CAROLINE BENCHETRIT is a self-taught painter and sculptor. In 1996, she left behind a business and academic career including an MBA and a Ph.D at Montreal’s Ivy League McGill University to pursue her artistic dream. Her signature style paintings and life size sculptures in both ceramic and bronze, are collected on three continents, exhibiting more… 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 »
I combine my love of painting and traditional techniques into distinctive still life oil paintings. I choose my subjects from a variety of materials and textures including Madiera cloths, Persian rugs, metal, glass, porcelain, books and fruit. Working in my north light studio, I plan, select and set up objects to produce contrasts of… Read more »
This sculptural format of three-dimensional ceramic art has its roots in 15th century Italy in the style of Luca Della Robbia and his nephew, Andrea. His works fall somewhere between painting and sculpture. Della Robbia’s portraiture showed a strong understanding of drawing and depicted a sense of depth in a shallow plane. His contemporaries considered… Read more »
Painting Sculpture Photography Elizabeth Ashe’s recent sculptures use minimalism – wire and shadow – to examine personal space in our relationship to one another or our environment. Bird sculptures are her metaphor for the migratory nature of living in D.C. or any Sanctuary city. Ashe is the Administrative Director of Zenith Gallery’s… Read more »
Mason was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and currently lives in Indianapolis Indiana. His early creative experience came while working as art director and pictorial artist at Lamar Advertising. He turned to his sights to full-time fine art painting in 2005. And almost instantly reached success pursuing traditional realism, using the quality materials and… Read more »
DOBA AFOLABI was born in the mountains of southwest Nigeria and credits his mother, who was a versatile dancer, as the fundamental force behind his flair for expression. Monet, Van Gogh, Degas and Yoruba stylized carvings were later influences on Afolabi. Doba studied at the famous Zaria Art School. While still in school he… Read more »
