamed Errad

Artist without instruction or knowledge of painting or knowledge of the great schools of art, wearing it seems that he masters with skill of master hand the art of painting, and has a very great sense of creativity that an amateur of l art can notice the diversity of the subjects tackled in these tables also at the level of the range of color applied.

Mohamed Erraad has painted since childhood since he was able to take a brush… from 1993 he devoted himself solely to painting. he discovers the different painting techniques as an autodidact. He uses seven colors including yellow (often the background of his paintings), sea and sky blue, white, green, rouge and black. Originally from the Chaiadma tribe north of Essaouira, from the family of the Regraga brotherhood, his universe is nourished by oral tradition, religious festivals and rites of passage. The tumultuous imagination of his painting is inhabited by phantasmagorical characters and animals often huddled together as if levitating in the same dance. At the crossroads between art brut and folk art, the spontaneous, immediate creations of Mohammed Erraad draw us into a unique world born in southern Morocco, at the crossroads between Arab, Berber and African cultures.
MALO

MALO
Malo's work is often full of unapologetic color and is a direct product of his expressed energy — there are no sketches or previous drawings. He works solely from in-the-moment energy and he transfers what he sees and feels on to the canvas. The urgency and pace he employs to materialize what he sees are very real (to him). The rawness of his work exemplifies how his realities were never picture-perfect as the images that he renders are not either.

Artist's Statement
" My art is rooted in the experience of becoming an immigrant - something I didn't want to imagine at 17 years as Bogotá was all I knew. Being forever between two cultures has shaped my views and molded the themes of my pieces. I consider myself 100% Latino - equally Colombian and American. Throughout my art practice, I enjoy illustrating 'snapshots' of a peripatetic lifestyle — that of my own, which was focused on the survival of the time (living undocumented) and of those I encountered along the way. Creating portraits of others who have defied the odds and/or were infamous or honorable in one lifetime often takes over my canvases. A community’s history and roots are other themes that I enjoy learning about and painting."

Artist:
MALO

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Nico Amortegui, or "MALO", has lived and worked in the Southeast since arriving to the United States in 1996. Since age 15, Nico has been active in the fields of photography, design, and visual arts. A product of a large, close-knit family, Nico grew up surrounded by artists, learning carpentry, photography, interior design, and painting. Throughout his 20s, he focused on photography, traveling throughout the US to shoot for various modeling agencies, as well as surf and skate magazines. MALO resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two daughters. He now focuses on painting and sculpting and woodworking with found objects. Mahlstedt Gallery is thrilled to be a part of his rapid rise to success. He has recently finished a public work soon to be installed in New Rochelle. He has also executed multiple public works in Washington D.C. and throughout North Carolina. He has had numerous exhibitions throughout the country, including shows in Atlanta, throughout North Carolina, and at Art Basel, Miami.

Exhibitions

Oct 2019 - Jan 2020: Small Works, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art; Charlotte NC; Charlotte, May - June 2019: We See Heaven Upside Down, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art; Charlotte NC, February - May 2019: Unity Through Art, Waterworks Visual Arts Center; Salisbury NC, July 2018: Unbound and Unleashed, Red dog Gallery; Winston-Salem NC, May 2018: Speakeasy at the Hart-Witzen Gallery; Charlotte NC, April 2018: Free for All exhibit, Hart-Witzen Gallery; Charlotte NC June 2017: Sensoria / We See Heaven Upside Down, CPCC Ross Gallery; Charlotte NC, May 2017: Solo Exhibit - Carrboro Arts Center; Carrboro NC, April 2017: Free for All, Group exhibit; Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte NC; March. 2017: Mezcla, Latin American Group Show, Durham, NC March - June 2016: Unapologetic Negritude, Anacostia Community Arts Center; Washington DC, March 2016: Color Me Bad, Solo Show, Urban Grinders; Greensboro NC, March 2016: American Vices, Nonfiction Gallery; Savannah GA, Feb- Apr 2016: GMA's Biennial, Greenville Museum; Greenville NC, Feb-March 2016: Delurk Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC Jan 10, 2016: Hollywood Sound Recorders, Group show; Los Angeles CA, Jan 2016: Mint Museum, ArtSí Group Show; Charlotte NC, Jan 22 - April 9, 2016: People, Places and Exchanges, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte NC, Dec - Jan 2016: Holiday Bazar, Stone Malone Gallery; Los Angeles CA, Dec 3-8, 2015: Castelatto Group Show, Art Basel; Miami FL, Oct - Dec 2015: Fletcher Exhibit, Reece Museum; Johnson City TN, Sept 2015 - Oct 2016: NUEVOlution, Levine Museum of the New South; Charlotte NC,

Sept 2015: Scrapel Hill Art Contest, First Place Honor; Chapel Hill NC, May 2015: Concrete Canvas Mural Project, Winston-Salem NC, May 2015: 180' Solo Show, Red Dog Gallery, Winston-Salem NC, April 2015: Noche Andina, Group Show, Greensboro NC, April 2015: Art Expo New York, Pier 94, Jan 2015: Poetic Energy, Howard County Gallery II; Elliot City MD, January 2015: Contemporary South, Juried Show by Chad Alligood - Visual Art Exchange; Raleigh NC,

Awards and Grants

Regional Artist Project Grant Recipient, Arts & Science Council; 2020 Community Supported Art Program Selected Artist 2020 First Place Honor, SouthEnd Arts, September 2019 Featured Artist Award, Con A de Arte, ArtSí; Charlotte, June 2019 Creative Renewal Fellowship Recipient, Arts & Science Council; Charlotte, April 2019 Contemporary South, 2nd Place Honor for Sculpture "El Músico" - juried by Chad Alligood. Visual Art Exchange; Raleigh NC, January 2015 Mint Museum ArtSí Future Artist Award, June 2013
Rose Freymuth-Frazier

Rose Freymuth-Frazier
References from a broad swath of art history can be found in Freymuth-Frazier’s solitary subjects. Influences range from Balthus’s discomforting depictions of preadolescence, and the queen of Kitsch, Margaret Keane’s “Big Eyed” children and animals, to the heavy chiaroscuro and technical rigor of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. This unique combination of classicism and pulp results in something of a hybrid between Lowbrow aesthetic and Old Master technique. Cultural references spanning 2000 years can also be found in Freymuth-Frazier’s work, from the Roman sculpture Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 2nd century A.D., to the video 2 Girls 1 Cup. Using a complex language of symbolism like that found in medieval religious icons or the Unicorn Tapestries, the paintings address universal themes such as child development, sexuality, loss of innocence, consumerism, domestication, gender roles, androgyny and body image in our society today.

Artist's Statement
" I paint in oil because of its superior ability to represent flesh and blood. Through painstaking application my leading ladies, theatrically lit and often engaged in some sort of mini-drama, are brought to life. They tell a story that the viewer may recognize, or depict a point of view that may be new to them. Whatever the case, I intend to hold up a mirror in which the viewer finds relevance to their own experience, but I hope not to send them screaming into the river."

Artist:
Rose Freymuth-Frazier

Rose Freymuth-Frazier was born and raised in Nevada City, California - a small gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, a private boarding arts high school in northern Michigan. Upon graduation she was awarded a scholarship to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. After completing her training, and a couple of years spent in Hollywood, (which included a stint on a campy, nighttime teen soap opera), Rose turned her attention to her other interest - figurative oil painting. Seeking rigorous, technical training that most schools could not offer she returned to New York City and studied for two years at the Art Students League. After taking a master class at the New York Academy of Art with Steven Assael, she continued her studies in a tradition common to painters of the past, through full-time apprenticeship. Her first apprenticeship was for two years under Assael in his New York City studio and her second was with Odd Nerdrum in Norway, at his farm and studio on the North Sea.

Group Exhibitions

2018: On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City 2018: Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA 2018: 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City 2018: Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City 2018: Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City 2017: Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017: Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017: Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 2016: BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2015: American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015: Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2015: Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York 2015: In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 2015: Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2015: Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain 2014: Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut 2014: Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2014: Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City 2014: Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2014: Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013: 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012: Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010: Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL 2010: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2010: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2009: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009: Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009: Art Chic

2008: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2008: Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 2008: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2007: The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia 2007: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2007: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2007: Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2012: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2010: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2007: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October SELECTED COLLECTIONS: The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL

Awards and Honors

Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Odd Nerdrum - Summer Residency Program, Norway, 2005 Frank Vincent Dumond Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club, 2005 Director's Scholarship, The Art Students League, 2003 and 2004 Board of Control Scholarship, The Art Students League, 2002 Interlochen Arts Academy Scholarship, 1996
Wang Xiaojin

Wang Xiaojin
Wang Xiaojin is inspired by the distant past, particularly its women and artistry. He endeavors to capture the mood of a bygone era that was altogether most refined and conservative. The details in his paintings are drawn from traditional Chinese culture. Ornate porcelain vases with elaborate flowering arrangements, embroidered silk dresses, and modish furniture serve to create the opulent world in which his figures live. Delicate and chic, Wang’s paintings hark back to a time when being “feminine” typified a woman’s existence. The scenes created depict aristocratic ladies who would want for nothing in the materialistic sense but who had little freedom. Indeed there is an unmistakable sense of melancholy in his work. The small bird-like bodies make the women appear fragile and vulnerable while their disproportionally large faces draw attention to their sad expression. Even when the figures are active – sewing, reading, fanning themselves or even socializing – their eyes gaze wistfully into the distance. It is hard to tell whether they are dreaming of a more fulfilling life perhaps, or whether they are simply lost in boredom. Wang knows that women of the time would avoid revealing their emotions in their faces. All they would show was tranquility and grace.’ Unsurprisingly, this invisible mask makes the figures all the more profound and intriguing.

Artist's Statement
There are two kinds techniques frequently used in Chinese ink paintings; Gong Bi (using a very thin pen to paint detailed work) and Xie Yi (a more blurry, freer style that strives to capture the spirit and essence of objects and figures). There is also oil paint, which lends itself to both realistic and more expressionistic approaches. I like to experiment with all the different techniques. We live in a wonderful world and though perhaps I cannot present my imaginary world to viewers as accurately as I would like, I feel immense pleasure in my attempts to do so. Aside from expressing my own emotions, I simultaneously hope to strike a chord with viewers and bring you joy. I am not a stylish person and what I strive for is to be genuine and true to myself, rather than focus on the opinions of others. I use my heart to paint and my soul to communicate. Although my body may never be free, I yearn to make my spirit soar.

Artist:
Wang Xiaojin

Xiaojin Wang was born in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia in 1968 and graduated from the Art Department of Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China in 1991. His paintings are inspired by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Balthus, and Richter. They combine a deep awareness of Western historical artistic practice with the delicate portrayal of traditional Chinese subjects. Wang currently lives and works in Beijing.

Exhibitions

2011: Growing pains of a Lotus” group show at ART LEXING Miami, USA 2010: ART LEXING group show at ART ASIA FAIR 2010 Miami, USA 2008: 3 degrees art exhibition Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing The opening group exhibition of Song Zhuang Huandao Art Museum Beijing 2006 China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), Beijing 2006: Reed Savage Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2006: Wang Xiao Jin, Art Scene China, Shanghai (solo) 2005: Wang Xiaojin, Art Scene China, Shanghai (solo) 2005: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Reed Savage Gallery, Miami, USA 2005: Group Exhibition, Art Scene at the Westin, Shanghai 2004: Chinese Beauty: Wang Xiaojin, Art Scene China, Shanghai (solo) 2004: Red Exhibition, Red, Shanghai 2004: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kunstbunker, Munich, Germany 2004: The 10th National Art Exhibition, Shandong Province, China 2004: Group Exhibition, Magazin, Shanghai 2004: New Art from China, Kunstbunker, Munich, Germany 2003: Art Chicago 2003, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois 2003: Transformation of Paradise, Group Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai 2003: The Third China Oil Painting Exhibition-the Fringe Exhibition, Jin An Shandong Province 2002: Wang Xiaojin, J Gallery, Shanghai (solo) 2002: Artworks Exhibition in Honor of the Sixty Years Anniversary of MAO’s speech in Yang An City, Shan Xi Province, China 2002: Experienced and Trial, Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai 2001: Group Exhibition at J Gallery, Shanghai 2001: Shanghai Art Exposition, Shanghai 2000: China-Australia Exchange Exhibition, Scene Watching Gallery, Beijing 2000: "Emerging from Beijing," Group Exhibition, Church Gallery, Claremont, Washington, USA 1999: Group Exhibition, Scene Watching Gallery, Beijing 1998: Shandong Oil Painting Exhibition, Shandong, China Awarded Academic Prize, Shandong 1997: Young Artists of Shandong Exhibition, Shandong 1997: The First Oil Painting Biennial, Shandong 1996: The Second Annual Teachers’ Art Exhibition, Shandong (awarded Second Pri
Astrid Stöppel - Serie Colorful acrylics

Astrid Stöppel - Serie Colorful acrylics
Astrid Dtöppel is a contemporary artist born and based in Germany with a passion for bright pure colors and geometric shapes. Astrid's works are a part of many public and private collections in New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, California, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the UK, France, Spain, Austria, and Germany.

Artist:
Astrid Stöppel

Astrid Dtöppel is a contemporary artist born and based in Germany with a passion for bright pure colors and geometric shapes. Astrid's works are a part of many public and private collections in New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, California, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the UK, France, Spain, Austria, and Germany.

Education, Exhibitions, Awards

Education FAU Universität Erlangen und LMU München Exhibitions: CLIO Art Fair NEW YORK March 2020 ART BASEL MIAMI 2019 with Alessandro Berni Gallery New York - Aqua Art Show 2019 Germany: Show "Viva i colori" overpainted photographs June 2019 CLIO Art Fair NEW YORK March 7-10th, 2019 ART BASEL MIAMI 2018 with Alessandro Berni Gallery New York - Aqua Art Show 2018 Germany: Solo show "Blacklights" - Light Art Festival Weilheim October 2018 Germany/Landsberg "Planet earth and Colorful acrylics" solo exhibition 2th March - 30th June 2018 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn - New York November 2017 Antwerp Belgium "For optimists only" May-Aug 2017 and "Summer show" Jul-Sept 2017 Nassau42 Fine Arts Gallery Paris France "Woman's Essence" April 2017 Germany: Solo exhibition "Colorful acrylics" Aug-Sept 2016 Riccione Italy "EstatArte" August 2016 Bergamo Italy "Heart" May 2016 Cesenatico Italy "Vivere a colori" April-June 2016 Milan Italy "Woman's Essence" April 2016 Rome Italy - Flyer Art Gallery "Joyful colors 4 Christmas" December 2015 Rome Italy - Flyer Art Gallery "International Art Expo Rome" October 2015 London - The Brick Lane Gallery "Contemporary Art" May 2015 Florence Italy - Galleria Merlino Bottega d'Arte "Experiments" November 2014 Weilheim/Germany: Several Solo-Exhibitions 2012-2017

Publication and awards

Publication: 2016 Artbook "Women's Essence" 2016 Internationale Kunst heute 2017 Who's who in Visual Art Awards 2015 Palm Art Award, Happy Art History Prize, Artavita Art Contest 2016 The Artbox Project, Artavita Art Contest Link: http://astridstoeppel.com/ueber-mich/art-awards-2015/

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Corrado Zeni

Corrado Zeni
Corrado Zeni's works do not represent architectural motifs. Rather the figures are positioned on a white background. The bottom is replaced by a clear, expressive gradient. The white spatial emptiness emphasizes the individual figures and emphasizes the attributes of the "Generation Y". It can be seen that the illustrated people are removed from the urban everyday life situations. Some stand or walk closely together, without communicating with each other and without requesting a dialogue with the viewer. It builds no external barrier between the viewer and the unrelated portrayed person, nevertheless, the posture of the figures makes it impossible to engage in what has happened, to be part of the action. Zeni's work document the contemporary life and modern society on an abstract background, in it on the one hand, disordered, fast-paced nature and individualistic perceptible existence on the other.

Artist's statement:
“From my point of view, I reversed the basics of my work. For almost twenty years I have been watching people I met by chance, taking pictures, extracting them from their stories and assembling them in my own, very personal and detached story. The technique and the creative process are now free ... The style of painting is more spontaneous, less controlled and rich in symbols. "

Artist:
Corrado Zeni

Corrado Zeni is an Italian Contemporary painter who was born in 1967. His career began in 1996, in the following years as well as numerous solo and group exhibitions, he was among the finalists of Premio Cairo (2003), in the same year solo exhibitions were held at galleries Guidi&Schoen in Genoa and Ronchini in Terni.

Education and achievements

1984-1989 Studium: Instituto Statale d´Arte, Genua Studium: Scuola Grafica, Genua Awards: 1996 Premio Arte Nondadori, Milano 2003 Premio Cairo Comunication, Milano

SELECTED SOLO SHOW:

2017 _”Icons” - Galleria Pack, Milano 2016 _“BABEL” - Buonanno arte contemporanea, Forte Strino, Trento _“Éloge de la fuite” - Galerie Filser&Graef, München 2015 _“Éloge de la fuite” - Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf 2014 _”Atlas” - Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea 2013 _ “Generation why” - Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf 2010 _”Babel” - Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea _”The dream project” - BNL Milano, site specific intallation - a cura di Cristina Gilda Artese 2009 _ “Familiar Strangers” - Palazzo Cicala - Genova _ “Birds eye” - The Studio - Milano 2008 _“I still have a long way” - Ronchini arte contemporanea, Terni _ “Metropolis” (con Giacomo Costa) - a cura di Nicola Angerame - Alassio 2007 _“All Inclusive” - a cura di Luca Beatrice - galleria dieffe, Torino 2006 _“Crossing” - Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea 2005 _ “La forza dei legami deboli” - d’ AC Galleria Comunale d’arte contemporanea, Ciampino (Roma) _ “Background” - Buonanno arte contemporanea, Mezzolombardo (TN) 2004 _ “Six degrees of separation” - Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf _ “Ognuno, un giorno” - Galleria di arte moderna e contemporanea di San Marino 2003 _ “Falso Movimento” - a cura di Beatrice Buscaroli, Annovi arte contemporanea, Sassuolo (MO) _ “Sospesi” - a cura di Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea, Genova _ “Attese” - Ronchini arte contemporanea, Terni _ “Barflies” - Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea, Artefiera Bologna 2001 _ “Dipinti” - Galleria Rossotiziano, Piacenza _ “Fuori luogo” - a cura di Salvatore Galliani, Studio Ghiglione - Genova 2000 _ “Transiti” - Rocca Malatestiana, Montefiore Conca (RN) 1999 _ “Artie Fartie” - Magna Pars, Milano 1998 _ “4.30 a.m.” - Centro Civico Buranello, Genova _ “I’m here” - Centro Civico Buranello, Genova _ Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (FI)

SELECTED GROUP SHOW

2015 “Biennale Le Latitudini dell’Arte” - Palazzo Ducale, Genova “Imago Mundi” - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino “Paint!” - Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova 2014 _ “IMAGO MUNDI” 2012 _ “Premio Michetti” - Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (CH) 2011 _ “54 °Biennale di Venezia Padiglione Italia-Liguria” - Palazzo della Meridiana, Genova _ “Fratelli d’Italia” - Galleria Maniero - Roma _”Artipicità” - a cura di Chiara Argenteri - Teatro dei Filodrammatici - Milano 2010 _”Reflectino/Transmission/Absorption” _ Roma Macro Future, site specific intallation. _”Electric Years”, Unicredit PB, Genova 2009 _ “ROLLI CONTEMPORANEI 2009” - Public Installation - Museo di Palazzo Bianco - Genova _ “FRAGILE - Handle with care” - Castello di Spezzano - Modena _ ”to MOVE” - Nuovo Centro Direzionale Interporto – Trento 2007 _ “Nuovi pittori della realtà” - PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea - Milano _ “La Nuova Figurazione Italiana.-To be continued…” - a cura di Chiara Canali - Fabbrica Borroni - Bollate _ “Nuovi Realismi, Premio Michetti 2007” - a cura di Maurizio Sciaccaluga - Francavilla al mare _ “Curve Pericolose” - a cura di Maurizio Sciaccaluga - Casa del Pane - Milano _ “Capitale umano, capitale sociale” - Palazzo trentini - Trento _ “Linee all’orizzonte” - a cura di Maurizio Sciaccaluga - GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Genova 2006 _ ”La donna oggetto. Miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900 - 2005” - a cura di Luca Beatrice - Castello Sforzesco di Vigevano _ ”Human@rt” - Galleria d’arte contemporanea - Catania _”Contro - vento” - a cura di Maurizio Sciaccaluga - Palazzo Magnani - Reggio Emilia 2005 _ “Cow Parade” - Firenze, a cura di gianluca Marziani _ “Premio Maretti” - galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino _ “La Santa Alleanza” - a cura di L. Beatrice e M. Sciaccaluga - galleria Annovi - Sassuolo _ “Seven...everything goes to hell” - Palazzo Pretorio - Certaldo _ “Premio Fabbri” - Fondazione del Monte, Bologna 2004 _ “Ad Arte” MART -

Mario Sánchez Nevado

Mario Sánchez Nevado
With a solid style, Mario Sánchez Nevado's conceptual artworks bring an emotional impact to the viewer, creating tales about universal ideas and feelings easy to relate to. His usage of colors is the key to creating atmospheres that are catchy but ambiguous at the same time, meanwhile, a critique of society and politics is usually found between the lines, as well as the roles we develop as emotional human beings in a historical era dominated by superficiality. His striking collection is deeply woven with bold narratives that allow the viewer to create their own vision of what they are seeing. Part magical storyteller and part sober messenger of society's ills, Mario's works begs for a deeper consideration of the world around us.

Artist:
Aégis

Hello! My name is Mario Sánchez Nevado and I am a storyteller who switched his old typewriter for a handful of colors. I am a freelance Illustrator, Art Director and Photographer headquartered in Madrid (Spain). To communicate is my passion, and to create, my way of life. I think that everyone has a good story to tell. I have created mine from the need of showing the world as an emotional and contextual experience. My language is obscure, surreal and caustic, but my creations talk about everyday life… Where the most fascinating stories are told. I am a vocational, freelance artist. I love to create artworks and designs for CD albums, books and posters. Outside of the studio, I work as Art Director of the international artistic collective Hysterical Minds. I also like giving motivational lectures and digital art workshops. Education: Fine Arts Degree, University of Murcia, Spain. 2003 - 08

Exhibitions

2015: Minocom Gallery – Permanent Collection (São Paulo, Brazil). 2015: Dynamite Gallery – Permanent Collection (Brighton, UK). 2013: Creatives Rising. MOMA & Guggenheim. New York. 2013: Art Takes Paris. See Me. 2013: Zombie Art. Warmstreets Gallery. Lynchburg (Virgina, US). 2013: We are art people. The naked eye gallery, Brighton (UK). 2013: The story of the Creative. New York. 2013: I Symposyum of Art & Psychology. UDIMA University, Madrid (Spain). 2012: XX Euskal Encounter (Bilbao / Spain). 2012: Art takes Times Square w/ Artists Wanted (New York City). 2012: Parallax Art Fair w/ Hysterical Minds (London). 2011: Arttiko Collective grupal. Cafetearte (Madrid). 2011: Found Sights: Thoughs about Time&Memory. LAB (Murcia). 2010: Solo exhibit - retrospective. Ocio (Murcia). 2010: 9th Showcase of new Video Producers ICAIC. Luidwig Foundation. La Habana (Cuba). 2010: Creajoven: Winners exhibitions of photography. Laboratorio de Arte Joven (Murcia - Spain). 2009: Carnival. Culture House (Cehegín). 2009: Projects 5: Cyberart and new Medias. Videoart exhibition. Molinos del Río Museum. Murcia (Spain). 2008: II Video Producers Showcase. Puertas de Castilla (Murcia). 2007: Creajoven Comic runner-ups expo. La Nave de Puente Tocinos. Spain. 2007: Fine Arts faculty collective expo. Cuartel de Artillería. Murcia (Spain).Read Less

Awards

2015: Emmy Awards: ‘Best Commercial’ Nominee for ‘Dream On’ by Goodby Silverstein (credited artist). 2015: Cannes Festival: Silver Lion best Film, Gold Cyber Lion best Social Media, Silver Cyber Lion best Animation for ‘Dream On’ by Goodby Silverstein (credited artist) + (Cannes Archive) 2015: Pencil D&AD “Best Advertising Film” for ‘Dream On’ by Goodby Silverstein (credited artist). 2014: Gold Stellar Award – Wide Open Digital – Digital Arts California. 2013: MASTER Award in Surreal. Exposé 11 - Ballistic Publishing. 2012: MASTER Award in Abstract & Design. Exposé 10 - Ballistic Publishing. 2011: Award of Excellence in Abstract Category. Exposé 9 - Ballistic Publishing. 2001: Nonsense Society Self-portraiture Awards. 3rd place. 2010: Creajoven: Photography: Second place with "Memories Collector" (Murcia - Spain) 2010: Creajoven: Performing Arts: Third place with "The Mourners" (Murcia - Spain) 2010: II La Verdad Web awards: Best Culture website: Winner. Spain. 2009: The Gates of Metal Awards: Best metal album cover for Ashent's Deconstructive. 2008: Many Sided Artist Contest: Winner. USA. 2007: Sweet Moonlight. Story writtings about the Moon. Second place. Spain. 2003: Alquipir. Story writting "The words" contest. First place. Spain. 2002: St. Jordi festivities drawing local contest: First place. Spain.

Publications

2012: Exposé 10 (Ballistic Publishing - Australia). 2012: "S" (Babylon Ed - Spain). 2012: Mirage (Mad Artist Publishing - Canada). 2012: The Zombook (Graffito Pl. - UK). 2011: Retrospectiva (Bubok Pl. - Spain). 2011: Exposé 9 (Ballistic Publishing). 2010: The Art Book. 2010: The Workbook. 2012 - 2005: 9 (!) Daily Deviations Awards given by deviantArt. 2007: Best of the year. Phirebrush. 2007: Image of the month with "Hidden Place". Advanced Photoshop Magazine. 2007: Image of the month with "Marooned". GFX Artist. 2006: Monographic in Nosólomúsica (Telecinco TV Channel, Spain). 2006: Best of the year. Phirebrush.
Paintings by Bore Ivanoff. - A pure palette for discerning eyes...

Paintings by Bore Ivanoff. - A pure palette for discerning eyes...
Bore Ivanoff's art is a demonstration that shows how the overall quality of a resolutely contemporary composition and the pictorial solutions associated with an intentional abstraction can be used to represent a non-conventional subject. A pure palette for discerning eyes, where each of the "flavors" is a mixture, composed of ingredients whose exact proportions are known only to the author. A work that represents neither a physical entity nor a metaphysical entity outside of it and resists any attempt to fit it into existing categories, or to explain it as an exercise deliberately insincere in a formal anachronism and pictorial.
For Boré Paris it’s the kind of place that offers the right combination of inspiration and pain and suffering to keep him stimulated and painting. Independent and self-confident, with a remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue the viewer ... he prefers the enigmatic, the unconventional, and the unexpected. His work is precise, yet it teeters on the threshold of delirium and chaos. He brings outrageous levels, of pictorial realization to his work. His compositions are a sophisticated exercise in the manipulation of form, keyed-up color, density, illusionism, brushwork, and compression. The interior and the exterior merge to produce a single image whose complexities are almost impossible to untangle. The result is which the abstract nearly trumps the real.

Artist:
Bore Ivanoff

Bore Ivanoff. Contemporary, protean artist, based in Paris since 2001. Originally from Eastern Europe. Boré Ivanoff essentially paints views of Paris since 2012. Subtle blend of glory, pain and suffering, the city of light is his greatest source of inspiration. Trying to intrigue and surprise his audience, he focuses on transcribing an unconventional Paris, unexpected, enigmatic, "never seen before". Between the abstract and the real... Sophisticated and complex, Boré Ivanoff's works oscillate between abstraction and realism. The artist manipulates shapes and colors and reinvents reality to make it subtly abstract but always recognizable. In his compositions where interiors and exteriors intermingle and seem inseparable, Boré experiments and explores the boundaries of reality.

Exhibitions

2019. 12 Oct. Selected to participate the ArtLab show, organized by Benjamin Eck art Gallery, Munich. 2018, -4 Oct - 4 Dec. Join me in the City, Group Exhibit in the Eclectic Gallery in London, UK. - 16-21 October, a group show, "The Abstract Real" in the Royal Hall de la Madeleine, Paris 8ème. -July, participation in a group exhibition "Hyperrealism", Gallery Atelier-Saint-Honoré", Paris 8ème. 2017: Novembre, a group show titled "The Abstract Nature of Reality" in the Royal Hall in La Madeleine, Paris 8ème Mai, A Solo show "Les Miroirs de Paris",in "Paris Country Club". Rueil-Malmaison 2016. Juin. Exposition dans la Salle Royale de la Madeleine, Paris 8ème. Mar. Exposition au Institut Culturel Bulgare de Prague, République Tchèque. 2015. -Nov. Exposition au Cercle France-Ameriques, Paris 8ème. 2014. - Dec. Exposition, One day show, « Paris 13, entre Histoire et Modernité », École Bulgare de Paris, à Paris 8ème. - Jul. Exposition « Paris 13, entre Histoire et Modernité », l’Institut Culturel Bulgare à Paris 8ème. 2013: - Oct. Exposition, « Paris 13, entre Histoire et Modernité », L’Âge d’Or, Paris 13ème. - Sept. Exposition « Paris 13 entre Histoire et Modernité », Centre Culturel des Finances, Ministère des Finances, Paris 12ème. 2010: - Mar. « La Maison d’Occitanie », Toulouse. -Aout. « Maison Gadal », Ussat-les-Bains, Ariége. - Dec. Théâtre Musical de Pibrac, région de Toulouse. 2009. - Jun. Mairie du Lichtenau, Westphalie, Allemagne. - Sept. Galerie« Arte », Sofia, Bulgarie. 2008. - Mai. Galerie Municipale, Kazanlak, Bulgarie. 2007. - Residence Adoma « Annam », Paris 20ème, - Sept. Circulo Mercantil y Cultural, Vigo, Galicia, Espagne. - Oct. Salones « Bahia » Vigo, Galicia, Espagne. - Nov. Kunst et Heimathaus, Sande, Paderborn, Westphalie, Allemagne. 2006: - Galerie « Herga », Estella-Lizarra, Navarre, Espagne. 2005: - Maison Basque de Paris, Saint Ouen, France. 2004: - Espace Culturel Bulgare, Rue Stendhal, Paris 20ème, France. 2003: - Galerie « Ex

2002. - Galerie « Compagnie des Arts », Paris 2ème, France, 1999. - Galerie « Ruvell », Kazanlak, Bulgarie. - « Café Galerie » avec présentation de son roman autobiographique « Mes rêves africains », Kazanlak, Bulgarie. 1997. - Salle « Sredetz », Ministère de la Culture, Sofia, Bulgarie. - «Maison de Balabanov», Plovdiv, Bulgarie. 1996. - Galerie Municipale, Kazanlak, Bulgarie. 1995. - Galerie « Emile Vincent », Paris 5ème, France. 1988. - Club des Artistes Indépendants, Kazanlak, Bulgarie

PARTICIPATIONS

2003: - « Portes Ouvertes » des Artistes de Ménilmontant, Paris 20ème. Expo partage avec Max Coté, un peintre du Benin. 2002: - « Festival de Montmartre », Salle des Fêtes, Mairie du 18ème, Paris. 2001: - Exposition de peintres et sculptures bulgares « La Palette Bulgare » à l’Hôtel de Ville d’Aix-en-Provence. - Exposition des Résidents de l’Armée du Salut, La Cité de Refuge-Centre Espoir, Paris13ème 2000: - Salon International des Arts et Culture en « Gare Maritime » à Cannes, France. 1999: – Exposition collective pour la « Fête de la Rose », Galerie « Ruvel », Kazanlak, Bulgarie. Exposition pour la « Semaine de l’Afrique du Sud »-Galerie Ruvel–Kazanlak, Bulgarie. 1990: - Exposition collective des Artistes Indépendants, Salle « Iskra », Kazanlak, Bulgarie. 1989: - Manifestation des Artistes Indépendants, Kazanlak, Bulgarie.

Abandoned places by Torsten Schmidt

Abandoned places by Torsten Schmidt
Abandoned Places ist eine Werkreihe, die sich mit dem Verlassen sein beschäftigt. Als Allegorie der sozialen Einsamkeit erzählt Schmidt in seiner Ausstellung „Abandoned Places“ von verlassenen Orten. Die heruntergekommenen Innenräume, die nutzlos gewordenen Gegenstände oder verrosteten Mobilitätswerkezeuge, die die Menschen an anderen Orten ersetzt haben, erzählen Geschichten über Heimat sowie das Verlassen derselben. Oder von sozialen Räumen, deren Nutzung nicht mehr möglich oder erwünscht ist. Schmidt agiert dabei als Beobachter, niemals wertet es die Dinge, die er sieht. An den Orten arrangiert er nichts, fotografiert aus unterschiedlichen Winkel bei Tageslicht. Auch wenn diese Orte dem unüber-sehbarem Verfall überlassen sind, portraitiert Schmidt diese Orte doch in ihrer Würde und Schönheit.

Abandoned Places
Abandoned Places is a series of works dealing with leaving. As an allegory of social loneliness, Schmidt tells of abandoned places in his exhibition “Abandoned Places”. The dilapidated interiors, the useless objects or rusted mobility tools that have replaced people in other places tell stories about home and leaving it. Or of social spaces, the use of which is no longer possible or desired. Schmidt acts as an observer, never evaluating the things he sees. He arranges nothing at the locations, photographs from different angles in daylight. Even if these places are left to the unmistakable decay, Schmidt portrays these places in their dignity and beauty.

Artist:
Torsten Schmidt

What started as a hobby became his passion. Every photoshoot means a new challenge. Creativity, naturalness and an expressive visual language distinguish pictures that differ from the crowd. Put him or her in the mood that fits the picture. Watch and trigger at the right moment. Conduct with clear information or follow instinctive movements. Generate feelings.
Erin Cone

Erin Cone

Artist:
Erin Cone

Education

Education Erin Cone was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1976. From a very early age, she loved to draw and was soon painting in watercolor and oils. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Texas in 1998 and working briefly in the design industry, Cone began her professional fine art career at the age of 24, with her first solo show the following year. In 2002, she moved with her husband to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

artist’s statement

I emphasize visual impact over narrative context, focusing on the subtle orchestration of my subject within a framework of design. I create a deliberate push-and-pull between near-photorealistic detail and my own vocabulary of visual glitches that challenge that very realism. This duality is central to my work and allows the figures I paint to remain wholly representational while functioning abstractly — evoking emotion without defining it.

SELECTED PRESS:

L'Artiste Magazine, September 2014 American Art Collector, October 2013 The Artist's Magazine, October 2013 Nova Magazine, June 2013 Architectural Digest Magazine, July 2012 Oxford American Magazine, June 2012 MYP Magazine, April 2012 American Art Collector, May 2011 New American Paintings (Vol. 90), Oct/Nov 2010 Poets and Artists Magazine, August 2010; Cover artist » American Art Collector Magazine, June 2010 Southwest Art Magazine's Sept. 2008 Emerging Artist issue as a "Success Story"; Cover artist » Art Calendar Magazine, January 2008; Cover artist » American Art Collector Magazine, October 2006; Cover artist » Marin Magazine, October 2006 Southwest Art Magazine's November 2005 – “Face Time: Artist’s Self-portraits” Art & Antiques Magazine’s Summer 2005-2006 Insider’s Guide Santa Fean Magazine's June 2005 Special Art Issue as one of Santa Fe's "Five Artists to Watch" Southwest Art Magazine's September 2003 "21 Under 31" - as one of the top 21 emerging artists

Adam xxxNeatexxx

Adam xxxNeatexxx
Adam Neate works within a personal contemporary Cubist aesthetic he calls “dimensionalism,” He began his career by leaving his artworks on the street, yet now shows the paintings and assemblages in galleries. With notable influences from Francis Bacon and from Pablo Picasso, his practice combines street art techniques and materials with traditional methods of mark-making and construction. Neate has expressed that “the whole point of being an artist is to be creative and to create, to invent new ways of seeing and showing the world.”

Techniques
Uses aerosols and found objects, he painted on cardboard boxes, which he collected from the street, avoiding the use of canvas because of its cost. His work can have two and three-dimensional qualities, as he tears the material, builds it in layers and staples pieces together, mainly making figurative images, which include self-portraits and portraits of friends. In an essay in December 2012, art historian Ben Jones wrote "In Adam Neate's most recent work, space itself becomes the medium. The accumulated plasticity of Cubism's two distinct phases has been re-energized by Neate's own distinctive mode: Dimensional Materialism. To get the full multi-dimensional effect, the viewer is asked to activate their own viewing space ...as you move and change vantage point, negative space is held in balance, unleashed, then restrained again. The image resolves itself. Foreground to background shifting, space dissolving, volume folds in, energy pushes out ...Neate's compositions are mapped by sensations of simultaneity. Multiple moments of past experience are elided with a slowed down and extended present moment."

Artist:
Adam Neate

Education

Adam Neate (born 1977) is a British painter, conceptual artist and described by The Telegraph in 2008 as "one of the world's best-known street artists". He specialised in painting urban art on recycled cardboard and has left thousands of works in the street for anyone to collect. He is a contributor from the movement in transferring street art into galleries. Neate's street art has garnered global interest, having been documented on CNN reports and European television. Major collectors and celebrities are fighting for his original works and international critics have lauded the artist's work. Since 2011 Neate has been mastering his own language of 'Dimensional Painting'.

Notable exhibitions

Jan 21 – 24, 2016 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms at Art Stage Singapore 2016 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms Jan 22 – 25, 2015 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms at Art Stage Singapore 2015 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms Jan 16 – 19, 2014 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms at Art Stage Singapore 2014 Elms Lesters Painting Rooms 2012: 'Dimensional Editions and Paintings' 2011: 'Dimensional Paintings' 2010: 'The Flock Series', Elms Lesters, London - five key works were displayed 2009: A New Understanding' - Neate explored how to portray the fourth dimension.

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