LONDON — Less than a month after his 67th birthday, the British advertising magnate and gallery owner Charles Saatchi announced on Thursday that when he retires he intends to give the nation his art gallery here — a 70,000-square-foot space in Chelsea — along with artworks valued at more than $37.5 million. But [...]
The Carrie Secrist Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Tehom, a solo show by Italian artist Angelo Musco. Two years in production, the show includes Musco's photo installation Hadal, which was shown in the 53rd Venice Biennale last summer.The title piece, Tehom, an underwater world populated with tens of thousands of [...]
These incredible 3D sculptures were created by artist Daniel Crossland. Daniel was born in 1978 in the steel city of Sheffield, England and studied at the Scotland Street Art School where impressionistic, realistic and abstract painting and drawing were taught. He further studied in graphic design and multimedia including 3D and after graduating he worked [...]
A Caravaggio painting considered to be the most valuable work of art in Ukraine was recovered in Germany, two years after it was stolen from a museum in Odessa, Reuters reported. The painting, below, called “The Taking of Christ” or “The Kiss of Judas,” was made by Caravaggio in the early 17th century, [...]
Eran Webber is a figurative artist born in Israel in 1980, and currently living in Florence, Italy. At the moment, he is studying and teaching at the Florence Academy of Art Sculpting program. To learn more about Eran Webber, please visit his upcoming site at www.eranwebber.com, or through his facebook page.
Alexey Steele (born March 19, 1967) is an American painter of the Russian Representational School and a Soviet Art scholar. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Steele gained recognition for his unusual multi-figure compositions of an exceptionally large scale. His areas of expertise also include portraits, nudes and plein-air landscapes. Based on his interviews, [...]
The empty glassine packets can be found in Manhattan, Brooklyn and beyond, scattered on streets and sidewalks with only obscure slogans or graphic images to suggest their former use. At one time they contained heroin and the markings stamped on the packets were meant to differentiate strains of varying purity or provenance. To some they [...]
This beautiful Richard Mcdonald inspired 3D study was created by artist Mariano Steiner. Mariano is a 3D generalist specializing in architecture, products, scenery and characters. He graduated in Animation Design from Anhembi Morumbi University and is employed at Techno Image. Mariano currently resides in Sao Paolo, Brazil. To learn more about Mariano Steiner, please visit [...]
These figurative paintings were created by artist John M Collier. John Collier is an oil painter specializing in portraits and subtly narrative figurative pieces. Working from models and photographs, his figures are realistic in dimension, but have a flesh created from thick oil paint that appears to have been forced onto the canvas. You can [...]
Lui Ferreyra earned his BFA at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he studied under notable artists Stan Brakhage and Chuck Forsman. Before graduating, his work was selected to be shown internationally at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, and at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile. [...]