Characterized by both a profound fascination with the methodology of the creative process, and with the mechanisms of image reproduction and dissemination, Lyle Starr’s ongoing oeuvre has rightfully garnered him acknowledgment as a distinctive artistic personality. Utilizing popular culture’s constant flow of throw-away imagery, his work locates and portrays us in today’s multimedia world. His colorful universe draws from everyday sources such as newspaper supplements, holiday wrapping papers, catalogues, and picture books. Starr successfully brings to light the primacy of these simple and oft-ignored sources, further manipulating form and subject through reproduction, organization, and meticulous application in both his paintings and drawings.

Some of Starr’s most recent work, such as 2009’s “Death,” “Dread,” and “Panic,” were prompted by radio news coverage of tragic world events and reveal mass-communication’s capacity to elicit emotion and image through language. His previous exhibitions include: Martos Gallery, New York (2009, 2008, 2002, 2001, 2000); Dieu Donne Papermill, New York (2005); “Score: Action Drawing”, White Columns, New York (2004); “Años Luz”, Instituto Oscar Dominguez, Tenerife, Spain (2000); “Current Undercurrent”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (1997).

His drawings and paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland.

Texas-born artist Paul Manes has mastered a range of media from charcoal and oil painting to burlap and kaolin, a clay mineral. His densely layered images often contain universally recognizable motifs supported by a conceptualized framework. For Manes, bowls are common objects which represent a connective thread amongst the global community. "Everybody, no matter how poor, across all cultures, has a bowl in his hands,” Manes says. “It can contain food, and hope, and often it is empty."

Paul Manes lives and works in New York City. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Lamar University (Texas) and later received a Masters of Fine Art from Hunter College (New York). His works have been exhibited across North America and Europe at galleries such as Kouros Gallery (New York), Pan American Arts Project (Texas), Marisa del Re Gallery (Italy), Jan Turner Gallery (Los Angeles), and Paul Rodgers/9W (New York). Manes's work is part of multiple public and private collections including that of Yoko Ono, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.