Archives: Artists

Shlomo Alter was born in Romania in 1936 to a family of restaurateurs. From an early age, he displayed a natural gift for art and showed a remarkable ability to draw. In 1948, he came to Israel, where he began studying painting under the painter Aaron Avni during high school. Two of his soft pastel works were selected for UNICEF’s World Touring Exhibition of young painters, marking an early recognition of his talent.

During the 1960s, Alter received sporadic guidance from the world-renowned painter Marsel Yanko, who was also a family relative. In 1975, he made the pivotal decision to dedicate himself entirely to his artwork. Since then, he has held many one-person exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Alter’s work is characterized by a soft impressionist palette and a whimsical, naïve style. He often paints beyond the canvas onto the surface of the frame, creating a distinctive presentation. He also works in original serigraphy, a medium that allows him to capture the subtle color variations and delicate drawing characteristics found in his paintings. His artwork is represented by Park West Gallery.

Alexandre Renoir creates vivid, textured paintings that honor the Impressionist legacy of his great-grandfather, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, while forging his own distinctive path. Born on July 7, 1974, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France—the same coastal town where Pierre-Auguste spent his final years—Alexandre moved to Western Canada at age four. Surrounded by art and his family’s rich history, he showed early creative promise and attended the Virginia Park School and the Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts in Edmonton, Alberta. He explored goldsmithing, silversmithing, jewelry design, graphic design, photography, and theater arts before finding his true calling.

In 2004, a prestigious Beverly Hills publisher gave Alexandre the opportunity to paint full time, marking his breakthrough moment. Over the next twelve years, he traveled the world displaying his work in numerous galleries and exhibitions. Alexandre is represented by Park West Gallery and maintains a home and studio in Southern California with his wife Maria, son Felix, and step-daughter Julia.

While rooted in Impressionism, Alexandre’s technique differs dramatically from his great-grandfather’s. He paints exclusively with palette knives—even designing custom ones—and mixes paint directly on the canvas rather than on a palette. This approach produces vibrant colors and thick impasto textures that create remarkable dimension and depth. Like Pierre-Auguste, Alexandre embraces his ancestor’s philosophy of portraying life’s joyful, serene moments, creating bright works that celebrate beauty over darkness.

Rachael Robb was born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, where she studied Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. After graduating in 1990, she traveled extensively throughout the world, living for several years in San Francisco and Prague before settling in London, where she now maintains her studio.

Robb’s paintings are distinguished by their dramatic use of light and shadow. Drawing inspiration from masters like Rembrandt and Caravaggio, she employs intense chiaroscuro techniques, setting her subjects against strikingly dark backgrounds. This theatrical approach creates mystery and depth in both her expressive portraits and still life compositions. She also uses digital photography to capture detailed, close-up perspectives of subjects like flowers, which serve as immediate reference for her work.

Inspired by her draftsman father since age seven, Robb never envisioned any career other than painting. She believes persistence is essential and that making mistakes is the only way to learn. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the USA, England, Czech Republic, Australia, Sweden, France, and Switzerland, including notable shows at London’s Barbican Center, Mall Galleries, and Royal College, as well as Art Expo New York. Robb is represented by Park West Gallery and continues refining her technique from her studio in northeast London, creating what she hopes are timeless works that collectors will treasure forever.

Michael Romero is best known for his textured, brightly-colored paintings created in a style of his own invention. Using a copper wire tool he designed himself, Romero drizzles hundreds of layers of vivid paint to create sleek, textured works that redefine the beauty of a sunset, the tranquility of a babbling brook, or the romance of a stroll through the park. His artwork is collected worldwide and displayed in galleries across the United States, and he is represented by Park West Gallery.

Born on January 29, 1992, Romero was raised on a ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he spent most of his time immersed in sketching. His artistic career began to take form at the age of 20 in 2011, when family members suggested he pursue his talent more seriously. Although he had only worked with a pencil up to that point, Romero taught himself oil painting by watching videos online. Deeply inspired by the innovative artwork of Jackson Pollock and Claude Monet, he was motivated to invent his own style.

Just three months after he started painting, Romero experimented with different techniques. After many attempts, he discovered that using a tiny coil to drizzle paint onto the canvas created the effect he hoped to achieve—combining the styles of Pollock and Monet. Romero continues to paint and reside in Santa Fe.

Anne Aderman’s brightly colored, figurative style immediately captivates collectors, but it’s the stories woven into each piece and her ability to draw viewers into her paintings that keep them coming back. Born with artistic talent, she sketched pencil portraits as a small child and explored acrylics and watercolors in high school. Her distinctive style truly flourished at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she earned her fine arts degree. Understanding that a successful artist needs business acumen, Anne entered the world of finance to support her art while gaining valuable entrepreneurial skills.

In the early 1990s, with her husband Bill’s support, Anne retired from banking to pursue art full-time. She opened Gallery Imprevu in Pittsford, New York, where she continues to create today. Her painting studio occupies the second floor, while the first floor showcases her oils, watercolors, acrylics, and even painted horses. Whether working on paper, canvas, fiberglass, or aluminum, Anne’s expressionistic style carries a slightly abstract twist that invites observers into her unique perspective.

Anne’s originals and limited edition graphics are exhibited in galleries across the Atlantic and represented by Park West Gallery. She participates annually in the International New York Art Expo and serves as a member of the Rochester Arts Council, while generously contributing to local and national charities.

Henriette Wyeth was an exceptionally talented artist celebrated for her portraits and still life paintings. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1907, she learned to paint at an early age in the studio of her father, renowned illustrator N.C. Wyeth, alongside her brother Andrew Wyeth. She furthered her education at Normal Art School in Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1929, she married artist Peter Hurd and relocated to his native New Mexico.

Throughout her career, Wyeth received numerous awards for her work, including prizes from the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her paintings have been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico.

Her works are held in permanent collections at the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Chadds Ford Museum in Pennsylvania, New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, Roswell Museum and Art Center, and Texas Technical University Museum in Lubbock. Henriette Wyeth is represented by Park West Gallery, where collectors can appreciate her masterful contributions to American art.

James “Jamie” Browning Wyeth was born in 1946 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, into one of America’s most celebrated artistic dynasties. As the son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth, he continued the family tradition of contemporary realist painting, documenting the landscapes, people, and animals along the Brandywine River of Delaware and Pennsylvania. His talent was recognized early when, in 1969, he became the youngest artist elected to the prestigious National Academy of Design since its founding over 150 years earlier.

Wyeth’s career includes remarkable commissions and honors. His portrait of John F. Kennedy, commissioned by the Kennedy family, toured the nation on the Bicentennial Freedom Train and now hangs in the Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1979, he created an original lithograph and the official Kennedy Library poster. He designed a Christmas stamp for the U.S. Postal Service in 1971 and was selected by the Metropolitan Opera Association in 1977 to create limited edition graphics for their Fine Art Portfolio.

His works are held in major museum collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Modern Art, Brandywine River Museum, and William A. Farnsworth Art Museum. Jamie Wyeth is represented by Park West Gallery, continuing to share his masterful realist vision with collectors worldwide.

Jack Youngerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 1926, and moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929. After studying at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, he graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1947. That same year, he returned to Missouri to complete his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism before moving to Paris on a G.I. scholarship, where he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study drawing with Jean Souverbie.

In Paris, Youngerman became friends with fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cesar. He married Delphine Seyrig in 1950 and had his first group exhibition at Galerie Maeght that year. Visits to the studios of Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp deeply influenced his work, particularly their organic forms. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Arnaud in Paris in 1951. Between 1954 and 1955, he explored the Middle East throughout Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Jordan, which further shaped his artistic vision.

In December 1956, encouraged by dealer Betty Parsons, Youngerman moved to New York and settled at Coenties Slip, Manhattan, near artists Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. He debuted his first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1958, followed by six more. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Phillips Collection, and the Corcoran in Washington, D.C. Youngerman received the National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1972, 1984, and 1985, and the Guggenheim held a 40-year retrospective of his works in 1985. In 2006, he was awarded a Fellowship from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation. Youngerman is represented by Park West Gallery.

Jane Wooster Scott paints vibrant scenes of turn-of-the-century and early 20th century Americana, capturing a time when life felt simpler, more energetic, and innocent. Her work features quintessential American moments like children skating, countryside picnics, bobbing for apples, and holiday celebrations. Using bright colors and nostalgic settings, she preserves vanishing memories of American life that have traveled through the last century.

Growing up in Dutch Pennsylvania, Scott was surrounded by quaint white churches, schoolhouses, red barns, and Amish communities that would later inspire her artistic vision. Today, when she travels through New England visiting Cape Cod, rural Vermont, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket, she briefly sketches these places on paper but saves the details for her canvas. Despite living in fast-paced Los Angeles, Scott prefers depicting the slower pace of the good old days, when front doors were left unbolted and families gathered across multiple generations.

Her collectors have included Aaron Spelling, Marlon Brando, Farrah Fawcett, and William Ahmanson. Her works hang in prestigious locations including the American Embassy in Australia and the White House’s permanent collection. Jane Wooster Scott is represented by Park West Gallery.

Tanya Wissotzky and Alexander Galtchansky were both born in 1959 in Crimea, then an autonomous republic within Ukraine. Their artistic journeys began at separate art schools—Alexander studied in Dnepropetrovsk while Wissotzky trained in Simferopol. They later continued their education at the Kiev Institute of the Arts, where Wissotzky focused on painting and Alexander specialized in book illustration.

After marrying, the couple immigrated to Israel, where they merged their creative talents and began collaborating as a single artistic entity. Working in acrylic, pen and ink, and collage on specially prepared canvas, they create distinctive still lifes that incorporate excerpts of calligraphy from old English flower painting manuals and quotations celebrating 1920s Paris. Their work carries a nostalgic, romantic quality that evokes times past.

Alexander and Wissotzky have achieved critical acclaim both in Israel and internationally, with their artwork held in public and private collections worldwide. They have exhibited at prestigious venues including Art Expo New York, BLD New York, Galaxy Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Geissing Design Institution in Hamburg, Germany. A permanent exhibition of their work is displayed at Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem, and a book documenting their life and art has been published. The duo is represented by Park West Gallery.