ANDREI KUSHNIR, a plein air painter for over twenty-five years, has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. His works have been shown in exhibitions juried by curators from the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery.

            He is a member of the Salmagundi Club NYC, Washington Society of Landscape Painters, and a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society..

    His work is in the public collections of the US Coast Guard, DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Museum of Florida’s Art and Culture, Virginia Historical Society, the University Club, Washington DC and in numerous private collections around the world.

   Andrei's work is unique in that he is a true plein-air painter, he carries no camera or drawing equipment, His gift is to absorb and express what is happening in the moment, at the place. He paints with a unique intensity.This ability to focus is what gives his paintings a sense of shared experience.

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MICHELE MARTIN TAYLOR  has  her own unique post-impressionistic style that includes garden landscape, interiors, and figures. Her art is characterized by its' strong composition, expressive paint handling, and sophisticated use of color.  Michele is one of four artists chosen between 1960 and 1983 as an Oregon State University Distinguished Alumni and is listed in Who’s Who in American Art (16^th edition). In 1983 Schreiner’s Iris Gardens, of Salem, Oregon, named a hybrid iris “Michele Taylor” in honor of her iris garden paintings.

 Michele’s work is based on years of study in drawing, aesthetics, and color theory in many art institutions.  This includes studies in art at the Pasadena Art Museum, Chouinard Art Institute, and California State University, among others.  She earned a BA in painting from Oregon State University and pursued postgraduate studies in Paris, France.

 Michele’s art has been collected widely and is included in the collections of the Emperor and Empress of Japan, Portland Art Museum, District of Columbia’s public art collection, the Mayo Clinic Foundation, the estate of S.I. Hayakawa, and the private collection of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. There are more than 1,200 of Michele’s original works in public and private collections throughout the world.

JOACHIM MARX

     One might say, Marx paints the same painting again and  again, watching it come out differently each time. It is mostly the formal aspects that interest him: the grounds, the material qualities of the paints and their application - the subject matter almost becoming an excuse to paint. It is the technique that inspires the subject matter and it is the subject matter that inspires the technique. And it is the repetition of his subject matter that reveals an observing and meditative approach to painting.

Marx has exhibited in numerous shows in the US (German Consulate Gallery, NYC; La MaMa La Galleria, NYC; Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, FL ) as well as in his native Germany since 1986. He also designed church windows. German television featured him in a documentary called "Marx and the Culture of Contradiction" in 1993.