Artists
Bea Oxenberg
Bea Oxenberg sculpted for more than 30 years prior to her passing away in 2010. She studied and worked in many locations in South Florida including the Sculpture Center in Hollywood, FL. Her knowledge and experience in many different materials, including all types of wood and stone made her into a skilled sculptor allowing her [...]
Cesar Santos
Cesar Santos began his visual arts studies at the Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami, FL and continued to attend Miami-Dade College and the New World School of the Arts, where he received his Associates Degree in Fine Arts. He subsequently traveled to Italy to study painting and was there introduced to the techniques [...]
Cheryl Maeder
Cheryl Maeder is an internationally known fine art and advertising photographer. She studied photography at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, Switzerland. A trip to the Mediterranean coastal towns of Spain inspired her impressionistic series of beach scenes. Cheryl photographs in this style so the viewer can experience the entire image with its palette of colors, forms, [...]
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago in 1940 and passed away in 2007. She earned a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with traditional two-dimensionsal works and her paintings are abstract compositions rendered in bold colors and multiple layers of [...]
Fernando Vignoli
Fernando Vignoli was born in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on August 14, 1960. He studied at Colégio Militar (a high school held by the Brazilian Army) and concluded his high school education at Colégio Pitágoras where he majored in architectural design. He graduated in Visual Communication at ESAP Escola Superior de Artes [...]
Frank Stella
Frank Stella was born on May 12, 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts. A significant figure in minimalism, Stella graduated from Princeton in 1958 and moved to New York City. By 1960 he had developed a sense for geometry and many of his early paintings featured straight or curved lines. Stella began producing three dimensional works frequently [...]
Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson was born in Plymouth, MA in 1960. Pierson’s body of work includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations and drawings. The themes of loss, longing, and nostalgia feature prominently in his work. Many of his photographs, especially those of local architecture and roadside signs, recognize the beauty in the banal. Pierson divides his time [...]
Jane Waterous
Jane Waterous is a Canadian artist now residing in the Bahamas. In 1999, Waterous moved to Nassau, where she embarked on a fresh direction of painting, reflecting the unique light effects, color and subjects of the Caribbean. Her trademark, three dimensional crowds at play, has been developed over a decade of work. A former filmmaker, [...]
Javier Marin
Javier Marín was born in Michoacan, Mexico in 1962. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas Academia de San Carlos (UNAM) from 1980-1983. In his work, Marín employs the human figure as the basis for his artistic expression and grapples with themes such as the fragile nature of human existence, the degradation of [...]
Jennifer Bartlett
Jennifer Bartlett, born March 14, 1941 in Long Beach, CA, is an American artist. She received her BFA in 1963 from Mills College in Oakland, CA and went on to attend the Yale School of Art and Architecture, where she completed her MFA in 1965. Bartlett’s paintings combine abstract and representational styles and she is [...]
Joseph Wheelwright
A master carver of stones, trees and bones for over thirty years, Wheelwright brings out the living force in rock and carves trees so that they become sentient creatures. Evidence of nature’s own artistry and works made by ancient civilizations provide the sculptor with steady inspiration. His creative process originates in the woods, on overland [...]
Luc Dratwa
Luc Dratwa is best known for his series of photographs taken from the 76th floor of Rockefeller Center with a view of the Empire State Building in New York City. In his photographs, Dratwa is able to catch people as they gaze at the astonishing views. The images consist of three planes: the character, the [...]
Marcelo Wong
Working mostly with steel and stone, the award-winning Peruvian sculptor cites Botero as one of his greatest influences and finds inspiration in everyday life. Wong’s work reflects aspects of the mundane and establishes a sense of immediacy with the spectator. He has participated in a numerous exhibitions worldwide and his sculptures have traveled to Iran, [...]
Massimo Vitali
The photographer, who was born in Como, Italy, in 1944, arrived on the art scene relatively late. After stints as a photojournalist and film cameraman, it was not until the 1990′s that Vitali acquired international renown for his large-scale photographs of Italian beaches and other public spaces showing anonymous people during their leisure time. The [...]
Robert Graham
Robert Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico on August 19, 1938 and moved to California as a young child. Graham used a range of materials and scales in his work and created hundreds of nude figures and groupings in intermediate scales. He was inducted into the California Hall of Fame on December 15, 2008. [...]
Roberto Edwards
Roberto Edwards was born in Santiago, Chile in 1937. A photographer and entrepreneur, he founded the Cuerpos Pintados Experimental Workshop in 1981. The objective of Cuerpos Pintados is to explore, through direct body painting, the infinite potential for expression the human form offers. Roberto Edwards’s photographs capture the creative, spontaneous collaboration between the artist’s and [...]
Stephan Balkenhol
Balkenhol was born in 1957 in Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany, and studied art at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts from 1976-1982. From the mid-1980s to the present, Balkenhol represents the human figure as ordinary looking men or women in simple clothing. It is through works carved out of wood that Balkenhol established himself as an [...]
Teresita Fernandez
Teresita Fernandez, born in Miami in 1968, is a contemporary sculptor and artist. She graduated from Southwest Miami High School in 1986, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University in 1990 and obtained her Masters of Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. Fernandez’s work is characterized by an interest in [...]
Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. He uses unexpected materials, such as caviar, peanut butter, chocolate syrup and diamonds, to create portraits, landscapes and still lifes which he photographs. His aim is to subvert the viewer’s expectations and wants his images to show people a measure of [...]
Volker Kühn
True to his motto‚ “Just do it!’, Volker Kühn has been making three-dimensional objects: Showcases displaying the miniature worlds of little figures whose interactions tell short stories of good times and bad times in people’s lives. This “art in boxes” comes in small stages like snapshots which provoke amusement and laughter. Thematically, they are inexhaustible. [...]