Meet the Artists

Featured Artist
John Leon

Sculptor

John Leon is a sculptor who works primarily in bronze, stone, and wood. Since 1980 he has created awards, plaques, portrait busts, and monuments for public, private, and corporate patrons; plus a large body of personal works totaling over five hundred bronzes, forty carvings in stone & wood, and works in gypsum, ceramics, resin, & steel that can be found on five continents.

His uncommon creativity and versatility in styles and media serve him well in providing a wide range of possibilities for his patrons seeking the finest in meaningful and symbolic sculptural monuments, awards, busts & figures as symbols for their organizations, themselves, or their families.

Meet the Newest MOSA Artist

Marlena Hebenstreit
Painter

Marlena Hebenstreit grew up in a family of artists in the urban art community of Cincinnati, OH. Her early art education came from studying artists whom her parents admired such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Tiepolo, Turner, Goya, Fragonard, etc. For years she tagged along with her renowned portrait painting mother to classes; painting, drawing and sculpture, absorbing the art and ultimately creating an appreciation for the methods used by the old masters.

Today, her early exposure to those great artists shows in her work. Marlena paints with a skill and insight that can only come from years of studying them. She has many of her paintings in private collections across the US including the Museum of Spiritual Art in Franklin, OH. Marlena has won numerous awards with the latest being 1st place in the Woman’s Art Club 125th annual juried Exhibition. She is also an annual judge for the esteemed Women’s 3 Arts Scholarship for Visual Arts and has been featured along with her family on WCET’s show Art Bridges. Her paintings are available at the Greenwich House Gallery in Obryonville, OH and are featured in the heart of bourbon country, Bardstown, KY at Bourbon Manor Bed and Breakfast.

Marlena lives with her three artistic children and husband and works out of her studio in Wyoming, OH.

Artists

Dominique Amendola

Patricia Bellerose

Gregg & Jane Billman

Subhendu Biswas

Gadi Dadon

Anne E. Geise

Sylvie Griselle

Evan Hildebrandt

Gisele Hurtaud

Artist in Residence
Tim Langenderfer

After earning a BFA from Ohio University in 1984 Tim Langenderfer began his artistic career as an illustrator at a Dayton commercial art studio. In 1989 he began his freelance career creating illustration art for clients such as Anheuser Busch, Bath and Body Works, Coca-Cola and United Airlines. Under the pseudonym, Tim Stout he illustrated for The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Golf Magazine and other national publications.

As an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton for over twenty years Tim taught illustration, drawing, advanced figure drawing and designed a new pilot class, Anatomy Drawing for Pre-Med Students. Tim now has a second career teaching art part time at Lehman Catholic High School in Sidney Ohio.

Since 2005 he has concentrated most of his studio time on painting family portraits. Tim’s work is included in the permanent collections of Coca-Cola Co., Christendom College, General Electric and the University of Dayton.