Eugene J. Martin
Eugene James Martin (Washington, D.C.,
July 24, 1938 – Lafayette, Louisiana, January 1, 2005) was an
African-American visual artist.
Eugene J. Martin's art is best known
for his imaginative, complex mixed media collages on paper, his often
gently humorous pencil and pen and ink drawings, and his paintings on
paper and canvas that may incorporate whimsical allusions to animal,
machine and structural imagery among areas of "pure",
constructed, biomorphic, or disciplined lyrical abstraction. Martin
called many of his works straddling both abstraction and
representation "satirical abstracts".Wikipedia
Kenneth Price
Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 –
February 24, 2012) was an American ceramic artist and printmaker. He
studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now
Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before receiving his
BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956. He
continued his studies at Chouinard Art Institute in 1957 and received
an MFA degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University in 1959. Kenneth Price studied ceramics with Peter Voulkos
at Otis and was awarded a Tamarind Fellowship.
He is best known for his abstract
shapes constructed from fired clay. Typically, they are not glazed,
but intricately painted with multiple layers of bright acrylic paint
and then sanded down to reveal the colors beneath. Ken Price lived
and worked in Venice, California and Taos, New Mexico.Wikipedia
Julius
Hatofsky
According to the celebrated New York
art critic Hilton Kramer:
’’The American artist Julius
Hatofsky, (1922–2006) was one of the most accomplished painters of
his generation…he remained an independent spirit whose art
resembled that of no other living artist. The greatest influence on
the work of his maturity was that of the Old Masters—among them
Tintoretto, Turner, Blake, Goya, Ryder and Delacroix.
Jess Collins
Jess Collins (August 6, 1923 –
January 2, 2004), simply known today as Jess, was an American
visual artist.
Many of Jess's paintings and collages
have themes drawn from chemistry, alchemy, the occult, and male
beauty, including a series called Translations (1959–1976) which is
done with heavily laid-on paint in a paint-by-number style. In 1975,
the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art displayed six of the
"Translations" paintings in their MATRIX 2 exhibition.
Collins also created elaborate collages using old book illustrations
and comic strips (particularly, the strip Dick Tracy, which he used
to make his own strip Tricky Cad). Jess's final work, Narkissos, is a
complex rendered 6'x5' drawing owned by the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art.Wikipedia
Alice Baber
Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 –
October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who
worked in oil and watercolor. She was educated in the United States
and in the 1950s and 1960s she studied and lived in Paris. She has
also traveled around the world. Baber, an active feminist, organized
exhibits of women artists' work.
Baber began her career working
primarily in oils, but began experimenting with watercolor paints in
the 1950s. Her experimentation with watercolor initiated a shift in
style for Baber as she went from painting still lifes to creating
more abstracted works. Her abstract works focus on color and form
with shapes such as the circle being a common motif. Baber was well
known for her use of light and color holding several exhibitions
devoted to these themes.Wikipedia
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