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Sara Abbott

Abbott first began mixing paint with photographs. Now she includes light boxes, abstract paintings with photographic transfers, and photographs mounted on plexiglass.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams captured the American landscape in a way that no other photographer or visual artist has managed to replicate. His photos of natural landmarks have become woven into our collective memory and cultural heritage.

Arthur Albin

Traditional palettes, eroded textures, and untraditional modern techniques define Albin's artistic vision, which includes oils, acrylic, pastel, and graphite.

Stella Alesi

Stella Alesi is drawn to the simple beauties provided in life and is a master at encapsulating them in her artwork. Stella has excelled in two distinct painting styles over the body of her career: realistic and mandala.

AJ Andrews

A.J. Andrews inherited a love of music from his parents. Just like his hero Jackson Pollack, A. J. is inspired by music and listens to everything from Classical Jazz to Dubstep when he uses his camera as a brush and creates his photographic works of art.

Sylvia Angeli

Angeli explores scale, color, and texture with a beautiful palate of oils, creating compositions that include figures, landscapes, and fruit.

Benjamin Arnot

Benjamin has searched the globe for inspiration, intrigue, and in his travels, he has collected souvenirs like a wide spectrum of different cultural and artistic elements that he has integrated into his paintings.

Sia Aryai

Born in Tehran, Iran, Sia Aryai displayed an interest in art from early childhood. Later he moved to the United States, where in the mid-80s he discovered that photography gave him the perfect means to capture the beauty of women and nature.

Caroline Ashton

Fascinated by human nature, Ashton weaves faceless figures and bodies together in dynamic movements, costumes, and settings.

John James Audubon

Audubon's careful studies of American wildlife have made him internationally renowned for his watercolors, pastels, and engravings.

D. Bailey

His artistic accent is decidedly British, because Bailey honed his art in Great Britain and feels at home with abstract expressionism and Favre palettes.

Jane Bellows

She began painting abstracts, experimenting with forms, lines, and space. Today, Bellows flourishes in different media, but favors acrylics for its textual quality.

Alex Benitez

Bold colors reflect the intensity with which he lives and views life. For his black lines, he chooses to use liquid acrylic in a bottle and as each squirt of paint falls on the canvas, he captures the irregularity that defines us as humans.

Lauren Betty

Betty experiments with wax, tar, and found street signs to create urban works of art that dance with color and look as if preserved from a wall in a foreign land.

Wyn Bielaska

Bielaska's abstract style encompasses nautical aspects combined with reflections of life.

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli is known today as one of the masters of the Early Renaissance. He is best known for his mythological works, his altarpieces, and his religious paintings.

Maureen Brouillette

Both artist and teacher, Brouillette works in mixed media, acrylic on canvas, and watercolor paper. When she isn't painting, she leads workshops and judges art shows.

Cecile Broz

Her paintings tell stories. Broz uses hand stenciled collage papers and composition gold leaf to create relationships, between shapes and negative space.

Todd Camp

Camp mentally stores the images he sees during his day and unpacks them on the canvas. The collage of imagery captures the energy, secrets, happiness, frustration, excitement, wonder, and mystery that guide his vision.

Leonetto Cappiello

Considered by many to be he father of modern advertising, Cappiello is one of the most widely-recognized poster designers of the early-twentieth century.

Lee Carlson

Nature is Lee Carlson's palette. His inspiration comes from the great outdoors and uses harmony and balance to transform his fascination with flora into works of art.

Kim Coulter

While Kim continues to enjoy working in a representational style, she is also exploring a contemporary direction in her most recent paintings. Learn more about Kim.

Currier & Ives

Currier and Ives produced thousands of fine art prints during the late-nineteenth century. Today, their posters, maps, and advertisements are still highly valued.

Leonardo Da Vinci

A painter, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, scientist, architect, botanist, writer, musician, and anatomist, da Vinci is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists in the history of art.

David Dauncey

The English countryside fills Dauncey's mind because he fills his art with subjects like traditional bowler hats and the simplicity of old-fashioned typewriters.

R. DeRosier

Inspired by the cityscapes and urban culture of his youth, he transforms these elements into cohesive emotion combining collage and colorful applications of paint.

Benjamin Deal

Benjamin Deal has united color and form, portraying a feeling of time within the space of art.

Edgar Degas

Degas preferred subjects such as the theatres, cafes, and dance halls of late-nineteenth-century Paris, as well as scenes of daily life of the working class.

M. Drake

M. Drake approaches Postmodern and Minimalist concepts by using different materials and/or untraditional combinations of different mediums such as charcoal, paint, ink and graphite, allowing him to paint more realistically, yet slightly abstracting the idea.

Deborah DuPont

DuPont takes architectural images and captures their essence through color and light, the beauty of her subjects imbuing the feelings of comfort and strength.

Lisa Fabian

Through her layering of paints and use of mixed media, Lisa Fabian creates striking works of art that first mesmerize and then draw the viewer in.

Bob Franklin

Franklin draws his creative spirit from divine inspiration. His contemporary-style paintings focus on religious and cultural subjects brought to life by colorful pastels and an artful combination of light and shadow.

Katherine Fraser

Fraser paints people experiencing moments of profound self-awareness and growth, when the rest of the world drops away. Her paintings have the visceral quality of memories or dreams, when the image is reduced to the essential, and the mood is what draws your focus, not the specific details.

Joel Ganucheau

Joel Ganucheau's work blends sharp graphics of familiar forms with rich color fields, texture and abstract geometrics. Working with acrylic, and oil pastels, he draws on the urban environment and mixes it with a color palette of clean blues, rich reds and earthy taupes and browns.

Justin Garcia

Justin Garcia's work incorporates mixed media of oils, acrylics and compound texture on canvas and wood--and sometimes unique materials such as Plexiglas, railroad nails and stained glass. Learn more about Justin.

Paul Gauguin

A champion of the cloisonnist style, Paul Gauguin’s strong, constructive brushstrokes embolden his colorful paintings. Gauguin’s synthesis of Western traditions and “exotic” subject matter paved the way for the Fauvists and Expressionists that followed in his wake.

Fatmir Gjevukaj

Fatmir Gjevukaj is passionate about classical art, and draws inspiration from a variety of classical and modern artists as well as comic books, movies and other media. He works with oils, acrylics, mixed media and enamel house paints. 

T. Graham

After several years of production art, T. Graham has found his way back to the traditional mediums.

Danny Grant

Danny Grant is a talented, exciting young artist whose fresh, vibrant paintings reflect a joyous sense of life and a loyalty to the natural beauty of the life that surrounds us.

Juan Gris

Cubist painter and sculptor Juan Gris (1887-1927) had a singular style within the Cubist movement, harmonizing colors rather than using monotones and creating pure, distinct forms, working often in collage.

Laura Gunn

Painting flowers is a wonderful vehicle for experimenting with color, texture, and form. Gunn plays with color and shape to create the composition she desires. Every painting involves experimentation and discovery, and each is an enlivening experience for her. Through her paintings, Laura Gunn hopes to share these experiences with you.

Maeve Harris

Harris is a visual storyteller. Her paintings focus on the integration of tradition subjects with contemporary styles and techniques.

Marirosa Hofmann

Her many visits to Spain coupled with her artistic ambition have cultivated her world-class style in painting and sculpting.

Rose Hohenberger

Hohenberger's art ranges from small to large textural canvasses in oils, focusing on landscapes, still life, interiors, figures, birds, and animals.

Katsushika Hokusai

Early in his career, Hokusai made woodblocks and colored prints of portraits of actors and courtesans. Soon after, he broke away from this style and began developing his talents as an ukiyo-e painter, focusing on Japanese landscapes and genre scenes.

Katherine Houston

Houston has worked with a number of mediums, grounds and styles of painting. She explores abstract and bold scenery as motifs to describe the idea of infinite space. Her abstract paintings usually start with a color idea, and then evolve into compositions in which color is the primary subject.

Bob Hunt

Bob Hunt's abstract paintings are filled with vibrant colors and texture. Bob puts an emphasis on the actual process and physical activity of painting.

Sean Jacobs

Jacobs depicts the Southern California lifestyle -- uninhibited explosion of freedom and spirit - juxtaposing the contradiction of calm through chaotic precision.

H. Jaquiel

Art comes naturally for Jaquiel. She focuses on her love for the natural world, the foundation of her abstract floral series. "I prefer using nature as the starting point. Nature is always the best designer of the abstract," she says.

C. Jasper

Jasper believes the process of abstract painting is much like navigating your way through a foreign city without a map.

R. Jensen

Jensen blends classic impressionism and modern geometrical composition and has developed his own unique sense of composition and texture. He constantly explores different cultures and innovations, traveling to paint on location, experimenting with new art forms including a whole new area of abstracts.

Darvin Jones

Darvin’s art emulates a modern graphic design aesthetic and is reflective of the natural design and chaos found in our everyday world. His work explores cultural iconography, appropriation, ecology and the mass production of culture.

Michael Joseph

In Joseph's work, lines, shapes, and shadows converge, depicting urban images such as Central Park and Wall Street, merging creativity with precision.

Gustav Klimt

Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects; his Golden Phase paintings are considered beacons of the Art Nouveau period.

John Kluesener

Inspired by the great impressionist painters of France, Kluesener uses colors derived from nature, significantly heightened and distorted.

Allyson Krowitz

In her youth, Allyson Krowitz was one of Europe's top runway fashion models. Now she focuses on the beauty of painting, focusing on the mystery and lushness of the tropics.

Andreas Langley

Langley explores the mystery and wonder of ancient crystals in his art. Layers inside the crystals become visible or hidden, changing color when light is reflected from a slightly different angle.

Sienna Lee

A young and talented artist who hails from the South, Sienna Lee's artwork is imbued with a resonant Southern accent.

Ross Lindsay

Lindsay began his painting career by putting acrylics on canvas attached to walls rather than stretching it first. He still does.

Donna Lofton

Salvador Luca

Born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York, Luca explores his rich Latin culture by creating well-balanced color palettes with hints of architectural structures.

Franz Marc

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was one of the most important figures in the German Expressionist movement. He worked with vibrant colors and bold forms, and was heavily influenced by the Cubists and the Futurists.

Janice Porter Marckstein

Janice Porter Marckstein explores a wide range of emotions and attitudes in paintings that reflect life's simplicity and complexity, while celebrating its joy and occasionally lamenting its sorrows.

Olivia Maxweller

A former cake decorator, Olivia Maxweller enjoys the sweet life of a painter and sculptor. In addition to still life and natural studies, she paints bar and music scenes.

Matt Messinger

Messinger's paintings mix serious ideas and icons with lighthearted techniques and imagery, and often are a collaboration with his 6-year-old son, Matthew. Messinger enjoys symbolism and can be inspired by anything from logos, advertisements and animals, something simple as a number, or as subtle as a texture.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo was the quintessential artist of the Italian High Renaissance. He is well known for his stunning frescos and entrancing sculptures.

Amedeo Modigliani

Modigliani (1884-1920) was a contemporary of the Cubists, revealed in the angular and sometimes abstracted features of his many portraits, but he was also heavily influenced by the Post-Impressionist attention to color, texture, and gesture.

Claude Monet

Monet applied the Impressionist movement's philosophy of exploring and expressing one's perceptions before nature, particularly in his well-known landscape paintings.

Alphonse Mucha

Mucha's distinctive Art Nouveau posters and advertisements are notable for their creative use of color palettes, intricate gilding, and lettering.

Edvard Munch

Munch’s evocative and emotionally tumultuous work is often associated with the birth of Symbolism and is seen an antecedent of the development of Expressionism.

Jon Eric Narum

Narum enjoys exploring different colors, shapes, and moods when painting skies. While most of his skyscapes are of Texas, stints in Oklahoma and Kansas have added some Midwestern flavor to his palette, broadening his physical scope, and his repertoire.

Jaime Packard

Packard's artistic vision can be described as sense and sensibility, because she leans toward the unseen beauty of found objects and applied geometry.

Steve Parker

Parker blends memory with observation to create landscapes that evoke remembrances of the past. Like nature itself, his views are constantly changing.

Judy Paul

Known for her spontaneity in developing images, Judy's style of painting incorporates traditional techniques as well as the non-traditional such as incorporating digital photography, vintage papers, and typography into her collage paintings.

Walter Paulson

To Paulson, art has always meant discovery. He paints still life, employing an unexpected use of texture to achieve a lasting impression.

Cecil Peacock

Peacock's outer expression comes from his inner passion - for painting, for art, for life. Beautiful women and beautiful moments created from bursts of brilliance color his imagination and transform blank canvases into resonant depictions of his art.

Brett Pfister

Pfister's background and degree is in Graphic Design, and this expertise shows in his photo treatment and technique in his digital art.

Kaliope Phields

The beauty of her work can be found in subjects like daisies and other flowers. Her art is in full bloom with work in galleries across the United States and Europe.

Gordon Phillipson

Gordon Phillipson's paintings are the result of a strong visual experience, and are a way for him to preserve and personalize the experience.

AA Phoenix

Phoenix continually expands artistic vision, bends traditional beliefs, and explores the unconventional with her commitment to the world of abstraction, by exploring colors and forms and how they interact to create harmony and tension.

Maxine Price

Price uses invention and imagination to creatively delve into abstracts and contemporary painting. Her approach is exploratory, finding unsuspecting allure in subjects like decaying buildings or weathered walls. She also finds beauty in the everyday world, using found objects such as wire, old string, and rusted objects.

Rembrandt

Obsessed with painting from direct observation, Rembrandt’s mastery of light, atmosphere, and texturing is unparalleled. This is particularly evident in his many portraits and self-portraits, as well as his biblical and mythological scenes.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Renoir was drawn to the happenings of everyday life, and was particularly enchanted by portraiture. His use of vibrant colors, careful and complex compositions, and mastery of light have made his paintings instantly recognizable today.

Ernesto Rodriguez

Ernesto demonstrates a real talent for seeking out the places that delight the viewer. His creative method is instinctive, spontaneous; his images a serendipitous result of his wanderings.

Henri Rousseau

Rousseau is most well-known for his exotic jungle scenes, despite the fact that he never left his home country of France. He was heavily influenced by painters such as Cezanne and Gauguin, who were leading the way in the Primitivist movement.

Joel Sampson

Sampson's common theme has been photography (and now digital imaging), and his focus on the urban landscape.

Leslie Saris

Leslie views her diverse collection as a holding place for her thoughts and energy while striving to place abundant strength into the process of creating art so that it will speak to and entice the viewer.

Georges Seurat

Seurat is credited with the pioneering of the pointillist technique of painting, in which the artist applies pure, distinct dots of color to the canvas in order to create an image, rather than painting in broad brushstrokes.

Karen Silve

Silve explores nature and its relation to abstract thought in highly personal expressionist paintings, viewing the creation of art as a meditation on nature and life itself.

Randy Slack

Randy Slack's work explores the development of human identity through the connections with family, place and consumerism.

Roman Solar

Solar's Enchanted World collection features works capturing real or imaginary places in a unique, artistic, dreamy feel with processing to add inner feelings and thoughts--a signature of his work.

Kathy Sosa

Inspired by the people she meets, her portraits carry her own sense of style, color, and stroke, with a duality that is both traditional and modern.

M. St. John

Influenced by world renowned artists such as Picasso, Rauschenberg, Demuth, and Basquiat, St. John lives in the aesthetic, where the rhythm of nature is now his primary influence.

William Stidham

William Stidham refers to his paintings as a "spiritual exercise,” and challenges himself with every painting by destroying them, then bringing them back to life.

Sugarluxe

Sugarluxe is America's Sweet Art. Created by illustrator and designer, Chandra Michaels. With her illustrative iconography and punchy surface patterns, she has created a growing demand for her signature style.

S. Tatara

Tatara illustrates the beauty in the subdued color combinations of a cityscape while capturing the state of flux that our civilization knows so well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh's work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on twentieth-century art.

Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer's work has fascinated scholars with his astonishing technical ability, attention to detail, and his seamless combination of traditional iconography and innovative formal techniques.

Susan Webster

Webster takes the ordinary moments of everyday life and enriches them with a vivid and exquisite use of color. She uses collagraph print, charcoal, pastel, fabric paint, collage and impasto, on both canvas and paper, to capture her particular artistic insights.

Peggy Weiss

Inspired by the ordinary passages of 20th century life and the photographs upon which they were recorded, Weiss transforms her digitally rendered images into whimsical leaps of the imagination.

Karen Wilkerson

For inspiration, Wilkerson takes painting trips to Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, and Mexico, which give her work a sense of place, and a sense of style.

Christine Wilkinson

Christine Wilkinson's digital abstract collection evokes a psychedelic feel through its shapes and colors. Christine started hand drawing these shapes back in school in the 1960′s, foreshadowing what she would be doing later in life.

Shirley Williams

Shirley Williams works in multiple layers of acrylic paint over time. Color is poured, dripped, spread, and scraped in thin veils to achieve visual depth and tactile surface. Learn more about Shirley.

Haynes Worth

Eskimos, ice, and art. Growing up in Alaska, Worth was drawn to painting to escape the bitter cold. Today, he still lives in Alaska, but his paintings are heating up the art world, with imaginative use of color, light, and a passion that burns bright.

Barbara Zoern

Zoern has an informal approach to artistic expression that shows her broad range of interpretation, using abstract and architectural techniques.