Glowing and contemplative, Ross Bleckner’s work blends abstraction with recognizable symbols to create meditations on perception, transcendence and loss.
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Ted Collier is a visual artist, collector, gallerist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri and Los Angeles, California. His abstract paintings range from bold to subtle—from monochromatic to vibrantly colorful. Ted’s portfolio of work is incredibly diverse and represents various styles, but perhaps his most iconic works are his circles. As in nature, every sphere is unique and deliberate.
Ted finds inspiration all around him, but as an avid fly fisherman, he is particularly drawn to Missouri streams and rivers. You can recognize the influence of nature in the strokes, textures, and colors of his work. Ted also thrives in creating commission work for clients in their homes or businesses, often designing a piece based on the space in which it is to be hung. It is not uncommon for Ted to create multiple works for one buyer, developing a set of pieces that communicate with each other and the space they occupy.
In addition to painting anywhere from 4 to 15 hours a day in his studio, Ted also owns an award-winning restaurant chain, Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria with his wife, Katie. The couple is preparing to launch an online meal company, Vero Pizza & Pasta, in summer 2017, which will offer pizza and pasta to make at home. Of all the adventures of building a business and establishing himself as one of the most successful artists in the U.S., Ted finds giving back to the community the most rewarding. He supports the local art community, donating to organizations like St. Louis Art Works and the Children’s Hospital. Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria is renowned for its monthly give back program, donating thousands of dollars every single month to local charities. In the last few years, the couple has been able to donate over 100k to local organizations.
Ted’s work is collected all over the world including:
Nordstroms across North America
The Lennox Hotel
The Black Hawk Hotel
U.S. Paint Corporation
Many notable private collectors
William Day, born in 1971 in New York City, is an American painter known for his large-scale compositions of colorful shapes and energetic marks. Now living in Boulder, Colorado, Day can often be found in his studio working on multiple pieces at the same time. His process leads him to create paintings in series, each focusing on different nuances of the human experience. His works are comprised of textures and complex layers demonstrating his interaction with a canvas in a moment. These series of paintings all nod to certain periods of Day’s life that bring years of intensity, joy, spirituality, conflict and resolution to the canvas.
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Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927. In 1928, at the outset of the Depression, his family moved to St. Albans, a diverse suburb of Queens that had sprung up between the two world wars. Katz was raised by his Russian émigré parents, both of whom were interested in poetry and the arts, his mother having been an actress in Yiddish Theater.
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Sultan, an internationally recognized artist who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement, is known for elevating the still-life tradition through the deconstruction of his subjects into basic forms and the use of industrial materials.
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