Posts by Seven Bridges
Don Gummer
Don Gummer was born in 1946. He is an American sculptor. His early work concentrated on table-top and wall-mounted sculpture, but in the mid 1980s he shifted his interest to large free-standing works, often in bronze. In the 1990s he added a variety of other materials, such as stainless steel, aluminum and stained glass. His…
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 MorePetr Hora
Petr Hora was born in 1949 in the Czech Republic. Hora began his studies in 1965 at the Applied College of Glassmaking in Zelezny Brod. Hora’s work is remarkably powerful. He cuts into the surface deeply using a diamond disc saw, creating a subtle interaction of light on the form. The overall refined quality of…
Read MoreCheryl Kelley
Cheryl Kelley is an American painter known for her photorealism, especially her classic and muscle cars paintings. Kelley began her career as an abstract expressionist but is recognized chiefly as a photorealist or hyperrealist. Kelley bases her paintings on photographs, mostly taken at car shows and automobile museums. Her low angles of perspective and emphasis…
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 MoreKaren LaMonte
Karen LaMonte was born in 1967 in New York City. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and continued her studies with a Fulbright Grant which sent her to the Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design in Prague, The Czech Republic. She had her first solo show in Chicago,…
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…
Read MoreNancy Mee
Nancy Mee is a sculptor and glass artist based in Seattle, WA. Mee was born in 1951 and attended the University of Washington where she earned a BFA in Printmaking in 1974. An artist in residency at the Pilchuck School in 1984 had a profound impact on her work when she began experimenting with fusing…
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