Stanislaw Kozlowski Mixed-Media on Panel

Born in Los Angeles, California, 1951 M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977 B.A., Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, 1973 Lives and ...

Media consists of fiber, paint, shellac on a linen canvas. Beautiful wood frame. Frank Faulkner by Philip Herrera, 2006: Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1946, Frank Faulkner received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1968, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.F.A. from the same institution in 1972. Faulkner’s work quickly won him numerous grants and awards, including an individual artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1975, which prompted him to settle in New York. There, he came to the attention of Dorothy Miller, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art with a legendary eye for new talent. Since then, Faulkner has continued to garner acclaim and awards. He has been featured in dozens of one-person exhibitions (not to mention group exhibitions) in this country, as well as in Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. Faulkner’s work is owned by leading museums (the Smith College museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C.) and by renowned collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller, Baron Leon Lambert, Phillip Hanes and Abba Eban. What a viewer first notices is the sheer elegance of the pieces, no matter what materials Faulkner uses—metal, wood and fabric as well as canvas and paper. Obvious, too, is the artist’s originality. Faulkner belongs to no school. His work is patterned but is far too intellectual to qualify as so-called “pattern art,” which mainly strives to be merely pretty. Rather, he paints in his own highly organized way, filling the surface without being excessive or boring. Faulkner sets up a system, say, of dots or dashes, then subtly changes the visual rhythms in order to add life and surprise—what he calls “the gymnastics of seeing.” He works and reworks the surfaces of his canvases, often laying down one thin layer of slightly reflective gold, silver or bronze paint upon another until the final work seems to glow with inner light. John Ashbery, a leading critic and poet, has likened Faulkner’s art to minimalist music, which achieves both simplicity and beauty from its obsessive repetitions. The critic Carter Ratcliff describes it more simply as “brilliant artifice.” Faulkner’s current work, a series of paintings on paper, continues and deepens this exploration of the relationship between wrought surface and changing light. Another striking aspect of the work is the influence of the decorative arts. Faulkner has made some paintings on wood that stand independently and fold open like screens. Other pieces resemble large tapestries, and yet others take their inspiration from Art Nouveau inlays...

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Jacob Moses Semiatin was born in 1915 in Dublin, Ireland to Polish-Jewish parents, cantor Herman Semiatzky and Sarah Moldovnik. He emigrated with family in 1920 and settled in Brooklyn, NY. First, as Abstract Expressionist, Semiatin exhibited at Contemporary Arts Gallery, in 1957, which also introduced Mark Rothko and Mark Tobey. His work is in the collections of the Houston MoMA and the Irish Jewish Museum, among others, and in private collections such as the Ted Turner...

Layers of paper and paint make this artwork stand out on it's own. Unsigned.

This soothing original painting by Miami based artist, Johanna Boccardo, was created with the meticulous signature style of the artist. The painting boldly displays her chromatic mastery, resulting in a fresh and colorful piece of contemporary art. Layers of color of various media are applied to get a multi-layered and dynamic effect, where cryptic stories and drawings are disguised in the background. "Aura Quartz...

Piero Dorazio mixed-media on paper "Senza Titolo" executed 2004.

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