Archives: <span>Artists</span>

Beginning in the mid 1980s, and until his tragic death in 1991, the doors to the pantheon of significant contemporary artists were open to Joseph Amar [1954-2001]. Critically acclaimed, his works were exhibited internationally and were collected by celebrities and major museums. A drunk driver...

This artist is a leading pioneer in the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) art movement. Using a unique program as his “brush,” he has challenged the tradition of landscape photography by creating surreal dream-like images that are in a class of their own. Now, that’s dreaming...

This Figurative Expressionist lived the Bay Area for two decades before settling in Greenwich Village in 1957. He was a regular at the Cedar Bar with his AbEx friends and exhibited at several New York galleries. He even taught at MoMA but soon became a reclusive painter living what he called “a...

English artist Sophie Aston is a painter who has questioned the role of painitng by making a powerful foray into the world of collage. By so doing she has brought revelations about the creative process and painting itself. Her collages are composed of clippings from copies of vintage Better Homes...

Audette stands out among American women — and men — for her unique style and technique combining photorealism, abstraction, and surrealism. Moreover, like few artists before her, she boldly focused on industrial sites, scrapyards, abandoned buildings, ships, trucks, and aircraft.  

Yes, a street artist can become a master. “The Wizard of Brooklyn” was a completely self-taught artist who was also a holistic healer at one of the world’s largest mental hospitals. Psychoanalysts said he fit the profile of a classic reclusive hoarder. Bartnikowski found it...