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Originally from Long Island, Christopher Volpe is an artist, writer, and teacher working and living in New Hampshire. His paintings in tar and gold leaf reference mortality, mysticism, and concern for the fate of a world buying and spending its way toward uninhabitability.
His work is collected internationally and held in the permanent collections of the New Bedford...
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.
Born in Mexico, Duarte’s work is rooted in history both collective and personal, his own, he intertwines experiences of modern life with collective ones rooted in myth and history through the lens of his own Mexican culture. Despite the seemingly cultural specific themes he touches on, the experiences he brings are universal because he sees Mexican history, no different than Roman or Japanese - it belongs to all of us and within each story, each culturally specific narrative, we find the collective experience that binds us all. The narratives we tell ourselves across the world, whether it’s in Mexico, Kenya or...
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...
Kristin Jai Klosterman is best known for her large-scale mobile sculptures and mixed media paintings. Klosterman focuses on the exchange between contrasting mediums as a means to examine the balance of power between the masculine and feminine. While radically different in terms of presentation, both Klosterman's sculptural and painterly works draw their inspiration from an identical source—the Fibonacci sequence, which occurs spontaneously in nature.
Klosterman's sculptures are exhibited in numerous public forums in California, Texas, and Tennessee and in private collections domestically as well as abroad...
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