Gathering thoughts for one of the biennial Re-presenting Representation exhibitions that I curated at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, I found paintings by Judith Belzer at a gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. Her paintings at that time were intimate examinations of the landscape that inspired the desire to develop a closer relationship with nature itself. As a New Englander I identified with her landscapes as well as with her philosophy and included one of her paintings in an exhibition in 1997.
Her world and world view were reoriented when her husband, writer Michael Pollan, was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. She, Michael and their son, Isaac, moved from bucolic northwest Connecticut to the hills of Berkeley, California. When I visited in 2004, Isaac happily told me his mother was painting in one of the bedrooms and, indeed, she was. Her work had changed. She had stepped back and was examining the structure of live oaks and eucalyptus and considering the fact that the beautiful eucalyptus was thought to be an invasive species and a known water guzzler while, at the same time, being a fire risk. I included the new tree paintings in an exhibition at John Pence Gallery in San Francisco in 2004 and in my final Re-presenting Representation exhibition the following year.
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Dream-like Aura
There is something simultaneously haunting and beautiful about the paintings of Stephen Mackey.
Through the Mirror
It’s been said that art is a mirror for the person looking into it. The viewer sees themselves. Even when the subject doesn’t look like them, or is even human, or is even living. Artists may be painting very specific things from their own being, but the viewer can instantly rewire that to fit their lives with just one glance.
Epic Proportions
Grrowing up on a farm in West Texas, Michael Tole was perusing his family's 1956 Collier's Encyclopedia when the color plates of Baroque paintings caught his attention. Today, he paints inventive Baroque and Rococo figurative extravaganzas that look like they could be part of a Renaissance art collection.
Roadside America
This January, Altamira Fine Art will be hosting a solo exhibition for Scottsdale, Arizona-based artist Geoffrey Gersten.
Close to Home
For Spencer Simmons, 2018 was a milestone year. Only 24 at the time and a few years after earning a fine art degree from Arizona State University, Simmons won the Donald Jurney Traveling Fellowship which enabled him to paint and study in Europe for several months.
CASEY CHALEM ANDERSON A Love for the Land
New England artist Casey Chalem Anderson is captivated by the idea of place.
Face to Face
For well over a month, 33 Contemporary Gallery, in collaboration with 33PA, is hosting a group show at its Palm Beach County, Florida, showroom, that explores modern approaches to the timeless genre of portraiture. Opening January 9 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and running through February 28, the show will feature 12-by-12-inch portraits by talented members of the PoetsArtists community. For those who can't attend in person, the exhibition will also be online on Artsy for its duration.
Fresh Energy
Art Palm Beach returns to Florida with a diverse range of contemporary art.
A Historic Tradition
Salmagundi Club presents the 148th annual exhibition of works in black and white.
B.C. NOWLIN & SHARI LYON Skyward
C. Nowlin is, and always has been, unapologetically true to himself. In high school, he got kicked out of art class because he insisted on painting burning buses to illustrate a school field trip.