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.
The current situation we are in has us all over here thinking about what the role of a magazine is and what motivates us to publish it each and every month. And that conversation extends to not just what we think it is but what you, the reader, wants it to be. From our discussions and from what we hear every day as we talk to gallery owners, art dealers, auction professionals, artists and of course collectors, is that this magazine should be provide a direct link between collectors, gallery owners and artists in a way that makes it easy for people to purchase art for their own collections. When we came up with the preview concept (often imitated but never duplicated, btw), this was an entirely new format never…
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,…
In Michele Ann Murtaugh’s figurative narrative paintings, her subjects address the current condition of human intimacy, the desire of it and the lack of it. She combines realist human form with surrealistic atmospheric nuances to give the viewer the feeling of being in the subconscious. Her large scale oil paintings combine delicate, refined and crude brush work to intensify the psychological contradiction of surrender with immediacy and impatience. Her subjects are often nude or costumed in inorganic fantastic materials. They can be found masked or uncomfortably gazing back at the viewer. The paintings mirror our beautiful yet imperfect attempt to connect and be accepted. Her paintings are available from fine art commercial galleries and on exhibit in museums worldwide. Follow her on Instagram @michelemurtaughart and at Artsy.…
“I knew at 5 years old that I wanted to be an artist,” said Daniel E. Greene. “All through my childhood I loved to draw and was comparatively skilled. When I was 18, I embarked full time on the lifelong journey of being an artist and began my immersion in the fascination of painting.” Anxious to begin his career as an artist, Greene left high school in his senior year, moved to Miami, Florida, and found a job sketching portraits for tourists for $5 and $10 a piece. After saving enough money, he set out for New York City to enroll at the Art Students League, where he would learn and grow as an artist and eventually become a teacher. In the beginning of his career, Greene faced many of…
CHROMA Colors burst from the computer screen in Tory Folliard Gallery’s online viewing room, available at www.toryfolliard.com, during its CHROMA: Color and Abstraction exhibition. Collectors can scroll through a wonderland of bright, abstract works created by a variety of contemporary artists like Richard Taylor, Derrick Buisch, Jason Rohlf, Ben Grant, Michael Hedges and others. There is also an archived section where past viewing rooms will be available for collectors to view. Gold Medal Exhibition The California Art Club hosts its Annual Gold Medal Exhibition with the distinction of now spanning two pandemics. This year’s 109th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition – A Virtual Experience, available online May 16 through June 13, is presented in collaboration with the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. It features more than 160 works…
Chilean artist Guillermo Lorca’s Bird of Paradise was created for a past solo exhibition at Asprey in London. As in his other works, the women in this painting dominate the situation despite a hostile environment. He says, “What interests me most apart from the technical processes of painting is that the symbols interact with each other in such a way that they reach the point of insinuating feelings and producing contradictions just and necessary to touch the viewer’s sensitive fibers.”…
