Jonathan Ahn

Biography:
Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in 1977 in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in the Boston area. At the age of seven, he began studying under Nancy Angell-Rickenbacker, a former student of Pablo Picasso and Oscar Kokoshka, and quickly became her star pupil. He studied with Mrs. Angell-Rickenback until her untimely death in 1998. Jung continued studying art in Paris in the late nineties, taking time out to complete a degree in computer science degree at the prestigious Bowdoin College. During this time, Jung produced a substantial body of work, although much of it was stolen in Nice, France. After several years of traveling the world, Jung settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University. Jung is skilled in a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paints, charcoal, and pencil, as well as sculpture. He particularly enjoys portraiture and other figurative works. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he divides his time between painting, studying, teaching and doting on his niece, Eloise.

John Ottis Adams

Biography:
John Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters. He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years. He studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years. He settled in Muncie in 1876 and opened a studio there in 1887 after spending seven years doing further art study in Munich with T. C. Steele and other members of the Hoosier Group. Adams was the central figure in the formation of an art school in Muncie, Indiana, where he later participated in forming the Art Students League of Muncie, after the Muncie Art School closed. Adams later (with other members of the Hoosier Group) founded the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Winifred Brady Adams, also a painter, lived and painted at The Hermitage in Brookville, Indiana along with T. C. Steele and his wife. Together with William Forsyth, Adams also instructed American Impressionist artist Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971).

Sergio Albano

Biography:
Sergio Albano was born in Turin in 1939. He studied in an Artistic High School and then in Albertina Academy of Turin. Since 1956 he took part in main national exhibitions of " Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti" and of "Piemonte Artistico Culturale". He was invited to the Four-year of ''Bianco e Nero'' Group, and of ''Arte Contemporanea'' organized from ''Città Amica''. He has exposed in prestigious galleries of Turin, in Man Art Gallery of Paris, in ''Art Expò'' of Geneva and of New York , in Art Gallery Museum of Jinan , in China. He has made mural paintings in several locations of Piedmont. Some of his works have been reproduced in cover of book copyrights (Françoise Sagan, Tahar Ben Jalloun, etc.) for various Publishing houses: Mondadori,Rizzoli, De Agostini and others have appeared in films and fictions (Barbara,directed by Angelo Orlando; Virginia,the nun of Monza, directed by Alberto Sironi; Fathers and Sons, directed by Gianni Zanasi). Moreover, he has collaborated with the Theatre Company Vittorio Alfieri, for some stage productions. In 1991, 1996 and in 2001 he achieved the first prize in the prestigious national competition ''Gaudenzio Ferrari'' of Santhià; many involvements in international exhibitions have been reported with awards and critics recognitions. He was originally a professor at Art school, so at private institutions of Turin and at the "National School of Animation Film" in Chieri (TO). He created a school of painting '' Gruppo d'Arte di Via Perrone'' at the Turin office which was,among others, of Umberto Mastroianni and Carlo Terzolo. The school,with which he has organized various exhibitions and cultural activities, is currently under the guidance of the painter Marco Piva. Sergio Albano died in 2008.

Ann Hardy

Biography:
Ann Hardy is an artist who is living life as fully and well as she knows how. For Ann, the joy of painting is in the process (journey) and not the destination. Growth in life and art is the most exciting thing she can think of. Her philosophy is to keep moving, but not in the direction that fear makes you move. You must be willing to risk and be at home in your own skin. For her it's fun to be slightly eccentric by painting in a 12 by 12 foot tree house.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Biografia:
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dronrijp, 8 de enero de 1836 — Wiesbaden, 25 de junio de 1912) fue un pintor neerlandés neoclasicista de la época victoriana, conocido por sus suntuosos cuadros inspirados en el mundo antiguo. Nacido como Laurens Alma Tadema en el pequeño pueblo de Dronrijp, en Frisia, en el norte de los Países Bajos. Fue el sexto hijo de Pieter Jiltes Tadema (1797-1840), notario del pueblo, que había tenido tres hijos de un matrimonio anterior, y era el tercer hijo de su madre, Hinke Dirks Brouwer (c. 1800-1863). Hinke era la hermana de la primera esposa de Pieter.

Mahmood Al Khaja

Biography:
Mahmood Al Khaja is an artist of 22 years who presented their work from the Kingdom of Bahrain. His work embraces the traditional art with acrylics and oils of their pin-up and digital art which stands out for the soft colors and compositions between fantasy, surrealism and a direct entry into the world of dreams. Al Khaja leaves us a collection of beautiful images can best illustrate stories, a gallery with almost no waste that is worth visiting and getting lost in it.

Oksana Kravchenko

Biography:
Oksana Kravchenko, 1971g.r of Novouralsk Sverdlovsk region. 1986 - 1990 studied in the Urals city of College of Applied Arts of Nizhny Tagil in the specialty painter - decorator. Since 2011 a member of the Russian and global registry works Art ARTREESTRA and GFAR." Since 2011 a member of the "Ural Art Guild." Work has been exhibited in galleries in the city of Yekaterinburg in 2005. In August 2011, the third personal exhibition in gallery"Window" in Ekaterinburg. Her paintings are in private collections, including those overseas.