american artists
Ric Estrada
1928 births | american artists | american cartoonists | american comics artists | american illustrators | american latter day saints | american novelists | comic book inkers | cuban-americans | living peopleRic Estrada was born in February 1928 in Cuba. Although best known as a penciller of comic books, he has also worked in a political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, book illustration and other artistic endeavors.
Estrada made his first professional sale at the age of 13; the illustration was used on the cover of a top Cuban magazine. Through a family connection with Ernest Hemingway and an uncle in New York, Estrada moved to New York to further his artistic career.
Vincent fecteau
american artistsVincent Fecteau (born 1969) is an artist based in San Franciscohttp://www.greengrassi.com/biogs/vincent_fecteau.html biography. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992. He is known for working with ordinary materials such as foamcore, seashells, string, rubber bands, paper clips, walnut shells, and popsicle sticks, and transforming them into beautifully precise handcrafted sculptures. Constructed of papier-mâché, Fecteau often works on several sculptures at a time, taking a year or longer to finish each work. He layers materials and textures, revealing a creative process that alters significantly the original spherical shapes.
Fecteau's art has been included in numerous exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Focus: Vincent Fecteau, New Work. In 2005, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded Vincent Fecteau a prestigious fellowship. His work is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Hubbard & Birchler
american artists | texas artistsTeresa Hubbard (1965-) and Alexander Birchler (1962-) are an artist-collaborative team who make short films and photographs about the narrative of time and space. Both received MFAs from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. As life partners, Hubbard and Birchler both live and work in Austin, Texas. They were showcased in the PBS series titled "Art21." The water shed series highlights top artist of the twenty-first century. > Hubbard was born in Dublin, Ireland in (1965-) and Birchler was born in Baden, Switzerland. Their work is documented in many books, magazines and news papers as well as an extensive number public and private collection around the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam; Center for Photography, Salamanca; Venice Biennale (1999); and National Gallery, Prague. Hubbard is currently a Professor of Art in the department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. >
External links
- http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hubbardbirchler/index.html
- http://www.hubbardbirchler.net/
- http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Hubbard/Birchler
Lisa Wray
american artists | digital artists | living peopleLisa Wray is a Pennsylvania-based artist, and one of the early pioneers of visual graphic media arts. Her works can be viewed as tradigital art and metaphysical art. Wray graduated from the Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia PA in 1979, where she studied commercial and fine art. She was a freelance artist in the late 1980's, and owned a print shop. Lisa Wray created some of the artwork in the series called the "Renaissance of Metaphysical Imagery" as early as 1978. In 1983, she started creating prototypes of the original works -- from color copies, color photos or film negatives made in her graphic arts darkroom -- in an attempt to produce Metaphysical Art, but discovered that the mechanical methods available could not achieve the accuracy of computer systems. "In 1983, when the first prototypes were made, the hardware did not exist to output high resolution in a hard copy form", she remembers."Arts and Science Form Strange Brew", Printing Impressions, March 1992 Volume 34, Number 10, p. 40 Boalsburg, PA.
Paul Rusconi
1965 births | american artists | american photographers | contemporary artists | living people | postmodern artists Paul Rusconi (born 1965, California)http://www2.nysun.com/arts/phillips-sales-total-tops-11-million/76617/ is an American contemporary artist who achieved his notoriety through his monochromatic photographs.
Life and work
"Lucas Samaras"(2007), digital screening with monochromatic photographs. Los Angeles, California. The painting's subject is fellow artist Lucas Samaras. No Way Out (2007), digital screening with monochromatic photographs. Los Angeles, California. features an image of Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes from a magazine cover. The solid vibrant blue background reflects the shadow of the silkscreen. Tyra (2007), digital screening with monochromatic photographs. Los Angeles, California. A contemporary glamour portrait featuring a vignette of model Tyra Banks. Closely observing the surface, one can see that it is composed of a square diagonal pattern that recalls the benday dots of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.Jackson Lee Nesbitt
1913 births | american artists Jackson Lee Nesbitt (born 1913) was an American artist. Nesbitt was born in McAlester, Oklahoma and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute off and on from 1933 to 1941, worling primarily with famed Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton and printmaker John de Martelly. Though they were very different in age, Nesbitt and Benton were also friends who traveled and sketched together often -- and the art they created was very similar. When financial necessity (in large part caused by the popularity of modernist art) forced Nesbitt to give up his art for a successful career in the advertising industry to provide for his family, Nesbitt did not speak with Benton for many years out of embarrassment. Nevertheless, Benton, and his wife Rita, always considered Nesbitt to be one of his finest students.
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James Zar
american artistsJames Zar (also known as The Still Life Magician) is an American artist notable for his oil-based, fantasy art. Although his works vary, his primary subject matter is still life. He is the stepfather of painter and digital animator Chet Zar.
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Linda volrath
1963 births | american artists | living people | painters | women artistsLinda Volrath (b. 1963) is an American oil painter artist. Linda Volrath has studied painting with some of the best contemporary painters living today. Her major influences are the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, John Singer Sargent, Nicolai Fechin, Daniel Sprick, and Sir Alfred Munnings. She won the "Helen DeCozen Memorial Award for a Floral" from the American Artists Professional League in 2006 and the "Founders Award for Painting" from the American Academy of Equine Art in 2005. Linda graduated from the Art Institue of Philidelphia and worked as a creative director in publishing for 15 years. Her paintings are representational in style, with expressive bush work, and masterful use of color.
She is married to OPA (Oil Painters of America)signature member Steven J Parrish.
Jill Enfield
1954 births | american artists | american photographers | living peopleJill Enfield (b. 1954) is a photographer and hand coloring artist best known for her work in alternative photographic processes such as Cyanotype and Collodion process. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, ICP, New York University, and The New School
Chunghi Choo
american artists | american sculptors | korean artists | korean sculptors | modern sculptors | women in art 'Container', silver-plated copper and plexiglas sculpture by Chunghi Choo, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chunghi Choo is a jewelry designer and metalsmith who was born in Inchon, Korea in 1938. She received a BFA degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, where she majored in Oriental painting. She came to the United States in 1961 to study metalsmithing, weaving, and ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she received an MFA in 1965. She has taught jewelry and metal arts at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History since 1968 and is currently the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art.
