Esao Andrews: Illustration meets Painting

Esao Andrews

Esao Andrews received a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. 

Prior to to being a painter, he work as an Illustrator and flash animator.

His paintings are imaginative with a dark melancholy emotion. they are somewhere between a dream and a nightmare in high definition.

Wendy Wagner: Bright Colors and Youth Innocence

 Wendy Wagner

Artist Statement

I embrace youthful innocence through complex and accomplished artistic methods, both hand-made and high-tech. This has become my distinctive make-believe world that I express in painting, drawing, ceramic, soft sculpture and animation.
There are many things going on in my “world” that I play out intuitively on the canvas with a variety of mediums (pencil, colored pencil, tinted gesso, acrylic paint, oil paint). Working in series, I have themes inspired by my childhood, pets, family, and fantasy. I take these images and transform them into an intimate and surreal vocabulary infused with personal nostalgia and dreaminess.
My current body of work shows the emergence of a bubble shape frame, like a “pow” in a cartoon panel. This shape represents a portal or vignette for portraits, other dimensions, or childhood memories. With a crisp, decorative edge, it brings homage to my graphic design background and interest in children’s cartoons. I am referencing endearing and funny moments from family photographs. These works are about exploring our individual personalities. I show this through a balance of unflinching realism, abstraction, and humor.
This year I have expanded my vocabulary to installation. Making my own patterns and sewing soft sculpture interpretations of elements in my paintings, ceramics and animations creating an entire “wendy world” . 

Eric White: Realism and Bending our Sense of Perception

Eric White

Eric White received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

He finds inspiration in metaphysics and iconic pop culture of years past. He uses a combination of mixed    source materials in a photoshop-esque format and translates them with a technicaly refined painting.

His paintings force the viewer to question what They are looking at. After the initial thoughts one tries to relate it to similarities and compares it to its likeness of reality.

  

Dan Witz: Realistic Painter

Dan Witz

Dan Witz Went to Cooper Union in New York. (One of the oldest institutions for higher learning.)

His paintings deal with the identity of human beings in modern societies. He become well known during the Street Art Movement. 

Kent Williams: Figurative, Neo-Expressionistic, Bold Realism with Abstraction

Kent Williams

Kent Williams graduated from Pratt Institute in New York.

He has built up a formidable reputation as a powerful contemporary figurative painter. His is a bold realism with combined attributes of abstraction and neo-expressionistic sensibilities. His work is characterized by strong gestural forms combined with areas of arresting detail, rendered with rich dynamic brushwork.

Williams’ approach to his subjects is often subjective and intense. Whether through multi-figured compositional complexity and suggestive narrative, or with the straight-forward lone human form, there is often autobiographical narrative at play. Favorite models, friends, and the artist himself all play a role in the human story of his paintings.

Kris Lewis: Surrealism and Portraiture

Kris Lewis studied at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is influenced by Alfonse Bougereau, Andrew Wyeth, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Gustav Klimt, Antonio Mancini, and Jules-Bastien LePage. 


Reverence for masters of old is apparent in his depiction of the human figure, which he uses for hidden stories, delicate emotion, and universal truth.