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Artist: Giancarlo Bertini Born in Quilpué, Chile in 1973, when the region began industrialization and the country landscape gave way to a new urban grid of factories. The memory of the natural scenery serves as a basis for Bertini’s work. He identifies himself with his scenery, and this silhouette appears on his canvases in the form of landscapes from his memory, schemes with grazing lights, like an eternal twilight of the spirit. The profiles verge together, everything covered in an atmosphere of mystery that takes the viewer down a path of unique interior resonances. In 1998 he lived and painted in Mexico City for six months. He was captivated by the forms and tones of the Aztec territory, and he let it transform his own vision without forgetting his own reality. He understood the solitude of the human being placed in a foreign environment, and of trying to gain acceptance as an outsider, and he channeled that into his work. Bertini applies visual laws instinctively; he is an artist free from intellectualizing his pictorial processes. His work is a visual act converted into a visual judgment; everything is based on controlled visual impulses that create tension between the elements of the painting. He exhibits abstractions of urban landscapes, graduated scales that transform the surface tonalities and illuminations that act as spiritual transfigurations, worked with successive layers of color that are superimposed on each other, creating transparencies that appear between the brush strokes. The complete work acts as a whole entity under tension of lines, planes, and small geometric elements, which give an extraordinary solidarity to each of the paintings, but also act interrelatedly. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Craig Bone Born in 1955,in Salisbury, Rhodesia, Craig Bone's extraordinary paintings have earned him international acclaim. In his signature style of meticulous realism, Craig offers the viewer a magical encounter with elusive animals and a fleeting glimpse of the Africa that he called home. View Artist Page |
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Artist: J. Scott Cilmi The focus of Scott Cilmi's paintings has been to create a sense of energy and spirit through color, composition, line and shape. The energy could be loud and powerful or quiet and subtle. He is most interested in using juxtapositions of color and exploring how layers affect each other. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Carolyn Cole Painting is a revelatory process. It is a process by trial and error, which explores the artist’s intuitive relationship to his or her artwork. My work hovers between consciousness and intuition. My paintings combine emotional content, observation, technical skill, exploration, humor, and reinvention. I love to create passionate surfaces that are visually intriguing and mysterious, with expressive colors and shapes. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Thomas Easley Vibrant, cocky and life-affirming, the rooster series are Thomas Easley's answer to the troubled times we live in. What other animal or bird offers such a range of dramatic colors and postures that are a statement of pride and self assurance? The effortless strokes of the palette knife that give pizzazz to the roosters are a result of control and impeccable technique Easley developed as a classical realist artist in Europe. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Jeff Faust "Our Delicate Lives" oil on canvas 24x18 View Artist Page |
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Artist: Heather Gordon Heather Gordon believes that paintings are magical, inspirational, healing and spiritual. She feels that art is about nurturing the soul. Painting, for her, is both meditative and fun: A childlike playfulness with an adult's awareness. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Bob Ichter Bob Ichter is an award winning artist whose romantic pastels are richly colored and hand-rubbed on board. The strengths of Ichter's pastels include, vibrant, saturated colors and strong compositions. Each piece is designed to evoke a certain time of day and to transport the viewer to another place. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Eric Johnson Eric Johnson’s artwork and style has it’s own individual character. Expanding his use of dramatic texture, three dimensions and color, every piece searches the infinite planes of imaginative display. Never locking himself into a set mold, Johnson’s free-flowing style and blending of paints can excite and soothe simultaneously as it probes one’s curiosity. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Hu Jun Di Born in 1962 in Ji Lin province and a graduate of Sichuan Fine Arts College, Chongqing, 1984. Hu Jundi now lives in Sichuan Province, LeShan City. Hu Jundi is an artist unique in China, one who appeals to both traditional and modern, western influenced sensibilities. Hu Jundi has exhibited in many highly acclaimed exhibitions throughout China and recently in the United States. He was invited to participate in the Venice Biennial, the most prestigious art exhibition in the world. Last year Hu Jundi was offered a teaching position at Xinhua University, Beijing. Hu Jundi began his career and studies with traditional Chinese painting with ink and brush, moving on to watercolors and now oils on linen. His technique consists of many thin layers to achieve a blend of color on the surface much like the artist Renoir used. It creates a lustrous and unique look. Although the work appears to be somewhat spontaneous, each painting may take up to one month to complete. His inspiration is taken from reading literature and poems of the east and interpreting the feeling into each artwork. Many of his recent works involve Sichuan women. He uses no models in his studio, choosing to catch a special moment in his mind and execute the painting. Hu once said “I listened to the song “Red Crowned Crane and a Girl” and I was impressed with the story and the melody, I want to express the same feeling in my paintings. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Karin Jurick Karin Jurick is a self-taught , Atlanta based artist whose work has been collected throughout the United States. She attributes her talent and exposure to art to her mother who was also an accomplished artist who sold her works at various traveling art shows in the Northeast. Jurick’s recent paintings focus on everyday observations of people, whether it is a glimpse into someone’s private moments contemplating a painting in a museum, people commuting to work, eating in a restaurant or relaxing on a park bench. She strives to capture that candid moment with expressive brush strokes and vivid color. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Ezra Katz Ezra Katz was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico in 1970 and began studying art at the age of seven. Learning from several teachers who would come from Mexico city and stay for the summer at this family home. He began with academic art and later studied commercial art when he arrived at the University of Texas in Austin and Corpus Christi. In Mexico, he established himself as an artist. In the off seasons, Ezra traveled through the United States, painting commissions for private clients. In Cabo San Lucas, Ezra created a following among restaurateurs and hoteliers creating his highly original murals and etchings. Ezra now makes his home in two places, California and Mexico. He delights in the diverse landscapes of the Bay Area. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Robert Kipniss Robert Kipniss is recognized as one the best printmakers in the United States. His work has been collected by over 50 museums including, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The British Museum in London, The Chicago Art Institute, MOMA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Cheryl Kline The conceptual underpinnings of my work are emotional journeys. The landscape and specifically skies are a perfect metafor for reflecting our emotional state. Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Kline has developed a strong following both locally and nationally. Kline earned a BA in commercial art from Woodbury University and attended the Bruchion School of Realist Art and the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Georgy Kurasov Georgy Kurasov, born in 1958 in Leningrad now St Petersburg, Russia. He trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Arts upon receiving his diploma he exhibited and entered competitions necessary to gain membership to The Union of Artists. These were tough times for Russian sculptors so Kurasov turned to painting. Kurasov began showing his paintings in the United States in 1993. His unique colorful cubist style has gained him much acclaim and the Cohen Rese Gallery is proud to exhibit his recent works. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Ramon Lombarte Ramon Lombarte was born in Barcelona, the Catalan region of Spain. This region is the cultural, financial and industrial center of the country. Lombarte shares the rich artistic heritage of this region with many famous artists, among whom are Miro, Dali, Tobaiasse, Picasso, Gaudi and Tapies. Lombarte graduated from Massana School of Fine Art in 1976, the school also attended by Picasso and Miro. There he received traditional training and learned to create canvases without relying on modern-day short cuts. He typically sketches as many as 60 to 70 preliminary studies in pencil, prepares intermediary "mixed media" studies, and finishes with fully conceived final canvases (acrylic and oil on linen). Being a traditionalist in this sense, Lombarte does not work from photographs, but with live models. Nonetheless, he is surprisingly prolific, producing between 30 to 45 new canvases yearly. Lombarte's work has been tremendously well received due to its realistic subject matter. This approach is quite refreshing in a time when many of his contemporaries follow the current trend towards modern and abstract imagery. Since his American debut in 1987 at the Nippon Club in New York, Lombarte has captured the attention of many serious American art collectors and firmly established his market in Europe - his work can be seen in major museums. Notable European collectors include King Juan Carlos of Spain, Andres Segovia, Antonio Gala, and Waldemar Neilsen. In order to make his work to a greater audience, Lombarte began creating lithographs. True to his painting style, he personally draws the image on each stone to insure that his limited- edition prints are his work and not that of another artist interpreting his images. He is so committed to quality and authenticity that, using antique lithographic presses with the assistance of a French master printer, he hand- pulls each piece of every edition. This serious attention to traditional technique prompted him to set up his own atelier in order to achieve maximum control over the quality of every print. View Artist Page |
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Artist: G.R. Martin "Ballast", aclylic on canvas, 36x44 View Artist Page |
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Artist: Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastian Matta, born in Chile spent much of his life in France and, beginning in 1939, nearly a decade in the U.S., where he had a great influence on the New York School. the French saw him as a central member of surrealists and the last great survivor of the circle around Andre Breton. Matta embraced the idea of automatic drawing as away of tapping the unconscience. Matta talked about "inscapes" or visualizing the psyche where the past , presentand future are all mixed into one. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Fitz Maurice Fitz Maurice- Born in Westchester, NY. Degree - Rochester Institute of Technology, Cum Laude under full scholarship. Winner of the distinguished Jackson Pollack - Lee Krasner Foundation Award 2002 "The Gift", oil on linen View Artist Page |
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Artist: D. E. McDermott Sensual form is the hallmark of D.E. Mcdermott's work. Cast in fine art bronze, with various patinas, McDermott's sculpture captures both an elegance and a simplicity. These bronzes represent, in the artist's words, "a wonderful moment when ones perceptions and ideas fall away and the form leads you toward a harmony of its own." View Artist Page |
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Artist: Donna McGinnis Donna McGinnis was born in Spokane, WA, attended Washington State University and has been showing her paintings and drawings since 1977. Her current landscapes are invented and not of any particular place, but an accumulation of the experience of seeing beautiful places such as the golden hills of California. Her paintings are dreamlike, soft and atmospheric with a touch of fantasy and timelessness. View Artist Page |
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Artist: James Minden My Paintings are nonobjective explorations of the process of visual perception and the potency of images on a two-dimensional surface. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Wai Ming The appeal of Wai Ming's art transcends all nationalities and races. Born in Canton, China in 1938, Wai ming moved to Hong Kong in 1949 enduring hardship and struggles in his childhood and youth. Since 1963, using self-taught techniques that evolved into a unique personal style, he has been portraying through his heart the kindness, beauty and hope of human nature. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Vachagan Narazyan Vachagan Narazyan’s epic and intimate paintings are arguably among the most important works to surface and still develop from the repression of the former Soviet Union. With a style blending old-world images with futuristic visions, the artist creates a world of mystery and enchantment for the viewer to explore. Narazyan was born in 1957 in Kislovodsk, Russia and graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute in 1979. As a part of the “non-conformist art movement” of the former Soviet Union, Narazyan’s inspiration derives from the surreal memories of his childhood; the traveling circus; the disappearing landscapes of the past; the charming characters and performers admired through the eyes of a child. Narazyan’s love of paints and canvas is similar to the poet’s love of words. While his method of momentary inspiration is both simple and complicated, he perfects his creations bearing in mind the lessons of the great masters of the past. In the early 1980’s drawings, etchings and paintings created by a young Vachagan Narazyan invariably attracted great interest by colleagues, art critics and collectors. After seeing one or two of his works at an exhibition, he was always remembered. Today, hundreds of his works have been collected worldwide by discerning art collectors. Articles praising his masterful work have been published in several art magazines including Art & Antiques, Fine Art Collector, the Union Tribune and The North County Times in San Diego. His works have been exhibited in several museums including the Zimmerli Art Museum’s Dodge Collection from “From Gulag to Glasnot”, the C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in New Jersey, the Kharkiv Art Museum, and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Conor O'Donnell Paintings consist of physcial, psychological, and spiritual acts, I find it natuarally therapeutic. The paintings begin to appear through both additive and reductive trials. There is a significant physical, tactile approach to developing my work. I am interested in the application of paint and other media - an experiment in cause and effect. I seek a balance between serendipitous moments and times of control. I tend not to remember how I make paintings. No record is kept of my process. I am influenced by the remote, the mysterious, and the exotic. Similar to the Romantic Landscape Painters of the first half of the 19th century. I place importance on emotions and senses rather than favoring reason and intellect. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Teresa Onoda Teresa Onoda's aggressive brush strokes and bolder than life colors have caught the eye of art collectors frequesnting galleries in Nothern California communities, in Carmel-by-the-Sea and off the golf course in Palm Desert. After earning a fine arts degree at Creighton University and then teaching art in Omaha, Houston and Memphis, Teresa moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and began painting plein aire. In just a few years her work began to gain attention for its powerful brush stroke technique and use of pure color. Many took the notice of the sense movement and life Teresa imbued in the landscapes she captured on canvas. Teresa favors treks to rural areas, vineyards and farms within a day's drive from San Francisco - beautiful places increasingly threatened by urban sprawl. she hopes to capture the sweeping beauty of these "endangered landscapes" while they are still pristine. While California is her primary focus, Teresa also makes painting excursions to Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado. View Artist Page |
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Artist: John Petrey "Playing Card Dress" View Artist Page |
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Artist: Larry Preston Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1951, Larry Preston spent his teenage years at the Worcester Art Museum viewing the museum’s collection of Flemish still life paintings. He tried to imitate their work and in so doing, arrived at a technique he uses today to paint his still lifes and landscapes. Completely self-taught, his work evolved over many years. In his late teens, Larry embarked on what became a successful career as a musician. After 20 years in the music business, he ultimately decided to return to his first love, painting. Upon his return, he experimented with many different styles of painting, including surrealism and abstract. Echoing his love his love of the paintings he saw as a teenager, his desire to paint still lifes and landscapes eventually took over. He chooses to paint those objects he sees around him. Simple, everyday objects that he finds beautiful and that are all to often overlooked, a single flower or a piece of fruit. Celebrating the beauty to be found around us. Landscapes inspired by the bucolic scenes to found around his western Massachusetts home. Larry Preston’s work has won numerous national awards including several from “The Artist ‘s Magazine”, “The Art Calendar” and many juried art exhibits. He is a recent featured artist in “The American Artist Magazine” (July/ August 2005). His work is included in national and international collections. His work can be seen in many illustrations for newspapers and national magazines and he has been a featured artist for PBS auctions. Painting in oil, on linen or canvas, Larry has developed a technique, sketching his subject first in charcoal and turpentine then applying many semi-transparent oil glazes over the original sketch. The resulting work has great depth and a luminous quality. A quite, introspective quality is evident in his still lifes and landscapes. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Andre Renoux Artist Andre Renoux has been the leading French Artist in what has become known as "Urban Realist" painting. He documented the Parisian streets, each with its own personality and charm. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Marc Sijan Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures are “homages to humanity’s fascination with its own forms - a fascination which has compelled artists throughout the millennia to mirror life in virtually every medium.” Sijan’s figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. They seem on the verge of movement, a mere instant from action. The pores in the skin, the tiny hairs and veins; bald spots, blemishes, the individual shapes of the faces that make human beings so familiar, yet so unique: these are the essence of what makes Marc Sijans’ work so arresting. “I am seeking to freeze motion rather than suggest life. The sculpture appears passive but there is so much going on inside.” View Artist Page |
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Artist: Gaylord T. Soli Gaylod Soli was born on a farm in North Dakota in 1939. His family relocated to Southern California and he has made his home there ever since. Much of his early years were spent traveling to exotic places and these experiences find a home in his art. With his extraordinary talent, Gaylord produces work of enormous impact and unusual sensuousness. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Dorothy Spangler "La Petite Hostellerie", oil on board, 12x9, 20x16 framed View Artist Page |
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Artist: Gideon Tomaschoff Gideon Tomaschoff is an Israeli/Canadian painter who describes his art and process of making art as an attempt to extract beauty out of what is commonly perceived as its opposite. His surfaces are built and then scraped mimicking weather worn walls patinated by the passage of time. Tomaschoff has traveled extensively in Cuba, Brazil and Mexico and has been inspired by the beauty and complex color and markings of walls. Tomaschoff’s paintings immediately bring to mind the meditative aspects of Mark Rothko and other abstract expressionist painters. He is inspired by the work of Clifford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. About the surfaces, Tomaschoff explains that they are not merely external elements, they are also witnesses of their surroundings and in the creation process many marks and scars are revealed and a whole new surface is pieced together. As a new surface is being formed, a synthesis between the work and the artist and between the work and the observer are created. Curiosity is awakened in the observer to explore the many secrets visually embedded in the painted surface. The painting begins as a journey, or better, with dislodging experiences lived up until the moment. The Formula: Dislodging of the past > journey of discovery > retreat > memories > Creation View Artist Page |
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Artist: Varya Varya graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia, Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, France, Luxemburg, Austria etc. Varya perceives the act of painting as a profoundly intimate confession in which intuitive and rational elements generate unusual pictoral motifs, a fusion of spirit and matter, imagination and reality. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Vladimir Vitkovsky Vladimir Vitkovsky's inks are real masterpieces not to be imitated, or repeated. They are multi-level magical creations that take you to the unlimited depths of unknown realities. Vitkovsky's works are found in private collections around the world. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Robert Watson Robert Watson's career in the arts began five decades ago with his first one-man show at Gumps in San Francisco. He has since had over 100 exhibits throughout the world. His surreal landscapes evoke the imagination of the viewer, intending to lure him away from the commonplace. Here one finds the twilight of reality and the solitude of man. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Sam Yeates View Artist Page |
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Artist: Tatiana Zaits Tatiana Zaits grew up in a family of well-known artists in Russia. Her father was a graphic designer for the major theaters in Moscow. She was exposed to all forms of art from a very young age and she developed an appreciation for design, color, rhythm and gesture. Tatiana's paintings are heavily influenced by her early experiences in the theatrical world. Her figurative work is always dramatic and expressive. View Artist Page |
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Artist: Xiang-ming Zeng Xiang-ming Zeng graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and is considered one of the best Chinese watercolor painters. He has two paintings in the permanent collection of the Chinese National Museum and he has won several prizes from the National Association of Chinese Artists. View Artist Page |
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