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Painting of a blue woman, smoking, with a large swan hanging off her lap as she leans against a piano outside.

Artist Profile: Tim Fisher

GVSU Department of Visual & Media Arts Professor of Drawing and artist Tim Fisher is heavily influenced by his own European culture and the more traditional side of painting with images full of iconography, archetypes, and narratives.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Painting

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Color lithograph print with multiple people doing different things, mostly in shades of brown. On person in red appears to be dancing, another has yellow wings.

Artist Profile: Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was a Jewish artist born in Russia who forged a unique career in many artist mediums. He became known for his unique style of dream-like imagery full of Jewish imagery and symbolism.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Printmaking The Holocaust

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Scene includes a stove along the right side. Near center is a table of three men, all wearing hats. Bright windows look out into the street in the background.

Artist Profile: Stewart Ashlee

Throughout his childhood, Stewart Ashlee read adventure stories. These stories and the vibrant illustrations fostered his equally vivid imagination, something he embraced in his artwork throughout his career.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Michigan Artists Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

A print of sunflowers in a vase with a lute and mirror nearby.

Artist Profile: Madeline Devantier

Madeline Devantier's long-standing obsession with books led her to the myths of Ancient Greece, stories that would later become an integral part of her artwork.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Printmaking

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Image of a man showing a child how to use a pottery wheel.

Artist Profile: Lori McElrath-Eslick

Local Michigan artist Lori McElrath-Eslick is an illustrator of children's books, magazines, and greeting cards.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Illustration Michigan Artists Painting

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Four circles in a column in the middle and two on the right side. A wavy line on each side and a double wavy line connecting the center circles.

Artist Profile: Sid Anderson

Sid Anderson lives in Papunya, a remote Northern Australian territory that is recognized as the birthplace of contemporary Indigenous Art.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Painting

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Colorful image of a young boy with a backpack hiding behind a cactus from a white vehicle.

Artist Profile: Deported Artist

Deported Artist, born in Tijuana, Mexico, creates artwork based on his experiences with deportation, immigration policy, and ancestral migration.

LatinX Artists Painting

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Print of a man holding a chicken behind a barbed wire fence.

Artist Profile: Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin was a sculptor, wood engraver, book illustrator, graphic artist, writer, and teacher who also served in the Navy during WWII. His artwork was influenced by mythology, literature, history and his Jewish religion.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Printmaking

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Two stacked gold circles with different textures.

Artist Profile: Shilin Hora

In her printmaking and sculpture, artist Shilin Hora uses physical elements of the natural world, specifically seeds, to create works of art that speak on themes of sustainability and conservation.

Chicago Artist GVSU Art Museum Collection Printmaking Sculpture

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Colrful abstract print of a parts of a face all jumbled together. There are multiple noses, eyes and mouths.

Artist Profile: Sheefy McFly

Sheefy McFly, is a visual artist, muralist, rapper, and DJ, whose artwork and music can be experienced throughout Detroit. He has quickly become known as a contemporary artist with graffiti-based and counter-culture roots.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Michigan Artists Painting Printmaking

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Brightly colored photograph of a closeup of an orange flower with lots of petals.

Artist Profile: Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson's portraits, floral or human, strive to expose the inner life of her subjects.

Contemporary Photography GVSU Art Museum Collection Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Color photograph of a child wearing ballerina clothing against a blue wall.

Artist Profile: Sarah Wong

From 2003 to 2018, Dutch photographer Sarah Wong followed and photographed the lives of cross-gendered children.

Contemporary Photography GVSU Art Museum Collection Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Color photograph landscape of an industrial area that looks abandoned.

Artist Profile: Caleb Cain Marcus

Caleb Cain Marcus is a New York City-based photographer whose images inspect themes of environmental justice or injustice through depictions of nature, people, and the invisible.

Contemporary Photography Landscapes

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Image is of a catrina, which means well dressed skeleton figure in the Day of the Dead style. It is only the bust of the skeleton and most of the image is taken up by a large hat with flowers on top.

Artist Profile: José Guadalupe Posada

Mexican artist and intellectual José Guadalupe Posada was a prolific lithographer and engraver, who lived and worked in a period of Mexican history characterized by social and political upheaval.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Illustration LatinX Artists

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Black and white photograph, top half is white sky with birds, bottom half is dark water with small waves.

Artist Profile: Sally Gall

Throughout Sally Gall's career she has focused on the natural world, using her keen eye for composition to create abstractions of familiar subjects.

Contemporary Photography GVSU Art Museum Collection Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Color photograph of a man carrying to baskets on his shoulders walking up a set of stairs in the snow.

Artist Profile: Ruiyuan Chen

Ruiyuan Chen's photographs reflect the artist's many travels throughout China and Mongolia.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Watercolor of a cityscape

Artist Profile: Reynold Weidenaar

During his career, Reynold Weidenaar became nationally recognized for his technical abilities as both a draftsman and a printmaker, especially his mezzotint prints.

GVSU Art Museum Collection Michigan Artists Painting Printmaking

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Abstract digital print of many different colors of square and rectangular shapes stacked on top of each other.

Artist Profile: Javier Torres

Grand Rapids-based Javier Torres is a Puerto Rican American artist who lives with muscular dystrophy. Through digital programs, art and poetry become Torres’ voice and a way to communicate

Digital Art GVSU Art Museum Collection LatinX Artists Michigan Artists

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Black and white photograph of glass.

Artist Profile: Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson's images are often high-contrast, black and white, abstract photographs that feature everyday objects.

Contemporary Photography GVSU Art Museum Collection Photography

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Painting of a tree stump with its own reflection against a white background.

Artist Profile: Vera Klement

Vera Klement was born in the Free City of Danzig, a city-state in Germany, only a few years before the Nazi party took over the region, an even that would forever influence Klement's life and artwork.

Chicago Artist GVSU Art Museum Collection Painting The Holocaust

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

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