WORKS BY MISCELLANEOUS ARTISTS

Artworks for sale by former Artamo Gallery artists or from trade-ins and commissions from collectors and gallery clients. Please note that all information about the works and their history is to our best knowledge but without guarantee; we mostly depend on the information from the consignees.

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Ehja Kang is a contemporary Korean Artist residing in the Los Angeles area. She studied in Korea and in California. Her works has been shown in a multitude of exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Thailand and, of course, in Korea. This painting was part of the LACMA rental and sales gallery collection.

Born in 1954 Basel, Switzerland, John Goetz grew up in Canada, where his parents moved to when he was seven. He studied at the Sheridan College of Art & Design in Toronto and at the Ontario College of Art, also in Toronto, Canada. He now lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

Journey of Life Series by Su Ha Sin
Ink and pigmented powdered stone on paper,
29" x 22" (No. 11, 12) ; 11" x 11" (No. 13, 14, 16) framed 21" x 17"

Su Ha Sin came from a traditional Korean culture that was emotionally inexpressive. Yet, even in this environment, her paintings were a way of channeling emotions of the past and present, whether painful or precious, and thus became her primary mode of externalizing and communicating intense emotions. The progression of her work since leaving Korea has revealed a shift from contemporary Asian to Western modernist influences. Her work today continues to integrate these two cultural sensibilities, while at the same time demonstrates her quest for the sublime.

Ms. Sin received her BFA from Dongguck University, Seoul, Korea, and an M.F.A. from California State University Long Beach and is currently living in Korea again.

Aligned with Space by Taraneh Mozafarian
copper and mixed media on wood with polycarbonate glas front, 24" x 24"

Edge of the Mirror, 1–9 by Taraneh Mozafarian
copper and mixed media on wood, 9 individual pieces of 12" x 12"

Descending from a rich Persian cultural heritage, in addition to a family of artists and jewelers, Taraneh Mozafarian views her art as gems.

Using different techniques and approaches Taraneh’s work is continuously evolving. She makes wall pieces and installations using copper and other unconventional material. Working with copper mixed media Taraneh finds her medium unpredictable and full of surprises. She feels the copper is alive and has its own intelligence. She allows the piece to guide her, however the final image reflects the materials’ innate qualities, as well as the artist’s thoughts and feelings. Her unique artistic vision combines traditional Eastern soul with the Western mystery of abstraction.

Patrick Dintino holds three degrees in fine and industrial arts: a BA in Industrial Arts from San Diego State University, and both, a BFA and an MFA in painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

Born in San Francisco, Dintino has resided in California his entire life, yet his extensive travels abroad have continuously informed and inspired a diversity of creative endeavors. In1989 he co-founded Artists in Motion art collective, a group of artists who created funk-art fashion, sculpture and furniture out of reclaimed materials. In 1990 he co-founded a musical ensemble called ‘Naked Earth,’ and became Art Director for Ecodisc Records. In 1994 he returned to the Bay Area to emerse himself in the vibrant art and music scene. — A finalist for SFMOMA’s emerging artist award, and a recipient of the 2004 Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, Dintino continues to create art and teaches drawing and color theory at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California.

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Hanna Merians was born in Tiberias, on the shore of the sea of Galilee. Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, she was sent to Paris to complete her studies. It is in Paris that she was first exposed to the world of modern plastic and graphic arts. Her first serious work was done during a four year stay in the far east, using both European and oriental techniques, which she studied with local masters.

In 1961 Hanna Merians moved to the U.S.A. and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the San Francisco Academy. She has also studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and at the University of Madrid.

From 1969 to 1973 she worked at the Center for Contemporary Graphic Arts in Geneva, Switzerland and also with Pietro Sarto in the Atelier de Taille Douce in St. Prex. The result has been a thorough mastery of the techniques of etching and lithography. The following three years she lived in Singapore, including travels to Indonesia in order to study Batik.

Hanna Merians’ wide travels and extended sojourns all over the world have enriched her work and made it many-sided. It has, however, never dislodged a basic unity of concept which sees humanity as the sensitive center of a colorful kaleidoscope of love, brutality, fear and wonder. Her work, even at its most surrealistic, has an obvious link to people.

Hanna Merians died of cancer on March 29, 1991 in her house in Sausalito, California.

At the age of sixteen, Tobey went to Chicago in and began to study at the local Art Institute. 1908 he started his career as an employee in a studio for fashion design and finally became an independent fashion designer in New York in 1911. 1922 to 1925 he worked as an arts teacher in Seattle and 1930 to 1937 as a teacher in Devonshire, England.
1925 he visited Europe for the first time, later Persia., in the 1930s Shanghai and Japan, where he was busy for some time with the doctrine and paintings of Zen as well as Hai-Ku poetry and calligraphy in a Zen monastery in Kyoto. In 1938 he created musical compositions of his own. He left England and returned to Seattle, where he lived until 1960, the year when finally settled in Basel.
The first individual exhibition of his works took place in New York in 1944. In 1951 is another individual exhibition in the Whitney Museum, that had been shown earlier in San Francisco, Seattle and Santa Barbara. This travelling exhibition was the international breakthrough for Tobey. Since that moment he was represented at the important international exhibitions as e.g. the documenta in Kassel in 1959 and 1964. In 1974 the Smithsonian Institute organized a big retrospective. Further posthumous individual exhibitions were shown in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1984, in Essen, in 1989, and in Basel in 1990.

Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York, began in 1939 with his studies at the Art Students League with Reginald Marsh as his teacher, one year later he moved to the Ohio State College, where he returned to after a three year military service in Europe between 1943 and 1946 for further three years. He was a teacher at the Ohio State College until 1951. He moved to New York in 1957, where he continued to teach at the New York State College of Education in Oswego. Lichtenstein turned to contemporary image contents in the mid-1950s. In 1962 Lichtenstein participated in the first big Pop-Art exhibition 'New Realists' in New York. Two years later his first exhibition in Europe took place in Paris. In 1963 he received a commission for the world exhibition in New York for a mural In 1965/66 ceramic works were created, at the same time he painted his first brushstroke picture. In 1969 he started producing silk-screen prints. His most famous paintings show dramatic figurative scenes in a typical American cartoon style. His work was celebrated in important retrospective exhibitions all around the world.

Heinz Kreutz, born 1923 in Frankfurt and living in Bavaria since 1972, was trained as a photographer. After being wounded at the Russian front during WWII and long time in a hospital he turned to art and began abstract painting in 1948. 1951 he studied in Paris, France, and was one of the founding members of the artists group Quadriga, that connected German art again with the international avantgarde. He became one of the most important German post-war painters. Later he transferred his unique style into other graphic techniques, especially woodcut printing.