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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 his family in Connecticut. He works in Connecticut and Paris.

“When I start a new painting, it’s...

Artist and photographer David Gamble was born in East London and grew up primarily in the countryside near Cambridge. After drumming in Cambridge rock bands in the 1970s, he attended the famous Ealing Art College in London. Prior students include musicians Freddie Mercury, Pete Townshend, and Ronnie Wood. Gamble found a passion not only for painting but narrative figurative photography. In 1987, Gamble went on to photograph one of his most notable projects, Andy Warhol House, East 66th St, NYC.

In 1984, he began photographing for national and international publications, including...

Hisako Kobayashi grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in 1981 to earn a Master of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. An abstract painter, she has since exhibited her work on five continents over a span of three decades. Upon observation, her works clearly and openly illustrate a maternal devotion to her native Japan while at once embracing the essence of her newfound Western sensibilities. 

Art critic Donald Kuspit has authored this on her work, "Kobayashi's paintings exemplify the romantic idea that 'it...

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...