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Piero Fenci was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1944. He received a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University and a M.F.A. from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has exhibited his work internationally, and throughout the United States. He is now a professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Fenci’s work has been exhibited in Italy, Russia, Mexico, and throughout the United States and is included in several collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY.

Henryk Fantazos was born in Kamionka Strumilowa, near Lyov in former Poland, in 1944. He attended the Lyceum of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, from 1957 to 1963 and completed an M.F.A. in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland in 1967. In 1975 he immigrated to the United States. He has exhibited in Poland, Germany and America. His work is included in several public and private collections both in Europe and the United States. Drawing on the traditions of the Neue Sachlichkeit Viennese School and the Cracow Circle of Metaphorical Art, Fantazos creates haunting still lifes and poetic commentaries on contemporary urban existence, often tinged with dark humor.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

http://henrykfantazos.us/