Every year, thousands of artists from coast to coast and around the globe submit their artwork for entry into the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, with the hopes of being selected as one of a handful of talented finalists. For many artists, the highlight of being selected is the chance to display their work at the annual The Art of the Portrait conference, where friends, family and fellow artists come together to celebrate their success and behold the winning artworks up close. Sadly, this year the global coronavirus pandemic has prevented us from safely gathering to view and judge the 2020 competition winners and their works. However, with a separate and new online event planned for August, the original 2020 conference program and competition winners will move forward to the 2021 conference, which is scheduled for May 6 to 9 in Washington, D.C. So, while we wait ever so patiently (or not) to be at arm’s length with each other again, the silver lining is that we have an extra year to highlight the incredible paintings, drawings and sculptures created by this year’s 23 finalists. From California to Maine, and from Canada to China, this group of finalists represent some of the world’s most talented portrait and figurative artists working today.
From the West Coast, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Olga Krimon, Oliver Sin and Brittany Ryan are all California-based artists with their homes and studios spread from Sacramento to Laguna Beach.
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
