Sculptures Functional Sculptures Hadrian Mendoza, a stoneware Potter, works with a fearless and audacious search for unusual and indigenous forms, including expressionistic and abstract shapes. Mendoza was a graduate at Mary Washington College in Virginia and a former student at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, where he was awarded the prestigious… Read more »
PAINTINGS PORTRAITS A BOOK BY DAVIS MORTON In the spirit of “show me … don’t tell me,” this book uses a unique adventure to deliver its message by pairing 40 different paintings with prose, vignettes, and stories that were inspired by those paintings. To see a sample of this book, please click… Look inside… Read more »
When I sculpt, I am recovering hundreds of years of lost harmony of the people. In the past, people were proud of their work and did it with skill and power. People recognized of what you are capable. We have lost this belief. It is up to us the artists, to recover the harmony we… Read more »
Stuck on a proverbial iceberg, disengaged from the rest of humanity, I empathize with the polar bears and other animals soon to be inundated by the global-warming induced floodwaters encouraged by our present politicians and government officials. Artists inform, artists warn, artists engage. This is my scream. Are you listening? Can you hear me? Will… Read more »
Bronze Sculptures Jewelry Outdoor Sculptures I have always felt that the desire to communicate is one of the great universal reasons why artists create their work. It is certainly the main reason why I love to create participatory art. Many of my sculptures are meant to be touched and moved and are purposefully… Read more »
My paintings take advantage of humor. (The absurd rears its ugly head.) The process is as important as the artwork itself. My work is changing and dynamic. Tumultuous materials explode in a rush of energy. Elements of the familiar arise with the repetition of characters and situations. Familiar actions and themes surface as the pieces progress: Business vs. life … Read more »
MARCELO NOVO was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a Profesor de Bellas Artes from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” and studied painting under Surrealist artist Roberto Aizemberg. He received a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina and taught art at Benedict College from 1995 to 1998. His art… Read more »
Creativity is a passion that can be expressed through a variety of mediums. While it may not be readily apparent, all of Katharine Owens work is created using paper with only the auxiliary use of watercolor paint. At first glance, it may appear as if her work is a painting or even a photograph. Viewers… Read more »
For more than 45 years, as President of Foresite Planning, Inc., Jerome Harris Parmet focused his artistic career on planning/designing/rehabbing architectural interiors and buildings for corporations, showrooms and restaurants primarily in NYC and its metro area. However, he always remembered a gratifying experience in a sculpture class in college and upon semi-retirement twenty years… Read more »
For these pieces, I tie canvas panels into steel grids and paint both sides of the panels – sky imagery on the front and color fields on the reverse. Photographs are not involved. Sometimes the cords extend beyond the confines, breaking boundaries between the real and represented. Other times they appear to vanish, the panels… Read more »
G.M. Riess Born in Wels, Austria, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1956, settling in California. Guenther studied art and received a scholarship to the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California where he pursued a lifelong career in the arts. His three-dimensional constructions are held in corporate collections around the… Read more »
I was born and raised on the Chesapeake Bay. I grew up crabbing and fishing with local watermen and have always felt a connection to the bay. I have been a Carpentry/Woodworking Teacher and woodworker for over 42 years. The driftwood thing is a recent endeavor that was made convenient by last summer’s hurricanes… Read more »
I begin each piece by creating a collage background of book pages from various sources. Using late nineteenth century and early twentieth century books for their beautiful intricate engravings, drawings and the golden-brown paper. Including more modern sources also including botanical drawings, mechanical drawings, maps, mathematical/geometric drawings, architectural drawings, medical/anatomical illustrations, non-English texts, illustrations… Read more »
Nudes Still Life Ron Schwerin is a painter of young female nudes and sensual still lives. Awarded the Prix de Rome in 1963, he went on to teach at his alma mater, Pratt Institute, as well as the New York Institute of Technology and the University of Rhode Island. He has exhibited in group… Read more »