Category Archives: Visual Artists

James Franco

James Franco is an actor, writer, director, visual artist…the list goes on. Most well known for his on-screen work, Franco has appeared in a number of major Hollywood films, including the Spider-Man trilogy, Pineapple Express, Eat Pray Love, Milk, for … Continue reading

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Woody Jackson

Woody Jackson is an immensely popular American painter, best known for his “cowmania” — paintings of cows in farm landscapes. You may be familiar with his cows from the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream carton and T-shirt images, which he … Continue reading

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Ellen Altfest

Ellen Altfest is a realist painter, New York born and bred. Her disarmingly scrupulous paintings, whether of plants or male nudes, stand out for their technical achievement, yes, but also for the artist’s ability to render precision with a strong … Continue reading

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Tim Davis

Tim Davis is one of the most exciting and prolific contemporary American photographers. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Recent solo shows include “The New Antiquity,” at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New … Continue reading

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David Humphrey

David Humphrey is a painter and sculptor living and working in New York. He is currently represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co., and, prior to that, showed with the McKee Gallery for nearly two decades. Humphrey’s paintings are in several … Continue reading

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Tom Sanford

Tom Sanford is a painter based in New York whose work has been exhibited far and wide, from Los Angeles to Paris to Tokyo to Bergen. Sanford’s work is not quiet. It is loud— in color, subject matter, and the … Continue reading

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Douglas Bourgeois

Douglas Bourgeois is a Louisiana-born artist who lives about sixty miles upriver from New Orleans. He has been painting and exhibiting his work for thirty-nine years. In 2003, a survey exhibit of his work was organized by the Contemporary Arts … Continue reading

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Karyn Olivier

Karyn Olivier is a visual artist born in Trinidad and Tobago who grew up, and still lives, in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including the Gwangju and Busan Biennials (Korea), … Continue reading

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Will Cotton

Will Cotton is a painter living and working in New York City whose work has been exhibited far and wide in the United States and Europe. He earned his B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1987 and has studied at the … Continue reading

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Thomas Roma

Thomas Roma is an American photographer born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., who has spent several decades exploring the passage of life as lived in his home stomping grounds with a camera he built himself. Roma has published eleven books … Continue reading

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