American Art Collector February 2025

Welcome to the February issue of American Art Collector! This issue is very special because we bring you our Art Lover’s Guides for the Pacific and Atlantic sides of the country all in one beautiful place. That’s right—you’ll find both our Art Lover’s Guide to California and our Art Lover’s Guide to Florida inside the February issue. We have not done this before and we would love your feedback after you peruse this issue. Both California and Florida are beach states and artists have been inspired by their natural beauty, vibrancy and light across genres and mediums, for centuries. Our Art Lover’s Guides are designed to cultivate a desire to travel by showing you not only great galleries, museums and artists but also where to go, where to stay, the…

I don’t know about you, but by January 2 I am ready for the holidays to be behind us so we can turn our full attention to the excitement of the year ahead. Now that it’s February, I feel like we’re finally regaining the momentum we lose at the end of every year—and it’s only going to build from here. We may be in the heart of winter, but in the art world things are already heating up, and nowhere is it more clear than in the February issue. Galleries have their 2025 shows dialed in (if you haven’t already, send me your exhibition schedules so we can cover them in the magazine!), and we remain committed to bringing you the freshest contemporary realism on the market. You get to…

Ongoing 17th Annual ARC Salon Art Renewal Center Port Reading, NJ www.artrenewal.org Jan. 28-Feb. 8 Ben Steele: Art Distilled Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ • (480) 949-1256 www.altamiraart.com Jan. 31-Feb. 11 Tony De Luz: Hit the Road Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe, NM • (505) 954-9902 www.blueraingallery.com Jan. 31-Mar. 1 Valentine Gems Susan Powell Fine Art Madison, CT • (203) 318-0616 www.susanpowellfineart.com Through February 1 Jeremy Geddes: Periphery Thinkspace Projects Los Angeles, CA • (310) 558-3375 www.thinkspaceprojects.com February 1-28 Modern Classics Virtual (708) 837-4534 www.33contemporary.com www.poetsandartists.com  www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-modern-classics Feb. 1-Mar. 2 Currents: Threads of Black History RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com February 19-23 LA Art Show Los Angeles Convention Center » Los Angeles, CA www.laartshow.com February 5-9 66th Annual Tubac Festival of the Arts Historic Village of Tubac Tubac, AZ…

Running through February 23, Los Angeles-based David Kordansky Gallery is hosting the exhibition Sam McKinniss: The Perfect Tense. Each narrative painting in the show relies on the other to tell a larger, more cohesive story. “McKinniss paints pictures based on preexisting images found online, transforming visual building blocks of the public domain into open-ended—and paradoxically personal—documents of emotional life,” the gallery notes. This is the first solo exhibition of new works by McKinniss, who lives and works in New York and Connecticut.…

Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is the first major U.S. museum survey of the Brooklyn-based, Iranian-born artist Ali Banisadr. Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art, this exhibition encompasses nearly 20 years of the artist’s singular practice, from 2006 to the present, across the mediums of painting, drawing and printmaking. Sculpture, a new direction for the artist, will be presented for the first time.…

This spring, the Andy Warhol Museum will present an exhibition focused on the iconic artist’s screenprints. “Andy Warhol embraced mechanical processes early in his career and found in screenprinting the perfect vehicle for image repetition, both for his works on canvas and for portfolios of prints on paper. Through collaborations with his studio assistants and established print publishers, Warhol generated nearly 20,000 prints throughout his career. Screenprinting techniques allowed Warhol to create series of images in an assortment of color variations, resulting in one of his most recognizable signatures,” the museum notes. Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints will be on view May 23 to September 1.…