Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art
There are four artists featured below, click a name to jump directly to that artist writeup.
Daniel Douke
Artist and sculptor
Artist and sculptor, Dan Douke (born 1943) creates illusionary objects, such as cigar boxes, sheets of steel and crushed cardboard, which appear to look like “the real thing.” Using acrylic paint on canvas, linoleum, plastic pipe and other materials, Douke’s paintings appear to have been “found” as well as manipulated by the artist.
To and From
2007
Acrylic on canvas and resin
10-1/2″ x 8″ x 23″
(installed: 8-3/4′)
Arroyo
1983
Acrylic on canvas over panel
84″ x 43″ x 9″
Ron Davis
Artist, Geometrician, Abstract Illusionist, and Lyrical Abstractionist
Ron Davis (born June 29, 1937) is a renowned artist, geometrician, abstract illusionist, and lyrical abstractionist who brought to reality the beginning of a new age of the painterly possibilities of post-Einsteinian concepts.
Pinwheel, Diamond, and Stripe
1975
Aquatint, etching and drypoint on white HMP, handmade, hand-colored paper
Image: 15-3/4″ x 19″
Sheet : 20″ x 23-1/2″
Edition of 42
Arc Arch
1979
Screenprint, lithograph on colored hand-made paper
32″ x 42-1/4″
Edition of 50
Melanie Pullen
Artist
Self-taught artist, Melanie Pullen (born 1975) began her “High Fashion Crime Scenes” project after seeing a copy of Luc Sante’s 1992 book Evidence (1914-1919) about crime scen photos from the New York City Police Department.
I’m totally fascinated about lines and perspective. I like long shots in hallways, anything that has a depth to it. – Melanie Pullen
Blue (Water Series)
2005
Cibachrome
76-1/2″ x 99-1/2″
Edition of 5
Nina
2005
Cibachrome
99-1/2″ x 76-1/2″
Edition of 5
Ezra Stoller
American Architectural Photographer
American architectural photographer, Ezra Stoller, (1915 – 2004), is particularly remembered for his photographs of modern buildings by such notable architects as Louis Kahn, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Stoller was the first photographer to be awarded the American Institute of Architects‘ gold medal in 1961.
TWA Lounge
1962
Gelatin Silver print
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20
TWA Terminal, Idlewild Airport
1962
Gelatin Silver print
20″ x 16″
Edition of 20