| Alvar
Alvar was born in the Catalan coastal village of Montgat near Barcelona in 1935. He started painting oils at age twelve, and at age seventeen was accepted at the Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in Barcelona. During this period the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona acquired one of his paintings, for its permanent collection.
In 1993 an important book devoted to the artist's painting was published in Spain and the United States. In the same year ten one-man shows exhibiting the artist's works in all media (painting, graphics, sculpture and drawing) were held throughout the United States.
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| Michael Birawer
Artist Michael Birawer has brought a new look to the face of urban neighborhoods through his unique style of painting. A combination of graffiti, cartoon, illustration, and heavy textures, his paintings have received praise from both art critics and patrons, who describe his work as "one of the best examples of the revival of contemporary urban art."
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| Ruth Bloch
Ruth Bloch was born in 1951 to artistic parents. Her father was a musician and her mother a ceramic artist. An avid painter from an early age, Ruth attended the Avny Art Institute where her talent was immediately recognized by her professors. She was encouraged to continue working in her own creative mode and to develop the personal style that characterizes her sculpture today.
The gracefully stylized forms of her figures speak eloquently about the human experience, both in relationships and in solitary emotions.
Her strikingly beautiful sculptures are collected internationally.
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| Angel Botello
Angel Botello was born in 1913 in Cangas de Morrazo, Spain. He moved to France in 1930 with his family, where from 1930 until 1934 he was a special student at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux. In 1935, Botello was granted a scholarship to study in Madrid, Spain. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Botello interrupted his education to sign on as a cartographer. In 1939 Botello left Spain and returned with his family to France, where he was quickly accepted and recognized among artist and collectors alike.
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| Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Graciela Rodo Boulanger is a Bolivian artist who studied in Paris and currently resides in the U.S., South America, and France. Her enchanting depictions of children have been acquired by such museums as The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, la Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Modern Art Center in Zurich.
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| Karine Boulanger
Karine Boulanger was born in 1963, to a French father and a Bolivian mother. she lives and works in Paris, France. Taking inspiration from her Latin American roots, Karine often creates images from her imagination which reflect memories from her cultural heritage. The artist also evokes her own spirituality by using gold and silver throughout her work.
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| Romero Britto
Romero Britto was born in 1963 in Northern Brazil. He has been recognized for the past 14 years as the leading pop artist of our time. His work has been compared to Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, as well as Warhol. Romero finds that his recreation of popular art in nature, people and animals is an endless quest for a language that all of us can easily understand, but which in turn is emotionally and intellectually stimulating.
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| Michael Cheney
Chicago area Post-Modern artist, received his bachelor of fine arts degree from Boston University, and a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Illinois, where he earned his master of fine arts degree. Cheney's work appears in public and private collections across the United States and Europe (including the collections of prominent Chicagoan Paul Harvey, the Johnson family, founders of Black Entertainment Television, and WGN's Rich King). Michael was an instructor of art at the University of Illinois from 1973 to 1975, and has been an award winning artist for over 30 years. 2009 marks his 10 year anniversary with Atlas Galleries.
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| Janine Daddo
Janine’s natural exuberance for life allows her to gain great joy from the everyday moments that most of us take for granted. Her observations of these moments are what inspire her paintings and her desire to share the simple magic that is all around us.
Many of her paintings capture the purity and the unbridled enthusiasm for the little things that we all felt as children or the passion that new love brings. Sometimes it’s the pause before trying something new, perhaps forbidden, or of a momentary second glance. Too often it’s the images that somehow often get overlooked along the way in our busy lives.
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| Antonio DiViccaro
Internationally renowned artist Antonio Di Viccaro was born in 1935 in Italy where he still resides. He has developed a unique technique that appears at once painterly and sculptured due to heavy applications of oil paint with a palette knife.
His paintings are of the brilliantly colorful landscapes and sea vistas that embrace the coasts of Italy.
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| Thomas Easley
Thomas Easley's classical and sophisticated still - life's, which include wine bottles and glasses, are born of three distinct styles, abstract in the background accelerating toward extreme - impressionism in the middle and foreground, to detailed realism in the labels, glasses and selected fruits and vegetables. The many layers of paint required to achieve this unique marriage of styles provides the added benefit of enhancing the tactile reality of the work, encourages the sense of taste to revel in the world of visual delights. His combination of textured impressionism and fine brush work on the bottles and labels make these paintings unique.
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| Malcolm Farley
Giclées on Canvas
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| Roman Frances
Francés achieves an overall effect of harmony, peace, and great beauty with his superb draftsmanship. Each piece is filled with the feeling of light that he manages to reflect in everything he paints. His paintings are employed
lavishly, with dense buildups in the floral groupings and landscapes surrounding the female figures and children, which are the core and focus
from which all else radiates. Francés’ work reflects his love for nature and his Spanish heritage, frequently depicting the female figure with traditional silk shawls that radiate with the colors and floral patterns of his native
country. His impressionistic brushstroke never lets him get too closely bound up in his encounters with the female figure; yet, he depicts her in minute details when appropriate. The colors he uses are perfectly balanced
and controlled within their light-giving power.
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| Jerome Gastaldi
Jerome Gastaldi creates evocative landscapes of the mind that exist in the middle area between abstract expressionism and surrealism. Turbulent skies hover above bare landscapes that stretch, unbroken, to the horizon in these mysterious, new worlds. Founder of the Modern Museum of Art in Santa Ana, Gastaldi is also a noted author and sculptor.
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| Jean-Claude Gaugy
Jean-Claude Gaugy is a French artist born in 1944 whose Linear Expressionist carved paintings have been commissioned by major corporations and institutions. He studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was discovered by Salvador Dali, apprenticed with Henry Moore, and exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. His sophisticated images of linear figures are carved and painted on wood with strong, interwoven colors.
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| James Golaszewski
I have spent my adult life traveling the back roads of Middle America and I have had the opportunity to study this landscape in profound detail. This has allowed me to discover and take delight in the subtle nuances of the Middle American landscape. These explorations, combined with the time for introspection and reflection that traveling these isolated roads provides, has given me a deep appreciation of the Middle American landscape and allowed me to discover many things about myself and about life. My paintings highlight these nuances and insights so that I can share them.
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| Rob Gonsalves
Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto, Canada in 1959. During his childhood, he developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he leaned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings.
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| Jimi Hendrix
Born James Marshall Hendrix on November 27, 1942 in Seattle Washington Jimi is widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix pioneered the explosive possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix's innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form. Because he was unable to read or write music, it is nothing short of remarkable that Jimi Hendrix's meteoric rise in the music took place in just four short years.
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| Michael John Hill
Michael John Hill is an English artist whose remarkable style of meditative landscapes is loved all over the world. The endless detail in his traditional landscapes recalls the style of the Old Masters. His collectors include the British Royal Family, Forbes, Inc. and Lord and Lady Sterling.
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| Erica Hopper
Erica Hopper’s paintings are compelling and abstractly interpretive. She creates delicately modulated surfaces with subtle imagery. Her color use is strong, yet positioned to create a quiet contemplation and colorful vivaciousness. While she develops figurative images with color washes and markings that are clearly defined, the edges leave an openness for imaginative completion. “I illustrate my media into fragments of shape symbolizing ideas of landscape figurative and nature’s essentials,” says the artist.
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| JalinePol
JalinePol is establishing a unique place in the world of Impressionist painters. Her origins are in France, but it was in Africa and the South Pacific that she found the roots of her style. Inspired by the super-heated colors of the land and native costume, her works glow with the warmth of the sun. Flowers seem to pull off the canvas to reach the embrace of light.
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| Myung Mario Jung
Myung Mario Jung has an outstanding national and international reputation as an artist. He has a dramatic brush stroke that is unparalleled.
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| Linda Prokop
I love sculpture and am extremely fortunate to be able to pursue my passion. I Gather a great source of strength and belonging from my home town of Loveland, Colorado. I am proud and grateful that I live and work with such talented and wonderful people in such a beautiful place.
Artistically, my images depict experiences, trials, relationships and joys in my life. We all have so much in common, and I tend to be drawn to communicating human experiences that connect us with life as my inspiration. I never lack for the means by which I can create.
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| Thomas McKnight
Thomas McKnight's beautiful images of places near and far appeal to our senses. His lush but subtle color, his charming and elegant compositions, his skillful renderings of form are the qualities we admire and enjoy in the works of this master artist. Through McKnight's vision, one sees the partly real, partly imagined scenes evoked by his own search for an earthly paradise and these scenes have an unerring universality that makes them our vision as well.
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| J Scott Nicol
J. Scott Nicol was born in Arizona, but moved throughout the country living in Washington, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. “It was difficult moving as a child, but each year we would vacation at my grandparent's house. I would sneak up to the attic and look at the stacks of paintings. Although I never met my grandfather, I would sit at his easel and pretend to paint.”
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| Sam Park
Sung Sam Park was born in Seoul, Korea in 1949. He began painting at the age of twelve. While in Junior High School, he was chosen to teach high school painting classes. Park graduated from Jung Ang University in 1973 and then traveled to Paris, France to continue his studies. In 1984 Park returned briefly to Korea, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for a painting he created to commemorate the 1988 Soeul Olympic Games. Park then returned to Europe, residing primarily in France, but also spent time in Greece and Cyprus. He moved to Southern California in 1994, where he still resides. His work continues to be shown and widely collected throughout Europe and the United States.
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| Frederick Phillips
Frederick Phillips was born in Staffordshire, England in 1953. Awarded an art scholarship at age 17, Frederick graduated with an Honors Degree. A lifetime inspired by the surrealists, Phillips art is praised for its precise, post-surrealist style that displays his mastery of oil painting. Phillips atmospheric paintings are like a half remembered dream. The viewer is drawn into his unique vision of highly detailed realistic elements, to further find themselves intrigued by the imaginative possibilities they slowly uncover.
Since 1985, Atlas Galleries has published the limited-edition graphics of this much sought after artist. In 1990, under an "Artist of Exceptional Ability" visa, Frederick Phillips and his wife Patricia moved to the United States where they now live. A full color book celebrating the life and art of Frederick Phillips including a catalogue raisonne' of his unique oils on canvas and limited edition graphics was published in 2000. Phillips art has been exhibited in cities from London, San Juan, Tokyo, and Hong Kong to Chicago, New York, Boston and San Francisco. His art is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the world.
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| Markus Pierson
Celebrated artist Markus Pierson developed his unique artistic vision while recovering from a near fatal bout with Crohn’s disease in early 1985. Upon his recovery, Pierson redirected himself to his artistic passion and his drive to create his own destiny.
The Coyote series was born later that year and has since become one of the most sought after contemporary art collections. Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide have collected his work.
“The Coyotes celebrate life. Sometimes life kicks them around, but they embrace it just the same. Heartaches, bad breaks, job problems, job triumphs, true love, rotten luck, vast fortune. Good or bad, they celebrate.” – Markus Pierson
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| Richard Riverin
Richard Riverin was born in Quebec City, in 1942.
Graduated from Sherbrooke University with a BSc.
degree In Chemistry, he worked for ten years in the formulating of specialty coatings; started his own manufacture, half way through, and then sold it to move to the Art business.
Riverin is one of the few artists who developed their own personal and unique style and technique. He even formulated his own paint to produce a very heavy and rich looking texture.
Riverin is also a writer and the author of the published three books saga “Ghama-2, An Afterlife Story”
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| Samuel Ruiz
Ruiz is a Contemporary artist born in Colombia. He uses color to evoke emotion and captures attention by mixing bold forms with varied line and texture. His paintings explore past experiences and are often referred to as “footprints of the happenings of his life”.
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| Dr. Seuss
If you've ever read Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat In The Hat, or any of the dozens of books written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel, you may think you're familiar with the work of the man who delighted millions as Dr. Seuss. But the wildly imaginative creations included in the Secret Art Collection show a previously unseen dimension of Geisel's art. These sophisticated and whimsical paintings created for his own pleasure and never before shown to the public, will enchant and amaze you.
(c) 2000 The Chase Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Dr. Seuss Properties (tm) & (c) Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. 2000. All rights reserved. Photographs by Phillipp Ritterman
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| Viktor Shvaiko
Viktor Shvaiko was born in Russia where he was formally trained as an artist at a young age. His "neo-impressionistic" style gives us beautiful images of European villages and cafes, which beckon us to enter upon his world and become part of the painting. He has been received in the U.S. for the past five years with overwhelming success.
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| Claudio Simonetti
Simonetti’s art expresses the unique maturity of his talent. Though he seeks out new expression in his art, Claudio Simonetti maintains the fundamentals of painting: exquisite drawing composition and color. His landscapes of the Italian countryside, his marine paintings of coastal villages and the scenes of the canals of Venice, seem to appeal to everyone. Simonetti's well balanced technique and sense of poetry pervades each painting. Claudio Simonetti paints and exhibits regularly in Venice, Milan, Paris, New York and Chicago. His artwork is in private collections worldwide.
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| Grace Slick
There is a wonderland that exists for all of us. Grace Slick has brought you the visual version of the song that we all grew up listening to. The White Rabbit has led several generations into new worlds of life, love and experimentation. She enchants us with images of her rock-n-roll peers. By using a wide variety of mediums Grace Slick achieves a wide range of styles and brings you further into her Wonderland.
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| Brad Smith
I am able to paint exactly what I see, without conscious effort. I'm referring to the physical world and to my imagination, some big territory. I have had wonderful feedback from clients and collectors. It has helped me paint more consistently from my heart. I have a wide range of inspirations and appreciate that each demands a different approach. This excites me as I feel my way through each painting, realistic or abstract. The more I paint, the more inspiration comes, and the more I want to paint.
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| Thomas Stiltz
American artist Thomas Stiltz received his Masters of Art from the University of Delaware. Developing an appreciation for fine wine while traveling through Paris as a graduate student, Thomas has been touring vineyards and meeting wine makers since. Pairing his passion for painting with his taste for fine wines, Stiltz created “The Wine Collection”, a series of paintings and prints that features celebrated bottles of wine from world-renowned vineyards. His beautiful eye-catching paintings bring together a strong sense of composition and space with a flair for the dramatic. Committed to old world techniques, Stiltz uses several layers to build up the paint’s surface, renders objects with an emphasis on naturalism and glazes the backgrounds with layer upon layer of color for richness and depth. His purpose is to stimulate the viewer with feelings and emotion about the common, ordinary objects of our lives.
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| Mackenzie Thorpe
Mackenzie Thorpe resides with his family in England. The fresh simplicity of his images evokes the innocence of childhood with tenderness, passion and humor. Thorpe was requested to create loving images for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Save the Children Fund, and the British Dyslexia Foundation.
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| Sergey Tyukanov
Sergey Tyukanov draws on stories, folklore and myth from around the world. His incredible imagination inspires these unique, intriguing creations. Sergey has the steady hand of a formally-trained printmaker, and he has also brought us beautifully detailed watercolors and drawings.
Although he was born and educated in rural Russia, exhibitions in museums and galleries have taken Sergey across Europe and Asia. Atlas Galleries is proud to give Sergey his first one man show in Chicago.
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| Voytek
Voytek's enthusiasm for color, the ways in which different colors play off one another and the liberty a modern artist can take with applying the "wrong," yet fittingly aesthetic color scheme to any landscape or setting has given him a distinct style. Though he attempts a totally original, tonal synthesis of color and light, Voytek acknowledges the often unintentional use of Impressionist and Fauvist techniques in his work.
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| Michael Wilkinson
Michael Wilkinson studied in his native California and later at the Art Students League in New York City. His romantic style of sculpture was developed through many years of drawing and sculpting the human figure. With his recent acrylic sculptures, he is able to manipulate light and transparency, giving the figures a sense of graceful fluidity.
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