French artist Alice Locoge poses her androgynous figures in complex, intimate poses, defining them with the dramatic chiaroscuro and heavy musculature of traditional Renaissance masterpieces.  Web Site

French artist Caroline Laffargue’s urban scenes and feminine motifs combine intricate detail and technical skill with broad, graffiti-like strokes and unique textures.  Her images are reminiscent of the starlets of 1920’s Hollywood and Film Noir, but contemporized with bright color and graphic styling. Web site

Marie-Pierre Moyses-Strack, comes to us from Strasbourg, France. She produces richly colored oil paintings depicting dancers in the tradition of Degas, but updated for today’s urban audience with edgy figural distortion and emotive posing. Web Site

Nathalie Ramirez distorts her images of European cities to produce a moody, haunted feeling.   Her use of saturated color in subjects like the Spanish architecture of Gaudi and the streets of Prague give new life to historic iconography. Web Site

American artist Philip Carlton employs two-toned and monochromatic color schemes to paint his figural groupings with photographic clarity and precision. Web Site

Richard Simonsen, a Minneapolis-based artist, began his career as a furniture designer.  He incorporates this experience in his painting by attaching wood, metals, and other materials directly to the canvas.  These elements blend seamlessly with heavily textured oils to create very urban, industrial compositions. Web Site