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 Carol Radsprecher
A woman of many faces, Carol Radsprecher debuts on PaintingsDIRECT.com with a body of representational and abstract self-portraits that often do not include her face. These sophisticated works reveal the artist’s personality imbedded in fantastical images and raw forms. Radsprecher received both her BFA and MFA from Hunter College. She has exhibited her work prolifically throughout New York and New Jersey. |
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Leonid Lamm
Mulit-media artist Leonid Lamm creates avant garde political imagery based on his life and the socialism that he was raised with in the USSR. Through photography, and handmade silk-screens and lithography the artist addresses the issues of imprisonment, freedom and utopian ideals. PaintingsDIRECT.com featured Lamm in an exclusive that highlighted his recent body of 20 lithographs made in homage to Dostoyevsky’s novel, The House of the Dead. Lamm is an internationally known artist whose works belong to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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Elizabeth Wolfson
A new body of summer bouquets and seasonal still lifes show Elizabeth Wolfson’s continued interest in nature. The artist’s flowering subjects are secondary to her love for the process of painting. “I love the process which to me can be a mystery or a puzzle and I enjoy the design or fantasy I can create with color, shape and line.” Wolfson has exhibited her work throughout Massachusetts.
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 Samuel Gillis
Samuel Gillis’ latest work reveals his interest in American culture through portraits of everyday people in their familiar environments. He began to exclusively pursue his art career at a very young age. The artist’s experienced hand illustrates the personalities and small-town comforts of the Midwest using the classical technique of chiaroscuro. Gillis studied at the Atelier Alternative in Chicago.
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 Mary Ellen Neff
American artist Mary Ellen Neff creates unusual works on paper, weaving and layering different materials onto the paper's surface to create an abstract image resembling a reverse cutout. The artist’s nontraditional approach places organic and geometric shapes side by side and on top of one another, playing with our sense of positive and negative space. Neff studied at Webster University and has exhibited her work throughout Maryland and Washington DC.
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 Stepan Lazarev
Stepan Lazarev's "philosophical," realistic still-lifes are both intellectual and charming. Each object in his compositions has a meaning and each meaning has a place in history. Arrangements of vegetables, books are done in a stunning tromp l’oeil. Stepan Lazarev studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and was commissioned by the town of Vitrolles, France for a stone memorial to the soldiers of the Algerian War.
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