Claire Kelly

Topocentric

2017

Michael Dickey Untiled, 2021 Fired And Glazed Ceramic 20h x 14w x 14d in

Simon Waranch (b. 1999) is an artist at the vanguard of fine art glass sculpture. Blending a mastery of classical techniques with imaginative formal experimentation, Waranch’s work ...

Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, Slonem’s work has been showcased internationally hundreds of times, most recently at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2017 and 2018, he was featured by the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Gallery in Bulgaria, and in countless galleries across the United States and around the world. His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations has been a staple of his life since childhood. Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, and his father’s position as a Navy officer meant the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. He would continue to seek out travel opportunities throughout his young-adult years, studying abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences imbued him with an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style. After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years. Hunt Slonem tends to embrace the ephemeral beauty of nature, a characteristic that brings a nurturing, spiritual effect to his creations. Throughout his extensive career as a New York artist, Slonem has favored the subject of exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. Lately, his compositions have consisted of flat spaces with simple forms pushed to the front of the picture plane. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement such as Ernst Ludwig and Emil Nolde. Henry Geldzahler, a scholar of Hunt Slonem, notes that of contemporary artists, “he particularly admires the work of Malcolm Morely...

Thalen & Thalen (1954 and 1982, respectively) Another Twisted (2013) 16 ounces of fine silver (999/000) 6.25 x 8.25 x 7.5 in (16 x 20.8 x 19.1 cm) === The design and craftsman...

Sunset, 2023

JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...

Stoneware clay and terra sigillata

Inspired by everyday life, his travels, current events and people he meets, Grégoire creates poignant abstract and figurative sculptures and paintings. In 2018 at the Dubai Global Art Awards, Grégoire Devin won the Best Global Artist Award, presented to him by His Highness Sheikh Saeed Bin Tahnoun Bin Mohammed Al Nahyan. In Monaco, Prince Albert II received his sculpture “United We Stand” for the Prince’s 60th birthday. Luc Belaire, the world’s fastest growing French sparkling wine brand and the best-selling French Rosé in the U.S., directly commissioned him for high-profile collaborations, creating two limited edition Art Series bottles that are distributed worldwide. Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, American rapper and record executive Rick Ross, and legendary Guns ‘n Roses bassist Duff McKagan are just a few of the iconic names with Grégoire Devin’s art on display in their homes among other renowned collectors. Grégoire Devin has also devoted time and work for several charity projects including the Iconic Haus showhouse in Paradise Valley...

Recycled textiles, thread, batting, glazed ceramic, metal table, spray paint 34 x 22 x 18 inches Artist Statement I hand-sew compound sculptural forms that are constructed from clot...

Hung Yi was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1970. The artist’s works are inspired by Taiwanese culture or day-to-day life in Taiwan. In the 1990s, it was popula...