This short-lived artist was one of the great outdoor billboard painters in Los Angeles during the 1980s. His paintings of rock stars also appeared on album covers. This talented realist became a confidant of Michael Jackson, for whom he painted a series of fifteen portraits of famous historical...
Thanks to his eponymous museum, this prolific expressionist master is finally emerging as one of the most important artists in the South during the 20th century. The discovery of his diverse and complex body of work in every medium presents a paragon from whom contemporary artists may grasp how to...
In 1960 Beverly Brodsky studied under Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College. On the first day she was simply told to paint a large canvas. Reinhardt returned a few hours later, paused by her easel and asked, “Who taught you how to paint?” Before she could find a reply Reinhardt answered his own...
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...
Just after World War II, a raucous group of artists in New York City known as the “The Irascibles” wrested away from Paris the title of capitol of the art world. Many art historians have written about those first ten years of Abstract Expressionism and the creative group who have been...
Imagine being inspired at a subway station. Here is an artist who creates urban environments as much as he does sculpture and paintings — in the shadow of the Acropolis. He continues to be inspired by that brilliant natural merger of art and science that the Ancient Greeks applied to their art....
The story of Stewart Hitch ranks as one of the most tragic in our contemporary art history. He was charismatic as James Dean, and as hard a drinker as Jackson Pollock. He developed a signature abstract style but most of his art disappeared.
McNease was a self-proclaimed “feral artist” of the bayou — a true self-taught Outsider who lived alone at the edge of Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana. Early on he gained serious critical recognition for his abstract natural photography. He then invented an entirely new technique of pigment...
