MARCEL DZAMA

Winnipeg, Manitoba | CANADA

Well established in the modern art community worldwide, Marcel Dzarma is known for small, ink and watercolor illustrations depicting simplistic scenes featuring people and animals in a variety of situations (although he does do a considerable amount of work in larger format sculpture).

"Using watercolors and inks and root beer - his secret ingredient - Dzama draws delicately shaded, finely realized figures in all sorts of trouble. His works on paper are small in scale but impressive in their range of subjects and in the finesse of the draftsmanship. This is surrealism that treads the line between humor and tragedy, and teeters between normalcy and perversion." - Brut Sauvage in a review of Marcel Dzarma's work.

WEBSITE: N/A
INQUIRIES: Dzarma has managed to become a very hot artist among Collectors, and the prices fetched for his works have risen to levels beyond the scope of this site ($2500 and below). However, some of his pieces can be found at or below $2500 if you're willing to look around. Start at David Zwirner (NY). Also try Greg Kucera Gallery.
All images Copyright Marcel Dzama.

MELODY POSTMA

Savannah, GA | USA

"Melody Postma holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design. She says her work is a multi-layered evolution of vivid color, playful shapes, and rich textured surfaces."

Her subjects vary from pure abstraction to references of textural fragments, nonchalant figures, landscapes, and dreams."
- From description on Bennett Gallery website

Postma's colors, cut-out figures, drawing, and shapes create an interesting combination of work that look to borrow from works by Basquiat and others. Some whimsical, some serious, her mixed-media work is fresh, interesting, and inquisitive.

WEBSITE: melodypostma.com
INQUIRIES: Postma's work can be found at the Matre Gallery at Tula Arts Center in Atlanta and Bennett Gallery in Nashville. Prices start around $800+.
All images Copyright Melody Postma.

WALLACE MERRITT

New Orleans, LA | USA

This recommendation from GALLER|b reader Lucas:

I'm a reader of GallerB and just bought a print from a New Orleans photographer, Wallace Merritt. He's a cool guy, a Katrina survivor from New Orleans, and he is now doing his black & white photography full-time and committed to staying in New Orleans.

Such is the power of his work that I saw one of his photographs hanging in a house in 1998 in New Orleans, and never forgot it. I just fulfilled a dream of mine, which is owning a print of that photo. (It's so very haunting, like all good art, I guess.) I tracked him down and just ordered it from him and he's shipping it to me in Atlanta!

He has no idea I'm writing you, but I just thought your blog would be a great way to introduce him to a Web audience, and share his artistic vision with your readers if you like it. Additionally, I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it, too!

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Many thanks to Lucas for introducing GALLER|b to an outstanding photographer, and for sharing your comments with our audience.

WEBSITE: www.wallacemerritt.com
INQUIRIES: Inquire directly at Wallace Merritt's website. Prices start around $600+.
All images Copyright Wallace Merritt Photography.