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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...

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...

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...

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...