Sculptural artist Steve Simmons is dedicated to bringing the human form, animals, and abstract metal work to life. His inspirations came to him when he was a child visiting the Bronx Zoo, where he now brings his five children. He became more interested in wildlife during his trips to African safaris and the coasts of Martha’s Vineyard, California, and Florida, where he observed sea wildlife. Simmons sculpts his work in clay and then takes the pieces to a foundry to be heated into bronze sculptures. Along with his wildlife sculptures, Steve...
Michael Carson is a Arizona-based painter and a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work can be found in private and corporate collections across the world. Carson’s artistic vision centers on exploring the dynamic relationships of color and light, guiding the viewer’s eye through each composition with the deliberate texture and movement of his brushstrokes.
Carson’s artwork is valued not only for its technical mastery but also for its ability to evoke emotion and transform the spaces it inhabits. Collectors appreciate the depth, sophistication, and timeless...
Todd Williamson is a contemporary painter based in Los Angeles. His work is strongly influenced by mid-20th century American Abstract Expressionism. Williamson's paintings are characterized by their strict observance to geometry, enlisting parallel formations that reflect a formal consideration of light, color, and shape. Using a refined process of building and removing multiple layers of oil on canvas, his works employ both complementary hues and opposing values, focusing on subtle layers of color and movement.
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next five years, he exhibited work in Paris, Brussels and London while working at studios in Germany and Brussels.
After returning to the States and living for a time on the West Coast, he moved across the country and now lives with...
Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly describes her style as “expressive realism” that “evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed through experience. Through the use of exaggerated brushwork and dramatic tones she creates psychological tension. The vocabulary may well be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.”
Such compelling thought exercises led Strassman to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she developed the skills...