Gallery Egan Artists

	Alexis Hale Egan Alexis Egan is a photographer who's work varies from fashion photography to portraits from around the world. Alexis attended to Savannah College of Art & Design for photography. She is also a humanitarian and just got back from living in Guatemala for a year in the village of Pinolito and on the Rio Dulce. Her love for travel, helping people and photography comes together in her most recent body of work "Guatemala Now" and can be seen in her "Havana Now", a photo documentary of Cuba.
	Andrea Kelly Andrea Kelly’s figure and landscape paintings explore the evolving nature of our relationships and the world around us, often in hyper-colors, giving the viewer a heightened awareness of light, form, and color. Born and raised in Bayside, New York, Andrea earned her B.F.A. at School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She later began an intensive study of the human figure and anatomy, working closely with mentor and former professor from School of Visual Arts, James Kearns. This relationship continues to influence her attitude and fuel her fascination for the figure as an image that expands beyond the physical and describes the connections between the physical world and emotional life.
	Anne Kullaf Anne Kullaf studied graphic design and fine art at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and at The Art Students League of NY. Her work has been exhibited at the National Arts Club, and is currently featured in two traveling museum exhibitions, "The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” and "400 Years of Dutch History in Manhattan". She regularly exhibits her work in New York City at the Salmagundi Club and the Michael Ingbar Gallery.
	Brian Oschwald Brian Oschwald is an inventive, painter of multi-layered oil works, exploring inward understanding and imaginative connections through abstract landscape images, using a broad, textured palette. His paintings encourage recognition of psychological & cultural challenges, and invoke spiritual responses to them. Architectural sub-structuring undergirds many of his compositions, evoking order and endurance. Brian’s work as a painter grew out of his practice as a design architect of twenty one years. He is a traditional musician on the mandolin, celtic harp, and various flutes and pipes. He works in a studio of his design, set in an architectural landscape that he has developed spatial study and contemplation.
	Carly Michelson Carly Michelson’s creative drive became apparent at an early age. She was a student of classical ballet, an accomplished flautist, and in high school studio art became her overriding passion. In 2001 she was honored to have a painting chosen as the College Board’s annual holiday card. In 2005 Carly graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY with a major in Studio Art/Art History. During her semester abroad in Venice, Italy she began to focus on printmaking and photography. Carly has worked with L.D Bright Photography in Warren, NJ and done freelance graphic design work for a NYC theater ensemble. In January 2010 she will be the studio manager for Peter Wallburg Studios in Summit, NJ.
	Christopher Charles Kappmeier Christopher Charles Kappmeier was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised in Maplewood, NJ He has been painting or drawing in one form or another as far back as he can remember. Kappmieir is a fine art graduate of the Newark School of Fine Art and Industrial Art, which sparked his passion for open-air painting. After post graduate courses, Kappmieir traveled throughout Italy and England painting whatever inspired him along the way. Kappmieir has also worked as a silkscreen and gold leaf printer. He is currently residing in Lynhurst, NJ.
	Dan Fenelon Dan’s art infuses a blend of cartooning, street modernism and ancient labor intensive tribal motifs along with an explosion of vibrant colors. Cartoons were a big influence on him growing up and when he began to examine Egyptian hieroglyphs and Aztec codec’s he made a connection between them and modern sequential art. Dan thought that combining these elements with designer toys would be just the twist he was looking for in creating a feeling of tribal tradition applied to modern culture. Dan will be creating a 32’x12’ permanent mural at the Montclair art Museum in October 2009 .
	Dannielle Mick "Astounding atmospheric qualities enrich the sublime in nature and this is my intention to simplify and capture.” I’ve been inspired by this palette recently in acrylic. Dull against pure or pure against dull. You can feel the push pull effect and end up with some interesting results. When I’m painting abstract I never know what I’ll end up with. You lose yourself to the process. I enjoy painting in acrylic as well as pastel these days. Wolfe Kahn wrote, “I believe that every artist has one medium that determines the way he uses every other one.” Interesting. I’m not sure which one it is for me but I am enjoying the journey!
	George Diebold Born in Caldwell New Jersey, George Diebold has been a photographer for over thirty years. Originally educated as a still life painter, George picked up his first camera as a college freshman. A graduate of both Regis and Kean Universities, George earned degrees in Fine Arts and Photography as well as Interior Design. His unique style of dramatic lighting, intense color and meticulous attention to detail have provided a steady flow of corporate and advertising clients including Sony, AT&T, Novartis, Microsoft, PepsiCo and Pentagram Design. Among others, his prints have been purchased by Kellogg Co., General Motors, Morgan Stanley, Lynx Systems and 21st Century 3-D. George’s work is also part of the permanent collection of American Landscapes at the Montclair Art Museum. His images have been featured in Graphis International, Communication Arts and Studio Photography.
	Jamie Allen My artistic career began being attracted to the fluidity and transparency of paint. I explored early on the dynamics of layering watercolors. Setting out as a watercolorist first introduced the qualities of a medium having elements of chance and time. My dedication to art led me to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where I graduated in 2005 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration. Here I studied extensively with the watercolor painter Thomas Sgouros and Jason Brockert, and collagist Jamie Murphy and Melissa Ferriera. After RISD, I went on to Montclair State University in New Jersey, to acquire my Masters of Fine Arts. I was awarded the Graduate Assistantship award my second year. During this assistantship, I worked closely with professors and students within the department. The merging of work I was completing at RISD as well as in grad school, led itself to evolve from pure paint to mixed media. For myself, it lends itself for more detection. Mixed media provided a new language for me to express my work. Materials become the tools as a means of expression and fearless discovery.
	Kim Martin
	Marilla Palmer "In Marilla Palmer's drawings, organic materials are tempered with high-tech flashes: mushroom spores mingle with bits of holographic paper...imprints from the underside of mushroom caps top watercolor stems in a delicate composition." Rachel Somerstein, ArtNews, April 2008. "The dichotomy in Palmer's work is that we see one thing but feel another... There is a dichotomy of materials too, in which the whimsy of Alexander Calder meets the mood of James Turrell." Sue Scott Marilla Palmer has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work in New York including Pierogi Gallery, PPOW, and Deven Golden, as well as solo shows Gallery Egan in Morristown NJ, and Fringe Exhibitions, and Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles. Her work has been reviewed publications such as in The New York Times, Time Out NY, ArtNews and is included in many private & public collections.
	Mia Hebib Mia Hebib resides in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is a freelance designer and consultant. She also recently launched her own business under the name Oblik Atelier. “Oblik” means shape in Croatian and it defines her jewelry and thought aesthetic. Hebib is pursuing shape to find its most simple yet complex “edge” while keeping the forms fluid and feminine. Her shapes are intuitive and they come as a result of constant observations of her surroundings.
	Monica Kelly Monica Rose Kelly was born in Philadelphia and grew up in South Orange, NJ. From her early childhood she displayed a natural ability to express herself visually, and worked hard over the years to develop this skill into a vehicle for communication. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. Currently Monica works as a store artist for Whole Foods Market doing murals, illustrative chalkboards, signage, and graphic design. In her home studio she juggles fine art with freelance illustration & design. Through constantly evolving experimental media, her work conveys the ethereal qualities and organic rhythms of music, dance, and cultural traditions.
	Peter Jacobs Peter Jacob’s has widely exhibited his art for over 25 years both nationally and abroad, including 5 museum exhibitions. He has always explored new mediums and alternative processes in conjunction with his current sensibilities. Collage, mixed media, photography and painting enable Jacobs to integrate his visual, musical and analytical philosophies. He has developed a complex visual language that seeks to reconcile the rational with the irrational. The mystery of what we initially see, slowly reveals itself in passages of humor, beauty, politics and psychological tensions.
	Richard Bedkowski
	Robert Ramos Robert Ramos has been a professional artist for over twenty five years with a number of one man and group shows in NY and NJ. He is in the permanent collection of the Newark Museum, and corporate collections including I.B.M., AT&T, Nabisco, and the New York Stock Exchange. Past commissions include work for Lee Iaccoca and Lawrence Grossman as well as several large scale sculptures for many corporate headquarters in the tri-state area. Robert now lives in the newly created Valley Arts district of Orange New Jersey where he also curates the gallery for "Arts Unbound" a studio and gallery serving children and adults with developmental disabilities.
	Stefanie Silverman Stefanie Silverman has always found joy and inspiration in nature. These feelings are reflected in her artwork, which includes colorful, impressionistic pastel landscapes on paper and more abstract mixed media landscapes on canvas. Stefanie is a signature member of the Pastel Society of New Jersey, and her pastel paintings have been in solo and group exhibitions, have won awards, and can be found in numerous private collections. Earlier in her career, Stefanie¹s interest in the environment led her to work as an environmental writer, editor, and educator. Stefanie grew up in suburban Philadelphia and now lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
	Susan Faiola Susan Faiola is an illustrator, painter, and designer. She has illustrated for many major publications, such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Premiere, New York Magazine, The National Lampoon, Seventeen, Glamour, and GQ.She has had a line of furniture and paintings sold in New York, Los Angeles, and Telluride; and has done set design for La Mama Theater in New York City. Currently she has a textile line called “Modern Home”, produced by Michael Miller Fabrics. She is also managing a fan page on Facebook for her cartoon character, Ruby Ritz.
	Tim Folzenlogen Tim received his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinati and came to New York City in the early 1980's. He has shown at Helio Allenstone, MB Modern as well as exhibiting in Japan, Las Vegas and Montclair NJ. His work is in private collections such as Barclay Capital, Morgan Stanley, Proctor & Gamble, Pfizer and Bill and Charlotte Ford.
	Timothy David Lang Timothy David Lang was born in Morristown, New Jersey April 18, 1979. He attended Morristown High School and during these years he began to gain interest in fine art. This small foundation soon led to a greater interest in graffiti during his teenage years. Following high school he continuedhis education at Salisbury University on the eastern shore of Maryland. He began his first semester as a business major nut quickly switched after his first year to a major in fine art with a concentration in painting and drawing. After graduation with a BFA in 2002, he moved to Hawaii to live with his brother for a few months before relocating to North Carolina. Timothy currently lives back in Morristown, NJ.
	Todd Doney Todd was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in the near-north suburbs. After graduating high school, he started his art education at a local community college and then went on to attend the prestigious American Academy of Art in Chicago where he was awarded the Union League Scholarship Award. Under the guidance of some of the most talented artists in Chicago, Todd graduated in1982. He immediately started his career as an illustrator and obtained his first commission, a football illustration for Playboy magazine. He has been working as an artist and illustrator ever since. Todd received his M.F.A. in Painting from New Jersey City University. Currently, he is an art professor at Seton Hall University, County College of Morris in New Jersey, and the Visual art Center of New Jersey, where he teaches drawing, painting, and design classes, traditional and computerized. Prior to that, he has held positions at New Jersey City University, The College of Saint Elizabeth, and The Kubert School of Cartoon & Design in New Jersey and the American Academy of Art in Chicago.
	William Stillman