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.
Wow! What a summer it was! We are quite pleased with what we are hearing from galleries, artists, auctions and art fairs from Cape Cod to the Hamptons, Aspen to Santa Fe. The art market has shifted into high gear and sales are taking place across the country. We’ve heard many galleries tell us that it was their best summer for quite some time and now this optimism is switching from summer to fall. While summer is about all the wonderful destinations across the country, the fall sees the market switch to the cities. To places like New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. The New York season, after a long summer break, comes back in full force for September, October and November, with a full schedule…
A Night in the Hamptons On July 8, RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, hosted a private event to honor artist Margaret Bowland. The event was co-hosted by Artnet president Bill Fine and founder of ArtHamptons Rick Friedman. Attendees socialized among an installation of seven monumental works by Bowland, which explored topics such as youth, identity, beauty, money and race. American Art Collector was proud to attend the evening celebration along with gallery owner Richard Demato and gallery staff Eve Gianni Corio, Casey Dalene, Joi Jackson Perle, Heather Haux and Mago. The festivities took place after the Market Art + Design fair, which was housed across the street from the gallery at the Bridgehampton Museum. About 300 art collectors and art enthusiasts were in attendance. This Is NOT a Selfie…
Through September 4 NORTH ADAMS, MA Nick Cave: Until Mass MoCA www.massmoca.org Nick Cave, Soundsuit in motion, mixed media. © Nick Cave, Photo: James Prinz. On view at Mass MoCA. Through September 3 HOUSTON, TX A Better Yesterday Contemporary Arts Museum Houston www.camh.org Through September 3 SAN ANTONIO, TX Echo and Narcissus Blue Star Contemporary www.bluestarart.org Sept. 8-Dec. 31 ST. LOUIS, MO Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis www.camstl.org Sept. 8-Jan. 7, 2018 DETROIT, MI Punk House Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit www.mocadetroit.org Through September 9 ATLANTA, GA Lauri Stallings: The Room for Tender Choreographies MOCA GA www.mocaga.org September 9-10 LOUISVILLE, KY September Art Fair Mellwood Art & Entertainment Center www.mellwoodartcenter.com Sept. 9-Dec. 31 LOS ANGELES, CA Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano LA The Museum…
BIRDS IN ART When: September 9-November 26, 2017 Where: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 700 N. 12th Street, Wausau, WI 45503 Information: www.lywam.org Now in its 42nd year, the Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has continued to attract patrons from across the United States for its annual celebration of avian themes in art. The show gets underway with a series of events on September 9 including a Meet the Artists from 9 a.m. to noon; a Master Artist Talk from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; and the Artists in Action from 10:45 a.m. to noon. The opening festivities take place as part of Wausau, Wisconsin’s Artrageous Weekend. Artwork from 114 artists throughout the world will be on view in Birds in Art. The pieces include…
Sloan Schaffer’s home in Brentwood, California, bears the mark of many hands, especially his own. Originally built by the famed and eccentric architect Harry Gesner in the ’50s, it was lived in by one family for 50 years. It was being renovated by Griffin Enright Architects of Los Angeles when Schaffer first saw it. “I came in when it was under construction and finished it myself,” he says. “I consulted a bit with Griffin Enright, but the interior finishes, the materiality on the outside and the site work are mine.” Schaffer’s sense of design was honed by his father collecting fine Austrian and Hungarian Art Nouveau ceramics and glass and, eventually, contemporary ceramics. “That shaped my interest in threedimensional objects,” he says. He has spent time as a jeweler and…
Recalling his idyllic 1950s and ’60s boyhood in Southern California, Kenton Nelson says, “I was a little dork with my lawnmower and my edger mowing the lawn for two cute girls who lived down the street.” Community ideals and advertising at the time spoke of boundless optimism and promise. “I had a marvelous childhood,” he says. When he wasn’t mowing lawns, Nelson was admiring the crisp, colorful and graphic advertising of the time, that made the optimism and promise visible. Art was part of his life. His great-uncle was Roberto Montenegro (1885-1968), the acclaimed Mexican muralist. A friend of the great artists of his time, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were married in Montenegro’s backyard. Nelson grew up with his work as well as that of Orozco and Siqueiros in…
