Contemporary master artist Diego Salado was born in the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He studied drawing at the School of Art in Jerez and in 1987, moved to Madrid where he established his studio until moving to New York in 1994. Diego’s work explores the amorphous concept of form, blending sharp focus…
Gary Ampel is a wildlife painter and has been creating artwork for over 40 years. Born in New York City, he spent his summers in the Catskills where he encountered the richness of nature and the allure of wildlife. Gary went on the study art in the New York area. Gary captures on canvas the majesty…
Linda Andrei began her interest in art at an early age growing up in NYC. She visited museums as a child and had an opportunity to paint at The Brooklyn Museum as an adolescent where she participated in a life drawing and painting class with adults. Her career in art was delayed as she pursued…
Carrie-Ann Bracco received her B.A. from Columbia University, an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management, also from Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Carrie’s work has been included in exhibits at the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Arts Club,…
Jamin Cooke is a retired Air Force veteran born in Illinois and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Until recently he was a self-taught artist, working digitally and in graphite during his free time while stationed abroad. After retirement he studied under Jesse Stern, Evan Kitson and Manu Saluja at the New York Academy of…
Oil paint is Julia Chen’s favorite and main medium for her artworks. Growing up in Taiwan, Julia was influenced by Chinese ink painting, an art form that emphasizes immediacy and mark making. She studied Chinese calligraphy with Dr. Leon Long-Yien Chang in New York for seven years. Using Chinese ink taught her how to appreciate…
“My work is always in some way autobiographical. My landscapes explore my relationship to place and time. Some of the places I’ve recorded are ingrained in me, places I’ve gone to since I was a child. So, if I return to a place and it has drastically changed, I feel alarmed, violated. Maybe this is…
Gianna Putrino received her BFA from the State University of New York at Oswego in 2014 and her Masters in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in 2017. She has exhibited her work in group shows and solo exhibitions throughout the Southern Tier of New York as well as New York City.…
Annie Wildey received a Bachelor of fine art from Kingston School of Art in the UK. After graduating, she moved to the USA and was a long-time resident of New York city where she worked for many years at the British Consulate-General. Deciding on a career shift, she studied for an MFA at the New…
Liza Sokolovskaya is a Brooklyn based painter and printmaker. She was born on a hot summer day in Tashkent only to end up in cold and snowy Montreal almost a decade later. Nowadays you can find her in her shared studio in Sunset Park, making a mess while her studio mate isn’t looking. She received…