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Born in 1979 in Oregon, Adam Miller began an apprenticeship to artist Allen Jones at thirteen years old and at sixteen, was accepted to the Florence Academy Of Art in Florence and continued his studies under Michael John Angel in Florence. For the next four years, Miller traveled throughout Europe studying the work of the Baroque and Mannerist painters. His work has been commissioned by Robert Pamplin Jr., the Chairman of the Board of the Portland Art Museum, Mike Tyson, and many others. His most famous work, "Quebec" is a 9-by-10-foot masterwork exploring 400 years of the province’s history, rendered in a style and technique that draws from 17th-century Baroque art. It debuted at the unveiled at the McCord Museum in Montreal and traveled to Quebec City’s Musée National Des Beaux-Arts. Miller's latest project is a 40 foot allegory titled "The Comedia Humana," which will be accompanied by an upcoming book by author Michael Pierce.

Luis Colan (b 1980, Lima, Peru) Graduated from the Hartford Art School in 2004. He continued his education by attending the Art Students League under the instruction of Dan Thompson. He was also one of the first students of the Teaching Studios of Art when it opened in 2009, where he studied with Adam Miller, Bennett Vadnais, and Robert Zeller for several years. Working closely with these artists from both schools has allowed him to refine his ability to depict landscapes and figures. Partaking in numerous events and workshops, including Plein Air workshops in Tuscany in 2013 and 2015 has allowed him to continue to develop his vision as a landscape painter. He has been exhibiting in New York and surrounding areas in several group shows, three solo exhibitions. In 2010, he became a Junior Member at the Salmagundi Club where he was reacquainted with Monotype printing, which has since become an important part of his practice. The process has allowed him to explore and use what he has learned in painting the landscape outdoors to execute images from imagination and memory.

Noah Buchanan began his artistic studies in 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied classical drawing and painting, as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. In 2002, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art where he intensified his training in figure painting and anatomy with Martha Mayer Erlebacher and Steven Assael. Noah Buchanan is represented by Dacia Gallery in New York, as well as Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA. He has participated in exhibitions across the United States from New York to Los Angeles. Buchanan has exhibited internationally in London, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. His paintings and drawings are featured in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. Buchanan teaches painting and drawing at several colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work is based in the mythic, symbolic, and heroic traditions of the figure. He is primarily interested in depicting the human figure as a vessel that confronts and grapples with the Divine. He co-curated the exhibit "Big Stories"a group exhibition featuring large-scale, contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition, along with Bo Bartlett and Carl Dobsky. The show made its debut at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia and then later traveled to the NYAA in NYC.