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.
Welcome to the September issue of American Art Collector! This marks the 15th issue with our very popular landscape special section. This is one of our largest features of the year with more than 20 top landscape artists! Landscapes are known for their versatility and captivating viewpoints. Whether it is a mesmerizing sunset, dense tropical forest, high mountains, the rustic countryside, blue oceans or birds flying in the sky above winding rivers, there is something unique and enchanting for all of us to connect to within this genre. Galleries and artists understand the soothing and warm feeling that is created when viewing a beautiful landscape painting—it speaks to each of us in an intimate way. Landscapes are almost always an integral part of a collection. In fact, I don’t think…
It’s been 25 years since I left Manhattan, no longer able to resist the tug of the West. I’ve since lived in Oregon, Montana and Arizona, where I’ve made my permanent home. Still, after all these years, people invariably sense that I’m an East Coaster and while they might not always mean it as a compliment, I take it as one. There really is no other place like The City—how else could everyone in the region automatically know where you mean by that? There’s a reason, more likely many, why artists have always flocked to New York. The city pulsates with creative energy and possibility that emanate from the epicenter outward into the surrounding states. This month American Art Collector celebrates the great metropolis and its satellite states and cities…
August 26-October 1 American Artists Professional League: Realism on the Hudson Howland Cultural Center Beacon, NY www.aaplinc.org September 1-30 Kathy Kissik: Intangible Alpha Gallery Boston, MA » (617) 536-4465 ww.alphagallery.com September 1-30 10th Anniversary Exhibition Principle Gallery Charleston, SC » (843) 727-4500 www.principlegallery.com September 1-30 Bruce Cascia and Katrina Howarth Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art Santa Fe, NM » (505) 986-1156 www.giacobbefritz.com September 4-October 2 David Gluck: Soul of the Earth RJD Gallery Romeo, MI » (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com September 7-10 Art on Paper Pier 36 New York, NY » (212) 518-6912 ny.thepaperfair.com September 8-10 The Armory Show Javits Center New York, NY » (212) 645-6440 www.thearmoryshow.com September 9-October 7 Gina Minichino Billis Williams Gallery Los Angeles, CA » (310) 838-3685 www.billiswilliams.com September 9-November 26 Birds in Art Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art…
ARC Salon at Sotheby’s Approximately 2,000 visitors attended the Art Renewal Center’s 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition held at Sotheby's flagship New York City location from July 14 to 24. The competition, which received over 5,400 entries from 75 countries, awarded over $130,000 in cash prizes and opportunities through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, museums and more. As part of the exhibition, Sotheby’s hosted a benefit auction, 21st Century Realism, comprising 60 lots from the ARC Salon Competition. In total, $238,200 in art was sold. Entries for the 17th International ARC Salon Competition will be accepted March 1 through June 13, 2024. The Gaze II JoAnne Artman Gallery hosts The Gaze II, an exhibition of portraits by Martin Adalian, running through September 30. Referring to the concept of the gaze…
If the alienated and frightened lyrics of Radiohead’s OK Computer were paintings, perhaps they would shape themselves under the brush of Rebecca Orcutt, whose pictures are the visual songs of her generation. She says her work “…is reflective of my feeling of the world. Most of it is about waiting and expectation, and belief. The figures are in situations where they really want to believe in what they’re doing and believe that there’s a purpose to it, but there’s this insecurity and fear that they’re wrong about how they’re choosing to make meaning in their lives.” Her cast of characters—her friends and fellows—pose for her as she builds narratives about their hope that what they’re doing in life matters. They seem to dwell in a world where they may be…
Growing up, Mason Williams knew very little about his great-great-great grandfather Frederick Ballard Williams beyond the fact that he was a painter based in New York. When he was older and pursuing his own fine art education at Laguna College of Art and Design, he became more curious and began to dig a little deeper. In his research, he found out that Ballard Williams had been connected to the Hudson River School of painters and had traveled to the Grand Canyon in the 1870s where he painted alongside Thomas Moran. At the time, Mason was working on his master’s thesis which, coincidentally, was about the sublime in 19th-century landscape paintings of the American West and the artists whose work defined the aesthetic—most famously Moran and other Hudson River School artists…
