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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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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Noah Buchanan

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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…

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Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio, On Whose Authority

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…

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Bryan Drury

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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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Paul Fenniak

A Crowd in Shadow

Paul Fenniak was born in 1965 in Toronto, Canada. He completed his BFA at Queen’s University in Kingston and received his MFA in 1993 from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His work has been considered psychological realism.

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Ralph Goings

Ralph Goings, A1

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…

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Daniel Greene

Encounter

Daniel Greene (1934-2020) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League in New York, where he later returned to teach. His paintings and pastels are in over 500 public and private collections, including major museums . He has won numerous awards over the years.

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Cheryl Kelley

Cheryl Kelley, 1934 Rolls Royce - Star of India

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…

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Robert Neffson

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Robert Neffson was born December 28, 1949 in New York City. He began attending classes at the Art Students League of New York in 1961 and then Boston University College of Fine Arts, graduating in 1971. He went on to earn his master’s degree there in 1973. Neffson is known for his photorealistic street scenes…

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