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Untitled (Petra #2)
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
QUÉ NOS TRAE EL RIO
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
HUMANBIRD
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Cleopatra, Having Reconsidered Suicide, Passes the Basket to Octavian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatra thinks better of suicide, and at the last minute redirects her servants to pass the basket of fruit with the asp on to the triumphant Octavian who sweeps in with his entourage. In this scene, Octavian reaches for an apple, triggering the asp to strike. This, like most of my recent work, reimagines historical, mythological, and literary motifs to destabilize the inherent power structures within those narratives. The style adopted is Rococo, which coincided with the rise of Colonialism. The style therefore relates to the historical narrative of this piece which shows the conquest and colonization of a colonial ruler.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Light as a Leaf
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Loyalty
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy Looks Right
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy Looks Left
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy ///
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Flamingo and Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Together
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Looking Right on the Right Side
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Want You Around
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lemonade
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Teenage Summer
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man and Dog
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
People That Cook Together...
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 25h x 25w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he received in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plexiglass
1918
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 11.25h x 9.25w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he receiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Mother and Me
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 11h x 11w in
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 was born on August 30, 1963. His art abilities were quickly recognized when in fourth
grade he qualified for admission to the State School of Art in Kiev, which he attended from 1975
to 1981. He decided to concentrate on book illustration and graphic arts, and after graduating he
was accepted into the Ivan Fedorov Polygraphic Institute in Moscow, where he studied from
1982 to 1988, graduating with a master of fine arts degree in 1988. He trained as a printmaker,
creating etchings and lithographs, and as a graphic designer, and worked as a designer in Kiev.
“I illustrated mysteries, science fiction, and different magazines,” he said. In 1988, after his
family visited relatives in San Francisco, California, the Stolins decided to immigrate to the
United States, a process that took four years. In 1992, Stolin and his parents immigrated to San
Francisco, and he worked for graphic design and print businesses in nearby Emeryville,
California. During a trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was visiting cousins, Stolin met
Mary Kay Holmes. The couple soon married and moved to New Orleans, where Stolin
established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit in local galleries and group
exhibitions.
The art Stolin began to create in New Orleans demonstrated his technical skills, knowledge of
art history, and the evolving range of his subject matter, reflected from one series and exhibition
to the next, yet it was challenging for critics to classify his work. This was evident in the series
Stolin exhibited during his first decade in the city, beginning with Byzantium on the Bayou
(1993–1994), which combined historical Byzantine art references with New Orleans and Mardi
Gras subjects, such as Mardi Gras Madonna and Adoration of St. Gator. In his Midnight Dessert
series (1995–1997), he created works such as Tea in Manhattan and Rembrandt and Nathan, a
large painting that Bookhardt described as “a vision of Rembrandt and various Dutch masters
promenading down the sidewalk past Nathan’s Deli in New York.” Following that, he completed
The Water Series (1998–1999), featuring reflective and heavily worked surfaces in paintings
such as Reflections #2 and Study of Fish and Swimmers.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans
artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Wreathe
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ultraviolet
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Giant
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Color
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rain is a Gift
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tend
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Techne
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflection
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wounded
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Mystic
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pompeii
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Why so many complications (flows off in time like poetry)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Travelers
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Clockwork
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 30.5h x 42.5w in
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 was born on August 30, 1963. His art abilities were quickly recognized when in fourth
grade he qualified for admission to the State School of Art in Kiev, which he attended from 1975
to 1981. He decided to concentrate on book illustration and graphic arts, and after graduating he
was accepted into the Ivan Fedorov Polygraphic Institute in Moscow, where he studied from
1982 to 1988, graduating with a master of fine arts degree in 1988. He trained as a printmaker,
creating etchings and lithographs, and as a graphic designer, and worked as a designer in Kiev.
“I illustrated mysteries, science fiction, and different magazines,” he said. In 1988, after his
family visited relatives in San Francisco, California, the Stolins decided to immigrate to the
United States, a process that took four years. In 1992, Stolin and his parents immigrated to San
Francisco, and he worked for graphic design and print businesses in nearby Emeryville,
California. During a trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was visiting cousins, Stolin met
Mary Kay Holmes. The couple soon married and moved to New Orleans, where Stolin
established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit in local galleries and group
exhibitions.
The art Stolin began to create in New Orleans demonstrated his technical skills, knowledge of
art history, and the evolving range of his subject matter, reflected from one series and exhibition
to the next, yet it was challenging for critics to classify his work. This was evident in the series
Stolin exhibited during his first decade in the city, beginning with Byzantium on the Bayou
(1993–1994), which combined historical Byzantine art references with New Orleans and Mardi
Gras subjects, such as Mardi Gras Madonna and Adoration of St. Gator. In his Midnight Dessert
series (1995–1997), he created works such as Tea in Manhattan and Rembrandt and Nathan, a
large painting that Bookhardt described as “a vision of Rembrandt and various Dutch masters
promenading down the sidewalk past Nathan’s Deli in New York.” Following that, he completed
The Water Series (1998–1999), featuring reflective and heavily worked surfaces in paintings
such as Reflections #2 and Study of Fish and Swimmers.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans
artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Say Cheese
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 31.5h x 45.5w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he receive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Sunrise
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 36.5h x 36.5w in
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 was born on August 30, 1963. His art abilities were quickly recognized when in fourth
grade he qualified for admission to the State School of Art in Kiev, which he attended from 1975
to 1981. He decided to concentrate on book illustration and graphic arts, and after graduating he
was accepted into the Ivan Fedorov Polygraphic Institute in Moscow, where he studied from
1982 to 1988, graduating with a master of fine arts degree in 1988. He trained as a printmaker,
creating etchings and lithographs, and as a graphic designer, and worked as a designer in Kiev.
“I illustrated mysteries, science fiction, and different magazines,” he said. In 1988, after his
family visited relatives in San Francisco, California, the Stolins decided to immigrate to the
United States, a process that took four years. In 1992, Stolin and his parents immigrated to San
Francisco, and he worked for graphic design and print businesses in nearby Emeryville,
California. During a trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was visiting cousins, Stolin met
Mary Kay Holmes. The couple soon married and moved to New Orleans, where Stolin
established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit in local galleries and group
exhibitions.
The art Stolin began to create in New Orleans demonstrated his technical skills, knowledge of
art history, and the evolving range of his subject matter, reflected from one series and exhibition
to the next, yet it was challenging for critics to classify his work. This was evident in the series
Stolin exhibited during his first decade in the city, beginning with Byzantium on the Bayou
(1993–1994), which combined historical Byzantine art references with New Orleans and Mardi
Gras subjects, such as Mardi Gras Madonna and Adoration of St. Gator. In his Midnight Dessert
series (1995–1997), he created works such as Tea in Manhattan and Rembrandt and Nathan, a
large painting that Bookhardt described as “a vision of Rembrandt and various Dutch masters
promenading down the sidewalk past Nathan’s Deli in New York.” Following that, he completed
The Water Series (1998–1999), featuring reflective and heavily worked surfaces in paintings
such as Reflections #2 and Study of Fish and Swimmers.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans
artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Crystal Ball (Silence)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 24.75h x 24.75w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he recei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Pulse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 21.5h x 26w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he received ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Antique Shop (Crystal Ball)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 30.5h x 30.5w in
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 was born on August 30, 1963. His art abilities were quickly recognized when in fourth
grade he qualified for admission to the State School of Art in Kiev, which he attended from 1975
to 1981. He decided to concentrate on book illustration and graphic arts, and after graduating he
was accepted into the Ivan Fedorov Polygraphic Institute in Moscow, where he studied from
1982 to 1988, graduating with a master of fine arts degree in 1988. He trained as a printmaker,
creating etchings and lithographs, and as a graphic designer, and worked as a designer in Kiev.
“I illustrated mysteries, science fiction, and different magazines,” he said. In 1988, after his
family visited relatives in San Francisco, California, the Stolins decided to immigrate to the
United States, a process that took four years. In 1992, Stolin and his parents immigrated to San
Francisco, and he worked for graphic design and print businesses in nearby Emeryville,
California. During a trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was visiting cousins, Stolin met
Mary Kay Holmes. The couple soon married and moved to New Orleans, where Stolin
established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit in local galleries and group
exhibitions.
The art Stolin began to create in New Orleans demonstrated his technical skills, knowledge of
art history, and the evolving range of his subject matter, reflected from one series and exhibition
to the next, yet it was challenging for critics to classify his work. This was evident in the series
Stolin exhibited during his first decade in the city, beginning with Byzantium on the Bayou
(1993–1994), which combined historical Byzantine art references with New Orleans and Mardi
Gras subjects, such as Mardi Gras Madonna and Adoration of St. Gator. In his Midnight Dessert
series (1995–1997), he created works such as Tea in Manhattan and Rembrandt and Nathan, a
large painting that Bookhardt described as “a vision of Rembrandt and various Dutch masters
promenading down the sidewalk past Nathan’s Deli in New York.” Following that, he completed
The Water Series (1998–1999), featuring reflective and heavily worked surfaces in paintings
such as Reflections #2 and Study of Fish and Swimmers.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans
artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Enchanted Garden
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 37h x 34w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he received in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
nni bu ndu
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA was born and raised between Nigeria and England and received a BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from University College London (UCL). She previously worked as the Head of Cor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Throwing Rocks
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA was born and raised between Nigeria and England and received a BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from University College London (UCL). She previously worked as the Head of Cor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
7 (Entanglement)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
4 (Fine Me)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
3 (After Darkness)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
1 (Lux et Nox)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Gesso, Paper
At The Farm
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Munchian Man
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sheepdog
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Larry Rivers Painting
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Color Pencil, Graphite
Darkened Meetings
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Medicine Cabinet
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
River Guard
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Statue)
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Influencer
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
House in Seattle
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lumens
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
