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1. Martin Levine
Martin Levine

Martin Levine (born 14 May 1945 in New York City) is an American artist, Vice present of New York Fine Arts Society. Levine works mainly in etching and lithography, depicting realistically rendered cityscapes. His work has been included extensively in both international and American invitational and juried exhibitions, and his prints and drawings are in many important collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He has been on the jury for numerous international exhibitions, including Biennials in Varna, Bulgaria; Lodz, Poland; Belgrade, Serbia; and Bristol, England. He is the former president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1997. He has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1986.

2. Lorena Salcedo-Watson
Lorena Salcedo-Watson

Lorena Salcedo-Watson was born in 1963, is an artist and printmaker. Her current work consists of large-scale drawings and prints. Her imagery focuses on the relationships between the structures and essential qualities of life forms. Based on a fascination with human anatomy, botany, and entomology, her imagery transforms and re-interprets aspects of nature, filtering through personal experience, observation, and imagination.
Lorena Salcedo-Watson received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA from Stony Brook University. She is currently a professor of practice at Stony Brook University teaching printmaking and drawing. Her work has been included in numerous regional exhibitions including the 2022 Long Island Biennial at the Heckscher Museum of Art. Salcedo-Watson formerly served as a Master Printer at Universal Limited Art Editions and Program Manager at Gallery North.

3. Roy Nicholson
Roy Nicholson

Roy Nicholson was born in 1943 Cambridge, England. He graduated from Hornsey College of Art in London in 1965, and received an MFA from Vermont College of Norwich University 1994.
He has had 23 one-person exhibitions, and is included in numerous public and private collections. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, and he has an extensive bibliography.
In recent years, Nicholson has exhibited extensively on the East End of Long Island. He is currently represented in Manhattan by Suzanne Randolph Fine Art and by Alpan Gallery in Huntington, New York. Nicholson is Professor Emeritus, Long Island University, where he has taught full-time since 1986. He received the Trustee’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in 2000.

4. Hilary Hava Mizrahi
Hilary Hava Mizrahi

Born in 1991, Hilary Hava Mizrahi is a celestial artist whose work blends unique elements of spirituality, nature, and cosmic exploration. Her art is deeply rooted in a profound connection with the universe, drawing inspiration from the captivating beauty of the stars, the Milky Way, and earthly landscapes.
Hava’s paintings are not merely visual experiences; they serve as gateways bridging the celestial and the terrestrial, inviting viewers into a realm where the spiritual and material worlds are seamlessly interwoven.

5. Justin Greenwald
Justin Greenwald

Justin Greenwald was born in 1976 Bologna, Italy, while his father was attending medical school. At the age of three, he and his family moved to the United States, settling primarily on Long Island, where he still lives and works today. His passion for art began early—at just eight years old, he started sketching his family during quiet evenings gathered around the television, sparking a lifelong connection to drawing and visual expression.
Encouraged by his high school art teacher, Mrs. Brosch, Justin pursued his passion seriously, applying to art schools across the country. He was awarded several scholarships, including the prestigious Pratt National, and went on to attend the Carnegie Mellon Fine Arts program.

6. Leng Jun
Leng Jun

Leng Jun (Chinese: 冷軍; born 1963) is a Chinese painter from Sichuan Province, China. He graduated in 1984 from the Teachers College, Hankou, Wuhan, the branch of the Department of Arts. He is known for his hyperrealistic paintings and drawings that appear like photographs. He currently serves as the Leader of the Wuhan Painting Academy and Chairman of the Wuhan Artists Association.
His first work using photorealism was the 2004 oil painting Mona Lisa. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University in 2018.

8. Zhang Hehong
Zhang Hehong

Born in Beijing in 1968, Zhang Hehong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose life and artistic practice extend between China and the United States. She is a member of the China Artists Association, Beijing Artists Association, New York Artists Association, and Overseas Chinese Artists Association. She also serves as a council member of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Artists Association and the Chinese Designers Association, and is an appointed artist of the China Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Chinese Painting & Calligraphy. Zhang has also served as a juror for the China College Student Advertising Art Festival Academy Award and the National University Innovation Design Competition, and previously served as a professor in the Department of Art at Beijing Industry and Trade College.

9. Cao Jun
Cao Jun

Cao Jun (Chinese/American: 曹俊, born 1966 in Jiangyan District, Jiangsu Province, China) is a Chinese artist living in the United States. He won the Gold Medal at the Salon du Carrousel du Louvre in Paris in 2013. In 2018 he exhibited his works at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, United States in a solo exhibition curated by the philosopher and professor Sallis John, together with the art historian Prof. Nancy Netzer. His works are a synthesis of Chinese classical calligraphy and western Modernism.
Many of his expressive works have been published in art magazines, periodicals and books, and are among the collections of contemporary art in museums worldwide. such as the National Art Museum of China, the Center Pompidour, the Parliament of New Zealand and the Rangitoto College.

10. Xu Zhongou
Xu Zhongou

Xu Zhongou, born in 1952, Chengdu, Sichuan province, He is a member of New York Fine Arts Society. He graduated from the Department of Painting, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1982 and taught in the school until 2001. He was the director of the teaching and research section of the school.
He currently serves as vice president of the School of Urban Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, vice president of School of Fine Arts at Sichuan Normal University, and mentor of master's students. He also served as a visiting professor at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts at the Sichuan Academy of Music. Professor of the School of Visual Arts at Sichuan Normal University, Visiting Professor of the College of Art and Communication at Southwestern Jiaotong University, Visited Professor of Southwestern National University.

11. Donna Corvi
Donna Corvi

Donna Corvi was born in 1954 New York City, Donna Corvi is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design, and The New School. Her career began in illustration using watercolor, airbrush and colored pencil. After a commercial art career of 20 years in NYC, a change was in order.” Now, painting in both oil and acrylic, I can focus on painting what resonates with me most…trees, branches, wind and color.” The artist takes daily walks along the water, in the woods and across fields to record her reference material for her expressionist views of tree branches, wind and the ever-changing seasons.

12. Dan Welden
Dan Welden

Dan Welden is a painter and printmaker, educated at the Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Munich, Germany. He was invited to work at the Guanlan International Printmaking Base 4 times.
As Master Printmaker for over 50 years and director of Hampton Editions, Ltd., Welden collaborated with, and printed for, renowned artists including Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Lynda Benglis, Dan Flavin, Kiki Smith, David Salle and Kurt Vonnegut, among a host of others.

13. Joyce Raimondo
Joyce Raimondo

Joyce Raimondo was born in 1961, Her’s diverse creativity includes painting, sculpture, illustration, murals, and the creation of award-winning art books. She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Queens College City University of New York -- 1991.
Raimondo has exhibited in New York City and East Hampton where she resides. Her solo exhibitions include the noted feminist art site, A.I.R Gallery in Manhattan, Queens College, and numerous group shows. She has been published in The Museum of Modern Art’s Education Newsletter, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Times Herald, and numerous publications.

14. Anne Seelbach
Anne Seelbach

Anne Seelbach (American, 1944-) Anne Seelbach was born in 1944, received a BA from New York University and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York.
She has developed her art at the MacDowell Colony, Triangle Artists' Workshop, the Griffis Art Center, New London, CT, and I-Park, East Haddam, CT. She was awarded a Painting Fellowship at The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
She has taught at the University of Rhode Island, Northeastern University and Emerson College n Boston, The Newark Museum, NJ, the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY and at the Victor D'Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett. NY.

15. David Salyer
David Salyer

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