Daniel Arsham is a contemporary American sculptor. Daniel Arsham was born in Cleveland, Ohio in the year 1980. The artist attended Cooper College located in New York City.
The artist even captured the singer Pharrell Williams in a large body cast.
In this clip an interview; and sample of work by Daniel Arsham:
Arsham finds inspiration from architecture. Arsham makes inanimate architecture come to life by making in appear to be blowing in the wind.
Matthew Brandt is now based in Los Angeles, California.
Below we view a gallery show featuring Matthew Brandt that took place in 2012:
In this clip Matthew Brandt talks about some of his new and innovative techniques that he applies to his photographs. For some effects he even uses acid:
If you enjoy some abstraction in your photography make sure and check out my post on Marco Breuer. Breuer uses some of the same methods of destroying the image as Brandt including burning.
Ruth Pastine is an American artist renown for her abstract style. Ruth Pastine was born in New York City in the year 1964.
Pastine attended the State College of New York and Cooper Union College earning a B.F.A. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from Hunter College located in New York City. She also studied briefly in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ruth Pastine is married to artist Gary Lang.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
Below a great interview with Ruth Pastine including many works by the artist:
Although the artist works often in oils, she reminds me of artist Freddy Chandra. Chandra uses acrylic, resin, and varnish but I find the two artists end up with similar colors in their paintings.
Victor Moscoso is an Spanish/American artist associated with the San Francisco Poster movement that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. He blazed a path in the commercial industry designing concert posters, advertisements, and comics.
Victor Moscoso was born in Olerios, Galicia, Spain in the year 1936. The artist is well educated having studied at the Yale University, Cooper Union College, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
He learned color in college and art school, yet most of his posters were based on the opposite of what he learned. For his use of color he counts the artist Josef Albers as a major influence.
In this clip we catch with our beloved fellow artist and art enthusiast James Kalm to visit a show featuring drawings from the 1960s to the 1980s of Victor Moscoso:
Price range information: Drawings and posters range from $1,000 to $5,000.
Victor Moscoso remains based out of San Francisco.
What I enjoy most about the poster artists, is their modernist ideas when it comes to design. Sure the posters look great and I think sometimes are taken for granted with the use of the computer and so much digital art. But this artist used color by applying to a surface, not by working it on photoshop.
Another key aspect in his design was his use of using his hand drawn letters. He didn’t use a computer or certain font, he developed his own styles of lettering.
What a great artist that was far ahead of his time!
Edith Schloss was an expatriate American painter renown for her abstract expressionist art. Schloss worked as a painter, assemblage artist, and collage artist. The artist studied languages in several European countries before moving to the United States before World War 2.
Once in the United States the artist settled in New York City. She attended the Art Student’s League of New York and also Cooper Union College.
Edith Schloss was born in Offenbach, Germany in the year 1919.
Schloss was married to photographer and film producer Rudy Burckhardt. The marriage was short lived but the couple had a son. Schloss moved to Italy and enjoyed a lengthy career as a writer, though she still painted.
Schloss was known for being friends everyone who was important in the New York City art world.
Edith Schloss passed away in 2011. The artist was 92 years of age.
Shirley Jaffe is an American painter renown for abstract hard edged painting style. Shirley Jaffe was born in New Jersey in the year 1923. Jaffe is a painter, printmaker, and also has worked with stained glass.
Jaffe attended Cooper Union College located in New York City.
In 1949 she moved with her husband to France. Her husband was an artist and wanted to attend the Sorbonne located in Paris, France.
Here we visit a show featuring Jaffe and other abstract painters. A wonderful piece by Jaffe is shown at 1:55 in the clip. Another work is shown at the 6:10 mark of the clip:
Once in France she became familiar with other Abstract Expressionist painters including Joan Mitchell and Ellsworth Kelly.
Jaffe received a grant and was able to study in Berlin, Germany for one year.
In this clip we visit a show featuring Shirley Jaffe from 2008:
The artist is still based out of France but returns to the States periodically for shows.
Jaffe uses gouache to prepare her ideas for larger canvases. Her large finished paintings in oils are very large with sides often exceeding 6 feet in length.
Price rang information: Sorry none available.
What an outstanding painter with a wonderful use of color. The shapes and color used by Jaffe are amazing. In the video clip with James Kalm her works seems to shout “Come look at me!” when on the wall next to her contemporaries.
Richard Roth is an American contemporary artist who is renown for his geometric shaped compositions with acrylics on birch. Richard Roth attended Cooper Union College located in New York city where he earned a B.F.A. The artist went on to earn an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Fine Art located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Roth has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of New York City and the Museum of Modern Art located in Japan.
The artist works as an educator teaching painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Roth has also been a teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago and abroad in England.
Richard Roth is also a past winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
What a wonderful style the artist has developed. His work is very modern and reminds of a variety of artists who concentrate on basic shapes with strong and vibrant color including Al Held and Ellsworth Kelly.
George Segal is an American artist who works with the figure often with cast paper. George Segal was born in New York City in the year 1924. For his artistic education Segal received great instruction attending the Pratt Institute, Cooper Union College, and graduating from New York University.
Segal also went on to post graduate studies earning a M.F.A. from Rutgers University.
A major breakthrough for the artist was a work titled “Man Sitting at a Table.” This work was significant because it gave a more complete look as before the artist was working with a certain body part such as the hands or torso. The artist would later do such works as a woman looking in a mirror or lying naked on a bed. Much more complete and interesting than a painting.
If you enjoy this artist and style be sure and check out my post on Duane Hanson. Hanson did a wonderful job of capturing people in sculpture, complete with time period dress and hairstyle. He is my favorite when it comes to this genre.
Price range information: Segal worked in many mediums including printmaking, painting, and sculpting with plaster, bronze, and wood. Prices range from $3,000 to $600,000.
George Segal passed away in 2000.
In this clip a brief bio on George Segal:
I enjoy the process the artist uses to capture the human figure!
Greg Bogin is an American artist renown for his simple abstract geometric paintings. His work reminds of painter Ellsworth Kelly. Very simple lines and shapes painted with acrylics , lacquer, and automotive enamel paint. Greg Bogin was born in New York City in the year 1965.
For his collegiate education Bogin attended the Cooper Union School of Art located in New York City.
He draws inspiration from mass consumer advertising campaigns and marketing.
Price range information : Sorry none available.
In this clip we visit a show featuring Greg Bogin. What simple shapes that look great against the white walls of the gallery:
Thomas Nozkowski is an American painter born in Teaneck, New Yersey in the year 1944. Nozkowski is an Abstract Expressionist painter who has excellent use of colour and enjoys using basic geometric shapes that repeat throughout the image. The artist is a painter and printmaker. For his shows he includes drawings in addition to paintings and prints.
An interesting note is that for his smaller works he doesn’t give them a title. This “absence” of title gives more room for the viewer to interpret the art in their own manner.
Thoams Nozkowski is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts located in Boston, Massachusetts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Member of the National Academy of Design.
Thomas Nozkowski is based out of New York City.
The artist has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Nozkowski has also won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
For his artistic education Nozkowski attended Cooper Union Art School located in New York City.
Price range information: Works range from $10,000 to $50,000.
In this clip we visit a show featuring Thomas Nozkowski with our friend James Kalm :
In this clip we visit the studio of Thomas Nozkowski:
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