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Figurative Expressionism
Concurrent with Abstract Expressionism were groups of artists in major cities embracing the human figure as the source of inspiration in their imagery. This was also both a movement and a style in Boston, Chicago, and New York — but its epicenter is largely considered the San Francisco Bay Area.
The extraordinary discovery of this hidden gem in the history of American Art and will soon be revealed. For more than 70 years, in a studio surrounded by 8,000 art books, the singular focus of this master’s unparalleled approach to figurative expressionism was The Passion.
This Italian-American is a master among contemporary expressionists. His bravura brushwork comes from an authentic passion and reveals the very rare skill and vision to control color and light.
Rare is the artist who could claim to have dived as deep into the unconscious and survived the journey — bringing back images of intense imagination and technical brilliance. As proof, this recluse kept his life’s works buried in a dilapidated shack in the hills of Eugene, Oregon. The...
Don ZanFagna might be the most famous visionary artist you never heard of. Buckminster Fuller admired him as “a great visionary, artist, and architect.” He was 60 years ahead of his time in predicting the impact of technology on the environment. This idiosyncratic genius was eerily prescient...
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...
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...
After this master glassblower emerged with a new transgendered self the result was a series of powerfully compelling sculptures and installations. Here are expressions of transformation where sex has nothing — and everything — to do with it.
