Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2024 i American Art Collector

The September issue of American Art Collector marks our 16th annual Landscape issue! Landscapes are a favorite for our collectors for many reasons. Moving past their simple beauty and elegance, they connect us with what truly and deeply touches us about the natural world. The landscape genre is best known for its versatility and captivating view points. Whether they depict majestic mountains, mesmerizing sunsets, dense tropical forests, the rustic countryside, deep blue oceans or birds flying through the sky, there is something unique and enchanting for all of us with this genre. This is why art lovers desire landscape paintings within their collection. Galleries and artists understand the soothing and serene feelings they experience when viewing a beautiful landscape painting. They speak to us on a deeply personal and intimate…

Bennett Prize Entry Deadlines Established in 2018 by Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt and Steven Alan Bennett, the prestigious Bennett Prize is a competition for women figurative realists working today. The prize awards $50,000 to the winning artist, as well as major recognition for the nine other finalists. It’s an opportunity for passionate and talented artists to put their names on the map, bolster their career growth and open doors within the industry. Call for entries for the current competition, Round 4, closes at 11:59 p.m. MST on October 4. Finalists will be notified in November and announced to the public in December. For more information, visit www.thebennettprize.org. Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection…

When an artist begins a painting, the first thing they see is blank canvas, which is the promise of something yet to come. Anything can appear in that empty space. It’s the artist’s job to fill it. For painter Allen Egan, when he completes a piece, he hopes a similar interaction happens between the now-filled canvas and his audience. “What does it all mean? I paint it so you can decide for yourself. I come up with the design, and the figures and the details. I give the viewer something to think about. There is no hidden meaning, nothing deep, because it’s an image and I present to my viewer,” Egan says. “When I tell that to people, I’ve had people burst into tears. Others just tell me thank you.…

Fernando Cidoncha was born in Spain and studied at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, as well as the University of Granada, before moving to Florence, Italy, to pursue artistic training. As an artist, Cidoncha is interested in the exploration of the human form, using a figurative and representational language with the belief that art can unlock the yearning of the human heart and awake the desire to know, to love and to reach for the “Beyond.” “My work is primarily motivated by personal introspection and my interest in spirituality,” says the artist. “I enjoy the process of creating and exploring different traditions of sacred art throughout history. The city of Florence, where I live, is also a continual source of inspiration for me. Additionally, I am inspired by nature,…

Like many artists who have had careers in art direction and advertising—painting in their free time—Bruce Cascia now paints full time, free of the demands of clients. The series of paintings he calls his “prairie-scapes” embody a sense of freedom as well as one of resilience. As a boy with a simple camera—a box to hold the film, a lens and a shutter—he photographed the landscapes and buildings of rural Illinois where he grew up. Outside the cities, weather is more visible, as billowing clouds and storms race across the landscape. On frequent trips to the West and Southwest, he had more opportunities to observe changes in the weather and dramatic cloudscapes. He still uses a camera for reference (although a more sophisticated one) and occasionally does on-site watercolors. “They…

New York’s premier art fair, The Armory Show—featuring more than 235 galleries across 30-plus countries—is making a major splash in the art world with its 30 th anniversary edition. Now part of the Frieze network of art shows and fairs, the 2024 Armory Show will include such prestigious galleries as Kasmin, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Schoelkopf Gallery, Berggruen Gallery, Miles McEnery Gallery and many others. “We are thrilled to present this important edition of The Armory Show,” says Kristell Chadé, executive director of fairs at Frieze. “For the past 30 years, The Armory Show has been an anchor of the city’s cultural landscape, championing art at the forefront and providing galleries an opportunity to engage with New York audiences.” As visitors explore the three-day event, 1 they’ll notice that The Armory…

After graduating from architecture school at the University of Florida in 1973, Donna Catotti moved to the Sierras, took up skiing, and soon transitioned from commercial to fine art. A love of adventure travel led her to the Grand Canyon Dories, cooking for 18-day river trips while painting in pastel. Trekking seven weeks in the Himalaya, she started creating pastel portraits and landscapes daily. In rural southeast Alaska, she and her husband handcrafted their home/studio and luthier shop from the rainforest near the ocean and mountains. Having acquired enough skills, Catotti started focusing on portraits and figurative work in 2012, and was featured in Artists Magazine’s Over 60 Art Competition. She currently shows regularly in the National Arts Club and many other venues. Working in oil, pastel, serigraphy and sculpture,…

Welcome to the September issue of American Art Collector! Stepping back and looking at this month’s content, I was struck by the sheer diversity of art in this particular magazine. On one end of spectrum we have the highly contemporary, photorealistic work of Japanese artist Hisaya Taira and Maine painter Eric Green, who are having a much-anticipated joint show at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts this September. Taira paints mundane places like empty parking lots, deserted streets and subway stations. “I choose subjects to convey the entire situation, not to focus on specific objects,” Taira says in the feature, which beings on Page 30. “I have to avoid simple beauty. This is because I want to depict the strangeness I feel in everyday life, the beauty of a moment in the…

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When the surface of a bronze sculpture is exposed to oxygen and moisture, it oxidizes into the greenish film on the Statue of Liberty, for instance, or the green of copper gutters and roofs. The Egyptians and Romans developed artificially patinaed surfaces and the art form progressed through to the present, where subtle patinas are applied to bronze sculptures using natural elements and heat. The seemingly miraculous transformation of heating iron, copper nitrate, silver, titanium dioxide, cobalt and other materials to produce a variety of colors on bronze was, in the past, called alchemy. Nathan Bennett, who applies patinas to the sculptures of other artists, has developed an extraordinary control of the process to create subtle patina paintings on bronze panels. “In times past, I would have had the title…

Lara Nickel’s nearly 8-foot canvas, Blue Myrtle Cactus, hung on any wall, would dominate the space. Painted realistically and life size against a plain white background, the canvas is not hung on the wall. One edge rests against the wall while the bottom edge juts out, claiming space in the room. Her startling and inviting installation can be seen at Collect Gallery in Santa Fe, a new art and retail space created by Christina Swilley, through September. The exhibition, Desert Vessels, also includes the pottery of Robert King (Choctaw). Nickel explains, “The decision to remove any pictorial background from my paintings and instead isolate them in white, is an effort to push illusionistic painting into the realm of object-hood. An illusionistic painting has the ability to exist in our world…

Erin Hanson’s earliest landscapes were inspired by the desert, specifically Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, where she became an avid rock climber. Hanson’s style of painting, which she calls “open impressionism” was dictated by the geological characteristics of the terrain. The cracks and crevices, blocky forms and angular surfaces called for equally chunky, dynamic brushstrokes that impart a stained-glass quality to her vibrant, expressionist paintings. When Hanson left the desert for Southern California, she realized that her style—thick impasto strokes laid down next to each other over a color-washed canvas—could also, with practice, be applied to seascapes, fields and vineyards. For her newest body of work, Hanson found inspiration abroad, realizing a long-time dream of going to France and visiting all the places that the great French Impressionists—namely Monet,…

A celebration of artwork depicting the grace and dynamism of avian life returns to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum once again in the form of the Birds in Art exhibition. This annual show, now in its 49th year, presents works from more than 100 artists across the world. And whether they’re detailed ornithological portraits or landscape paintings with birds flying in the distance, all artwork in the show includes our feathered friends in some way. Beginning September 7, attendees will have the chance to explore original paintings, sculptures and graphics created within the last three years by esteemed artists like Kathleen Dunphy, Alan Woollett, Walter T. Matia, Jhenna Quinn Lewis, Paul Rhymer, Peregrine O’Gormley, Katie Musolff and more. This year’s exhibition also includes 2024 Master Wildlife Artist Gunnar Tryggmo,…

Brisbane, Australia • hello@priyagore.art • www.priyagore.art “Growing up in India, my parents introduced me to the power of truly discovering oneself,” says Australia-based artist Priya Gore. “At a very early age, I got well acquainted with understanding my weakness, my strength [and] who I am. Why am I on this planet? What role do I want to play? I try to express the layered aspects of human relationships through beautifully vibrant wildlife paintings.” Working with acrylics, Gore primarily paints lush, dynamic scenes of birds and botanicals in their natural habitats. “Australian rainforests offer an abundance of natural wonder. My life revolves around the exploration of nature’s intricacies that are often hidden in the obvious and intertwining them with human emotions and understanding of life expressed in [the] form of a…

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In a singular painting, Mary Jane Ansell can convey a love story as epic as one you’d find in any selling romantic novel. Love’s Bright Armour I depicts a youthful looking couple who share a strikingly ethereal beauty. Together they stand, arms wrapped tightly around one another as a somber battle scene rages on behind them. Despite the horrors they face, they’re protected by a force stronger than any amount of weaponry—love. It’s the perfect opener for Ansell’s latest series—also titled Love’s Bright Armour—debuting at Arcadia Contemporary on September 12 and where it will hang through October 31. “During the process of creating the works in the show I lost someone very close to me, reminding me how precarious and vital love is,” says Ansell. “The theme of the show…

After two decades of depicting landscape and figurative scenes in a highly representational style, artist James Ayers now draws upon abstracted elements to further fulfill his discovery that “less detail has more power to captivate viewers.” In a total of 10 new landscape paintings for his solo show Intersect, presented by Canyon Road Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Ayers continues on a trajectory of mixing representational scenes with abstract expressionist elements, while also exploring the concept of interconnectedness. “The title Intersect, reflects the intersection of natural landscapes and human activity,” the artist explains. “I use spray paint and crayon—mediums typically associated with urban life—alongside traditional oil paint to create a dialogue between the past and the present, the natural and the man-made. This approach speaks to the many layers of…

The latest collection of artwork by Adam Hall will be revealed at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, this September. Titled Sacred Hour, works featured in the upcoming show mark a significant evolution in Hall’s artistic journey, “blending his deep connection to nature with contemporary elements and symbolic storytelling,” according to the gallery. “One of the major themes of this show centers around the transient nature of time and our attempts to grasp it,” Hall explains. “Nature itself is also a prominent theme throughout.” Based in Franklin, Tennessee, Hall is best known for his emotional and atmospheric style. “I display the beauty of the natural world as a backdrop within each painting to remind the viewer of our ever-changing relationship with it. By combining traditional landscapes with modern symbolism,…

Fatima Ronquillo was born in the Philippines, grew up in San Antonio, and now lives and works in Santa Fe. The blends of cultures that make up the places where she has lived enrich her imagination as she paints seemingly classical portraits with a magical contemporary twist. She keeps a “mental card catalog” of literary, musical and art historical references to draw on for inspiration. Ronquillo will show eight of her recent inspirations in the exhibition Gardens of Good and Evil at Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, August 30 through September 12. Her subjects have their own mysterious presence as they gaze out at the viewer. Ronquillo says, “They are characters who believe in their moment, living in their own reality.” Man with Gila Monster is draped in a magnificent…

With a goal to further the cause of contemporary artists—supporting artists with substantial monetary prizes—the Allied Artists of America returns for another edition of the Juried Exhibition. This year’s show will feature 100 artworks by artists from across the country, hosted by the Butler Institute of American Art and awarding $45,000 in cash prizes. “Allied is unique from many other art organizations,” says AAA President Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso. “We pride ourselves on presenting a variety of styles, [ranging] from realist to abstract styles. We allow traditional media, like oil, acrylic, watercolor, graphics and sculpture. We also allow mixed media, which includes non-traditional mediums like collage.” The only mediums that are not included in the showcase are photography and digital art. Dellosso adds that there was an extremely high caliber of…

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