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The Babi Yar Masacre - A Monument by Sculptor Cindy Jackson

Friday, March 7th, 2008

The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust", yet most people are unaware of this genocide. Babi Yar is the name of a ravine in the northwestern section of Kiev. A. Anatoli described the ravine as "enormous, you might even say ...

Cindy Jackson

Friday, March 7th, 2008

March 2008 - Featured Artist                        ::Portfolio::                      :: Q & A ::                      ::Cindy Jackson :: Cindy is presently developing a project called “REQUIEM for Babi Yar” - A proposal for a monumental sculptural environment to honor all those who perished in the Babi Yar ravine. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be ...

Cindy Jackson

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Born: 1960Education: B.S. Webster University B.F.A. Art Center College of Design   A.A.S. Southern Illinois University "Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our greatest interest is with things human." Cindy Jackson uses figurative sculpture is as a way of connecting with the outside world. "My desire is to make art that ...

Edward Hopper

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting. ...

Max Miller

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Max 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, 2008

  Over 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 ...

Willem de Kooning

Friday, November 30th, 2007

    b. 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 ...

Mark Rothko

Friday, November 30th, 2007

    Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia (now Latvia). In 1913 he left Russia and settled with the rest of his family in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923. That year he left Yale without ...

Robert Rauschenberg

Friday, November 30th, 2007

  Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (b. October 22, 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American artist 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 ...

Eric Fischl

Friday, November 30th, 2007

    Born 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 ...