Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2019 i American Art Collector

From day one of this magazine, we have promised to bring collectors, galleries and artists together in a way that has never happened in print before. From our art market insights to our collector home, event previews and the often copied but never equaled gallery show previews, the content of this magazine has given art collectors a reliable and always growing tool to help them acquire art for their collections. And now we announce that we’ve enhanced that tool and taken it to a whole other level. How did we do that you ask? Well, starting with our September issue you will be able to see even more available art right on our website. Here is how it will work. All the ads that appear in the printed magazine will…

Rainer Andreesen grew up on Prince Rupert Island, a prosperous fishing community on the northern coast of British Columbia. He began drawing at the age of 5 but his parents urged him “to do other things.” He would lock himself in his room, listen to music and draw. Fifty years later he sequesters himself in his studio, listens to music, enters a meditative state and paints—portraits, primarily, but portraits of friends and an elite clientele including Kathy Bates, J.J. Abrams, Martin Short, Alfred Molina and Jennifer Garner. High up on the wall of his studio are reproductions of some of the most famous paintings by one of his favorite artists, John Singer Sargent. One is The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We both…

The thrill of following artists is not trying to guess what they’ll do next, but how they’ll circumvent your expectations. Case in point: Jeremy Mann. In recent years the artist, known primarily as a painter, has explored photography, interactive installations based on his photoshoots and even a full-length film, The Conductor, that he released last year. The joy of his work is being continuously surprised at what he comes up with, and what medium it will be in. For his new show, one that may be his last for a year or possibly more, Mann will be showing new figures, new photographs and new cityscapes—including what may be his last full-color cityscape he ever paints—at EVOKE Contemporary August 30 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show is inspired by the…

Real Representations Figuration is more than the human form; it includes representations of any real object. Nüart Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, presents its annual Figurations Group Exhibition 2019 August 9 through 25 with works by Michael Bergt, Matthias Brandes, Erin Cone and John Tarahteeff. Brandes paints buildings seemingly without weight that recall the work of Balthus and Magritte but represent Brandes’ own kind of magic. He writes, “I’m interested in the contradictions: my houses seem to be made of a hard material, stony, heavy. Instead they can also levitate, fly or go like birds in the nest. The painting is a parallel world that leaves freedom to thoughts and imagination. What today is stopped, yesterday perhaps was moving or flying, or will do so tomorrow. Every state of…

Shortly after her debut in 1974, Hello Kitty—full name Kitty White—solidified her iconic status not only in Japan, where she originated from the Sanrio brand, but around the world. Hello Kitty is a symbol of kindness and friendship, with cultures worldwide gravitating to her uplifting message of connectivity and acceptance. Throughout the decades, her instantly recognizable image—a cat wearing a red bow and most notably having no mouth—has appeared as stuffed animals, in fashion designs, on stationary and even in TV and movies. She also has appeared in artistic explorations, with the show Hello Kitty 45th Anniversary at Corey Helford Gallery being the next to bring together reinterpretations of the character and her friends. The show, which is presented in partnership with Sanrio, will feature work in a wide variety…

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…

Every summer the Aspen Ice Garden in Aspen, Colorado, hosts approximately 30 of the country’s leading art dealers for a weekend of contemporary art. The boutique art fair, Art Aspen, saw record attendance in 2018 as visitors came out in droves to peruse artwork dating from 1950 to today. Along with the exhibitor booths, art lovers are treated to an array of special events and lectures that keep them up to date on market trends. This year’s fair will take place July 25 to 28, with an opening night preview on July 25 from 5 to 9 p.m. This preview allows visitors the first chance to see the show in its entirety and make the first purchases of the weekend. Open to VIP ticketholders, the party benefits The Art Base,…

This past April, the Portrait Society of America honored the 24 finalists of the International Portrait Competition at the 21st annual The Art of the Portrait conference held in Atlanta. All the award-winning works were on display at the conference, where attendees could meet and talk with each finalist and hear the announcement of this year’s Draper Grand Prize winner, artist Seth Haverkamp for his outstanding portrait Mars Rising. In my recent conversations with the finalists, we spoke about the powerful symbolism in their works and the thoughtful inclusion of certain objects and motifs, from brightly colored paper cranes and broken dolls to the subtle detail of a downward gaze or a door that can never be closed. In his winning work, Mars Rising, Haverkamp portrays his 8-year-old son, Caspian,…

BOZ DROCA boz_droca@yahoo.com www.bozdroca.com DAVID GOATLEY Studios in Shawnigan Lake, BC and Northfield, CN, (250) 882-6725 david@davidgoatley.com www.davidgoatley.com EVOKE CONTEMPORARY 550 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 995-9902 www.evokecontemporary.com EWA ZELLER (609) 672-8437, ewazeller62@gmail.com www.ewa-zeller.com HAYNES GALLERIES Franklin, TN, (613) 312-7000 www.haynesgalleries.com JESI PACE-BERKELEY www.jesipace-berkeley.com JULIE BETH WILEMAN jbwileman@gmail.com www.juliewileman.com LEE ALBAN www.leealban.com LOTTON GALLERY 900 N. Michigan Avenue, Level 6 Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 664-6203 www.lottongallery.com M. CAMILLE DAY Studio Camille, Ellijay, GA mccd123@hotmail.com www.studiocamille.com NÜART GALLERY 670 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 988-3888 fineart@nuartgallery.com www.nuartgallery.com PATRICIA MCMAHON RICE www.patriciamcmahonrice.com POETSARTISTS www.poetsandartists.com RJD GALLERY 2385 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY 11932, (631) 725-1161 www.rjdgallery.com SIVANANDA NYAYAPATHI (770) 495-9069 siva@sivanandafineart.com www.sivanandafineart.com STEPHEN MOODY info@moodyfineart.com www.moodyfineart.com SUSIE PEELLE (516) 676-7011, susiegpeelle@aol.com SUZANNE ANAN www.suzanneananart.com T.H. BRENNEN FINE ART…

Elements of pop culture come to life with witty, often humorous commentary laced within the playful paintings of Pat Hobaugh. Still lifes of objects present throughout American pop cultural history—action figures, cartoon characters, real-life icons—are juxtaposed in his paintings in ways that are both enigmatic and thought-provoking. A tiny figure of Homer Simpson holding the famed pink sprinkled doughnut stands next to a tower of doughnuts with Buddha perched at the top in Nirvana with Sprinkles. In another painting, Pop Art, an action figure version of Andy Warhol sits in an eight-pack of Pepsi with pop art illustration adorning the front of the pack. “I always want to make work that you need to think about,” says Hobaugh. “There’s the first read, which is humorous, or the viewer may be…

“Throughout history humans have made vessels to hold water, among other things. But, in a way, humans are also vessels,” Portland, Oregon-based painter Aimee Erickson says while discussing her upcoming solo exhibition at Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which runs from August 30 through September 7. While vessels are an element seen throughout the series, Erickson elaborates that, “To me, in the moment when I’m making a painting I’m not actively thinking about this stuff.” Known for still lifes marked by a masterful depiction of light and texture, her work often considers the interplay between nature and the human experience. “How does nature hold us and how do we hold nature?” she asks. “I think a lot about how much we are really connected to our own nature.…

Sivananda Nyayapathi was born and raised in India, where from childhood the Indian philosophy is part of everyday learnings. It begins as stories during youth and later turns to deep philosophical concepts. He elaborates, “Indian philosophy says that God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. Accordingly, Indians see God everywhere—in trees, animals, earth, water, fire and everything. Indians revere and worship God in all these forms. Thus, in general, Indians see the world in a special way—as a manifestation of God. Everything Indians do is a form of worship. For me, art is deep meditation.” Through August 31, his artwork will be on view in the show East & West – An Artist’s View at Arts Clayton in Jonesboro, Georgia. “The paintings in this exhibition represent what I observed in India…

On August 24, RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, will open the new exhibition Mirrors of Desire. According to gallery curator MAGO, the exhibition “includes artists who project their focus on creating art within their own mirrored worlds, surreal, and holding a deep desire for the viewer to coexist in their painterly, and uniquely created, altered physical reality of time and space.” Among them are Mary Jane Ansell, Phillip Thomas, Katie O’Hagan, Harmonia Rosales, Juan Béjar, Jorge Santos and Jamie Wyeth. Ansell has always been inspired by “the irrepressible inner strength and spirit of young girls, and in our current climate we have some extraordinary examples of young girls with a clear-eyed grasp of the future, demonstrating more determination and conviction for positive change than their adult counterparts,” she says. “They…

Now open at Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City is Summer Session, an annual group show featuring top representational artists at the prominent gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The show will feature new work from James Gortner, Kira Nam Greene, Laura Kennedy, Gerald Lovell, Luisi Mera, Louise LeBourgeois and others. New York artist Sullivan Giles will be showing new work that arises out of a series of “confrontational and unapologetic self-portraits, mostly about radical vulnerability as a strength and my own rebellion against beauty standards.” The one that will likely have guests talking is Trust/Truth, a nude self-portrait of the artist at 32 years old. Though she is nude, Giles is also covered in tattoos, which has a clothing-like appearance on her skin. She says, “I wanted to create…

Chantel Lynn Barber yearns to promote the human spirit in her work—capturing life in acrylic. She believes that when it comes to the human race, there is more that unites than divides. “There is only one race,” she says, “the human race. There is beauty in everyone, regardless of whether they measure up to society’s definition of beauty. Not only their joys, but their sorrows too. I want to show the beauty in the human condition.” Barber is on a journey to capture the vision in her mind’s eye—the one blood we as humans share. And she does it all in acrylic—with strong color, energetic brushwork, light and story. Her loose style draws the viewer’s attention, visually beckoning them to wonder at the essence of life. Barber is a Signature…

After retiring from working in education in 2008, Julie Beth Wileman began to paint. “My sister-in-law gave me three visits to an art studio and I arrived, supplies in hand, along with a bucket load of fears,” Wileman recalls. “I had a graceful, but persistent guide and after those three weeks I was hooked.” Wileman works mostly in oils, but dabbles in other mediums “to keep the playfulness” that she needs. “I am envious of the freedom in which children create. I believe their freedom comes from focusing on whom or what they are creating, not how,” she says. “Though I am always working on the how through workshops, studio visits, reading and videos, I find that what really pushes me forward in my art is who or what I…

For the past 20 years Pokey Park has been working in bronze. Although most of her sculptures are now larger-than-life size, they all start small. The artist has a studio in her backyard, where she has gotten inspiration from trees, flowers, animals and insects that surround her. “I see things in 3D rather than flat,” she says. “I see objects in other objects. I tend to see things in the round.” In addition to textures and shapes in nature, her inspiration comes from exploring mythology, ethnography and traditional cultures. Her love of travel has also inspired her work. Park’s interest in disparate cultures, researching endangered animals and the environment that supports them has taken her to Egypt, Africa, Turkey, all over Europe, Central and South America, Asia and Cambodia, among…

According to William Schneider, “The delight (and torment) of being an artist is that the journey never ends! I view myself as a perpetual student.” Over the past few years, Schneider has found his work has become looser. “Whether painting figures or cityscapes I am more interested in the evocative than the literal,” he says. “A great influence has been the work of Nicolai Fechin. His broken edges and suggestive brushwork have certainly helped shape my own aesthetic vision.” A second track for the artist has been the study of design. “A 2010 exhibition of J. W. Waterhouse at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal started to open my eyes to just how crucial composition is,” Schneider explains. “After all, it’s not the tiny details that catch the viewer’s…

The Door Peninsula of Wisconsin has over 300 miles of shoreline with 53 public beaches, five state parks and 11 historic lighthouses—giving it the repetitive yet appropriate title of “Cape Cod of the Midwest.” Stretching into the waters between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, the peninsula’s unique landscape ranges from dense lowland forests to expansive sandy shores, with limestone cliffs and rocky bluffs towering over peaceful waters. Eleven quaint villages dot the peninsula to collectively form “Door County,” which also encompasses orchards, wineries and lush farmland. Door County’s rural beauty and vacation vibe has long attracted regional visitors whose weekend visits or long-term summer stays spike the year-round population—which is only about 28,000. But this picturesque peninsula also draws nationwide visitors who in addition to seeking respite along the shores…

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On May 26, beloved portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler passed away peacefully in Bridgeport, Connecticut, surrounded by family and friends. While the Portrait Society of America and artist community mourns the loss of such an influential figure, we also celebrate his extraordinary legacy of art and dedicated service to the art world. Kinstler attended high school in Manhattan at the School of Industrial Art before dropping out in 1942 to take a full-time job at a comic book publishing house. After serving in the Army at the end of World War II, Kinstler returned to New York, eventually establishing himself as a renowned and prolific portrait painter. Over his long career, Kinstler has received many honors and awards including the Copley Medal awarded by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and…

ALABAMA JIM CAMPBELL The scene in this Portrait of Edie never existed. Take a photo of her head, one of her body from a different photo and then add the doll and we believe she is actually there in all of her glory as she emerges from the darkened hallway. Imagine! Price Range: $2,000 and up Contact Information jamesrtroy51@yahoo.com www.facebook.com/jimcampbelloilportraits ALABAMA MARIE GREEN As a contemporary portrait artist, I love to give my paintings a soul. I capture the essence of the person—painting in an abstract realistic style—using oils and charcoal. I paint from photos, with one subject or multiple, including animals. My work is done at any size. Price Range: $500-$2,000 Contact Information mariegreenportraits@gmail.com mariegreenportraits.wixsite.com/mysite ALASKA SIERRA ROBERTS I am interested in capturing the expression and “spirit” of humans…

Olivier Suire Verley was born on the Atlantic coast of France in the town of La Rochelle to a family of artists. Living in a coastal town, he often paints the seaside—the beaches, boats and docks—but he is also drawn to city life. In his upcoming eighth solo exhibition at Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, Massachusetts, the artist will exhibit paintings that show moments he experiences. These scenes are often ones “we think are insignificant and that are the essence of my inspiration,” he says. “The emotion is everywhere for the one who knows how to open his heart.” Each painting that Verley paints has his unique marks. Once his idea is in place, he begins with the characters first, the foreground, the shadows and the direction of light. After…

Walking through a forest of birch trees, artist Vakhtang was captivated by the lush green colors that surrounded him. He decided to make a collection of new paintings focused around the hue, “where each ‘set of green colors’ would represent different feelings and thoughts they triggered,” he explains. These works, which also reflect the light changes throughout various times of day, will be on view at Lotton Gallery in Chicago, from August 2 through 31. “First, I wanted to paint the same place under several different lighting conditions (like many impressionists did), but then decided that I need an impact of composition to get my point across,” he says. “Also, psychologically, green represents new life, new beginning, reincarnation of sorts…hence, this collection is called Ever-changing beginnings.” Most of the landscapes…

About seven years ago, Evie Zimmer had “an awakening” and made the conscious decision to paint what she wanted rather than please others with her art. Prior to this, Zimmer had been a portrait artist, but had always wanted to paint more design-based works. “Since then, my artwork has been evolving and becoming more refined,” she says. “More recently, I have begun to add more floral elements and I absolutely love painting this way.” On the surface, many may see Zimmer’s paintings as strictly abstract but she prefers to describe them as “abstract-realism” because each mark is intentional and she has an image in mind before brush meets canvas. “I love optical art and pop art. That combined with a love of nature and the intricate fractal patterns found within…

According to Chuck Larivey, “Sometimes we surprise ourselves and take little diversions from our norm, our main substance, and pursue a new tasty treat. Art is like that! Last year while painting a few koi in a lily pond, a recipe I know well became the blueprint for a mystical fantasy world without humans. The mysterious and illusive Sirens of the sea, mermaids. Creatures from our illustrious seafaring folklore.” The big question for Larivey was if there would be mermen, and of course, he would include them as “fearsome protectors of their mates.” Larivey says this suggests that a key component to the series would be courtship. The first painting of the new works was Her Guardian, which “suggested an exposed primitive and perhaps violent world,” the artist explains. “After…

It is in the nonverbal prose of Julia Klimova’s paintings that her art truly speaks. “I approach each new work with the idea that I want people to sense it rather than just see it, in much the same way music is felt and not simply heard,” Klimova says. “If my work speaks to people on an emotional level then I have achieved what I set out to do.” The narrative of her artwork is subject to both her past and her present, grasping what words cannot. Born in Southern Russia, Klimova draws inspiration from her childhood memories of the land’s light, sun and warmth. Klimova’s unique perception of color intertwines with her natural ability to captivate her audience visually through emotional means. The separation of spheres between the concrete…

Watercolor painter Tim Saternow explores the old buildings and houses of New York’s Greenwich Village and the streets of Provincetown, Massachusetts, as he pays tribute to the silent histories of these homes and of the lives and loves that have lived within. As he explains, these houses have stories to tell Saternow wants to capture the beauty of the old before it is all “improved” out of existence, and knowing that they could disappear at any moment. Trained as a set designer in theater and film, he has used his design sensibilities to make environments to tell stories of the characters. Not only is it important to “set the scene,” but his designs help to tell about the emotional lives of the individuals themselves. Saternow paints large architectural landscape watercolors…