2023 Robert Striffolino “RIPPLE PLAY"
2023 Robert Striffolino Poster - size 40"x 40"
Robert Striffolino was born in New York in 1950 and was raised on Long Island. Although from his childhood he could draw spontaneously with extraordinary skill, he never took a formal art class, feeling that his drawings were so personal he could allow no one—not even teachers—to interfere with his art.
“The affinity I have always felt toward Nature continues to fuel my creative drive. Painting continues to intrigue and impassion me providing new ways to stretch and grow. For this I am grateful. It has been a constant companion and certainly my major mode of expression throughout the years.” Robert S.
2000 Frederico Vigil Signed Lithograph
2000 Frederico Vigil Signed Lithograph
Born and raised in Santa Fe, along what used to be the barrio near Canyon Road, Vigil specializes in frescoes. He first discovered the art of fresco painting during an internship in 1984 with Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Pope Dimitroff (themselves apprentices to renowned muralist Diego Rivera).
Inspired by these and other fresco masters, Vigil has since completed more than two dozen major fresco pieces, including one of the largest concave frescos in the world (inside the Torreón at Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center, a fresco that spans 4,000 square feet).
One of his most recent works is located at the University of Notre Dame.
2007 Harry Greene Signed Lithograph Print
2007 Harry Greene Signed Lithograph Print
Known for rural villages and his folk art-style of painting, Greene was born in New Jersey and received his education in painting at Syracuse University before moving to New Mexico.
2002 Doug Coffin Signed Lithograph Print
2002 Doug Coffin Signed Lithograph Print
Coffin, a painter of contemporary art and a sculptor, often draws from his sense of “apartness” as a Potawatomi/Creek Indian. A feeling from his having spent his first 20 years living on the grounds of the Haskell Indian College boarding school in Lawrence, Kansas, where his father served as the school’s athletic director. (During the summers, Coffin would stay with his grandmother on the Potawatomi Reservation.)
Best known for his monumental, brightly painted steel and mixed media sculptures, Coffin has honed a style that merges the ancient totemic form used by many Native cultures with the abstraction and geometric forms of the modernist. He earned his BFA from the University of Kansas and later an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the world, including the Grand Palais in Paris and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
2005 Susan Contreras Signed Lithograph
2005 Susan Contreras Signed Lithograph
Born in Mexico City to a mother who was a portrait painter and a Mexican jeweler father, Susan Contreras moved with her family to Santa Barbara, California when she was age 5. The family traveled frequently to Mexico where she became fascinated by ceremonies involving masks, such as the Day of the Dead. It was the bringing together of drama and color, and that combination underlies her paintings.
In 1968, her family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico so her sister could attend the School for the Deaf. Susan got interested in photography from a high school class. Then she studied at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara and completed a degree in photography, later receiving a BFA and MFA from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also studied at Maine’s Skowheagan school of Painting and Sculpture. Her greatest academic influences, though, came Nathan Oliveira and Wayne Thibeaud at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts while her early work as a photojournalist gave Contreras an interest in visual narrative that has informed her paintings from the beginning.
