17 July, 2013
Boris Vallejo attended the National School of Fine Arts in, Lima Peru before immigrating to the United States in 1964. He arrived in the US with a suitcase of clothes, some samples of his artwor ...
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9 October, 2018
We are pleased to announce the addition of William Davis as an ARC Living Master™!
William Davis grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typica ...
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28 March, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Kenneth Salaz our newest ARC Living Master!
"Ken Salaz was born in 1970 in southern California and spent his youth living in numerous locations with hi ...
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20 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Katsu Nakajima as a new ARC Living Master™!
"Around 2008, realizing that his mission in life was to become an artist, he started producing oil paintings while learnin ...
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14 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Ricardo Jose Mujica as an ARC Living Master™!
Born and raised in New York City, Ricardo Jose Mujica studied art at the High School of Art and Design under Max Ginsburg a ...
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29 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Ana Schmidt as a new ARC Living Master™!
Ana Schmidt is a figurative painter known for her realistic depictions of urban landscapes. In the artist´s paintings the presen ...
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6 September, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Juan Carlos Martinez as an ARC Living Master™.
Juan Carlos Martinez is an award-winning artist, an art educator, and a specialist in traditional portraiture and figurative ...
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21 November, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso as an ARC Living Master!
Gabriela Gonzalez is a narrative artist, using representational figurative subjects. She received her BFA from the Scho ...
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12 March, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Richard Hall as a Living Master!
"For 35 years, I enjoyed a successful career in fine art, exploring the opposing worlds of abstract art and traditional still life.
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15 October, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Luis Alvarez Roure as an ARC Living Master.
Mr. Roure is a figurative and still-life painter better known for his portraits of internationally known figures. In 2020, The ...
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18 February, 2021
We are pleased to welcome Chad Fisher as our newest ARC Living Master!
"I am inspired by nature to create a visual language to communicate with the world around me. My early interest in ...
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18 November, 2013
Victoria Radionova's first and main teacher was her father, who was an architect-designer.From the cradle she was surrounded by reproductions of paintings by great masters from the past. A Little S ...
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20 September, 2011
We would like to officially welcome Sivananda Nyayapathi as an ARC Living Artist™.
Siva is a juried member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta (PSA), a signature member of the Atlanta Fine ...
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12 July, 2011
Sing Over Me
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We would like to officially welcome Mary Jane Q Cross as an ARC Living Artist™.
Q Cross's work embraces beauty personified in primarily womanly su ...
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13 March, 2014
Master of the Mountainby Jiaming WangJiaming Wang was born in Liaoning, China in 1962. He completed his art research at Nagoya Visual Art University in 1992 in Japan. He has exhibited extensively th ...
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16 May, 2014
Faripour Forouhar's home is in New England but he grew up in the high mountains of Middle Asia. He travels to the Rockies, Alps and Andes and the shore lines in the USA and Europe yearly for his pai ...
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10 April, 2014
Sabbath by Clark GussinInfluenced by many contemporary artists, Clark felt a special affinity to Andrew Wyeth and to a lesser degree James Bama, and Norman Rockwell. The rural countryside and the pe ...
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30 January, 2014
Carol Lee Thompson is a classical realist trained in the methods of the Old Masters. She is a full-time professional artist residing in her native Maryland but travels extensively to paint and furth ...
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9 May, 2013
We would like to welcome Anara Abzhanova as an ARC Living Artist™ . Abzhanova was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. From her early years she knew she wanted to be an artist. Anara has been deaf from child ...
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7 October, 2014
Charlene Helfend Lane's first heroes were the traditional artists she saw in books and museums. Winning an art award at the age of nine confirmed her desire to be an artist. However, life brought h ...
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9 December, 2014
The Bow by Ekaterina Vassilenko SearcyARC is pleased to welcome Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy as our newest ARC Living Artist™.The emotional thrust of her drawings and oil paintings respect the style ...
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25 February, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome John Joseph Hunn as an ARC Living Artist™.John Joseph Hunn is a Midwest artist predominately working with the human figure. Graduate of Fontbonne University in 2000, he ...
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3 March, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Jennie Smallenbroek as an ARC Living Artist™.Jennie Smallenbroek is a fulltime professional artist residing in her native country, the Netherlands, but travels extensively to ...
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31 March, 2015
We are pleased to welcome Albert Yi-Fu Chen as an ARC Living Artist™. Albert's art is centered on the human figure and human conditions, pursuing the notion of the existence of the figure that reflec ...
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1 May, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Elaine Hahn as an ARC Living Artist™!
Cinque Terra by Elaine HahnElaine Hahn is a Signature member of the American Women Artists, the American Society of Marine Artists, t ...
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18 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Laurie Anspach as an ARC Living Artist™.Laurie's career began by earning a BA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She created designs for leading fashion industry ...
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28 April, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Daniel Martin Stephanian as our newest ARC Living Artist™."By backing away from the art for a couple of years, that allowed me to miss parts of the task. ...
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6 December, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Alan Merris Bell as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Alan Merris Bell is a fine artist from Portland, Oregon. He attended the San Francisco Academy of Art and ...
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6 March, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Kanyo as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Lemons by Svetlana KanyoSvetlana believes that human experience and emotions are most naturally and profoundly expressed throu ...
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11 May, 2017
Clos Vougeut by Gayle
MadeiraARC is pleased to welcome Gayle Madeira as an ARC Living Artist™.Gayle Madeira is an award-winning artist, dancer and choreographer based in New York City. She receive ...
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2 June, 2017
All in a Day's Work by Sammy Watson The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Sammy Watson as an ARC Living Artist™.Sammy Watson has been inspired through the years by artists such as Norman Rock ...
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27 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Stuart Dunkel as an ARC Living Artist™! "... nothing exists until light is draped over it. From the nothingness of black we build up to the perceived objects. As in love, ...
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24 February, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Marilyn Ines Rodriguez as an ARC Living Artist™! Marilyn Ines Rodriguez is a professionally trained classical sculptor whose main focus is the traditional representation of ...
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23 May, 2012
We would like to welcome Carrie Pearce as an ARC Living Artist™.Pearce's paintings can be described as expressive realism with surrealist imagery. She combines nature and and human form to c ...
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9 March, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Anand PKC as an ARC Living Artist™!Anand PKC is fully dedicated to realism and wishes to paint his subjects as true to reality as possible."Creating virtual reali ...
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4 December, 2012
We would like to introduce our first painter of miniatures, Debra Keirce, to the ARC Museum. Her works are usually 4 x 6 inches or smaller. For their size, they are painted with tremendous detail as m ...
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26 October, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome George Angelini as our newest ARC Living Artist™. George Angelini's current work has brought him full circle to why he loved art in the first place, by evoking a mood ...
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4 August, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Alain Amar as our newest ARC Living Artist™."A dreamlike and spiritual artist, he has a sincere and idealistic desire to offer through his artworks: peace, serenity, jo ...
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28 December, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Gulay Berryman as our newest ARC Living Artist.
"Art has been my way of acknowledging the world around me. I have always been a very visual person from a young ...
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12 March, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Robbie Fitzpatrick as our newest ARC Living Artist!
"It has been a road of many curves and corners that has led me to watercolor. Along those bends, I kept turning ...
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15 November, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Zu Sheng Yu as an ARC Living Artist™!
Zu Sheng Yu constantly challenges himself in an artistic sense. His versatility and creative passion lead him through life to create ...
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28 January, 2019
ARC is proud to welcome Sandy Sherman as our newest ARC Living Artist™!
Sandy Sherman, a native of New Hampshire, has been painting in a realistic manner since 1980. Her forte is still life paintin ...
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24 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Robert Dale Williams as a new ARC Living Artist™!
Robert Dale Williams studied classical drawing and painting techniques at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School ...
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13 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Carlos Bruscianelli Torrealba as an ARC Living Artist!
Carlos Bruscianelli is a Realist painter born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1980. In 2000, he began to study Civil Engin ...
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27 September, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Tatiana McWethy as an ARC Living Artist™!
Tatiana McWethy was born in the Ukraine in the town of Berditchev in 1967. At an early age she won prizes for her art in Hungary, ...
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27 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Edi Matsumoto as an ARC Living ArtistTM!
Edi Matsumoto was born and raised in Japan. Her maternal great-grandfather was a traditional Japanese artist who painted birds, ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Nathan Bertling as an ARC Living Artist!
Nathan Bertling studied under American master Benjamin F. Long, IV at The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC. Lear ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Anil Surendran as an ARC Living Artist!
"The thought process prior to sculpting a portrait or figure I find the most creative aspect. How does the person see himself ...
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15 September, 2021
ARC is pleased to welcome Dan Simoneau as a new ARC Living Artist.
"Dan Simoneau was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, where he began formal art classes at 11 and, at 13, joined the Androsco ...
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25 October, 2021
ARC is pleased to welcome Rosemarie Armstrong as an ARC Living Artist.
"Rosemarie is a painter of landscapes and seascapes; her paintings convey the constant transformation of the natural worl ...
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22 March, 2022
ARC is pleased to welcome Zhi Li as an ARC Living Artist!
Becoming a professional artist has been Zhi Li’s dream since childhood. She was fortunate to have grown up in an artistic environment wh ...
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31 July, 2013
Le Ravissement de Psycheby William BouguereauWe have recently added a letter by Eric Alexander Santoli, who has written in on what it is like to be a young artist today who looks towards the pas ...
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5 June, 2014
Vessels by Julio Reyes"I must take the opportunity to tell you what an honor it is to be a part of your collection, and how truly grateful I am to you and to the ARC Salon Competition. ARC helped m ...
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29 November, 2012
Just wanted to thank you all again for the wonderful work you do and the incredible display of work your site contains. Every visit to your site is a little present I can give myself.Best wishes,Thom ...
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10 April, 2013
Le Gouter
by William BouguereauI just read your article on William Bouguereau - written many years ago, but perfectly relevant today. It affected me enough to write this email. WB played a major r ...
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17 October, 2013
My name is Abigail Camden and I am a senior in high school with a passion for fine art. I am currently on a search for schools to attend next year and I’m feeling a bit discouraged. Coming across ...
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13 February, 2014
Hello,I just wanted to say I greatly appreciate your creation of this extraordinary renaissance, revival and renewal of quality in the art world. I do not have the words to describe how exceptional ...
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24 March, 2014
Read a recently added letter about whether or not the use of photography in art is a tool, a hindrance, or a cheat."Photography is probably the most controversial subject among realist painters toda ...
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30 November, 2015
"Mr. Fred Ross,
I just came across your website a few days ago and it is amazing!!! I also just read your piece Why Realism? and it speaks volumes. As an artist for over 30 years, I just could not un ...
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29 August, 2011
ARC is proud to announce the arrival of the newest addition to the website, the ARC Exhibition Page.
Click to see the Exhibition Page
In an attempt to better assist in art education, we though ...
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16 September, 2011
We would like to officially welcome Mikel Olazabal as an ARC Associate Living Master™.
His art covers a wide variety of themes, having the description of the figures and the narration of t ...
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20 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome James Van Fossan as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
"I have gravitated towards the natural, the heroic and most importantly, the human. As long as the subject mat ...
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5 April, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome ARC Associate Living Master™ Donald Clapper! Clapper's work has received national as well as international recognition and has been featured in many museums and p ...
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12 November, 2013
Pears in Plasticby Dario CampanileBorn April 21, 1948 in Rome, Italy. Dario started painting in oil at age 14. He spent time concentrating on painting in classical style influenced by Caravaraggio a ...
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27 December, 2012
ARC would like to welcome Lance Richlin to the Art Renewal Center Approved Artist™ and Living Master's™ Gallery.Lance is an American artist and teacher. He is the author of a book on portrait drawing ...
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7 January, 2013
We would like to welcome John Pototschnik to the Art Renewal Center's Artist and Living Master's Gallery™.Many may remember his work from the recent 2011/2012 International ARC Salon, where he won t ...
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7 February, 2013
We would like to welcome Bryan Larsen to the ARC Website. Bryan has been drawing and painting since childhood. As a young person he was also fascinated with math and science and always found creativ ...
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26 April, 2013
Jason Patrick Jenkins was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, and discovered drawing in a time before he can remember. About his work he has said the following:"I want to contribute to a revival ...
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10 December, 2013
Spring Covering by Sergio RoffoItalian-born artist, Sergio Roffo, was born in 1953 and immigrated to the United States in 1961. He has been inspired by the work of such American traditional painters ...
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8 January, 2014
Roger Dale Brown is avid about traveling, studying, teaching, and competing in national painting competitions. These experiences expand his knowledge of history, nature, and architecture, which insp ...
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6 May, 2014
Vicki Sullivan is an Australian Realist painter who focuses on portraiture.She is a member of Portrait Artists Australia and the Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters founded in 1902, ha ...
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8 May, 2014
Born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia, Olga Rybakova learned how to paint in an art studio as a childhood. Rybakova drew nature in the open air and drew animals at the zoo winning an art competition while ...
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8 July, 2014
Veil of Expressions 2by Marcos DamascenaMarcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia in 1981 and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest na ...
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16 October, 2014
John Rowe has created work for such companies as Disney, National Geographic, and Harper Collins, along with numerous private and public commissions.“A great painting much like a great movie, book o ...
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31 October, 2014
ARC is pleased to welcome Jerry Luisi as an ARC Associate Living Master™. "The subject matter of all my art is primarily the human figure. My work is a reflection of my basic view of the positive na ...
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20 July, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Mary Ross Buchholz as a new Associate Living Master™!
Drinking Buddies by Mary Ross BuchholzMary Ross Buchholz is from a pioneering, ranching family heritage and those time- ...
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25 August, 2015
Wildfire by Xiang ZhangARC is pleased to welcome Xiang Zhang as an Associate Living Master!Born in the year of the Horse, Xiang Zhang grew up in China. After graduating from The Central Academy of D ...
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17 November, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Eric Armusik as an ARC Associate Living Master™.Born in 1973, fine artist Eric Armusik grew up in the northeastern coal region of Pennsylvania. Once one of the largest coal m ...
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21 January, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Jane Jones as an Associate Living Master™!Harmony by Jane Jones"The flowers in her paintings all come from her gardens, or a local orchid grower, and are infused with the cry ...
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4 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Cameron as our newest Associate Living Master™! “Svetlana Cameron (b. 1978) is a Russian-born British portrait artist dedicated to the revival of traditional fine a ...
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12 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Richard T Scott as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Working between New York and Paris, Richard is a painter, writer, and designs coins for the United States Mint. He ...
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23 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Tina Garrett as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!In the few short years since Tina's introduction to oil she has studied intently the Selective Start Method described ...
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4 March, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Edward Little as our newest Associate Living Master™!Edward Little is a professional artist and designer with over thirty five years' experience. Focusing on the dramatic e ...
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2 May, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Doug Zider as our newest Associate Living Master™!"I live a stone's throw from the water of The Great South Bay. The bay itself runs along the southern coast of central Long ...
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12 August, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Gabriel Picart as an ARC Associate Living Master™.Gabriel Picart was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1962, where he still lives and works. He considers himself a realist painter ...
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16 August, 2016
We are pleased to welcome David Cheifetz as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™.David is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist. A former architect, David began learning to paint in 200 ...
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26 August, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Gezien van de Riet as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!"The beauty of nature always mesmerizes me. To capture that beauty requires long and close observation. In that ...
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20 January, 2017
Storm Approaching by Heidi PalmerARC is pleased to welcome Heidi Palmer as an ARC Associate Living Master™!"Light, air, and the meaning of time are the three elements that I try to address in my paint ...
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16 February, 2017
Bella by Carla D'aguannoCarla D'aguanno began her career as a movie poster artist and then as an illustrator of young adult and romance covers for several New York publishing companies. After she marr ...
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18 May, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Barden as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Elizabeth Barden is a fine artist with an established studio practice. Her work is in several collections includin ...
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17 July, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Leszek Piotrowski (Lesstro) as an ARC Associate Living Master™. Spices of Arabia by Leszek PiotrowskiThe technique and subjects of Lesstro's paintings and drawings are ...
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11 April, 2012
ARC is happy to welcome ARC Associate Living Master™ Ed Copley!Copley developed his depth of understanding technique through restoring old master paintings and now incorporates this knowled ...
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30 August, 2012
We would like to Welcome a new Associate Living Master™, Jon Bøe Paulsen, to the ARC Artist and Living Master's Gallery. This Norwegian artist has exhibited in many locations from Norway to England to ...
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9 October, 2012
Over the last 15 years Garin has been working primarily in the "Public Art Realm" as a Muralist creating large scale commissioned works for municipalities in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington ...
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15 April, 2015
An Elderly Woman from Southern Iraqby Ali Ghassan Al-Zobaede The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Ali Ghassan Al-Zobaede as an ARC Associate Living Master™!Born in Babel, Iraq, Ali Ghassan A ...
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27 September, 2018
ARC is pleased to announce Charles Kapsner as a new ARC Associate Living Master™.
“'Remember nature is your teacher, I am your guide',was a prevailing theme in the studio of Nerina Simi (1890 ...
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24 January, 2013
Renowned artist, Thomas Kegler, is a self-taught painter, producer, and certified teacher residing in Western New York. He is a Senior Fellow and instructor for the Hudson River Fellowship. Kegler' ...
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25 October, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Arina Gordienko as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™. Arina Gordienko is an internationally acclaimed artist who is often known under her artist's name of 'ARINA ...
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30 November, 2016
Curiosity by Terje Adler MorkARC is pleased to welcome Terje Adler Mork as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Terje Adler Mork was born in Odda, Norway in 1949. He has a background within ...
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22 September, 2017
Zimou Tan was born and raised in Canton, China and apprenticed to Chinese Master Artist Le, YiFeng at age 12. At age 14 he immigrated to America with his family. Mr. Tan graduated from the Academy of ...
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