3rd Annual Cityscapes Featured Artists - June 2018

Allan Gorman is a realistic artist who seeks out the abstract tensions, shapes and contrasts found in manufactured objects – particularly within the confines of architectural structures, machinery, and vehicles.

Gorman’s history includes over 100 showings in museum exhibitions, galleries and major art fairs including: “Hyperrealism” at The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago; “Re-Presenting Realism” at the Arnot Art Museum (Elmira, NY), ArtPrize7 and ArtPrize8 in Grand Rapids, MI: The ArtHamptons Art Fair; Art Palm Springs; Art Palm Beach; The International Guild of Realism’s Masterworks Traveling Museum Tour; “Something More Than Realism” at Galeria ArteLibre in Zaragisa, Spain;“Industrialism in the 21st Century” at the Nicole Longnecker Gallery; and most recently, “Luster – Realistic and Hyperrealistic Art of Automobiles and Motorcycles”, which made its debut at the Daytona Beach Museum of Art & Science in March 2018, and will be traveling to nine museums throughout the US through 2021.

Gorman was awarded a Fellowship for Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2013). In 2011, he was awarded a resident fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and was invited back again in 2014 and 2018. In 2016, he was selected for a fellowship residency by the ESKFF Foundation at Mana Contemporary.

His art is included in numerous corporate and private collections.

Please visit Allan’s website if you are interested in seeing more of his work.

Philip Hopper is currently part of the Communication Studies faculty at the University of Northern Iowa. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the West Bank at Al-Quds University during the 2012-2013 academic year, then continued that teaching and research as a visiting professor during 2013-2014 at Al-Quds Bard. He previously worked in New York City and Amman, Jordan. His success as a teacher in those locations is well documented and consistent over time. His award-winning documentaries include The Road Home, about injured soldiers who compete in the New York City Marathon, and The Park in Ramallah, about the safety of children in occupied territories. His long-term, on-going photojournalism project, Images of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Public Sphere, includes images and interviews from Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Palestinian West Bank and Israel. This work has emerged in book chapters, peer-evaluated journals and gallery shows. An interactive mapping project that examines public transportation and the difficulty of travel in the West Bank is a work-in-progress. Hopper holds an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Please visit Philip’s website if you would like to see more of his work.