Up & Coming
American Art Collector|April 2019

Emerging artist” takes on a different meaning when an artist begins a paint- “Emerging career after a long and distinguished career in another field.

John O’Hern
Up & Coming

Frances Roosevelt received her Master of Architecture degree at Yale in 1981. She worked for Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown and eventually headed her own firm from 1996 to 2006 when she turned to painting full time. She says, “After many years of practicing the precise business of architecture, I am happy to be painting the landscapes of South Carolina Lowcountry, and the fields of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where I currently spend most of my time. I like to paint from memory, in a mostly abstract style, with a 3-inch brush. My paintings are informed by my interest in psychology and the evolution of consciousness.”

Blue Creek emerges from the fading fields, reflecting the sky, the quick, energetic brushstrokes expressing a passion that had to be more controlled in her previous career.

Alex Venezia is essentially a self-taught artist turned on to “the transcendent power of art” in a high school art class in which he was introduced to the chiaroscuro techniques of Caravaggio. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he copied the masters at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk and studied with Odd Nerdrum, Colleen Barry, Daniel Sprick, Michael Klein and Jeff Hein, taking home first prize for still life in a competition at the Grand Central Atelier in 2017. Already a master of light, shadow and color, his Self Portrait at Age 23 exudes sober self-confidence.

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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.

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A City Perspective
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A City Perspective

Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.

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Living Legacy
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Living Legacy

The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.

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Elegant yet Approachable
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Elegant yet Approachable

The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.

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Figuratively Speaking
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Figuratively Speaking

New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.

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JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
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JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play

Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.

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GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
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GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food

Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.

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Island Light
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Island Light

The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.

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Solitary Forms
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Solitary Forms

Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.

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Living the Dream
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Living the Dream

Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.

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