Field-Of-Study: Fine Arts

New York–based artist Lilla LoCurto was born in San Francisco de Macaira, Venezuela. She received a B.F.A. in sculpture from Arizona State University, studied additionally at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and received an M.F.A in sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Since 1991 she has collaborated with William Outcault in producing interactive

Nora Krug is a writer and artist whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and le Monde Diplomatique, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster, and Chronicle Books. She is the creator of the graphic novel Red Riding

Originally from Banjaluka in Bosnia, at the age of eighteen Kobaslija fled the war-ravaged country in 1993 and arrived in refugee camps in Nuremberg, Germany. Afterwards, he traveled to Dusseldorf where he attended the Art Academy. In 1997, Kobaslija was offered asylum by the United States and immigrated to Florida. Once in Florida, Kobaslija completed

Joel Janowitz investigates how pictorial space can carry meaning and psychological charge.  Throughout his career he has painted in series to explore how color, light, and paint itself develop and change one’s experience of each work, as subject matter remains the same.  His series have included ocean swimmers, greenhouse interiors, water, hands, cafes, Maine porches,

Channa Horwitz  is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. She received a B.F.A. from CalArts in 1972 and has been making logically derived compositions for the past five decades. Her visually complex, systematic works are generally structured around linear progressions using the number eight.   In 1968, Horwitz (then Channa Davis) submitted a proposal

Born in San Francisco, California, Kathy Goodell attended The San Francisco Art Institute, receiving both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree in sculpture. Interested in consciousness and transformation, her work invigorates perception and the process of seeing, both through the naked eye, and through optical devices (lenses), investigating the links between sight and interior vision.  She

Charles Gaines’s work since 1990 has investigated how affect is a product of cognitive disruptions that can be considered discursively in works of art.  Through the use of language and systems Gaines explores how arbitrary relationships become meaningful.  These disruptions highlight the arbitrariness between the image and its meaning by preserving the cognitive framework of

Cora Cohen is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Long Island City, New York. Born in Manhattan in 1943, Cohen received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Bennington College. She had her first important exhibition of abstract paintings at the Everson Museum of Art in 1974. In the 1990s, Cohen became increasingly interested

Leigh Behnke is a New York City based painter whose roots go back for multiple generations to rural New England. She was born in Hartford and raised in Manchester, Connecticut, until art school tempted her away at age eighteen. She graduated from Pratt Institute, and received her graduate training at NYU. Starting in graduate school

Siemon Allen is a South African artist who is based in the United States. For the past ten years he has been exploring issues of national identity and branding through a series of collection projects. His research-based studio practice has evolved out of an interest in how mass-produced items — newspapers, stamps, records — function

Kim Abeles’ installations and community projects cross disciplines and media to explore biography, geography, and environment. Experimentation with unusual materials and new processes are central to her art. She has created artwork in conjunction with a unique range of collaborators such as the Bureau of Automotive Repair, Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project, California Science Center,

Daniel Wiener grew up in Los Angeles County but has lived in or around New York City for close to thirty years. Daniel’s first show was at the Stephen Wirtz gallery in San Francisco, held shortly after his graduation from University of California at Berkeley in 1977. In 1982 Daniel was awarded a fellowship for

I was born in 1936 in San Francisco, California. In 1957 my first art lesson was with Leo Valledor, who encouraged the study of Late Matisse etchings. Since 1958 my work has been displayed in twenty-six community actions, forty solo exhibitions and installations, and seventy-five selected group exhibitions. I received my B.F.A. degree (Education) from

Judith Shea has made a study of the human form in many guises and materials. From simple, iconic textile "clothes," and hollow bronze forms enveloping an absent figure, to carved wooden "anti" monuments, her work has often ironically quoted art history to comment on life now. In her most recent body of work, Judith Shea:

Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, my earliest childhood memories of family camping trips helped shape my love of the great outdoors. Taking in the intensity of nature as a child awakened a deep sensory connection to the physical world. Working from life, my L.A. paintings explored the urban landscape, city views at

Naufús Ramirez-Figueroa is an artist whose installation, video, and performance work delves into folklorism, sexuality, magical practices, the welfare of children in war, the experiences of refugees, and poetry. He received a B.F.A. from Emily Carr University in 2006 and an M.F.A. from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Naufús  has

For over fifty years I have been making small objects mostly out of clay, which, in the beginning, had reference to ceramic vessels. Over the years my work has evolved to forms, which are less referential to pottery but still maintain much of the idiomatic elements that have been associated with ceramics. As time has