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Eberhard Marx

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German artist, Eberhard Marx was born in 1951 in Dresden where he grew up. From 1968 to 1970, Marx worked as a ship electrician at VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde. From 1970 to 1973 he did military service at the Volksmarine, 6th flotilla. Marx began training as a painter in 1979 in a cycle of studies that lasted until 1983 with Mentor Karlheinz Kuhn, Rostock. In 1981-3 he studied in Wismar with Alfred Heth and from 1983 to 1986 he did studies at the College of Applied Arts, Heiligendamm with Prof. Heinz Wodzicka and Prof. Fritz Eisel. He went on to study at the University of Art and Design Halle Burg Giebichenstein until 1993. Since 2005, the artist has resided in Sinzig am Rhein.

Patrick Webb

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Select Grants & Awards

2020 First Place Award "Covid Dreams”, Artavita Competition (Artavita.com)

2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

2004,8,11,15,19 PRATT Institute Faculty Development Grant

2007 MTA Arts for Transit Finalist

1998 Thomas B. Clarke Award in Painting, National Academy Museum

1995 and 1989 Ingram Merrill Award in Painting

1992 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship

1984,6,8 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Solo Exhibitions

2020 PUNCHINELLO STORIES, Ray Wiggs Gallery Provincetown, MA

2020 PUNCHINELLO IN CRISIS, Leslie-Lohman Project Space, NYC NY

2019 THE TINKER TAILOR PAINTINGS, an installation of 62 paintings in honor of Stonewall 50

Pfizer Building Brooklyn NY

2018 WHAT MAKES THE ENGINE GO, IPTAR exhibition space, NYC NY

2018 AT HOME WITH PUNCHINELLO, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown MA

2016 PAINTINGS, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown MA

2015 TINKER TAILOR SERIES I & II, The Painting Center, NYC, NY

2014 FIRE! Rice Polack Gallery Provincetown MA

2013 LOVE’S PROGRESS: 1989-2013, The Painting Center, NYC, NY

2012 ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT, The Painting Center, NYC, NY

2012 PAINTINGS, Rice Polack Gallery Provincetown MA

2011 NIGHT & DAY, Julie Heller Gallery Provincetown MA

2010 PUNCHINELLO AS OTHER, The Painting Center, NYC, NY

2008 25 YEARS OF WORK, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA

2007 PROVINCETOWN-NEW YORK, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown

2005 CHEAT, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2003 HOME, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2002 PUNCHINELLO’S CITY, CJG Projects, NYC, NY

2001 PUNCHINELLO YOUNG, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1999 IN NEW YORK WITH PUNCHINELLO, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT

1999 PUNCHINELLO UNDRESSED, Julie Heller Gallery, Ptown, MA

1998 PUNCHINELLO WORKS OUT (PWO). Cortland Jessup Gallery, NYC

1996 PUNCHINELLO GOES WEST, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1995 PUNCHINELLO IN AMERICA, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC, NY

Kristen Eisenbraun

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Kristen Eisenbraun’s paintings explore the relationship between people and nature. In each painting, she immerses a unique human figure into a beautiful and mysterious landscape. The relationship that is created between an individual and their outdoor surroundings becomes very emotional. Art viewers will feel the connection to the figure in the painting and desire to be part of that beautiful and surreal atmosphere created by nature. Each viewer will have a unique relationship with Kristen’s paintings but as they stand before each artwork, they all share the desire to leave the mundane behind, step out of doors and experience the extraordinary.

Kristen's paintings are developed in her imagination. Her inspiration comes from people she passes on the street or of the many magical phenomena created by mother nature. She uses oil paint on stretched linen to express her ideas and create stunning pieces of art that can be recognized as her own.

Kristen's unique perspective and incredible technical skills have been widely celebrated. Southwest Art Magazine named Kristen as one of the top young artists to watch and Highlight Hollywood declared her as one of the Best Contemporary American Artists.

Kristen Eisenbraun believes every individual old and young has an uncommon beauty and it is her greatest privilege to have the ability to express their unique soul in paint.

Picturewall

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Francesca O’Malley

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"Growing up in New York was a real benefit. I attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School as a child, and also studied piano into my twenties. I attended Pratt Institute and ultimately earned a Master's degree in painting. After my graduate studies were complete, I found myself in the publishing world, which was friendly to women. I designed books and finally earned my current title Art/Design Director. I am grateful for this experience and exposure to technological tools, and software, which now help me in making art. My marriage to a scientist has been the source of many interesting conversations concerning the nature of reality, the multiverse, and so on. These discussions help to inform my current work in which I explore space and dimension, light, symbol, and the human figure, often placing these things in contradiction to each other. I tend to work in series and often use images appropriated from NASA or satellite maps reconstituted as backgrounds—sometimes chosen for their beauty, or just as random geographic locations. We can be virtually anywhere thanks to technology. Graphic or typographic glyphs are also incorporated at times, adding another layer of interest and meaning."

Roland Reinert

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Lukáš KÁNDL

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What themes does your work involve?

My art includes esoteric and erotic subjects, sensuality, poetry and sometimes an anecdote or even black humor. I also love animal art and to pay tribute to people I admire.

Describe your creative process.

Inspiration comes to me fairly easily. I feel as if ideas were stored in a large spiritual library, with an endless number of books and subjects. I just need to take a stroll in my library, stretch out my hand, and let the composition of my painting appear before me, both magically and very naturally. I always work on only one painting. I choose the format of the canvas according to the size of the main elements I will need. I like to draw things in real size.

What influences your work? What inspires you? Why do you make art?

I am influenced by the Old Masters. I am more especially inspired by themes in the domain of esotericism, poetry, literature, or biblical. I make art because I have the technique and skill for this artistic expression and I love it. I always did it. My father was an artist and I started specialized art school four years before the baccalaureate.

What is good art? What makes a piece of art great?

As I said before, I admire the Old Masters. For me, the technique must be perfectly mastered. It must not be an obstacle to the imagination of the artist but must accompany positively his inspiration. His personal style must be easily recognized by the public.

What is the role of the artist today?

What is the most important to me is to offer paintings in front of which the spectator will take time to sit down, to enter in harmony with the painting, and then have his own walk, as an awaken dream, giving him, even for a short time, a rare and unusual feeling. My dream: that supernatural, strange, sublime and magic, would take more and more space in our lives and that beauty and spirituality would become a life's belief.

Arati Reddy-Devlin

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"I completed my Fine Art Printmaking postgraduate at Brighton University, England in 1986 after completing my degree in Graphic Design in 1984. In 1986, I was also awarded a British Council Scholarship to study Fine Art Printmaking at the Ljubljana Art Academy in Slovenia. This was a pivotal point that enhanced my technical skills and understanding of traditional printmaking processes and continues to guide my approach in creating my artworks. Following this scholarship, I trained to be an Art and Design teacher. Between 2009 – 2013, I lived on a small island near Dubrovnik, Croatia, where the vastness of sky, shifting light on the sea and abundance of natural forms and scenery around our house up on a hill profoundly influenced my landscape drawings.

As a trained printmaker I usually work backwards in my work, seeing images as layers of shapes, forms, colours and patterns. My black and white landscapes start as line drawings that force me to be highly selective in my choice of shapes. These landscapes often start from the bottom of the page, creating distinct positive and negative shapes. This process has encouraged me to see the micro rather than the macro to capture the complexity of the natural world beneath my feet and around me. The discipline of observing fine detailing seeps into my current artworks and has evolved by the use of mechanical parts and technology interwoven with natural forms. These new works fuse my love of Sci-fi, Medieval Art and organic forms, to mirror the natural world and create a more complex type of micro-world."

Scott Wixon

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American Artist, Scott Wixon holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale Universtiy, New Haven CT and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College Of Art, Boston, MA. He grew up on Cape Cod and has travelled extensively.

Select Collections

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Citibank International

The Prudential Insurance Company

Best Products Company, Inc.

Numerous private collection

Museum Exhibitions

1996 Evanston Art Center Evanston, IL, Butterfly Idol and Recent Works

1978 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY, Young American Artist: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition

1972 Boston Museum Of Fine Arts Boston, MA, Earth, Air, Fire and Water: Elements of Art

Selected Gallery Exhibitions

2020 Abstractions / Metaphors, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Persistence, Vision And Passion = Longevity, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2018 Far & Wide National Exhibition, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY, Winner of the Nicholas Buhalis Award

2018 NYC Phoenix Art Collective @ Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Sideshow Gallery,The Greatest Show On Earth: Sideshow Nation VI

2017 Lichtundfire, New York, NY, Past as Prologue or the Effects of Modernism on Contemporary Art

2016 TOAST Art Fair Japan, Osaka

2008- 2016 TOAST, New York, NY

2002 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Paintings

1998 80 Washington Square East Gallery New York, NY, Small Works

1977-1980 Touchstone Gallery New York, NY, Recent Paintings; Color and Surface; Season Previews;

New Works I and II; New Talent

1977 The New Gallery Troy, NY, Drawings

Residencies

Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland, July 2017

Foundation OBRAS, Portugal, October 2018, October 2019

George P. Forgie

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Professional Canadian Artist for over 50 years creating works in oils, drawings, sculpture and photography, George P. Forgie has been represented in galleries across Canada. Forgie graduated from Central Tech SSGD, Ryerson Teachers College with a Teaching Certification and Fine Arts – York University.

"I am constantly reinventing myself – so many languages, disciplines to explore, and plug into, in order to report what I see, feel, absorb; so many stages of my growth – periods of transition, each one had to be; each happened overnight, so to speak.

I never wished to remain with a comfortable style (language) to rest my head upon. Throughout my creative years, l have tasted a variety of subject matters yet remained primarily with the landscape and the ever-changing elements of the human figure. At present, working on a series of large pen and ink drawings under the title of 'My Absurd World'."

Eberhard Marx

“I paint what I see. Things connect in the head and have to come out on the canvas. Art movements, styles and current tastes are basically irrelevant to me! For me painting is passion, life experience and ability, nothing more and nothing less.”

Patrick Webb

Kristen Eisenbraun

"The paintings I create use mythology to tell the story of the relationship between people and nature. This important relationship is often lost today. My paintings act as a Bridgeway between modern society and the planet that sustains us."

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Francesca O’Malley

"The ethos of our times is bound up with technology which affects us on a daily basis. The reach of technology, our connection to other realities through screens and the internet effects our perceptions. Advances in tech and science make this moment unlike any other time in history."

Roland Reinert

"My intention in my art is to paint and compose out of my imagination in order to express my thoughts and my view of the world and the human existence."

Lukáš KÁNDL

"I like to think that in another life, I was yet living in Prague, as somebody in charge of Rudolf II’s fabulous collection in which you could find, for example, astrological tools, potions to make gold, the philosophical stone, impenetrable manuscripts full of VITRIOL formula."

What themes does your work involve?

Describe your creative process.

What influences your work? What inspires you? Why do you make art?

What is good art? What makes a piece of art great?

What is the role of the artist today?

Arati Reddy-Devlin

“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh

Scott Wixon

"Color has always been extremely important to me and is one of the defining elements of my work. Over the years I have developed a personal vocabulary of shapes and gestured markings. The recognizable imagery I use has enhanced the development of my abstract forms."

George P. Forgie

"At an early age, my path was chosen to be an Artist. Visually and intellectually driven, my imagination took me through intervals of development. Realism was pursued on canvas. For my writings and drawings, Surrealism was chosen. I compete with myself though inspiration."