Dame Darcy Pleasant,better known by the pen name Dame Darcy,is an alternative cartoonist,fine artist,musician,cabaret performer,and animator/filmmaker. Her "Neo-Victorian" comic book series Meat Cake was published by Fantagraphics Books from 1993 to 2008. The Meat Cake Bible compilation was released in June 2016 and nominated for The Eisner Award July 2017. Vegan Love:Dating and Partnering for the Cruelty-Free Gal,with Fashion,Makeup &Wedding Tips, written by Maya Gottfried and illustrated by Dame Darcy,was the Silver Medalist winners of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2018.
Phranc,is an American singer-songwriter whose career began playing in several bands in the late 1970s Los Angeles punk rock scene. Her musical style later shifted during the 1980s as a solo artist,into a self-proclaimed "All-American Jewish lesbian folksinger."
Inka Essenhigh is an American painter based in New York City. Throughout her career,Essenhigh has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects,Mary Boone Gallery,303 Gallery,Stefan Stux Gallery,and Jacob Lewis Gallery in New York,Kotaro Nukaga,Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo,and Il Capricorno in Venice.
Echo Eggebrecht is an American artist and academic known for landscape paintings.
Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles,California. Huerta was born in Tijuana,Mexico,and grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1998.
Jonathan Lasker is an American abstract painter based in New York City whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery,New York.
Salma Arastu is an internationally exhibited woman artist known for her unique global perspective,reflecting her diverse cultural background and experiences. Born in Rajasthan,India,Aratsu pursued her formal education in Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda,India. She was raised in the Sindhi and Hindu traditions and later embraced Islam and moved to the USA in 1986,currently residing in California. As a woman,artist,and mother,Arastu's creative endeavors aim to foster harmony and express the universality of humanity through various art forms,including paintings,sculpture,and poetry. She has also worked extensively with calligraphy and produces greeting cards for the American Muslim community.
Barbara Ann Rosenthal is an American avant-garde artist,writer and performer. Rosenthal's existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy. Rosenthal's pseudonyms are "Homo Futurus," which was taken from the title of one of her books,and "Cassandra-on-the-Hudson," which alludes to "the dangerous world she envisions" while creating art in her studio and residence on the Hudson River in Greenwich Village,NYC. Rosenthal successfully trademarked "Homo Futurus" in 2022.
Janet Fish is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting,lithography,and screenprinting,she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include elements of transparency,reflected light,and multiple overlapping patterns depicted in bold,high color values. She has been credited with revitalizing the still life genre.
Charles Seliger was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Manhattan June 3,1926,and he died on 1 October 2009,in Westchester County,New York. Seliger was one of the original generation of abstract expressionist painters connected with the New York School.
Deborah Remington was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction.
Amanda Marie,also known by her artist moniker 'Mando Marie',born 1981,is an American painter formerly based in Colorado,currently based in Amsterdam,Netherlands,and exhibits in both the United States and Europe. She trained at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and is best known for her work as a stencilist,including large scale street art designs.
Katerina Lanfranco is a New York City-based visual artist making paintings,drawings,sculptures,and mixed media installations. She was born in Hamilton,Ontario. She studied art at the University of California,Santa Cruz where she received her B.A in Visual Art and in "Visual Theory and Museum Studies". She also attended the Sierra Institute studying Nature Philosophies and Religions while camping in the California wilderness. She received her M.F.A from Hunter College,City University of New York in Studio Art,with an emphasis in painting. In 2004,she studied at the Universitat der Kunst (UdK) in Berlin,Germany on an exchange scholarship. During this time,she also received a travel grant to study Baroque and High Baroque painting in Italy.
Vivian E. Browne was an American artist. Born in Laurel,Florida,Browne was mostly known for her painting series called Little Men and her Africa series. She is also known for linking abstraction to nature in her tree paintings and in a series of abstract works made with layers of silk that were influenced by her travels to China. She was an activist,professor,and has received multiple awards for her work. According to her mother,Browne died at age 64 from bladder cancer.
Aiko Nakagawa,known as Lady Aiko or AIKO,is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn,New York. She is known for her ability to combine western art movements and eastern technical,artistic skills,as well as for her large-scale works installed in cities including Rome,Italy,Shanghai,China and Brooklyn,New York.
Jack Hooper was an American painter,muralist,sculptor,printmaker and art educator. Hooper was a major figure on the Southern California art scene,belonging to that generation of Los Angeles painters who matured during the late 1950s and the 1960s,painters such as John Altoon,Sam Amato,Robert Irwin,Lee Mullican,William Brice and Billy Al Bengston. He was an innovator in the use of new materials,most importantly plastic in art. He is known for abstract expressionist,mural and figurative painting. Hooper has exhibited in art museums and galleries nationally and internationally including solo shows in Europe,Mexico and the United States. Modeling renown UCLA art professor and figurative artist,Jan Stussy,the last 20 years of his life were spent in rural Mexico,where he drew and painted every single day until his death.
Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist. She currently divides her time between Los Angeles,CA and Boston,MA.
Emily Cheng is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale paintings with a center focus often employing expansive circular images... "radiantly colored,radially composed". She has won numerous awards including Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship,2010,New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,1996,Yaddo Residency,1995,National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship,1982–1983.
Painting for me,is the evidence of an inquiry…It is the postulation made physical….It is the wall that penetrates….It is the mind reminded. It is the hunch made vivid. It is the reworking of the familiar. It is the shadow of the unfamiliar. It is the acting out of desire. It is the probe of limits. It is the life imaged. It is the eye engaged. Painting is luxury bounded.
Brenna Youngblood is an American artist based in Los Angeles who is known for creating photographic collages,sculpture,and paintings. Her work explores issues of African-American identity and representation.
Emma Kohlmann is an artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her work ranges from drawing and painting to zines,digital art,books and various media. Her primary focus is usually in working with ink and watercolor.
