David's Hall of Fame

In Norwegian Hilde Vemren, Norwegian painter.

Hildes ord: Min utdannelse er basert på klassiske tradisjoner. Det vil si vektlegging på form og farge, tegning og modellering etter aktmodell, kunsthistorie, materiallære og selvfølgelig selvstudier i respektive fagavdelinger. Jeg tok hovedfag ved keramikkavdelingen S.H.K.S i 1974. I 1981 fullførte jeg fire års studier ved Kunstakademiets malerlinje. I lengere perioder over flere år har jeg også arbeidet med egne gjenstander(mest krukker) på Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrikk. Kombinasjonen av å jobbe med flatt maleri og tredimensjonale krukker gjenspeiler seg i maleriene og grafikken min. Jeg bruker gjerne mine egne vaser og urner i bildene mine, ornament og stoffelighet og 50-talls saker er også en del av min motivverden. (source: www.kik.no)

HC Andersen

Danish painter and graphic designer...

Inspired by the flamboyance and flare of the Baroque era, these portraits echo the vivid qualities of the time rather than the historical period.

Born in 1957 and educated at The Danish School of Applied Arts and The Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Malinovsky has exhibited in such diverse places as Copenhagen, New York, Seul and Oslo.(Source: Lise Malinovsky exhibits a series of portraits of female figures at the Danish Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, March 2009).

To see more Malinovsky paintings visit: www.ghg.as/malinovsky/index.html/

Morning Melody, 2005. Photo used with artists permission

Bruce is an American artist residing in Moss, Norway (Biography will be added soon).

Bruce Naigles artist statement

From a philosophical standpoint, all that we perceive in the world of form is an outer expression of an inner dynamic. Though my work is predominantly figurative, I find it to be the art of giving form to the formless; ideas, emotions, relationships, events. These are by their very nature intangible and essentially abstract, though they continually alter and effect our physical reality. We read them through our intuitive understanding of body language, much as snow blown about on a winter’s day reveals the invisible movement and form of the wind. To ‘clothe’ these subliminal qualities in human figures and bring them forth in a sculpture, whether it be a simple figure inspired by a model’s beauty or an allegory of our human condition, is the basic goal and driving force in my work."

To see more of Naigles art, visit his website at: www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/jareach

Untitled 1984 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 81 x 69 14/4 inches The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, Los Angeles.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: (b New York, 22 Dec 1960; d 12 Aug 1988). American painter, sculptor and draughtsman. He showed an early interest in drawing, and he was encouraged by his mother's interest in fashion design and sketching and by his father's gifts of paper brought home from his office. From as early as 1965 Basquiat's mother took him to the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA, and from 1966 he was a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum. Early influences on Basquiat's art include his avid reading of French, Spanish and English texts, his interest in cartoon drawings, Alfred Hitchcock films, cars and comic books, such as MAD magazine and its main character, created by Alfred E. Neuman. While attending the City-as-School (1976-8), an alternative high school, he encountered the Upper West Side Drama Group and the Family Life Theatre and invented 'Samo' (Same Old Shit), a fictional character who earns a living selling 'fake' religion. He also met, collaborated with and became a close friend of Al Diaz, a graffiti artist from the Jacob Riis Projects on the Lower East Side. Basquiat and Diaz generated much interest in their GRAFFITI ART, which took the form of spray-painted aphorisms that were targeted at the 'D' train of the 'IND' line and around Lower Manhattan. Samo appeared in these graffiti: in 1978 a favourable article about Samo was printed in the Village Voice, and when the collaboration ended in 1979, 'Samo is dead' could be read on walls in SoHo. (Source: www.answers.com)

Basquiat quote:"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot."

For more Basquiat information, visit: www.basquiat.com

Street Installation, Washington D.C. June 6th, 2006. Photo used with written permission from Mark Jenkins.

Mark Jenkins (b. 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia ) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. He currently lives in Washington, DC. (Source: Wikipedia)

Visit Mark Jenkins website at: www.xmarkjenkinsx.com