Previewing upcoming art exhibitions from coast to coast, American Art Collector is a unique monthly magazine specially designed to bring living representational artists, galleries and active art collectors together in one place.
How do you really know what is happening in the art market? Well, you reach out to the people who make the market happen and you talk to them. The artists, dealers, gallery owners and collectors who are on the frontlines of all this and making things happening on a daily basis. Well, we’ve spent the last month talking to people across the country. Gallery owners in Dallas, Santa Fe, Scottsdale, Boston, Cape Cod, Florida, New York City and Los Angeles, and what we’ve heard is quite promising. While 2016 was down for most people, the first four months of 2017 have been a flurry of activity. People are going to galleries, visiting cities and art destinations and, even better, purchasing work like never before. This is what we like…
John Schaeffer Gallery 901 Santa Fe, NM In Gallery 901 we show abstract and realistic art. The trend we see is movement back toward realism and figurative works. For all the talk of newer movements and technology serving to ring the death knell of figurative painting, humans will always find the human form fascinating. Experienced collectors look at art differently than the average person walking in off the street. You can spot a seasoned collector immediately. Like everybody, their eye flows to images of the human form, but then you watch them in front of an abstract piece and you can feel their memories, sensations and emotions emerge. They experience abstract art the way one listens to a symphony, and if you close your eyes and listen, you might even…
ARGENTUM: CONTEMPORARY SILVERPOINT When: April 28-May 12, 2017; April 29, 6-9 p.m., opening reception Where: Marbury NYC, 26 Gramercy Park S., Suite 9G, New York, NY 10003 Information: (347) 951-7765, www.marburynyc.com Silverpoint was originally used by medieval scribes on manuscripts, and the method of etching was favored by masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt. Argentum: Contemporary Silverpoint, a new exhibition at Marbury NYC, will highlight approximately 30 new works in the medium from contemporary American representational artists such as Dennis Angel, James Xavier Barbour, Sherry Camhy, Shanga Manning, Tom Mazzullo and Raphael Sassi, among others. Mazzullo will contribute a piece titled Fermat, part of an ongoing series called Wraps, which is comprised of drawings of objects made from torn, twisted and manipulated paper. “I work in silverpoint because…
May 3-7 NEW YORK, NY Collective Design Fair Skylight Clarkson Square www.collectivedesignfair.com May 3-7 NEW YORK, NY Art New York Pier 94 www.artnyfair.com May 3-Sept. 10 NEW YORK, NY Kaari Upson: Good thing you are not alone New Museum www.newmuseum.org May 4-7 NEW YORK, NY Superfine! 459 W. 14th Street www.superfine.world May 5-Aug. 13 ST. LOUIS, MO Creative Stimulus Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis www.camstl.org Through May 7 RALEIGH, NC Mathew Curran: Without War Paint Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh www.camraleigh.org Through May 7 NEW YORK, NY The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel Museum of Modern Art www.moma.org May 12-13 SANTA FE, NM Canyon Road Spring Art Festival Canyon Road www.visitcanyonroad.com May 12-Jun. 24 CINCINNATI, OH Oil Painters of America 26th annual National Juried Exhibition Eisele Gallery of…
Lola Gil is an artist who has always found refuge in the natural world. In past exhibitions, such as The Younger (2015), Haro (2012) and Ipsum Factum (2010), creatures such as horses, owls and a deer share the canvas with lushly painted depictions of the natural world that have inspired her work since the beginning. However, her new show at KP Projects (formerly Merry Karnowsky Gallery) in Los Angeles is titled Outside In Doors, an idea that started just after her last solo show 2½ years ago and inspired by an interesting childhood memory. While Gil attempts to get beyond the personal and internal world and look at the people in her paintings as characters, it is still very much tied to her life, her experiences as an artist, and…
Our collectors’ Boston area home was designed by Ralph Adams Cram, known primarily for his ecclesiastical architecture. Its eclectic façade recalls the House of Seven Gables, the timbering of an English Tudor home and the bay windows of residences on Beacon Hill. It is a perfect setting for an eclectic collection. The two men met as Harvard undergrads. Their tastes and personalities complement each other and also overlap creating both a supportive relationship and an harmonious home—which now includes three young children. The couple commissioned Ephraim Rubenstein to paint Silvercup, a view of city rooftops that reminded them of the view from their apartment in New York. They had seen a painting of his at George Billis Gallery, which had sold, so they commissioned him to paint something similar. It…
