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.
Happy New Year! As resolutions abound in our homes there is another one we want you to keep this year, and the team at American Art Collector have vested interest in this. We invite you to Arizona. Not only is it a great place to visit in January for art lovers, golfers, sunseekers, hikers and outdoor adventurers, it is our headquarters. Yes, the magic of this magazine comes to fruition every month right here in Scottsdale, Arizona. In this issue we roll out the red carpet for the Grand Canyon State with the 2025 Art Lovers Guide to Collecting Fine Art Arizona, a 15-page celebration of the state that starts on Page 48. Sarah Gianelli and her talented team have made it easy for you to accomplish your New Year’s…
Contemporary realism applies to huge range of art, and nowhere is it more evident than in our pages—and on our covers! On our website, you can see every cover we’ve chosen since October 2005 (!). It comes in handy when we’re picking the cover for each issue to make sure we haven’t selected a similar piece or a work by the same artist recently. This is especially important because we want to represent the whole spectrum of what contemporary realism can be, from the timeless and traditional, to the cutting edge of near-abstraction. All of it has a place in American Art Collector and, internally, we often talk about how the broadness of contemporary realism can pose a challenge, but it’s one we enthusiastically embrace. After all, the breadth of…
Jan. 1-Feb. 2 Stephen Mackey: Nocturnal Children Arcadia Contemporary New York, NY • (646) 861-3941 www.arcadiacontemporary.com Jan.1-Feb. 3 Mirrored Reality RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com Through January 4 Miles Johnston Harman Projects New York, NY • (212) 477-4759 www.harmanprojects.com Through January 5 Poskas: Father and Son Mattatuck Museum Waterbury, CT • (203) 753-0381 www.mattmuseum.org Through January 5 Picturing the Border Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH • (216) 421-7350 www.clevelandart.org Through January 5 Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington D.C. www.americanart.si.edu/ January 7-18 Geoffrey Gersten: Tonight, the Streets Are Ours Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ • (480) 949-1256 www.altamiraart.com Jan. 14-Feb. 22 Casey Chalem Anderson George Billis Gallery » Fairfield, CT » (212) 645-2621 www.georgebillis.com January 7-24 148th Annual Black and White…
How We Make the Planet Move is the inaugural exhibition highlighting the Detroit Collection at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Started in 2016, this important permanent collection is devoted to celebrating and preserving the work of artists and designers in the Detroit metro area, focusing on artwork from the 1960s to the present day in a variety of mediums. Artists include Sydney James, Charles McGee, Joshua Rainer, Gordon Newton, Sherri Bryant and more. The show will hang through March 2, 2025.…
Ten women from across the country who paint in the figurative realist style were recently named finalists for the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the fourth iteration of the largest art award ever offered solely to women figurative realist painters. The winner and a $10,000 awardee will be named in 2025. The talented finalists of the Bennett Prize 4.0—designed to propel the careers of women artists—are Olivia Chigas, Nimah Gobir, Ambrin Ling, Salem, Jane Philips, Audrey Rodriguez, Abbey Rosko, Nicole M. Santiago, Amy Werntz, Helena Wurzel and Rei Xiao. An all-woman jury of artists, educators and curators selected the 10 finalists from hundreds of entries.…
A groundbreaking exhibition at Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum features the artwork of Canadian sculptor Esmaa Mohamoud. Shining a spotlight on the experiences of young Black girls, COMPLEX DREAMS includes ethereal sculptures and installations by Mohamoud that respond directly to the unique, Zaha Hadid-designed architecture of the MSU Broad Art Museum and “explores the transformative power of art to express the enduring perseverance and strength of Black girlhood in the face of great adversity.” The exhibition will be available to explore through February 16, 2025.…
