American Art Collector - USA (2019-12)

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COLLECTOR'S FOCUS

FIGURATIVE ART

Art is unthinkable.’”

Principle Gallery in Alexandria,

Virginia—and a second location in

Charleston, South Carolina—represents a

number of figurative painters including

Louise Fenne, Paula Rubino and Anna

Wypych. The artists have their own styles

when interpreting the form, the pieces

often being narrative in nature.

Lotton Gallery, in Chicago, features the

figurative realism genre by artists Marina

Marina and Aydemir Saidov. Memories

is the most recent painting by Saidov

centered around his favorite model and

muse. Gentle Affection, by Marina, is an

exploration of fabrics of many textures

and lustrous materials on and against the

body. The amount of joy and passion for

the female form is evident by these two

artists of the genre.

Andrea Vargas Mendoza, who is repre-

sented by Faust Gallery, with locations

in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New

Mexico, says, “What’s meaningful to me is

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