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Double Puffin, painting by Arnold Wechsler
Double Puffin
painting by
Arnold Wechsler



Curator's Choice 2008
Contest Winners

Celeste Rapone
Celeste Rapone
"Cream Filled"
oil & acrylic on canvas
Keun Young Park
Keun Young Park
"untitled"
micro collage on paper
These are the winners of ATOA's Curator's Choice 2008 contest. Jim Kempner, owner of Jim Kempner Fine Art Gallery, was this year's juror.

See our prospectus for contest details.



Kate Teale
Kate Teale
"Through the Night 1:30 am"
oil on canvas
Thomas Jackson
Thomas Jackson
"American Cipher 36"
photo diptych
Winners:

Judd Boloker
Michelle Bova
Kate Teale
Thomas Jackson
Celeste Rapone
Keun Young Park
Keun Young Park
Judd Boloker
"Night of the Spider Flowers"
colored pencil on Bristol Board
Michelle Bova
Michelle Bova
"Chromosome, X"
oil applied to canvas via palette knife


Regular ATOA panels will resume in the Fall at SVA.

Check our website in October for further information about our Fall calendar of panel discussions. Meanwhile visit our Archives to view transcripts and media clips of past panels, or browse our Video Catalog to order tapes of past panels, visit our online Store to buy books by authors who have spoken at ATOA, or visit www.ATOAauction.com.


 

Arnold Wechsler

Statue of Liberty Blue, painting by Arnold Wechsler
Statue of Liberty Blue


Part of the New York art scene for over thirty years, Arnold Wechsler gained international recognition with his avant garde works in the early seventies and more recently, has sought to integrate his interest and experience in traveling into his paintings. His works have been widely exhibited, both here and abroad, in cities such as St. Petersburg, Moscow, Washington D.C., Mexico City, Paris, Denver, New York City, Madrid, and Bologna.


Horses Red, painting by Arnold Wechsler
Horses Red

Arnold Wechsler was born in New Jersey and educated at the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University in New York City. Early on, he gave artists a forum in the mass media as a creator and director of Visual Arts Productions (VAP), an organization that produced programs for Manhattan Cable TV. Wechsler is a member the ATOA Board of Directors, and volunteered for the A-V preservation committee, as well as the auction committee which recently staged a benefit auction at Sundaram Tagore Gallery to raise money for the preservation of the ATOA A-V archive.

Arnold Wechsler
WoundedKnee

Since the 1970's his abstract paintings have been inspired by popular cultures, often reflected in forms that balance organic and geometric forms with native pictographs. His patterned subject matter draws on decorative aspects ranging from Moroccan tiles to Mayan friezes to Oriental calligraphy to the visual characteristics of DNA molecules. Wechsler has also been profoundly influenced by indigenous cultures of the Americas, particularly the art of the Native American community.

Huichol, painting by Arnold Wechsler
Huichol


It can be said that his work is cosmopolitan in the truest sense of the word, spanning influences from the world over. Wechsler not only assimilates world influences into his work but has sought to engage the cultures of other countries firsthand, traveling to the jungles of the Chapas in Guatemala, the mountains of Japan, and the Suqs of Marrakech. He recently completed detailed proposals for the modification of public monuments in the former Soviet Union.

Chinese Astrology, painting by Arnold Wechsler
Chinese Astrology

Presently, Wechsler is collaborating with Toni Dalton, a fellow artist, on an internet project entitled Steal This Painting, a reference and a tribute to the work and philosophy of Abby Hoffman.

More of Arnold Wechsler's work can be seen at: http://home.earthlink.net/~arnoldw/.




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