Archive for February 2025
Max Ferguson
Max Ferguson was born 1959 in New York City and is an American artist best known for his realistic paintings of vanishing urban scenes in and around New York City. Ferguson did hand-drawn animated films as a teenager, eventually graduating from New York University with a degree in film in 1980. However, while spending a…
Read MoreBarry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan (1941–2009) was born in North Wales. He studied at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts from 1957 to 1958, continuing at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, England, graduating in 1966. Flanagan taught at St. Martin’s School from 1967 to 1971. Flanagan began his series of hare sculptures in the late…
Read MoreCésar Galicia
César Galicia was born in 1957 in Madrid, Spain. He studied at the San Fernando Fine Arts School in Madrid, graduating in 1979. He continued to study painting privately in the United States starting in 1981 and began showing in New York at the Staempfli Gallery in 1985. He was included in the important Spanish…
Read MoreGreg Gandy
Greg Gandy was born in 1980 in central California. He is a realist painter who resides and works in San Francisco. He earned two Bachelor’s degrees prior to moving to San Francisco, where he earned a Master’s Degree from the Academy of Art University in 2007. Gandy is a meticulous painter who thrives on intricate…
Read MoreEric Goulder
Eric Goulder was born in 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts as well as the New York Academy of Art. His figurative sculptures, fabricated in bronze, crystal, silver and marble are a reflection of contemporary society and its contradictions. Goulder’s work examines the human spirit’s struggle for identity and can be…
Read MoreJames Neil Hollingsworth
James Neil Hollingsworth was born in 1954 and raised in Marietta, Georgia. With the exception of a few life drawing classes at a community college in the 1970s, Hollingsworth is a self-taught artist. Hollingsworth was enlisted in the Air Force in 1972 as well as becoming a registered nurse working in the emergency room as…
Read MoreVladimira Klumpar
Vladimira Klumpar was born in 1954 in the Czech Republic. From 1969 to 1973 she attended the Zelezny Brod Specialized High School for Glassmaking in the Czech Republic and afterwards spent seven years at the Academy of Applied Art in Prague, studying under Stanislav Libenský. Her cast glass sculpture uses organic botanical elements as its…
Read MorePeter Maier
Peter Maier was born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. He worked as a senior automotive designer at General Motors before focusing exclusively on his painting. Peter paints with an automotive paint called Axalta Cromax-AT paint, which allows his work to have a luminosity impossible to capture by traditional means. Peter Maier’s vast photorealist paintings…
Read MoreDante Marioni
Dante Marioni was born in 1964 in Mill Valley, California. In the mid 1980s, he studied glassblowing at the Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington where he met his mentor, Maestro Lino Tagliapietra. His work is strongly influenced in its form by the Venetian tradition, yet has a distinctive style all its own. By the late…
Read MoreRichard Maury
Richard Maury was born in 1935 in Washington, DC, and died in 2020. He was educated at the University of Maryland, The Corcoran School in Washington, DC and The Art Student’s League of New York, but it wasn’t until he attended L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy in 1960 that he encountered the artistic…
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