Contemporary Painters

Antonio Lopez Garcia (Spanish, b. 1936) - on wikipedia
Large-scale landscape paintings, immaculately detailed. Still lifes and figure drawings. Garcia spends up to 30 years on some paintings, constantly reworking them to maintain a consistent sense of light.

Lennart Anderson (American, b. 1928)
Still lifes and figure paintings with an atmospheric quality. Anderson captures a very specific sense of form and light by overhauling the entire painting at each sitting. Visible influence from Edwin Dickinson.

Mark Karnes (American) teaches at the Maryland Institute
Smaller-scale landscapes and still lifes. Karnes paints very directly, and in his landscapes very quickly. Many of his paintings are done in one day.

Eric Aho (American)
Visible influence from John Constable and William Turner. Aho paints the weather and the light as they interact with spacious landscapes.

Israel Hershberg (Israeli) at the Marlborough Gallery
Landscapes and single-item still lifes with a more muted sense of color. Herschberg paints more slowly and meticulously in an effort to capture details that convey the essence of his subject.

Caleb O'Connor (BFA Maryland Institute)
Life-size narrative paintings and portraits. Recent work includes figures imaginatively backgrounded over bird's-eye-view landscapes.

Rita Natarova (BFA Maryland Institute, MFA University of Pennsylvania)
Natarova paints very slowly and meticulously from life, capturing hundreds of colors in a single section of painting. Still lifes and figures. Recent work involves surgery and other themes.

Justin Augspurg (BFA Maryland Institute, MFA University of New Hampshire)
Landscapes and still lifes with a slightly whimsical stroke. Gesturally painted with energy and life.

Alecia Augspurg (BFA Maryland Institute)
Portraits with a gestural feel, but somewhat more conscribed than the paintings of her husband. Vibrant use of color.

Jeremiah Colonna-Romano (BFA Maryland Insititute) Paintings from MICA
Meticulously observed still lifes and landscapes. Jeremiah often executes his vision for a painting in a three to four hour sitting.

Michael Owen (BFA Maryland Institute)
Murals and large paintings done as stencils. Line-work and overall compositions carry a themed location or abstract design.

Brent Holland (MFA University of Washington)
Meticulous self-portraits made with layered glazes. Brent paints from life and builds a painting slowly over time.

Nicolas Evans-Cato, article in the New York Times, or Forbes
New York cityscapes. Evans-Cato paints from direct observation with a very specific sense of light and weather.