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Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry
Painter
Location: New York (US)

Colleen’s paintings combine the rigor and sophistication of European masters with the power of contemporary art. His influences range from Michelangelo and Kathe Kollwitz to portraits of Andy Warhol. His subjects include family members, friends, fellow artists and his two children. A lifelong New Yorker, Colleen grew up immersed in the music scene of the early 2000s. At 21, she created paintings for film companies in New York and Hollywood. His work has appeared in major Lil Kim and Die Romantik motion pictures and music videos. In 2011, she received an Affiliate Fellowship to reside at the American Academy in Rome with her husband, Will St. John. She learned to paint by studying the old masters in European museums for 10 years. Colleen paints from her studio in East Williamsburg Brooklyn. She is currently the design director at Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York.

Website→  https://www.colleenbarryart.com/

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Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal 

Painter
Location: Krakow (Poland)

Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnow, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow until 1999, but before that he studied architecture for two years at the Polytechnic in Krakow. During his studies, Sasnal became involved in the artistic collective called Ładnie Group. The title meant pretty or pretty and the band embraced the exact opposite aesthetic. Rather unconventional, and was active until 2000. After that Sasnal worked for advertising agencies but simultaneously produced paintings. Photographs, films. Over time, as his career developed, the artist’s work became part of the public collections of institutions such as the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

20th century propaganda.

Sasnal approaches painting as a formal exercise. He often borrows subjects from art history. Also, to 20th century propaganda and photojournalism. Avions is a dark appropriation of Alighiero Boetti’s famous airplane designs. Overturning the original pastoral optimism, Wilhelm Sasnal’s planes are engulfed in smoke as if hit by enemy fire.

High culture.

He deconstructs the hierarchy of “high culture” by filtering it through the association of mass media. Through painting, Sasnal explores his own interpretation and understanding of imagery. Her work constantly questions the space between “personal” and “public”. Thus, he strives to define individual experience within a global order of collective consciousness.

Website→  https://www.instagram.com/wilhelm_sasnal/

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Ferrán Gisbert

Ferrán Gisbert

Painter
Location: Spain

The materiality of painting in the work of Ferrán Gisbert escapes language. Meaning to claim the creative process of painting as a pure form of expression and performative intervention. The form is generic for the styling action. Using a craft brush matching the artist’s cue. The performative act is printed directly on the walls, recording the movements of the artist, full of gesture, speed and vitality.

The hand of the author.

The questions that the work of Ferran Gisbert addresses are the intention that animates the hand of the author, of any author. He is driven by the influences of the time in which he lives. The imprint left by said intention in the place, evoking the physical presence of the artist. Gestures, understood as clues that recall the maneuver of the artist. The relationship of his body in a struggle for control of the properties and proportions of the place. His work then generates a concrete way of inhabiting the intervening space when the viewer, contemplating the painting, reconstructs the corporeality of the author there.

Website→  https://www.facebook.com/ferrangisbert.paintings

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