WILLIE BIRCH
"American Family"
MICHAEL WILLMON
"Blue Moon - Cemetery Escape"
Michael Willmon possesses an apocalyptic vision which he expresses employing a mesmerizing monochromatic palette. The artist's dark fascination with New Orleans' sublime revelry is apparent in his inspired work. In his recent paintings, Willmon extends his vision to include both New Orleans and New York City. A master of composition, color and brush handling, Michael Willmon creates meticulous but shocking vistas often filled with cavorting skeletal figures.
Other Artists in the collection from this Gallery include:
AL SOUZA
"CANDY JAR"
JACQUELINE BISHOP
"DEEPER INSTINCTS"
For the last twenty years Jacqueline Bishop has focused on painting psychological and political elements regarding the natural world. Basing her imagery on frequent trips to remote regions in North, South and Central America including the Amazon rain forest, Jacqueline Bishop creates beautiful paintings celebrating the beauty of nature but often also conveying a sense of impending doom. The fragile interconnection of nature is a central theme in her work. Jacqueline Bishop's paintings represent the beauty and mystery of hidden places in the world and within us.
LESLEY DILL
"WHITE HINGED WEDDING DRESS"
Lesley Dill's work is characterized by the complex interweaving of a wide range of materials, image and text. Her constructions are suffused with emotional content. Language is a defining element in her work providing context and reference. The psyche and its relation to poetry and to the self are also core elements in Lesley Dill's work. Her original syntheses of text and image combine language and the human body with a unique emotional directness.
BLAKE BOYD
"ANNA"
"ATHEROSCLEREROTIC PLAQUE"
Blake Boyd's art takes many forms, including paintings in clay, sculpture, photobooth photography, video, and site-specific installation. Collectively, all of these are components of a twenty-year conceptual artwork that Boyd views as two "visual" operas. Each opera will consist of a series of eleven separate exhibitions, totaling twenty-two exhibitions in all. The first opera, Fidelio, began in 2001, with an exhibition entitled "My Pinocchio Syndrome for Abigail." Inspired by and dedicated to the actress/singer Bijou Phillips, Fidelio is a visual diary of Boyd's travels, from his visits with celebrities from Andy Warhol's Factory in New York City, to his escapades in New York and London nightclubs. The second opera, Romantika, will commence in December 2003 at Arthur Roger Gallery, with the installation of Sneewittchen. Romantika is inspired by and dedicated to a hometown love interest, Katherine Brennan, whom Boyd credits with mending his broken heart. In the tradition of Andy Warhol, who in 1965 announced that he would abandon visual art for film, Boyd intends to follow a similar path after completion of Fidelio and Romantika.
DOUGLAS BOURGEOIS
"ANIMA SOLA"
Douglas Bourgeois' meticulously rendered paintings reveal an incredible craftsmanship wedded with a mysterious ability to express a singular vision through obsessive attention to scrupulous description. He underscores unlikely details of mundane objects until they are charged with strangeness. Everything is contemplated so intensely in Bourgeois' work that it becomes magical. Douglas Bourgeois combines his technical rigor with a far ranging grasp of the iconography of popular culture.
"ST.TERESA AND THE SAILOR"
"CABARET SINGER"
"HEALING WATER"
ANDREW BASCLE
"LARGE INSECT WITH STINGER"
