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 June issue of American Art Collector! Summer is here and so is our ever-popular Collectors Focus on Pastels! Pastels are often associated with calming and peaceful vibes. In fact, Instagram users have even headed the way of pastels with the “candy minimal movement.” The soft hues allow contrasting colors to pop. In the world of working with pastels, an artist must maintain a constant balance of serenity, with accents of bright energy and color. The medium is truly making great strides in popularity and collectability. Pastel artists paint with what resembles chalk “paints.” Many of our American masters, such as Mary Cassatt, were pastel artists. In the introduction to the special section on Page 52, our own managing editor Sarah Gianelli dives into the beauty and collectability…
This is one of my favorite times of year, when all the ripe, fullness of summer is yet to come, as is the unbearable heat and humidity. It is a time of excitement and anticipation, as we ride the big, cool wave toward summer in full swing. This energy can be seen and felt throughout the pages of the June issue, where you can dip your toes into what’s to come as we move deeper into the summer season. We start getting into the mood with our Collector’s Focus dedicated to Marine and Coastline art and our Art Lover’s Guide to the Great Lakes Region—two sections filled with plenty of refreshing art to splash around in. Next month, as things heat up, we’ll strip down with our special section devoted…
May 24-August 1 American Artists Professional League: Spring Members Exhibition Online admin@aaplinc.org www.aaplinc.org May 25, 2024-January 26, 2025 Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, FL • (941) 359-5700 www.ringling.org May 31-August 25 Agave Alchemy: Spirits of the Desert Greasewood Gallery Marfa, TX • (432) 729-4134 www.hotelpaisano.com Through June 1 Jamie Wyeth: Mysterious Familiar Somerville Manning Gallery Greenville, DE • (302) 652-0271 www.somervillemanning.com June 1-30 Continuum RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com June 1-30 CONFRONTATION 33PA/Virtual Chicago, IL • (708) 837-4534 www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-c-o-n-f-r-o-n-t-a-t-i-o-n?sort=partner_show_position Through June 2 Enchanted Colors Millicent Rogers Museum El Prado, NM www.pastelsnm.org June 1-July 7 Northwest Pastel Society: Open International Exhibition Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park » Camano, WA » (360) 387-2759 www.nwps.org www.matzkefineart.com June 6-July 1…
The Palmer Museum of Art will celebrate the public opening of T its new home at the Arboretum at Penn State on June 1 and 2. The weekend celebration invites guests to be a part of the official ribbon cutting with museum president Neeli Bendapudi, director Erin Coe and other distinguished guests beginning at 9:30 a.m. Guided tours of the museum and Arboretum, artmaking activities, refreshments and other festivities will take place 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The new 73,000-square-foot building within the Arboretum at Penn State will be a larger facility that features educational spaces, including a teaching gallery, flexible event spaces and nearly twice the exhibition space of the current museum on Curtin Road, allowing for expanded access to…
The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, recently opened Kristine Potter: Dark Waters, an exhibition of “richly detailed black-and-white photographs inspired by the enigmatic terrain surrounding bodies of water that bear names of violence in the American South: places like ‘Murder Creek,’ ‘Deadman’s Branch,’ and ‘Bloody Fork.’ The series of photographs, complemented by a video and sound installation, unravels the deeply held associations between land and a history of violence in this area of the nation,” the museum notes. Kristine Potter: Dark Waters is accompanied by Potter’s second monograph, co-published by the Momentary and Aperture. The exhibition is curated by Aperture executive director Sarah Meister; Alejo Benedetti, curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary; and Elise Raborg, curatorial associate of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges…
Currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History is a pioneering exhibition that brings together more than 60 works by established and up-and-coming artists. Predominantly artists of color, women and queer artists, the exhibition features such creative minds as Rashid Johnson, Simone Leigh, Tschabalala Self, Puppies Puppies, Hernan Bas, Salman Toor, Marisol, Theaster Gates, Samuel Levi Jones and many more. The artists in the exhibition utilize visibility as the framework with which to explore the issue of representation, while simultaneously investigating the power of invisibility. When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History is on view through April 13, 2025.…
