Sculpting Emotion
“I had started making sculpture by the time I retired, but it still took years after I began to exhibit before I could admit to being an artist. It is truly never too late.”
Emotional Expressions
Eanaj Janae is a self-taught artist originally from Southern California that uses her captivating art to spotlight the Black community's struggles and triumphs, including mental health challenges and the strength required to endure. Often incorporating color and...
Ecological Installations
Clare Celeste Boersch is an artist living in Berlin who has been doing some version of collage and assemblage since she was a young girl. Growing up in Brazil, she had the ocean, rivers, and jungles that always existed in stark contrast to the industrial cities. “My...
Art, Trauma and Rebuilding
Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...
Afrofuturistic Storytelling
James Flowers is a visual artist with a neoclassic style with a hint of Afrofuturism. Each piece of his art tells a story as he uses oil to paint portraits of African Americans on steel–a unique and futuristic medium.
Marrying Art, Culture & Religion
With my art, I want my adoration of my culture and faith to bleed through the paints onto the canvas. I want the impact of the beliefs I hold to be seen with every brush stroke and every color. The importance of family, love, values, community, and perspective.”
Events & Exhibits
Redland Gallery Hosts 30 Years of Asia Pacific Contemporary Art
Visitors to Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland can experience the best of the long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series of exhibitions when Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT arrives on Redlands Coast from August 25 to October 8,...
Trust Me
Drawn from the Whitney’s collection, Trust Me brings together photographic works that invite shared emotional experience. The artists in the exhibition embrace intuition and indeterminacy as part of their creative process and recognize that vulnerability, usually...
Sanctuary
The works in “Sanctuary” include large-scale sculptures as well as mixed-media assemblages and collages on wood panels.
Africa Fashion
Africa Fashion, presented by Brooklyn Museum, celebrates the ingenuity and global impact of African fashions from the 1950s to today.
Charles Phillipe Jean-Pierre: Flare
Drawing on his Haitian heritage and his experiences as an immigrant child growing up on the Southside of Chicago, Jean-Pierre’s work explores how memory, color, and light shape our historical and contemporary imaginations.
News
LGDR Gallery Splits After Less than Two Years
LGDR gallery, formed by four art dealers to counter the rise of mega-galleries, is de-partnering after less than two years in business. One of the principals, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, confirmed that she is leaving the consortium whose name is based on the last names...
Jeffrey Gibson to Represent United States at 60th Venice Biennale in 2024
Portland Art Museum in Oregon and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, has announced that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the...
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Announces Gift of Osher Collection of American Art
The 61 artworks are historically broad and aesthetically significant, and include works by many of the United States’ foremost artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Charles Sheeler, and Alexander Calder.
Feature Articles
Haute Season
This would soon expand to clothing and along the way, Chanel would invent pieces that are still coveted today including the collarless Chanel jacket, the quilted purse and the little black dress.
How Music and Punk Art formed its own Subculture of Art
Punk emerged as a subculture in a variety of locations around the globe in the late 1960s. Inluded was a wide variety of ideologies, fashions, and other expressions in the punk subculture, such as visual arts, dances, literature, and films. However, punk music was...
Music & Books
The Cold Millions
By Jess Walter Jess Walter's The Cold Millions centers around 16-year-old Rye Dolan and his 23-year-old brother Gig. The pair have spent months tooling around the western United States, working odd jobs and hopping rails as it suits them. As the book opens, they've...
Grateful Dead – Amеriсаn Bеаutу
On November 1, 1970, thе Grateful Dеаd rеlеаѕеd what wоuld bесоmе thеir crowning асhiеvеmеnt – thеir fifth ѕtudiо аlbum, Amеriсаn Bеаutу. Hоt оn thе hееlѕ оf Wоrkingmаn’ѕ Dead, the band leaned tоwаrdѕ fоlk rock аnd Amеriсаnа for these twо records inѕtеаd оf thе uѕuаl...
Emotional Expressions
Eanaj Janae is a self-taught artist originally from Southern California that uses her captivating art to spotlight the Black community's struggles and triumphs, including mental health challenges and the strength required to endure. Often incorporating color and...
Afrofuturistic Storytelling
James Flowers is a visual artist with a neoclassic style with a hint of Afrofuturism. Each piece of his art tells a story as he uses oil to paint portraits of African Americans on steel–a unique and futuristic medium.
Art, Trauma and Rebuilding
Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...
Illustrative Portraits
Mendy Sylvain has always loved to draw. “I found it difficult to express my feelings otherwise, so for years I learned to draw as an autodidact at the same time as I was doing several studies,” he explains. After several years of drawing, visiting exhibitions and...
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