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:::Domingo Zapata:::

Domingo Zapata is a Spanish-American artist born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Zapata produces Neo-Expressionist paintings as well as sculpture using both oil and acrylic, often incorporating mixed-media, collage and graffiti.

For over 20 years Zapata has built a body of work, which varies significantly in motif, though consistently explores themes of sexuality, opulence, and vitality in his signature style. In this distinctive hand, Zapata layers fantasy and reality, luring the viewer into his potent, cosmically beautiful world. Known for his signature “Polo” series, which first gained him critical acclaim, more recent work focuses on themes including his native Spanish culture, American Pop icons, and the state of the contemporary practice.

Named an “artist to watch,” in 2011 by the prestigious Whitewall Magazine, Zapata has quickly fulfilled this prophesy. Since, his work has lauded praise from international press such as The New York Times (cover story, Thursday Styles April 25, 2013), Esquire Spain, Vanity Fair Italia, and The New York Observer. Recently, The New York Magazine deemed him, “in a league of his own,” while the New York Post proclaimed Zapata to be the “new Andy Warhol, with starlets begging for a sitting.”

:::Daniel Mazzone:::

Daniel Mazzone was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.

As part of an artistic family, he was surrounded by a world of visual concepts and expression. His mother was an art instructor, and Mazzone became particularly interested in the composition and production of stained glass at a young age.

Using letters, newspaper stories, magazines covers, song lyrics, and photographs, Mazzone works freehand to carve shapes that fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Carefully layering the images so that they read together as a cohesive whole, the attention Mazzone brings to his art to compels the viewer to stop, focus, and take in the endless detail of each work.

The artist’s women are among some of his most popular works, inspiring more than one guest at the party to pose in front of his lovely ladies. Mazzone’s love and respect for women is evident in his work, which celebrates and exalts women as goddesses of the earth.

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Leah Poller has exhibited her work worldwide in galleries, museums, institutions, and public spaces since 1998. She has won many distinguished awards and her work is in major international collections. She has lectured extensively on curating, collecting, and motivational/behavioral studies related to the creative life.

PLACES Arnot Museum • Museo Regional Michoacano • Edward Dean Museum • Casa Diego Rivera • Washington Square Windows at NYU • Grounds for Sculpture • Kisrnet Gallery • Mexican Culture Institute of New York • Claypool Young Museum – Ofivalmo • Capital One Bank • National Building Museum • Portals Gallery • Centro Cultural Sefaradi • Mercedes Benz Gallery of New York • Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy • Fleet Bank • Galleria Dante • Centro Cultural San Angel • Galerie Treger • Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia • North Fork Bank • Duveen Gallery • Fordham University – Stamford Connecticut Art Walk • South Bend Indiana Art Museum • Yin Yang Social Laboratory of New York SOFA • Washington DC Project for the Arts • National Museum of American Art • Greater Reston Arts Center

CITIES Paris • Mexico City • Phoenix • Soho • Naples • Guadalajara • New York • Mexico City • Miami Beach • Los Angeles • Stamford • Palm Springs • Tucson • Bethesda • Washington • Boca Raton • Tribeca • South Bend • Morehead • Seattle • Chicago • Akron • Boulder • Morelia • Cherry Hill • Harrison

AWARDS Artist’s Equity • Pen and Brush • South C. Lorrilard Wolfe Institute • South Bend Indiana Museum • Washington Project for the Arts • National Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute.

COMMISSIONS Lionel Vielot, dancer • Thamir Al Kaisi, French artist • Michelle Kombluh, portrait of a young girl- Laura Alexis, French cinema actress • Dany Meadows, French author • Serge Ber, art specialist • Enrique Guzman de Acevedo, Latin American correspondent to the White House • Ever Gordon, Jamaican poet and jazz musician.

COLLECTIONS Soaring Words, international children’s charity • John Demaio, Esq, attorney • Alain Baudry, French Editor • Dr. Maurice Tran Dinh Cahn • Mr Serge Ber, antique dealer • Laura McCann, CEO of Zweave, Inc. • John Hechinger, CEO, Hechinger Corp. • Edilberto Reyes, CPA • Dr. and Mrs. A. Wise • Madeline McConnell, Art Consultant • Jayson and Tassi Arnster, Attorneys • Marite Bonnal, Author • Kenneth Kombluh, CEO, Marketing Pilot, Inc. • D. Doane, CEO, Customs Foods • Amal Warren, Jeweler to the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi • Olivier Dieudonne, Investment Banker • Dr. Francois Elmai, DDS • Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen • Jerome Bonnouvrier, CEO, DNA Model Agency • David Ramsey, Bell Laboratories • Julien David, financial consultant • Frederique Morrel and Aaron Levine, artists • Michelle Kornbluh, Executor Director, Public Issuance CFF.

AFFILIATIONS National Museum of Women • Association for International Artists • National Artist’s Equity • Women’s Caucus for the Arts • Washington Sculpture Guild • Association des Sculpteurs (France) • Friends of the Museum of the Americas – Pen and Brush (New York) • Who’s Who of American Women • Artists’ Round Table.

BIBLIOGRAPHY “Appreciation of Leah Poller and her Beds” by Cliff Johns,“The Potomac” • “Fabrica de Suenos”, “El Informador” • “De Manhattan a Mexico” by Argelia Castello, la Voz de Michoacan • “De la cama al museo”, Acentro • “Leah’s Bed’s” by Cate McLare, Boca Sentinal • “Global Frontunners”, Profile Magazine • “Casting Your Bed in Bronze”, The Artist’s Magazine • “Exhibit celebrates surrealist’s fascination with Bedfellows”, Spotlight Chicago • “Bed Puns” by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader • “A Question of Culture” by Mitchell Snow, Eyewash • “The Symbolic Bed”, Eyewash.

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