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...
Belonging, Home & Connection
Combining elements of neo-expressionism, graffiti and African art, Brittany’s a multidisciplinary artist that creates abstract images and figures of the Black diaspora, to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness and its intersectionality....
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.”
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...
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.
Events & Exhibits
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.
Bernard Lokai
Hosfelt Gallery presents Bernard Lokai. When German painter Bernard Lokai saw images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he was immediately transported to memories of his family’s escape from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. He responded with a series...
News
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.
Art Basel Names Bridget Finn as Director of Miami Beach Fair
Based in New York, Finn will report to Vincenzo de Bellis, director of fairs and exhibition platforms, and will work closely alongside Maureen Bruckmayr, head of business and management, Americas.
Feature Articles
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...
The Rise of Digital Art
It is only in the past decade that digital art has begun to gain attention and popularity as people started to appreciate intricate and impactful artworks created using digital technology. Illustrations, animations, 2D and 3D art and other digital art forms are...
Music & Books
Some Go Home
By Odie Lindsey; W.W. Norton & Company At first blush, Some Go Home explores veteran Colleen Friar's acclimation back to her hometown of Pitchlynn, Mississippi following her deployment. Yet the novel also addresses the idea that home is an amalgamation of people...
Jason Molina – Eight Gates
The legacy of late Jason Molina, who sadly passed after a struggle with alcoholism in March 2013 at the age of 39, remains an honor. More than 20 years of material and hundreds of songs were released under various monikers (from Songs: Ohia in the mid-'90s to early...
Belonging, Home & Connection
Combining elements of neo-expressionism, graffiti and African art, Brittany’s a multidisciplinary artist that creates abstract images and figures of the Black diaspora, to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness and its intersectionality....
Graphite & Charcoal Master
Matthew Smith remembers drawing dinosaurs, his favorite cartoons, and video game characters when he was young, being labeled as an “artist” growing up. “I was always creating,” he recalls. “When other kids had a hard time drawing something, I would be one of the other...
Meditative Ink Art
“Encouraged to pursue art by a supportive family and teachers who recognised my natural talent, I would often be found, pencil in hand spending hours drawing comic book characters or natural scenery,” says artist Harry Frost. He has been passionate about creating art...
Botanical Prints
Mirta Arbini, like many artists, discovered her interest in art as a child. She says she was one of those kids always drawing and painting imaginary friends and magical places. “Growing up, I kept painting, but I never had a formal education in art. I’m a historian.”...
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