Rich Alexander

Rich Alexander, The Vise

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…

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Archimede Seguso Glassworks

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Archimede Seguso (1909 – 1999) was born on the island of Murano in Venice, Italy. Born into a family of glass workers, he began working with glass at a young age, developing his skills by reworking glasswork from the 18th century. Seguso distinguished himself by the age of 20 with new techniques and impressive skills,…

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Steven Assael

Steven Assael, Preparation of the Bride

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…

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Bo Bartlett

Bo Bartlett, The Triumph of Romance

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…

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William Beckman

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William Beckman was born in 1942 in Maynard, Minnesota. He received a BA from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota and an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He moved to New York City in 1969, rose to prominence in the mid-1970s and has had over 20 solo exhibitions. His work is included…

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Charles Bell

Bell_Sophisticated Lady

Charles Bell (1935–1995) born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned a BBA degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1957, then served for two years in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant. Bell worked as an accountant and served as comptroller of the International Nickel Corporation until 1980. According to a Guggeheim Foundation biography,…

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Howard Ben Tre

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Howard Ben Tre was an American glass artist who was born in 1949 and died in 2020. He worked with poured glass, creating small sculptures and large scale public artworks. Ben Tre obtained his bachelor’s degree from Portland State University and moved to the East coast where he graduated from Rhode Island School of Design…

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David Bennett

Bennett_Orange Man

David Bennett born in 1941 in Oregon. He has been a professional glass artist since 1991. Bennett studied the art of blown glass at Pratt Art School in Seattle, Washington; at Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington; and in Murano, Italy with Maestro Pino Signoretto. Bennett is best known for his blown figurative glass sculptures, created…

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Martin Blank

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Martin Blank was born in 1962. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1984, majoring in glass. After graduating, Blank travelled to the West Coast to work with master glass artist Dale Chihuly. He had his first solo exhibition in 1995. In 2004, he received a…

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Peter Bremers

Bremer_Two Sisters Canyon

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…

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