Richard Erdman
Sculptor

Richard Erdman creates abstract sculpture of both intimate and monumental scale in stone and bronze from his studios in Williston, Vermont and Carrara, Italy. His art is known for its vitality, energy, and seemingly light buoyant motion, as if defying the material from which it is formed. The artist's extensive body of work can be found in distinguished public and private collections in over 40 countries worldwide. Skylark Press will publish a book in June 2008, that will cover over thirty years of the artist's career. For more information about the artist, click here.

Luc Leestemaker
Painter

Luc Leestemaker was born in the Netherlands and moved to the US in 1990. Living and working in the US created a stylistic journey that would take him from early inspiration by the CoBrA movement; through densely abstract expressionist compositions; to the “Inner Landscape” and “Transfigurations” Series, inspired both by Mark Rothko and 17th and 18th Century Dutch and English landscape painters (notably Constable, Ruysdael, Van Goyen). Recently he has also exhibited newly abstracted series of works, titled “Voyager” and “Map of the Wind.” To read more and purchase work by Luc Leestemaker, click here.

Patrick Marold
Sculptor

Having grown up in Colorado, with the proximity of nature always within reach, Marold creates sculptural responses to environmental relationships, urban and rural, with an almost otherworldly sensitivity to material, light and change, drawing upon the workings and influences of the land and raw materials. Wood, Steel, Wind, Rope, Water and Fire play equal parts in the drama the artist creates. Both in his small scale intimate sculptures and the public installations, spanning vast areas of land (such as the ambitious Windmill Project), one quickly finds an almost immediate sense of familiarity and comfort in his work. To read more and purchase work by Patrick Marold, click here.

Ted VanCleave
Photographer/Painter

Ted VanCleave grew up in rural Indiana and has lived in California since age 22. His abstract paintings and mixed media works have been exhibited and collected throughout the US and have received many honors and awards. In 2005, Ted devoted himself almost exclusively to photography. He's transferred his use of abstract forms and bold colors from painting to photography seamlessly. Ted still creates abstract images, using buildings and flowers as the basis of form. He captures his subjects from very unique angles and saturates his building images with bold colors. His "Structure: The Los Angeles Series", released in 2006, was featured in the international fine arts photography magazine, Eyemazing. To read more and purchase work by Ted VanCleave, click here.