CATEGORIES

Flowers Bloomed

As people quieted and headed indoors during the global health crisis, the world outside was still stirring. Wildlife and nature awoke from the winter hibernation and brought forth new life, as it does season to season, year after year. In the new exhibition While We Were Still…Flowers Bloomed, Turner Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will pay tribute to the bountiful blossoms.

PLAYING WITH Nature's Forms

Randall W. L. Mooers paints contemporary still lifes that cause the viewer to pause and contemplate the scene.

SENSATIONAL SHORES

When we think of Atlantic coastal scenes, we think of Maine, the Jersey Shore, Miami—seldom connecting these disparate shores to the continuous eastern coastline of North America, which is over 2,000 miles long.

Depicting Reality

Having a 30-year career in art direction, graphic design and illustration, Donna Slade has what she calls a “straightforward approach” to her contemporary realistic paintings. She observes her subjects closely, paying attention to all the details and aims to “capture and portray the ‘real’ and not the ‘ideal.’”

DEDICATED to REALISM

Mauricio González’s collection reflects his knowledge and passion for contemporary artwork.

Allegorical Realism

Florida-based artist Kevin Grass blends photorealism and Flemish painting techniques in his allegorical paintings.

Summer Pastimes

RJD Gallery presents new works by Tor-Arne Moen that evoke memories of yesteryear.

Artistic Harmony

In the late 1980s, artist Stephen Jesic found he was captivated by the colors and vibrancy of Australian birds and added them to his oeuvre of still lifes and landscapes.

Beauty in Originality

Collectors can explore stunning examples of historic Haudenosaunee bags during an online exhibition at John Molloy Gallery.

Seeing the Signs

A love of typography led Stephanie Schechter to paint signage that can serve as reminders of a place and time

Surrealistic approach

Jos Van de Ven was born in the south of the Netherlands not far from Van Gogh’s village.

Past AND Present

COMPOSITIONS FROM TWO ONGOING SERIES CELEBRATE PEOPLE AND PLACES THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Striving for Excellence

The 2020 Class of Portrait Society Signature Status

PORCELAIN PAINTING

An inside look at the history, techniques and artists working in this traditional art form.

Inside the Museum

Escha van den Bogerd’s paintings blend artwork of the Old Masters with her contemporary aesthetic

Glazing an Underpainting with Color

Using this slow and methodical technique, Henry Riffe builds his paintings up through multiple layers of color

In Memoriam

Daniel E. Greene (1934-2020): Remembering the Artist and the Man

Contrasts of lights and darks

Master painters of the world

A Painter's Journey - Creating a Vision

In this seven-part series, artist John Hulsey takes you on a visual journey through his outdoor and studio painting processes.

Secrets Hidden in the Stacks

When University of Virginia (UVA) professor Andrew Stauffer sent his class to the library in the fall of 2009, he expected them to focus on the printed text of the books they brought back.

Kuipers Leads Poetry Northwest

In January the oldest literary magazine in the Pacific Northwest welcomed a new editor to the helm.

YEIBICHAI WEAVINGS: FEATURING WOMEN DANCERS

A look at the origins and early historical development of these secular Navajo weavings and their ceremonial themes.

TRADITION AND TRADE

An exhibition at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum showcases the evolution of Navajo pictorial blankets.

THE FINER THINGS

Crafted for special ceremonies among the Diné people, dress panels are more than works of art, they’re a lasting part of material culture.

Stewardship

Don and Liza Siegel, who have donated many works in their collection to the new Field Museum exhibition, celebrate Indigenous American culture through the connections shared with their Native friends.

Singing the Praise

A new exhibition at Chicago’s Field Museum presents works by contemporary artists who were inspired by the museum’s historic collection.

REGIONAL AUTHENTICITY

Trading posts across the Southwest preserve the history and regional traditions of Native textile art.

Pop Forms: Jason Garcia / Okuu Pín (Santa Clara/Tewa)

Now open at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is Songs For My Muse, a new solo show for Santa Clara/Tewa artist Jason Garcia (Okuu Pín).

IT'S A MYSTERY

A 140- to 150-year-old Navajo transitional blanket may have been intentionally woven to form sacred symbols when folded in certain ways. Or perhaps it’s simply a nice weaving.

Home on the Range

Steeped in history and culture, Exhibit C Native Gallery & Gifts continues to examine the narrative between artist and land. More specifically, 20 Native American artists have been asked by the gallery to “create their own rendition of what the buffalo means to their Native tribe.”