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Wonsook Kim (b.1950 | Korean) is a Korean artist who moved to America in 1972 and has since expanded and developed her practice to cover the varying media of painting, drawing, print, and sculpture. Her work resembles suggestive and poetic diary entries in a dreamlike, symbolic

landscape. Mastery of line is at play, complemented by the delicate use of shadow and pattern. Figure...

Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter living and working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly described her style: “Ann Strassman’s expressive realism… evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed from experience and time.  She creates psychological tension with exaggerated brushwork and dramatic colors.  The vocabulary may be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.” 

Born in 1952 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Rashid Al Khalifa held his first solo exhibition at the Dilmun Hotel, Bahrain, in 1970 when he was just 16 years old, and then moved to the UK in 1972 to study at the Hastings College of Arts and Technology in Sussex. After returning to Bahrain in 1978, inspired by Europe’s greatest Impressionist masters, he began his own renditions of his country’s landscapes, producing a series of atmospheric paintings of the desert, sea, and...

Hisako Kobayashi (Japanese, b.1950) is a painter best known for her luminous landscape studies. The artist’s canvases read as both beautiful abstractions and impressionist studies of the landscape. In this way, the artist connects both the painting traditions of the New York School and the Japanese love of nature. In a culture that places a premium on specialization and intellectualization, Kobayashi’s paintings reflect a rebellious sensitivity to color and light that actively seeks to elevate emotion above rationalization. In speaking about her process, the artist explains, “Painting is an emotional process for me, and the conflicted...

Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter living and working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly described her style: “Ann Strassman’s expressive realism… evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed from experience and time.  She creates psychological tension with exaggerated brushwork and dramatic colors.  The vocabulary may be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.”