Forte’s collages, assemblages, and bookworks have been exhibited widely, beginning in San Francisco 1970s–80s, and continuing in the Northeast since the 1990s. His art and series of compelling essays on the nature and importance of creative freedom are presented here.
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...
Fredericksen was a Norwegian American who during the 1940s studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. After a 1947 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago he never actively exhibited his art — with the exception of at least one show at André Emmerich Gallery in New...
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...
Leo is the only American artist who actually grew up in the circus. He became a pioneer in Pop Art in the early 1960s, and was the first to create kinetic Pop sculpture. Here’s a fascinating and truly unique chapter in the history of American Art.
Finally revealed is this extraordinary double life: Walk into any drugstore and you’ll see his commercial packaging designs that have become iconic in American culture. But for more than 60 years he was also pushing the boundaries of abstract expressionist painting.
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...
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...
