Mark Keller ~ Figurative painter

Mark Keller, American painter, is a self-taught artist from San Francisco who provokes the imagination with masterful subtlety and grace. Multi-award winning with widespread International acclaim, Mark’s work is about telling stories - intrigue for the audience to unfold.
The depth and superb execution of his work, full of cryptic clues and mystery, has established him as one of the world’s leading artists. From Buenos Aires tango bars to New York street musicians he evokes audible and visual emotions like few others.

Renso Castaneda, 1970 | Figurative painter

Renso Zevallos Castaneda, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima. Graduateded of the National School autonomous superior of Beautiful Arts of Peru in the specialty of Painting of 1989-95.

- "I started to paint a long time ago, I don not remember exactly when, what I remember is always there were paintings in my home.. why?

My mother is an artist like my father, my uncle, my aunt… unfortunately not too much people knows about them, well it was impossible to choose another thing to do, I always enjoyed make copies from famous artists and now I like to do realistic paintings to imitate the texture of the skin, the shadows, the lights. I feel a great satisfaction when I finish a painting besides it is not a easy work to do".

Juan Medina, 1950 | Hyperrealist / Surrealist painter

Mexican painter Juan Medina was born in Mexico City. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.
With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.

Mark Keller, 1955 | Storyteller painter

Mark Keller is a self-taught artist from San Francisco who provokes the imagination with masterful subtlety and grace. Multi-award winning** with widespread International acclaim, Mark’s work is about telling stories - intrigue for the audience to unfold.

Joey Havlock, 1967 ~ Abstract Surrealist painter

Born in Manassas, Joey Havlock, American Abstract /Surrealism painter, experienced a childhood that provided an optimal environment for the later development of his artistic expression. The sphere of creative and character diversity to which he was exposed has inspired many of his individual works as well as series such as his Liquid Geometry and the Master Minds.

Daniel Gerhartz, 1965 | Impressionist painter

Born in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, where he now lives with his wife Jennifer and their young children, Daniel F. Gerhartz's interest in art emerged as a teenager.

Studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and his voracious appetite for museums and the modern masters such as John Singer Sargent, Alphonse Mucha, Nicolai Fechin, Joaquin Sorolla, Carl von Marr as well as a host of other French and American impressionists have inspired him.

Mahmood Sabzi | Abstract Impressionist painter

Born in Ahwaz, Iran, Mahmood Sabzi Iranian painter, started painting at the age of twelve; encouraged in his early progression as an artist by his parents and inspiring teachers.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Jundi Shapur.

"The best part of agriculture was the purity of its primal spaces", he says, explaining his early sensitivity to artistic concepts.

An accomplished abstract painter, Sabzi's passion for the spiritual is represented in the open spaces, symbolism and intricate patterns that make up the backgrounds of his compositions.

Juxtaposing the complex feelings, body language and attitudes of his predominantly female figures against a backdrop of shapes and forms in space, Sabzi uses texture, lines and color to make artistic statements about love and beauty.

Giuseppe Gigli, 1955 | Hyperrealist painter

Giuseppe Gigli was born in Arcevia (Ancona) in 1955, where he still lives and works.

In the mid 70's, after the first paintings and exhibits, he attended various schools and workshops in Florence where he specialized in the restoration of works of art.

Giuseppe spent the following 30 years as an art restorer, consulter, and dealer, proving himself on an international level and collaborating with art historians, superintendence, auction houses, galleries and museums.