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Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Ya...

Paul Henry Ramirez has shown throughout the United States and Europe. He has had numerous one-person museum exhibitions including the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Whit...

Amsterdam V is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...

Gunter Damisch (1958, Steyr- 2016 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and sculptor . He is one of "den Neuen Wilde" New Savages. (Junge Wilde) Gunter Damisch attended the Musikgymnasium Linz and then studied medicine and German and history for a few semesters. By age 16, he had already made 150 woodcuts and attended the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer . In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (master class for graphics ) in Vienna, and since 1998 he has been a full professor there. From 1997 until his untimely death in 2016, he was head of the graphic arts department at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. the 1980s Damisch was a member of the Viennese punk band Molto Brutto, where he played bass and organ. Gunter Damisch lived and worked in Vienna and Freidegg . He was one of the most important international representatives of contemporary Austrian art because of his unmistakable, convincing and consistently formulated repertoire of colors and shapes (reminiscent of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.) He worked in stone lithos, woodcuts, lithograph, artists’ books like a free jazz virtuoso, making huge, one-of-a-kind pieces with collage, drawing, painting, woodcut and monotype on the same sheet. In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre). The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke They were also known as the Neue Wilde. Artists included; Austria: Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, Hubert Schmalix, G.L. Gabriel-Thieler Germany: Berlin: Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting...

LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015). He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Art...

Amsterdam I is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...

The Serpentine, Hyde Park – Autumn, after Bruegel is a limited edition etching by Mychael Barratt. Barratt uses Ravilious’ The Vale of the White Horse as inspiration for this witty e...

Etching on paper, épreuve d'artiste, 1973 LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015). He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art...

Jenny Holzer (American, b. 1950) AKA, 2006 Medium: Set of five etchings, on Magnani Pescia paper (with title page, sheets loose, in original black silk-covered portfolio case) Dimens...

Born in Amityville, NY, in 1952, Tom Butter received his B.F.A. from Philadelphia College of Art in 1975 and his M.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, two years later. Since 1979 he has been teaching sculpture at PCA. Butter is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Emerging Artists (1980 and 1982). Special outdoor installations of his work have been part of the Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, NY (1983), and Art Across the Park, Central Park, NY (1982). One-person exhibitions have been held at the Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia (1983,1984,1985) and the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY (1983,1984). Group shows include: Affiliations, Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents, Whitney Museum, Stamford, CT (1985); Translucid, Sculpture at Washington Square, Washington, DC (1985); Transfiguration of the Minimal Style, Sculpture Center, NY (1984); Language, Drama Source and Vision, The New Museum, NY (1983); Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY (1983); American Abstraction Now, ICA, Virginia Museum (1982); Critical Perspectives, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (1982); Color, Light and Mass: Ten Sculptors, Hallwalls, Buffalo (1981); Art for the Eighties, Galerie Durban, Caracas, Venezuela (1980). His work is in our own Academy collection as well as those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Chase Manhattan Bank; Prudential Insurance Company of America; and the Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN. Bibliography: Forgey, Benjamin, “Prismatic Showcase,” The Washington Post, April 25, 1985. Martin, Richard, Arts, November 1984. Raynor, Vivien, The New York Times, November 18,1984. Goodman, Marilyn J.S., New Art Examiner, June 1984. Donohoe, Victoria, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14,1984. Donohoe, Victoria, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18,1984. Raynor, Vivien, “Totem,” The New York Times, February 17,1984. Kramer, Kathy, “Lifesigns,” Arts, February 1984. Messinger, Lisa, “Notable Acquisitions,” 1982 – 84,” Metropolitan Museum of Art. Linker, Kate, Artforum, November 1983. Brenson, Michael, “Critics Choices,” The New York Times, August 21, 1983. Saunders, Wade, Art in America, April 1983. Lichtenstein, Therese, Arts Magazine, March 1983. Levin, Kim, “Voice Choice,” Village Voice, January 12-18,1983. Rifkin, Ned, New Work/New York, catalogue, The New Museum, 1982. Russell, John, “New Work/New York,” The New York Times, March 19, 1982. Boyd, Julia, American Abstraction Now, catalogue, The Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, 1982. Silverthorne, Jeanne, “Butter/Burlin,” Artforum, October 1981. Raynor, Vivien, “Butter/Burlin,” The New York Times, September 11, 1981. Cohen, Ronny H., Drawing, Summer 1981, survey article. Denson, Roger, Color, Light and Mass: Ten Sculptors, catalogue, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1981. Huntington, Richard, “Color Mass, A Satisfying Show,” Buffalo Courier...

Etching on paper, épreuve d'artiste, 1973 LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015). He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art...

LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015) He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...