Award-winning actor and painter, Fernando Allende was born in Mexico City. Credited as being one of the first actors of his generation to cross-over and make the transition from Latin America to Hollywood, he has starred in more than thirty-two motion pictures and classic TV shows such as Miami Vice, Flamingo Road and The Hitchhiker. He has shared the screen with Hollywood luminaries such as Cesar Romero, Joanne Woodward and Tony Curtis among many others.

Allende, who is one of the most recognizable faces in Hispanic television and film, landed his first role at the age of 18 in the iconic classic film Maria opposite Taryn Power, daughter of Hollywood legend Tyrone Power. His first role brought him massive critical acclaim winning over 20 awards.

Before the pull for Hollywood proved irresistible, he starred in numerous telenovelas with Televisa. He also had a dozen best selling records, variety specials and won the Hispanic equivalent of the Academy Award® and EMMY® in the same year.

In 1979, Allende moved to Hollywood, where he became the most sought after Latin heartthrob of the day, working at times on multiple sets. He continued working in film and television as well as touring internationally, taking his musical talent around the world. In 2007, he hosted the Miss World International Telecast in China seen live in 163 countries.

“My art is vibrant, inventive, daring; but most of all dynamic" -Fernando Allende

Currently, Allende stars in the primetime International Television hit, Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse, which airs coast to coast, Monday through Friday in the United States on Univision Network.

His Gallery 1949 solo show will be his 19th solo exhibition worldwide.

Matthew Denton Burrows is a 25 Year old fine artist, illustrator, and muralist born and raised in Manhattan. Matthew received his BFA from Lehigh University where he had the schools first ever one man show just a year into his degree. Matthew then received an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay at The School of Visual Arts in New York. He chose this degree to increase his ability to tell visual stories through his work, most of which is densely saturated with social commentary and unusual stories. Currently, Matthew is working on an ongoing large series titled "Social Synergy." The first three pieces can be seen in the Fine Art category on this site. One of the pieces titles "Nature VS. Nurture A.D" will be in a group show at Baton Rouge Gallery called Salon 6, this January. Matthew also works for Centre-Fuge public art project in Manhattan and has done several murals for them as well, including his most recent in Miami's Little Havana during 2013 Art Basel. In addition, he has just completed an album cover for up and coming DJ High Klassified on the Fools Gold record label.

Chamberlain is considered one of the most important American Post-War sculptors, known for his intuitive compilations of interlocking metals and use of industrial media. The artist grew up in Chicago, IL, before serving in the United States navy from 1943 to 1946. After serving, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago between 1951 and 1952, where he began making welded sculptures, drawing influence from sculptorDavid Smith. Following his stay in Chicago, he enrolled in Black Mountain College in 1955, where he studied and taught for two years. Chamberlain moved to New York immediately afterward. At that time, he began including car parts into his work, crushing and welding pieces together to create abstract clusters. 

Chamberlain’s first solo exhibition was held in 1960 at the Martha Jackson Gallery. The exposure led to his work being included in The Museum of Modern Art's 1961 group exhibition, Art of Assemblage, a survey of artists working with two- and three-dimensional constructions, offering a new and forceful articulation of the ideas of Abstract Expressionism. While the artist was widely known for his use of automobile parts, metals, and Plexiglas in large-scale sculptures, he also experimented with other media, making geometric paintings scattered with automobile paint. His first retrospective was held in 1971 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, NY. 

He received many honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in Washington, D.C., in 1993, and a Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center in New York in 1999. Continuing his exploration of new media, Chamberlain undertook photography in the last decade of his life, creating large-format images that reflected the use of color in his sculptures. This final endeavor portrayed the sensitivity with which the artist approached his works, allowing their presence to express meaning rather than seeking to overcomplicate or trivialize the materials. The artist died in New York in 2011.

Tom Dash has always had a passion for art and his work reflects contemporary themes working with pop iconography, mainly in post production painting, photography, sculpture, murals and installation.He developed his skills in contemporary art and was influenced by the many years he spent as a lead assistant and fabricator for Richard Prince (2005 until 2011). In 2005 Thomas D. Studio Inc. was formed to offer artists services and fabrication using a wide array of materials and methods such as acrylic, enamel, encaustic, silkscreen, wheat paste, bronze and wood. Tom has historically been involved in the art community, both in promoting his own work and collaborating with others. From 1998 on, Tom has had numerous solo and group shows, being represented by other galleries as well as one he created, the Dos Mil Gallery, in Portland Oregon. He was affiliated with Portland Institute for Contemporary Art which also produced group shows. In 2003 he was invited to be part of a group show at the Art Center in Pasadena, California. After living in Portland Oregon for many years, Tom returned to the east end of Long Island, New York in 2004 and has maintained his residence on the east end ever since. While in high school, Tom was accepted to a summer art programs at the Rhode Island School of Design and subsequently took classes at the Museum School for Fine Arts, Boston. With significant life experience added to his formal training, he uses a variety of techniques to comment on societal issues, music and popular cultural themes.

Born in Santa Cruz California in 1974, Nicole Etienne grew up between redwood trees and suburban Silicon Valley. Her mother, an active artist, kept Nicole healthily covered in paint and dirt and nurtured her budding career with full access to her supply cabinet.

After moving to the Bay Area her family joined a liberal California utopian group which focused on human rights, anti-war activism, and the belief that by surrendering to a process of personal transformation they were to achieve a greater awareness of the earth and each other. Nicole was encouraged to be intuitive and explore.

It wasn't long before the conservative, buttoned-up world of Silicon Valley felt a little too parochial. She traveled widely, studying, painting and exhibiting, and in NYC Nicole was able to find her footing — and her voice. She has created work of sincere and tender human encounters. Painting lush groves with strong "angelic amazons" that blossom with sexuality and womanhood, she twists old myths with new, creating woman as the "romantic hero" in a world completely of her own.

Her technique copies the brightness of watercolor with the thickness of oil paint. A struggle between keeping the original marks of charcoal and the glow of the underpainting; and the desire to smear on thick hunks of paint until it melts together. 

Nicole began her collegiate art education at UC Santa Barbara transferring to UC Santa Cruz where she received her BFA in 1997. She studied abroad at the Lorenzo Medici School of art in Italy and graduated with her MFA cum laude in 2009 from the New York Academy of Art.

She has painted and lived in Italy and Ireland and is currently living in Europe.

“The Extraordinary Garden” is the result of the meeting of two multi-medium artists, Jean-Claude Mazel and Yann Jalix.

Jean-Claude Mazel was born in Paris in 1950, and he attended the Beaux Arts and the Arts Décoratifs. Mazel explores different pictorial techniques, but his true passion lies in drawing. He began exhibiting his work in 1974 focusing on the lines and grace of his subjects. Very early, he became interested in sculpture, and through this medium, he explored the studied refinement that he discovered. Through this technique, he simplified his models to reveal a poetic exaggeration that lends itself to the full size of his work.

Yann Jalix, bronze sculptor and video artist, has been interested for many years by plant life, and in his installations, he blurs the boundaries of video, photography, and sculpture through a combination of the three mediums.

Jean-Claude Mazel and Yann Jalix met in the 1980s but did not begin to collaborate until 1989.

They have since developed their own foundry and cultivated a creative dialogue where their respective works, presented in different ways, reveal the same artistic discourse and the same aesthetic exploration. In 2000, they decided to collaborate and bring to life “The Extraordinary Garden.”

In this collaborative work, their artistic vision is so prolific that the two sign as one artist “Mazel & Jalix”.

Michael Kalish is an internationally acclaimed artist and sculptor who has a natural ability to transform ordinary objects into extraordinary works of art. The subjects of Kalish’s work reference a broad sampling of American culture, from the all-American pastime of baseball and the morning cup of Java to portraits of popular, political and cultural icons. His signature medium, the license plate, embraces his ideal of Americana with his own contemporary sophistication, curiosity and distinctive style. Many of his unique sculptures have found permanent parking spots in a number of Hollywood homes. Over the past 15 years, Kalish has garnered national and international press exposure as well as solo shows and representation in galleries around the world. 

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1976), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008) and Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC (2002). Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent in his work, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.

Alberto Murillo is a native of Madrid, Spain, but has resided in cities and countries around the world. Murillo has lived a creative life, working in a variety of media.

Within the past 8 years, the surfacing of this artist in the states has been celebrated by the market and is a result of the assessment of his work.

Alberto’s work has influences of abstract expressionism with concentrated areas of vibrant colors that are swathed and poured onto the panel in a blocking effect. Inspired by the architecture and moods of Spain and Latin America, Murillo’s abstract fields of color evoke the memory of places, from calming seascapes to the vibrant maelstrom of cities.

His artwork has been exhibited in over 40 shows across the United States, as well as Europe, and he is currently represented by highly-regarded fine art galleries across the country. Alberto’s Art is featured in a number of selected collections including the Givenchy Family Collection, and private art collections including Coca-Cola, Colliers International, Holland & Knight, Wells Fargo and Bristol Myers-Squibb.

A self-taught artist, he now lives and works in Tampa.

The King of Pop Art®

As one of the world's most collected, significant pop artists today, Nelson De La Nuez is a born iconoclast. Using his unique juxtaposition of pop culture and surrealism, blended with America’s rich culture and history,  De La Nuez has created works of art that are considered timeless. 

He began in the early 1980's and became recognized for his original, iconic pop culture pieces that included Monopoly, board games, pin ups, Chanel, nostalgia and pop references to living the good life. He took pop art far beyond where its roots began..and made it all his own.

Listed on the “Who’s Who List of the Most Collected Artists of Our Time,” his works are original, bold and outspoken.  The artist is known for his distinctive, trademarked style called “Art on the Edge,” which is creating art on all sides of the canvas and wood.

De La Nuez’s artwork is hanging in some of the most prominent, private collections of movie stars, directors, producers, comedians, corporations and fine art connoisseurs, as well as purchased for auctions by Sotheby's.  His art has been featured on countless television shows, including, to name a few:  "Fabulous Life of," “The Latest in Billionaire Home Décor,” “Inside Edition,” MTV “Cribs,” HGTV “Designer’s Challenge,” E! “Celebrity Favorites," “TMZ: Michael Jackson’s Final Art Purchase,” "America's Next Top Model" mansion interior design, HGTV, "Extreme Homes," an endless variety of Bravo tv shows and many more.. 

He was the official 70th Anniversary artist for the Wizard of Oz film and created original artwork for the celebration of the iconic movie, one of which, “Ditching Dorothy,” was forever immortalized on a limited edition sheet of US postage stamps.  His work sells out consistently at such prestigious shows as Art Basel Miami, Art Hamptons, Art Southampton, Art Aspen, and worldwide at his galleries. The art values continue to increase. You will see his work hanging in the permanent, private collection at the prestigious VIP Delta One lounge and Delta SkyClub at LAX and JFK.

He works closely with very specific charities close to his heart and has raised significant amounts of money for them, as well as lending his appearance walking red carpets each year at the events.

The Nelson De La Nuez "King of Pop Art®" brands are composed of many collections that have merged art, fashion, home decor and design.  A few collections include hard side luggage, leather purses, shoes, accessories, tailored shirts, sound panels for hospitality industry or home theatres, wallpaper and more. His art and branded collections are sold in galleries and stores internationally.  

Anthony Quinn, better known to the world as the Academy Award winning star of over two hundred films, stage and television, was also one of the world's most talented painters and sculptors.

His bold, creative mind and spirit inspired us all for over sixty years, through his brilliant and moving portrayal of hundreds of fascinating, complex characters and his vital concern for our troubled world and its needy people, but, it is the lesser known, private, personal side of his life that inspired his brilliant art.

He was born under the gunfire of the Revolution in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1915, to a half-Irish father and Mexican Indian mother, who both marched under the banner of Pancho Villa and who were eventually driven north to Texas in search of peace and freedom.

Their journey took them from cardboard box hovels in El Paso, to migrant worker shacks in California, to the impoverished barrio of East Los Angeles, so few miles from Hollywood, but light years away from the glittering, glamorous world of movie stars that would one day bestow upon him its highest honors.

It is quite understandable, after the bitterness and harsh reality of his early youth, that he would be attracted to the fantasy world being created by the newly emerging film industry, where his father had found employment as a cameraman at the old Selznick Studios.

In order to help generate additional income for his family, young Anthony would wander around the studio, drawing portraits of the stars that he admired most and then present them with his efforts hoping for some recognition or reward. His models ranged from the sultry Rudolph Valentino and the Latin lover, Ramon Navarro to the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks, who was so flattered by this young boy's portrayal of him that he awarded him the princely sum of ten dollars and an artistic career was launched.

In addition to the beautiful drawings that he created as a child, he was also a talented sculptor, winning his first statewide California competition at age eleven with his sculpted bust of Abraham Lincoln, another boy born in poverty, who dedicated his life to help uplift those in need and rose to be a powerful, inspirational leader.

By his junior year in high school, his love of art and architecture had taken yet another tum. He won a contest with his architectural plan for a marketplace and received a scholarship to study with one of the greatest American architects of all time, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mr. Quinn always had a burning desire to create beauty with his own hands. It has been said that if he were left alone on an island, he would reconstruct the rocks. He had a need to leave his imprint, to say “I was here".

Like the rest of us who have had to work hard all of our lives to pay for our dreams, Mr. Quinn was no exception, artists have to eat too. By age eighteen, Mr.Quinn had worked as a migrant farm worker, a taxi driver, slaughtering butcher, a welterweight boxer making five or ten dollars a fight and a sparring partner for the contender, Primo Carnera.

Through those experiences he came to know fighters as poets with something to prove; a way to work your way out of poverty and hunger through your own strength, a real spokesman for the have-nots.

Eventually his hard won dreams came true, he became an actor, but do actors have total control of their own images and destinies? On stage he spoke the words of the author, to the movements of the director, in the costumes of the wardrobe department, behind the mask of make-up, against the backdrops of set designers.

In his art he was King. Every shade of color, every stroke of his brush, every contour of his sculpture was his own personal statement.

He was master of his artwork.  He answered to no one.  A true Renaissance man free to explore the limits of his own imagination, fed by his incredible experiences all over the world, as only a man who had risen from pain and suffering, to wealth, power and fame could have experienced it.

The wealth of styles, colors and techniques that he displayed in his art could have been the greatest life works of a dozen different artists, all different facets of the rare gem that was the multi talented genius of Anthony Quinn.

The colors of his paintings gleam with the purest fire and clarity of emeralds, rubies and sapphires.

The bold, decisive lines of his sculptures are both sinuous and powerful, hard-edged and flowing.

His artwork reflects his deep roots in his ancient heritage and his worldly contemporary sophistication.

He created to the size of man's spirit, not his dimension.

His remarkable freedom of expression, bursting with creative energy, speaks to all men.

At first he signed his artwork with his mother's maiden name, Oaxaca, and had a sellout showing.

At the International Premiere Exhibition of his sculptures, paintings and graphics, critics, fans and serious collectors from around the world first became aware of his extraordinary fine art talents. He sold over two million dollars’ worth of his art on opening night and advance requests from this showing kept Mr.Quinn busy for the next two years.

After that extraordinary beginning, Mr.Quinn had twenty-five major Exhibitions of his paintings and sculptures throughout the world.

His works have been shown, to great critical and popular acclaim, at Chapultapec Palace in Mexico and Schwarzenbach Castlein Switzerland, Exhibitions in Canada, Korea and Austria, The Museum of Monterrey, Mexico, The Museo Municipal De Bellas Artes and the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Argentina and he was awarded highest honors by the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.

Best known to American collectors are his many highly successful Exhibitions in New York, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Houston, San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Washington D.C.where he was honored in the Oval Office by the President with acceptance into the highly prestigious Presidential collection.

Just as the highest and noblest cultures and civilizations of all time continue to live on for all eternity through the great works of their architects, sculptors and painters, Anthony Quinn is destined to live on through his loving family, his magnificent sculptures and paintings, and his life's example.

Anthony Quinn left the beaten path, followed his own star, didn't go with the times, he found his own way, he shaped his own destiny and made his mark on our hearts, our minds and our souls, forever!

Rettig’s three-dimensional, mixed media assemblages are startlingly unique. This achievement is largely rooted in the unexpected combinations of materials, which he uses to communicate his vision.

The legendary Taupin works in an abstract expressionist style that incorporates elements of pop art, using house paint, oil paint, wood stains, and spray paint to convey his often bright message.

Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 23 February 1931. Between 1945 and 1951 he studied at the Hiram College in Ohio before studying psychology at Cincinnati university. One year later he was called up for military service due to the Korea war. Being discontented with his situation he began to draw cartoons at that time. In 1954 he resumed his studies and apart from this he attended the art academy. He moved to New York and attends Cooper Union School for Arts and Architecture in 1956. He earned his living by working as a cartoonist for several journals and magazines as well as by teaching at a highschool in Brooklyn. At the end of the fifties a series of collages in small format were created being regarded as precursors of the later series "Great American Nudes" and "Still life" in big format.

Out of these collages he developed first nude depictions in 1960. His first single exhibition took place at the Tanager Gallery in New York in 1961. One year later he participated in the group exhibition "New Realists" at the Sidney Janis Gallery, his international career with numerous exhibitions started off. 
The same year his first assemblages with the title "Still Life" came into existence. In 1963 Tom Wesselmann married his girl-friend and fellow student Claire Selley, who also was his most important model. He began a series of "Bathtub Collages". 

In 1966 the first of many one-man shows took place at the Janis Gallery. In 1964 Tom Wesselmann began with further series, e.g. "Bedroom Paintings", "Seascapes" and "Smokers", which he continued until the early 1980s. In 1980 he published a treatise about his artistic development under the pseudonym Slim Stealingworth. In 1983 first "Metal Works" were produced, which were based on the artist's drawings and sketches and which are still in the centre of the artist's interest. In 1994 a comprehensive retrospective took place at the Kunsthalle in Tübingen. Tom Wesselmann died in New York on 17 December 2004. His choice of trivial motifs, thier monumentalisation, reduction to stereotypes, sexual embelematic as well as the use of bright colours made Tom Wesselmann a co-founder of the American Pop-Art during the 1960s.

Great art invokes and stimulates your senses, seeping into your hearts and your minds. Every work of art has its own energy. Whether it lies in the smooth curves of a sculpture, or the beat and rhythm of a piece of music, or the tone and color of a painting, that energy defines the ultimate manifestation of the art.

Art is not a luxury, art is a necessity.

Yuroz

The work exists in a space of its own. When you peer at it through your spiritual window, you cross over that threshold and become part of that energy. Once you have made that connection, the work is no longer a two or three dimensional representation. Your personal participation in the art’s effect renders it beyond the measurable constraints of time and space. Right there, the moment is suspended in time, and the energy is as great as your soul will allow.

A celebrated Los Angeles based artist, Yuroz believes that art is the most disarming, ice-breaking and rapport building communication tool to support progress of people, organizations, societies and even countries. In Yuroz’s mind, the essence of art is the energy, which is more powerful than we are. It originates from a higher plane than that in which we live our daily lives. Through the art, we are able to access more potent sources of consciousness and emotion and we become more than we are.

Spanning across mediums and genres, Yuroz’s work celebrates romance, edifies human emotions, promotes peace, and advocates tolerance, encouraging healing and growth while liberating love and compassion. Yuroz, a painter and architect, cuts through dimensional, geographical, and philosophical boundaries to deliver his evergreen and universal messages to anyone his art touches.

Yuroz is the only living American artist who has his work hung in the Vatican’s permanent collection.  “The Light of Compassion” honors the sainthood of Arcangelo Tadini, the Saint of the Working Woman, a masterpiece specially commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI’s Vatican office and unveiled at a ceremony where Pope Benedict XVI blessed the painting in Botticino Sera, Italy.

Twice commissioned by the United Nations to produce the United Nations Mural for Human Rights, Yuroz donated images from his murals, “Respect for Refugees” honoring the 50th anniversary in 2000, and “Human Rights” dedicated to Human Rights Education from 2004 were reproduced as stamps and released around the world.

Several million of Yuroz’s stamps were sold around the world, raising funds for the United Nations. These murals have travelled with Yuroz nationally and internationally in ongoing sponsored events to raise awareness and raise funds for the underprivileged and other humanitarian needs.

A devoted philanthropist, through his art and the Yuroz Foundation, Yuroz has raised millions for many more international and national charity events and foundations, donating to causes he embraces.

Symbolism forms the backbone of Yuroz’s classical romantic paintings and the themes of the stories he tells through his paint brushes. Blue is the color of healing and rose is the symbol of love.  Blue rose symbolizes healing through love.Pomegranate symbolizes fertility, creativity, prosperity and power. To the artist, this fruit that bore through the rockiest and the most arid landscapes is a symbol of survival.

Yuroz loves working with children through art, as possibly he is a child at heart, always keeping his senses sharp and spirit fresh.  Yuroz’s art cuts through race, politics and religion as he employs universal symbols to express his timeless messages and evergreen themes, with touching stories that inspire and shape new generations of communicators to come.

At the age of ten, Yuroz was accepted to attend the prestigious Akop Kodjoyan School of Art in Soviet Armenia.  His classical training, combined with skills earned while attaining his Master’s Degree in Architecture from theYerevan University of Art and Architecture has given him an edge to be able to mesh the attributes of the Renaissance masters with innovations of contemporary art while blending a unique sense of balance, color and space with modern day technology when creating his masterpieces.Yuroz has always been an architect and an explorer all his life. It manifested in many ways over last 30 years in his career being an artist. Careful observation of his work no doubt shows he consistently pushes the envelope and always looks for new and better ways to express his ideas.

Yuroz’s art knows no destination as he continues to innovate.  One can’t help but wonder what is on his mind and what is next on his creative path. Whatever discoveries he partakes and wherever his journey takes him, rest assured that Yuroz always finds a magical way to engage you.  His unyielding commitment to keep your senses fresh, your feelings warm, and your minds engaged is the very reason why his art is timeless…

The son of a watercolour painter and a sculptor, Duncan's formative years were strongly influenced by the images and objects being worked on in the studios, the same studios in which he was to find his own nascent drawing and painting skills.

He studied at Berkshire College of Art and Central Saint Martins, a period where he was able to formulate his interest in many visual art disciplines and where the flexibility of mixed media and crossing boundaries allowed him to move freely between painting, print, collage and fabrication.

The physicality of materials, their weight, texture and staining properties are very much to the fore in Duncan's ideas.

Duncan has undertaken site-specific painting commissions in Britain, France and Spain and has exhibited his work with The Mall Galleries with the Royal Society of British Artists, The Modern Masters Gallery, and at the Fondazione Riccardo Catella in Milan. He was awarded the prestigious Marianne Von Werther Award, which took him to the British School in Rome, and an intensive period of making drawings and paintings of ancient Rome and Italian landscapes. The inspiration initiated the work for a major one-man show in Milan, opened by the Commissioner for Culture. He is currently exhibiting with the Meredith Long gallery in Houston, Texas.

Duncan teaches painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London and works at his studio in Maidenhead. His works are in numerous collections in Britain, the USA, France, Italy and Spain.