Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2022 i American Art Collector

Welcome to the April issue of American Art Collector! For this issue we will get right to the good part. Turn to Page 62 to see our breathtaking Collector’s Focus: Seascapes, Rivers & Lakes. You’re going to love it. We also have an amazing 16 gallery previews in this issue—all of them new shows. This issue also highlights our Art Lover’s Guide to Texas. We are here to tell you that American contemporary art is alive and well in Texas. Please turn to Page 72 to find out more about the current market. Over the next few months Adolfo and I will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Boston; New York; and Annapolis, Maryland, to attend shows across the country. On May 6 we are presenting our Collector Home “Best…

Through April 2 Plein Air Festival Lighthouse ArtCenter » Tequesta, FL www.lighthousearts.org Through April 3 Art Now Fair Park City/Salt Lake City Expo Center » Salt Lake City, UT www.artnowfair.com Through May 1 2020 Hindsight Bird Dog Arts » Tejon Ranch, CA www.californiaartclub.org Through May 8 Boston Design Week Various Locations » Boston, MA www.bostondesignweek.com Through May 22 Interaction of Color: Prints from the PMA Collection Portland Museum of Art » Portland, ME www.portlandmuseum.org Through May 29 FloodZone: Photographs by Anastasia Samoylova Chrysler Museum of Art » Norfolk, VA www.chrysler.org Through June 5 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Portland Museum of Art » Portland, ME www.portlandmuseum.org Through June 5 Bascove: The Time We Spend with Words Norman Rockwell Museum » Stockbridge, MA www.nrm.org Through June 19 The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk Chrysler Museum of…

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Art Market San Francisco is finally back at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The Bay Area staple gives discerning collectors, art enthusiasts and curators the opportunity to explore some of the most innovative and thought-provoking pieces the art world has to offer, while continuing to support and develop the Bay Area’s rapidly growing collector base. At the 2022 fair will be nearly 80 esteemed modern and contemporary art galleries from across the world, including Hashimoto Contemporary, Duane Reed Gallery, Chloe Gallery, Spence Gallery, Sugarlift and many others. This year, patrons will also be able to experience immersive art installations and activations throughout the fair space, as well as lectures by Art Market’s cultural partners on a…

In Hirschl & Adler Modern’s ongoing exhibition A Likeness, portraits from seven artists send a strong message. “While each work in the show can be solidly defined as a portrait, these paintings are also meditations on far-reaching ideas like labor, commodification, marginalization and displacement,” says Ted Holland, artist manager and exhibition coordinator at Hirschl & Adler Modern. “What I find to be the most interesting is how quickly each painting moves past being the picture of a real individual and to being a broader, universal statement.” Angela Fraleigh’s Splinters of a Secret Sky — Splinters was originally created as an installation at the Weatherspoon Museum of Art and celebrates the donors Claribel and Etta Cone, whose early gifts were foundational to the museum’s modern art collection. The painting portrays a…

Elena Zolotnitsky says, “For me, whatever I paint, it is all about painting. And since the painting is the main subject and object, it is my main focus. That is when a chair is not really a chair, a rose is not actually a flower, and a face is not actually a person. I am left with painting time, space and emotion.” 1 A chair is not any specific chair, but it undoubtedly embodies an idea of “chairness.” It draws on the archetypal idea of chair, but in the end, it is simply paint. She explains, “The surface can take only that much paint and that much pushing around. You must be very careful in order not to kill it. Personally, I love my paintings fresh, with something un-said, a…

The playful still lifes of Wendy Chidester and the whimsical sculptures of Don Rambadt come together for a new exhibition at Peterson Contemporary Art in Bend, Oregon. New to the gallery, Rambadt has been interested in art since childhood, and has since been able to combine that lifelong curiosity with his love of the natural world, creating unique sculptures of birds that look as though they might be at home in the middle of a forest. The two-person show, titled Spring Exhibition, highlights new sculptural designs by Rambadt alongside fresh, captivating oils by Chidester. The subject matter for Chidester’s artwork is based on objects that have been replaced in our fast-paced technological world, like typewriters and 5-cent Coca-Cola machines. “I resurrect these items in my paintings hoping to bring up…

Frankfort, IN • daniel.driggs@sbcglobal.net • www.danieldriggs.com A seamless intermixing of realism and abstraction come together in the artwork of Daniel Driggs. His paintings often feature animals like cranes, hummingbirds, rabbits and squirrels atop splashes of color. “In each painting, I try to combine the interplay of the in-focus area versus the abstract background in the same way that our eyes combine focused vision versus peripheral vision,” says Driggs. “Because the background is incomplete, each viewer is invited to complete the painting in their own way. With the abstract background being the initial part of the painting, no two paintings will ever be alike, even if I use the same subject matter.” His acrylic Waiting Heron features a crisp, anatomically accurate depiction of a waterbird wading in spontaneous splashes of greens…

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Humanity’s relationship to the environment is explored in an Hupcoming exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Fault Lines: Art and the Environment is an immersive, multimedia exhibition including outdoor sculpture installations located in the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. Fourteen contemporary artists produce artwork in video, photography, sculpture and mixed media that center on present-day concerns regarding the environment. The exhibition runs April 2 to July 17.…

The Olmsted Plein Air Invitational returns for its eighth year in honoring some of the top contemporary plein air artists from across the United States. From April 16 through 24, attendees can watch as artists create master works depicting scenes from all over Atlanta. In addition, visitors can expect events and experiences like the Collector’s Preview Gallery Exhibition, Artist’s Welcome Reception, Petite Plein Air Pop-Up, Awards Ceremony, Collector’s Soiree, artist talks and demos and the PaintQuick happening at the Historic Frederick Law Olmsted Linear Park. The overall mission of the invitational is to “nurture the visual and cultural art education and experience through the art of plein air painting,” says Lillian Ansley, co-founder and chair. “We do this through events, workshops, lectures and demonstrations. Arts education is incredibly impactful, and helps…

BLUE RAIN GALLERY 544 S. Guadalupe Street Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 954-9902 info@blueraingallery.com www.blueraingallery.com CAROLYN HANCOCK Richmond, TX, (281) 382-6683 carolyn@carolynhancock.com www.carolynhancock.com CHRISTOPHER FORREST Brigantine, NJ, (609) 220-9586 www.chrisforrestart.com DC MOORE GALLERY 535 W. 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 247-2111, www.dcmooregallery.com EMILY JAMES GALLERY 720 Fifth Avenue South, #111, Naples, FL 34102, (239) 777-3283 www.emilyjamesart.com EVA VOLF evavolf@hotmail.com www.evavolf.com JACALYN BEAM Greenville, DE, (302) 893-1775 www.jacalynbeam.com JANET GRISSOM www.janetgrissompaintings.com paintingsbygrissom@gmail.com JANINE SALZMAN www.janinesalzman.com KAREN ANDERER FINE ART Gallery Row – Historic Lancaster City Lancaster, PA, (717) 393-8807 www.karenandererfineart.com MARY WILLIAMS FINE ARTS 5311 Western Avenue, #112 Boulder, CO 80301, (303) 938-1588 www.artgalleryboulder.com MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115, (617) 267-9300 www.mfa.org NORTH STAR ART GALLERY 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca, NY 14850,…

Salt Lake City artist Melissa Peck will have a solo show at Bonner David Galleries beginning April 28 through May 14. Across 14 new paintings, Peck will grace the public with her lighthearted, whimsical scenes of female figures. Bonner David owner Clark Olson explains, “Peck’s unusual characters, often based on her experiences as a mother, charm viewers with their bright colors, fanciful detail and vintage frames.” Peck notes that there are multiple elements adding to the freshness of this new collection. “For one,” she says, “I am using more paint than I have in the past, adding texture with palette knives and building up the paint with my brushes. [In addition], I have found inspiration for multiple paintings by studying vintage Vogue and Vanity Fair covers from the 1920s—an era…

The fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) wrote, “Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors.” High fashion and color dominate in Alex Russell Flint’s Recent Works at Arcadia Contemporary in New York, April 22 through May 11. His earlier enigmatic narratives appeared as stills from unfinished films. Occasionally, his female figures were posed against a “arsenic green wall that was found lurking beneath layers of hideous wallpaper” in the 19th-century schoolhouse the English artist is restoring in France. In his new work, he moves his figures from a broader context. He says, “After two years of living with the pandemic, all of our worlds became…

April 14-June 4 Jennifer Ferris: Dancing in the Rain Quinlan Visual Arts Center » Gainsville, GA Ferris will present over 40 new pieces in a variety of styles and subjects that will delight the senses. www.quinlanartscenter.org April 1-May 1 Lauren E. Peters and Samara Weaver: Saturation and Hue The Delaware Contemporary » Wilmington, DE The exhibition features Peters vibrantly colored, mixed media self-portraits along-side Weavers multi-faceted compositions. www.decontemporary.org April 1-July 31 The Beauty of the Story: Excellence in Traditional Fine Art Competition California Art Club » Online Artists will feature works that highlight their talent and imagination to tell a story for this year’s theme: The Beauty of the Story. www.californiaartclub.org April 7 Vernissage Private Patron Party Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago » Chicago, IL Vernissage is the opening night benefit for EXPO Chicago,…

Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities marks the first presentation of a group of works acquired by the Harvard Art Museums from the Brandywine Workshop in 2018. The exhibition includes prints and proofs by around 30 artists, including Betye Saar, Sam Gilliam, Hank Willis Thomas, Andrea Chung, Louis Delsarte and Allan Edmunds, and will be on view in the Special Exhibitions Gallery through July 31.…

Last fall, artist Nanci France-Vaz completed a new painting, Ode to a Flower Child, as part of her latest series of works titled Bohemian Spirits. “This series is based on my childhood memory of peace and love,” France-Vaz explains. “I originally started this series because of the isolation I felt when the pandemic started. There was such awful news in your face every day of craziness, chaos, and violence. I needed to be in my own world at peace and with the sun shining again.” France-Vaz ’s inspiration for Ode to a Flower Child was based on the flower children of the early 1970s. “Their idea of make love, not war and John Lennon’s Imagine was a strong concept for me,” she says. “There is always a title and story…

The paintings of Christine Lafuente are a culmination of all of her past experiences, and her latest body of work is no exception. The Brooklyn, New York-based artist’s subject matter is diverse, working in land, sea and cityscapes, all of which have an influence on her current focus: still life. Her latest body of work, a group of floral still lifes bathed in natural light, are showcased in an upcoming exhibition at Somerville Manning Gallery. While simple, beautiful and bright on the surface, the story behind the creation of these paintings is full of unexpected adventure and uncertainty. In March of 2020, Lafuente traveled to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, just before the pandemic blew up. “I imagined taking my easel down to the beach and interacting with the people,”…

As a little girl, Rose Freymuth-Frazier agonized over painting her bike cherry-red or hot-pink. “I chose cherry-red,” she says, “only to repaint it hotpink within hours. “My work still deals with issues of ‘hot-pink’ and ‘perfection.’ Gender roles, sexuality and societal conditioning have all found their way into my paintings.” Her provocatively erotic paintings will be shown in the exhibition Come in Peace at Stone Sparrow NYC in New York, April 20 through May 25. When asked how men respond to her powerful depictions of women and if they might respond more to their nudity or erotic poses rather than the projection of their inner selves, she replied, “Looking at this show, which includes paintings spanning the last 15 years, I’m struck by just how much my work and the…

Artists find visual inspiration at every turn, but many also gravitate toward books and music. In the new exhibition The Listening Room at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, more than 30 painters and sculptors will present brand-new work inspired by a favorite song or piece of music. The results are beautiful compositions that show the intersection of visual and performing arts. Exhibiting artists include Adam Hall, June Stratton, Brett Scheifflee, Adam Vinson, Patrick Kramer, Alexandra Becker-Black, Aaron Nagel, Megan Aline, Timur Akhriev and more. “The gallery is filled with music every hour of every day, whether it’s someone on the piano that’s popped in to play or by our curation,” says gallery director and show curator Curry Ernst, who is married to a musician. “I loved the idea…

Since childhood, Carmen Drake Gordon has had a passion for classical art and nature. Later in her life, she would find herself learning the techniques of the Old Masters in ateliers and private instruction with Paul S. Brown and several other well-known contemporary artists. She continues to stay true to these practices in her north light studio, the 1901 original homestead to her property. Gordon resides at Oak Hollow Farm and Studios, which sits above the waters of Wads Creek just south of Carthage, North Carolina. Here she finds inspiration for her paintings by surrounding herself with antiques, flower gardens, farm animals and nature. She relates to a quote by Paul Cezanne: “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” Her hope is that her…

Marlborough, New Zealand • arlinsukarlin@icloud.com • www.arlinsukarlin.com The artwork of New Zealand-based artist Arlin Sukarlin is an exploration of the world, of things that inspire him and bring him joy. “I try not to take myself too seriously, and I want this to come across in my artworks. Each piece is an exploration of how I’m feeling in that moment; they aren’t premeditated nor does any planning go into them before I begin,” he says. A self-taught artist who works on New Zealand’s East Coast, Sukarlin has had two solo exhibitions and several joint exhibitions during his career, selling dozens of paintings. He creates highly experimental works, often letting the color, mood and atmosphere drive the painting process. “I am attracted to bold colors, textures and patterns, a lot of…