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Carlos Alberto Quintana Ledsma graduated from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts and the Superior Institute of Industrial Design, both in Havana, Cuba. His works show the influence of paradigmatic artists like Julian Schnabel, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, and Martin Kippenberger. As a painter, Quintana’s pursuit of alternative paths to success has earned his reputation as a renegade “underground” artist. His pictorial works include codes and discourses, as well as an almost obsessive interest in bearing witness to the passages of everyday life. His tendency to use a palette of solid colors adds a...
Titus Welliver was born in 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut, to parents Neil Welliver, an established landscape painter, and Norma Cripps, a fashion illustrator. Welliver’s first learned to paint under the tutelage of his father and continued his artistic pursuit at Bennington College and the University of Pennsylvania. Eventually, he shifted his focus toward acting, which he studied at HB Studios in New York and later at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. This study led to roles in various series and films, most notably the title role in the show Bosch. However, Welliver has...
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...
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next five years, he exhibited work in Paris, Brussels and London while working at studios in Germany and Brussels.
After returning to the States and living for a...
Wonsook Kim arrived in America in 1972 and has since cultivated her practice of embracing a variety of media that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. In her opinion, her artwork resembles prose and is suggestive of poetic entries in a symbolist or surrealist diary. It is through these virtual transcriptions that she engages her audience in mythmaking, storytelling, and folklore. A master of line, Kim complements her delicate imagery with composition and the observance of light. Figures and ground are thus often...
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