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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…

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…

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…

Ralph Goings was born in 1928 in Corning, CA. He received his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1953 and his MFA from Sacramento State College in 1965. He had his first solo exhibit in 1970. Goings became one of the founding members of the photorealist movement, writing that “form, color and…

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…

Odd Nerdrum was born in Sweden. Raised in Norway, he dropped out of high school at eighteen and began his studies at the National Academy of Art in Oslo but was never made to feel welcome in an environment that was hostile to Nerdrum’s interests in a more traditional technique and style. Nerdrum is known…

Adriana Rinaldi was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and moved to Italy with her family when she was very small. Her experience in Italy had a profound artistic effect on her – she kept busy in her countryside home drawing whatever she saw. The artist returned to Canada and continued her artwork as a hobby throughout her high school years and after 32…

Peter Swift, a former corporate lawyer, has been painting full time since 2015. Specializing in still-life painting, the artist has created a new genre which he calls “Symmetrical Realism” — photorealistic renderings of objects, arranged in symmetrical designs.