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Author: cparker

  • The Indianapolis Museum of Art

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    I’ve never been to Indiana, let alone to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, so this is not a first person account. It is rather the happy result of one of my art browsing habits, using the Museum Listing feature of the Athenaeum online art resource to browse a skimming of various museums’ collections (see my…

  • Sally Strand

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    Sally Strand’s bright, energetic pastels and lively oil paintings treat her subjects not so much as objects as vehicles for the play light as expressed through texture. In her pastels in particular, textures made up of a variety of colors reveal patterns of value contrast as light splashes across her still life arrangements and quiet…

  • Sean Andrew Murray

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    Sean Andrew Murray, AKA “Muttonhead”, is a concept artist and illustrator currently working with Big Huge Games/38 Studios. He has previously worked with Turbine on “Dungeons and Dragons Online” and “Lord of the Rings Online”, as well as clients like Privateer Press and Wizards of the Coast. Murray often likes to work in an ink…

  • Hans Versfelt

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    Hans Versfelt is a painter in the Netherlands who paints from life, either plein air or on-location interiors. His paintings have that kind of clear immediacy, tactile brushwork and fresh color that is often associated with the practice of painting on location. Versfrelt portrays the landscape, canals, boats, farmland, towns, bridges and even windmills of…

  • Iassen Ghiuselev

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    It’s unfortunate that, in spite of the cross cultural potential of the internet, the exposure to American audiences of illustrators, comics artists and gallery artists from other continents is still limited. I’m certain that if the work of Bulgarian illustrator Iassen Ghiuselev received more exposure here in the U.S., he would be quite popular, or…

  • Punch & Judy (Scott McKowen & Christina Poddubiuk)

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    When I first featured the work of Scott McKowen back in 2007, I couldn’t find a web presence or much information about him or his wonderful scratchboard illustrations. Since then he has established a joint website with Christina Poddubiuk, highlighting McKowen’s abilities as an illustrator, art director and graphic designer and Poddubiuk’s skills as a…