Our Artists
Every artist on this roster earned their place. Marcolina's does not collect names. It represents careers, documented over decades, across museums, institutions, and continents. A Dominican-American expressionist whose original oil paintings live in collections across 48 countries, a permanent place at the Skylands Museum of Art alongside Dalí and Picasso, and a technique three generations in the making. A sculptor trained by Bruno Lucchesi who co-founded a museum. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow who has spent fifty years decoding the mathematics of nature. A painter who built his eye over thirteen years in Jackson Square and Tampa's psychiatric wards. A filmmaker, sculptor, and painter who founded Etherealism and showed at Art Basel. The son of a maestro with forty two solo exhibitions across three continents. Nineteen artists. One standard. Exceptional.
Fields
Trained under master sculptor Bruno Lucchesi at the New School for Social Research. Solo museum exhibitions at the Bergen Museum and the Appleton Museum. Co-founder of the Skylands Museum of Art. Co-owner of The Compleat Sculptor, New York City. Her bronze and stone figures carry the weight of myth.
Emory
Founder of Etherealism. Co-founder of ESP Gallery Chelsea. Art Basel Miami 2015. His Zebra Love Collection explored movement, optical illusion, and identity through high-contrast visual language. Now working in Neo-Renaissance painting, sculpture, and experimental film. His short film The Ethereal premiered at the Dali Museum and Tampa Theater.
Pérez
Son of Maestro Guillo Pérez. Director of the Escuela Taller Guillo Pérez, Santo Domingo, since 1984. Studied at the Art Students League of New York under Maestro Cándido Bidó. Forty two solo exhibitions across the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Panama, Miami, New York, and Providence. The sea, its geometry, its color, its memory.
Gurbacs
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Fifty years studying why a tree branch looks like a bolt of lightning. His answer is fractals, the mathematical language nature uses to describe itself at every scale. Permanent collections in four Tampa Bay museums. Skyway 2024 at USF Contemporary Art Museum alongside artists from the Ringling and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete.
Latch
Born Mississippi. Portrait sessions in Jackson Square, New Orleans. A nursing career in Tampa's jails and psychiatric wards. Thirteen years painting alongside masters at Artist Unlimited. Now working in Tampa, layering oils, markers, and knives into surfaces that are almost sculptural. Not about the image. About what the image can say.
Novendstern
Internationally recognized sculptor. Born New Jersey, trained New York, found her voice in Mexico at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Cuernavaca. Her figures are never complete. Heads, limbs, fragments. Solo exhibitions at the MACAY Museum in Mexico and the National Gallery of Fine Art in the Dominican Republic. Permanent collections on three continents. Represented by Marcolina's and ESP Gallery Chelsea.
The next generation does not wait to be discovered. They come with a point of view already formed, a body of work already underway, and a hunger that is impossible to miss. Marcolina's has them.
