INFLUENCE

Curated by Debbie Dickinson

You are invited to view contemporary artists’ points of view and their mind’s ability to realize the unforeseen current events. Curator turned Gallerist Debbie Dickinson will showcase artworks by working and emerging Painters, Sculptors, Art Photographers and Mixed Media Artists in a group show exhibition to demonstrate how art reflects and responds during times of dramatic social influences. 

This inaugural exhibition is historic in many ways. You will view the compelling forces of contemporary history, it will repeat itself and there will be artists to record it. The official Opening of Influence will be on May 7th from 5pm until 8pm. At 8pm, the artists will host a live panel discussion with questions and answers. In this intellectual conversation, the featured artists will discuss their personal art theory, observational commentary and techniques in their artworks.

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BRYAN LEBOEUF

Bryan Leboeuf - Training Exercise
Bryan Leboeuf - The Visitation
Bryan Leboeuf - Hall Pass

CURTIS WALLIN

Curtis Wallin - Moonlight
Curtis Wallin - The Last Supper
Curtis Wallin - SuperKing is my hero
Curtis Wallin - Log Dance
Curtis Wallin - Hedgehogs
Curtis Wallin - Weathervanes

DAVID HOSTETLER

IRAN ISSA KHAN

Iran Issa Khan - Whirlwind

EVAN SEBASTIAN LAGACHE

Evan Sebastian Lagache - Feedback
Evan Lagache - Rings of Life
Evan Sebastian Lagache - Frozen I
Evan Sebastian Lagache - Sargeant Peppers
Evan Sebastian Lagache - Break Point
IMPRINT - Evan Lagache

MICHAEL MARTIN

EVAN SEBASTIAN LAGACHE

COLLABORATION

Evan Lagache U-1F922

TATIANA LISOVSKAYA

Tatiana Lisovskaya - Two Roses in the Sky
Tatiana Lisovskaya - Marijuana

KRISTY GORDON

Kristy Gordon - Brand New Colony

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Bryan Leboeuf

BRYAN LEBOEUF
Although shaped by memory, Bryan LeBoeuf’s work springs from his imagination. He then borrows from the visual world to give it authenticity. Traditional compositions incorporate meticulously painted surfaces and lighting effects informed by European masters. His tightly controlled technique, representational subject matter and subtly manipulated compositions create a through-the-looking-glass illusion, removing barriers between viewers and the images.

CURTIS WALLIN
Curtis Wallin is a polymath American artist whose work spans from painting, sculpture, and public art to interior and scenic design. His artwork explores the relationships of nature, beauty and power. During his career, his art and designs have been featured domestically and internationally including The Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center in NYC, Thomas Cole House in Catskill, NY, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, NYBG, and Radian Gallery, San Francisco.

DAVID HOSTETLER
David Hostetler is an American wood carver, sculptor, painter, jazz musician and professor Emeritus at Ohio University. His career—spanning 67 years—has focused on the feminine form in exotic and Native American hardwoods that translated into bronze sculptures and paintings. He saw a female form in the trees while walking through his woods and with the sound of his mallet striking a metal gouge, transformed those ancient trees into women. This world, unique unto itself, is the world created by David L. Hostetler.

Iran Issa Khan

IRAN ISSA KHAN
“In 2000, I transitioned from photographing beautiful people and celebrities in national and international magazines to flowers and objects of nature. My photographic work has captured the sensuality of flowers, tropical plants, seashells and numerous flora and fauna objects, immediately translating their natural beauty into sensuous art forms.”

Evan Sebastian Lagache

EVAN SEBASTIAN LAGACHE
Evan Sebastian Lagache is an abstract-futuristic artist that works with many different mediums including acrylic, oil, ink, fire, graphite, collage and digital manipulation to produce evocative works. His art is in part a response to the urban environment and explores themes that touch upon humanity’s relationship to technology, nature and the cosmos. His color palettes are inspired by the energy of the city, from the bustling of subway tracks, to the sound of a jazz band in the park, to societal thought. The ever-changing streets never cease to spark creativity for this emerging artist.

MICHAEL MARTIN
Born and raised in New York City, Michael Martin is a classically trained musician with little to no formal training in art. His foray into art over the past two years has yielded bold abstract works that explore the dualities of chaos and order. He recently exhibited at the Spiti Costa gallery in Greenpoint.

Tatiana Lisovskaya

TATIANA LISOVSKAYA
Tatiana Lisovskaya shares her vision of beauty while perilous news flashes on her TV while she receives multiple distant phone calls from her home in Kiev. In November 2021, she was invited to exhibit at the Water Club for the Healing for Heroes charity that donates support canines to Veterans recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In December of 2020 she was selected by the curator, Rodrigo Salomon of the Salomon Art Gallery to show her paintings at the Norwood Arts Club in “Harriet” (in honor of Harriet Tubman).

KRISTY GORDON
Kristy Gordon received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2011 and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art in 2013 before exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and China at venues including the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona and the National Academy Museum. As a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, her work has won numerous awards and honors. She has received several residencies around the world (in China and Italy) and has apprenticed with Odd Nerdrum in Norway and France. Gordon’s work and art writing have been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur.

THANK YOU

Debbie Dickinson, Kristopher Hoyle and the artists Bryan LeBoeuf, Curtis Wallin, David Hostetler, Iran Issa Khan, Evan Sebastian Lagache, Michael Martin, Tatiana Lisovskaya, and Kristy Gordon would like to take a moment to thank our sponsors.

Thank you for your support for during a most challenging year to share this exhibition for the community at large. We hope to inspire, educate, and share beauty in virtue of philanthropic artists throughout NYC and the South Florida community. We welcome you to visit us for a personal tour of the exhibtion.

Special thanks to ChaShaMa, Anita & Douglas Durst, Florence Grappone, Liza Kruth, Remy Knopf, Bob D’Loren, Seth Burroughs, Kendra Bridelle, Diane Smith, Jason Grant, George and Joan Bubaris, Susan Hostetler, Michele Obadia, Pierre Oaknine, Denise McLaughlin, Nancy Stanton Talcott, Albert and Elizabeth Watson, Aaron Watson, Dragana Connaughton, Francisco Olivia, Ezekiel B. Bronfman, Katelynn Ludwig, Rachele Papi, Regina Kravitz, Jim Aman and John Meeks, Nicky Jax, and Raul Peñaranda. Anyone that I did not mention, you are in our hearts. Thank You.

A very special thank you to Evan Sebastian Lagache, Michael Martin, Bryan LeBoeuf, Curtis & Julie Wallin, David & Susan Hostetler, Iran Issa Khan, Jose Zavala, Kristopher Hoyle, Tatiana Lisovskaya, and Kristy Gordon and their friends and family.

SPONSORS