A Pensive Man On The Cusp
EDUCATION
BA, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
MA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
PUBLIC ART
Palm Beach County Department of Transportation, West Palm Beach, FL
Curry-Ford Renaissance Center, Orange County, FL
Township of Cherry Hill, N.J. City Hall Project.
EXHIBITIONS
The El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Rutgers University Gallery, Camden, and Newark, NJ
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ
The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Art Center of North New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
All Florida Exhibit, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
National Exhibition, Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
Norton Sculpture Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
The “Hortt Exhibition” Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Arts On Douglas Fine Art Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL
“Combined Talents Exhibition”, Museum of Fine Arts, FSU, Tallahassee, FL
Art in Embassy Program, Washington DC and Minsk, Belarus
Scripps Institute, Jupiter, FL
New*Art – Armory Art Center, W. Palm Beach, FL
PUBLICATIONS
American Artists of Renown
GRANTS
Fellowship Grants, 1979, 1983, and 1987, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
AWARDS
1st Prize, Sculpture, Middlesex Arts Council, NJ
1st Prize, Sculpture, Philadelphia Institute of Art, PA
1st Prize, E. Brunswick Arts Council, NJ
Art in Public Places, W. Palm Beach, FL
Innumerable awards in both museum and gallery exhibitions
COLLECTIONS
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Rutgers University Medical School, Camden, NJ
Philadelphia National Bank, World Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
PA Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Philadelphia, PA
PA Bell Telephone, Philadelphia, PA
ICI America, Wilmington, DE
DuPont Corp, Wilmington, DE
Merck, Sharp and Dohme, PA
Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ
Cintas Corp., OH
Core States Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Environ Corp., Princeton, NJ
Saks 5th Avenue, New York, NY; Short Hills, NJ; Boca Raton, FL; Dadesville, FL
Macy’s, New York, NY
Keystone Health Systems, Cherry Hill, NJ
County of Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL
“STIMULATING THOUGHTS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND RESPONSES”
After an artist career of many years, a life of both 2 and 3-dimensional study and work, awards, and accolades achieved, I have discovered new interpretations of life to bring to my repertoire of paintings.
“Stimulating Thoughts, Interpretations, and Responses” is a series of paintings, still in progress, of thoughts and concerns that have been “stewing and brewing” in my subconscious waiting to be “born” in a tangible, visual manner.
The images reflect my concern for people, unfair situations, other disturbing misdeeds and misinterpretations, LIES, and various religiously-inspired bullshit and brainwashing.
I sincerely hope that you will find my new paintings thoughtful, and meaningful, and perhaps strike a chord with ideas and thoughts that you may have already held.
My work has taken several turns and returns in response to my feelings and response to the world in which I live.
A Place To Be
Bryan Bromstrup is a self-taught artist who started oil painting in 2013 after suggestions from family artists going back four generations. He paints what he enjoys in life or whatever excites the artist inside him. Bryan continues to expand his artistic talents in oil painting and photography and other digital art concepts. Originally, from Beech Grove, IN he currently resides in Terre Haute IN.
Bryan’s art comes from life experiences. It might be from pop culture or from observing interesting things around him, but it definitely comes from music, travel, and his love for the National Parks. “I’ve learned something new from every painting I have ever done. As I get older, I find the artist in me has come to the forefront, expanding the simple things I always did into pieces of art. When it comes to being creative, I look beyond the how to do it and enjoy the process of just letting the brush work its magic.” Bryan’s artwork rarely overlaps in representation as all have a distinct style so he likes to call his art style, “Bryanism”. You can find his art regularly on display throughout Indiana and online at galleries across the U.S.
Considering the theme, “Home”, it is not always your place of residence but something that brings you peace and enjoyment. A Place to Be is a fictional wilderness location deep in the middle of nowhere filled with beautiful hillsides of flowers.
A Point Of View
I am a self-taught artist with over 40 years of artistic expression, including dance, theater, and visual arts. Trained in science and microbiology, I see the world beyond our vision and use this experience as inspiration for many of my works. I have attended classes in abstraction, composition, and color to better understand the creative process and techniques that allow me to create my vision.
I have also attended the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, a historic New England community settled by artists and Portuguese fishermen who have blended the town into a world-class art enclave and a unique experience for all who travel there. Provincetown sits at the tip of Cape Cod and is renowned for its natural light, inspiring artists for over a hundred years. My art is shown in galleries on the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Georgia. I live in Savannah, Georgia.
I create vibrant, abstract collages on canvas using bold color and layered materials — acrylics, watercolor, ink, textiles, specialty papers, cardboard, and found objects.
Colors move across the surface to guide the viewer through a landscape of shape, shades, and sometimes a little chaos, surrounded by form, or is it form surrounded by chaos? My work guides the eye across dynamic layers of form and feeling. Each piece is a tactile journey, inviting the viewer to explore texture and movement, blending my intuition and transformation to challenge the viewer’s imagination. I want to have a visual dialogue with you, the observer, so that you do not just see, but experience. To answer, “What do you see?”
Part of my inspiration is taking photographs of the world around me. I am fascinated by tree trunks, old bricks, tree branches, peeling paint, and just ordinary objects that go unnoticed. These materials inspire with their shapes, colors, and patterns as well as the randomness that invites the eye to wonder — and wander.
I am also inspired by accomplished artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Anselm Kiefer, and Gustav Klimt.
A Possibility Garden
Arlette Stella is a late-blooming, self-taught artist, who took up painting in the Fall of 2019. In spite of her short history as an artist, she has been in several shows and exhibits, both in person and online
Arlette’s boundless imagination and deeply philosophical and abstract nature are evident in every piece that she creates.
Thus, she rightfully terms her art: Abstract/Fanciful Message Art.
And, her message? Kindness.
My deeply philosophical & innately abstract nature is evident in every stroke & movement.
For me, the juncture between education, imagination, and experience yearns to illustrate and inspire the action of kindness through my art.
The names & messages of these works are the meeting place for this writer/poet & painter self to collaborate and create.
Being partially color blind, my work tends to be bright and colorful. Color expresses the energy of movement. Movement is life. Kindness is life at its best.
A Premature Prognosis
Born in upstate New York, Tony Faiola has been a painter, printmaker, and designer since the 1970s. He now lives/works in Kentucky. Originally trained as a printmaker (specializing in lithography), he gravitated toward painting in the late 1970s. Tony is also a health scientist who designs health information technology to improve the lives of patients suffering from mental and cognitive impairment. Like many artists of the past and present (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Anicka Yi, Neri Oxman, Edward Tufte), Tony finds divergent thought a means to maximize his intellectual curiosity in seeking new forms of visual problem-solving. Faiola received his BFA from SUNY New Paltz, MA from SUNY Albany, MFA and MA (design) from Ohio State University, and PhD in communication from Purdue University. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Italy, in 1976, and is a three-time Fulbright Scholar to Russia.
My work underscores my curiosity about simplified objects or shapes in space that represent statements on the human condition. These ideas and conjectures have come primarily from my observation of a growing sense of loneliness and mental anguish that pervades society, both in the U.S. and around the world. Much of these considerations grew out of my many years of living in and traveling to Russia (1991 to 2018). These notions have increased over the last five years since traveling to India and Saudi Arabia, and most strongly throughout and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is also important to note that I am a health scientist, which puts me in different types of clinical environments where I regularly observe patients who are very ill, e.g., with cancer or pulmonary infections. My observation of these patients and their family members has had a considerable impact on my empathy for those who are suffering. Being a patient in critical care is a very lonely experience, cut off from one’s community and family, and the world you know. What makes my work unique is, that all my colleagues in these same environments have no creative means to express the anguish they observe day by day. But, because I am an artist and scientist, I’ve chosen to communicate or illustrate in abstract terms my feelings through art.
Much of my thinking on this topic has been further confirmed after reading two published studies, titled: Mental Pain as a Global person-centered Outcome Measure (2021) and Chronic Pain and Mental Health (2018). In many cases, these ideas have informed the titles of my art.
In sum, through the use of health-related titles, my work becomes a dialogue about our empathy for the frailty of human life and our endless quest to transform it. Because understanding the condition of humanity is difficult to grasp, I believe it is best to represent it through the implicit interactions of objects, shapes, colors, dimensions, and textures, rather than through representational imagery. Technically, my work includes paintings created in oil, acrylic, and encaustic on canvas and paper. My work also includes giclée prints and drawings.
A Quiet Moment Before Bed
Kate Kiselow is a passionate artist whose journey has been shaped by both education and experience. Graduating from high school two years early, she obtained an Associate of Arts degree at just 17, laying a strong foundation for her artistic endeavors. After a significant hiatus from art to pursue a career in surgical technology, Kate developed a profound understanding of human anatomy, which has deeply influenced her artistic practice.
In the past year, she has rekindled her passion for art, dedicating herself to her creative pursuits with renewed vigor. Her commitment to her craft has led her to participate in her first gallery show at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, marking an exciting milestone in her artistic journey.
Through her work, Kate explores the intersection of art and anatomy, drawing inspiration from her unique background to create pieces that reflect the beauty of the human form.
In “A Quiet Moment Before Bed,” I invite viewers to experience a serene and intimate moment of reflection. This painting captures the essence of winding down at the end of the day. The soft lamplight casts a warm glow, enveloping the scene in a calming ambiance that encourages contemplation and tranquility.
The figure, adorned with tattoos that tell stories of personal significance, embodies a sense of vulnerability and strength. The act of stretching signifies a release, both physically and mentally, as one prepares to transition from the chaos of the day to the solace of night.
Through this work, I aim to evoke a calming atmosphere that resonates with the viewer, inviting them to pause, breathe, and embrace the quiet moments that often go unnoticed.
A Room Of Ones Own
After having spent a decade in Greenwich Village where Kelly, and a group of close compadres, discovered “performance art” (when she first combined visual art & poetry), she then relocated to Northport, NY, and immersed herself in live poetry, visual art, and acting. Some publications include a full-length book of poetry “Barking at Sunspots”, “On Maxwell Street”, “Bards Annual”, “Grabbing the Apple (an anthology”), “Long Island Sounds (an anthology)”, “XANADU”, “Paumanok: Poems & Pictures of Long Island (an anthology)”, numerous small chapbooks and inclusion in many small press publications (“DICO,” “Voices International”, “AITIA, etc.). Kate has worked as a visual artist with other poets (a published book “ENTER”) and collaborated with other poets and musicians (e.g. David Amram on the CD “Northport Celebrates Jack”). She was honored to be awarded “New York State Woman of Distinction in the Arts” (2003). Kelly has been fortunate to have exhibited in many art exhibits, both group and solo, involved in organizing multi-media events (Sundays @ 7), was a member of the Bare Bones acting group, “performed” her poetry in many venues, was one of the founders of the Northport Arts Coalition and served as their first co-chair. She has served as a curator of shows for the Art League of Long Island and the Northport Arts Coalition. Recent visual art exhibits from 2020 – 2023 include curated group shows “Out of Isolation”, “Paradoxical Paradigms”, “Forever Young”, “We’ve Gone Wild”, “Artist’s Choice (an invitational)”, “Paper, Paint and Pixels” (2-person show) and solo exhibits, “a show of wanderings”, “New Works” and “Blue”.
The submitted works were “inspired” by the forced isolation we all experienced during the Covid pandemic. Home took on a different definition and I believe allowed a new appreciation and understanding of the concept of home that personally resonates with me to this day.
After spending many years working in different media, i.e. traditional darkroom photography, oil/acrylic painting, sculpture (welding, wood, etc.), and most often a combination of all these approaches, I was introduced to using the computer as yet another tool to express myself, to share my vision of the world. The discovery of what it offered in the way of new approaches to creating my work, intrigued and excited me. I was afforded the tools that supplanted and/or enhanced other tools that I had been working with, and in altogether new & inspiring ways, the possibilities opened up an unexplored and most challenging world. As art progresses, innovative and exciting tools become available, and, as an artist, I am always curious, always experimenting and embracing different techniques to further my end as an artist, which is my attempt to communicate with the outside world.
A Skies Reflection The Sun Will Shine For You
Nicole Martinelli is an international award-winning artist and photographer who has been featured in prominent galleries and exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. The vibrant colors she incorporates in both her paintings and photographs are inspired by the intense and captivating emotions she experiences upon first encountering the subject matter and surroundings that inspire her artworks.
Over the past few years, Nicole Martinelli has expanded her artistic portfolio and explored new mediums into previous unchartered creative territories including the creation of hand-painted E-paintings using a stylus. The Artist’s photographs and organically crafted hand-painted E-paintings have been showcased in various prestigious group exhibitions at renowned fine art galleries across the United States, including The Marblehead Arts Association Gallery in Marble Head, Massachusetts, the Kavanaugh Gallery, Illinois MVA Gallery Bethlehem PA, BWAC Gallery Brooklyn New York, CORE Art Space in Denver Colorado and The Mosaic Arts Gallery, Mosaic Arts District Fairfax, Virginia amongst others.
The Artist, Photographer Nicole Martinelli’s photography and hand-painted E paintings have earned the Artist international recognition winning numerous awards including a third-place international award in July 2023, in an International juried exhibition based in Geneva Switzerland.
There is always an ocean or stream to catch your tears and a sunset to brighten your life. If I can inspire, awaken, make the viewer feel, think, and bring solace, happiness, and peace to others as I have found myself while creating then I have achieved my artistic goal.
– Artist, Nicole Martinelli
A Smile To Mondriaan
Immediately after Secondary School, she took various painting and sculpture lessons, followed for several years by painting lessons in the Stedelijk Museum with the painter Peter Schenk. She also followed and completed the evening academy at the “Kleine Academie” in Amsterdam and enrolled at the Rietveld Academy. Marianne also followed a teacher training in drawing and textiles. At that time, she gave lessons at a school in Amsterdam. She initially worked with various materials such as oil paint, pastel, watercolor, gouache, etc. The last few years have mainly been with acrylics. She works from her own studio.
Marianne also makes and paints objects. She regularly works on assignments and exhibits at home and abroad, in both galleries and museums. She has won several prizes, both nationally and internationally. Marianne is a member of the VAK. Marianne signs her work under the name MARFEL.
How I experience the world, life, my contact with people, and nature around me is the starting point for connecting with this through my art. I express this emotionally through the colors and shapes in my work and the title that ultimately gives my paintings. Through my art, I try to express the feeling that lives inside and outside me and the world, and to convey this to the viewer and visitors of my work, and in that way make connections. I also want to make people happy with my art. My country, the Netherlands, is flat, and that is why we have to do water management to prevent flooding. That inspired me in this painting, which shows water movement and stillness.
The sun rises every day, but always gives a different feeling and experience. I showed this in my last paintings.