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Alexander Höller was born in 1996 in Schweinfurt, Germany. He graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2020. Holler’s unique and daring paintings present a mixture of self-portraits of an artist as a young man and ultimately as a jester holding a mask up to the world to tell it what he thinks of it – with the gesture of a silent scream, as well as abstract multi-layered, intricate color field paintings.
Alexander Höller is an international artist based in Munich. He is exhibited and known all over the world. His paintings free the viewer from mundane everyday life, release positive emotions, and transport to the viewer to a different world. A world where each human can be one with themselves. Alexander Höller manages to do just that with his EMOTION ART. He started creating artwork at the young age of fifteen and decided to dedicate his life to art shortly before his graduation. Thanks to his artistic giftedness, he was accepted into the State Academy of Fine Arts at the request of his professors even though he didn't yet have a high school diploma. Something that is unheard of, even to date.
Alexander Höller's works of art are intended to break boundaries, to stimulate reflection through their contrasts and contradictions, and thus spark the viewer's emotions: they glow, seize the space and thus create the possibility of interpretation and inspiration. They look strong at first and delicate at second glance. Due to their versatility and complexity, the works appear spherical.
What applies to his art is also true for the artist himself. As the only EMOTION ARTIST in the world, Alexander Höller embodies the provocative rebel and rock star on the outside. When giving him a closer look you will find a multilayered kaleidoscope.
Höller's style can be ranked as abstract expressionism. It is energetic and multi-faceted. His style is not comparable, his art is a fusion of Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, JeanMichel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Andy Warhol. The paintings are created using only the highest quality and most exclusive colors and materials. He strives to provide something special, valuable, and personal to collectors of his work, giving a part of himself to anyone purchasing a Höller.
Baboon
Baboon
Alison Van Pelt was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Raised in the open-minded climate of 1970’s Los Angeles, she has been influenced by such disparate sources as Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Helmut Newton, Dan Millman, Yayoi Kusama and Hunter S. Thompson (just to name a few). The subjects of her paintings range from animals to prizefighters to celebrities, spiritual leaders, Native American warriors and heads of state. Utilizing found images of these figures, she begins the complex process of drawing and painting a classical portrait, then blurring and rebuilding the oil on the canvas, accumulating and disintegrating, until the result is a beautiful, purposely-degraded, mystical evocation of her subject. Her painstaking technique, with its exquisite light and shadow, layers upon layers of paint, ambiguous, yet meticulous, brush strokes, coalesced by her discipline and meditative touch, brings out the best in her subjects. The paintings are revealing yet mysterious; they are not idealized, but humanized.
Van Pelt’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, as well as in galleries throughout the North America and Europe, and is represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, NASA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.
Green Tree, 2022
Oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches
Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches
Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches
Super Blurry Hummingbird, 2022
Gold Hummingbird, 2022
Silver Tree, 2022 Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches
Yellow Black Trees, 2022 Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches
Nick Moss was raised in Metamora, Michigan. Having worked on an intensive crop farm and with an industrial contracting company, Moss studied welding and metal fabrication before relocating to New York City in 2007. In 2008, Moss joined Traeger Wood Pellet Grills and was given full control of creation, concept, and industrial design including re-engineering, where the product was made primarily of steel. By 2014, Moss moved towards pursuing his artistic practice, continuing to experiment with welding and steel which later developed into his unique process of art fabrication today. Moss makes all his work entirely by hand without studio assistants, through a process that’s highly dangerous and requires dexterity and attention to detail while behind a full-face welding helmet. Moss is based out of upstate New York.
“I have steel in my blood,” Nick Moss said. Given his life-long relationship with steel, his familiarity with it, and his technical mastery of it, it seems inevitable that he chose it as his medium. Moss didn’t want to make steel sculptures, as he refined his unorthodox process and explored imagery and narratives. While the recalcitrant, exacting and potentially dangerous medium is not for the fainthearted, Moss found its challenges exhilarating. His production is all made by hand, all one-offs, and it is crucial for him that he executes his works himself.
Moss has substituted sheets of steel for canvas and welding guns for paint and brush, deploying them with the same deftness and delicacy as a painter. He also searched for ways to present his “steel paintings,” ultimately devising an elegant structural solution. Learning how to appropriately control the flow of heat and gas was also critical to his equivalent of a “brushstroke”, since
Some kinda blue over some kinda blue, 2022
Oil on canvas 36 1/4 x 24 7/8 1 1/4 inches
Ocean Bloom (some kinda blue over some kinda green), 2022
Oil on canvas 68 1/4 x 47 x 1 1/4inches
