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A Spring Awakening
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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

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May 2023
Running the Gamut
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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

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2 mins  |
May 2023
Gusan Lyon A Contemporary Master of American Art
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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

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7 mins  |
May 2023
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE
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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

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4 mins  |
May 2023
EVERYTHING FROM THE EARTH
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EVERYTHING FROM THE EARTH

Wildlife and nature artist Jon Ching shifts his imagination toward the wonders of gems and minerals

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5 mins  |
May 2023
A Borderless World
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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.

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6 mins  |
April 2023
American Purgatory
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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.

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6 mins  |
March 2023
Organic Elements
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Organic Elements

Page was the Grand Prize Winner in International Artist magazine's Challenge No. 133, Florals & Gardens.

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April 2023
Artful Atlanta
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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.

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April 2023
Found in Translation
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Found in Translation

These works exist way outside of the box. In fact, forget the box altogether.

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April 2023
The Best of the Best
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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.

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April 2023
The Art Lover's Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Texas
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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.

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4 mins  |
April 2023
On the WATER
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On the WATER

COLLECTOR'S FOCUS SEASCAPES, RIVERS AND LAKES

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5 mins  |
April 2023
MODERN MOSAICS
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MODERN MOSAICS

COLLECTOR'S FOCUS MODERN ART

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9 mins  |
April 2023
COLLABORATING COLLECTORS
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COLLABORATING COLLECTORS

A couple in California curates a thoughtful yet intuitively guided collection of contemporary art.

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April 2023
An Improbable PUNK
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An Improbable PUNK

Marc Dennis subverts beauty's allure by introducing elements that turn our perception on its head.

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April 2023
A Celebration of Women Artists
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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.

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3 mins  |
March 2023
Plein Air Celebration
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Plein Air Celebration

Artists come together for an annual Plein Air Festival to revel in the beauty of the Florida landscape.

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2 mins  |
March 2023
Painting Becomes Exciting Again
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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.

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March 2023
Fervent Emblems
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Fervent Emblems

Growing up in Iowa, Kevin Sloan took the landscape of planted fields for granted.

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March 2023
Joyful Show-off's
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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.

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March 2023
Awash in Color
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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.

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March 2023
The Simple Things
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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.

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3 mins  |
March 2023
Breaking the Rules
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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.

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March 2023
A Fresh Take
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A Fresh Take

Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, honors the still life genre in its upcoming group show Still Fresh.

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3 mins  |
March 2023
Bizarre Beautiful
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Bizarre Beautiful

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, founded in Australia in 2013, began curating exhibitions around the world in 2015.

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March 2023
Object Lessons
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Object Lessons

Still life painters have fascinating studios. Their subjects are their things, and their things are their subjects.

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4 mins  |
March 2023
Deeper Meaning
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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.

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March 2023
CREATIVE Expression
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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.”

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7 mins  |
March 2023
BOUNTIFUL Bouquets
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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.

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8 mins  |
March 2023