The future of art

Frank Oscar Lind III was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and grew up in the adjoining town of Cumberland. The eldest of eight children, he watched the fields and farms of his home town change to suburbs and city. He was able to make a studio in the basement of his childhood home, and early inspirations ranged from Michelangelo to science fiction illustration.

Lind attended Georgetown University in Washington DC, receiving a BA in Fine Arts in 1970. He moved to New York City in...

Pauline Couble studied applied arts in Paris from 1997 to 2002, first focusing on scenography and the architectural environment in her design training. She then discovered sculpture and synthetic materials and began working with resins and novel molding techniques. She is interested in collaborating with decorators to create unique lighting that illuminate the vast possibilities that resin offers in terms of shape, color, and transparency. At the same time, she is inspired by the living world and organic matter and has begun to create sculptures with undulating shapes reminiscent of forms found in nature. Her artistic project...

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...

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 Whaling Museum, the Whistler House...