Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i American Art Collector

As I’m sure you all know, we spend a lot of time traveling the country and going to art events. For us, it’s the best way to really know what’s going on out there, to have our finger on the pulse, and in turn, offer to you updated and timely articles that will help you with your art collecting. Many of you go on these trips as well. And we love seeing you out there. I’ve always said that if we have to work, there’s nothing better than working with good friends. But for those of you who can’t go on these trips or at least can’t go on all of them we have a solution—our Instagram page. We can be found at @AmericanArtCollector, and what you’ll find there is…

This March, the Oil Painters of America announced a new exhibition celebrating some of the best artists in representational painting. The show, Virtuosos of the OPA, features artwork by its members who have achieved Signature and Master Signature distinctions through the group’s rigorous vetting process. The artists who have submitted pieces, and had their works juried for the exhibition, represent just a small cross-section of the talent that is found in the organization. On view at Cutter & Cutter Fine Art in St. Augustine, Florida, will be more than 150 paintings by these renowned artists who will compete for approximately $10,000 in cash and merchandise as selected by juror of awards Daniel Greene, who is a Master Signature member of the organization. Their artwork will range in style and subject…

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Inspired by Willa Cather’s 1913 novel O Pioneers!, Jennifer Nehrbass’ latest series dreamily combines the Old West, fashion and fabrication in a style best described as “magical realism”—as the artist herself puts it. Pioneer Project takes its pilgrimage to Julie Nester Gallery this March, bringing figures and landscapes along for the ride. “Jennifer’s paintings have always resonated with our clients,” gallery owner Julie Nester says. She continues, “But the paintings in Pioneer Project have created a higher degree of interest and dialogue. The figurative paintings have especially been appreciated. Not only are they visually beautiful, but the fictional narrative of women as the explorers and documentarians has a relevancy that is powerful at this time in our society.” Rather than directly re-creating a person, object, place or moment in time,…

In the wake of the #MeToo movement and a shift toward greater empowerment for women in modern society, artist Ian Shults aims to shed light on the slow-burning toxic masculinity still permeating our culture. “At first I was going to take on a larger, wider scope of everything that was wrong in the world…but then I had to narrow down what was really happening at the time, which was the #MeToo movement,” says Shults, whose new body of work reflects the many subtle ways that women are patronized and beleaguered on a daily basis. “I was really bothered by all the toxic masculinity around…As a guy…I’ve painted women almost [the entire time] I’ve been a professional at it, and I feel like I owed it to them to say something…

After moving from her Sausalito, California, studio to one near Jack London Square and the Port of Oakland, artist Gail Morris was inspired to create a series based on her new environment. The works she has continued to create for her aptly titled Jack London Series will be exhibited at Bonner David Galleries from March 15 through April 8. “At first I missed the rolling hills of Marin, but one day the wide streets and old warehouses and railroad tracks inspired me to look at the city as landscape,” she says, “so I started doing pastel sketches on location and then studio paintings based on my new surroundings.” For its 2018-19 show season, the Scottsdale, Arizona, gallery has asked its artists to create pieces that pay homage to another artist.…

COAST-TO-COAST COVERAGE Find out what’s happening across the nation. This is the first magazine to provide coast-to-coast coverage of upcoming shows from artists and galleries specializing in traditional fine art paintings and sculpture—the art that collectors want. PREVIEWS In the Preview pages, we reveal new works about to come available for sale by the country’s leading galleries. ART SHOW LOCATIONS At the top of each Preview page you’ll see the destination where the upcoming exhibition is showing, the dates, and the gallery address and contact details so you can make inquiries about new works—before they go on sale to the general public. ARTIST FOCUS PAGES These one-page articles are bonus Previews and focus on additional exhibitions taking place each month. Artist Focus Pages also show new works available for purchase,…

When I mention that women are underrepresented in art galleries and museums, I often get asked if women are really that good compared to male artists to receive equal attention or gallery representation. It’s stunning that in this era we still have to deal with such biases in our society. I hope to spotlight some contemporary female artists who paint with the same passion, skill and vigor as male artists. Most of all, I wish to prove that gender shouldn’t define destiny as both sexes can create in peace with equal rights. These female artists introduce us to raw emotion, color and light expressed in figurative and still life paintings. By reading their stories here you can understand how individual and complex their emotional journeys are to arrive at their…

Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco is holding its first exhibition of the work of Peter Halasz through February 16. Fall into the Half Light contains his dreamlike paintings done in the mysterious in-betweenness of a soft twilight when visual aries begin to dissolve. Fall into the Half Light is also the title of the latest release of his band Floodflower, odflower, bound-due to be released in March. Brought up in La Jolla, California, where e the boundary between sea and sky can become lost in the mist, he absorbed the qualities of aqueous us light that now permeate his painting. “There’s a solace in those coastlines with its natural grandeur,” he says. “Even when I was at my lowest, I could go there and find some kind of…

Ron Hicks is known for his muted paintings of figures and interiors about which he says, “I like to romanticize life. I love the interaction of people doing…'things'…whatever it is. It could be the most mundane thing to any passerby, but I find great beauty in that.” Yet, he discovers, “I see things very abstractly, so I think of myself as a painter who sees shape, value, edges and texture.” The ideas for his new paintings that will be shown at Vail International Gallery in Colorado, February 16 through March 2, “have been creeping up on me for the past few years. I’m trying to find a way to make the paintings abstract, non-objective and representational. I’m really, truly, looking at them as abstract paintings.” The paintings are no longer…

Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588) was the first known female painter in Florence. She was self-taught, copying the masters of the time. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) wrote in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, “there were so many of her paintings in the houses of gentlemen in Florence, it would be tedious to mention them all.” Holly Trostle Brigham earned her MFA at The George Washington University where her thesis was “The Self-Portrait Nude: Finding a Modern Female Mythology.” While there, she was influenced by the work and philosophy of visiting artist Audrey Flack. She also trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has explored the role of women artists through history, inserting herself into the narrative in self-portraits as the artist. In Sorella Plautilla…

Once again, Sorrel Sky Gallery’s Santa Fe location will host the Pastel Society of New Mexico’s annual National Pastel Painting Exhibition, returning for its 27th year. This national juried exhibition is one of the leading pastel painting events in the country, promoting the education and appreciation of this versatile medium. Each year, close to 150 artists from across the country, as well as Canada and Europe, submit up to three works for consideration, with jurors ultimately selecting about 140 to 145 pieces in total. The exhibition, which runs for the entire month of March, features a variety of subject matter, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes, wildlife and cityscapes. Artists whose work will be showcased this year include Marilyn Drake, Allen Garns, Denali Brooke, Paul Murray, Katherine Irish and Susan Ogilvie,…

As an artist, Matthew Sievers finds inspiration in a variety of seemingly contrasting subjects. “Growing up in rural Idaho laid the groundwork for my love of landscapes. I’ve always enjoyed spending time in the outdoors and have been awestruck by the beauty and majesty found in nature,” he says. “However, despite or possibly as a result of my country upbringing, I have always been drawn to the city. So many lives and machines and buildings weaving around each other fascinates me. The energy of a bustling downtown street or a moody neighborhood at night have a certain kind of awesomeness that inspires me.” Sievers has a love of architecture, in particular old buildings that have become somewhat of a bridge between the rural and urban landscapes he chooses to paint.…

If you were to walk through Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters you would come to a staircase where you would become intimately involved in the illusionistic world of Robert Minervini’s art. Beginning at the bottom of the stairs, facing the rocks of the shore, you would ascend through a view of the bay and the city beyond upward to the underside of freeways. Descending from the top, the illusion is of being able to walk out along the freeway rather than down the stairs. In the 40-by-50-foot acrylic, Sinking Cities, 2014, the human intrusion on the pristine bay is inescapable both visually and viscerally. Later this year, another of his concepts will be reproduced in a 9-by-31-foot mosaic and glass mural permanently installed in SFO Terminal 1, a project of…

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) said, “As I write, there rises somewhere in my head that queer and very pleasant sense of something which I want to write; my own point of view…” I often write about looking for the “something else” in contemporary realist art and a “point of view” is part of that. Woolf lived in a wider world merely tolerant of the efforts of women to be creative but her closer milieu was full of women and men living life to the fullest and creating, unfettered by convention. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) redefined contemporary economics. Novelist Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) lives on in her writings and in the extraordinary gardens of Sissinghurst Castle, which she planned and tended. She wrote, “I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was…

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Alexandra Pacula takes her dog for a walk among the trees and forests of rural Pennsylvania and then returns to her studio to work on large, vibrant paintings of city lights at night. “In grad school I acquired my first digital camera,” she says. “I loved photographing the light and color of the city when I was out at night. Sometimes I moved the camera and I decided to paint the blurred photos that you’d normally throw out. Now, I deliberately move the camera. The movement creates the energy.” She starts out with carefully measured perspective and counts the windows on the buildings. Admitting, “I love color and I love paint," she then sets out to “choose a specific kind of gesture and carry it through the image.” In…

Zvonimir Mihanovic believes that many artists paint the environments that they know best. His artwork is no different as he turns to the coast of the Adriatic Sea where he lives for inspiration. “In my region, norms of the classic Mediterranean lifestyle still prevail, which are quite different from life in the modern, developed world. Where I live on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, people have made a living from fishing, wine-growing and olive oil production since ancient times,” says the Croatian artist. “Today, along with the advancement of modern tourism that is present in my region, many things still remain the same as in those ancient times. I believe that certain aspects of the modern, developed world have brought complications to our daily life in which we have…

In the upcoming group exhibition Spring Ahead…, at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, five artists paint narratives depicting youths. The works of art—by Margo Selski, Lesley Thiel, Bryony Bensly, Jantina Peperkamp and Juan Béjar—tell stories as adulthood approaches. Many of them are familiar scenes of a time when there was a bit of innocence, learning and introspection. “A thread of light grows greener; nature awakens to the sound of children, and again echoes through the air as spring approaches. These paintings communicate joy, exuberance, curiosity and a desire for stability in an uncertain world,” says RJD Gallery curator MAGO. “The artists’ relationships to their adolescent subjects are intuitive, inquisitive and self-awakening for the viewer. Their self-reflection becomes a recurring theme, as their feelings and memories take us on a…

March 8 through April 7, Manitou Galleries presents the four-artist exhibition Women on the Wall, which celebrates the careers of Gene Kloss (1903-1996), PJ Garoutte, Martha Goetz and Martha Pettigrew. The show will include sculptures, paintings and etchings to highlight the diversity of the artists’ works and how their careers have been shaped over the years. In 1963 Garoutte moved to New Mexico and has found her muse in the desert landscape, such as in Starlight and On a Clear Night, which both depict the mountains, adobes and fauna that characterize the region. “Recently my career as a painting artist has taken a new and exciting direction. In the studio one day, I picked up a small painting that didn’t quite make it and thought ‘I think I can do…