This Winter Friedrichs Pontone exhibits at the prestigious Art Miami fair. The gallery showcases a selection of its international artists, who range across the fields of painting, photography and sculpture. Common to all is a deep immersion in and mastery of their chosen practice. These artists are concerned with making pieces that seduce and intrigue the eye. They deploy a profound and mature understanding of process to fully express their ideas.
Angela Glajcar is a sculptor who primarily works with paper and glass fiber, using light and space to bring form to her structures.
Uk based artist, Henry Jabbour's paintings focus on the human figure, exploring the emotive qualities of the body through colour and mark making. Jabbour's artistic process embraces both the familiar and the unexpected, combining close study and observation with memory and intuition.
Mari Kim is a Korean artist who uses the language of Manga, Disney and Pop-Art to make her glossily realised paintings. Her images derive from a rich mixture of Western and Eastern cultural references.
Born in 1942, Luciano Ventrone lived and worked in his native Italy. His paintings 'invite a mood of pure contemplation'; they are works of masterful skill and supreme aesthetic beauty.
In Lee Leenam's digital reinterpretation of classical masterpieces that reveal nature's wonders and life's aura, he attempts to breathe new meaning and vitality into each pixel of image.
Korean artist, Jeong Woojae invites us to experience a surreal situation, where a young girl’s constant companion is a tropical fish.
American artist J Louis lives and works in New York. His oil paintings present skilfully rendered female figures as the central protagonists.
Ohio-born Ron Hicks is a mid-career, American painter with a long string of exhibitions to his name. His subject is the figure and the medium is oil. His mature style exploits to the full the aesthetic pleasures of his technique.
Emil Alzamora incorporates various unorthodox approaches and techniques in an effort to explore the human form both physically and psychologically. He often distorts, elongates, encases or deconstructs the subjects with the intention of revealing an emotional or physical situation or narrative.
Reef Hsu deploys painstaking accumulations of uniform, cellular, grain-shaped marks that combine to make a softly-textured, modulated surface.
Jae Yong Kim creates ceramic doughnuts. Each is hand-thrown, hand-painted and glazed, with no two pieces alike. They are inspired by his personal life, with a memory attached to every single piece