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JANUARY 2011

CONTENTS
Departments
ON THE COVER

Evening by Union Square

(detail)
by Jeremy Mann, 2010, oil on
panel, 36 x 36. Private collection.
4 Editor’s Note

6 Letters

6 What’s New at ArtistDaily.com 30

7 Art Mart

9 Quick Sketches 73 Business of Art

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Features
17 New Year, New Look:
11 Artists to Watch in 2011
American Artist forges ahead
into the new year by teaming up
with a select group of art-world
professionals—those working in
galleries, schools, community art 34
organizations, and art-materials
manufacturers—to select a group
of talented artists who exemplify
our community’s shared passion
for art and will act as our guides
for future progress.

18 Francisco Benitez: 40 Beñat Iglesias Lopez:

Ancient Ways of Painting Drawing and Painting the
Leading to Artistic Alchemy Figure in Isolation
BY COURTNEY JORDAN BY AUSTIN R. WILLIAMS

22 Christopher Blossom: 44 Michael Klein: 22

Painting the Sea Expressive Painting in
BY BOB BAHR the Present Moment
BY MICHAEL GORMLEY
26 George Boorujy:
Exploring the Primal With 48 Jeremy Mann:
Paper and Ink Exploring a Variety
BY NAOMI EKPERIGIN of Visions to Nurture Art
BY JOHN A. PARKS
30 Peter Brooke:
The World Reinvented 52 Julio Reyes:
BY JOHN A. PARKS Memory, Meticulousness,
and Modulated Impulsiveness
34 Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso: in Any Medium 44
Telling Timeless Stories With BY BOB BAHR
Classical Techniques
BY JOHN A. PARKS 58 Jordan Sokol:
Putting Artistic Training to
Use in the Creation of an
Individual Vision 18
BY AUSTIN R. WILLIAMS

64 Jove Wang:
Itinerant Inspiration
BY ALLISON MALAFRONTE