Haku Maki (1924-2000) was a Japanese artist and printmaker active during the latter half of the 20th century. Haku Maki was born in Aso-machi Prefecture as Maejima Tadaaki. He first made his name and living by producing art prints that featured Chinese characters, or kanji. Haku Maki renamed himself to showcase his humility and self-styled… Read more »
Biographies
Biographies of our artists.
Konishi Seiichirō
Konishi Seiichirō (b. 1919) was an accomplished woodblock print artist of the Sosaku Hanga (or “Creative Print”) movement, Konishi’s self-carved and printed works focus on the architecture, famous sites, and natural beauty of his home region. Konishi formally studied oil painting and design, but taught himself the aspects of woodblock printing. In 1950, he exhibited… Read more »
Asher Brown Durand
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) was born in New Jersey and studied engraving under the guidance of his father, a watchmaker and silversmith. Durand grew even more advanced in engraving via an apprenticeship to NJ engraver Peter Maverick (from 1812-1817). Upon completing this apprenticeship with Maverick, Durand opened a branch of the team’s firm in New… Read more »
Susan Forney
Susan Forney is an artist active in the Bloomington, Indiana area. Beyond being a local artist, Susan also works at Indiana University-Bloomington as a Program Advisor for the Hudson & Holland Scholars Program. Forney’s monumental piece, Good Starts Here, is displayed in the Undergraduate Programs Office.
Marvin Lowe
Marvin Lowe (1922-2010) is an internationally known printmaker, mixed media, and collage artist whose work appears in galleries and museums around the globe. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lowe attended a technical high school where he focused on math and physics. Later, Lowe learned to play the saxophone and developed an affinity for jazz music…. Read more »
Mark Riggins
Mark Riggins is a life-long resident of Bloomington, Indiana and focuses on creating realistic drawn pieces of buildings around Bloomington, as well as numerous campus buildings (which is the piece that the O’Neill School has in its collection). Riggins’s parents met at Indiana University and returned after a couple-year break. Riggins cites the support of… Read more »
Chris Honeyman
Chris Honeyman is a photographer from Paw Paw, West Virginia whose photography runs a gamut of subject matter. Mainly, his photography features people performing their daily lives / tasks and architecture. Honeyman’s first solo show was an exhibition of portraits at the University of Chicago and his longest-running show was one of architectural photography. Honeyman… Read more »
Ethel Louise Brown
Ethel Louise Nelson Brown (1915-1986) was an Indiana resident and artist, born in Marion (Grant County) who lived in various parts of the state throughout her life (including Brown County and Delaware County). There is little public information on Brown beyond her burial information, but we wanted to highlight the second photo that corresponds with… Read more »
Harry Engel
Harry Engel (1901-1970) was born in Romania before his family moved to New York, and finally to southern Michigan. His parents initially urged him to pursue art, but Engel naturally focused on artmaking. After high school, Engel studied in Paris for two years under several great instructors and returned home and enrolled at Notre Dame… Read more »
Ric Tringali
Ricardo “Ric” Tringali (1951-2013) was a designer, artist and illustrator from Algonac, Michigan. He studied at Kendall College of Art and Design and Thomas Jefferson College in Michigan and later relocated to the Bay Area and earned his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Tringali continued to prolifically make art and exhibit… Read more »