Ryszard (Richard) Warsinski was born in 1937 in Gdynia (Poland) and died in Oslo in 1996. Among painters and black-and-white artists living and working in post-war Norway he was one of the most original, having great influence on younger, contemporary colleagues, such as Kjell Erik Killi Olsen, Bjørn Carlsen and Knut Rose.
Olga Albizu Rosaly (1924–2005) was an abstract expressionist painter from Ponce, Puerto Rico.Albizu was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where she studied painting with the Spanish painter Esteban Vicente from 1943 to 1947. She received a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico in 1946. She moved to New York City on a fellowship for post-graduate work at the Art Students League in 1948. After that, she did further studies in Europe at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Later, she spent a year painting in the Provence as painters such as Van Gogh and Cézanne had done before her. In 1953 she returned to New York.Her works have been used in the artwork of various record covers, including a number of albums by Stan Getz
«Terry Adkins, who passed away unexpectedly in 2014, left behind a multidisciplinary body of work that is hard to grasp in his absence. ‘My quest has been to find a way to make music as physical as sculpture might be,’ he said of his practice, ‘and sculpture as ethereal as music is’, which speaks to his work’s evanescence and its strong sense of ‘live-ness’. To fully appreciate Adkins, the artist should be present and, in death, he is not. Curated by the artist’s longtime friend and collaborator, Charles Gaines, ‘The Smooth, the Cut and the Assembled’ is an attempt to sample from Adkins’s sculptural side, and to develop a new life for the work now that he has entered the ‘spirit world’ which animated his approach to art.A native of Washington, D.C., Adkins studied and worked in printmaking, free jazz, found-object sculpture, installation and live-score performances – the latter often called ‘recitals’ – each of which obliquely meditated on prominent figures from African American history, including abolitionist John Brown, botanist George Washington Carver, Arctic explorer Matthew Henson and blues singer Bessie Smith. The recitals involved a rotating group of collaborators that Adkins dubbed the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, which New York’s Museum of Modern Art honoured this past autumn with an exhibition. At Lévy Gorvy, this crucial aspect of Adkins’s work is relegated to a small monitor with headphones showing a portion of Firmament, a 2005 performance at the Bronx River Art Center during the exhibition ‘Black Beethoven: Recital in Nine Dominions’.Entering Lévy Gorvy’s two-floor gallery, one is immediately confronted with music-oriented sculptures: Native Son (Circus) (2006/15), a circular mound of cymbals, slightly elevated from the floor, with hidden servomechanisms that very infrequently strike the cymbals from below, and Horus (1986), a found kick-drum head with a ghostly trace of its mallet dividing the white space, resembling a pressed flower.»
Olga Blinder (1921, Asunción, Paraguay – 19 July 2008) was a Paraguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.Blinder was born in Asunción into a Jewish family.She lived through the Chaco War, World War II, the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War and Paraguay's coup d'états in 1954 and 1989.Blinder was also a licensed professor who has taught arts and creative education for over 30 years. She has also published numerous books and articles on education and art.She began displaying her work in Paraguay in 1950 and began exhibiting abroad in 1953. In 1954 she helped co-found the Grupo Arte Nuevo in Asunción.She is the former director of the Escolinha de Arte of Paraguay in the Brazilian Cultural Mission and of the Instituto de Arte (ISA) of the National University of Asunción. She was also an advisor to the Ministry of Education for the development of textbooks.She has been recognized by the League of Women's Rights, decorated by the Brazilian government, and received the Integración Latinoamericana award from the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina
STUDIO20171216" watercolor cm.10x14,7
— made as a copy of the «Jeanne Hebuterne with big hat»
by Amedeo Modigliani
(original oil cm.55x38)
«STUDIO20180304» watercolor
cm.25,0x35,0 350g/m2
— made as a copy of the
«Red Nude» by Amedeo Modigliani
STUDIO20180520:
wooden tablet cm. 24,8x44,5x0,3.
STUDIO20180212-01"
charcoal, sienna pencil in A4 sheet
STUDIO20180212-02"
charcoal,sanguine, sienna pencil in A4 sheet
STRANGE LOOP" B2 pancil on A3 sheet
— by a work of Escher
Romul Nutiu (July 28, 1932 – April 5, 2012)was one of the most constant artists dedicated to Abstraction from the Romanian art scene. Even though he had not left the country to work abroad along his life, his international career has tremendously risen since 2008, when he started a fruitful collaboration with Dr. Joana Grevers, art dealer and historian based in Munich, Germany.His career evolved from the early sixties, when he was a young artist, eager to experience new ways of relating to painting and continued fluently until his death in 2012
«Robert Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and ceramicist who is considered as the father of Funk Art, the anti-establishment movement that incorporated a mélange of found objects, autobiographical subjects, and humor. He was born on September 4, 1930 in Benicia, CA and studied at California College of the Arts after working as a cartoonist for a local newspaper. In 1962, he was appointed professor of ceramics at UC Davis where he worked for nearly three decades, establishing the ceramic sculpture program and thereby helping bring the previously maligned medium into the realm of fine art. He is perhaps best remembered for his Eggheads series, the bizarre sculptures of faces he installed around the UC Davis campus. He died on November 2, 1992 in Benicia, CA from liver cancer, and his works can be found in major institutions around the world including including the Chicago Art Institute, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C»
Margery Edwards (1933–1989) was an Australian Abstract Expressionist artist working in mixed media.In 1985, Edwards' black paint began to merge into deep colors: ochres, earthy reds and deep blues. These paintings, writes curator Jeanne Wilkinson, «portrayed darkness as a universal constant; not empty but filled with some mysterious presence; an origin, not a lack of light».
David Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953, and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith.Smith pioneered sculpture in metal and Hayes also made his sculpture using metal, formed in graceful curves, shapes abstracted from sketches of objects and ideas.He received a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a recipient of the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. During his life, he had 300 exhibitions and his work is included in 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.In 2007, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College.Hayes resided in Coventry, Connecticut since 1958, where he had 57 acres of land to exhibit his works. He died of leukemia at his home there on April 9, 2013
