Andrés Comastri

The London Hotel

2021

"I see my work as an opportunity to delve into a groove that transcends my existence. The chosen groove is painting. To move through it and remain open to the unexpected, the unknown...

Polly D’ Avila's artwork delves into shades of blue to evoke introspection and self-knowledge. Her pieces reflect on the transience of life, healing, creation, and fertility, capturi...

Polly D’ Avila's artwork delves into shades of blue to evoke introspection and self-knowledge. Her pieces reflect on the transience of life, healing, creation, and fertility, capturi...

The artwork of Felix Campean presents a scene of a human body emerging with astonishing anatomical precision, capturing every detail of the musculature and skin with hyperrealistic f...

Serenity, warmth, and harmony are at the heart of Dreamer, a captivating oil on canvas painting that invites reflection and a sense of peace. The work portrays a figure with closed e...

Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right This work is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The...

This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The liquid mountain is populated by living b...

ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.   Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...