Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg | 1925-2008, It is difficult to gauge the worldwide impact of Robert Rauschenberg who has literally changed the face and direction of contemporary art. His enthusiasm for popular culture and his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting. He found his signature style by embracing materials traditionally outside of the typical artist’s reach.

Eric Forstmann

Eric Forstmann challenges us to look at the familiar with fresh eyes. Everyday items are subject matter worthy of capture in his still-life paintings and his landscapes express light, clouds, hills and trees with the subtle interplay of form and light. Eric honors the technical expertise of the Old Masters but with a contemporary vision.

Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers (1923-2002) This American artist was born in New York City, in 1923, as Yitzroch Loisa Grossberg. He began his artistic career as a jazz saxophonist and changed his name to Larry Rivers. He turned to visual art in the 1940s. Responding to the Abstract Expressionists, Rivers explored figurative work as evidenced in a series of nude studies from 1954. He was an excellent draftsman inclined towards the culturally provocative.