NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY of FINE ARTS
Painting
Aimee Farnet Siegel
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two dimensional plain of paint on canvas, have a depth beyond collage and are closer in nature to assemblage.
Alex Beard
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Naturalism.”
Andrew Rodgers
The Executive Director of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, Andrew Rodgers, is an arts administrator, arts educator, and artist. He sits on the New Orleans Arts Council and is a passionate champion of the arts who has worked with arts institutions throughout the Gulf Coast to improve the lives of people through the arts.
Arturo Perez
Arturo Perez has has been teaching for over 25 years (K-12 to adults to seniors), has a Bachelor Degree from UNO in both Fine Arts and Science, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute, and also volunteers at WWOZ, Creative Arts New Orleans (CANO) and Creative Industries. He continues to be involved in art and dance education teaching classes, workshops, private lessons, exhibiting work, and performing.
Belinda Flores-Shinshillas
Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born in Mexico City and a resident of New Orleans. Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space.
Ben Hamburger
Ben Hamburger is a painter and art educator based in New Orleans, LA. Hamburger holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Eckerd College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art
Emre Karaoglu
Emre Karaoglu, a contemporary figurative artist from Turkey, now based in New Orleans, uses oil, pastel & charcoal portraits to capture the profound layers of human experience within everyday life.
Erin Orlowski
Erin Orlowski grew up in rural Illinois. As a child, she loved to create. That passion continued throughout her life, leading her to an Art degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gus Hoffman
Gus has shown his work all over the country; most notably in Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans. His most recent solo show was at the Blue House in New Orleans. Most days you can find Gus somewhere around Bayou St. John painting on site.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an accomplished art instructor and artist with a deep commitment to making art accessible and meaningful for all.
Jonathan Hodge
Jonathan's themes often reflect the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, perhaps best illustrated by his paintings of Hurricane Katrina that devastated his hometown of New Orleans. He believes not only in the power of art, but its ability to move people.
Kathleen Matthews
Kathleen Matthews is a New Orleans native. She concentrates on oil painting, mainly still life and interiors. Her work includes realism, impressionism, and alla prima.
Nell Tilton
Nell Curtis Tilton is a New Orleans native who has been immersed in the visual arts all of her adult life. Experimenting with materials and subject matter, she is continually building knowledge from her explorations and observations. Intuitiveness and response are the essence and joy of her process.
Nicole Charbonnet
Nicole's paintings are very textural and built up over long periods of time. The superimposition of textures, images, words, loose, watery washes of paint and veils of translucent fabric or paper, creates a visual threshold in her work which is something to look at as well as to look through.
Nurhan Gokturk
Nurhan Gokturk is a multidisciplinary artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Nurhan immigrated to New York City at the age of three. His projects have been featured worldwide.
Patti Adams
Patti Adams is a professional artist and musician who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 1982. Her work is defined by her wide-ranging interests in calligraphy, gilding, painting in watercolor and oils, book illustration, and color theory.
Piki Mendizabal
Piki is a Cuban-born artist, painter who has participated in over fifty group exhibitions across the United States and Europe.
Rebecca Madura
Rebecca earned Bachelor Degrees from University of Texas at Austin in both Fine Arts and Liberal Arts as well as a post-graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management. She has a Master of Liberal Arts from Tulane University.
Sabrina Schmidt
As a plein air oil painter, Sabrina connects deeply with her surroundings, focusing on light, atmosphere, and subject. Guided by exploration, connection, and design, she captures the emotional essence of a landscape rather than its every detail. Her work emphasizes mood and feeling, using naturalistic colors and stylized, representational mark-making.
Sara Madandar
Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist and educator who explores migration and the human experience of living between cultures, using the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences.
Sean Friloux
Sean Friloux lives and works in New Orleans and is accomplished in watercolor, graphite drawings and acrylic. His work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and Watercolor Artist Magazine.
Teresa Villarrubia
Teresa is a realistic painter who has studied extensively at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Working primarily in oil paint from life, her artwork reflects a deep understanding of subtle nuances of line, shape, value, and color.
Zona Wainwright
Zona blends natural colors into undefined forms that tend to please the eye and tantalize the viewer's interpretation.
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