Contemporary Artist Collections

Throughout history, artists have expressed the human experience and expanded our understanding of it. Today, as always, innovative art is being created by talented contemporary artists worldwide. LookClickPrint is proud to present their work.

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Bob Kessel

Bob Kessel's "Newport Nauticals" series uses bold color and strong shapes, taking its' inspiration from sailboats and coastlines. Bob Kessel is a nationally known illustrator and commercial artist. He has worked in publications and advertising for over 30 years. His illustrations have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Texas Monthly, The Boston Globe, The Berkeley Monthly, Japan Times.

Bob Kessel's art is featured in Mystic Seaport Museum's "Great Illustrators of America Print Collection".

Artist: Bob Kessel

Chuck Connelly Collection

In the Fall of 1999, Chuck Connelly left New York City and moved to Philadelphia. After having lived and painted in the East Village and Tribeca for twenty years, Connelly's new surroundings sparked changes in his work. He inhabits the edge where urban meets suburban, a very specific kind of place with rambling old houses and overgrown yards. For many years Connelly pursued a body of work exploring narrative, and was devoted to a kind of storytelling from myth, history, memory, and make-believe. Yet over time Connelly had also begun to paint from life. Rather than measured observations and careful depictions of his subjects, Connelly's life paintings result from a swift and dynamic interaction of eye and hand. There are other types of paintings also, as Connelly continues to make narrative paintings, to weave words into pictures and even to flirt with abstraction. Fires, floods, beasts and spirits are part of the vocabulary of fables, fairy tales, and history stories which have played such an important role in his work.

Artist: Chuck Connelly

Dianne Dietrich Leis - Portland Japanese Garden Photo Collection

The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon is one of the most beautiful and authentic outside of Japan. Founded in 1962, The Garden was designed by Professor Takuma Tono, an internationally renowned authority on Japanese garden landscaping. It is composed of five separate styles: the Flat Garden, the Strolling Pond Garden, the Tea Garden, the Natural Garden, and the Dry Landscape Garden.

Artist: Dianne Dietrich Leis

Heather Drago Collection

These captivating paintings by Heather Drago depict the momentary nature of childhood in scenes of play, wonder and quiet discovery. While combining a variety of media including charcoal, acrylic paint and soft pastel, Heather’s work is influenced by a wide range of artists, from the traditions and techniques of such Masters as Sargent, Degas and Cassatt to the handling of light and color by modern painters Wayne Thibaud and Richard Diebenkorn. Heather’s concentrated focus on the child as subject relies upon a graceful and accomplished handling of the portrait and figure, and a dynamic use of color. Her compositions invite viewers into modern, impressionistic images that speak evocatively of the natural naïveté inherent in all children; yet portray the strong sense of individuality that each subject demands.

Artist: Heather Drago

Thornton Dial Collection

Born in tiny Emelle, Alabama, to an unwed teenage mother, Dial never learned his father’s identity. In his early teens, he and his half brother, Arthur, were sent to live with female relatives in Bessemer. He dropped out of school and went to work at a wide variety of jobs, principally as a welder’s assistant (only whites could be welders for much of Dial’s tenure) at the Pullman Standard boxcar factory in Bessemer. In the early 1950s, he and his wife settled in the Bessemer neighborhood called “Pipe Shop.” There they raised five children. Although Dial began making “things” at an early age and continued to create art throughout adulthood, he concealed his work or destroyed it, out of apprehension about the frankness of its content. His work came at last to the attention of the outside world in 1987. Since then, he has produced an extremely varied body of work—paintings, assemblage, sculpture, works on paper—concerned with issues the artist considers of deepest concern to humanity. Emanating from African American traditions, these artworks have come to challenge conventional notions about folk art.

Example Artist: Thornton Dial

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LookClickPrint, Inc. is actively expanding our contemporary artist area. Check back often for new artists. If you have any suggestions of artists you know or would like to see, please feel free to contact us at: info@lookclickprint.com.

We welcome submission of artwork for consideration.

All submissions are considered for inclusion through a juried process.