Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles) is an American artist best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Wiley’s work brings art history face-to-face with contemporary culture, using the visual rhetoric of the heroic, the powerful, the majestic and the sublime to celebrate Black and […]
Having formally studied literature and painting, Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and installations since 1981. Her work draws on both historic and contemporary concepts of picturing the natural and constructed world, as well as being an investigation of studio practice itself. And increasingly, it has developed in relation to the sites where […]
Federico Herrero’s intensely visual language is rooted in his observations of everyday life in Costa Rica’s ever evolving landscape, especially the way nature and culture collide. In his paintings on canvas, immersive installations, and public works, brightly hued organic shapes jostle against each other as they inhabit and negotiate space. There are dissonances and harmonies, […]
Using a refined painterly technique inspired by the Hudson River School and traditional figure painting, Will Cotton paints surrealistic foodscapes and demure female nudes wearing lollipop crowns, lounging in cotton candy, or adorned with cupcake foils. Cotton paints from life, constructing elaborate models using real baked goods and other confectionery, from which he derives the […]
Charles Burwell received his BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia, PA) in 1977, and his MFA from Yale University School of Art (New Haven, CT) in 1979. He has participated in many exhibitions, including solo shows at Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington, DE), Dartmouth […]
Growing up in Atlanta, he frequented the High Museum of Art, where his mother, a schoolteacher, introduced him to artists like James Van Der Zee and Jacob Lawrence. She encouraged his interest in art, giving him pencils and paper for drawing. As an undergraduate student, he found himself pulled toward large, outdoor sculptures and worked […]
Angela Warren is an artist based in Gulfport, Florida, whose life and work have been shaped by time spent in Maine, the Caribbean, and the Gulf Coast. She holds a BFA from Drake University and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has exhibited her paintings in venues including Bridgette Mayer Gallery in […]
Ellen Soffer is a contemporary abstract painter. She creates paintings on canvas and paper, using mainly oils, but also gouache, acrylic, and watercolor. Currently in the studio, Soffer is focused on a range of large and small paintings where color and movement are emphasized. In addition to twenty solo exhibitions in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Texas, and […]
Artist Erin McIntosh makes colorful, improvisational paintings merging biomorphic abstraction, collage, and rhythmic movement. Working primarily in water-based media, McIntosh creates dynamic compositions inspired by microscopic forms, gardens, architecture, music, and dance. Working through an intuitive process, lyrical gestures and anthropomorphic shapes emerge, resulting in works that feel animated, musical, and emotionally resonant. Working for […]
Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based painter whose work engages the landscape through an exploration of light, atmosphere, and spatial perception. Influenced by the graphic stylization and compositional structure of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, her paintings translate natural environments into distilled, immersive visual experiences. Kishita’s work is held in private and corporate collections including Toyota, Capital One, […]
