Oliver Gagliani  (1917 — 2002) was a master of large format photography. His darkroom work and proficiency of the Zone System great skill and technique. In 1945, Gagliani viewed a retrospective of the work of Paul Strand at the San Francisco Museum of Art. From this point on, Gagliani saw photography as a fine art and began his journey of being mostly a self-taught photographer. Gagliani studied under and worked with some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century including, Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Minor White, Paul Caponigro, Cole Weston and Paul Strand. In his later years he conducted photographic workshops in Virginia City, Nevada.

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 GRINDING MILLET: 500mmx600mm. Oil on canvas

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Julian Boss-Goslawski was a visual artist, Julian Boss-Goslawski was born in 1926 and died in 2012. Artists born in the same year and of the same generation are Alan Reynolds, Henri Autran, George P. Arnold, James Burr, and Estate Of Nancy Spero.Julian Boss-Goslawski was primarily influenced by the 1950s growing up.

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“My paintings always begin with free improvisation. Then I become fascinated with how I can explore my first creative impulse and develop imagery, through the paint itself, associating shapes and experiences to enrich my work. I am not able to sketch out a painting in advance or to determine where I am headed… .I begin with an unself-conscious approach, a subconscious, non-rational approach culpainting. But later, I feel that I use all of my knowledge, instinct, and technique to make the painting work, delineating the latent forms and images that I both feel and see.”— Charles Seliger

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William M. Halsey (1915–1999) was an influential abstract artist in the American Southeast, particularly in his home state of South Carolina «A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Melton Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of Charleston’s early twentieth-century artistic renaissance, Halsey’s first art lessons were with one of that movement’s leaders, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There, he studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the institution’s highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change of plans. The couple set sail for Mexico instead, an experience that ignited a lifelong passion for travel. In Mexico City, Halsey absorbed the culture, color, and texture of the country. “

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Kengiro Azuma (1926 — 2016 ) was a  Japanese Italian sculptor, painter, and teacher. Azuma was born March  12, 1926 in Yamagata, Japan to a family of bronze artisans.When he was  17, Azuma joined the Imperial Japanese Navy as a Kamikaze pilot, but the  war ended before the time came for him to sacrifice himself. World War  II and the discovery of the emperor's humanity had a great impact on the  Japanese people. For Azuma personally, it created a spiritual void that  pushed him towards art.

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William Scharf (1927-2018 ) is a painter whose subject is color. Scharf, a late-generation Abstract Expressionist and who apprenticed in the studio of Mark Rothko, applies paint in translucent layers to achieve depth and luminosity. He creates groups of paintings around the theme of a single color, working in a variety of scales and using shapes both geometric and biomorphic.

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Geoffrey Hendricks (1931 — 2018) was an American artist associated with Fluxus since the mid 1960s. He was professor emeritus of art at Rutgers University, where he taught from 1956 to 2003 and was associated with Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, and Lucas Samaras during the 1960s.

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Fernand Toupin (1930-2009) In 1959, Toupin’s art engages in a new direction. Always interested by abstraction, the artist explores texture with a more abundant material on the canvas, where the pigments are mixed with marble dust. Toupin expresses his surrounding environment: Québec’s landscapes. “I like to feel the simmering of things as they are made. The uprising of the waves. The freshness of the snow. The ubiquity of the minerals.” In 1992, Fernand Toupin creates  a series of small canvas, which will materialize this idea. The Écorces sous la neige (bark under the snow), are miniature artworks made of marble dust in which the artist has inserted small pieces of bark and other natural materials onto the canvas. These elements thus become small treasures carefully buried under the snow. Then, in 1993, he goes back to geometrical abstraction.

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Portrait — oil on canvas 70cm x 50cm — September 2020

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