Artist Name List and Art Gallery
Our artist name list includes famous contemporary artists and not so famous ones - from conceptual to graffiti artists to photographers - as well as those working in abstract expressionism and other genres. Several of the artists listed below are selling or will soon sell their work from this online art venue.
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We maintain a very high standard of quality for artwork presented and discussed on Contemporary-Art-Dialogue.com
Artists represented here include:
- Those who imbue their works with honesty, integrity and energy, who speak to their viewers through their art pieces...
- Those who have solid presence in their local art communities and beyond, as well as on the Internet...
- Those with whom we have established personal relationships. See the artist name list below.
Unique Online Art Venue
We combine an online art gallery with quality art journalism to produce a unique online art venue. Our art journalism topics include photography, postmodernism, graffiti art, abstract art and profiles on specific artists.
We believe that every professional in our artist name list has an interesting story to tell about his or her creations.
- What inspires and motivates each artist?
- What life experience drives each artist?
- What is the artist communicating in a particular work of art?
Some of the artists listed below have chosen to make their works available for sale through our art venue. Contemporary Art Dialogue editor Liz Goldner interviews these artists to help them express their individual stories.
The result is accessible quality art works, enhanced by narratives describing the styles, techniques, movements and intentions that these artists work with and in.
But the artists’ stories are not complete with just the words you read here today. Their stories are continually enhanced by your dialogue and interaction with them and with each other.
I invite and encourage you to submit comments, questions and to dialogue with the artists and other art lovers.
- How does the artist speak to you?
- What emotions does his or her work invoke in you?
- What statement do you think the artist is making?
We believe that an artist sells art by establishing relationships with potential customers. Art lovers and consumers buy art from people they trust and respect.
Artist Name List
Please enjoy the following artist biographies. These descriptions give backgrounds on artists whose works are or will be available for purchase, as well as on other artists featured on our art venue.
Kathryn Aiken, American, 1950-2005, studied fashion, art and photography at FIT and Parsons School of Design in New York, and later with master photographers. Living in New York, she photographed people in theater, advertising, corporate, music and other glamorous fields. Later, living in the Washington D.C. area, she added portrait and wedding work, eventually concentrating on fine art and portrait painting. She was married to Michael Aiken for many years.
Jerry Burchfield, American, 1947-2009, co-founder of The Legacy Project, was co-owner, from 1973-1987 with Mark Chamberlain of BC Space Gallery, dedicated to showing emerging contemporary photography. From 1987-2009, he was Photography Professor at Cypress College, CA. He is author of several books and has received an Art in Public Places Award from the Architecture Foundation of Orange County, CA, was the Honored Educator at the Western Regional Conference of the Society for Photographic Education.
Mark Chamberlain, American, 1940’s, co-founder of The Legacy Project, is founder/operator of BC Space in Laguna Beach, CA., presenting art exhibitions and providing high quality photographic art services for museums, galleries, artists and collectors. His own photographic artwork, including "Dubuque Passages," "Dream Sequences," and "Future Fossils" is in numerous public and private collections. He conceived and was project manager for The Tell, a 636-foot-long photo mural in Laguna Canyon in 1989.
John Connell studied photography at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. His work has graced several publications, including Coast Magazine, Riviera and Landscape Architect. He has shot for the Irvine Company, the Mission Viejo Company, The Koll Company and Lennar Development. His photographs are in the 2007 Visitor’s Guide of the Newport Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau and in several coffee table books on the wonders of Norway, the beauty of Irvine Ranch, the charm of the Crystal Cove Cottages and other topics.
Luis Cornejo, El Salvador, is from San Martin, a famously poor and violent part of the city that is known for gangs. He has a fine arts degree from the National University of El Salvador, has won several art awards in that city, creating paintings of hyper realistic fashion models with playful proportions and luminous faces, inspired by Disney drawings. He exhibits in Central America, Mexico and Canada, often to sold-out crowds, and lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Paul Darrow, American, 1921, is a painter, muralist, watercolorist, etcher, photographer, collage, mixed media assemblage artist and collector of endless stuff. He was a professor at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, is an avid sailor, yoga enthusiast and dabbles in Eastern philosophies. He has lived in Laguna Beach for many years.
Lisa Dowling, American, obtained her MFA in Poetry from Cal State Long Beach. Winner of six poetry awards, her poems have appeared in RipRap, Pearl, Spillway, and Vulcan literary journals. Her photography has appeared in trade textbooks and in numerous galleries. An avid traveler, Lisa has lived in four countries and plans to experience many more. She currently teaches composition and literature at Orange Coast College. She is married to Tom Dowling.
Tom Dowling, American, has an M.F.A. from UC Irvine with postgraduate studies in art history and film. He has taught in England, Ireland, Italy and the U.S., has exhibited his shaped canvasses and photographic collages nationally and in Europe. He dialogues internally with Picasso, Braque and Mondrian about lines, shapes and multiple views of images. He says, "To be allowed to teach art as well as make art is twice blessed.” The painting of him here is by Bradford Salamon.
Shepard Fairey, American, 1970, is a street/graffiti artist who emerged from the skateboarding scene. His first famous image/promotional campaign is "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign. His “Obama Hope” poster became widely known in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, especially after he was arrested for appropriating this image from a photo on the Internet. His work is in The Smithsonian, the LA County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Karen Feuer Schwager, American, is a multi-faceted artist, who currently expresses her emotions, experiences and dreams through what she calls a neo-expressionistic style. Working on canvas, Plexiglas or Polaroid film, her work has a sensual and highly tactile quality that has evolved over a lifetime of making art. A fine arts grad of Temple University, she has lived and exhibited in New York, France and Switzerland. She lives in Laguna Beach and exhibits widely in that area.
Jacques Garnier, American, grew up in West Los Angeles with European parents, values and traditions. He is an honor’s graduate from UC Santa Barbara and has a Master’s in French Literature. As an artist, lecturer and photographer, his formal and poetic images of abandoned spaces, concentrate on redistribution in the American landscape, on vestiges of populations gone and quickly-forgotten. His photographs are in museums, academic institutions and galleries in the U.S. and Europe. He lives in Orange County, CA.
Marcus Antonius Jansen, American, 1968, was born in New York City, and later transformed his life from a soldier in the first Gulf War to an internationally celebrated painter. He works with violent brushstrokes, often changing textures spontaneously. He is noted in Art Marquis and in Who's Who in American Art. His works, commissioned by Ford Motor Company and Warner Brothers, Hollywood are also in permanent museum collections around the world. He lives in Florida.
Rob Johnson, American, Southern California resident, is a photographer, musician, printmaker and educator. He is Photography Department Chair at Cypress College and former darkroom assistant to Ansel Adams. He teaches digital photography and imaging and its relationship to the larger field of photography. His images are largely landscape based and explore how reality is perceived and sometimes unintentionally altered through photography. He has exhibited at galleries and universities throughout the country.
Greg Martin, American, grew up in New England surrounded by artists. His mother was and still is a still-life painter, creating large canvasses of flowers and fruit. As a teenager, he started working in his Mom’s gallery, and painted his own landscapes that often echoed the other works for sale there. In 2004, he began creating abstract works, working with a variety of mixed media. These spontaneous works are increasingly attracting a local following. He lives in San Clemente, CA.
Doug McCulloh, American, was an honors graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds an M.F.A. in photography and digital media. He has exhibited in the U.S., Europe, China, and Mexico. Heyday Books, Berkeley, published his fourth book, Dream Street. He has curated 13 exhibitions of photography, including three for the California Museum of Photography, and has received funding from the California Council for the Humanities. He lives in Riverside, CA.
Mira Lisa Schiratis, American, creates brightly colored, abstract expressionist paintings using oils, acrylics, palette knife and brushes. After studying art with Francois Gilot, Picasso’s former lover and apprentice, Mira’s works became mystical and iconographic, filled with symbolism and figures, reminiscent of jewels. She says, "Primitive people created art to connect to the spiritual world. They were in rhythm with nature." She grew up in Southern California, lives in Laguna Beach, and often runs alongside the ocean and breaking waves.
Clayton Spada, American, has more than 30 years of formal training and practical experience with digital techniques related to applications in digital signal processing, still and motion-based imaging, desktop publishing and the visual arts. His works have been published in annuals, periodicals and textbooks, featured in cable and network television spots in the U.S. and abroad, and are held in several institutional collections. He lives in Orange County, California.
Pat Sparkuhl, American, 1948, creates art that is most often political. Using a diverse mixture of media, techniques and methods, he assembles complete objects that he selects because they best convey particular themes, and promote curiosity and philosophical discussion. The issues he addresses in his works include the human condition, effects of war, religion, inhumanity, and the impact of societal changes. No topic is off limits; no topic is too sacred. He lives in Laguna Beach.
Roger Weik, American, 1949, was an abstract artist from a young age. He studied at Southern Illinois University, receiving a B.S. and an M.F.A. He has always created non-figurative pieces, and has for years worked with thickness, texture and organic forms, with oils, acrylics, silicone, oxide powdered pigments and asphaltum. He creates paintings, sculpture and monoprints, has exhibited Internationally and currently has his works in 38 museum permanent collections. He lives in Orange County, CA.
Barbara White, American, has been an architectural photographer for 25 years and a fine art photographer for 10. She studied photography at Orange Coast College and took many workshops with Vincent Versace, David Muench, and others. She is a world traveler, especially to Asian countries, has taught architectural photography at Orange Coast College, and has won several awards for her fine art photos. She is mother of two, grandmother of three, and lives in Laguna Beach.
Andy Wing, 1931-2004, six feet five, was born in Connecticut to writer parents who believed in gardening and promoted victory gardens in World War II. He received a B.A. in art from Bard College, NY, and an M.F.A from Cal State Long Beach. He settled in Laguna Beach in the late 50’s where he lived for the rest of his life. He devoted his life to creating shaped canvasses, often in the color field style, to gardening, his friends and relatives, bicycling and spreading radical ideas.
Tanya Wilkinson, American, worked for years in hand papermaking, making paper from any conceivable fiber. Then, she made large collages, experimenting with printmaking, working in assemblage, using paper cast into sculptural forms, incorporating found objects. Many of her pieces with feminist themes have been shown in the Bay Area where she lives. She also makes unique books/sculptural objects, and is currently writing Joy in the Making: Artist’s Dreams and the Recovery of Delight in Art-Making.
Eadweard York, American, has constantly pushed the boundaries of contemporary art with a confrontational, avant-garde, crude pop punk surreal, anti-art style that is unique, easily recognizable, and visionary. He is the founder of what he calls the “Destructionist Art Movement,” and has had numerous exhibitions with loyal underground fans. His paintings, performances and art installations are often outrageous. He lives in and exhibits in Southern California.
