Rowe, John Photo

  • John Rowe

  • John Rowe’s paintings have appeared on movie posters, books, billboards, magazines and advertisements throughout the country and around the world. Rowe has been an established freelance artist for 20 years.

  • Discipline: Painting

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, Vakhtang Photo

  • Vakhtang

  • Born in 1972 Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Vakhtang began learning to draw and paint with his grandfather, from still life to landscapes to portraits. Seeing the works of Levitan and Coro influenced his vision of art and helped shape him as a landscape artist, showing his feelings and inner world, giving people warm feelings and positive emotions. He experimented, trying surrealism, modern decorative styles, hyper realism, developing "Lyrical Landscape" - his true love in art.

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Cobarr, Gregg Photo

  • Gregg Cobarr

  • Gregg Cobarr has twenty-five years of professional photography experience with such music industry clients as Columbia and Epic Records, MCA, RCA, Capitol and Warner Brothers. In the TV and movie industry, he has done work for 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures.

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Lefcort, Allison Photo

  • Allison Lefcort

  • Allison Lefcort has painted since early childhood. The Greenwich Village Art Gallery in New York City first represented her professionally when she was seventeen. At twenty-six, she is becoming widely collected and recognized for her own style of portrait painting.

  • Discipline: Paintings

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Leslie Lew

 

Leslie Lew

Leslie Lew

Artistic Discipline(s): Paintings, “Sculpted Oils”

Born in New York City in 1953, Leslie Lew grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and in Chicago. Her father was a well-known executive art director, and her subject matter was influenced by the commercial ads and products that surrounded her. Her underlying theme deals with childhood memories, and growing up in America. She examines American culture and how it reflects on our tastes historically- good or bad.

For over twenty-five years, Leslie Lew has been painting in a technique that she calls “Sculpted Oils”. With thick, sculpturally rich swirls of vivid color, she captures the essence of whatever she depicts, bringing it to life. She received her BFA And MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Ray Yoshida, who was part of the non-mainstream art movement of the “Hairy Who”. It was there that she started her thick style with the “Supermarket” series in which she built out all the products with sculpted oil paint. During her graduate work, she was invited to participate in the SUNY/ Semester in New York City, a program much like the Whitney Museum, where she was given a studio, and had weekly critiques by respected artists of the time. She ended up staying in NYC and had her first solo show at Sensory Evolution Gallery, as one of the artists from the East Village Art Movement.

Leslie Lew lives and works near Peekskill, NY. She has been a professor at the College of New Rochelle, and was selected for the Westchester Bienniel 2006, and 2008. She received a grant for a children’s book she wrote and illustrated called, “Buki’s Garden”. Her work has been included in art book publications, “Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America”, “East Village: A Guide, A Documentary”, “East Village 86″ “Comic Release- Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, and “The Margulies Collection- at the Warehouse”, which will be released in November 2008.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Sofia, Bulgaria.

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