Month: December 2017

Rainer Fetting

Rainer Fetting, “Wolf”, 1984

 

Rainer Fetting, a painter and sculptor, was one of the co-founders and main protagonists of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, founded in the late 1970s by a group of young artists (mainly painters) from the class of Karl Horst Hodicke at the former Berliner Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Berlin Art Academy, today known as  Universitat der Kunste). This group of artists, known as the “Moritzboys” and including, among others, Salome, Bernd Zimmer, and Helmut Middendorf, subsequently achieved international acclaim as the “Junge Wilde” or “Neue Wilde” in the early 1980s.

Fetting is now one of the internationally best known contemporary German artists, having created a large oeuvre of expressive figurative paintings covering many different kinds of subject-matter, as well as many bronze sculptures.

Cody Kinsfather, “Dom Blanchard”

Cody Kinsfather, “Dom Blanchard”

Cody Kinsfather is an internationally recognized and published photographer. He has worked with some of the top modeling agencies in the world. His home base is currently Austin, Texas; however, most of his time is spent shooting between Miami and New York City, returning to his home office only to edit the images he has captured abroad.

Cody Kinsfather describes his style as simple, clean, and balanced. He takes his time not only on set while capturing his work, but also perfecting each image in post.

W. Somerset Maugham: “Things That You Can’t Come to Know by Hearsay”

Photographer Unknown, (Headphones and the Man)

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can’t come to know by hearsay…

—W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

Michael Carson

Michael Carson, “Wallflower”, Oil on Canvas, 2014

Minneapolis based artist Michael Carson captures the fleeting moments of stylish modern day people. While there is a sense of immediacy in painting them, there is also a timelessness in their 40s and 90s-esque glamour. His subject’s fashion is one of the ways that Carson injects himself into his works; patterns in clothing and the interiors of rooms are particularly prevalent, reflecting his interests in design and fashion.

His figures are lounging in bars, clubs, backstage fashion shows, and dance studios, earning the artist comparisons to French painter Edgar Degas. Carson, however, likes to think of himself as a figurative painter more than an impressionist.