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Welcome to the March issue! Often we talk about contemporary master painters in American Art Collector. This is because they exist! As you will see in the following pages, our contemporary masters are alive and well and thriving. As a collector of contemporary masters, you are establishing an important position in art history. Every artist started out as a contemporary artist of their time and, if they were fortunate, with a following of collectors. Our writers strive to bring the best living artists to you each month. In this issue we have more than 13 gallery previews that offer a sneak peek of the great works coming to market. Our galleries know you are looking at these previews in advance and are ready to hear from you before the show…
March marks the beginning of the return of color and this issue—bursting with the vibrancy and optimistic nature of spring—is a reflection of it. The most obvious nod to the coming months is our special section dedicated to florals and botanicals, the leading artists working in the genre, and the galleries that want to show off the best of these pieces available for collectors. There is so much more in this rich issue—we devote another section to the most talented women working in contemporary realism today and explore the vibrant art scene across the entire state of Colorado. Our features focus on several diverse artists at the top of their game. We look at Michael Scott’s powerful, grand-scale works and the mythological and scientific implications behind them. Another shines a…
February 28-April 30 France Jodoin: In a Place of Dreams Lily Pad Gallery West Milwaukee, WI » (414) 509-5756 www.lilypadgallery.com March 1-25 Borrowed Rhythms Gross McCleaf Gallery Philadelphia, PA » (215) 665-8138 www.grossmccleaf.com March 1-31 Annual Women Artists Exhibition Dacia Gallery New York, NY » (917) 727-9383 www.daciagallery.com March 1-April 3 The Extraordinary Art of Emily Copeland RJD Gallery Romeo, MI » (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com March 1-December 31 MASTERWORKS 33 Contemporary Chicago, IL » (708) 837-4534 www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-m-a-s-t-e-r-w-o-r-k-s March 2-April 1 Wes Hempel George Billis Gallery Fairfield, CT » (203) 557-9130 www.georgebillis.com March 3-19 Exploring Colors Jones & Terwilliger Galleries Palm Desert, CA » (760) 674-8989 www.jones-terwilliger-galleries.com March 3-April 1 37th Annual All Florida Exhibition Alliance for the Arts Fort Myers, FL » (239) 939-2787 www.artinlee.com March 5-11 10th Annual Plein Air Festival…
ARC Salon Announces Winners The winners and finalists of the Art Renewal Center’s 16th International ARC Salon Competition have been announced. The ARC received over 5,400 entries from 75 countries, with 2,152 works selected as semi-finalists, and 1,273 as the finalists. Both finalists and semi-finalists have been published on the ARC website and all finalists and award winners will be published in the ARC Salon Book, International Realism. This year, all winners and honorable mentions will also be included in the Lunar Codex, “The Polaris Collection.” Among the many awards within the 16th International ARC Salon Competition are the 11 first place category winners: Keiichiro Kono (Figurative Category), Chanel Cha (Portrait Category), Arantza Sestayo (Imaginative Realism Category), Narelle Zeller (Still Life Category), Jake Gaedtke (Landscape Category), César Orrico (Sculpture Category),…
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My conflation of Michael Scott with fire began when I sat in his living room contemplating a large painting of a snowy owl rising phoenix-like from a fire as he cooked dinner for his guests over an open fire in his kiva. Over the years I’ve thought more about that conflation and about his representation of the four elements in his landscape paintings. I thought of them as representations of themselves—earth, air, fire, water—as discreet elements in the landscape. Recently I saw his study, Geyser and Sky Fire, and suddenly grasped the depth of his representations of the elements, their interrelationships and their intimations of something other. The geyser became more than a visible explosion of water and steam. The phenomenon is caused by invisible fire deep within the earth.…
