FINE ART GALLERY

At the Benzaiten Center we bring in 4-6 world-renowned glass artists a year for residences, workshops and to perform major, glass-blowing demonstrations.  As a result we have begun to collect a world-class stable of artists.  Below are some of the artists that we have on exhibit in our 2,000sf gallery.  We also have some extremely talented staff members whose work is listed below.  We also have quite a number of two-dimensional works by well-know artists which came from our founder's stable of gallery artists.

Dan Alexander

Dan Alexander attended Kent State University and received a BFA-Glass Concentration. In college he was able to further explore glass as an artistic medium while being introduced to other materials, art history, color theory, and composition.

Post graduation, he studied with some of the top glass artists in the field today and even worked in Murano italy. He spent several years working for the Corning Museum of Glass where he held the Lead Gaffer position traveling the world and educating the public about the science and history of glass art.


Dan has now branched out from his studio manager role and has made a name for himself as an independent artist. In recent years he was awarded an emerging artist residency at the Duncan McClellan Gallery, the AACG professional artist residency at Goggleworks Center for the Arts in Reading Pennsylvania, he was included in The Chihuly Collection “Made” exhibition and was also nominated for the Glass Art Sociecty’s Saxe Emerging Artist Award. His work is on display in fine art galleries across the USA and abroad. He is currently also exhibiting in Istanbul Turkey, Vienna Austria, and Melbourne Australia. 



JB Berkow

JB Berkow has been a working artist for over 50 years. She has become well known for her romantic realistic oil painting of European land and cityscapes. She has had one-person shows in art centers, museums and universities in Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston and Florida. Her artwork is in some impressive permanent collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection at the Vatican in Italy, the Tsai Performing Art Center at Boston University, and the West Palm Beach Airport. She has literally sold thousands of prints through the Princess Cruise Lines.

 

In the last decade, since founding the Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts, she has been transitioning from full time painter to sculptor. Instead of casting her work in bronze, she is now learning to cast her work in glass. Most are limited editions of eight, which she then embellishes with works she makes in the center’s Flameworking Studio and the application of paint. This makes each piece a unique one-of-a-kind work of art. She works on several series at once. Her current series include: ‘Femme Fatales,’ a series of nudes inspired by her love of Film Noire; the ‘Four Seasons’ series in which she combines nudes with leaves and flowers depicting the four seasons; the ‘Geisha’ series with elaborately designed kimonos; and the ‘Banyan Tree’ series depicting trunks with intertwining nudes.  Just as in her paintings, JB's sculptures are narrative works.

 

Ms. Berkow is also a published author of three books, “Shades of Love,” “What They Didn’t Teach You In Art School” and “Painted Poetry.”

Martin Blank

Martin Blank has admired the grace and flow of the human form since childhood, digging into clay at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at age 13. In 1984, Martin earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. That same year, Blank moved west to begin his professional career in Seattle, working at the center for studio glass and learning from the driving force behind it; Mr. Dale Chihuly. Blank worked on the Chihuly team, bringing his infectious enthusiasm and courageous desire to push the material for several years, all the while establishing his own contributions to the glass movement. 


Blank's early figurative work swiftly solidified his place as a premier figurative sculptor working in glass. Blank then expanded his contributions to the contemporary glass scene in 2001 when he introduced his sensual and fluid abstract landscapes. Says Blank, “I am an intuitive artist. I work on the way forms relate to each other to cut a line in space that flows, turns and carries the eye around the piece. The forms reveal a negative space that is as vital and potent as the actual objects. My sculptural work is as much about the void as the mass.”

Martin Blank's work is about carving space. From the commanding musculature of a male torso, to the sensual curve of a vibrant scarlet abstract element, to the placid elegance of monumental glass trees, Martin Blank's creations evoke a direct connection to natural forms. He has created multiple installations in prestigious corporate lobbies and continues to provide impressive public art installations, one of which Fluent Steps, can be seen at the Tacoma Museum of Glass. Fluent Steps is a 200 feet long outdoor sculpture. Martin Blank continues to push the boundaries of glass as a material in contemporary fine art. 

Eli Cecil

Eli Cecil was born in Frederick, MD earned his B.F.A. from Salisbury University in 2012. Much of Cecil’s work orbits the dialogue of a conscious and sustainable future. His sculpture reflects on the balancing act between humanity and nature. Many of the themes are a narrative about growth, causality and the legacy left from one generation to the next. In 2018 the Imagine Museum recognized Cecil with the “Artist of the Future Award.” This same year the Duncan McClellan Gallery presented him with an “Emerging Artist Residency” in St. Petersburg Florida. Cecil was also a speaker and presenter at the Glass Art Society National Conference “Charting a Course to the Future” in 2019. He served as the ‘Creative Director’ at the Benzaiten Creative Arts Center in Lake Worth, Florida from 2020-2025. He has relocated back to Maryland where he now has his own studio.

Jason Christian

Jason Christian still doesn’t know if he chose glassblowing, or if it chose him.  To witness a person, handle molten glass, manipulate it, and form it as if it were water was amazing to him. Beyond his relationship with glass, the camaraderie within the industry enticed him to grow beyond himself. Throughout his career as a maker and artist, Jason has been inspired by many facets of his life; that being, growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his family, and personal life experiences. Nostalgia is what inspires his most significant works. Being fueled by emotion, he doesn’t know precisely why he's creating a piece; He just knows he must. He tries to interpret that feeling into his work so that it evokes the same emotion in others. With this fueling his creativity, he continually creates new works, inspiring new ideas. His confidence as an artist continues to grow, allowing him to bring pieces to life that seemed impossible when he first began. As long as his inspiration drives him, he will continue pushing the boundaries of my craft. His work is shown in the most prominent glass art galleries in the country.


Dan Friday

Dan Friday is a member of the Lummi Nation and a Seattle based glass also working with artists such as Dale Chihuly, Paul Marioni, and Preston Singletary. The themes and images of Friday’s work are often drawn from his Coast Salish heritage and are solidified in the world of glass art. Creativity was fostered in Dan by his family from an early age. Living without TV and knowing the rich cultural heritage of the Lummi Nation, he typically works with simple themes and forms, and often employs subtle silhouettes when making his totems.


Dan has taught at the University of Washington, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Haystack Craft Center. He has had residencies at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, the Burke Museum in Seattle Wa, the Corning Museum NY, and the Dream Community in Tai Pei, Taiwan. Friday has been awarded the Bill Holm Grant, the People’s choice award from the Bellevue Art Museum, and the Discovery Fellowship through (SWAIA) the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Recently he was prominently featured on the third season of Netflix’s “Blown Away.”

Chadd Lacy

Chadd Lacy received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In addition to working in a variety of studios in the United States, Chadd has been a faculty member and the studio technician at Cleveland Institute of Art since 2005. His work has taken him to schools and galleries in the United States, Holland, and Japan.



Duncan McClellan

Duncan McClellan is an American glass artist born in 1952, in Long Island, New York. McClellan’s multi-layered, stylized vessels combine intricately etched images with voluptuous, intriguing shapes. As with all glass art, his work takes on different attributes and meanings depending on the light source. Duncan had the opportunity to learn to blow glass at a studio in Ybor City, Florida in 1987. He has studied the creation of larger forms with Fred Kahl and John Brekke, two instructors and artists working at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop. He has been honored as the second American invited to study and work at the ARS Studio in Murano, Italy.


His processes enable him to place imagery on the inside and outside (and in some cases both) of his glass vessels. In his one-of-a-kind series of works, images are juxtaposed to articulate the message or idea. The focus is centered around the internal graal technique and overlay techniques, incorporating hand cutting, photo resist and computer graphics. They look like modern-day Grecian urns of antiquity – their colorful undercoating shows through the monochromatic sphericial shapes and lines. The daintiness of the lines carved and the glimmering, refracted light shimmering through their polychromatic materials give the artworks a unique preciousness. “The ideas of the pieces primarily have to do with the connectivity of things in nature,” says McClellan. “I’m inspired by nature.”


To finish these works, acid etching, fire polishing, and a six-stage grinding & polishing technique are used. His work depicts emotions relating to family, personal growth, and the spiritual connections between each of us as souls. Learning these techniques and through experimentation with the medium has allowed me more freedom of expression, to “better draw the viewer to what I envision and hopefully touch similar emotions" stated McClellan. His work has been shown all across the United States and can be found in numerous public and private collections.

Shelley Muzylowki

Shelley Muzylowski Allen was born in Manitoba, Canada, and has a B.F.A. in Painting and Intaglio from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (Vancouver, B.C.). In 1998, Shelley worked with the William Morris sculpture team in Washington State as a glass-sculpting assistant through 2004.


In 2005, Shelley established a glass and sculpture studio with her husband, artist Rik Allen at their property in Skagit County, Washington. In addition to being an artists, Shelley and Rik and have taught internationally at the Toyama Institute of Glass in Japan, Nuutajarvii Lasikyla, Finland and the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, England. They have also taught nationally, including the Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and at Pilchuck.


Shelley has been awarded Provincial and Canada Council grants, and her work is held nationally and internationally in public institutions and private collections. In 2008, Shelley had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, titled Modern Menagerie. Other selected shows include The San Juan Museum of Art, Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe and Scottsdale; Habatat Galleries, Michigan; Traver Gallery, Seattle; and Schantz Galleries, Massachusetts. In 2012, Shelley was a guest artist at Studio Salvadore in Murano, Italy, where she collaborated with Davide Salvadore on a series of large-scale sculptures.

"First Run" Blown Glass, Steel, Rock, and Horsehair by Shelley Muzylowski

"Hart Netsuke" Blown Glass and Horsehair by Shelley Muzylowski

David Patchen

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Edward Prado

Eduardo Prado was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1949. Among the leading contemporary studio glass artists Prado has been recognized for both his art and for championing Studio Glass as an art form. Prado’s artistic career spans over three decades and he works out of his Ft. Lauderdale studio and the Benzaiten Center for the Creative Arts in Lake Worth.

Prado graduated from FAU University of Sao Paulo, Brazil with a degree in Architecture in 1972. After graduation Prado worked as an architect and industrial designer and many of his works still survive in Brazil. In 1986 he curated Art in Glass in England exhibition at the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo (MASP), which was followed by Art in Glass in Japan,1988, and Art in Glass in Sweden, in 1989.

Today Prado’s work can be found in both public and private collections, and he is represent- ed by some of the leading glass galleries in the United States.


The theme of Prado’s recent works are vibrant designs of cultural icons, scientific drawings, painting, and writings captured within a sphere of glass, where past, present, and future meld together with references to Al Capp, Carl Barks, Banksy and Basquiat. 

Charlyn Reynolds


Charlyn Reynolds is a sculptor and installation artist who received her BFA in 2011 at Illinois State University in glass, under the instruction of John Miller. She is known for her animal creature that combine two animals in one. After graduating from ISU, she was hired by the Toledo Museum of Art as a studio technician and pate de verre instructor. Concurrently, she worked for the Corning Museum of Glass performing live glass blowing demonstrations on Celebrity Cruise Lines while educating the public about glass as an artistic medium. In between working, she has developed her skills further by taking intensive classes at many craft schools from world renowned artists such as Kimiake and Shin-ichi Higuchi as well as Martin Janecky. She was able to expand her glass sculpting skills during the two-month class with Janecky and later worked for him at his studio in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2019, Charlyn received her MFA in Intermdia/Glass from the University of Texas at Arlington. She now resides in Miami, Florida, working as a gaffer for Fine Art Handcrafted Lighting and continues to make her own artwork.

 

Reynolds’ recent exhibitions include two solo exhibitions: The Amber Grotto in Dallas, TX and Cutesies in Cincinnati, OH. She also exhibited in the second showing of Texas Contemporary Glass, at Artspace in Shreveport, LA: curated by Eric Hess. Her past artist-in-residencies include Neusole Glassworks in Cincinnati, OH, Studio Kura in Fukuoka, Japan, Gent Glas in Ghent, Belgium, The Melting Point in Sedona, AZ, and Circle 6 Studios in Phoenix, AZ. Her work has a delightful whimsy where she loves to combine two different animals combining them to make unique hybrids that make so much sense that you accept these dichotomies as truly believable! See example to left of her Macaw-crab or the two Chameleon-Rhinosoros pictured below.


Julia and Robin Rogers

In a small hot glass studio in Western Montana in 2001, the paths of Julia (Boriss) and Robin Rogers intersected and eventually merged. At this shop, called Cloud Cap Glass, their friendship grew, and their glass practices began to overlap. They both became part owners of the studio and worked together, operating the small business and creating glass works. In pursuit of Master of Fine Art degrees, the couple decided to leave their beloved Montana in 2005. They re-envisioned their glass studio and created a trailer-mounted, portable hot shop. With their tools, dogs and one year old son packed up, they set out for Southern Illinois. Following professional opportunities, the glassy family has lived in Carbondale, Illinois; Bowling Green, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Norfolk, Virginia.

In 2010, after nearly ten years of working together and assisting with each other’s work, the duo decided to start creating artwork collaboratively. In these bodies of work, every step of the process, from conception to installing, is completed by both artists. This method of working has led to the creation of artwork that Julia and Robin are excited to make and proud to exhibit. Through the synergy of this collaboration, the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts.


Davide Salvadore

Davide Salvadore is from a family of Venetian glassworkers. In 1987, he and two partners founded the studio Campagnol e Salvadore, where he works as a glass master. Salvadore is also a founding member of Centro Studio Vetro, in Murano, a nonprofit association that aims to promote the culture and art of glass.

"Ancella - Blu" Blown Glass by Davide Salvadore

"Ancella - Tasi" Blown Glass by Davide Salvadore 46x14x6 inches

"Chitamara" Blown Glass, String and Flameworked Beading 42x17x9 inches

Alexis Silk

Alexis Silk works in molten glass and metal to create figurative work that's timeless yet thought-provoking. A student of the human form, she combines close knowledge of anatomy with a passion for fire and an unquenchable thirst for meaning. Technically, Alexis is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Her glass figures are sculpted entirely freehand, while the glass is hot on the end of a blowpipe or a punty rod. With work ranging in scale to life-size torsos hanging in six-foot-tall steel frames, her largest figures are close to half her body weight and take a team of six assistants to handle the glass while she sculpts it. For her cast metal pieces, she pours molten bronze or iron.

 

 

While making intrinsically beautiful objects, Alexis explores issues of human nature, society, and the relationship of humans, nature, and industry. Her hanging figures, for example, are an eloquent exploration of objectification of the body. The glass simultaneously appears like skin and evokes a sense of something superficially applied, like a garment. Cast iron “meat” hooks are a visceral comment on the objectification of the body. The color on the interior of the torso is different from the exterior color, suggesting that if one goes below surface appearance there is more to be discovered. Steel frames represent conceptual boxes of perception that society puts us in.

Since receiving her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, Alexis has continued to study with glass masters such as Pino Signoretto, Richard Royal and Boyd Sugiki. She has been working full time as an artist since 2006. Today her is work displayed in museums, galleries, private collections and fine art shows around the world.

Rob Stern

Over his 28 year career in glass, Rob Stern has risen to the top of the field. From 1990-95 he trained at John Lewis Glass factory in Oakland, Calif., and has advanced degrees from San Francisco State University and the University of Miami. Stern has traveled, lived, and studied extensively in numerous countries, and has worked with the most accomplished glass artists and masters throughout the world. He trained to be a master in the Czech Republic where, in the glass factory Ajeto of Master Petr Novotny, he continues to design and execute monumental site-specific sculptures. Stern has participated in and led numerous workshops worldwide and travels annually to teach and serve as a gaffer at the most prominent institutions for glass – Pilchuck Glass School (Wash.), Penland School of Crafts (N.C.), Bildwerk, (Frauenau Germany), and The Glass Furnace (Turkey).


He was a professor at the University of Miami Glass program from 1997-2004 and was most recently a visiting professor at the Glass Department University of Texas, Arlington for 2010.

Since 2004, Stern has operated his own studio in the Wynnwood Arts District of Miami where he and his team create and execute all aspects from design to production and installation. He is frequently hired to work as a master craftsman to execute the designs of some of world’s leading artists. Stern has completed numerous public and private architectural commissions internationally while continuing to create original works including sculpture, furniture, and custom lighting. His work has been installed, exhibited, and collected in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is currently serving on the board of the Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts located in Lake Worth Beach, FL.

Paul Swartwood

Paul Swartwood was first introduced to blown glass in 2000, and was so taken by the process, he began studying glassblowing and sculpture at Salisbury University, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002. After graduation, he moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he worked producing crystal ware at the renowned Simon Pearce glass company for four years, before relocating to Maryland, where he now works and resides.


Over the years, Paul has been mostly influenced by Swedish and Italian techniques, admiring the luscious heaviness mastered by Swedish artists and the infinite combinations of color explored by Italian artists. He has shown his work in several galleries along the east coast and has been invited to demonstrate his glassblowing techniques in numerous studios, conferences and universities. In January 2009, Paul became a resident artist in Glen Echo Park, where he teaches all levels of glassblowing classes, as well as offers private lessons to those who wish to refine their style and improve their technique.



Fabiano Zanchi

Fabiano Zanchi was born in Venice in 1983, a son of an artist who decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and his ancestors, to become one of the most famous master Venetian glass chandelier working today. He is a third-generation Murano artist who began his apprenticeship at the age of 14 in Murano with his father, and then left the island in 2010 deciding to go and explore the world. After years spent in Asia and long periods between America, Canada, and the Caribbean islands, Fabiano returns to his homeland today, full of experience and the desire to finally give shape to his dream.

These two commissioned pieces were made in our center's hot shop. The one above was for someone who wanted a traditional chandelier but with a modern twist. The one below was for someone who wanted a traditional look.

These chandeliers can be commissioned in any size or color that suits your decor.

GLASS ART BY OUR OWN STAFF

Our talented staff members are great artists and we are all about showing their talent off!

ORIGINAL PAINTINGS AND PRINTS

All the 2-dimensional artwork shown below comes from our founder's previous gallery inventory.

They have been reduced in price to 50% or more below their retail value.

All proceeds from these particular sales will be donated to Benzaiten.  Ms. Berkow will not take any commissions.


IMPORTANT ABOUT THE ARTWORK SHOWN BELOW:

All Paintings and Prints are Beautifully Framed or Come Museum Wrapped

The Dimensions Below Do Not Include the Frames

George Green

A founder of the Abstract Illusionist movement that emerged in the 1970s, George Green is widely recognized for his non-objective paintings that incorporated layered geometric elements which appeared to hold three-dimensional space. Created across the span of his fifty-year career, Green’s work continually evolved, becoming more vivid and multidimensional over time as he ventured ever deeper into the realm of trompe l’oeil. Green's art tantalizes the viewer with references to commonplace wood-worked items such as cornices, finials, crown moldings, frames, finished blocks, and spheres, a curl of planed birch so perfect as to seem idealized. These artifacts appear in the best fool-the-eye style, nested in or erupting from or otherwise punctuating unreal, even impossible spaces, some of which are realistic sea and skyscapes. It's a surreal vision, powerful at-a-glance, yet rewarding upon closer study. His paintings embody a contemplative and intellectual manifestation of trompe l'oeil abstraction. What is left behind is far more explosive, with pictures that burst from their surfaces in breakneck movement and almost violent perspective. Represented by Louis K. Meisel Gallery since 1975, George Green’s work has been highly celebrated. During the course of his career, he had over 65 solo exhibitions, both domestically and internationally, in addition to the hundreds of group shows. His paintings are included in 60 museum collections, which include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, The Denver Art Museum, CO, and the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, amongst others.



Carlos Torres

While studying anthropology at Universidad Nacional Bogota, Torres gained a unique perspective on the energy and spirituality of the human condition which ultimately redirected his ambitions. No longer content to merely study the past, he desired to influence the present and contribute to the future and subsequently graduated with a Degree in Fine Art. This unique background and his intimate exposure to the artifacts of the ancients have inspired Torres' unique use of textures, tones and the energetic magnetism that is so palpable in his works. Each of his artistic creations evokes an emotional response from the viewer, a sense of spirituality from deep within, perhaps even the same type of spiritual feeling that Carlos himself experienced at dig sites in his native Colombia as a student. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums throughout all of South America and California. Carlos Torres was awarded First Prize honors, establishing him as “The New Master of Painting”, at the Salon Alzate Avendano in Bogota, Colombia (the most significant art competition in Colombia) and went on to represent Colombia in a prestigious art competition held in Cuenca, Ecuador and then was among only thirty artists who were selected to participate in a second competition in Madrid, Spain.

Joan Colomer Valls

Born in the Catalonia region of Spain, Colomer was intimately shaped by the pastoral countryside of deep forests and rolling hills that lent its name to the Olotina Landscape School, founded by painter Joaquim Vayreda over 125 years ago. Colomer learned to paint at a young age alongside of his two brothers under the tutelage of his father who was also an artist. He painted steadily mastering complicated techniques quickly. After receiving a degree in philosophy and liberal arts, Colomer based himself in Madrid and traveled extensively to study the styles of master painters while developing his own extraordinary talents. For Colomer painting is primal. “I live to paint,” he says. This consistent and driving force in his life led him to constantly self-analyze. “If I paint a landscape, it is because it has brought to my mind some remembrances and associations that I have to express urgently. I never know which way the painting will go while I’m working because sometimes the painting comes to life and develops its own destiny.”

JB Berkow

JB is an accomplished artist who has shown all over the country and has her work in many prestigious permanent collections. She has had great success in several art genres. For example, her modern art pieces garnered a one person show in a gallery on Madison Avenue, which lead to Gerald Tsai purchasing the 17-foot painting “Acid Rain” that hangs at his performing arts center at Boston University. Another one of her 17-foot abstract paintings grace the walls of the West Palm Beach International Airport. She is mostly well-known for her romantic realistic works of European landscapes and cityscapes. One such painting is part of the permanent art collection of the Vatican Museum in Italy. She has shown her work in galleries all over the country and has had several one-person museum exhibitions. Over a thousand limited edition prints of JB’s works has been sold on the Princess Cruise Ships. She has also published four books: “Shades of Love,” “What They Didn’t Teach You In Art School,” “Confessions of a Coffeeholic,” and “Painted Poetry.” The last one is a monograph covering the European period of her work plus poetry created for each image.

Sebastien Levigne

Sebastien Levigne was born in Rocheford sur Mer, France in 1975. Whilst studying for and ultimately gaining a PHD in Bio-Chemistry, Levigne at the age of 20 discovered the work of Jean-Claude Roy who left a big impression on him. For seven years he spent his evenings and weekends researching art and finding and refining his own artistic style. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Brittany and outside France and has shown his work in galleries all over the world. Sébastien Levigne uses a mixture of paint and collage to explore urban topics. His work focuses primarily on walls and the traces left on the walls by man. Letters and symbolic elements are the major characteristics of his work: figures and everyday/familiar colloquialisms, references to evolution and achievement such as ladders, stairs or the hopscotch. The subject of his work is anecdotal and at the edge of abstraction.

Giovanni Manzo

The painter Giovanni Manzo (born in Naples in 1966) is internationally known for his innovative style blending harmoniously three artistic techniques: photography, graphic art and painting. The photography reveals the reality and the movement, the graphic art gives the image a modern contemporary touch and the painting sets it all in a romantic view that belongs to the Italian cultural tradition. The artist prefers to paint the cities, revisiting them with a modern point of view like no other artist has ever done before. His technique draws a break with the traditional figuration: the most typical streets are reproduced from a contemporary perspective projecting a completely new image of the cities to the world.

Sabzi

Sabzi was born in Ahwas, Iran and the strong influence of his culture can be seen in his work. His paintings resonate with both Eastern and Western cultures, finding inspiration from his native Persian culture and his western role models, Cezanne and Matisse.Sabzi started painting at the age of twelve and was encouraged in his talents by his parents and inspiring teachers. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Jundi Shapur. His inspiration came at an early age, enamored by the Persian rugs his mother designed and weaved herself.His paintings reveal a seldom paralleled sensitivity. Captured moods and delicate faces are immortalized in vibrant splashes of colors. Sabzi’s subjects are almost always women inhabiting dream like states.

                                                                                     "Sedona Moon" by Sabzi Oil on Canvas 30"x24" $950


LIMITED EDITION PRINTS

JB Berkow

See previous bio. JB Berkow has created many Limited Edition Prints that have sold out in large editions. However, the large print shown below is part of a highly limited edition of only 25 giclee prints on canvas which has been embellished with a special gel coating that gives the feel of brush strokes.

Andrew Artshenko

Born in 1965 in the City of Pokrovsk, Russia, Andre became part of a gifted child program at the Children’s Art School there and was later accepted at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, one of the world’s most prestigious art schools. In 1999 Andrew spent the entire year in the U.S.. He was invited by the “Bay Arts,” a New England based group, to take part in their exhibitions. According to Andrew, “The year in America gave me more as an artist then all eight years of my formal studies.” After seeing Royo and Pino at Art Expo 2000 in New York, he chose the direction that his art would take. Since then Andrew has worked with dealers from Western Europe and the U.S., exhibiting and selling his paintings in galleries in Carmel, Scottsdale, Palm Desert, Las Vegas,n Hawaii, and Oregon.

                                                                                     "Baseline" by Adrew Print on Canvas 36"x30" $500

George Tsui

George Tsui was born in Hong Kong, and moved to New York in the late 60s, studying first at the School of Visual Arts and later majoring in oil painting at the Art Students League. Included in Tsui's works of that period are some movie posters, several paintings chosen for the 1984 Winter Olympics poster series, as well as limited edition art prints for the 1985 and 1986 Night of 100 Stars event for a tribute to The Centennial of The Actor's Fund of America. Tsui went on to work at NBC where he was awarded the prestigious 1997 Emmy Award for Best Individual Art and Craft. After twenty years in the New York art scene, Tsui embarked on a creative journey into China in the pursuit of reaching the next level in his artistic career. Always fascinated and attracted to the rare and exotic, the Chinese themes filled his imagination. His models always dressed in exquisite silk gowns from the artist's personal collection of 20 authentic imperial dresses.



Kashley

Kashley is an artist known for his stellar realistic cocktail paintings that are both striking in detail and have a unique ability to set the mood. As someone who appreciates a good cocktail, Kashley wanted to paint scenes celebrating moments simply enjoying a favorite spirit. As an artist searching for what drives his realistic style, he became captivated by transparencies and color variations in glass. His following is quickly growing and his cocktail series works can be found in galleries across the southeast and soon beyond.


Volker Kuhn

German artist Volker Kuhn was born in 1948 and studied Sculpture at the Bremen Academy of Arts, where he was honoured with the Young Advancement Award, given by the Bremen Senate.  He is well known for his series of ‘Art in Boxes’ three-dimensional wall pieces populated by small "findings", miniature figures and animals. His sculptures are informed by ‘object art’ and the work of assemblage artist Joseph Cornwell. References to Dada, Surrealist and Pop Art can also be identified within his vibrant and humorous wall sculptures.