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Artist of the Week: Gwen Meyerson

While I rely on reality as my inspiration, I’m never a tight realist in my work.  Rather, I like to play with color and texture so that you know the painting surface has been touched and worked on.”

 

Artist of the Week: Thomas Worthington Whittredge

Whittredge’s paintings are now in the collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Artist of the Week: Valeri Larko

Valeri Larko is best know for her densely painted landscapes of the urban fringe, all of which she paints on location. She is attracted to the decaying and abandoned structures that populated the outskirts of America’s urban centers and the stories these places can tell.

Artist of the Week: Georgi Dimov

Visit Georgi at his Gallery:  Ditra Gallery 226 E. 83rd Street to lazy, then visit his website http://www.dimovart.com

 

Artist of the Week: Bea Doone-Merena

After accomplishing the renaissance and using these techniques as a foundation, I have expanded into numerous art forms.  New works seem to emerge monthly. This summer my art is an explosion of accents of single color applied strategically to human body parts.  They rivet the viewer to experience color shock like a contemporary painting might do. All original creations and unique framing make these one-of-a-kind pieces an investment for your growing art collection.

Artist of the Week: Lana Ballot

Lana Ballot
Painting is my passion! Living on Long Island, I am lucky to be within a short distance to my favorite subjects – ocean, inlets, harbors and beaches. I mostly work in pastel, but also enjoy oils and watercolors.

Artist of the Week: Terry Redlin

In 2004, Redlin unveiled his most emotional collection entitled, “An American Portrait”. Considered by Redlin to be the most technically demanding project of his career, the series of 7 paintings tell the life story of a young American boy. The story was built around Redlin’s personal experiences and is his tribute to America.
In 2007, Terry Redlin retired from painting and print signing due to his personal struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Artist of the Week: Marilyn Hageman

 “I find it hard to categorize my work,” Marilyn admits. Her brush strokes vary from loose and playful to concise. Reminiscent of her major artistic influences, Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt, Marilyn’s florals are as representational as they are impressionistic.

 

Artist of the Week: Andrew Wyeth

In his art, Wyeth’s favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth often noted: “I paint my life.” One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina’s World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art inNew York City. This tempera was painted in 1948, when Wyeth was 31 years old.

Artist of the Week: Cheryl Molnar

artwork by Cheryl Molnar

 Molnar explained to me that her landscapes are collages in more sense than one.  She has held several artist residencies in the thirteen years she has lived and worked in New York, and the spaces she’s worked and lived in pop up, albeit chopped up and reconfigured, throughout her work.  Taken Aback (see this article’s header image), for instance, was made while in residence at the Wave Hill botanical garden in the Bronx.  It features an elegant glass dome and rolling hillside that nods to its Bronx companion without recreating it. Molnar’s are inviting, whimsical landscapes in which to lose yourself.