Category: Meet The Artist Series
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Meet the artist: Howard Fineman
With an innate appetite for photography, Howard Fineman can’t help but find photo-worthy images just by living his everyday life. In this short conversation, he discusses his journey into digital photography: where he has been, where he is now, and where he plans to go. Howard’s enthusiasm for photography is palpable! What was your path…
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Meet the Artist: Nedret Andre
With her contagious enthusiasm for painting and environmentalism, abstract artist Nedret Andre harnesses enviable energy directly onto canvas. She is somehow able to create paintings that are both abstractly seagrass, but also figurative at the same time. For Andre, color exploration is a mainstay of her paintings, and when she adds in her signature mark-making, she is…
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Meet the Artist: Terence “T” Musto
T Musto left college dreaming only of motorcycles, despite his newly earned degree in business administration. In the ten years since, he has devoted himself to perfecting his craft, building up his own motorcycle fabrication and customization company, and creating novel solutions to streamline motorcycle design. In his spare time, however, Musto has used his…
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Meet the Artist: Fernando Fula
Like many artists, Fernando Fula’s drive to create has been lifelong. “As a child growing up in a multifamily home,” he shares, “I would draw pictures and host exhibitions in my grandmother’s living room. I would run around the house notifying everyone of my show, and would charge 5 cents a picture.” Through the years…
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Meet the Artist: Joan Deborah Ganon
Joan Deborah Ganon insists she is not an artist. “More a rather good copier,” she contends, describing her practice of transplanting iconic images from modern masterpieces onto footwear. The line between artisanship and artistry has always been nebulous—but definitions aside—Ganon’s work is consistently fun, accessible, and innately functional, bringing fine art into the everyday. Ganon’s…
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Meet the Artist: Mateo Recka
The art of Mateo Recka is dreamy and fluorescent, reflecting the artist’s deep nostalgia for the culture of his childhood in the early 90s. He returns again and again to the image of an all-American Saturday morning, chasing the delight of waking up to the vibrant innocence of the morning cartoons and the calming aura…
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Meet the Artist: Stephanie Christopher
Stephanie Christopher was beginning to lose hope in her efforts to find her unique creative voice when she developed orb art. Compressing recycled paper into tiny spheres, she discovered that when combined in the magnitude of thousands, the orbs could be used as a medium themselves, adding bold texture and vibrancy to any composition. In…
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Meet the Artist: Stephanie Osser
Stephanie Osser is an artist of many talents who has built her practice on tackling new media and making them her own. Her start was in illustration, working for the New England Aquarium to design engaging visuals for their exhibits alongside freelance work that brought her from children’s books to cookbooks to trade publications. Many…
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Meet the Artist: LaShonda Cooks
LaShonda Cooks is an artist, insurance adjuster, and activist based in Dallas, Texas. Known for her poignant pointillism, her work seeks to explore our notions of beauty, norms, and identity. Cooks is also a longtime collaborator of Jamaal Eversley, the central figure behind Beacon Gallery’s Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S. exhibition opening on September 4th. The two artists have known…
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Meet the Artist: Melissa Shaak
Melissa Shaak became an artist, in her words, by accident. Following two decades of work as a senior administrator at Babson College, a chance encounter with a friend inspired her to explore artmaking. In the years since, Shaak has developed her creative practice into a full-time career, finding representation as a core artist at Fountain…