Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly describes her style as “expressive realism” that “evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed through experience. Through the use of exaggerated brushwork and dramatic tones she creates psychological tension. The vocabulary may well be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.”
Such compelling thought exercises led Strassman to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she developed the skills...
Laddie John Dill is an American sculptor and fluorescent provocateur best known for his Light Traps and Light Sentences, in addition to neon installations. Dill remains an influential member of the California Light and Space movement and one of the principal protagonists responsible for drafting the group's manifesto along with fellow artists John McCraken, James Turrell, Larry Bell, and Mary Corse. The movement concerns itself with the transformative impact of both light and geometry upon the viewer's own cerebral and physical understanding of their immediate environment.
Hisako Kobayashi grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in 1981 to earn a Master of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. An abstract painter, she has since exhibited her work on five continents over a span of three decades. Upon observation, her works clearly and openly illustrate a maternal devotion to her native Japan while at once embracing the essence of her newfound Western sensibilities.
Art critic Donald Kuspit has authored this on her work, "Kobayashi's paintings exemplify the romantic idea that 'it...
Mark Tennant’s paintings are renowned for their uncanny ability to capture small details of light and movement. Most of Tennant’s works are lit with a bright flash, giving the sense that his young subjects are the unsuspecting subjects of late-night Polaroid snapshots. His works are informed by the painting techniques of the Impressionists Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Tennant has taught museum copying at the Louvre and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His captivating paintings have been exhibited numerous times in the Salon d’Automne in Paris and reside...
Originally from Long Island, Christopher Volpe is an artist, writer, and teacher working and living in New Hampshire. His paintings in tar and gold leaf reference mortality, mysticism, and concern for the fate of a world buying and spending its way toward uninhabitability.
His work is collected internationally and held in the permanent collections of the New Bedford...