After asking for an opinion from ourselves and a bunch of our art-loving and art-appreciating professional friends from all over the world—starting collectors from Los Angeles to Brussels, advisors and critics from Istanbul to São Paulo – we’ve compiled a list of the top 15 artists we’ll be watching closely in the following year!
Author: gregb
Being a native of New York, it took me quite a lot of time, East and Greenwich village experience and day-and-night painting practice to understand, that turning the painting from a mere hobby to a full-time employment day job is what I actually need to do with my life!
Initially getting my B.A. from Boston College and studying Fine Arts painting at Lorenzo de' Medici University in Florence. Later on, I eventually succeeded in complete my M.F.A at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001.
Afterward, I started teaching art at the universities and miscellaneous art institutions throughout the US, and soon I became a substitute professor at the New York Academy of Art.
New Artist of the Day: Genieve Figgis
Figgis is a member of this unique, new wave of young underground artists bringing painting back to circulation this year. Quite honestly, we’re almost sure that this group’s art is the antidote to process-led abstraction that took serious hold in 2014. At 42 years old, Figgis is not a complete newbie though, but with her…
New Artist of the Day: Dwyer Kilcollin
The signature move for this art kid is actually adjusting the 2D imagery via an algorithm, for which Kilcollin has received a lot of attention for her hand-cast relief sculpture. These pieces fuse the virtual and material worlds in one – just as her sculptures that recently graced a hillside of Los Angeles and M+B…
New Artist of the Day: Dean Levin
While we are all interested and eager for Levin’s much awaited exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in 2015 (who he signed with last summer) it’s hard to not recall, that stellar year he had in 2014. The South African-born artist, whose initial career choice was being an architect at Pratt, had solo exhibitions at Robert…