CHARLES WEHRINGER
The acrylic-on-panel creations of New York artist Charles Wehringer combine formal presentations with whimsical touches. At van der Plas 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.

DENITZA
Denitza was born in 1976 in Varna, Bulgaria. Fascinated by art, illustrations in comic books and the popular culture around her, she developed a love for drawing at an early age. Upon graduation from high school in 1994, Denitza enrolled in the Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland. In 1998 her first group exhibition took place at the Utrecht Academy Gallery. In 2000, Denitza moved to NYC and continued her education at the School of Visual Arts. Swept up in the energy and spirit of New York City scenes, the subject of the city became a constant source of inspiration and fascination in Denitza’s work.

EDUARD SANGANJIEV
Eduard Sangadzhiev was born in Elista (Russia) in 1962. Eduard earned a masters degree in monumental painting after studying many years in Moscow. He devoted himself to easel and aquarelle painting. His work reflects his point of view of the “real world”.

Eduard works hard and a lot, his active creative nature is overfilled with ideas. In his consciousness there is a countless number of images. His world is fantastic, a bright world of people who stay together. Nature is a major inspiration for him. Eduard’s outstanding talent as a portraitist helps him as well to find personality in landscapes and city scenarios. Seemingly spontaneously he creates his art characteristic human note by using a bright palette of color and light.

The paintings of Eduard Sangadzhiev admire life. His paintings are joyful and direct. His work is a positive statement of life. His art appears very strong in a poetic way.

GUNTHER TEMECH
Gunter Temech is a painter and illustrator known for his Abstract, sometimes Cubist paintings in the Modernist style.

He was the illustrator for The Los Supper, The Last Generation, published in New York in 1990. He was also active in many political causes in New York City during the last part of the Twentieth Century.

HANS MAKART
Son of a chamberlain at Mirabell castle. After a short study at the Academy in Vienna he was educated by Karl Theodor von Piloty in Munich (1860-1865) and travelled to London, Paris and Rome to study. In 1868 or 1869 he married Amalie Franziska Roithmayr from Munich. They had two children, Hans und Grete. Sadly Amalie died young in 1873.

Makart became famous for his richly coloured history paintings and enjoyed his finest hour in 1879 with his painting of the procession in honour of the silver anniversary of the marriage of emperor Francis Joseph and his wife Elisabeth (better known as Sisi). In the same year he became a Professor at the Academy. In 1881 he married his second wife, the dancer Bertha Babitsch (also known as Bertha Linda, 3 Jan 1850-20 Aug 1928).

Makart also designed furniture and interiors. In 1882 emperor Francis Joseph orderded to build the Villa Hermes at Lainz (near Vienna) for his empress and the bedroom decoration should be inspired on Shakespeare's Midsummernight's Dream. Makart designed a fascinating dreamworld that still exists at the Villa Hermes as a large painting (1882). Unfortunately his design was never executed after his early death in 1884. To secure the future of his young children his collection of antics and art was put up for auction by art-dealer H.O. Miethke. It consisted of 1083 pieces.

JAMES RIZZI
James Rizzi was born in Brooklyn, New York October 1950. He studied at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and graduated in 1974. In his senior year of college, he began to experiment by combining painting, sculpture and printmaking. It was then that he first began working with his 3-D construction process.

He’s an “urban primitive” artist. The subject matter of Rizzi’s work is the celebration of his happy childhood in New York. In 1974, shortly after graduation, Rizzi met an elderly gentleman at the Greenwich Village Art Fair. The man expressed great admiration for his work. The man, unknown to him at the time, turned out to be internationally known sculptor Chaim Gross, father-in-law of Red Grooms, an acknowledged master of the art-world.

James Rizzi’s most notable influences are the French Dadaist painter Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee.

Having been honored with solo shows in the United States, Europe, and Asia, his work has received much recognition throughout the globe, for which he is extremely grateful.

JAVA
JAVA is a self taught artist and 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, museums and exhibits in Italy, Cuba and the USA.

JOHN SUCHY
A Williamsburg-born New York native, John Suchy was introduced to art at a young age by his self-taught artist uncle. Suchy graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattana dn subsequently continued taking night classes there and at the Pan American School, and the Arts Student League. Suchy has been working in the 3D medium since 1980 and has been featured in many Galleries and exhibitions around the country and the world.

JOHN VAN ORSOUW
Born in 1954 in Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, John van Orsouw currently lives and works in the Mohawk Valley, New York. A self-taught artist and lifelong doodler, Van Orsouw’s work is influenced by children's drawings & toys, along with folk and indigenous art forms. An amateur painter and maker of things, John spends most of his time making joyous, colorful, kinetic work with and on anything he finds available, including old wood, cardboard, and all kinds of wonderful junk. John finds inspiration from eclectic sources such as modern music, especially American Jazz, which is evident in many of his paintings.

KONSTANTINE BOKOV

MIXED MEDIA
RECYCLED ART
DRAWINGS

Ukranian-born Konstantine Bokov began his career as an accordian-player and sheep-herder. After seeing a Van Gogh painting in Moscow, however, the young Bokov decided to put down his instrument and staff in favour of a paint brush. After the ideologically unreliable artist was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1975, Bokov found residence in Washington Heights in New York City. Bokov’s canvasses and recycled pieces offer an image of New York that is both a scathing critique and a profession of love.

Entirely self-taught, Bokov has showed around the U.S. and the world, including in New York (most recently at the NYC 2009 Outsider Art Fair), San Francisco, Holland, Vienna, Paris and Japan. In both his life and his art, Bokov has found himself acting as mediator between cultures and art movements. Bokov’s paintings employ the language of impressionism while disrupting the laws of classical depiction in unexpected ways.

PATRICK ANTONELLE
Patrick Antonelle has been dubbed a modern “American Renoir” and has been described as "the foremost impressionist painter of our century” by the Manhattan Arts magazine. Although an alumnus of the School of Visual Arts at the Brooklyn Museum and the Arts Student League, Antonelle has largely perfected his talent through dedicated self-education and the belief that life and nature serve as his best teachers. Antonelle has received numerous awards for his art and is featured in many private and public collections, including the Trumps family, Regis Philbin, Frank Sinatra, Apple Computer, Citicorp and Panasonic. Antonelle also donates much of his time and work to charities, including UNICEF and Tomorrow’s Children’s Fund.

PETER BARGER
Born in New York city in 1947 to a portrait artist and a house painter, Peter Barger took up art from a young age. Barger graduated from the Newark School of Fine Arts with honours in painting and print-making and pursued higher study at the Pratt Graphics Centre. Barger has had illustrations published in Scholastic Magazine, Intellecutal Digest, the Boston Globe, the New York Times Book Review, as well as the cover illustrations for an Agatha Christy novel series.

TIGGY TICEHURST
English born artist, now living and working in NYC. Does a lot of plein air paintings, and receives inspiration from the life he experiences around him.

Artist Statement
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. My work is a collection of subjects culled from conscious and sub-conscious memories expressed through shapes, composition and color. Many of which focus on childhood fears, abandonment, family values and intense emotions. My objective is the study of my inner-self, which is achieved through the deep introspection experienced while painting.

VASILY KAFANOV
Vasily Kasanov was born in Moscow in 1952. In February 1990 Kafanov permanently left the Soviet Union and resettled in New Yorl City. Since his arrival to the United States, Kafanov participed in more than 20 group exibitions. He also had 10 solo exihibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, San Fransisco, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and other cities.

VINCENT DADDIEGO
Folk artist Vincent Daddiego was born in Venice, Italy, but moved to New York at the age of three. Daddiego received training at Hunter College, the Art’s Student League and in Italy, but derived much of his inspiration from the charming painting style of Charles Wehringer, an artist Daddiego very much admired. Explaining that he uses art “the same way a talented writer uses words”, Daddiego’s narrative pieces all come with a short story, and each original piece has never been reproduced.