Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2019 i American Art Collector

What we’ve realized in the nearly 15 years of printing American Art Collector is that this expansive and always-growing network of galleries, dealers, artists, curators and of course collectors who champion the cause of contemporary realism are a community. A community of people who are passionate about contemporary American painting and have dedicated their lives and careers to see it not just endure but thrive. What I love about magazines is that when done properly they provide a way to highlight such communities on a monthly basis by showing what’s happening within this sector of the art market in a comprehensive way that is not just educational but also useful to the collectors. By reading American Art Collector each month, one can instantly find out what shows are planned, what…

12 ISSUES PERYEAR www.AmericanArtCollector.com Discover New Art Available For Sale The new art of today’s major artists is in big demand, and if you’re serious about acquiring it you need to know about it sooner. When you subscribe to American Art Collector magazine you’ll be the first to know because each month we’ll email you the link to the latest issue online. You’ll have instant access to the latest issue immediately when it is published. You’ll see the art coming available for sale before the shows even open. Coast-To-Coast Coverage See new art being created by major living artists from the East Coast to the West Coast and everywhere in between. Many readers travel across the country to acquire pieces from galleries showing new work in this magazine. Covering The…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah will scour the country for the best and brightest emerging artists on the scene and then interview them about their work. Sarah has a wonderful eye, and I'm sure you will enjoy what she is able to discover. Artists, if you want your work considered, hashtag all your social media posts #tobeannounced #americanartcollector. Blake Kathryn is an American artist who studied painting in school and quickly moved onto digital art after that. She has been creating in 2D since 2011 and in 3D for a little over a year. Blake is known for her brightly lit, shiny pastel environments with a touch of surrealism that are so photorealistic you almost have to do a double take. Heavily influenced by growing up in the ’90s as well as…

On May 2, painter Aneka Ingold was sitting in a crowded reception hall and as the artists around her were being honored her mind drifted back to the studio. “Tomorrow, it will all just get back to normal. I’ll just go back to my studio and that will be it,” she remembers thinking. “But then they called my name and it was like a dream.” The award she won was the inaugural Bennett Prize, created to honor the work of figurative realist women painters, and while she was up on the stage preparing to accept the award all she could do was take a deep breath. “This is going to change my life,” she said to herself on the stage. Bennett Prize co-founder Elaine Melotti Schmidt overheard her. “She tapped…

Geoffrey Gorman and Kevin Box approach the sculpture of animals in unique ways, distinct from each other and immediately identifiable as their own work in the world of animalier. Unlike the 19th-century sculptors of realistic animals, Box and Gorman use unexpected materials to make representations that go beyond and within the recognizable forms. Box approaches a square blank sheet of white paper in the same way the painter approaches a blank canvas or the composer approaches silence. “The very first pieces I folded had nothing to do with origami,” Box relates. “I was trying to describe the architecture of the soul, the invisible aspects of humanity. What do thoughts look like? What does spirit look like? I folded star patterns working from the blank slate of that square piece of…

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS Saint Paul, MN, (877) 595-9094 www.woodturner.org BETTY BRANCH Betty Branch Sculpture Studio & Gallery 123 Norfolk Avenue, Roanoke, VA 24011 (540) 344-4994, www.bettybranch.com DANA MARANTO (410) 382-5959, dmaranto_4@msn.com www.danamaranto.com EDGEWATER GALLERY (802) 989-7419 info@edgewatergallery-vt.com www.edgewatergallery.com GALLERY ANTONIA 1291 Main Street, Chatham, MA 02650 (508) 469-4020 www.galleryantonia.com JERALD MELBERG GALLERY 625 S. Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 (704) 365-3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com LIQUID LIGHT GLASS 926 Baca Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 820-2222 www.liquidlightglass.com LORI HIGGINS (808) 268-0756, info@lorihiggins.com www.lorihiggins.com MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY 523 W. 24th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 243-0200, www.matthewmarks.com NINA WINTERS nina@ninawinters.com www.ninawinters.com PAIGE BRADLEY information@paigebradley.com www.paigebradley.com PAUL RHYMER Point of Rocks, MD, (301) 980-4429 www.rhymerstudio.com RICHARD MACDONALD Richard MacDonald Studios 16 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Monterey, CA 93940, www.richardmacdonald.com ROGER REUTIMANN…

In one painting, a woman clad in green faces a figure identical to her own, but with the head of a ram. In another, a woman stands back to back with a figure resembling herself, but not entirely, with twisting horns and the ears of a beast. These and other works by artist Jennifer Balkan speak of the dichotomy of the human condition, of a dual rational—a thinking side and an instinctual, animalistic side. An upcoming show, held at Chimera Gallery in Mullingar, Ireland, highlights a body of work the artist started in early 2018. Balkan explains that throughout the process, she’d continuously go back to paintings she’d started before, altering them based on other paintings she created later, ultimately weaving them together in a way that made sense as…

Forrest Rodts has the sea in his blood. His family was among the early settlers of the island of Nantucket and he summered there at the family home that had been built by a whaling captain. He lives in Marblehead on the coast of Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy spoke of the similar salinity of the sea and human blood. “…We have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back from whence we came.” Rodts has a degree in economics from Hobart College with a minor in studio art. He pursued a career in investment banking and then acting before the drive to make…

Jesper Blåder’s worlds are startlingly different from ours yet surprisingly similar. A magenta cloud hovering above a house and the rectilinear shape of another house repeated in a green sky bring us up short but then become perfectly harmonious with what we “know.” “Color, I think, is what’s most important in my paintings,” Blåder explains. “I like to tell stories with what I paint, but it is how I paint them that, in my eyes, makes them good. I often have tried to decide colors that a painting shall have in the beginning of the painting process, but now I know that is impossible for me. I change colors all the time and I always get the paintings finished by trial and error. So my painting is a lot about…

Duncan Johnson scours the landfill in White River Junction in Vermont searching for discarded pieces of wood—some still in perfectly usable condition and others that have lost all hope of practical purpose but hold the artist’s fascination in some way. “Intrinsically it’s just very interesting material. It has so much history, texture and color,” says Johnson. “I love the fact that it’s discarded, so it feels like I’m saving it and discovering it at the same time.” The artist, who comes from a background of three-dimensional sculpture, creates wall art made by stacking reclaimed wood in various patterns, often appearing to be woven together like threads. “When I first started doing it in 2009, I was really fascinated by this space. They seemed to be neither painting nor sculpture,” he…

A new group show at Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will feature four artists whose works range from bronze and wood to oil and acrylic. Artists in the show are painters William Haskell and Jeff Cochran, and sculptors Paul Rhymer and Tim Prythero, who creates three-dimensional mixed media works. For Haskell, the show will allow him to show his newest images of the West, which are done in a regionalist and modernist style. “My newest works are focusing on the abstraction and geometry that I see occurring naturally around me as well as the rich and vivid colors that exist in the Southwest,” he says. “My paintings are also based on past observations and experiences that I have had. Much of my inspiration continues to focus on the…

This July 13 to 27, Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles will present a small works group exhibition featuring artists working in both the contemporary and Western styles. Among those with works in the show are Kim Cogan, Danny Galieote, Michael Klein, Jeffrey T. Larson, Serge Marshennikov and Jacob A. Pfeiffer. The artists’ pieces measure smaller than 20 inches in size and are done in a variety of styles and subject matter to allow collectors an array of paintings to choose from. Marshennikov’s 16-inch square piece Waves, features a woman lying atop folded fabric that is reminiscent of clothing items in Old Masters works. The artist explains, “I was inspired by the intriguing ‘Rembrandtesque’ collars of the 17th century whereas on a dish the given head was complemented expressiveness of…

Beginning July 5 at Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, is Modern Man, a new juried group exhibition that will examine the male figure within a modern context. “While reviewing our 15th anniversary season, we were surprised to realize we hadn’t done this yet,” says gallery owner and curator Steve Bowersock. “We also realized, but for the exception of erotica, there are fewer works of art representing males, not only in our own gallery, but in many we’d visited.” Artists in the juried exhibition include Jayne Adams, who has had a relationship with Bowersock Gallery for several years. “My subjects are local and often people I know. Everything is firsthand. One has to know his subject. It cannot be faked. It is the study of body types, body language and engaging…

Jennifer St. James is an artist who specializes in figurative art, portraiture and still life painting. After receiving her degree in advertising with an emphasis on technology, arts and media from the University of Colorado at Boulder, St. James had the desire to return to the arts. She attended Schissler Academy of Fine Arts—a classical art school that uses the teaching approach of the Old masters—where she studied representational art with a focus on the human figure, portraiture and animals. It was there that she won the title of best student portfolio. She also studied under John Reger from The Ryder Studio. Using classical techniques, she portrays contemporary subject matter in oil and charcoal. She is inspired by the life and history of her subject matter, which she captures in…

“Creating art is my passion,” says artist Natalie Levin. “I hope my art inspires and opens the hearts of others to their own sacred Self, which is a place of peace, love and infinite joy.” Levin’s art channels pure spirit, her sculptures seem alive, as if to breathe. Combining her love of the sensual form, while honoring ancient traditions, her attention to detail and subtle playfulness infuse each sculpture with a profound embodiment of feeling. Frequently she is told from her clients that her sculptures often “speak” to them. Growing up in the bucolic splendor of Santa Barbara, California, drawing and painting were instinctual. At 13, Levin began years of intensive study in life-drawing. She received her fine arts degree from UC Santa Barbara, and she has studied with notable…

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 photorealist painter Emile Dillon visited his hometown in New Jersey, he discovered it was nothing like he remembered. Gone were the movie theaters, restaurants and ice cream parlors he loved as a child in the 1950s. “As I grew older, the town fell into disrepair,” he says. “Everyone left when they got older, and so did I. Everything I really liked about the place is gone.” While it was too late for Dillon to preserve the town he grew up in, he decided he could still preserve a slice of Americana elsewhere. “I started saying, ‘Somebody’s got to save these things,’” he reflects. “These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.” Equipped with a background in photojournalism and editorial photography, Dillon began documenting the small towns…

Growing up in Los Angeles, Danny Heller was surrounded by midcentury modern architecture and classic cars. When he became an artist, he decided it was important to preserve and document these houses and buildings. Each new exhibition Heller does focuses on a particular aspect within midcentury design. His show Tiki Modern at George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles hones in on the Polynesian inspired architecture that developed primarily in the 1950s and ’60s. “Right after World War II you had the GI’s coming back, and a lot of times they had spent their time in the Southeast and they brought that aesthetic—the Hawaiian and Polynesian—with them,” Heller elaborates. “There was a bit of a yearning to escape…You go to the local tiki bar or hotel and it feels like you’ve…

Cape Cod-based artist Paul Schulenburg returns to Addison Art Gallery this July for his annual one-man show. “With an international reputation for his painterly approach to still lifes and landscapes as well as his highly regarded figurative work, Paul’s collectors are drawn to his optimistic outlook,” says gallery director Helen Addison. “Once again, the work for his annual one-man show has been selling while still on his easel.” Living half a mile away from Cape Cod Bay to the west and 2 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Schulenburg finds constant inspiration from his surroundings. Although he often paints landscapes, he opts to include figures in his work whenever possible. “I love painting people, and for practice I host a weekly figure and portrait painting group in my…

Ed Hardy Retrospective The first museum retrospective for renowned tattoo artist Ed Hardy will be held at de Young Museum, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition highlights more than 300 objects, including paintings and sketches—even drawings Hardy created as a 10-year-old—as well as prints and three-dimensional works. The evolution of the art of tattooing as it moved past its “outsider” status is explored within the exhibition through Hardy’s artwork and influence in reinventing the medium. Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin runs July 13 through October 6. Ian Kuali’i at Hecho a Mano The work of multidisciplinary artist Ian Kuali’i will be on view at an upcoming exhibition at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The artist, born in California and raised in Hawaii,…

Hosted in scenic Talbot County, Maryland, Plein Air Easton returns for its 15th year this July. The outdoor painting festival and art competition is an ideal place for plein air painting, thanks to surrounding marshes, beaches and working waterfronts. The weeklong event will welcome approximately 6,000 to 8,000 visitors throughout its duration, including painters, collectors and art enthusiasts alike. At the forefront of the festival is the juried plein air competition, featuring 58 artists from the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia hand-selected by Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to acting as the competition’s entry juror, Weiss will also host a talk on July 18 at the Avalon Theatre. Other event speakers include prolific artist Raoul Middleman, who will host a discussion…

Wisdom of the Sea, a glass, bronze and steel collaboration between Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli, speaks of the ages. Bronze has been used for sculpture since the third millennium BCE. The first glass objects were even earlier. Around 400 BCE, craftsmen in India mixed carbon and iron to create steel. The female figure was among the first objects of art and worship. Embroli’s woman recalls archaic figures and a throughline of the creative process. She emerges from Holmes’ curvaceous glass wave, proud yet vulnerable. The artists say, “The intent of each piece is to express the spirit of old-world cultures and their relationships with the planet and humankind. The Guardians visually reflect this deeply rooted connection, with an intent to inspire the viewer to be cognizant of the immense…

Born in 1971 in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China, artist Tang Wei Min has focused his work on Tibetan and Chinese women and children. His paintings, often featuring the Old Masters techniques, have a strong contrast of light and dark to create dramatic tension in the compositions. This July he will exhibit new paintings at Lotton Gallery in Chicago that he hopes will evoke “warmth and tranquility.” Each painting that Wei Min creates is done with live models. “I have a general idea of what I want to tell the audience. I draw sketches before my session with a model, then I tell the model what feeling or idea I want to convey, and we work together to achieve what I am looking for,” he says. “Sometimes I see that…

For Aleta Pippin, art is as much about what is reflected outward as it is about what is felt inward. Her upcoming show, Landscapes of the Mind, explores this outlook with works that Pippin says are “a blend of my inner emotions and outward environments.” On view at Pippin Contemporary, which the artist owns, the series is a colorful collection of large, abstract paintings. “As an abstract painter, large formats are so inviting,” she says. “When you do something very large, it draws you in. It feels like you could walk into it, which speaks to me.” Included in the series is an oil abuzz with energy. “I called it Movement in Color because that’s what it feels like,” she says. “Growing up, I would look out across my house…

Landscape artists often roam the land in search of their next great painting. The scene that strikes them often happens at random moments, when the light hits just right. In the upcoming exhibition Many Long Walks at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, Megan Aline and Brett Scheifflee share their outdoor adventures in a number of new paintings. Both artists turn to the quieter, contemplative aspects of nature where the soft atmosphere takes center stage. “I am drawn to the outdoors in a barefoot kind of way; I think I need to be physically connected to the earth to feel normal,” says Aline. “As I paint and appreciate a tiny leaf on a tree, I feel connected to it as if I’m honoring it by noticing it. This connection…

Sometimes things take off. Last year Didi Menendez of PoetsArtists, a community of artists, poets and art collectors, curated an exhibition, Painting the Figure Now, at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. This year she has invited guest curators to share the selection process to present “as broad a spectrum as possible of artists currently painting the figure.” Painting the Figure Now 2019 will be at the Wausau Museum July 9 through September 28. A version of the exhibition will appear at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago beginning October 18. Menendez’s work through PoetsArtists and its internet presence makes it clear that the tradition of portraying the figure continues, rooted in the past and vibrant in the present. Geoffrey Laurence is represented in the exhibition by his enigmatic…

This summer Haven Gallery will be exhibiting at the annual Market Art + Design in Bridgehampton, New York. The fair, happening on the grounds of The Bridgehampton Museum, drives collectors in from all parts of the country for a weekend of intriguing contemporary and modern art available from around 70 top galleries. In their booth, Haven has curated an exhibition of figurative paintings that are brimming with mythology. Gallery owner Erica Berkowitz elaborates, “Haven Gallery is thrilled to be bringing the work of Dan Quintana, Nadezda, Travis Louie, Crystal Morey, Julie Filipenko and Lauren Brevner, all artists who bring forth a narrative rich cavalcade of figurative work laced with mythological tales and contemporary motifs. Illustrative, emotional and sometimes coy, each artist depicts a world of their own that upon further…

Every weekend throughout the month of July, Broadmoor Galleries along with Broadmoor Hotel hosts The Broadmoor Art Experience. The event is an expansion of the gallery’s successful Plein Air Show last year, which ran July 13 to 15. Each weekend, a new group of artists gathers to produce new artwork on the Broadmoor Resort and Properties in Colorado Springs, as well as the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, all the while being available to speak directly with collectors and attendees. It’s an opportunity for art lovers to observe artists as they create their pieces in real time, watching as blank canvases and mounds of clay transform into fully realized works. Participating artists include Curt Mattson, Susiehyer, Bill Cramer, Bill Nebeker, Jie Wei Zhou, Deborah Copenhaver Fellows, Donna Howell-Sickles, Scott Yeager, Mejo Okon,…

Jennifer Stottle Taylor was brought up with classical realism, but now she is trying to combine and break the rules with thick, impasto style impressionism. “I use brushes and palette knives, and anything else I can get my hands on to make the energetic strokes more energetic,” she says. “How much color can I put into each piece? I am an avid learner not only of art, but of how the brain works and the eye transmits information, and what in the world my hand can produce with this synaptic connection. It is an odd fascination. But the more I learn by observation from life, the more I experiment.” Most of Taylor’s art has been produced from life, and then some larger pieces reproduced from the smaller life pieces. Her…