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Adam Reef holds a B.F.A from Indiana University and an M.F.A from the University of Minnesota and has shown in galleries and exhibitions in the Midwest.
"I hope that through my craft, I can convey some of the exhilaration I feel while painting and share some of the inspiration I take from the natureal landscape."
Bruce Carlton (B.C.) Nowlin was born in 1949 in Alameda, New Mexico. He spent his childhood on the edge of the Sandia Pueblo Reservation. His teenage mother spent her early years in the Laguna Pueblo earning her the Indian name “Little Bird”. His father, Duke, worked in Albuquerque at a highly classified government job. B.C.’s Native-American friends gave him the symbol; the bird-and-moon, a calligraphic logo he signs to every piece of artwork.
His inspiration and passion often comes from his motorcycle. A daily ride to the nearby Murphy’s Mule Barn Café for conversation, newspapers and coffee start his day of artistic endeavors. He lives in a 110-year old adobe house with his wife and children.
artists
Ben Bauer
Glen Tarnowski: modern allegorism
"Painting that simply reproduces likeness of subject isn't enough -- I create paintings that express my emotional response to the beauty of subject." --Glen Tarnowski,
From a childhood immersed in the beauty of nature, a youth surrounded by the classical sense of Renaissance-era European art and architecture, and a lifetime devoted to art as the highest form of expression, Glen Tarnowski brings stunning vitality, depth and emotion to his paintings and sculptures. Influenced by an intense formal education in art, pain-staking study of the works of Old World Masters Rembrandt Van Rijn, Peter Paul Reubens and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, and ongoing study with contemporary masters David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw and Dan McCaw, Tarnowski’s use of Chiaroscuro techniques provide his paintings with a vibrant dichotomy of old world feeling and contemporary realism. His formal education in oil painting began at the age of eight
when his innate talent for painting and unique perception of color revealed itself in his first art class. He continued his formal art education at California Lutheran University and The Pasadena Art Center College of Design, separated by extensive self-study in the art capitals of Europe. He later returned to California Lutheran University to teach his techniques. Tarnowski’s talent is recognized by his peers, art associations, and the art press as well as notable private and corporate art collectors. Tarnowski paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, The National Gallery of Australia, the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY, the Boca Museum of Fine Art in Boca Raton, Florida, and the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado. He was the recipient of the 1996 Angel
Winner Award, a finalist in the 1997 Artist Magazine International Competition, the 1998 Oil Painters of America National Show in
Washington, DC, and the 1999 Oil Painters of American RegionalShow in Chicago, Illinois. He was also the featured artist in
the October 1999 issue of “The Artist’s Magazine.” Tarnowski’s collector list includes Hollywood celebrities such as Mel Gibson,
media moguls Ted Turner and Aaron Spelling, institutional collectors such as the Billy Graham Institute, and a variety of
corporations including Twentieth Century Fox, TRW, Nordstrom Corporation and major media networks including NBC and CBS.
Justin BUA (born 1968) is an artist from New York City's Upper West Side, raised between Manhattan and East Flatbush, Brooklyn. BUA was fascinated by the raw, visceral street life of the city. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and complemented his education on the streets by writing graffiti and performing worldwide with breakdancing crews. BUA went on to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he earned a B.F.A in Illustration.
Starting in the world of commercial art, BUA designed and illustrated myriad projects from skateboards and CD covers to advertising campaigns. He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTV’s Lyricist Lounge Show, EA Sports video games NBA Street and NFL Street, and the world of Slum Village’s award winning music video “Tainted” among others. He designed the BUA line of apparel and a limited edition shoe line with PF Flyers that sold out completely. Currently, he teaches figure drawing at the University of Southern California, while continuing to be a leading innovator in both the fine and commercial art worlds. BUA’s energetic and vocal worldwide fan base ranges from former presidents, actors, musicians, professional athletes, and dancers, to street kids and art connoisseurs.
Justin Bua
Adam Reef
BC Nowlin
Ben Bauer
Jess Black
Maya Eventov
Jane Grant-Abban
Mark Horst
Song Jiang
Victoria Lehman
Jim Meyer
Don Sherwood
Kairong Liu
Glen Tarnowski
Jane Grant-Abban grew up in England and moved to Wales where she studied then lived for 22 years. In 2006 she moved with her husband and two sons to Stillwater, Minnesota. Growing up, she loved to paint and sketch and her studies included art history, which provided her with the opportunity to visit some world-renowned galleries and study the paintings of past masters first-hand. Although she left art studies behind to obtain degrees in both business and teaching, she still felt a strong pull to paint. Upon moving to Minnesota, she was able to really give herself to the study of painting in oils and the prismatic palette under Minnesota Master Painter Kami Polzin, (as well as portraiture with Leslie DeMille) ,and has not looked back.
Victoria Lehman was born in LaCross, Wisconsin and grew up in Centuria, Wisconsin. She attended the University of Wisconsin, River Falls majoring in Art and Art Education. She spends part of her time teaching next to Lake superior. Although you might expect to see moving blue and lush greenery in her work, however, her art relects a more suburban and Southwest attitude in structure and color. Through out the last twenty years Victoria ahs traveled to places like England, France, Italy, South Korea, and China. One of her favorite places to travel was to Cuba.
haven't always loved bugs.
Though I spent most of my childhood catching snakes, raising lizards, and dreaming of Komodo Dragons, I was terrified of anything with more than four legs.
My phobia became stifling when I began to travel at 19 years old. After two tumultuous years in South America, I spent several years in and out of Southeast Asia and Africa with little improvement.
Then one fateful night in a Bangkok artisan market I stumbled upon a group of handicapped people selling what appeared to be small marsupials crammed into cheap frames. Upon closer examination I realized they were bugs! I was overcome with horror, nausea, and -- what's this? A surging fascination.
As a young artist, my subject matter of choice had always been the fantastical and macabre but I had never had the opportunity to examine insects in a less than life
threatening environment. Now, I was enthralled by the size, colors, ridiculous shapes, and perfect mechanics of creatures that I was seeing close up and
harmless for the first time.
Years later, while working in Cape Town, I mustered up the courage to dismantle the frames I had been collecting, scrape out the insects held captive in such thoughtless presentation, and make something interesting for myself.
The experience of actually handling the specimens and using them as a medium of design opened a Pandora's box for me. Years of study in Entomology followed, then excursions to ridiculously remote locales to collect and observe selected species in their own habitats. One goofy idea followed another until I opened my own gallery in Hermosa Beach, CA, in 2000.
As my fascination with insects was inspired by a desperation to avoid them, the
presentation is antiseptic. Minimalist to escape the claustrophobia that almost
universally accompanies one's interactions with arthropods. Perfectly symmetrical so that the insects themselves, and the designs they comprise evoke feelings of structure, mechanics and Form rather than slithering and clicking. An industrial designer’s fantasy rather than an entomological quagmire.
Pheromones are chemical stimulants that insects release to attract one another -- and they’ve been known to seduce the occasional human, too.
---Christopher Marley http://formandpheromone.com/index.htm
Christopher Marley
