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Gabriel Portolés - Gabriel Portolés Ascaso

January 15, 2014, 9:42 am
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Gabriel Portolés - Gabriel Portolés Ascaso

GABRIEL PORTOLES ASCASO, NACE EN JACA (HUESCA) EN 1930. DESDE MUY PEQUEÑO MUESTRA GRAN AFICIÓN POR EL DIBUJO. A LOS 4 AÑOS SU FAMILIA SE TRASLADA A MARRUECOS Y A LOS 9 AÑOS SE INSTALAN DEFINITIVAMENTE EN BARCELONA. COMBINA SUS ESTUDIOS CON EL DIBUJO Y LA PINTURA. A LOS 12 AÑOS ENTRA EN LA ESCUELA DE ARTES Y OFICIOS DE BARCELONA, SALIENDO POCO DESPUÉS. A LOS 16 AÑOS EMPIEZA A TRABAJAR, SIN DEJAR SU INCLINACIÓN ARTÍSTICA, APROVECHANDO FIESTAS Y DOMINGOS PARA PINTAR AL ÓLEO, ACUARELA. AÑOS DESPUÉS VUELVE A LA ESCUELA DE ARTES Y OFICIOS TOMANDO CLASES DE DIBUJO AL NATURAL. DESPUÉS PASA A LA CLASE DE POLICROMÍA (TÉCNICAS DEL RETABLO), DONDE ENCUENTRA EL CAMINO DE SU EXPRESIÓN ARTÍSTICA EN ESTA TÉCNICA DE PINTURA AL TEMPLE DE HUEVO SOBRE TABLA QUE YA NO ABANDONA.
DESDE EL AÑO 1960, EXPONE EN DIVERSAS CIUDADES ESPAÑOLAS Y PARTE DE AMÉRICA Y FRANCIA.






EN 1963, CONTRAE MATRIMONIO; DE ESTA UNIÓN NACEN TRES HIJOS, LUÍS, MÓNICA Y YOLANDA. TRAS 15 AÑOS DE MATRIMONIO ENVIUDA, SU HIJA MENOR TIENE 7 AÑOS. SU VIDA QUEDA MARCADA... CUIDA DE SU HOGAR, SUS HIJOS. SE VUELCA MÁS EN LA PINTURA, SU SENSIBILIDAD SE AGUDIZA, SU PINTURA SE ENRIQUECE ENCONTRANDO UN NUEVO SENTIDO A LA VIDA.
INCANSABLE VIAJERO, RECORRE ITALIA, FRANCIA, NORUEGA, EGIPTO, SUECIA, SUIZA, ALEMANIA, CHINA, BRASIL, VISITA LAS HERMOSAS CIUDADES DE BUDAPEST Y PRAGA, EL ESTADO DE CALIFORNIA, NAVEGA POR EL AMAZONAS, ENRIQUECIÉNDOSE Y PLASMANDO SOBRE SUS PINTURAS ESTAS EXPERIENCIAS.

HAY MAGIA EN LA PINTURA DE GABRIEL PORTOLÉS. O LA MAGIA ESTÁ EN ÉL Y LA TRASMITE A SU OBRA, UNA OBRA QUE REFLEJA EL MUNDO DE SUEÑOS E IMAGINACIONES, INVESTIGANDO FORMALMENTE PARTIENDO DE LA REALIDAD AL TIEMPO QUE RESPETÁNDOLA. COMO UN ALQUIMISTA A LA BÚSQUEDA DE LA PERFECCIÓN, SE PREPARA EL COLOR Y EL SOPORTE. Y LUEGO, EL RESTO, SON VALORES AÑADIDOS; UN DIBUJO PERFECTO, LA CALIDAD, LA SENSIBILIDAD...













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Bev Jozwiak

January 15, 2014, 10:24 am
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Bev Jozwiak



"Bev Jozwiak has earned her signature status in the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and others, to numerous to mention. She is an International Award winning Artist. Born in Vancouver, Washington, Bev still resides there with her husband of 30 plus years. She has two daughters, and two grandchildren. "


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Francois Cauvin

January 16, 2014, 4:01 am
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Francois Cauvin

"My art takes root in the African heritage of Haitian culture.

The two main themes, which I have been painting during my whole career, are the representation of the Black woman and nature, developed according to haitian religious symbolism, binding these two interrelated subjects.


These themes are addressed in two ways: in the interpretation of the archetype or by the materialization of gods and goddesses embodied in a common mortal.

For many years now, acrylic paint has imposed itself as the main medium of my work. I usually use a smooth paste, luminous on a darkened background where my different characters, divinities from Africa and of Mother Nature reveal themselves, emerging from primordial waters."

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Albert Desmangles

January 16, 2014, 4:27 am
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Albert Desmangles


Albert Desmangles was born in Port-au-Prince on May 31, 1957. His interest in art began at a very early age.
By the age of six he was sketching faces in the dust of the school’s tiles. In high school, his brother,
noted artist Henry Bastien, taught him drawing, perspective and the use of color.
Bastien also gave him several lessons in gouáçhe (a technique using paints mixed with water and gum to create opaque colors).
During his school years he was very active in the student art circle and participated in a number of exhibits,
winning a prize in a drawing competition sponsored by the Haitian-German Cultural Association in 1975.
He found a job as a bookkeeper in 1978, but quickly realized that his life was not behind a desk
but in front of an easel. At that point he decided to devote himself totally to art.
In 1979 he entered his uncle’s workshop (sculptor Paul Desmangles), who taught him to sculpt.
Then he took a few courses on industrial drawing at the Cultural Formation Center of Haiti.
In addition to painting, he was also interested in dramatic arts and singing. He went on stage with the Young Theater troupe,
the National Theater and Gerard Resil’s troupe. A few years later he became a member of the musical group called Kata.
Following the advice of his mentors, Bernard Sejourne, Jean-Rene Jerome, and Nehemy Jean, he studied
the features of different ethnic types from America. Drawing on those lessons,
he began to paint "universal women," using light to illustrate their power.
Since 1980, he has participated in many exhibits in Haiti, Europe, United States, and Japan.
Desmangles is now the only living artist left in the School of Beauty.
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Albert Desmangles

Albert Desmangles crée une nouvelle forme de visages typiques de l'Amérique: mélange de races, ni noire, ni jaune, ni blanche, ni rouge. Des femmes métissées dominent les éléments, surgissent de l’ombre et fusionnent avec la création. Desmangles s'engage dans un nouveau style de peinture anthropomorphe où la lumière demeure le centre d'émanation de toute matière.

Ses tableaux sont présentés dans différentes galeries des Caraïbes et du Continent Américain: Galerie Nader, Haiti; Artibijoux, Martinique; Len De Pas Art Gallery, Washington; Galerie Nader, Atlanta, GA; Alyos Galerie, Montreal, Canada; Yellow Bird Art Gallery, CA; Centro de Bellas Artes, Venezuela; Auction Galleries, NY; Gallery Nader, Miami, FL.

Albert Desmangles est né à Port-au-Prince le 31 Mai 1957. Il fit ses études primaires au Petit Séminaire Collège St. Martial et ses études supérieures au Collège Canado Haïtien.

Dès la prime enfance il manifesta son gout pour l'art. Et a six ans, il dessinait déjà des visages avec ses doigts dans la poussière des carreaux de l'école.

En secondaire le Frère Henri Bastien le guida dans la connai
ssance des couleurs, du dessin, de la perspective et l'initia a la technique de la gouache. Pendant plusieurs années it fit parti du cercle des arts plastiques du Collège et figura dans différentes expositions.

1975 A dix-sept ans it est primé à un concours de dessin organisé par l'Association Culturelle Haïtiano-Allemande
1978 Après des études commerciales (Comptabilité) il entre sur le marché du travail mais comprend très vite que sa vie n'était pas derrière un bureau mais devant son chevalet. Il abandonna tout pour se consacrer à l'art
1979-1980 Il entra dans les ateliers de son oncle, le sculpteur Paul Desmangles, qui l'initia à la sculpture puis il alla suivre des cours de dessin industriel au Centre de Formation Professionnel d'Haïti.
L'art dramatique et la chanson le tentèrent. Il fit du théatre avec la troupe "Jeune Théatre," le Théatre National et la troupe Gérard Resil. Quelques années plus tard il deviendra membre du groupe musical "Kata."

A partir des influences et conseils des ainés tel Séjourné, Jérome, Nehemy Jean, il étudia les différents types ethniques de son milieu Caribéen et créa une nouvelle forme de visages typiques de l'Amérique. Mélange de races, ni noire, ni jaune, ni blanche, ni rouge. Ces femmes métissées dominent les éléments, surgissent de l’ombre et fusionnent avec la création. Trente ans plus tard, des stars internationales comme Beyonce, Rihanna avec des cheveux rouges, Niky Minaj , Alicia Keys, Tyra Banks, Naomie Lenoir, Eva Pigford, font la « Une » des magazines du monde entier et deviennent des exemples de beauté. Un president OBAMA , a la peau couleur de noix grille. Mais l’artiste vit en dehors de tout ce beau monde dont il a eu la vision. C’est un descendant d’indien d’Haiti et de Negre marron tel « Colas Jambe-coupe ». Il n’aime pas la vie des Stars car son étoile est ailleurs. En terre étrangère, Il recherche la campagne, la vie près des gens simples, de nature spontanée… Il s'engage dans un nouveau style de peinture anthropomorphe ou la lumière demeure le centre d'émanation de toute matière.

1981 Exposition "Connaitre les jeunes peintres," Institut Francais d'Haïti
1983 Exposition avec d'autres peintres de renom tel que: Dodard, Bernard Séjourné, Jean René Jérome, Jean Claude Castera dans les salons de Gloria Handal
1985 Participation à une exposition collective chez Gloria Handal
1988 Musée d'Art Haïtien, il expose avec les maitres haïtiens: Jean René Jérome, Gesner Armand, Dieudonné Cédor, Bernard Wah, Ludovic Booz, Etzer Charles
1990 Exposition "Art Expo" avec Valcin II, Etzer Charles, Ralph Allen, Ludovic Booz, Casimir Joseph
Washington, Group Show Banque Industrielle

Len De Pas Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

New York, signature d'un contrat pour la production d'Intaglios avec Lanna Publishing avec la collaboration de l'artiste Huong Nguyen

1991 Nicole Gallery, Chicago, IL, group show
L'Atelier Galerie Nader, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, group show

Group Show Villa Borghese "Caraibi e Caribe," Rome, Italie

1992 Duo show avec Lionel Laurenceau au Musée Galerie Georges S. Nader, Haiti
1993 Group show, Colors, Creativity, Beauty, Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art, Miami, Florida
1994 Group show à Expression Galerie Nader (Habib et Katia Nader Jiha)
1995 Group show, Centro de Bellas Artes, Vénézuela


Ses tableaux sont présentés dans différentes galeries des Caraïbes et du Continent Américain: Galerie Nader, Haiti; Artibijoux, Martinique; Len De Pas Art Gallery, Washington; Galerie Nader, Atlanta, GA; Alyos Galerie, Montreal, Canada; Yellow Bird Art Gallery, CA; Centro de Bellas Artes, Venezuela; Auction Galleries, NY; Gallery Nader, Miami, FL.


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Adrian Gomez

January 16, 2014, 4:48 am
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Adrian Gomez



Nació en 1962 en San José, Costa Rica

Studies

1998 - Curso de Anatomía Artística I, (en calidad de oyente), Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José.

1998 - Miembro fundador del "Grupo Plástica", Cartago, Costa Rica.

1982 - Taller Gráfica, impartido por Fernando Carballo, Espacio Jorge Debravo, San José, Costa Rica.

1976 - Miembro fundador Grupo "La Puebla", Cartago, Costa Rica.

1975 - 77 - Estudios de dibujo y pintura con el artista Fernando Carballo, Escuela de Arte "Juan Ramón Bonilla", Cartago, Costa Rica.

1973 - 75 - Estudios de arte con el pintor Marco Aurelio Aguilar M, Cartago, Costa Rica.




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April Wilson Harrison

January 16, 2014, 5:19 am
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April Wilson Harrison

I paint images primarily in acrylics, powders, watercolors, pencils and collage. I find that working with this unique palette offers faster drying times, enabling me to overlay color in one painting session, giving the work its tapestry-like background. I often incorporate found objects into my paintings, such as coins from around the world, specialty papers, magazine print and interesting treasures I find on the street. Even my nearly discarded paintings are given new life and recycled into newer works of art, thus creating texture and dimension.

As for my training, I am self taught and merely a vessel being utilized to instinctively create narrative, sentiment and observation. Why I’ve been chosen, I know not, nonetheless, I am humbled by this gift.

The visions that you see before you are the result of internal communication that require expressions of acceptance, pride, adoration and dignity. In creating these images I have come to appreciate that artists have been granted diverse narratives, meaning each artist has his/her own voice. Art expresses itself and when it moves the heart and awakens the spirit, it makes no distinction as to its originator.

Hometown: Daughter of Greenville , S. C.

Years in Art : Since 1991

Influence: The desire to create positive images of color, embracing individual diversity, inner spirituality and natural God given beauty

Education: Folk Artist

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Barkley L Hendricks

January 16, 2014, 5:40 am
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Barkley L Hendricks



"Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter who has made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism. While he has worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work takes the form of life-sized painted oil portraits. In these portraits, he attempts to imbue a proud, dignified presence upon his subjects, most frequently urban people of color. Hendricks’ work has been noted as unique for its matrimony of both American realism and post-modernism.

Hendricks earned his certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University. Currently, he serves as a professor of art at Connecticut College. In 2013 he was elected into the National Academy of Design.

Hendricks' work can be viewed in many public institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. Hendricks' first career painting retrospective, titled Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, with works dating from 1964 to present, was organized by Trevor Schoonmaker at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in spring 2008, has traveled to the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, is on view now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and will finish at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in spring 2010. Hendricks's work was featured on the cover of the April 2009 issue of Artforum Magazine, with an extensive review of Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool. Hendricks is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York."






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Ralph Allen

January 16, 2014, 6:39 am
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Ralph Allen





"Ralph Allen is born on June 14th 1952. He studies in Port-au-Prince at the Colleges St. Martial, Max Penette and Bird.
In 1971 he leaves Haiti for New York. He receives a scholarship at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, where he studies drawing, painting, graphic arts and sculpture. He wins The Albert H. Baldin Award, the Lucrecia Bori Award, and the Dr. Ralph Weiler Award.
In 1972 he represents the Haitian Arts at the New-York University Loeb Center.
In 1975 he is accepted at the Annual Exhibits of the National Academy of Design, the Audubon Artists of America, and the American Watercolor Society. His work is selected for the traveling exhibit throughout the U.S. and Australia. He meets artists like Charles White, Jacob Lawrence, Avel deKnight and discovers the Afro-American painting. He exhibits with fellow students of the Academy at the Ringwood Manor Museum in New Jersey and the Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown.
In 1976 he returns in Haiti where he exhibits in group shows and solo shows. Since then Ralph has exhibited in North America, South America, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
In 2009 he executed a mural at “LITTLE HAITI CULTURAL CENTER” in Miami.
“I think I was born to creat Art. Never a dull moment. Everything around me suggests a thought, then I choose the field to translate it. There has been an interesting momentum in Haiti lately that explains the shift in my creations. Colors, movement, dynamism for the prevailing atmosphere. Between fine arts and design, I keep busy. Pluralism is my motto.” – Ralph Allen"

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Daniel Minter

January 16, 2014, 7:01 am
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Daniel Minter

"Born in Ellaville, a small rural community in southern Georgia, in 1961. Minter has illustrated nine children’s books, including Ellen’s Broom, written by Kelly Starling Lyons which won the 2013 Coretta Scott King honor for illustration, Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story, winner of a Best Book Award from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and The Riches of Oseola McCarty, named an Honor Book by the Carter G. Woodson Awards. Minter’s paintings and sculptures have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at galleries and museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, Bates College, Hammonds House Museum and the Meridian International Center.

Daniel Minter's art work is a study of memory. The many ways in which memory is embedded into our past, present and future. It is the interconnection of time that contains the essence of what memory has left behind. These concepts are the inspiration for Daniel Minter's paintings and sculpture.

Using archetypes, symbols, icons and folklore steeped in the context of African-American and African-Diaspora culture, Minter creates a visual vocabulary. Metaphors take shape out of chairs, houses, snakes and trees infusing the energy of emotion, action and place to everyday life, everyday being.

Minter is the founding director and vice-president of Maine Freedom Trails, Inc. He created the markers for the Portland Freedom Trail, which identifies significant sites related to the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad in Portland, Maine. He created the 2004 Kwanzaa stamp and the 2011 Kwanzaa stamp for the U.S. Postal Service.
Minter lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, Marcia, and son, Azari Ayindé."










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S. Ross Browne

January 16, 2014, 7:24 am
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S. Ross Browne



EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University, Communication Arts and Design, Richmond, VA 1987-91
Fresh Air Fund, C.A.P, Adolescent Behavior, Fishkill, NY 1995 and 1996
Corcoran School of the Arts, Photography, Washington, DC, Summer 1984
The Miller School of Albemarle, General Studies, Civil Air Patrol, Charlottesville, VA 1982-1987
Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Conferences, Chicago, IL, Nashville ,TN 2006 and 2007









S. Ross Browne, American, b. 1969 Mt. Vernon, NY

Artist Statement Self Evident Truths

My artwork is a modern study in dichotomy and perception from a historical context using portraiture as the interpretive engine. I explore the nuances that relate to my evolving view of the world and transversely the worlds culminating view of me, through the often-occluding filters of culture and race. My intent is to foment thought and discussion by exploring ‘cultural identity’ via the multiple allegorical streams the paintings provide.
I often use the image of the black woman in unaccustomed/atypical context; derived to create a visual tension between historical fact, misinformation and myth. The viewer is lured into the possible narrative of the depicted figure by her beauty, strength and grace; however immediately enters an intellectual menagerie where they are confounded by the disconnected visual clues. Is she slave or slaveholder? Is she captive or free, is she servant or served? Is she factual or fictional in a historical context? All of these questions and more provide basis for the individual viewers journey of allegorical interpretation.
The images are imbued with cultural and ethnic symbolism that provides insight into the historical context of the painting. Yet, the icons, combined with my personal visual vocabulary, may remain unseen or misread by the “unknowing” eye; the eye that never learned the historic bases for all the possibilities in the lives of these women. In a society that often make instant cultural judgements based on visual cues that are often stereotypical, but not always, I feel offering ethnic imagery that defies common visual library of the modern citizen may challenge each individuals biases and foregone conclusions of their own notions of what race represents in history and therefore in humanity. In some of these paintings there are often the image of a human skull in one way or another. This symbolism is here to remind us of our shared humanity and also as a symbol of change and the very different and personal ways African Americans view and experience transition throughout the course of history.
The images beg the question: Is “Truth” self-evident? Who’s “Truth”? How does knowledge, experience and perception of one’s “self” determine what is evident? If the view of oneself is skewed is it possible to see another clearly?
It is my goal that these images will use technical virtuosity and compelling compositions to make this series visually arresting, but also to help deliver the structured lessons in historical interpretation and omission, African/European cross-cultural influences, and the socio-political impact and power of portraiture.

S. Ross Browne studied Communication Art and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and Photography at The Corcoran School of the Arts. He is also an alumnus of The Miller School of Albemarle in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has taught art and design for inner city and at risk youth for the Fresh Air Fund of N.Y.C, Weed and Seed, Project Ready and Art 180 of Richmond, VA. He was also an instructor for the Resident Associate Program at the The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. During his tenure as the Art Specialist for the VCU Health System, Ross practiced art therapy for and taught art to his various patients with an emphasis on pediatric hematology/oncology, infectious disease and brain injury patients. He is also an illustrator and graphic designer with a long and varied list of clientele. Ross continues to paint and write out of his studio in Richmond, Virginia. In a review of the exhibition Art Fusion in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Special Correspondent, CeCe Bullard wrote; "Browne, always intense and direct, explores the many faces of the American experience in a variety of media, each of which he uses effectively." S. Ross Browne is the recipient numerous awards and honors, has been featured in various local and national media. His work was recently acquired by the internationally recognized Virginia Museum of Fine Art and is in the collection of international, national and local institutions.




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Olaf Hajek

January 16, 2014, 8:03 am
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Olaf Hajek is currently one of the most internationally renowned and sought-after illustrators. His colourful work can be seen in publications including The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as on stamps for Great Britain’s Royal Mail. Drawing on the diverse influences of folklore, mythology, religion, history, and geography, Hajek’s paintings transport us to a world of surreal juxtaposition and rearranged realities to explore a realm that is always strangely off kilter










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Bernard Séjourné (1947-1994)

January 16, 2014, 9:23 am
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Bernard Séjourné (1947-1994)




"Bernard Séjourné was born on November 20, 1947 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was a member of one of Haiti’s elite families. He began studying art formally, after his graduation from high school. He studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince, the Jamaica School of Arts and Crafts, Kingston, the Art Students League of New York and at the American Art School, New York.
Séjourné belongs to the school of art known as the “School of Beauty”. In his works he attempted to capture beauty, elegance and grace. His themes were women, landscapes and flowers. Most of his paintings are large. This heightens the effect of movement which he created by his use of fluid lines. His colors range from cool to tropical and many of his works are acrylic on masonite.
His works have always been highly valued by Haitian art collectors. Since his recent death, he has become one of the highly sought after collectibles."

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Paul Goodnight

January 16, 2014, 1:35 pm
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Paul Goodnight




Paul Goodnight
Artist, Mentor, Image-Maker

“I would like to be a skilled and consummate draftsman. I try to use a collection of sensuous colors, often revealing mysterious hidden forms. I would love to convey the ability to see between the figures, melding and infusing them into an environment of endless nuances where abstraction and representational images are comfortable in the same space and where passion and humanity resonate. Once I learn to do this well, I will be obligated to pass this on, just as this information has been based on to me. Thank God for our masters!”

“I’ve learned that art is making me, rather than me creating it.”
-Paul T. Goodnight
Paul Goodnight was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 31, 1946. He was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut where he discovered his passion for art. After serving an extended and traumatic tour of duty during the Vietnam War, Goodnight returned to Boston and began to pursue a career as an artist, first of all, as a way of seeking self healing and balance. He received his B.F.A and an honorary M.F.A from Massachusetts College of Art.

Paul Goodnight’s vibrant and emotional work has often been a reflection of his life--from the demons he faced during the Vietnam War to the time he was incarcerated “I’ve learned that art is making me, rather then me creating it.” His creative efforts are nurtured and inspired by several local artists, like Allan Rohan Crite and Dana Chandler. Goodnight had a close relationship with Master African-American artist and mentor John Biggers (1924-2001), who carved the path many contemporary black artists now travel.
Goodnight has developed his own unique aesthetic philosophy to document the humanity of people around the world. He often incorporates African themes and symbols to provide depths of history and culture. He has studied and traveled extensively to different parts of the world, living among the people of Russia, China, Haiti, Nicaragua, Africa and Brazil.

Goodnight’s images have appeared in television and film since 1984: Seinfeld, Arliss, Jackie Brown, The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and the Hughleys to name a few. Paul has been featured in numerous publications such as Architectural Digest, Ebony, Essence, People Magazine and the Boston Globe. His works are amongst the collections of such notables as Maya Angelou, Wesley Snipes, Samuel Jackson, Angela Basset, Judith Jamison, Victoria Rowell, and NBA hall-of-famer Isaiah Thomas. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of the National Center of African American Artists and the Smithsonian. He has been the recipient of many achievements and awards such as receiving a commission for the 1996 Olympics, The U.S. Sports Academy Artist of the Year Award in 1997, and the World Cup Soccer Poster of 1998.
















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Margherita Lipinska

January 17, 2014, 1:08 am
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Margherita Lipinska




"I was born in 1964 in Poland. I completed a degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Danzig in 1989 and held my first personal exhibition there. I obtained a scholarship to study History of Art at the Roman University of La Sapienza and came therefore to Rome to study in1991-1992. I live and work in Rome where along my artistic activity. My conception of the pictorial art is expressed through abstract paintings that tend to enhance mainly their materiality while introducing in a modern style themes that originate from the past and also from classical Art. I often use writings in my painting as pictorial expression. They derive from reading over passages and poems and evoke notes of a fancy journey in the world of culture. I use jute canvas or cloth used for coffee bags for I like material that I can carve after having plastered it. I don’t use a frame because I prefer to see the painting supple and free to adapt to various spaces breaking thus the rigidity of a framed and imprisoned work."

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"Sono nata nel 1964 in Polonia, ho conseguito nel 1989 la Laurea in Pittura presso l’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Danzica, dove ho realizzato nel 1989 la mia prima mostra personale.
Nel periodo 1991-92 ho proseguito gli Studi a Roma avendo conseguito la Borsa di Studio in Storia d’Arte, presso l’Università La Sapienza. Vivo e lavoro a Roma dove oltre all’attività artistica svolgo la professione di decoratrice d’interni.
La mia concezione dell’arte pittorica, si concretizza mediante la realizzazione di quadri prevalentemente astratti e fortemente materici, ove è frequente la rivisitazione, in chiave moderna, di temi che trovano riferimento nel passato anche classico dell’Arte.
Nei miei quadri spesso uso la scrittura come materia pittorica. I testi sono la rivisitazione delle letture e di mie poesie e rappresentano gli appunti di un immaginario viaggio nel mondo della cultura.
Uso la tela di juta o quella dei sacchi per il caffè perché mi piace la materia che posso anche incidere, dopo averla intonacata. Non uso il telaio perché preferisco che il quadro mantenga la sua morbidezza e la libertà di collocarsi in spazi diversi, rompendo così lo schema rigido dell’opera intelaiata ed incorniciata, confinata nel suo spazio.
La mia pittura, passata attraverso varie fasi di sviluppo sia tecnico che di espressione interiore, si concretizza in una sorta di taccuino di viaggio, segnato di getto dalle emozioni e dalle esperienze quotidiane sempre, però, ispirate dallo straordinario patrimonio artistico e culturale che mi circonda. Le mie tele di juta, lavorate anche con oro zecchino,riportano quindi il “segno” di tali contaminazioni, un segno che diventa a volte simbolo e a volte materia in un affascinante gioco di percezione ed espressione lungo un viaggio, il mio viaggio in Italia."

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Jean Picazo

January 17, 2014, 2:44 am
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Jean Picazo




Mexican visual artist born in Paris, France, on January 8th, 1975.

As an artist I am driven by the need to crete beautiful, emotion and thought-provoking art pieces in form and content, that connect with both art connoisseurs and common people, combining the aesthetics of the present world with those of the old masters.

EDUCATION: Pratt Institute, NY, USA. BFA with Highest Honnors, May 2001 / La Esmeralda, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City. 4 semesters of BFA, Sept 1997- July 1999 / Panamerican University, Mexico City. 4 semesters of Philosophy, Sept 1994 - July 1996

EXHIBITIONS: Some of my paintings belong to the collection "Payment in species" of the SHCP (Mexican IRS) and are in permanent exhibition around the country / Vladimir Kasp Cultural Center's inauguration exhibition, Mexico City, June 2006 / Antiguo Colegio de las Vizcanas (rescue of a colonial building considered National Patrimony), Mexico City, October 2006 / "Illustration: the Other Lecture", Casa Universitaria del Libro, Mexico City, April-October 2004 (exhibited my work and teached workshops) / "Innovation and the Present Time", Modern Art Caf, Mexico City, August 2003 / "Pratt Show", Manhattan Center, NY, USA (exhibition of the most outstanding students work), May 2001 / "Asimov", National Museum of Arts and Popular Cultures, Mexico City, May 1994 / Several illustrations published in international magazines and newspapers such as Maxim, Rollingstone, Playboy, Letras Libres, Expansin, Max, Woodlands, etc, since 1991

AWARDS: Pratt Merit Grant for the most outstanding student of each grade











Artista visual, Director Creativo y de Arte, egresado de Pratt Institute NY con máximos honores. Ha participado en exposiciones en NY y México, incluyendo el Museo de Arte Moderno. Ha publicado ilustraciones y tiras cómicas en diversos diarios y revistas internacionales.


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Ellen Dreibelbis

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Ellen Dreibelbis



EDUCATION
B.A. in Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

HONORS AND AWARDS
2011 The Artist's Magazine Over 60 Art Competition, FIRST PRIZE WINNER
2009 PASTELS USA, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA., PANPASTEL AWARD
2008 PASTELS USA, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA., ARTISTS AIR AWARD
2007 Pastel Society of America Invitational Exhibition, Eastern Shore Art Association,
Fairhope, AL., DEGAS PASTEL SOCIETY AWARD OF EXCELLANCE
2006 Alameda County Arts Commission, PURCHASE AWARD paintings for 2004
Alameda County Courthouse, Hayward, CA.
2004 PASTELS USA, 18th International Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara,
CA., AIRFLOAT SYSTEMS AWARD
2003 DAKOTA PASTEL AWARD, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Carmichael
CA., International Exhibition
2002 MERIT AWARD, Pastels on High International, Sierra Pastel Society
Exhibition, Camino CA.
2002 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD, International Association of Pastel
Societies Exhibition, Chablis Gallery, Placerville, CA.
2001 SOUTHEASTERN PASTEL SOCIETY AWARD, Pastel Society of America,
National Arts Club, New York, New York.
2001 CRITIQUE AWARD, Associated Pastellists on the Web, , juried by Madlyn
Ann Woolwich, pastel paintings.
2000 WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, Marquis Publishing Co., New Providence, New
Jersey, Biography.
1998 WHO’S WHO IN THE WEST, Marquis Publishing Co., New Providence,
N.J., Biography.



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Madeleine Luka a.k.a. Madeleine Kula

January 17, 2014, 6:01 am
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Madeleine Luka a.k.a. Madeleine Kula- 1894-1989



"Madeleine Luka (1894-1989) était un peintre naïf, une illustratrice et poétesse de chez moi (L'Isle-Adam, Parmain, Maffliers) qui gagne à être enfin connue du grand public et non plus cloîtrée dans le cercle confidentiel de ses admirateurs.


RAPPROCHONS-NOUS LE PLUS POSSIBLE DE NOUS-MÊMES, QUI QUE NOUS SOYONS. C'EST CELA LA SIMPLICITE. MADELEINE LUKA NOUS EN DONNE UN EXEMPLE CHARMANT. (Elie Faure)

Tu veux vraiment savoir ce que j'en pense, de tes animaux? disait un jour l'abbé Breuil à Madeleine Luka: eh bien, il ne leur manque que des roulettes!

Par la taquinerie, en quoi il excellait autant qu'en peintures rupestres, le célèbre préhistorien cernait au plus secret l'art de sa cousine. L'enfance n'y recrée pas seulement les formes de toutes choses, mais leurs fonctions. Regardez bien le lapin qui gît au pied du Chasseur (1955): s'il ressemble aux jouets en peluche que les enfants enlacent ou suçotent pour s'endormir, et non au vrai gibier à la fourrure souillée de sang et à l'oeil vitreux, ce n'est pas par touchante maladresse, mais par nécessité profonde. L'espèce de bonté absolue qui baigne le visage du chasseur exige qu'il n'ait pas donné la mort, et que son fusil, cassé, sente la panoplie.

Enfance, innocence, monde sans mort ni mal: autant de vertus suspectes en peinture, parce que souvent contrefaites, mais qui ont ici l'éclat indubitable du naturel. Si Elie Faure a pu parler de "gloire de l'innocence", de réinvention de la peinture par l'"amour", c'est que l'innocence et l'amour jaillissent avec l'évidence d'une source surgissant d'une prairie. Il y a une façon qui ne s'imite pas, ni ne se concerte, de brouiller les frontières entre le moi et le monde, la vie et la mort, la veille et le rêve, le réel et le symbolique.

Dire que, ces décloisonnements typiques du jeune âge, Madeleine Luka les a cultivés dans la maturité, comme l'ont fait tant de poètes, ce serait encore se tromper sur son compte. Elle ne saurait prolonger un état qui, chez elle, n'a cessé d'être et l'enveloppe de sa durée immobile, comme une bulle. Le temps n'est pas le "vilain rapace qui nous dépasse", ainsi qu'elle s'en plaignait un jour à Francis Jammes. Du moins l'a-t-elle apprivoisé, et a-t-elle reçu la grâce de s'y tailler un "enclos de ce qui jamais ne meurt", ce qu'on appelle tout bonnement: un paradis.

Premier privilège de l'Eden: les années n'y séparent plus les morts des vivants. Ancêtres et proches disparus réduisent le néant à une mauvaise plaisanterie, et reprennent leur place parmi nous, dans la gloire d'un immuable matin. Ainsi doit se comprendre le fameux Repas de Famille (1955), où le docteur Sainte-Rose Suquet trône au milieu des siens avec la sérénité impénétrable d'un nouveau Père éternel.

L'au-delà de Madeleine Luka est d'une candeur spontanée. Nature en fête, symboles immédiats, enfants aux ailes d'anges: elle est incapable de concevoir le mal et refuse les deux fléaux de ce siècle, la technicité et la cérébralité. D'où l'absence sur ses toiles, de l'âge adulte et de ses combats féroces. L'homme fait n'y apparaît qu'au soir de sa vie - Sainte-Rose, l'abbé Breuil, Francis Jammes, son mari Robert Kula -, quand l'innocence des jours bien remplis efface les épreuves traversées. Jeune, l'homme doit se contenter d'un rôle de figurant, fiancé un peu niais dans sa jaquette de l'autre siècle, porteur de bouquet.

La jeune fille règne en souveraine absolue sur cet univers féministe avant la lettre. Telle l'Immaculée Conception, elle est à la fois la beauté parfaite et la fécondité sans péché. Ses atours imitent ceux des fleurs ou des fêtes enfuies. Ses tuyautés et ses dentelles prennent la densité meringuée d'un souvenir de sucrerie. On en mangerait. Ce qui n'empêche pas le plaisir de la chair, implicite et absous d'avance au nom du naturel. En avance sur la libéralisation de l'Eglise, ses couples ignorent la faute, et les chiens n'hésitent pas à se renifler le derrière au passage des Orphelins (1956)."

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Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Préface à "Madeleine Luka", Ed. A. Sauret.


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David Molesky

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David Molesky

1977 |Born in Washington D.C.
Education:

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University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts
Department of Art Practice & PreMed emphasis in Neurobiology
1997 |Semester at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jogykarta, Indonesia
1994 |Cornell University Summer College, Ithaca, NY
Stagiaire:

2006 |
-08Apprentice to Odd Nerdrum, Iceland and Norway


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Henry W Dixon

January 17, 2014, 7:04 am
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Henry W Dixon



Henry W. Dixon paints predominately in watercolor, and is a realist painter in style, and his subjects are people, places and things, ie, figures, landscapes and still lifes. His figures are mainly those of children and the elderly, whose actions and demeanor seem unpretentious and natural. He enjoys capturing his figures as they really are. His landscapes are those that are of rocky terrain, such as the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Rocky Mountains, etc. His still lifes takes on an abstract quality when mixed with a strong light source. Depicting light on his subjects is what evokes the most pleasure in him from his painting.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Dixon grew up in Chicago, Illinios With his mother, an older brother and three sisters. While attending elementary school there, he occcasionally got into trouble for drawing in class when he should have been finishing his class assignments. At the age of eighteen he and his family moved to Niles, Michigan where he graduated from high school and later attended Western Michigan University and received his formal art training.

He holds a Bachelor of Art Degree in Art and Master of Arts Degree in Graphic Design. After graduation, he was recruited by Hallmark Card in Kansas City, MO. where he now resides and works out of his studio. Henry has a wife(Rena),and three sons( Rodney, Reginald and Ryan).

Dixon is intrigued and awed by such masters as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Thomas Moran. Homer and Sargent for their figures and Moran for his stunning landscapes. His major tool for capturing his subjects is one of his best friends, his camera.

Henry was selected as one of five artists to represent North America in London, England at St. James Palace for the Winsor and Newton World-Wide Millennium Painting Competition, "Our World in the year 2000." Fifty-one countries from around the world were represented including the U.S.A. There were over 22,000 entries, a record that was recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records. HRH The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles), chaired the panel of judges. The exhibition was also shown in Stockholm, Sweden and the United Nations Building in New York.

Henry W. Dixon became a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in 1995, which was their 75th anniversary. The records of the society from 1920 - 1995, which included artists and slides of their work became part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution Art Archives in Washington, D.C.





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Delford T Wilson

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Delford T. Wilson  - Delford Terry Wilson



"I am a figurative artist who works primarily in watercolor. My subjects are derived largely from Caribbean and African-Americans cultures. Documenting my friends and family fills me with awe and wonder of not just the subject, but the process. My hope is to communicate to the viewer a sense of wonder and to reveal an unknown observation to them through extreme realism in a celebratory manner. I strive to capture the emotional depth of my friends and family and paint them as I see them, their hopes, and memories."

Delford T. Wilson














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