Featured Artists
The Believable Lie: Heinecken, Polke, and Feldmann at the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Believable Lie: Heinecken, Polke, and Feldmann, an exhibition focusing on relationships among the photographic work of three artists active during the 1970s that drew on ideas of surrealist/Dada culture of the 1920s and 1930s and influenced succeeding generations of photographers and media artists. The artists—Robert Heinecken, Sigmar Polke…
Read MoreAndrea Carlson “Ink Babel” at the Bockley Gallery
The Bockley Gallery boasts the debut of Ink Babel, Andrea Carlson’s newest large-scale painting. As in previous works, Carlson continues to draw upon landscape and storytelling. Her new efforts apply a direct connection to the formal and physical constrains of the cinematic filmstrip. Ink Babel is a work painted with ink and oil on 60 paper panels assembled…
Read MoreDavid Ridgway “Orcas… Familiar Spots”
Renowned Pacific Northwest painter David Ridgway, a resident of Orcas for more than ten years before relocating to Bellingham, continues his passion for “all things Orcas.” His new oil paintings illustrate this intense love and intimate relationship with the island, its landmarks and most especially its people. Ridgway paints much of his work “plein aire,”…
Read MoreHerman Mhire “The Art and Science of Shells”
Herman Mhire began photographing seashells in 2012 as “meditations upon the forms, colors and patterns of marine mollusk exoskeletons found in oceans around the world.” Mhire selected his subjects from more than 7,000 species and 100,000 specimens collected by Dr. Emilio Garcia, a world renowned malacologist – an expert in the study of mollusks. Dr.…
Read MoreKes Woodward exhibit in Anchorage Alaska
Kesler Woodward, the widely recognized Alaska artist from Fairbanks, will be featured in a solo exhibition at the blue.hollomon gallery. Woodward is best known for his paintings of birch trees and the northern landscape. This new body of work provides his birch tree “portraits” and his personal view of the Alaska landscape in a range…
Read MoreSharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years at The Art Institute of Chicago
Focusing on rarely seen Steichen photographs drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition includes a unique album of over 80 World War I aerial photographs assembled and annotated by Steichen himself as well as a group of iconic glamour portraits and fashion photographs done for Condé Nast, featuring such early Hollywood royalty as Mary…
Read MoreJanet Gorzegno “Old Souls” at Bowery Gallery in New York City
Painter Janet Gorzegno’s new works in gouache on paper that invent for contemplation glimpses of the human—her recurring motif is the human head, which appears as a symbol of human consciousness. Gorzegno’s intimately sized paintings discover their form from within; they concentrate the eye on serene faces that appear wrapped in stillness as if attending…
Read MoreWeird, Wild, & Wonderful
Weird, Wild, & Wonderful, The Second Triennial New York Botanical Garden Exhibition, opened in the Garden’s Ross Gallery on April 19. Curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists, the traveling exhibition features contemporary artworks of botanical oddities and curiosities, and includes artists from the US, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the UK. The forty-six…
Read MoreThe Saint John’s Bible at the New Mexico History Museum
Beginning in 1996, the community of Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, began planning and working on The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in five hundred years. The New Mexico History Museum is currently hosting an exhibition of original pages of The Saint John’s…
Read MoreMicah Cash “Unclaimed Space” at the William Benton Museum of Art
“I wanted to send you a few installation images from the MFA Thesis exhibition. The photos look great in the frames, and I’ve received plenty of compliments on the frames themselves. Thank you for continuing the make such a wonderful product.” Micah is more knowledgeable about framing than most MFA students. We first met Micah…
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