2009 Resource Guide Featured Artists

The Artist Hines
The Artist Hines is a full time artist originally from New York City now living in Sausalito California. A figurative painter and surrealist for most of his life, Hines’ work in 2001 began to shift towards abstractionism as a means of fulfilling his need for even greater artistic expression. His Modern Abstracts are hosts dramatic compositions created by layers of color over textures of thick paint and collage emphasizing the sensuality of surface. His paintings reflect his passion for both the medium of paint and his love and need for spontaneous expression.
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Scott Tallman Powers
Scott was born January 5th, 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama - United States. He is a BFA graduate of the American Academy of Art in Chicago Illinois, USA. He spent many years as an illustrator in a Chicago ad agency before pursuing his dream of a full-time fine artist. He is a board member and signature member of the Oil Painters of America. Scott is currently working as a fine artist and instructor at The Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago as well as in workshops around the country and abroad.
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Charles Burwell
"Charles Burwell's paintings are dynamic and elegant abstractions which he builds laboriously by layering oil paint onto tightly stretched canvas supports. His work derives from a sophisticated understanding of picture making, and although Burwell is a tactile artist with formal design at the fore of his thinking, he is ultimately an intellectual artist. His intelligence is ever present and clearly visible in his images. While his earliest artistic influences were Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey, Agnes Martin, and Jack Tworkov, Burwell's newer work reflects a responsiveness to computer imagery and graphic work, especially Pop-like cartoon imagery. This mixture of the graphic and the elegant produces a tension that is purposefully never resolved."
-J. Susan Isaacs, Ph.D. Professor of Art History and Curator of the Department of Art Galleries, Towson University Adjunct Curator, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
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Max Ginsburg
Max Ginsburg’s paintings are about people, the people one finds on the streets of New York. Simply put, he finds beauty in unglamorous reality. His paintings explore the range of daily human life, concerned as much with life’s ironies and social injustices, as with its many joys. He paints people that he can identify with, real people with regular lives. Although he attended art schools his real mentor was his father. Abraham Ginsburg was a successful portrait painter who taught Max the skills needed to paint in the traditional, realist manner, and kindled within him a love of realism that would shape his work for the rest of his life.
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Groundswell
Groundswell Community Mural Project is a Brooklyn-based, non-profit founded in 1996. Groundswell brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities in partnership to create high quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods. Their work inspires youth, communities and artists to take active ownership of their future and equips them with the tools necessary for social change. For ten years, Groundswell has served young people and communities who testify to the power and lasting impact of the mural projects. Groundswell not only designs programs, it teaches people how to organize service projects themselves.
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The Alcorn Studio & Gallery
While born in the U.S., Stephen Alcorn spent his formative years in Florence, Italy. It was there that he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte, an experience that left an indelible impression upon him, infusing his work with a passion for bold technical experimentation in a wide range of mediums. It was there that he also met his future wife, Sabina Fascione, a native of Pisa, Italy.
Sabina Fascione is a textile designer by trade. Prior to cultivating a career as a botanical artist, Sabina worked for prestigious textile design firms in both Como, Italy, and New York. Her botanical paintings are the natural outgrowth of the many years spent dedicated to the translation of complex floral motifs into highly stylized patterns.
Since 1986 Stephen, Sabina, and their two daughters, have lived and worked in the village of Cambridge, in upstate New York. Working in a variety of disparate, yet mutually complementary styles and techniques, Stephen and Sabina work side by side in a multi-faceted, 19th century carriage house, where they incorporate a unique blend of studio related activities and rotating exhibitions of their work.
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