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| Elba Alvarez
Elba Alvarez was born in Pedernales, Venezuela in 1944. At the age of 18 she went to Europe and studied in Paris. She came to the United States in 1968 carrying the ideas and visions which would fill her canvases with bold, striking colors. The paintings that Alvarez created caused gallery after gallery to lavish high praise for her innovative and provocative abstracts. She was encouraged to set up a studio in New York City. Through years of study and experimentation her talents have evolved into a highly unique and engrossing style of painting.
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| John Asaro
True Romanticism best describes the work of impressionist artist John Asaro. A clever interplay of light, texture, color and design reflects his keen observation and study of the fundamentals of drawing. There is warmth and sentimentality reminiscent of Monet, Renoir and Whistler. His figures and their interaction with light and the subsequent creation of shadow solicits the viewer to a sense of relaxation
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| Guillaume Azoulay
This internationally known artist was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1949. Azoulay’s first interest in the arts appeared at age 13, as a self-taught artists, painting and performing as an actor.
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| Howard Behrens
Howard Behrens' paintings have a specific goal, a singular intent, no matter what the subject matter-that is to bring the pleasure of being alive to the foreground of our awareness. From mountain grandeur to craggy coastlines to the intimate beauty of a woman unaware she's been captured on canvas, Behrens' paintings are affirmations of life. From the flowerpot on a windowsill to the boats in a harbor, he invites us to see the gift in the moment, to see with new eyes the vivid color of the earth's palette.
He paints to bring visual delight, and the result is a visual vocabulary for pleasure, gratitude, warmth, and romance. His work is not the studied details of a realist or the broad, sweeping strokes of an impressionist-the world of Howard Behrens is a world that warms our soal and awakens our hearts' desires. Howard Behrens brings us a world of transforming sunlight, an invitation to embrace beauty, pleasure, and joy.
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| Frank Brangwyn
Brangwyn was an independent artist, an experimenter and innovator, capable of working on both large and small scale projects, ranging from murals, oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs to designs for architecture, interiors, stained glass, furniture, carpets, ceramics and jewellery as well as book illustrations, bookplates and commercial posters. It is estimated that he produced over 12,000 works during his lifetime.
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| Pineda Bueno
Bueno was born in Motril, Granada in 1950. At the age of six Bueno entered the Escuela de Artes. By nineteen he was earning a living as a professional artist. Bueno's art incorporates all the secret elements of the unknown. There is magic in his color while generating light from his canvas creating a sense of motion. His subject is created from his inspiration of today's woman.
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| Salvador Caballero
Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1948, Salvador Caballero began his career by gaining knowledge relating to design and illustration. His aptitude for drawing led him to develope the pictorial style of painting landscapes of Spain and beautiful unique coastal areas such as San Feliu de Guixols to the upper and lower Ampurdan or Maresme. His ability to portray the reality of areas in the countryside including Garroxta, Ripolles and Osona contribute to the ambiance in his detailed impressionistic paintings.
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| Roberta De La Vega
Paintings
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| Kip Frace
Kip Frace's imagery has been loosely associated with the second "pop" generation whose bright, energetic, wild, and crazy images fit in with today's eclectic and multicultural lifestyles. His work ranges from urban scenes to remote jungle fantasies. His subject matter ranges between fantasy and reality of everyday landscapes to urban scenes and observation on the human condition.
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| Grosse
Grosse
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| Gruen
Photographs
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| Bob Guccione
Guccione was born in Brooklyn, raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, and graduated from Blair Academy in 1948. With no formal art training, he set sail for Italy in the spring of 1949 with a box of paints, some brushes and $24 in cash. Except for several summers in New York, he spent the next 23 years living, working, and traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. These travels have been the inspiration for the vivid works you see today.
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| Jacob Kirshboim
Jacob Kirshboim is the son of Polish immigrants who fled their country on the eve of the Second World War and settled in a farming village in Israel's lower Galilee. Accepted to the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem after completing his army stint. Jacob finally found himself in a framework which allowed his talents to emerge. He was later awarded a Senior Graduate Scholarship for Scholastic Achievement, from The Rhode Island School of Design, in the U.S.A. Jacob depicts scenes which run the gamut from the imaginative to the realistic. He bathes his hilly landscapes, forests and olive trees in radiant colors and concentrates on rythm and harmony of color and shading to achieve a symphony of vibrant images, in a mosaic of phosphorous hues and patterns.
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| Rajka Kupesic
The mastery of her technique can be seen in the imperceptible blending of brush strokes. The result is a canvas with a smooth and finished surface. Colors merge and change without jarring the eye. The people, landscapes, and cityscapes that Rajka brings to life all share rounded, flowing lines. With her unique handling of detail, color, and mood, Kupesic infuses the familiar with an extraordinary quality
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| Joyce Lee
Lee was born in Seoul Korea and realized her love for painting at a very early age. Reflected in her works are a strong sense for the beauty and mysticism in nature's landscapes. She uses winding roads, streams, and rivers to take the viewer on a walk through a series of various plants, flowers, hills, rolling clouds, and swaying trees.
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| Lennon
In many ways John Lennon was truly a renaissance man whose insights and perspective helped shape the sensibility of the contemporary mind. While music will certainly be remembered as his most popular art form, he was keenly interested in and loved both his literature and his art, studying from 1957-1960 at the Liverpool Art Institute.
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| Yuval Mahler
Born in 1951 in Haifa, Israel, Yuval Mahler studied graphic design and animation at School of Visual Arts in New York City. Mahler draws on rich supply of wry humor, satire, caricature, and comedy to produce his insightful studies of human behavior. His paintings explore human relationships under various conditions of life the world over. Mahler’s work appeals to the child in us all, to optimists as well as those who simply want their spirits lifted. The artist works in varied media… acrylic, colored pencil, gouache, pastels, and serigraphs to achieve his delightful depictions of human condition
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| Isaac Maimon
Maimon’s paintings capture the “boulevard culture,” that uniquely French atmosphere that so intrigued Lautrec, Bonnard and other artists before him. Though strongly influenced by the Paris school of art, with his intrepid use of color and line he creates works that are absorbing, rich and uniquely Maimon. Born in Israel to French-speaking parents, he exhibited an early artistic ability that was enthusiastically supported by his family. Maimon attended the Avni Institute of Fine Art in Tel Aviv, the most prestigious academy for the arts in Israel. He became a restaurateur and pub owner. Always the artist, he was often found sitting at a back table sketching the patrons. Maimon has taught at several universities and exhibits in the United States, Isreal and Japan.
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| Moore, Wyland
Wyland Moore is most known for his internationally renown sports art. For years he painted bigger-than-life champion sports figures, untill recently, when he expanded his horizons in order to capture the expressive and vivid world of animals in the wild.
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| Hisashi Otsuka
Trained in martial arts, and a student of Zen, Hisashi Otsuka approaches life and art with the discipline of a samurai. His unique style, though bold and adventurous, will never stray too far from Japanese tradition.
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| Payes
Born on February 28th, 1935 in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain. Emilio Payes began to paint at the age of fourteen. Upon turning eighteen, he began his formal training in art. Due to his talent of drawing he was inspired and encouraged to begin training at this early age. During his education and training he studied under the Spanish Professor Mr. Edmundo Jorda.Payes began painting professionally when he was 28 years old. The artist describes his current style and influence of paintings as customs, manners and impressionism. His favored subjects are landscapes, harbor scenes, and Parisian items.
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| Purcel
Prints
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| James Rizzi
James Rizzi was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied art at the University of Florida (Gainesville) where he began experimenting with painting, printmaking and sculpting. His goal was to combine all three techniques in his work, an aim finally realized in his now well-known 3-D constructions. Duplicate images, carefully cut out and attached, each one above its counterpart, create richly textured editions through a truly striking use of traditional printmaking techniques. In his painting as well, James Rizzi often makes three-dimensional images, many of which incorporate moveable magnetic elements.
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| Jerry Schurr
An outstanding contemporary silk-screen artist, Jerry Schurr studied at the University of California, Berkley and at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. Schurr's first published prints were mostly colour lithographs. By 1975, however, he had turned almost completely to the silk-screen medium in order to achieve more vibrant colours and tonal qualities.
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| Sokolov
Vladimir Sokolov was born in 1932 in Yugoslavia. He received his art education in Belgrade. After his formal education, Sokolov made numerous study trips to Greece, Vienna, Munich, Dusseldorf, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam and London. He arrived in the United States in 1966 and became a citizen in 1975. Since his arrival in the United States, his work has been widely exhibited in the Los Angeles area, San Diego, La Jolla, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Paris, receiving many prestigious awards.
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| Stan Solomon
Born in New York City and living in St. Louis, Missouri, Stan Solomon works with acrylic paint and creates images in a style best described as neo-geo. His intention is to make the viewer feel like he or she is taking a voyage in outer space "where they see brightly colored spheres and geometric forms that make up the fantastic 21st century images" of a futurist painter.
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| Adam Stewart
Adam Stewart was born in Nebraska, obtained a BFA from Colorado State University and currently lives in Colorado. His work is heavily influenced by nature, namely the Rocky Mountains. His unique technical process lends his images a singular visual impact. His abstract expressionist painting style is advanced, yet accessible and universally appealing.
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