Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2021 i American Art Collector

Our April issue is here, and along with it we are marking the gradual opening of art destinations around the country. States are beginning to move along in their color classifications from yellow to green, and vaccines are being distributed as effectively as possible. All of this leads to the possibility of enjoying art at live events with safety protocols in place. In this issue we have a large collection of artists featured, and a big part of that is because of our spotlight on the International Guild of Realism’s Spring Salon Online Exhibition. This is the group’s second springtime show that is held completely online, and last year it was a great success for them and we hope it will be again this year. Turn to Page 58 for…

Esteemed artist Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal artist residency program has announced the 2021 artists who will have the opportunity to travel to the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Hailing from across the world the 16 participants will receive room and board, individual studio space and a stipend, spending several weeks in Wiley’s studio along the volcanic rock-lined shore by which the residency program gets its name. This year’s artists-in-residence are Tyna Adebowale, Abbesi Akhamie, Delali Ayivor, Hilary Balu, Mbali Dhlamini, Abdi Farah, Moses Hamborg, Arinze Ifeakandu, Cristiano Mangovo, Esmaa Mohamoud, Stephanie J. Woods, Katherina Olschbaur, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Curtis Talwst Santiago and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell.…

Los Angeles County receives assistance from the LA Arts Recovery Fund, a $38.5 million fund to assist arts organizations impacted by the pandemic. The immensely important fund comes together as a result of collaboration between Los Angeles-based and national philanthropic organizations, several of which include the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, Robert Lovelace and Alicia Miñana, and many others.…

More than 30 esteemed American artists will gather in Georgia to paint the sights of the state for the seventh annual Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, from April 17 to 25. The event, which happens primarily at spots in Atlanta, will include both virtual and in-person opportunities to view and purchase artwork. This hybrid format limits the number of physical events to help keep with safety protocols. As a precursor to the show, there will be a Collectors’ Preview Gallery Exhibit from March 18 to 20. During this event, hosted by Hindman, artwork by the participating artists will be available at the auction house’s location in Atlanta. There also will be a Virtual Gallery Catalogue available March 18. The auction house will be open on the three days from 10 a.m.…

Three years ago artist Kevin Sloan was approached by Lisa M.W. Eldred, the director of exhibitions at Denver Botanic Gardens, with an offer to create a show for the new gallery they were building. Sloan was interested in the project, and the pair continued talks as the construction on the Freyer-Newman Center for Science, Art and Education progressed from its groundbreaking in May 2018. The building was complete in spring 2020, but because of the pandemic, has slowly been opening its spaces. Sloan’s exhibition was scheduled and about a year prior he began working on the site-specific paintings. His artwork has always focused on nature, but with this series of paintings he used the gardens and the gallery space as inspiration. “I painted this group of works to be specifically…

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Living on the West Coast of Canada and having parents who loved outdoor activities, artist Renato Muccillo has always found nature to be within arm’s reach. It is something that has held his fascination since childhood and his passion only has grown through his art. “Being outdoors definitely shaped me as an artist,” he says. “It’s the witnessing of nature, how the smallest nuances, life forms, grow and survive off each other and work together, seemingly serendipitously, and observing how nature has a way of re-creating itself and functioning in almost perfect ways, regardless of what we do to it. It both invited and necessitated my attention, my curiosity and then my desire to re-create and document it artistically in its ever-changing form. That’s what keeps me going back to…

There will be quite the showcase of love in Lisa Gleim’s new body of work, to be displayed at Cheryl Newby Gallery from March 3 through April 4. Gleim is the fourth generation of her family to enjoy summers on the coastal region of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where the gallery is also located. “It’s one of those places that has a deep-rooted place in my heart,” Gleim says. “This body of work contains the places and inhabitants of the island, and I combine my loves of nature, wildlife and water [into this new collection].” In Gleim’s past work, she’s mainly displayed landscape works depicting coastal life in the southern and northern United States, along with still life scenes. Her new series of work will incorporate more wildlife, as seen…

Nikesha Breeze’s forthcoming exhibition at form & concept is something monumental to behold. The culmination of pouring their passion and soul into their artwork for the past two years, Breeze’s exhibition beginning this April will feature more than 125 sculptures, five large-scale oil paintings, seven large charcoal drawings, a video installation, 40 screenprints, a printed book of poetry, live performance and a massive central installation work. “My latest body of work is centered around the working title and theme, Four Sites of Return: Ritual, Remembrance, Reparation, and Reclamation. These four themes are expressed in multiple mediums throughout the exhibition. Over the last two years I have been working on creating, researching and dreaming this show into existence,” says the artist. Living in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, on…

4/1-4/24 BERKELEY, CA Elena Zolotnitsky: ENCHANTED SHOH Gallery (510) 504-9988 • www.shohgallery.com Artist Elena Zolotnitsky is pulling out all the stops for her upcoming solo exhibition, ENCHANTED, at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley, California, from April 1 to 24. On view will be a large collection of works that show her creative progression over the past few years. The selection of mixed media pieces, from multiple ongoing series, allow viewers to experience a sense of wonder while portraying beauty, enchantment and mystery. There are three categories that the work will roughly fit into for the show including “faces/heads/figures,” “flowers” and “chairs.” Her chair paintings are from the ongoing EXTINCT SERIES, which are “portraits” of antique armchairs that exist only in the artist’s imagination. Each is painted in a color representing an…

As one can imagine, the large state of Texas encompasses many unique cultural areas from the metropolises of Houston and Dallas, to the historical rich cities of San Antonio and Fredericksburg. Austin, the state capital, has a lively music scene and attracts creative thinkers from all walks of life. Such a diverse state offers quite the array of galleries, museums and events that are sure to enliven art collectors who are inspired by the American art genre. Beginning in Houston, the most populated city in Texas, visitors will find 19 different museum options to choose from in the museum district, including history and science centers. Our many art enthusiasts will be happy to find such places as the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, each boasting…

Town of the Blue Mountains, ON • c.a.gellatly@gmail.com • www.cathiegellatly.com Canadian artist Cathie Gellatly’s love of painting began as a child. “After raising my family and a career in nursing I found time to indulge my passion for art,” says Gellatly, who started her career with a certificate in fine arts. The artist works in oil, acrylic and watercolor, creating bright and inviting landscapes, seascapes and other idyllic scenes. She describes her art as representational, comprising traditional landscapes that come from her travels both around her home in the Toronto, Ontario, area and abroad. “I do make the occasional foray into some abstractions of shape and color. Still life also makes an appearance, usually flowers,” she adds. Exhibitions and workshops began featuring her work, and soon after, Gellatly began receiving…

Edmonds, WA • ajeccleshall@gmail.com • www.andyeccleshall.com Washington-based artist Andy Eccleshall describes his work as representational atmospheric landscape art, often drawing from principles of tonalism. His oil paintings have a soft, subdued palette, capturing a sense of quiet and calm. “I think there has been a slow but intensifying focus on the ambience of landscape,” he says of his progression as a painter. “I find myself concerned more and more about the air affecting the elements of landscape than the elements themselves.” Fresh Perspective, for instance, depicts a rainy, windy day on the Washington coast, waves drifting gently onto the shoreline beneath a pale blue sky. “My goal with this painting was to capture the openness and the sense of vulnerability, with no shelter and a vast expanse of mist filled…

This past year has brought many uncertainties, but there is a hint of optimism that seems to be growing. Galleries and event organizers are starting to have in-person exhibitions and festivals again with safety protocols firmly in place. Some art fairs are even scheduling dates for summer and fall. It’s a cautious optimism, and rightfully so, but it’s more prepared than before. They have already gone through the swift change of conducting business beyond the brick-and-mortar, and online components and festivities have become the norm. Throughout regular conversations with gallerists and artists we’ve heard about virtual appointments, show openings or painting demonstrations, and there are even dealers making digital mockups of homes with art in place. The adaptability has been exciting to watch and it’s likely to continue into the…

The Brooklyn Museum in New York hosts the first-ever retrospective for one of the most important contemporary artists today working in conceptual, feminist and performance art—Lorraine O’Grady. Within her work, O’Grady addresses themes of cultural interconnection and challenges ideas of the fixed position of self. The exhibition, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, features 12 major projects O’Grady has produced over her four-decade career, as well as the debut of a highly anticipated new installation. It will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 18.…

Throughout our 15 years as a magazine, we have been fortunate to show our support for art fairs around the nation through sponsorships and editorial. We have featured many of them in the pages of this magazine, highlighting the galleries and lectures that will be showcased at each, as well as some of the artwork available to purchase. The events happen in places such as Los Angeles, New York City, the Hamptons, Aspen, Miami, San Francisco and Dallas and serve as connecting points for dealers and collectors. These fairs—including LA Art Show, Market Art & Design, Art Market San Francisco, Seattle Art Fair, Boston International Fine Art Show and Intersect Chicago (formerly SOFA), to name a few—give galleries the opportunity to present mini exhibitions of the artwork they have in…

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The dark side of Paul Cézanne came out when he admonished a model who moved during a sitting. He said, “You wretch! You’ve spoiled the pose. Do I have to tell you again you must sit like an apple? Does an apple move?” Ann Gale’s sitters are not apples. They are people she knows or comes to know during three-hour sittings over months and, intermittently, over years. She, they and their relationships change over time. As they move (unlike the apple) their relationship to the space and the changing light is modified as well. “I’m interested in the presence of my sitter and the sense of being with them,” she says. “The gesture and mass of them. The distance and quality of the space and light we are in. The…

The world may have not been ready for isolation on this scale. Locked in her studio because of the pandemic, painter Lisa Bryson puts it into perspective: “There is real fear here. We are not meant to experience isolation in this way. We need others. And we need to go outside. Yet we can’t.” Like so many other artists, all Bryson could do was create, so she turned inward, to herself and the things that inspired her, to create the Homage series. “I knew I wanted to be more representational but also more abstract, so I immediately turned to the figure and the human form. That’s the common thread we all share as human beings—flesh and blood and bone and pain and experience,” she says. “I also painted my figures…

A nationally recognized Western landscape impressionist, Troy Collins creates paintings with brilliant color, texture and insight from his studio nestled in the middle of the Bitterroot Mountain Range. His paintings have graced the halls of the California State Capitol, the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and are included in many corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe and around the world. “I have been spending a lot of my time recently painting with my daughters in my studio,” says Collins. “It’s been really good for me because, as I have been explaining some foundations of painting to them, I have been reminded of many elements that have become instinctual for me when I paint. It has been refreshing, and I feel like that new, invigorating spark is evident…

1 First-time Buyer Bonner David Galleries, which has locations in Scottsdale, Arizona, and New York City, recently sold the contemporary painting Lost City of Demille, by Gail Morris, to a first-time buyer in Tennessee. Morris is recognized for her abstract landscapes that use blocks of color to indicate horizon lines. In this work, the artist used a beautiful blue for the top half of the painting, a green at the middle and a neutral tone for the bottom portion. The collector of the painting inquired about the work after seeing it online. It was their first modern piece when compared to the other works in the collection. “We have very few collectors in Tennessee and have noticed that our collector bases out of state and internationally has grown significantly in…

On view through April 3, Corey Helford Gallery in downtown Los Angeles presents a seven-artist exhibition, each of whom will be presenting a new series of works. The artists, working in a wide range of genres from figurative to abstraction to conceptual sculpture, include Andy Adamson, Helice Wen, kozyndan, Rodolfo Loaiza, Travis Lampe, Yang Cao and Zoé Byland. The opening of the show will be celebrated with a livestream event on Instagram at @coreyhelfordgallery.…

Recently, Brooklyn-based artist Sharon Sprung completed a large commissioned series of paintings, which included a posthumous portrait of famed American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). For this portrait, Sprung spent many weeks conducting research on Edison, scouring the internet for images, reading biographies and firsthand accounts from people who knew him and studying the clothing of the era. All of this preparation, Sprung explains, was an important way of honoring the past and Edison’s illustrious career. “Posthumous portraits pose certain tough challenges,” Sprung admits. “In this case, there were very few photographs of Edison, and mostly of bad quality. So, it really calls on all your skills as a painter. I had to use my imagination a lot, in terms of hair and skin coloring.” Edison’s casual, but commanding pose…

The fifth annual AIS Impressions: Small Works Showcase, hosted by the American Impressionist Society, features a massive 154 juried works from artists across the country, as well as 21 additional works from AIS Masters, board members and founders. The event is held at Reinert Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina, from April 1 to 30. This year’s Judge of Awards, Roger Dale Brown, will review the works in person at the gallery, as well as conduct a workshop and a painting demonstration. “To capture the essence of a scene and make viewers feel they can step into a different day and understand its mood and beauty is my goal,” says Brown, who is passionate about observing and painting nature. Among the artists juried into the 2021 show are Dan Beck,…

Lynn Boggess’ latest body of work consists of small studies the artist says he roughed out as quickly as possible. They’re like workouts, intense training that requires you to work with vigor and energy—no slowing down—only stepping away for complete rest, and then reengaging once ready to jump back in at 100 percent. “Before pursuing the speed issue further, it should be emphasized that there is, of course, another step in the process of how the paintings come to look as they do: carefully resolved, finished and ready for exhibition. The beginning rapid plein air session is balanced later back in the studio with much slower paced work, which organizes the flow of space and adds distinguishing details. It is delicate,” says Boggess. The paintings themselves? They’re Boggess’ signature plein…

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