Don Voisine is a contemporary abstract painter from the United States. Don Voisine was born in Fort Kent, Maine in the year 1952.
The artist attended the Portland School of Art located in Portland, Maine.
Voisine often paints on styrofoam or wood panel. He enjoys working with the color black.
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The artist has shown his work at the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City.
In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view a recent exhibition of work by Don Voisine:
Voisine usually paints with oils.
Works by Don Voisine can be found in the permanent collections of the Missoula Museum of Art in Montana, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Voisine reminds of painter Ellsworth Kelly. Both artists created great works using a minimal amount of shapes.
Isaac Abrams is a contemporary painter. Isaac Abrams was born in New York City in the year 1939. Abrams is often called the father of psychedelic art.
Abrams is a self-taught painter.
During his honeymoon the artist actually saw the Berlin Wall being built. He also tried psychedelics for the first time.
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In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view an exhibition featuring Isaac Abrams:
The artist works in acrylics and oils.
Abrams has shown his work at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
I enjoy many aspects of the artist’s style. He has a wonderful sense of composition. In each section of his large works some kind of action is taking place. With so many different actions taking place at one time it reminds me of the great painter Hieronymus Bosch from the Netherlands.
Matthew Wong was a contemporary painter renown for his landscapes. Matthew Wong was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the year 1984.
His family moved to Hong Kong when he was 7. The family would return to Canada during his teenage years.
Wong earned a degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He went on to earn a master’s degree in photography from the City University of Hong Kong.
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Below we catch up with the great James Kalm to view an exhibition featuring the work of Matthew Wong:
Matthew Wong committed suicide in 2019. He was 35 years old.
Matthew Wong might have been a great and productive artist had he completed more years on this earth. Having only started painting landscapes in 2014, he was an adept and eager student always pushing himself in his work.
His modernist line work reminds me of contemporary painter David Hockney. My favorite works by Wong are his night scenes.
Jonathan Chapline is a contemporary painter and sculptor from the United States who emphasizes color in his work. Jonathan Chapline was born in Savannah, Georgia in the year 1987. He often creates work dealing with living rooms and interiors.
Chapline earned a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design located in Providence.
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In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view an exhibition featuring the work of Jonathan Chapline. The artist’s work appears at the 16:00 part of the clip:
The artist creates paintings and sculptures. The sculptures are often composed of acrylics and flashe paint on board. He works with both oils and acrylics.
Below a brief interview with Jonathan Chapline from 2018:
Chapline is now based out of Brooklyn, New York.
Jonathan Chapline has developed a fun style of painting and sculpture. I enjoy the way the artist creates solid dimensional shapes.
Hilary Pecis is a contemporary painter from the U.S.A. renown for her pictures of flowers and landscapes. Hilary Pecis was born in Fullerton, California in the year 1979.
Pecis earned a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts based out of San Francisco.
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The artist is based out of Los Angeles, California.
Below we catch up with our fellow art admirer James Kalm to view a group exhibition featuring Hilary Pecis. Her work is shown at the 17:08 part of the clip:
Hilary Pecis is a wonderful painter of the landscape and interiors. She does a great job of using a lot of color, but it never seems too much. Her work reminds of painters David Hockney and Jonas Wood. All three have similar composition styles.
Lesley Vance is a contemporary abstract painter. Leslie Vance was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the year 1977.
Vance earned a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts located in Valencia.
Price range information: The artist works in oils and watercolor. Prices range $10,000 to the low six figures.
Vance enjoys working wet on wet and paints her abstract works with no preset idea of how they will look when the painting is completed.
Vance enjoys working with color.
Below we visit a group exhibition featuring Lesley Vance with the legendary James Kalm. Vance’s work is shown at the 7:05 mark. The show’s roster of painters was made up entirely of female painters:
The artist is based out of Los Angeles, California.
Lesley Vance is a fantastic example of a contemporary abstract painter. Her work has a great fluidity of movement across the canvas. Vance does a great job at creating intriguing visual patterns for the viewer.
Keith Haring was one of the pioneers of the graffiti movement in New York City. Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in the year 1958.
Haring attended the Ivy School of Art located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also studied at the School of Visual Arts located in New York City.
Haring created simplified cartoon images to address contemporary social concerns. He enjoyed art from a young age and drew inspiration from Walt Disney and the Looney Tunes art studios.
In 1984 Haring traveled to Australia and completed a commission from the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. This made Haring a permanent fixture on the international art scene.
Haring even opened a pop up shop where guests could purchase apparel that had images by Haring on it. The artist was successful as a commercial artist working with internationally renown brands such as the key sponsor for the Jack Benny Program, Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Haring completed many public commissions over his career.
Price range information: Works can range from a marker drawing of $5,000 to an original work easily passing the $1 million dollar mark.
Below we catch up with our fellow art admirer James Kalm to view a recent exhibition by Keith Haring:
Keith Haring passed away in 1990. He was 32 years of age. In 1989 he created the Keith Haring Foundation that provided funding to children’s causes and AIDS activism.
Below an image of the artist Keith Haring.
Works by the artist can be found in collections around the world including the Whitney Art Museum in New York City and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Keith Haring was a wonderful pioneer for the street art movement. The artist was just as creative as Andy Warhol when it came to making money from art. His pop shop was far ahead of his time!
Yesterday I saw an altarpiece by Haring that he designed in the last year of his life. The large sculpture work had a wonderful exuberance that is often found in the artwork of children.
Yevgeniya Baras is a contemporary visual artist. Baras attended the Slade School of Art in London, England. Baras finished her bachelor degrees in fine arts and psychology. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view an exhibition featuring the work of the artist:
Baras thinks of her work as a painting in relief form.
The artist has found inspiration from other artists including Elizabeth Murray and Florine Stettheimer.
In 2019 the artist was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The previous year Baras was the recipient of a grant from the Pollack Krasner Foundation.
The artist often works with oils on wood. Her works also include found materials, inherited items, and typical art store supplies.
Yevgeniya Baras has a fantastic style, paintings that have dimensions. The artist does a great job creating unique and varied surface textures. Baras also does a great job at varying organic and geometric shapes.
The work of Baras shows an artist who has developed a unique style of expression, and has mastered it!
Sebastian Black is a contemporary abstract painter. Sebastian Black was born in New York City in the year 1985.
Black attended Vassar College located in Poughkeepsie, Pennsylvania where he earned a B.F.A. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from Columbia University located in New York City.
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Black has worked with acrylics, oil stick, watercolor, and oils.
In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to visit a show featuring the artist:
The artist is based out of New York City.
Sebastian Black has developed a very interesting style of abstraction. In many works by the artist the viewer can see an abstracted figure. Black creates a great blend of geometric and organic shapes, his work has an excellent fluidity of motion.
Hilma Af Klint was a Swedish artist and one of the first people to paint in an abstract style. The artist enjoyed thinking and painting the spiritual world.