Archive for February 2025
Adam Normandin
Adam Normandin, born in 1965 in Hempstead, New York, is a Los Angeles-based contemporary realist artist whose detailed paintings of rustic freight trains often sprayed with graffiti offer a glimpse into the lesser-explored aspects of American life. The contents of these steel mammoths are unknown, offering a mysterious trait to each composition. Drawn to subjects…
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David Simon was born in New York in 1970, and is a dynamic sculptor currently based in Los Angeles. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University and the New York Academy of Art. He has taught for more than 20 years in New York at the Sculpture Center and Grand…
Read MoreRaphaella Spence
Raphaella Spence was born in 1978 in London, England, and is a hyperrealist painter whose current works consist of high-resolution digital camera images combined with freehand cityscape paintings. Spence and her family moved to France, where she spent the first eight years of her life. At the age of 12, she moved to Rome, Italy,…
Read MoreJames Valerio
James Valerio was born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, where he currently lives and teaches at Northwestern University. His mother was an artist, and as a child he took weekend classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. When a back injury prevented him from finding work as a laborer, Valerio enrolled in night classes for…
Read MoreToots Zynsky
Mary Ann “Toots” Zynsky was born in 1951 in Massachusetts. She is a glass worker who began her career originally as a ceramics artist. In 1973, she received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where so many artists converted to glass due to the influence of Dale Chihuly. In 1971, Chihuly brought…
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