ON YOUR OWN

The advantages of going solo and selling your own artwork

COLLABORATING COLLECTORS

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

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.

The INK and the GRAIN

Using the Japanese moku hanga technique, Leon Loughridge creates rich woodblock prints of the American Southwest

Radically Human

Working with his reference to develop a concept, Grant Gilsdorf imbues his paintings with narrative and meaning

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.

Organic Elements

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

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.

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.

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.

Jeff Koons Goes to the Moon

Having conquered this world or at least become one of our most famous and priciest artists Jeff Koons is pushing his art beyond the limits of boring old earth.

Anatomy Lesson

How one prominent female artist is using an X-Acto knife to reimagine the male-dominated canon of photography

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.

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.

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.

A Fresh Take

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

Fervent Emblems

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

Plein Air Celebration

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

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.

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.

ELEMENTAL VISIONS

Artist Michael Scott explores the mythology, symbolism and science of an existence born out of a chain of chemical— and alchemical—reactions.

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.

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.

Jeremy Lipking

A Contemporary Master of American Art

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.

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.”

But Does It Spark Joy?

Taking a cue from the art market, more new design is being described as collectible. Some say that's not right for makers or the industry.

The Painter and His Court

Kehinde Wiley has gone from depicting power to building it.

The Female Gaze

When Jenna Gribbon met musician Mackenzie Scott, it changed the way she thought about painting and the possibilities for female portraiture.