OMBRE

AUDREY SCHILT

Artist, designer and illustrator Audrey Schilt has worked in the fashion industry for more than thirty years, sketching and designing for some of the most revered names in fashion history. After receiving her degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, Schilt got her introduction to the world of fashion and design while working as Halston’s sketch artist. Working for two and a half years with this fashion icon, Schilt developed a foundation for her future career in design and was introduced to a host of influential people, including Diana Vreeland, Salvador Dali and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

At the young age of twenty-two, Schilt sketched several of the stylish hats for which Kennedy Onassis became known, including her famous pillbox hat. Schilt’s sketch of that iconic accessory was featured in the book
“Jackie Style,” and additional hat sketches done for the former First Lady were sold—along with the hats themselves—through Sotheby’s auction. Schilt was also the Creative Director VP of Design for the Women’s Runway Collection at Ralph Lauren where she collaborated on the now celebrated pink silk gown that Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the 1998 Academy Awards. Her artistic range also includes watercolors, portraiture and illustrative line drawings.

BILL BUCHMAN
Bill Buchman’s career spans more than fifty years as an artist, musician, educator and author. A native of New York State, Bill started his art education in his teens studying painting and drawing with well-known teachers Victor D’Amico (at the Institute of Modern Art, East Hampton, NY) and Fletcher Martin (at the Albany Institute of Art, in Albany, NY). Later, he attended Cornell University and studied with abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg. As a true participant of the ’60s, Bill’s spirit of adventure and Zen approach to life soon led him to new explorations that included living on the Lower East Side of New York, playing with Blues bands, fighting forest fi res in Alaska, Boulder and Aspen, doing street portraits, playing free jazz, as well as trying his hand as a natural foods cook and astrologer. Three days at Woodstock was an especially inspiring moment for him and confirmed his unshakeable optimistic and spiritual view of life.

BRYAN LEBOEUF

Bryan LeBoeuf was raised on the Gulf Coast in rural Louisiana before moving to New York City in 1998. He continued his formal training in art school which began in southwestern Colorado.  He earned a BFA at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 1998 and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2000. His work has appeared in San Francisco, California; New York City; Thibodaux, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; the Beirut Art Fair in Lebanon; and the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Since his first solo show in the spring of 2003, several of his paintings have been acquired by public collections, including The Forbes Collection and The Flint Institute of Art. In 2008, the artist had his first solo museum exhibition at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA. LeBoeuf has received awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, the Prince of Wales Foundation Prize and the Merreville Foundation Award.

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 by removing barriers between viewers and the images. He models, positions and crops his figures to construct the impression of unseen space; viewers must imagine why a figure gazes beyond the edges of the canvas. Although his technique and subject matter may appear traditional, his art implies modern psychological and social themes.

DAVID HOSTETLER

Born in Ohio in 1926, Hostetler had a close relationship with his Amish grandfather, an influence that has stayed with him throughout his career. He was raised in a small Ohio town, went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in Education from Indiana University and obtained a Master’s of Fine Arts from Ohio University. He taught for thirty-eight years as a much-appreciated professor and mentor, where he was named Professor Emeritus. Hostetler’s career has included guest teaching and lecturing throughout the United States and Mexico. His students include a number of accomplished artists such as Jim Dine (among others).

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

IRAN ISSA KHAN

Born in Tehran and raised in Europe and the United States, Iran Issa-Khan began her journey into the art of photography in the late 1970’s in New York City under the mentorship of William Minor, Jr. Talented, spirited and fabulous, Issa-Khan immersed herself in the art world and admired the photographic works of Horst, Avedon, Guy Bourdin and Francesco Scavullo (all of whom later influenced her work as a professional fashion photographer). During the 1980’s and ’90s, Issa-Khan’s career flourished as she photographed the most memorable fashion faces of the time including Paulina Porizkova, Andie MacDowell, Talisa Soto, Iman, Christy Turlington and many others who appeared on the covers of U.S., European and Latin American editions of Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elle.

As explained by the artist, “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.”

MEGAN HEEKIN TRIANTAFILLOU
Megan Heekin Triantafillou was born in Columbus, Ohio and now lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2001. Megan’s work has been featured in galleries throughout the United States in both group shows and solo exhibitions and has been highlighted locally in Cincinnati at several notable galleries. In 2010, Megan was selected for a solo show at the Redtree Gallery.

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.

LOUIS ANGEL

Louis Angel is an outsider artist whose painting career began in 2010 when his girlfriend at the time requested a bespoke art gift for Valentine’s Day. Inspired by a grittier version of New York City covered in graffiti, his influences include Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat (among others). As an artist, his main focus is to create something that’s worth sharing with the world and is something that speaks not only to him but, more importantly, to the individual who views it. 

In the summer of 2010, Louis held his first group exhibition in the Hippodrome Building in New York City. This was the birthplace of Guerrilla Art Shows (an alter ego created by Louis Angel the art handler, curator and art show producer). Mr. Angel AKA Guerrilla Art Shows has been featured in New York City Artists for the Bronx at the West Chelsea Contemporary Gallery, The Triangle Loft in the Meat Packing District, The Empire Gallery in SoHo, The Blue Gallery in Midtown East, Van Der Plas Gallery in the Lower East Side and Black Wall Street Gallery in Chelsea (to name a few).

GLEN MILLER

Glen Miller is a recognized, international and CFDA designer.

His philosophy of art that is “versatile and original” is what caught the eye of the Debbie Dickinson Gallery. It is his unique approach that is realized with his piece, “Studio Sample Hatbox.” A reflection of Miller’s long history of collaborations, it was originally produced and printed in 1985 with the now legendary pop artist, Kenny Scharf, is handmade from screen print on linen with Scharf’s recognized pop patterns and is screen signed. This one-of-a-kind piece was created as a prototype, has only been seen on editorial pages and has been preserved in the Ann Turk Handbag Company archives for over twenty-five years.