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Born in Springville, Utah, the son of Henry K. and Sarah J. Allan, he has attended Brigham Young University in Utah, the Porte Royale in Paris and the Art Students League, the National Academy and the Salmagundi Club in New York City. Mr. Allan has won numerous awards and trophies in various shows and competitions, including the Bronze Medal in 1978 at the National Academy of Arts in New York City. Indeed, one critic has noted that, "...a desire to bring beauty and happiness into the world impels Mr. Allan to paint such a beautiful paintings..." Our Gallery on site, offers a wonderful collection of many Mr. Allan's paintings, all framed in his very own barn wood style, presenting an example of his framing on the center thumbnail in the lower row. A must to every serious art collector.

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Patrick Antonelle

Colorful and spirited, Patrick Antonelle's work displays the artists's fascination with contemporary urban themes. His paintings have been acclaimed for their detailed portrayals of everyday people and places. Whether enjoying a night in the town, sweating out rush hour on the highway or simple enjoying the changing seasons amidst the urban lansdscape, Antonelles's images face life's joys and challenges with irreplaceable bucolism. A true classic, Antonelle articulates through his art the influences and emotions experienced by us all.

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Peter Barger was born in New York City in 1947. As early as his first year in school, he knew that he wanted to be an artist. Art was my sanctuary, my own private world. Born to a portrait artist and house painter, Barger took brush in hand at an early age and has produced a fine body of oil paintings and watercolors, but his true medium is printmaking.

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Nina Boesch was born in 1978 in Bremen, Germany and moved to the U.S. in 2001. She first worked as a designer and programmer at an interactive media firm in Manhattan. In 2003, Boesch enrolled in the Graphic Design program at Rhode Island School of Design where she graduated with a BFA with honors in 2006. Boesch has now settled in New York and works as graphic designer focussing on digital media, interactive installations and exhibit design for clients such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, MoMA New York, WNET and Turner Classic Movies. Boesch’s projects have won multiple awards from the Art Directors Club, AIGA, I.D. magazine, HOW magazine, IDSA and others.

Janina Boesch metro card collage

Konstantin Bokov

Konstantin Bokov is an Ukrainian Immigrant who's lived in Washington Heights for the past 23 years. As a teenager in the 1940s he herded sheep and played the accordion, until one day in his early 20's he saw a Van Gogh painting at an exhibit in Moscow and was inspired to put down the accordion and immediately began painting.

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Vincent Daddiego

Vincent Daddiego was born in Venice, Italy and moved to New York City at the age of two. He studied art with a noted muralist, Joseph Ferrare and later at Hunter College also in New York where he studied with the founders of the Abstract Expressionist movement: - Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes and Willem de Kooning. Vincent has had a forty-year career in various areas of the visual arts; designing sets for the theater and opera, and also as one of America's foremost graphic designers. Ten years ago, Vincent devoted himself fully to the fine arts and to creating a continuing collection of American folk art. Since he admires the work of Charles Wehringer, some of his work reflects the style of that gifted artist.

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John Dorish is a New York City based artist whose brightly colored paintings capture New York's dramatic, ever-changing skyline. His surrealistic etchings, with tiny paintings within the etching itself, forge a successful blend of inks and watercolors. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947, Mr. Dorish received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities from Clarion University in 1970. He has also studied at the New School and the Art Students League in New York City. Primarily self-taught, He has been painting professionally for twenty five years. He has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he painted the majestic Tetons. In recent years, he has spent much of the summer in Cape Cod, capturing the New England charm of Wellfleet and Provincetown. His unique and distinctive style has won him numerous awards.

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Internationally renown artist Erik Freyman was born in Leningrad. U.S.S.R. in 1932. Erik Freyman brings a personal sensibility to the stylish era of the 1930's and high art of the 1950's Style. He has distilled from these two periods an intriguing style that captures an aura of glamour and prosperity. He gives us a bold, straightforward presentation of elegant and sensual figures who inhabit a sophisticated urban millieu. Posed in settings that are social of public his images are alternately elegant, humorous, secretive, mysterious, interactive or aloof, distinctly urban and seductive. Freyman's work acknowledges the Cubist influences that inspired much of the Art Deco period of the 1930's. Flatplanes, softly modulating into a gracefully articulated balance of crisp lines and fluid contours, set the characteristic style of the work. A soft palette, predominately greys and pinks, is a conscious understatement to the boldly drawn forms, and thus, subtle colors in Freyman's work become a strong dynamic to his overall composition.

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Java

JAVA is a Self taught artist.A Cuban native living in New York since 1992. Graduate from Columbia University. He has published poetry in "Not Black and White" (Plain View Press, 1966) and in specialized magazines. His art has been featured in various galleries and exhibits in Italy, Cuba and the USA.

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I was born in 1952 in Moscow, in a literary family. My parents Ludmila and Alexei Kafanov met at the Literature Institute, where they studied in the years after the war. Their marriage didnt last long, and my upbringing was handled mostly by my grandmother. She came from a family of small-time landed gentry, and she naturally wanted to give me a classical education, which included the knowledge of French, piano lessons and regular visits to the Conservatoire. But it was all in vain. I did manage to graduate from high school, but only on my third attempt and only because the last school I attended didnt get around to kicking me out. I was more interested in hanging out with hippies, partying and spending useless days doing nothing. As a result, I found myself in the Soviet Far East, on one of the Kuril Islands, serving in the ranks of the brave Soviet Armed Forces. There I got to spent many more useless and mindless days than in my entire previous life, but it was there also that I found my calling as an artist. It was in 1970-1972.

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Arnold Levine was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, NY. As a child it seemed as if he was constantly drawing or sketching. In the beginning it was mostly airplanes and cartoon characters. Every teacher had a class project that Arnold was asked to do because he was the kid that could draw. It was assumed that he would attend Art School after graduation. However the one thing that he loved even more than art was football, and so he wound up at Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. NAU had a small art department at that time and so Arnold enrolled in the fine art program. After two years of being knocked around on the field, he got a bad case of wonder lust and dropped out of school to enlist in the Marines. This was in 1964 and Arnold didnt know much about South East Asia. He soon found out.

Arnold Levine oil

Colorful and spirited, James Rizzi’s work displays the artist’s fascination with contemporary urban themes. His three-dimensional constructions have been acclaimed for their bold and detailed portrayals of everyday people and places. Whether enjoying a night on the town, sweating out rush hour on the highway or simply enjoying the changing seasons amidst the urban landscape, James Rizzi’s friends and neighbors face life’s joys and challenges with irrepressible optimism and humor.

James Rizzi 3D art

Eduard Sanganjiev

In Sun's watercolors, the proliferation of touches and the density of color can make the history of the picture's making seem secondary to the impact of the shifting expanse. In his limpid watercolors, process and effect are equal partners. Each thoughtfully placed mark remains distinct, at the same time that the entire fabric of strokes plays with your senses and your sensory memories, triggering wordless associations and then returning you, once again, to the fact of his repetitive, dispassionate, but intensely personal touch

Allen Stamper was born on Oahu in 1947 and has spent most of his life between Hawaii, New York and Nova Scotia. The son of artist Willson Stamper and celebrated children's book illustrator and writer Martha Alexander Stamper was immersed in the arts early on. Formally, he studied drawing with Joe Fehrer in 1964 at the Honolulu Academy of Art followed by a brief apprenticeship with sculptor Eddie Schillacci in New York in 1965, Stamper's primary focus being sculpture until 1978. In 2001 he studied Renaissance painting technique with Snowden Hodges which prompted his shift to oil painting.

John Suchy was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , New York City in 1946. In 1952 his family moved out to Westbury, Long IslandÂ where he grew up as a child. He was introduced to art at an early age by his Uncle John Graham, a self taught Artist. After High School he attended the School Of Visual Arts in Manhattan and studied there for three years. After Graduating from Visual Arts he worked for the next twelve years in New York City , for large and small advertising agencies, learning and applying advertising, promotional and illustration skills.

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Gunther Temech was born in Austria where he received a diploma of the Academy of Art and then lived as a working artist in Vienna, Munich and Paris. From France, he arrived in New York City and was amazed by the city's vitality and strength. His work was definetely influenced by American culture and thought.

Nevertheless, he enjoys his European roots and returns there in a regular basis. Gunther had many succesful exhibitions in Austria, Switzerland and France, and has also exhibited extensively in America. His work has been described as highly original and inventive. Among his many collectors are movie actor Jack Palance and singer Julio Iglesias.

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Tiggy Ticehurst

The turmoil a young person can create in this world can be devastating if he lacks the tools and guidance to understand how to grow. I wish to thank all those who have helped me. I will always remember the support you have given me. You know who you are! For me, painting is one of the only internal learning processes for the brain that has little to do with right from wrong and contains no barriers. Painting is a process that opens up inner thoughts and stimulates the senses, cleansing and reorganizing the mind and fine-tuning discrimination.

Tiggy Ticehurst

Charles Wehringer

When faced with an empty stretch of wall in our homes, our first thought is often to search for one image of precisely the right size to fit the void. Another option, however, is to group a number of small pieces into a pleasing arrangement. For a cohesive look, stick to a theme - vintage family photographs, for example, or botanical prints. Diminutive still lives also work well. The acrylic-on-panel creations of New York artist Charles Wehringer combine formal presentations with whimsical touches. At our Gallery we are proud to present a wide variety of Mr. Wehringer's pieces, from the diminutive ones, to the classic painting of the master in larger format. We encourage you to visit our gallery to really appreciate the versatile production of our artist.

Charles Wehringer