France Malo: “Physical performances correspond for me to the survival efforts for life; expressing it gives me this surprising sense of balance.” Recognized as a Master in Fine Arts by International Artistic Associations, Malo began to teach drawing, painting, and ceramic at the age of fifteen. She has a college diploma in arts in fine arts, a bachelors in communication from Quebec…
Mary Johnston: “Growing up on Lake Superior gave me endless images from which to create my art. This piece is a combination of the far horizon, beautiful skies, the ancient rocks that line the North Shore of Lake Superior along with the copper which is is added as the representational element of all the minerals & ores that are mined…
Art has always been a part of Peter Terrin’s being. There were no defining or pivotal moments which determined the course of his life. His need to paint has always been as vital as breathing and eating; providing necessary fuel for the mind and soul. Terrin’s passion for people was reinforced through years of travel after graduating from textile design school…
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…
Irina Gretchanaia: “When I started painting, my biggest inspiration was Georgia O’Keefe. My flowers speak for themselves and this was my main goal: give the voice to fragile creation in nature that only blooms for one day. We as humans destroy many things in nature every day. Maybe if we look closely how beautiful our world is, we will do…
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…
