Mitchell Rosenzweig’s art doesn’t shout. It doesn’t need to. It speaks with quiet force—the kind that comes from confidence, not volume. His abstract mixed media paintings are built, not thrown together. They carry the kind of structure you might miss at first, buried beneath brushstrokes, scraps of paper, and fragments of imagery. But it’s there. Layered like geological strata. Each layer isn’t just texture or color—it’s part of the painting’s backbone. Rosenzweig doesn’t rely on spectacle. His paintings don’t hit you over the head. Instead, they draw you in. The longer you look, the more you realize they’re working on…
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Alan Brown’s journey into art began in the quiet of a darkroom. It was there, watching photographs slowly appear under the red light, that something clicked. The process was slow, physical, and quiet — and it left a deep mark. That early moment wasn’t just about learning a skill. It was about seeing differently. That first experience launched a career that has now stretched across four decades. Brown earned his BS in Communications at Syracuse University, concentrating on Advertising Photography and adding a minor in Art History. It gave him both a technical and historical grounding — one eye on…
At 80 years old, William Schaaf is still moving forward. He’s been at it for sixty years—painting and sculpting horses, always returning to them like a compass needle to north. His work is physical, emotional, and often spiritual. It’s about connection. With nature, with himself, and with the cultures that have inspired him deeply—particularly the Zuni and Navajo, whose fetishes and dolls taught him that small things can hold big meaning. Schaaf’s horses don’t gallop across wide canvases or leap from polished pedestals. They stand solid, often still. Weighty. Present. Whether in drawing or sculpture, they carry the marks of…
Peshi Haas doesn’t follow trends—she follows alleys. Her art is grounded in the physical world but pulled through a lens of abstraction and intuition. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts (SVA), Haas has shaped her own lane in contemporary painting by blending architectural abstraction with elements of travel and urban exploration. Her work isn’t about replicating places; it’s about reimagining them. What drives her isn’t just form or line—it’s the overlooked. Forgotten buildings, hidden courtyards, narrow paths that most tourists skip. She documents and transforms them, turning structural impressions into layered color, movement, and texture. Haas has spent…
Michael Sabin doesn’t just make art—he wrestles with material. Whether it’s molten glass or thick daubs of paint, Sabin brings a tactile intensity to his work that is unmistakable. Based in upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes region famously known as Mark Twain Country, Sabin’s artistic life has always been shaped by his surroundings. Raised in a small town, his early exposure to natural beauty, quiet landscapes, and working-class culture carved a path that would ultimately wind through both glass and paint. At 23, Sabin took a job in the glass factories of Corning—an experience that would shape his…
José Brito Santos doesn’t paint for decoration. His work isn’t soft-spoken or polished for comfort. Based in Portugal, Brito brings an urgency to his practice that feels more like a confrontation than a quiet observation. His tools are not just brushes and paint—they’re newspaper clippings, thick layers of black ink, slashes of color, and the deep noise of lived experience. You don’t look at one of his paintings so much as fall into it. Each piece is a field of conflict and memory, soaked in contradiction. His surfaces hold residue—of culture, of violence, of dreams unfinished. His work isn’t clean.…
Paul ‘Gilby’ Gilbertson is a painter with a curious mind and a love for the outdoors. Born with an experimental streak, Gilbertson has spent decades refining his craft across various techniques. One happy accident in the early 1970s changed the course of his work: he discovered how salt interacts with watercolor. Dropping salt onto wet pigment created unexpected bursts of texture. That moment stuck with him. Over time, he mastered this reaction and made it a trademark of his painting style. What began as a bit of fun became a thoughtful, calculated element of how he builds images—adding atmosphere, mystery,…
Carolin Rechberg moves through art like a traveler collecting textures, sounds, and sensations. Born in Starnberg, Germany, she doesn’t stay long in one place—at least not creatively. Her practice spans ceramics, painting, sculpture, performance, photography, poetry, sound art, textiles, and more. This isn’t eclecticism for its own sake. Rechberg’s work is rooted in process. For her, the act of making carries as much—if not more—meaning than the finished piece. She treats art as a living conversation: one that evolves through her body, her voice, her senses, and her engagement with the material world. Her work doesn’t demand interpretation as much…
Camille Ross was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, and grew up caught between two very different worlds: radical Berkeley and the deep South of Mississippi. This constant push and pull between progressive activism and entrenched racism shaped the way she sees the world. Ross is biracial and part Cherokee, and her sense of identity—complicated and layered—runs through all of her work. It’s not just a background detail. It’s the root of her purpose as an artist. She studied at Goddard College and later earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991. Since then, she’s been awarded…
Linda Cancel was born in 1959 in Moscow, Idaho. From an early age, she was captivated by the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Her fascination with light and shadow began at just fifteen months old, watching fireworks over the Snake River. This early exposure to the dramatic interplay of light sparked a lifelong passion for capturing atmospheric beauty in her paintings. At twelve, Linda started private oil painting lessons with William F. Pogue. His influence shaped her foundational skills and artistic vision. Pogue’s passion for the Golden Age of Illustration and the Wyeth family’s work left a lasting mark on…