Top Alpha'a Artists of 2021
2021 was a difficult, but productive year for us. Despite ups and downs, we were able to grow our roster of Artists and complete 70 design projects. We couldn't have done it without our talented artists. Here is a roundup of the top artists we worked with this past year.
Angel Estevez
Angel Estevez is a Spanish painter and digital artist based in Brazil. He creates engaging abstract works with vibrant colors and geometric shapes that imbue his art with a meditative sense of balance. His main focus is digital art but he also creates acrylic and watercolor paintings. His work was featured in our recent Fernish collaboration as well as Bridgeton, San Francisco.
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Reinhard Görner
Reinhard Görner lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has been an architectural photographer since 1981 and transitioned to fine art photography in 2005. Görner was inspired to turn his gift for capturing iconic buildings into an art while he was working for architects. Görner’s wide format works are immersive, inspired by physical space and the architecture that frames it. His sensitive eye, use of lighting and emphasis on symmetry elevate his love for historic buildings to an art. His photos are often devoid of spectators: the structure takes up a life of its own, inviting the viewer to look around and take in the details of his environments from an intimate perspective. His work was featured in our recent curatorial project for Beacon, Boston.
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Brien Hollowell
Brien Hollowell is based out of New York and Denver, Colorado, where he was born. He fell in love with photography at the age of twenty-two and decided to develop his skills at the Art Institute of Colorado. Hollowell enjoys spending his time in the photo studio capturing the movement of body, beauty, and hair. He has produced editorial work for Google, NYFW, NBA Dime Magazine, and Inc. Magazine. Brien believes life giving experiences can develop with the right exposure to the Light. He currently works in Denver and New York. Hollowell’s work was used in our Beacon, Denver project.
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Yojiro Imasaka
Yojiro Imasaka is a fine art photographer who turns his lens to the natural world to create lush, verdant images. Imasaka currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA in photography from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan in 2007 then moved to New York after graduating to pursue an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 2010. His works are in permanent collections at the San Jose Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mead Art Museum in Amherst College, Carnegie Museum of Art, and multiple private collections. Imasaka’a photography was placed in our Beacon, Denver project.
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Micah Crandall-Bear
Micah Crandall-Bear’s abstract landscape paintings are inspired by natural resources and daily and seasonal shifts in light. He infuses his painting with gestural expanses of color and gradient lines that cascade from atmospheric to subterranean. Micah’s construction of space is enhanced by his painting method. His ‘wet-on-wet’ method is a contemporary application of ‘alla prima,’ a traditional technique used mostly in oil painting where layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. This highly active method of painting is sometimes tempered through rapid buffing and blending. The outcome is a smooth, boundless, and energetic surface. His work is represented in the United States, Asia, and Europe. His paintings were featured in our Bridgeton, San Francisco project.
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Stephen Matera
Stephen Matera combines a passion for all things outdoors with a unique creative eye for symmetry. His photographs present natural landscapes as painterly images highlighted by his eye for distinctive light, and natural symmetry. Matera captures many of his images around the mountain West, Alaska and beyond. He has had his work published in countless publications and commercial campaigns. His photographs were featured in our first retail partnership with Lighthouse and in our project with Beacon, Seattle.
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Steve Lefkovitz
Steve Lefkovitz has a background in photojournalism and was a staff photographer for the USA before he switched to fine art photography. His photographs celebrate the beauty and spiritual elements of the natural world and often highlight close up details that appear to be kaleidoscopic under his observant lens. We used his work in our Beacon, Seattle project.
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Kelly Ording
Kelly Ording compiles simple repetition, geometric patterns, and mathematical markings that contain an inherent capacity to evoke representation. Ording is based in Oakland, California and has exhibited internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. Her work was featured in our design project for Lincoln Property Company.
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Dustin Harewood
Dustin Harewood’s art practice over the last decade has explored themes of multiculturalism and the consequences of colonialism and industrialization. Harewood draws inspiration from his familial lineage and the 21st century world of desire for immediacy in all aspects of life and seeks to find nuance within vanishing moments in order to capture a narrative between histories. Harewood’s often embellishes, collages, adorns discarded packages, mass produced manufactured single use plastics and recycled fibers. He creates mixed media works that question narratives of the past, present and future through a holistic approach.
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Cristina Ripper
Cristina Ripper’s practice includes drawing, painting, making sculptures, and testing different techniques and mediums. She was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied at the art school of Lúcia Matos, Rio de Janeiro. Ripper obtained a degree in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo Mackenzie, Saint Paul, Brazi. In 1989 she moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where she attended several courses at the National Society of Fine Arts. Today, she teaches the visual arts to High School students. She also works as a freelance architect. The sources of her inspiration for her art come from nature, the sun, blue skies, strong winds, mountains, and the sea.
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Patricia Carparelli
Patricia Carparelli is an established contemporary artist based in Brazil who uses bright playful colors and liquid shapes to create abstract watercolor and oil paintings. Carparelli is inspired by the fluidity of water and the way its spontaneous movement relates to the unconscious. She paints directly on to her canvases without any draft and leaves an element of chance in her work. Her paintings aim to connect the dream universe with reality. View Carparelli's work here.
Jordan Holms
Jordan Holms is an artist and scholar who works primarily in painting and sculpture. She has exhibited internationally in the US, the UK, and Canada and her work is held in multiple private collections. Her paintings have recently been featured at BAMPFA and in Adidas’s San Francisco storefront. She is the recipient of the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2016-2019 Graduate Fellowship Award and a 2020 Artist-in-Residence Grant at the Vermont Studio Center. She earned an MA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019. Holms is represented by Marrow Gallery, in San Francisco, California. View her work here.