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JP Schuiteman

In the early 1970’s worked extensively with hand built ceramics.  In the late 1970’s focused on pencil drawings. In 1983 received BA in Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design, from San Diego State University and worked professionally as a Graphic Designer for much of the 80’s through the 1990’s.  In the early 1970’s worked extensively with hand built ceramics.  In the late 1970’s focused on pencil drawings. In 1983 received BA in Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design, from San Diego State University and worked professionally as a Graphic Designer for much of the 80’s through the 1990’s.

“My current focus is on representational imagery, with the human figure as the primary focus.  I am a truth seeker. My intention is to be provocative, awaken thinking and reveal the truth. I present irony or use symbolism because Art should challenge the mind. At the same time, I prefer to create work that I consider beautiful, striving to incorporate the classical rules of composition, balance, etc.

Some recent pieces include some ‘homo-erotic’ energy. Subjects represented are often athletic African-American men.”

Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli

Giovanni Battista Moroni is one of the most famous North Italian portrait specialists of the 16th century. He was a native of Albino, near Bergamo. In his early years he worked in Brescia and at Trent (1551-2). Later altarpieces and portraits were painted for clients in and around Bergamo and Albino, where he settled in 1561.

His portraits have great psychological penetration, which owes less to his master and more to the Venetian tradition of portraiture as it had been evolved by Giorgione and Titian.

George Dureau (born in New Orleans, 1930; died in New Orleans, 2014) was a painter, sculptor, and photographer known for his focus on the male nude. His paintings command regional and national recognition, and draw on classical and baroque traditions. His photographs of nudes, street people, and people who are maimed and deformed (often figures also incorporated within his paintings and sculptures), have garnered international acclaim. Often compared to Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, Dureau’s black male nudes predate Mapplethorpe’s Black Book pictures by several years. Also classically formal, they distinguish themselves from Mapplethorpe’s work by the nature of the connection between photographer and subject.