Artists Describing Their Art:
William Nelson - The Corporate Lease Program, initiated in 1994, leases one of a kind fine art and limited addition fine art prints to the Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia community on a monthly basis. Businesses may choose from a variety of works or have custom art created for them. The works vary from realism to abstraction, reflecting in its variety of techniques and styles the evolution in fine art. Leasing has many benefits. While businesses obtain quality art at a fraction of the cost of purchasing their own, the lease fees are used to purchase supplies each year, helping the struggling artist community stay creative. In addition, by placing art in the community, businesses help our collection serve as an outreach program to educate and familiarize the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia community with America's leading contemporary artists and the Where Art Thou family. The lease fees of the matted and framed prints range from $25 to $500 per month including insurance, delivery and installation in the company's office. After the 23-month leasing period, the works are collected and returned to the Where Art Thou gallery where the entire collection is again made available for lease to businesses ...
Chris Heisinger - Chris Heisinger is an artist specializing in stained glass mosaics for architectural and decorative artworks. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Chris has always found ways to express herself with art. While attending Northwestern University, she studied the Arts and Crafts movement, Native American Art and Chinese Art History that brings a unique style to her work. Over the years, Chris has worked in acrylics, ceramics, photography, stained glass and mosaics. Even though her artwork has been in different medium, her passion is'painting with glass.' Since the late 1980's, she has developed her artistic style through stained glass and began creating stained glass mosaics in 2002....
Tamara Sorkin - I have always worked from organic subjects- plants, animals, or the human body, but usually I arrive at an abstract, "zoomorphic" description, that enables me a wider perspective. ...
Theo Radic - Everyone experiences drawing and painting as children. I was perhaps one year old therefore when I was first initiated into the painter's craft. I continued these universal beginnings throughout my school years and sporadic courses in college (which gave me few insights into this art). [...] I had only myself as a teacher in the art of painting. My evolution as a painter paralleled that of art history in general, beginning with my prehistoric period as a one-year-old-clutcher-of-crayolas, groping through Egyptian and Greek periods; a Renaissance period; and then neo-classicism, romanticism and naturalism; impressionism and fauvism; cubism and abstract expressionism. At nineteen I went to Europe, thirsty for scope and depth in Art which America lacks. Having established myself in the south of France, I absorbed the emanations of the modern masters who had lived and painted there. I was profoundly moved by the bizarre snow storm over La Cote d'Azur on the night of Picasso's death. No such storm had ever been seen before in April, as old-timers in Nice told me. [...] Fully acknowledging my debt to 'abstract expressionism', I nonetheless do not consider my art'abstract' - a word ...