Posts by Seven Bridges
Rich Alexander
Rich Alexander is a trained draftsman and owned and operated a sign company, hand lettering signs and trucks with lettering enamels. In 1986, Rich became a New York City fire fighter. During his 21-year career with the FDNY, Rich designed, built and painted dozens of firehouse tables all over New York City, painted murals on…
Read MoreSteven Assael
Steven Assael was born in 1957 in New York City. He attended the Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts and the New York Academy of Art in New York City. The artist’s technique of balancing realism and romanticism, focusing on the human figure either individually or in a group and…
Read MoreBo Bartlett
Bo Bartlett was born in 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. He began his artistic training with private studies in Florence, Italy, in 1974. Bartlett continued his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, graduating in 1981. His paintings are in the American realism style and depict people he knows set in scenes around…
Read MorePeter Bremers
Dutch artist Peter Bremers was born in 1957 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, where he studied sculpture at the University of Fine Arts and three-dimensional design at the Jan van Eyck Academia. Searching for suitable ways of realizing his artistic ideas, he at first worked with a wide range of materials including glass, plastic, steel and…
Read MoreJoy Brown
Joy Brown was born in Japan in 1951, a child of medical missionaries to Japan. Brown received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Eckerd College in Florida. After graduating, she returned to Japan to work as an apprentice in traditional Japanese ceramics for four years. During that time of rigorous training, she was required…
Read MoreNoah Buchanan
Noah Buchanan, born in 1976, began his artistic studies in 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied classical drawing and painting, as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. In 2002, he received his M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art where he intensified his training in…
Read MoreDale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He was introduced to glass at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965 Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design where he later established the glass…
Read MorePaul Day
Paul Day was born in 1967 in Horsham, England. Upon finishing his education at Cheltenham School of Art, Day began working professionally aided by a grant from the Prince of Wales Business Youth Trust. Day has spent more than twenty years developing a highly personal approach to figurative sculpture using high-relief, an art form that…
Read MoreVincent Desiderio
Vincent Desiderio was born in 1955. He graduated from Haverford College in 1977 and later attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, followed by four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Desiderio has said that the works of Eugène Delacroix had an important influence on the development of how he treats light…
Read MoreBryan Drury
Bryan Drury was born in 1980 in Salt Lake City, Utah and relocated to New York in 2001. He received his MFA Cum Laude from the New York Academy of Art in 2007 and BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2005. He has exhibited and received awards throughout the US and Europe.…
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