Sam is a lifelong resident of northwest Illinois. He has developed a deep appreciation of the unique beauty of the area’s natural environment. After studying photography as part of his Communication degree at Western Illinois University, capturing images of the area has become a hobby, avocation and occupation for Tucibat. He learned photography in the traditional darkroom, but has developed a distinct affinity for digital processes and used them exclusively in his workflow. Most of Sam's i...
My art tells my story. It's a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. As an adult, I still believe in happy endings and that good will prevail. The Enchanted Pencil is one of the stories I remember very clearly. This special pencil could materialize anything drawn, such as ...
Engineer and Scientist, Cindy Marrazzo says, "Art never fails to bring me happiness, whether in the form of painting or dancing, art renews my passion." Most of Marrazzo’s childhood and high school years revolved around art. As a teen, Marrazzo received multiple awards for her artwork. Cindy and her three art teachers had their sights set on the Art Institute of Chicago for Cindy. However, her parents wanted something more practical. So at 16 when she graduated high sc...
As a child growing up in the south suburbs of Chicago, drawing and painting have been Jack Magurany’s passion – a passion that led him to study art at Columbia College in Chicago. Magurany received a BFA with honors in 1993 and have spent most of his professional career as an illustrator and graphic designer. However, his true passion and self-expression comes from being a painter. For Jack Magurany, painting is a way to explore the relationships between various color harmonies and surfac...
Born in Rute, in the province of Córdoba, Spain, where he evolved his studies of art, obtaining at that time numerous awards for drawing, painting and other techniques, both within within the region and also at a national level at the age of eight . He continued his studies in Barcelona where he has completed his career, surrounded by modernists and very near the impressionists, but mainly alongside the great creators who shaped the art world in the last decades of the last century. Some we...
Since his retirement from active medical practice, more time became available to Roger for picking up the paint brush and attending workshops to hone up his skills. From Roger : I have enjoyed exploring the conversion of sound into vision as Walt Disney attempted in his 'Fantasia' productions. I listen to a piece of music and convert the pictures the music produces in my mind to a 2 dimensional painting. Difficult, but sometimes rewarding. I believe an artist should hope to renew the joy and ...
Hasmut was born in Babylon, Iraq. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Iraq in 1997. After graduation, Ali moved to Jordan to pursue a painting career. Between 1997 and 2000 Hasmut worked simultaneously with two Jordanian galleries in Ammam -- Dar Alanda and Orphely -- presenting oil painting work such as portraits, still life, landscapes and figures. His paintings gained popularity and became extremely respected amongst Jordanian Royalty. He had a great opportunity to p...
Justin Bernhardt has been creating art since he was a young child, growing up next door to artists on either side of his home in Kalamazoo Michigan. In his youth on a trip to the Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art, he was set in awe by the Hudson River School Painters, especially Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church. His work continues in that American landscape tradition, in its own fashion, along with other American artists such as George Inness, Charles Burchfield, Neil Welliver, and ...
Vitaly Mikhailov (1969) Vitali was born in the Soviet Union on October 25, 1969. During his youth his teachers noted a unique artistic talent displayed in the everyday homework illustrations, which were self-motivated. He carried this trait to present and has also acquired a rigid work ethic in his art profession. After his primary education, Vitali entered the Radio Mechanical Technical Institute and graduated. He then received an appointment to the Moscow University of Art, graduating in 19...
Paul Pinzarrone Pinzarrone's work went from photography & paintings of photo-realistic science fiction to abstracted futuristic landscapes & machines. He preferred textureless, very smooth surfaces and began working with airbrushes, spraying acrylic lacquers on the back side of clear plexiglas. He preferred hinting at realism by executing finely detailed images of things and places that we have not seen but think we might have. To be "art", it had to be New. Why do another traditional landscape...
