- Rudy Vanderlans
Rudy VanderLans, founder of Emigre , said in an interview with Speak Up, “Perusing the visuals is a kind of ‘reading’ also. It requires a certain visual literacy to appreciate looking at reproductions of graphic design.” As professionals endowed with creating visuals, our aversion to assimilating, understanding and willingness to learn from visuals seems surprising at best, hypocritical at worst. - Josefina de Vasconcellos
Josefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos (26 October 1904-20 July 2005) was an English sculptor of Brazilian origin. She was at one time the world's oldest living sculptor. She married the artist Delmar Banner in 1930. She lived in Cumbria much of her working life. Her most famous work includes "Reconciliation" at Coventry Cathedral and the University of Bradford; "Holy Family" at Liverpool Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral; "Mary and Child" at St. - Mat Collishaw
Mat Collishaw is an artist based in London. Collishaw attended Goldsmiths College of Art, London (1986-9), alongside the likes of Damien Hirst and other prominent YBAs. He has shown work internationally in many important exhibitions including “Freeze” at Surrey Docks in London, “Controlled” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, “The Parable Show” at Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, … - Alfred Munnings
Sir Alfred James Munnings, PRA, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious post-World War commissions that made him wealthy. Alfred Munnings was born at Mendham, Suffolk across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk, in 1878. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a Norwich printer, … - Philip Wilson Steer
Philip Wilson Steer OM (28 Dec 1860-18 March 1942) was an English artist. Steer was born in Birkenhead, the son of the portrait painter Philip Steer (1810-1871). After finding the examinations of the Civil Service too demanding, he became an artist in 1878. He studied at the Gloucester School of Art and then from 1880 to 1881 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy of Art and so studied in Paris between 1882 and 1884. - Lara Schnitger
Lara Schnitger is an Dutch-American sculptor, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991 and spent a year on a residency at the Kitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art in southern Japan. Schnitger works in knitted and sewn textile sculptures, videos and photographs, and has produced a book about art created from mundane materials such as fabric, … - Tal R
Tal R (born 1967) is an artist based in Copenhagen. Tal R was born in Israel. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, 1986-1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1994-2000. Tal R's painting style is described as "kolbojnik", which means "left-overs", a Hebrew word for "jack-of-all-trades." He has shown work in exhibitions including "Bicycle Thieves" at Beret International Gallery in Chicago, "House of Prince" at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, … - Jaime Gili
Jaime Gili is an artist based in London. Gili received his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 1998. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including ‘Expander’ at the Royal Academy of Art in London, ‘Las tres calaveras’ at Periferico Caracas in Caracas, ‘Jump Cuts’ at CIFO in Miami, ‘Screen’ at the Mosaic Building in Miami and ‘The Complex of Respect’ at Kunsthalle Bern. He is represented by Riflemaker in London. - Norman Ackroyd
Norman Ackroyd, CBE (born 1938 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is an English artist know primarily for his monochrome etchings. Ackroyd attended Leeds College of Art from 1957-61 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1961-64. 1990 saw his election to the Royal Academy of Art. Ackroyd's works from the 1960's show an influence from Pop Art, particularly artist Jasper Johns. His complex compositions from that period often integrate prefabricated materials - newspaper clippings, … - Frans Koppelaar
Frans Thomas Koppelaar (April 23, 1943), Dutch painter, was born at The Hague. From 1963 - 1969 he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968. His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists. - Wilhelm Heine
Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, better known as Wilhelm (or William)Heine was a German painter and traveller. Heine was born in Dresden and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Dresden and in the studio of Julius Hübner. Then he continued his artistic studies for three years in Paris. He returned to Dresden getting work as a scene designer for the court theatre and giving painting classes. - Doris Downes
Doris Downes is an American artist raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia who works primarily in watercolor and oil medium on paper and canvas. Her subject matter consists of natural history, including botanicals and birds painted from life. She began her career New York City in publishing as art director for Fairchild Publications, then as Senior Art Director for Newsweek Magazine, the first Art Director for Men's Health Magazine, Smart Money and SELF Magazines. - Arnold Machin
Arnold Machin O.B.E, R.A.(30 September 1911 – 9 March 1999) was a British artist, sculptor, coin and stamp designer. Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1911. He started work at the age of 14 as an apprentice china painter at the Minton Pottery, and during the Depression he learnt to sculpt at the Art School in Stoke-on-Trent. He later moved to Derby, and the Royal Academy of Art in London. After spending the Second World War as a conscientious objector, … - Ootje Oxenaar
Robert Deodaat Emile (Ootje) Oxenaar (The Hague, October 7 1929) is a Dutch graphic artist. Ootje Oxenaar studied visual arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. From 1966 until 1985 he worked for the Nederlandsche Bank, where he designed two series of banknotes. - Leo Jansen
Leo Jansen (1930- 1980) was a Dutch artist known for his portraits. Born in Holland, moved to Indonesia when he was ten. There in the tropics, he began his craft by sketching bronze-skinned Indonesian girls for leisure. He returned to the Netherlands to study at the Academy of Art, to refine his growing mastery of the female figures. Like most continental artists, he gravitated first to Paris and quickly established himself as a portraitist of considerable talent. - John Scanes
John Scanes was born John Zuschlag in Whitechapel, London. His family changed their name by deed poll during World War 2, and adopted his mother’s maiden name. Most of John Scanes’s work is signed ‘ 'John Scanes' but there was a brief time during the early 1960s when he signed some items ‘John Zuschlag’. His life as an artist can be traced from the age of 14, … - Paul Schuitema
Geert Paul Hendrikus Schuitema (February 27, 1897 in Groningen - October 25, 1973 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch graphic artist. He also designed furniture and expositions and worked as photographer, film director, painter and teacher for publicity design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. - Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling (born 1936) is a Guyana born British artist and is widely considered to be one of the most distinguished black artists to emerge from post-war British art schools. An abstract painter, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1962 alongside David Hockney, at graduation, Hockney won the gold medal while Bowling won the silver. A move to New York exposed Bowling to his American contemporaries and won him a place in the 1971 Whitney Biennial. - Charles Williams
Charles Williams (born March 16, 1965) is a British artist. He is a founder member of the Stuckist art group and a member of the New English Art Club. He was born in Evanston, Illinois USA and raised in England. He was educated at Kent College, Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy of Art, London, where in 1992 he won the top prize for painting as well as the prize for anatomical drawing. - William Harbutt
William Harbutt (13 February1844 - 1 June1921) was the inventor of Plasticine. Born in North Shields, England, Harbutt studied at the National Art Training School in London, and eventually became an associate of the Royal College of Art. He was headmaster of the Bath School of Art and Design from 1874 to 1877, and then opened his own art school in Bath with his wife Elizabeth (Bessie). - Peter Biľak
Peter Biľak Slovakian graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is the head of the type foundry Typotheque. In 2003 designed a series of the standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal mail (TNT Post). Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, … - Peter Davies
Peter Davies (born 1970, Edinburgh, Scotland) is an artist based in London. Davies studied at Goldsmiths College of Art, London. He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including "Sensation" at the Royal Academy of Art in London, Centro Brasileiro Britanico in Sao Paulo, Saatchi Gallery in London, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark and ICA in London. Davies won the John Moores painting prize in 2002. He is represented by Gagosian Gallery - Nína Tryggvadóttir
Nína Tryggvadóttir was born Jónína Tryggvadóttir in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Nína Tryggvadóttir is one of Iceland's most important abstract expressionist artists and one of very few Icelandic female artists of her generation. Mainly working in painting she also did paper collage, stained glass work, mosaic and more. She frequently based her compositions on nature where Icelandic landscape and the Nordic light played an important role. - Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott, Director - Carl Heinrich Bloch
Carl Bloch 's focus on Danish historical events and stories of the Bible gave him great stature. Bloch was recognized and respected already in his own lifetime. In 1879, the Danish newspaper, "Illustreret Tidende," stated that "Bloch had a profound impact on the art in his time." In 1881, Sigurd Mueller, a leading Danish art critic, said that "A Master [ Carl Bloch ] has stepped forward and has shown the way to help the audience understand art." - Kathryn McCamant
Kathryn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at UC Berkeley and did her graduate work at the Royal Academy of Art and Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. She lived for 12 years in Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, California. Kathryn now lives with her husband and teenage daughter in the Nevada City Cohousing Community, just blocks from the CoHousing Partners office. - Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale was the daughter of the successful barrister Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale. Her mother Sarah Anna was the daughter of a judge. As was typical for middle class girls at the time Eleanor was educated at home. She demonstrated a skill for drawing at an early age. She became an admirer and pupil of the famous art critic John Ruskin. - Peter Hofer
Peter Hofer has an MA in Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Art in London (2003) and a BA(Hons) Sculpture, first class from Kingston College (2001). Recent exhibitions include “Art-Bar” at 291 Gallery, Hackney, London (5/2003), “Biclops vs. Docme” at Ginglik, Shepherds Bush, London (4/2003) and the Bursary Show, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Brompton Road, London (9/2002). - Meet Laura Segil
Laura Segil, a native of Honolulu, blends backgrounds in fine art and design as director of Segil Fine Art. She holds a BA in Art History and has worked with Christie’s Art Auction House and the Polo/Ralph Lauren Home Collection, participated in the Royal Academy of Art’s program in Fine and Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present Day, and formerly helmed the interior design and residential art consulting firm, LCD Design. - Patz van der Sloot
Patz van der Sloot , Creative Director Originally educated as a fashion photographer at the Royal Academy of Art, Patz gained career experience in photography before switching to web design, with Dutch internet pioneer Siteways and Clockwork. He then went from web design to advertising, at Magicminds, seven*seconds/Arthouse, DCVF, Keesie, where he worked for brands like Heineken, Amstel Beer, Unilever, Masterfoods, Campina, Postbank, Coca Cola, and many more. - Myra Villerius
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Steve Songer Bio Artist Steve Songer resides in Huntsville, Utah, where he and his wife, Pat, raised their six children. The area surrounding his home in this mountain valley has inspired many of his paintings through the years. Steve graduated from Weber State University in 1971 with a B.S. Degree in Commercial Art and again in 1973 with a B.S. Degree in Art Education. Returning to school in 1983, he received his M.F.A. in Painting from Utah State University. - Selmar de Jager
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Steve Songer Artist Steve Songer resides in Huntsville, Utah, where he and his wife, Pat, raised their six children. The area surrounding his home in this mountain valley has inspired many of his paintings through the years. Steve graduated from Weber State University in 1971 with a B.S. Degree in Commercial Art and again in 1973 with a B.S. Degree in Art Education. Returning to school in 1983, he received his M.F.A. in Painting from Utah State University. - Jillian Sackler
Mrs. Jillian Sackler is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Mrs. Sackler is a trustee of Tufts University; the American Film Institute, the Metropolitan Opera; the Richard Tucker Foundation; the Connecticut Grant Opera; and the National Gallery of Washington, DC. - David Savage
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