Experiencing Bicycle Fine Art artist Eric Lee‘s Building and Unbuilding the Globe is like stepping back in time. This epic painting visually unfurls the rich past of the Globe Elevators, a now-decrepit grain elevator located in Superior, Wisconsin. The structure stands as a remembrance […]
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From Oil Painting to Watercolor: Exploring Danielle Voight’s Dynamic Minimalism
“Even though they don’t necessarily look like landscapes, I always call them abstract landscapes,” says Bicycle Fine Art artist Danielle Voight, in reference to her oil paintings. She continues, “they’re emotional and physical landscapes, both of those combined.” The dramatic collision of these two extremities […]

Visualizing the Passage of Time in Eric Lee’s ‘Verehrung’
Bicycle Fine Art artist Eric Lee’s background is in the incredibly precise art of mechanical drafting. As a young man, he developed his skills creating technical drawings whose purpose was to convey raw information about heating and cooling systems to architects and contractors. Eric turned […]

Danielle Voight: Finding Balance Between Minimalism and Expressionism
This oil painting, entitled Suchness, was painted in 2014 by Danielle Voight. As a young artist, Voight was hesitant to share her work with others, not allowing even friends or family to view her artwork. This time spent in solitude allowed her to develop […]

‘All the Good Things Will Be Yours’ : An Insight to Eric Lee’s Connection with Superior
“All The Good Things Will Be Yours is about wanting. Wanting something unattainable; and this because it doesn’t want me in return. To some extent it’s about rejection and not knowing it’s for good reason. What’s shown is a city on a hill, but one […]

Suminagashi: Under the Microscope with Eric Lee
“I am the furthest thing from a systematic thinker,” says Bicycle Fine Art artist Eric Lee, introducing his new series of elegant and enigmatic black and white paint works on paper. The series, so far intentionally left untitled, embraces a new level of conscious uncertainty […]

Through the Window and the Lens: Christopher Saunders’ Artistic Explorations
On a warm day in summer, Brooklyn artist Christopher Saunders welcomed us into his converted warehouse studio space in Greenpoint to share his current body of work, along with the history of his path to New York and to landscape painting, his long-running relationship with […]

The Art of Art Selection for Interior Design
Bicycle Fine Art artist, Danielle Voight, is a nocturnal painter. This practice may lend a hand in her painting style – which, although light and warm, focuses on a kind of quiet calm, as though you were standing at night in an open field and […]

From Caravaggio to Jonny Kelson: Oil Portraits with A Modern Twist
Ask a friend what an oil portrait looks like and you’ll hear a familiar answer: paintings of distinguished men, women, and families, seated in lavish clothes, beautiful backgrounds, and eyes locked straight ahead. They are undoubtedly historically and culturally important, and their surroundings denote none […]

Exploring Eric Lee’s World of Miniatures
Bicycle Fine Art artist, Eric Lee, has always been predictably unpredictable. While his creative passion is for sculptural paintings, his day job consists of building wooden snare drums for musicians around the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area. Given the intricate designs and detailed solid wood inlays […]