As federal funding for the arts becomes increasingly scarce, schools look for other ways to pay for their programs. By Marc Hopkins The 1980s motion picture Fame follows a group of aspiring artists at a New York City high school for the performing arts. The film’s climax features an elaborate musical performance, “I Sing the Body Electric,” which employs solo and…
This image was taken as part of my new series, “Dancers After Dark,” which will be released by Workman Publishing in the fall of 2016. Lloyd Knight, a principle dancer with Martha Graham, posed in front of this busy tollbooth last December in Miami. I asked him to create a shape that mimicked the architecture of the structure. Oncoming traffic…
Thomas Frontini is an internationally recognized artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art, The Institute for Art and Restoration in Florence, Italy, and received his M.F.A at The Ohio State University. His work shows heavy influence from early Italian Renaissance artists, such as Duccio and Sassetta, with the style and composition of a…
Having lived in San Francisco for years I learned that when the sun came out I went out. This work is of Delores and 17th streets in a neighborhood that is colorful and offers brilliant city scenes. My Statement: I love loose media handling mixed with tight draftsmanship. My background in illustration taught me to add details where necessary while…
Astrid Sommer: “I love color and working on large canvases. It is so exciting to have a white canvas in front of you and discover what will emerge next. I like vague titles for my work so as not to guide the reading of a piece, and sometimes find myself really surprised hearing what some people see in one of my…
You never know what Krie Alden will create next. The former actress paints, draws, writes poetry, makes music and sculpts. When she first turned to art, instructors, friends and fellow artists often told her she was trying to do too much. One teacher at the Art Students League of New York even said, “I think you’re disasipating your creative energy.…
Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging images from popular American culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography. Conde chooses subjects representative of the dichotomy of strength and vulnerability, generally exemplified by women, whom he frequently depicts as…
Patricia Zenklusen designs her wooden sculptures in an unconventional way. She explains, “I work exclusively with the chainsaw. I am fascinated by the challenge of creating something delicate with this tool. It interests me how much elegance I can bring into a figure. At the same time it should stay noticeable, where the limits of this technique are. ” Physicality…
Nicole Furman’s Artist Statement: Attempt to define myself within the context of a society which limits me, measures me, feeds me with limitless information that I am forced to swallow, and categorizes me. I seek for myself behind words, behind culture, behind time, and behind femininity… …and, to take advantage of the opportunity the art world gives me, because unlike…
How art-title insurance can protect you from unexpected lawsuits. By Alan Katz, Esq. You may have bought a work of art, but are you sure you own it? How do you know whether the IRS or creditors of any prior owner have filed claims on your artwork? Art-title insurance entered the art-market scene in 2006. Only one company, ARIS Title…
