What the 50 memorable painters from 2015 painted in 2016
A new visit to the most memorable painters of 2015
We revisited with some of our 50 Most Memorable Painters from 2015 to see what they have been up to. From the sampling of the artwork you see here, they are still as memorable as ever. It has been a tough year for many. As publisher, I thought it best to not bring you another list this year. Instead let’s treasure what we already have and hang on to it for little longer. I think Ron Francis‘ painting cumulates how most of us feel about 2016. Please read the statements of each artist’s recap of their year and take a look at last year’s edition here.
For next year we are going to publish a 100 Great Figurative Artworks anthology. Notice that we are focusing on the amount of artwork and not the number of artists. Steven DaLuz will be selecting the works. Information is coming to us from everywhere and I think it is important to have some sort of anthology to offer our readers, galleries, art enthusiasts and collectors so they may have a starting point and then they may take it further from there.
For me, I already have 2017 firmly planted in our calendar with group shows in New York, Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles with a possible one still in the works in Florida. We are also now publishing heavily on our blog which is feeding information about our community of artists and poets to Apple News. Lorena Kloosterboer one of our staff writers will continue to publish articles about our artist in our blog but more importantly I have given her the position of the head writer. Take a look at her introduction and blurbs about the art in FORMATION at Bernarducci.Meisel.
I already have my eyes set past 2017 but first let’s reflect on the art we created in 2016 and see where where our hard work will take us next.
2016 was probably one of my busiest years to date. I started out the year with a solo show, Immerse, at Fontbonne University in my hometown, St Louis, MO. This spring I opened my first studio outside of my home after working in my home studio for the past 20 years of my career. I participated in a few group shows; Brine curated by Victor Grasso and TWELVE at Robert Lange Studios. In September my first Museum show, Modern Frescoes, opened at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art in Marietta, GA. The show ran for 4 months and included 54 paintings, spanning my 7 year journey of working with watercolor on clay.
— Ali Cavanaugh
2016 was a big year for me. I graduated from the Academy of Art University with my MFA which was extremely exciting. I started teaching my own workshops in my studio in Albuquerque, NM. I was in several group exhibitions and received a number of awards through Oil Painters of America, NAOPS, and Galeria Artelibre in Spain. My work has evolved into more personal stories of my life, like a diary.
— Shana Levenson
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