Its color and harsh, scolding call remind me of the Blue Jays that were everyday visitors back east. The Steller Jay's blue wings and tail and black body with a crested head are startlingly beautiful, standing out among the less grand visitors to my feeders.
Joe Garcia lives in a forested mountain town in Southern California, familiar with the nuances of light and the characteristics of changing seasons. In Winter Blues, blue shadows on snow and the black stems of shrubs nearly hide a Steller's Jay taking off in flight. Garcia's composition emphasizes the forward motion of the jay on the wide horizontal canvas, with minimal shadows on the left, building up to the intense shadows and shrub from which the bird emerges into the light.
Jeremiah D. Welsh compacts the depths of the watery world of a stream into his low relief bronze sculpture, Northern Torsion -Pike and Bull. The pike, emerging from the lily pads, commands the center of the composition with the frog propelling itself away by pushing a foot against the pike's open mouth.
Welsh writes about the intimate scene of danger presaging a more global disaster. "With a swirl of dark water, the trajectories of two extraordinary predators-invasives and cannibals alike-collide and entwine. Then with a splash and an undulation of ripples, the watery curtains close with seeming resolution. Yet all is not well. Whatever the outcome of the encounter, ecological balance is evidenced as being skewed one small step further from center and the narrowing of species is made manifest. The slope that we have set our world upon is a slippery one and Nature harkens to us to heed its signs of warning..."
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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.