Kelly Mudge
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008February 2008 - Featured Artist ::Portfolio:: ::Q & A:: ::Kelly Mudge:: Kelly graduated from Pratt Institute where she studied under several influential instructors -including Joe Smith and David Passalaqua.
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February 2008 - Featured Artist ::Portfolio:: ::Q & A:: ::Kelly Mudge:: Kelly graduated from Pratt Institute where she studied under several influential instructors -including Joe Smith and David Passalaqua.
Carrie Ann Baade
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008January 2008 - Featured Artist ::Portfolio:: :: Q & A :: :: Carrie Anne Baade :: The edgy and intellectual paintings of Carrie Ann Baade are quickly gaining recognition around the world. Baade has just been nominated for a United States Artist Fellowship for 2007 which is one prestigious awards offered.
Vera Costa
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Vera was born in southern Brazil, where she completed her BFA and MFA degrees and started her artistic career. Art is her passion and since the 90s she has been showing her artwork in several group and solo exhibitions. In addition, she’s contributed to community projects aiming social consciousness. She ...
Max Miller
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Max Miller was born in 1980 to a family of artists and craftsmen. His early years were characterized by his family constantly moving among various locations throughout North Carolina and Texas. Without any steady playmates, drawing became his chief activity. Max's parents would bring home reams of discarded paper, which he ...
Mark Bennion
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Over the past 25 years Mark Bennion (b.1948 Seattle, Washington) has developed a unique painting process, which he calls fresco. Using oil, plaster and paper on a panel on canvas, his work shows a contemporary edge and a pallet of it own, yet it seems like we are looking at fragments ...
Beatriz Milhazes
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1960 Established Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes has attracted international attention with her colorful compositions since the 1990s. Her art features elements of both Brazilian pop culture and modern visual languages. Overlapping floral motifs, ornamental arabesques and abstract patterns convey an excessive, sensuous energy. COLLECTIONS: Solomon R. ...
Hélio Oiticica
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - 1937-1980. Hélio Oiticica used to say that he was not a 'career artist', reflecting his wish not to be categorised under an established label. Oiticica's early works were influenced by the Brazilian neo-Concretists and fell within the framework of geometric abstractionism, but his particular ...
Willem de Kooning
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. 1904, Rotterdam; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam. From 1916 to 1925, he studied at night at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, while apprenticed to a commercial-art and decorating firm and later working for an ...
Robert Rauschenberg
Friday, November 30th, 2007Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), is an American artist from Port Arthur, Texas who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his “Combines” of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative ...
Lucian Freud
Friday, November 30th, 2007Lucian Michael Freud, (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of writer and politician Clement Raphael Freud ...
Eric Fischl
Friday, November 30th, 2007Born in New York City in 1948, Eric Fischl grew up in the suburbs of Long Island , his parents having moved there shortly before his second year."Safer place to raise a family", they used to say. Against a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Friday, November 30th, 2007Jean-Michel Basquiat, American - (1960-1988), was an artist who came to personify the art scene of the 80s,with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction. Basquiat’s art career is known for his three broad, though overlapping styles. In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used ...
Cy Twombly
Friday, November 30th, 2007Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia. From 1947 to 1949 he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, and at the Art Students League in New York from 1950 to 1951. There, he met Robert Rauschenberg who encouraged him ...
Andy Warhol
Friday, November 30th, 2007Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde ...
Jackson Pollock
Friday, November 30th, 2007Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five sons. His father was a farmer ...
Anselm Kiefer
Friday, November 30th, 2007Anselm Kiefer is regarded as one of the most important and influential artists working today. Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of ...
Nathan Oliveiria
Friday, November 30th, 2007Nathan Oliveira (born December 19, 1928) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. He is a celebrated and long-standing member of the art community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a painter who has lived in that area all his life, and is recently ...
Brisson, Pierre Marie
Friday, November 30th, 2007Born June 1955 in Orléans. Brisson is one of Europe’s most talented young contemporary artists. With simplified figures and extensive texturing, Brisson’s works have been compared to cave drawings. Their timeless appearances represent a kind of archeological dig for the artist: he cuts, scratches and pierces the multi-layered surfaces of ...
Manuel Neri
Friday, November 30th, 2007Manuel Neri was born in 1930 in Sanger, California. Neri attended San Francisco City College from 1949-50 with the idea of becoming an electrical engineer. A single class in ceramics turned him to art and a move to California College of Arts and Crafts and subsequent studies at California School ...
Fernando Ferreira de Araujo
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. 1962 in Brazil. Lives and works in New York City. Artist Statement: “I’ve been paiting for almost 18 years. Painting, to me, is basically an intuitive process, I always find myself guided by intuition and led by emotion. As opposed to wide and long heavy brush strokes, I used to have, I ...
Jane Frank
Friday, November 30th, 2007Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. A pupil of Hans Hofmann, she can in much ...
Bill Gingles
Friday, November 30th, 2007Artist Statement: “At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things. Yet it’s the unexpected that I find most compelling about painting. ...
Stefan Beltzig
Friday, November 30th, 2007Born in Bavaria in 1944, the son of a Berlin film maker and a dealer of Oriental Antiquities, Stefan Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on theartistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circustroop as an acrobat. After leading the life ...
Sam Dolman
Friday, November 30th, 2007Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
Adam Mickiewicz
Friday, November 30th, 2007Born 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Lives and works in Wroclaw. Members of The Association of Polish Artist and Designers.1980 - 1983 University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan1980 - 1985 University of Wroclaw1994 - 1995 Graphic Practice on Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw. Artist Statement: ”My mind has always perceived painting as a process in which ...
Mie Olise
Friday, November 30th, 2007Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
Kevin A. Rausch
Friday, November 30th, 2007Painting as View of the World Only at a first glance do the works of Kevin A. Rausch (born in Carinthia, Austria) attest to a brittle, bleak apocalyptic mood; to desolatedness, grey battlegrounds, catastrophes, isolation, and the appendant weltschmerz. Once one takes a closer look, one can discover ironical associations ...
Kelly Mudge
Friday, November 30th, 2007The current project “Engage” explores each particular subject’s personality and how those attributes are expressed on both a outward physical and psychological level. Through each individual work, the viewer can become intimately aquainted with the subject not only representationally, but on an emotional, intellectual, and moral level.Anatomical incorrectness with impossible ...
Antoni Tàpies
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. 1923, Barcelona Antoni Tàpies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness that lasted two years. Tàpies began to study law in Barcelona in 1944 but decided instead within two years to devote himself exclusively to art. ...
Elizabeth Peyton
Friday, November 30th, 2007Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of people who are in some way close to her – whereby her relationship to her subjects can assume a variety of ...
Joan Mitchell
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. February 12, 1925. Chicago, Illinois. Died October 30, 1992. Paris. A leading figure of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York City, Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago to a wealthy family. She showed early art talent and attended Smith College from 1942 to 1944 and then transferred ...
Chuck Close
Friday, November 30th, 2007b. 1940 in Monroe, Washington, USA. He studied at the University of Washington School of Art, Seattle (1960–2), Yale University (1962–4), and in Vienna, Austria (1964–5). A photo-realist painter of large portraits. In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column. He regained partial use ...
Herman Nitsch
Friday, November 30th, 2007Text written by Patricia Ellis Hermann Nitsch was born in Vienna in 1938. While studying graphic illustration, he became interested in religous art. He made copies from Rembrandt’s 100 Gulden Blatt and Christ Crucified, and from other religious themes by artists such as Tintoretto and El Greco. Other drawings Hermann Nitsch ...
Joe Goodwin
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Artist Statement: While working on my MFA at the University of Illinois, I became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem ...
Harding Meyer
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Outstading figurative/portrait contemporary artist Biography 1964 Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil 1993 Meisterschüler 1987 - 1998 Studies at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe / Prof. Max Kaminski and Prof Helmut Dorner 1999 Helmut-Stober-Prize www.hardingmeyer.de
Jessica Kirkpatrick
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Artist’s Statement: “As an artist I intend to empathize with people and the world through the visual mode. I use art as a reflective tool to understanding my self and the environment I inhabit. I feel that style and meaning is inextricable to form and composition; in that way, I ...
Banksy
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. It is believed that Banksy is a native of Yate (near Bristol) who was born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and basic personal and biographical details. However, according to Tristan Manco, ...
Ross Bleckner
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Ross Bleckner (born 1949) is an American Artist from New York City. Ross Bleckner's mysteriously luminous paintings sustain a breathtaking atmosphere of their own. Since 1975 he has shown at prestigious venues internationally, including a major Guggenheim retrospective and European museum tours. He is the youngest artist ever to have a ...
Carrie Anne Baade
Monday, November 26th, 2007Carrie Anne Baade imaginative portraits and narratives are informed by religion and mythology. Gods, rulers, demons, and monsters play out the complexity of the human condition in her works that incorporate forgotten paintings to quote and interpret. She has traveled around the globe in search of inspiration; her works manifest ...
Richard Prince
Monday, November 26th, 2007Prince’s work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making—one that questioned notions of originality and ...