CATEGORIES
A Spring Awakening
The California Art Club's Excellence in Traditional Fine Art Competition challenges artists to create works inspired by the theme of transformation
Running the Gamut
The National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society features another exciting presentation of small oil and acrylic works in a variety of subject matter
Gusan Lyon A Contemporary Master of American Art
The award-winning portrait and figure painter Susan Lyon is best known for her beautiful edges and inviting cultural renditions of the human form, capturing life from around the globe
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE
Kehinde Wiley excavates unsung martyrs in the struggle against oppression in the U.S. premiere of his latest work at the de Young Museum
EVERYTHING FROM THE EARTH
Wildlife and nature artist Jon Ching shifts his imagination toward the wonders of gems and minerals
A Borderless World
Treacy Ziegler shares her thoughts on art, the evolution of her process and the unusual venues that have provided fodder for her work.
American Purgatory
Artist Marc Trujillo distills the sterility of American consumerism into haunting snapshots of the mundane, liminal, moments that make up much of our lives.
Organic Elements
Page was the Grand Prize Winner in International Artist magazine's Challenge No. 133, Florals & Gardens.
Artful Atlanta
A select group of the country’s top plein air artists convene in Georgia to capture the region’s beauty in real time.
Found in Translation
These works exist way outside of the box. In fact, forget the box altogether.
The Best of the Best
Oil Painters of America presents 200 works by today’s top representational artists in its 32” annual National Juried Exhibition.
The Art Lover's Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Texas
As the second largest state in the U.S., it should come as no surprise that Texas has a lot to offer.
On the WATER
COLLECTOR'S FOCUS SEASCAPES, RIVERS AND LAKES
MODERN MOSAICS
COLLECTOR'S FOCUS MODERN ART
COLLABORATING COLLECTORS
A couple in California curates a thoughtful yet intuitively guided collection of contemporary art.
An Improbable PUNK
Marc Dennis subverts beauty's allure by introducing elements that turn our perception on its head.
A Celebration of Women Artists
Lee Vasu has been hosting an annual juried exhibition of exceptional women artists at Dacia Gallery in New York’s East Village for 10 years now.
Plein Air Celebration
Artists come together for an annual Plein Air Festival to revel in the beauty of the Florida landscape.
Painting Becomes Exciting Again
Gross McCleaf Gallery artist Elizabeth Geiger gets ready for her one-woman show Borrowed Rhythms, where she presents around 16 new paintings featuring still life subject matter.
Fervent Emblems
Growing up in Iowa, Kevin Sloan took the landscape of planted fields for granted.
Joyful Show-off's
There’s still life painting, and then there’s garden-to-easel still life painting. “Except for the orchids, everything that I paint, we have grown in our garden,” floral artist Jane Jones tells us. In other words, she takes process to a higher level.
Awash in Color
Jones & Terwilliger Galleries are pairing two artists that take a dramatically different approach to the exploration of color in a joint show that opens at their Palm Desert, California, location on March 3.
The Simple Things
Wes Hempel has long been known for his elaborate, conceptual works that place male figures in art-historical settings, re-envisioning what the cannon of fine art might look like if homosexuality had been accepted and included.
Breaking the Rules
In recent years, painter Ron Hicks has been looking at his work with a thoughtful eye. “What have I been hiding behind?” he asked himself.
A Fresh Take
Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, honors the still life genre in its upcoming group show Still Fresh.
Bizarre Beautiful
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, founded in Australia in 2013, began curating exhibitions around the world in 2015.
Object Lessons
Still life painters have fascinating studios. Their subjects are their things, and their things are their subjects.
Deeper Meaning
A masterful grasp of the human form, alongside multi-layered metaphor, stunning composition and superb demonstrations of light and color—these are just a few of the elements that make up 33 Contemporary’s MASTERWORKS exhibition.
CREATIVE Expression
Tula Telfair has a studio in Old Lyme, Connecticut, home to what the Hartford Courant called in 1907, “the most talked about art colony in America today.”
BOUNTIFUL Bouquets
Mary Oliver stood among the flowers and wrote, “The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject.