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Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Year Anniversary Issue is here! Over 300 pages of art broken down into 6 issues. Free digital download or $75 for master volume and $20 for each volume 1-5 (print version). Master Volumes 1-5 contains over 300 pages of art and all artists of volumes 1-5 (listed below). Artists in Volume […]
Read More Artist Portfolio Magazine 10 Year Anniversary IssueI’m inspired by color, marks, and marrying materials in fresh ways to discover what emerges. From there, I distract myself in any way possible while I finish a piece, so that my mind doesn’t interfere with the process. Nothing good ever comes of that.
Bio: Michelle Mercier is an abstract painter living in western Massachusetts. Focused primarily on large-scale commissions for collectors, Michelle has also taught adult painting classes and participated in Open Studios at the Mill in Holliston, Massachusetts since 2014.
Read More Featured Artist | Michelle MercierEvery moment should be a celebration of life. Our senses and our emotions can put us in touch with the magic and beauty that is around us. That is what I try to portray through my art.
My joyful, playful, whimsical images come alive with vibrant colors. They evoke the most positive emotions. Feelings of Love, Laughter and Joy. Painting is my happy place. I try to evoke happy feelings in my viewers
Read More Featured Artist | Pearl MintzerBarbara Lawrence | Santa Cruz, CA Barbara Lawrence was born in San Francisco and has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B. A. degree from San Francisco State University and an M. A. degree from San Jose State University. She taught Life drawing and Advanced Painting at […]
Read More Featured Artist | Barbara LawrenceAllan Gorman | West Orange, NJ @allangormanart During the pandemic I have been making a series of paintings that explore plays of light and shadow in empty spaces. Although it was completely intuitive, and a logical extension of some of my earlier works, I feel the paintings evoke the poignancy of our forced solitary existence […]
Read More Featured Artist | Allan GormanVasundhara Tolia | Bloomfield Hills, MI @toliavasu Vasu’s works mainly portray nature, humanity and earth. Each subject, whether a human, animal, still life, nature or abstraction is caught in a particular moment in time from life experiences and memories. She wants the viewer to interpret it in their own way to discover their voice and […]
Read More Featured Artist | Vasundhara ToliaPROJECT STATEMENT for INDIAN LAND FOR SALE – In 1830, the United States government, led by President Andrew Jackson, forcibly relocated native populations east of the Mississippi in order that white farmers could take over their land. The event led to a conveniently forgotten genocide, and the extinguishment of the indigenous narratives from American history.
Read More Featured Artist | Donna GarciaEnzo Crispino | Bibbiano, Reggio Emilia, Italy @enzo.crispino I am an Italian artist-photographer, born in Frattamaggiore in the province of Naples and resident in the province of Reggio Emilia. Admitted for artistic merits to the International Academy of Modern Art in Rome as a Member of Merit. The Corsiero Editore publishing house has published my […]
Read More Featured Artist | Enzo CrispinoBux Dhyne | Grand Rapids, MI @blacklacecupcakes Biography: Bux has a BFA in Illustration (and a Minor in Traditional Photography) from Kendall College of Art and Design that was completed in 2007. They have worked in the design, art, and illustration industries since then. They are a feminine head of household figure to three children, […]
Read More Featured Artist | Bux DhyneDan was born in Montana, grew up in Washington State and now lives in California. With virtually no formal art training, Dan has been drawing since childhood. His internationally award-winning charcoal drawings has been exhibited in gallery shows in Palm Springs, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Ana, Pasadena, Long Beach, New York, Provincetown and West Hollywood. Dan is also now represented in Europe and travels there yearly for live shows. With his client base extending as far away as Malaysia and Australia his work is becoming known worldwide.
Read More Featured Artist | Dan PyleAndrew Binder | Bronx, NY @abindart I create my work by digital painting, digital collage and/or image editing, which I often combine with other elements I’ve made using traditional mediums such as acrylic paint, watercolor, tempera, papier-mâché, ink, etc. as well as with non-traditional components such as tape, torn paper and coffee stains. I combine […]
Read More Featured Artist | Andrew BinderSusan Lizotte was born in Los Angeles, and adopted at two months old. When she was one, she moved with her adopted parents to Bronxville in Westchester County, NY; they moved back to L.A. when she was 14. She earned her B.A. in Theater Arts at UCLA –discovering her love for art and art history through a class at the end of her senior year. While still in college, she worked part time designing men’s custom dress shirts, and went on to start her own business designing bespoke shirts and suits for men, and ran it for fifteen years. After finding and meeting her biological mother – an artist –Lizotte finally decided to pursue her love of art and painting. She resides in Los Angeles, balancing her studio practice with life with her husband, four children, and family pets including a peacock.
Read More Featured Artist | Susan Lizotte