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Lindsey de Ovies

August 16, 2013, 7:32 am
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Lindsey de Ovies




ABOUT ME


What differentiates one artist from another is their perspective—that unique take on the internal/external world that ideally pulls the viewer in. As an American artist living in Paris, I am a cultural hybrid straddling two vastly different civilizations, remaining somewhat alien in both. Observing my reality from this bifocal vantage point has informed my art and provided me with an exceptionally fertile breeding ground for new material.

Essentially my work questions all things conventional: commitment/responsibility, social integration, stereotype/identity, and all stages of maturing (birth, youth, marriage, family, mid-life, the randomness of death & beyond). In an effort to defy gravity, my pieces are often light on the surface, but multi-layered in message












As an American artist living in Paris, Lindsey De Ovies is a cultural hybrid straddling two vastly different civilizations, remaining somewhat alien in both. Observing her reality from this bifocal vantage point has informed the art of Lindsey De Ovies and provided her with an exceptionally fertile breeding ground for new material.

Lindsey de Ovies is a self-taught sculptor. Following her studies at Parsons School of Design, Lindsey De Ovies worked as a fashion designer for 15 years in New York, Asia and Europe. After moving to Paris in 1989, her passion for fashion design slowly evaporated, and in 2000 Lindsey De Ovies began her career as an artist. Over the past ten years, Lindsey De Ovies has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and her work is part of private collections around the world.

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Richard Garriott Stejskal

August 16, 2013, 8:28 am
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Richard Garriott Stejskal



Biography:
Richard Garriott-Stejskal was born in Annicortes, Washington, in 1944, but grew up in Omaha Nebraska, where his father moved the family after returning from World War II. After receiving his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he worked for a short time in a media center for the Omaha public schools, and then briefly with an Architectural sculptor. Later, while in graduate school at the University of New Mexico, he worked at a local Veteran's medical center; he decided to finish his MA, feeling "that the only thing [an] MFA...was good for was teaching in a university...." It was 1970,and Garriott-Stejskal says that at the time there were no programs or organizations for art therapy, "so I invented my own version of it." He became the first registered art therapist in New Mexico and worked at the Veteran's Administration for 25 years, all the while pursuing and exhibiting his artwork. After taking early retirement in 1995, he began working part-time as Gallery Director for Very Special Arts Gallery and was the staff trainer for the Enabled Arts Center for Very Special Arts New Mexico. He has been "rearranging" his life since last May, he says, so that he can focus on creating artwork. Garriott-Stejskal is currently preparing for a two person show at Fisher Gallery in Albuquerque, scheduled for May of this year.














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Lauren Haggis

August 16, 2013, 10:32 am
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Lauren Haggis




Creating pseudo realistic, figurative paintings with a Rorschach inkblot test underbelly.


Lauren Haggis is a fine artist with a strong background in painting and drawing. Her paintings, usually with a nude solitary female figure, are rich with understated depth, carrying an engaging soft sense of the personal mixed with an underlying almost cinematic narrative that keeps the viewer occupied in guessing what is truly

occurring within the mind and surroundings of the artwork’s subject. Often Haggis’ paintings explore the boundaries and relationships of chaos and silence. Without giving her viewers a distinct and apparent answer for each painting, she asks questions, inviting the viewer to converse with the painting and find their own answers and meaning within it.

Her works have varied from private commissions by the global firm, Morgan Stanley, to appearances in Academy Award winning movies, along with group and solo exhibitions.

Her North Los Angeles studio is open to collectors and curators, as well as client requests for commissions & portraiture.

Haggis has been featured in various publications, such as LA2DAY. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and Canada.




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Cornelis Zitman

August 18, 2013, 12:09 am
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Cornelis Zitman



Cornelis Zitman (born November 9, 1926) is a Dutch sculptor and draftsman.

Zitman was born to a family of construction workers in Leiden, The Netherlands. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague at the age of fifteen. On completing his studies in 1947, he refused compulsory military participation, as he disagreed with Holland's political actions in Indonesia, and fled the country aboard a Swedish oil tanker that would take him to Venezuela. He settled in the city of Coro, where he found work as a technical draftsman for a construction company. In his free time, he painted and made his first incursions into the field of sculpture. Two years later he moved to Caracas, where he worked as a furniture designer at a factory of which he later became manager. In 1951, he received the National Sculpture Prize. He began teaching classes in design at Central University of Venezuela and continued drawing and painting. In 1958, he exhibited a collection of drawings and paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas. He decided to abandon a life of business and moved to the island of Grenada, where he dedicated himself completely to painting and began to assert his style in sculpting. In 1961, he traveled to Boston to participate in an exhibition of paintings and design. That same year he returned to Holland with a desire to study smelting techniques. In 1964, he worked as a smelting apprentice to the sculptor Pieter Starreveld before returning definitively to Venezuela, contracted by Central University as a professor of design. The following year, he began working more intensively in small format sculpture modeled directly in wax. In 1971, he exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Dina Vierny in Paris. From then on, he dedicated himself exclusively to sculpture. In the following years, he carried out various independent showings in Venezuela, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan and other countries, earning various national and international awards. His works can be found in collections and museums of various countries, such as the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas in Venezuela, and the Musée Maillol in Paris.












In his sculptures, Zitman attempts to reproduce and exaggerate the morphology of the indigenous peoples of Venezuela, particularly the female figure.
Zitman has participated in various international exhibitions, such as the International Sculpture-Drawing Biennial of Budapest, the São Paulo Art Biennial and the International Contemporary Art Fairs of Paris (FIAC) and Madrid (ARCO). His most prominent individual exhibitions can be found at the Dina Vierny Gallery in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, the Tokoro Gallery in Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá (MAMBO) and the Sculptures by the Sea Museum in Scheveningen, Netherlands.
He has won a diverse collection of awards, among them the National Sculpture Prize at the Hall of Plastic Arts in Caracas (1951), First Prize at the Sculpture Biennial of Budapest (1971), the Acquisition Prize of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas at the Biennial of Visual Arts (1981) and Special Prize in the 3rd Kotaro Takamura Grand Prize Exhibition at the Hakone Open-Air Museum outside of Tokyo (1982). In 2005, he was decorated with the Order of the Netherlands Lion.










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Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

August 18, 2013, 1:20 am
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Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell





Boris Vallejo

Born in Lima, Peru, Boris attended the National School of Fine Arts in his native country before immigrating to the United States in 1964.
He has since done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising.

His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.

For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters.

Boris and Julie married in 1994 and share their lives and their studio in Pennsylvania.
















Julie Bell
Julie Bell is riding at the top in the field of superstar illustrators of the world today. Her credits include creating advertising illustrations for the elite of the corporate world, such as Nike, Coca-Cola and The Ford Motor Company, painting book covers for the major publishing houses in NYC or doing album covers for artists such as Meat Loaf. She was the first woman ever to paint Conan for Marvel Comics, which paved the way for many other commissions from Marvel, DC, and Image Comics to illustrate superheroes in fully rendered paintings. Her first published cover for Heavy Metal magazine broke ground for other illustrators with the introduction of her now legendary Metal Flesh. Her hyper-realistic style is known for its sexy, powerful images of warriors and amazons and a sensitive, exquisite use of color and texture.
Born in 1958 in Beaumont, Texas, Julie has known herself through the identity of "Artist" for as long as she can remember-art comes as naturally to her as does breathing. Though early in her life she moved and lived in 12 different locations, she consistently kept her art at the center of things. She attended 6 different colleges and universities to continue her passion for art, always focusing her studies on the human figure and life drawing.

Because of her love for the human body she took up weight training and became a nationally ranked competitive bodybuilder. She no longer competes but maintains her muscle through continued weight training as well as Ashtanga yoga.

Julie and Boris were married in 1994 and are busy living happily ever after.











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Guy Reid

August 18, 2013, 6:06 am
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Guy Reid




Guy Reid is a British artist who was born in Johannesburg in 1963 and grew up in London and Shropshire. After having completed his BA in Politics and History at North London Polytechnic in 1984, Reid began training as a classical carver and restorer, going on to work for the world-renowned Spink Workshop (now Arlington Conservation), where he completed work for institutions as varied as the Metropolitan Museum New York, the Getty Museum California, Harewood House and the Sir John Soane Museum London. He is considered to be one of the finest living carvers.















As a sculptor working in lime wood, Reid's carvings are sometimes left in the natural wood but more often painted or partially painted. It is the body itself, both naked and clothed, which fascinates Reid, evoking the complex nature of human being.

During his early 20's, Reid spent some time in Buddhist monastries both in India and Thailand and once even considered becoming a monk. To explore further his interest in theology, Guy undertook an MA at King's College London in 1993, writing a thesis on the realtionship between revelation and art. The philosophical debate surrounding this subject and its reflections on the tangible 'reality' of creation have had a considerable impact on his work. Reid believes that metaphysical reality can be glimpsed through physical reality. This is perhaps reflected most in his studies of Andrew and other people close to him.

Reid has since spent several periods in Benadictine retreat houses where the influence of the rhythms of work, contemplation and the love of simplicity which cradle daily life have provided a profound foundation for his personal and working life.

Whilst Reid would describe himself as an agnostic, he continues to remain interested in the spiritual life. Though suspicious of religion and its dangers, he feels that it remains, at a profoundly subconscious level, something human beings are intriqued by and engaged with both positively and negatively.


In 1985 Guy Reid began training as a classical carver and restorer. He went on to work for the world renowned Spink workshop, where he completed work for institutions as varied as the Metropolitan Museum New York, The Getty Museum California, Harewood House and The Sir John Soane Museum London.

Reid’s lime wood carvings are often partially painted or left in the natural wood. He works from both live models and photographs. The originality of Guy’s work lies partly in this marriage of traditional practice and photography. The artist has stipulated that whilst his carving draws on traditions of European gothic and early renaissance lime wood sculpture, it is the photographic basis of his work which gives his sculptures an astounding similarity that the medieval sculpture could never achieve.

Guy Reid lives and works in the countryside South of Toulouse. Silence, place, time and space, rhythm and discipline remain central to his work. Reid’s reputation was established in the 1990s with his first solo show in the summer of 1999 receiving strong reviews. Other exhibitions followed in London, Manchester, Yorkshire, Birmingham, Liverpool, New York, Miami, Toulouse and Paris.

He has recently been commissioned to do two portraits of the writer Philip Pullman. These are the first in a series of seven children’s author and illustrator portraits commissioned by the publisher David Fickling. The second subject is Dame Jacqueline Wilson, and the third the writer and illustrator Nick Sharratt.









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Boaz Vaadia

August 18, 2013, 6:55 am
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Boaz Vaadia




I work with nature as an equal partner. . . That's still the strongest thing I deal with today, that primal connection of man to earth. It's in the materials I use, the environments I make and the way I work."
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 Boaz Vaadia
Boaz Vaadia sculpts with stone. Stone's natural formation in the earth and other forces of nature inspire him. The unique style of his work is a direct result of this inspiration. In his work he explores the primal connection of man to mother earth.


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Francesco Gillia

August 18, 2013, 7:36 am
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Francesco Gillia



Francesco Gillia was born and raised in Monte Porzio Catone in the province of Rome, Italy. After graduating Summa Cum Laude at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, he moved to Hermosa Beach, California working as product designer for Powerline 6 a strategy, branding and design company.

Three years later Francesco and his brother Marco started Bottega Montana. They designed and manufactured collaboration pieces for: Paul Smith, Obey Giant, DWR, Tretorn, the Showtime House 2010 to decorate the Dexter room. Bottega Montana’s furniture line uses a patent pending joint system and has been featured along with their high-end longboard designs in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, GQ Italy, Dwell, Wallpaper, Outside, Conde' Nast Traveller, El Mundo, Food & Wine and many others. Some of it’s clients include Don Cheadle, Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian.

Despite all the early successes of his design career, Francesco decided to return to his first love - painting. He is currently enrolled in the graduate program at the Montana State University in Bozeman. With a decade of creative experiences on two continents to draw from, his thesis paintings have matured far quicker than he could have hoped.

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Gérard Schlosser

August 18, 2013, 2:18 pm
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Gérard Schlosser ( 1931 - )




Gérard Schlosser est un peintre français né le 12 juin 1931 à Lille.

Elève de l'Ecole des arts appliqués de Paris où il étudie l'orfèvrerie, Gérard Schlosser fait un court passage à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts puis décide de se consacrer à la peinture. Membre actif du salon de la Jeune Peinture jusqu’en 1972.

Il vit et travaille à Paris et dans la Drôme. Dès ses premières toiles, Gérard Schlosser fait le choix de la figuration : fragments de corps peints en aplats et cernés de noir. Ces travaux ne sont pas sans rappeler les recherches des artistes du Pop Art. C’est en 1970 qu’il a recours à la photographie.

Il systématise par la suite ce procédé comme d’autres artistes français associés à la Figuration narrative : Jacques Monory , Bernard Rancillac, Gilles Aillaud, Gérard Fromanger. L’usage de l’épiscope qui permet de projeter une image sur la surface de la toile se généralise.

Gérard Schlosser est le peintre du choix parcellaire. Pour réaliser ses tableaux, il utilise la technique du photomontage, associant par le découpage deux ou trois éléments issus de documents différents. Dès 1967, il encolle systématiquement ses toiles de sable et, bien que travaillant en intérieur, il «repense en les actualisant les thèmes de la peinture impressionniste». Pourquoi le sable? Parce que sur le sable, il est beaucoup plus facile d’exécuter des modelés à l’acrylique, dont le temps de polymérisation n’est alors que de quelques minutes ; parce que le passage entre les couleurs s’effectue plus rapidement, les couleurs se mélangent mieux.
Depuis des années, toutes ses toiles systématiquement sablées confèrent aux surfaces colorées une vibration très particulière : chaque petit grain ajoute la profondeur de son propre modelé avec une part d’ombre et une part de lumière. Fascinante pour la personne placée devant les originaux, cette particularité est difficile à percevoir sur les reproductions photographiques.

Les toiles s’articulent souvent en séries : corps féminins allongés, paysages, vues nocturnes .... Pour Gérard Schlosser "montrer va devenir cacher". Par le découpage plus que le cadrage, par le biais du titre fait de petites phrases banales qui renvoient à un ailleurs supposé mais non représenté, il accentue l’écart entre le visible et le sens. Ce que je vois n’est pas ce que je dis.




Mais ce n’est pas le constat glacé de l’hyperréalisme qu’il nous offre. Gérard Schlosser saisit des moments de notre vie. Ces instants apparaissent davantage comme des moments cinématographiques figés que comme des instantanés photographiques. Pour Gérard Schlosser "montrer va devenir cacher". Par le découpage plus que le cadrage, par le biais du titre fait de petites phrases banales qui renvoient à un ailleurs supposé mais non représenté, il accentue l’écart entre le visible et le sens. Ce que je vois n’est pas ce que je dis.

Un cadrage de Gérard Schlosser n’est jamais un geste insignifiant. Il serre au plus près l’élément narratif significatif, le petit détail crucial qui résume toute une situation. La rencontre avec la réalité est source de surprise et de plaisir qui enrichissent chaque ligne et chaque surface et simultanément ces prélèvements photographiques collectent des éléments d’un vocabulaire plastique mis à l’épreuve au cours des compositions précédentes : des modelés, des aplats, des effets de grain simples ou d’une densité de signes extravagante. Quand la plupart des gens regardent sans voir, Gérard Schlosser est à l’affût de ce qui l’intéresse, il sait voir et il choisit.

« Schlosser est une caméra-œil, la caméra-œil d’un peintre-cinéaste, et pas seulement un œil. Mais cette caméra-œil – et cet œil – sont, comme ceux d’un cinéaste, indissolublement liés aux emplois du temps, aux emplois d’espaces d’une société » Alain Jouffroy (« Gérard Schlosser » par Alain Jouffroy, Édition Frédéric Loeb, 1993).

Les titres des tableaux assument un rôle déterminant dans ce processus. Chacun d’eux participe à l'identité de ce moment cinématographique : « Elle n'a quand même pas de chance avec son mari », « Pourvu qu'il n'y ait pas de bouchon à Vienne », « Tu as réglé la cotisation ? », « Tu sais que Josette va se marier ».

























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Kim Tschang Yeul

August 19, 2013, 1:58 am
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Kim Tschang Yeul


Kim Tschang Yeul (born in Maengsan,South P'yŏngan province, Chōsen on 24 December 1929) is a Korean painter, who has spent most of his career focused on water drops.


Kim attended the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University from 1948 through 1950. He moved to Paris, France in 1969. In 1996 he was awarded the medal of Knight of Art and Letters, Embassy of France, Seoul. He currently lives in Paris.

His works are shown at the Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Fondation Veranneman, Ghent, Belgium; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Bochum Museum Art Collection, Bochum, Germany; and elsewhere.

Among his solo exhibitions were ones at the National Museum of China, Beijing (2005); Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2004); Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2004); Draguignan Museum, Drauignan, France (1997); Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (1994); Kongkan Gallery, Pusan, Korea (1994); SAGA (Matsumura Graphics, Tokyo), Paris (1993); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (1993); Chicago International Art Exposition, Gallery Hyundai, Chicago (1989); Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy (1987); Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (1983); Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (1977); Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany (1975); and Knoll International, Paris (1973).













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Amy Judd

August 19, 2013, 4:36 am
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Amy Judd




Amy Judd is a London based artist who has been represented by Hicks Gallery Wimbledon for the last 10 years.
In recent years Amy’s work draws inspiration from the enchanting and imaginative relationship between women and animals (specifically birds) found in traditional mythologies and stories from around the world.
Amy’s paintings are sensitive silent moments, often between a woman and a bird, The figures are anonymous and allow their “familiars” to interact with the viewer. The composition, light and positioning of subject create curious images which conjure up new “mythological” narratives within the painting.
Her latest pieces are more ambiguous, perhaps even surreal. Consistently these intriguing figures are faceless however the “familiar” has been replaced by symbolic feathers (or headdress). The figure’s nudity compliments the delicate quality of the feathers, they in turn allude to the fragility of the figure however are also a symbol of strength and flight (and bravery)



















Amy Judd

Education
1980 – Born in England
1999-2000 – BTEC Foundation, Kent Institute of Art and design
2001- 2003 – BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Portsmouth University
2004-2005 – MA in Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon


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Els Cools

August 20, 2013, 5:04 am
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Els Cools


Els Cools, born 1966, Belgium. She studiet graphics and illustration at Sint Lukaspaviljoen in Antwerp (Belgium).
In 1992 she moved to Faaborgn in Denmark




Els Cools, født 1966 i Mol, Belgien. Hun har studeret grafik og illustration på Sint Lukaspaviljoen i Antwerpen.





























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Tang Chiew Ling

August 20, 2013, 5:44 am
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Tang Chiew Ling



"I'm freelance graphic designer. And, sometimes, I like to illustrate with little object (that can be found at everywhere easily). However, all of my work are simple and fun."









Tang Chiew Ling



"Object Art:1 is inspired by "Leaves". These illustrations are made by few types of leaves and also mixed with my hand drawing. Using inconspicuous/ unattractive leaves to create fun, hope and happiness. Don't know what is the name of the leaves, but i found them in drain, my mom's plants and at the playground."

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""Fashion in Leaf" was inspired by leaf and fashion. I was wondering does fashion can be part of leaf art as I'm interested in fashion. The most challlenging in this project was how to apply leaf to dress! However, I tried to find some more special leaf this time to make the "dress" looks elegant. I was very surprised to get those such beautiful leaves in a garden. I never thought the leaves can be so beautiful, some of them are full of structures, patterns and lines on it, different colors in a leaf, even is withered leaves. So, I applied them into different types of dresses according to the different types of leaves."

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Robert Graham

August 21, 2013, 6:36 am
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Robert Graham (1938-2008)


Born Mexico City, August 19, 1938
Died Venice, California, December 27, 2008
Education San Jose State College, 1961-1963
San Francisco Art Institute, 1963-1964

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2006 "Spirit of California" Award
2003-present American Jazz Museum Award
Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award
"Lo Maximo" Award, Homeboy Industries
2001 Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award
2001-present Carousel of Hope Award
1997-present The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
The Latin Jazz Award
1994-present The California Governors’ Award for the Arts
The John Huston Award for the Artists Rights Foundation
1985-present National Medal of Arts, presented by the President of the United States
Spirit of Liberty Award, presented by the People for the American Way
1984 Olympic Silver Dollar for the United States Mint ($4 million minted)















Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.

Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico on Aug. 19, 1938, to Roberto Pena and Adelina Graham. Roberto Pena died when his son was six years old, and the boy, his mother Adelina, his grandmother Ana, and his aunt Mercedes left Mexico and moved to San Jose, California. Robert Graham began his formal art training at San Jose State University where he was taught by artist Frederick Spratt.He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964. Robert married his first wife Joey Graham in 1959, they have one son Steven, born in 1963. Within five years he had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany. He, along with Joey and Steven lived in London for a period before settling in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. His first solo exhibition in a museum was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1972. Since then he has had dozens of one-man shows, including several at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Graham's first major monumental commission was the ceremonial gateway for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for the occasion of the 1984 Olympics. He also designed the commemorative silver dollar for the event. The gateway featured two bronze torsos, male and female, modeled on contestants in the games. The gateway was a major design element of an Olympiad noted for its lack of new construction. To the surprise of many, the nudity of the torsos became an issue in the media

Graham used a range of materials and scales in his work. In the 1970s Graham created very small wax sculptures (circa 4" - 10 cm), depicting sexual congress. His 1986 monument to the boxer Joe Louis is a 24' bronze fist and forearm. He has created hundreds of nude figures and groupings in intermediate scales.

He married actress Anjelica Huston in 1992 and they resided in an unusual dwelling in Venice, California. Huston refused to move to the Bohemian area unless Graham built them a fortress to live in. The result was a giant, windowless structure behind an opaque 40-foot fence.


Graham made a cameo appearance in Huston's movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, as the Venezuelan general near the beginning of the film standing on the deck of the ship. Wes Anderson mentions in the movie's commentary that Graham has some aspects in common with Steve Zissou.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008 that Graham would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15, 2008 but he was too ill to attend. His son Steven accepted the award on his behalf as he was inducted alongside 11 other legendary Californians.

Graham died, with his family at his side 12 days after the ceremony on December 27, 2008.[1] His funeral was held at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which has bronze doors that Graham created for the cathedral.His remains are interred in the Crypt Mausoleum of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.









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Catherine Foster

August 21, 2013, 8:41 am
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mixed media copper, metals, fabrics, found objects, trims, beads ...











Catherine Foster is an international artist with artworks in galleries, private collections and corporate collections in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Germany,Australia, Russia and Israel

Artist Statement
There is a special time between the spark of inspiration and the completed piece that marks both reality and total immersion. The end product becomes a physical manifestation of this creative process that has the ability to stir something deep within us with its mysterious beauty. I am absorbed and fascinated with how our lives, the earth, history, relationships are woven together creating a collective fabric of life
Peace Prevails Project: Based on the concept of the power of words, the Peace Prevails Project is created from over 300 world languages embossed in copper. The intent is to weave words of peace as symbols for the public to focus on.” I know within my heart and soul that peace prevails and is spoken in many languages”.


Grants:
Cultural Arts Foundation NW Grant Recipient 2009
3 Ward Summer Art Competition Grant 2011




TEACHING EXPERIENCE (partial listing)
1999- 2004 Seniors Making Art – Dale Chihuly Foundation WA
1992- 1994 Teaching for Lynwood Recreation Center, Lynwood WA
1986- 1990 Teaching for Milpitas Recreation Center, Milpitas, CA

EDUCATION (partial listing)
1994 Expressive Art Therapy CET
1993 Touch Drawing with Deborah Koff-Chapin
1990-91-California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1989-91 Workshops: Jan Kunz, Tom Lynch, Maxine Masterfield, Xiaogong Zhu
1987- 90 Mission Collage, Santa Clara, CA San Jose City College, 1962-63, 1975, 1978-79 San Jose, Calif. San Jose City College









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Alex Kveton

August 21, 2013, 9:44 am
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Alex Kveton



Creating my sculptures brings an immense joy and contentment into my life.



Alex Kveton was privy technical and artistic views of the world from the beginning of his life. While his father taught him the ageless techniques of wood and metal craft, his mother opened his eyes to the possibilities of artistic imagination.

As a young adult, Alex Kveton enrolled in the Technical School of Machinery Construction and later, following his inner calling into a very selective and prestigious Prague Academy of Art Architecture and Design, where he earned his Master's Degree in Sculpture and Industrial Design.

At the Academy, his appreciation for the potential of metal continued to grow as he created stainless steel and bronze sculpture and designed industrial equipment ranging from gigantic open coalmine excavator to miniature alarm clock. The ageless beauty and serenity of Prague with its centuries old art and architecture fed Alex's effervescent imagination and pushed him toward a more artistic use of his creative abilities. Instead of more common casting and assembly of ready made parts, Alex preferred fabricating process, physically shaping and forming a sharp flat sheet of metal into sophisticated curvilinear form. To reflect a true poetry of the form, Alex Kveton enhances the character of stainless steel sculptures with high mirror finish and bronze with magnificent color patinas.

Having established himself as a mature sculptor in his native Czechoslovakia, Alex Kveton left his homeland and traveled to Austria where he created several successful large scale sculptural commissions. Upon his arrival to the United States, Alex settled in New York City and began a challenging and successful career as a Director of Art Division at one of the leading art and architectural metal fabricators in the United States.


For over thirty years, Alex Kveton has applied his knowledge, expertise, and talent to transform vision into reality. Following his inspiration, Alex created fine metal sculptures shown in numerous group and individual exhibitions and privately held in collections in North America, Europe and Russia. His sculpture of Porcupine Caribou, a corten steel ten foot tall structure, is on permanent display at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bernard Venet, Robert Indiana, Larry Bell and John Raimondi are just some of a few renowned artists Alex has worked with. He shares a patent for AlgoRytm Technologies with Dr. Haresh Lalvani, an architect-morphologist, inventor of curvilinear structures. A lex transformed Dr.Lalvani's theories into 3-D ethereal metallic creations that have started a revolution in modern architecture. Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibits in its permanent collection of Architecture and Design "Titanium AlgoRythms Columns" designed and coauthored by Alex Kveton.

So what inspires Alex Kveton? Nature in its simplicity and beauty. Nature with its magnificent structures and creations no one is able to imitate. Alex is the first one to admit that he cannot compete with nature in creating something so fascinating and delicate as a leaf of a tree or dew on grass. But with his work, Alex has been able to make magic in metal, crafting his very own brand of beauty, his very own way of taking where the nature left off and finishing the job in his mind and with his hands, creating something very simple, very beautiful, very magical just like the nature would have intended.







ARTIST'S STATEMENT


My inspiration comes from studying the nature around us. The intricate structure of a leaf, robustness of grass wind blowing through an open window, or moon reflecting in the water, all create the logical harmony of our nature's "building blocks". The nature is pure, clean, and precious in its own creation. Such insights are on my mind when creating sculptures. Simple, yet elegant, intended to enrich, decorate and above all distinguish the space as beautiful flowers or morning sunlight would.

In my latest sculptural work I have incorporated into my abstract vision a timeless beauty of a human form. Is obviously the most loaded of all forms because we live in one. Being also introduced to printmaking, I'm now offering prints and sculptures developed together. My print work explores the visual relationships between the two artistic arenas and bridges the gap between 2 and 3 dimensions.



EDUCATION
Technical school of Machinery Construction, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Academy of Arts Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic;
- Master Degree in Sculpture and Industrial Design

Awards

United States Patent 6,640,605 B2, coauthor, Non-deformational bending of metal
New York Foundation for the Art, Grand
Marry O Fritchie Art Show, Best in Sculpture
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Best in Show
Cambridge Who’s Who, Life time Membership
Marry O Fritchie Art Show, Best in Sculpture
Woodstock Artists Ass. & Museum, The People’s Choice Award
Cooperstown Art Association, National Exhibition, Best in Sculpture
Artist Talk on Art, Annual Competion Curator’s Choice







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Lisa krannichfeld

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Lisa Krannichfeld

"I was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, growing up in an interesting mix of Southern and Chinese cultures. The need to create has always been with me, although I didn’t take formal drawing classes until I attended high school. I attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado receiving a B.A. in Studio Art then later attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock receiving a M.ed. in Secondary Education. Primarily focusing on the figure as a subject matter I find materials and processes to be the motivation for my work. Whether I use traditional art materials in nontraditional ways or nontraditional materials as art mediums I thrive on the fact that the finished product is unknown to me until the very end."

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Artist Statement

"My figurative work demands a delicate balance of grace and fervor, and is about process rather than product. The pieces are painted by drizzling paint from a spoon, giving the illusion of figures in flux. Influenced by both ancient Chinese Calligraphy painting and the figurative works of the Expressionists my figures focus on emotion and movement rather than portraiture. They are more of a mirror reflecting back on the moments of creation than a static and opaque canvas dressed in the colors of finality."



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Alex Russell Flint

August 21, 2013, 2:33 pm
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Alex Russell Flint




Alex Russell Flint (b 1974) is a British artist who produces beautifully crafted, soulful oil paintings.

A realist painter, ARF divides his time between London and Argenton-Chateau in France, where he lives and works in the rambling former school house (l'ancienne école) he acquired in 2010.

Along with countless commissions, including a portrait of HRH The Duke of Gloucester, he has had numerous group and solo exhibitions in London and Ireland and his work hangs in public and private collections in North America, China, South Africa and Europe.

He was trained for many years by the renowned teacher Ted Jacobs at Ecole Albert Defois, Jacob's atelier in the Loire Valley.

Alex is the great-grandson of the artist Sir William Russell Flint.



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