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 July issue of American Art Collector! Adolfo, Robin and I just returned from New York, where we attended the American Art Fair, which focuses on historic art and is covered in our sister title, American Fine Art Magazine; The European Fine Art Foundation’s (TEFAF) New York Art Fair, which highlights an international selection of contemporary and historic works; and Initiatives in Art and Culture’s American Art Conference, an all-star symposium with the theme of “Multiple Modernities.” Why are the shows we write about in every issue so important? Whether a seasoned, widely collected artist whose work sells for record prices or an artist juried into a fair for the first time and whose career is just taking off, it all comes down to one thing: Important shows…
Hello readers! We hope you are making the most of the summer season and taking advantage of all the exciting art opportunities happening from coast to coast and all points in between. If you don’t know where to start or feeling like the summer is already slipping away, American Art Collector has got you covered—and then some. We are particularly excited about the July issue because it marks the very first time we have had a piece of sculpture on the cover. This isn’t for lack of trying. It just takes a very particular piece to occupy the frame in just the right way, because the very nature of sculpture accentuates—and is accentuated by—the negative space around it. When we did a mock-up of the cover with Jonathan Morgan’s bronze…
June 28-July 13 Erin Currier: Cave Temples & Compañeros Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe, NM • (505) 954-9902 www.blueraingallery.com July 1-31 CONVERSATION 33PA/Virtual Chicago, IL www.poetsandartists.com www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-c-on-v-e-r-s-a-t-i-o-n July 1-August 5 Three Voices: Women’s Perspectives in Art RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com July 1-August 17 Summer in New England Susan Powell Fine Art Madison, CT • (203) 318-0616 www.susanpowellfineart.com July 2-August 24 Jane Sutherland George Billis Gallery Fairfield, CT • (203) 557-9130 www.georgebillis.com July 5-19 Eunika Rogers & Hib Sabin: Spirit of the Woods Blue Rain Gallery Durango, CO • (970) 232-2033 www.blueraingallery.com July 5-27 Aaron Morgan Brown: Special Delivery Reuben Saunders Gallery Wichita, KS • (316) 682-1481 www.reubensaundersgallery.com July 5-29 Julianna Kirwin: Babcia Hecho a Mano Santa Fe, NM • (505) 916-1341 www.hechoamano.org July 3-August 30 Festival…
Visitors to the Bruce Museum can now encounter a nearly 5,000-pound, 23-foot-long and 8½-foot tall reclining gorilla. The world’s largest bronze gorilla sculpture, King Nyani (Swahili for gorilla) offers visitors a unique interactive experience and raises awareness of the endangered species. Renowned public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner found inspiration for King Nyani on a trip to Uganda. During their visit, they were captivated by a male silverback gorilla’s kindness and compassion with his family. They vowed to rewrite the narrative of the violent, terrifying ape often conveyed in movies and acquaint people with the softer, gentler nature of these magnificent beasts. The artists rendered their friendly ape lying down on his side with his legs slightly pulled up and his right arm curled as if hugging a child. His…
BLUM, based in Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles, is now representing New York-based artist Ryan Sullivan, along with the artist’s first solo show at the gallery. “Sullivan’s work commingles painting’s formal concerns and sculpture’s preoccupation with materiality,” the gallery notes. “Where traditional painting builds out from the canvas, covering or obscuring the gestures that preceded, Sullivan’s process functions in the inverse—the first layer of resin forms the work’s initial structure and, later, becomes the object’s face. Thin and flat, unlike any oil or acrylic on stretched canvas ever could be, these resin paintings—with their smooth, matte surface—flaunt the duality of their station, defying art’s conventionally divided medium specificities of painting and sculpture.” The exhibition will be on view through June 29.…
Portland Art Museum recently announced that its campus expansion and renovation project will open to the public in late 2025. The campus transformation will completely change the existing museum and create a vital “cultural commons” in the heart of downtown Portland, adding 95,000 square feet of new or upgraded public and gallery space. The project will also provide increased access to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibitions and programs, as well as new ways to experience its robust collection and new amenities that address the needs of more diverse audiences.…
