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 November issue of American Art Collector! We report on every opportunity for collecting, from gallery shows to online exhibitions hosted by leading arts organizations. Sponsorship is an important aspect of supporting art shows and events. This issue happens to have several shows that we sponsor and we wanted to give them some limelight. Our partnership with the International Guild of Realism (IGOR) is our longest standing to date. We have sponsored the IGOR shows since 2004, or since the very beginning of American Art Collector. Starting on Page 66 you will find our coverage of IGOR’s Fall Salon Online Exhibition, featuring 200 representational artists from around the world. The works range from photorealism to impressionism and everything in between. It is truly amazing to experience an IGOR…
Maybe some of you have noticed we have started including bylines with all of our articles. I was all for this idea. We had been writing the stories all along, but I think it makes reading more meaningful when you can associate the words with a specific person. I like to think that maybe, even without a name attached, you could tell which pieces were written by the same person. After all, writers, like artists, can have a signature style or voice. I also felt it would encourage us take more ownership of our work, more pride in it, and hold ourselves more accountable—since our name would now be stamped on it. (This led me to a bit of wishful thinking. Perhaps there would come a time when readers would…
October 15-December 20 The International Guild of Realism: 2025 Fall Salon Online Exhibition Virtual www.realsimguild.com www.americanartcollector.com October 23-November 9 Dana Zaltzman Arcadia Contemporary New York, NY • (646) 861-3941 www.arcadiacontemporary.com October 31-November 11 Robin Jones: Nos Galan Gaeaf Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe, NM • (505) 954-9902 www.blueraingallery.com Through November 1 Jeanne Rosier Smith: Songs of the Seasons Susan Powell Fine Art Madison, CT • (203) 318-0616 www.susanpowellfineart.com Through November 1 NFN Kalyan: Fugue Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts New York, NY • (607) 772-0485 www.anthonybrunelli.com Through November 1 Tight² Gallery 1261 Denver, CO • (303) 571-1261 www.gallery1261.com November 1-30 Mary Carroll: The Discoverers – Nature’s Stories Retold RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com November 14-16 54th Annual Waterfowl Festival Various Locations » Easton, MD » (410) 822-4567 www.waterfowlfestival.org November…
Every November the streets and tidewaters of Easton, Maryland, come alive with art, events and energy as thousands of people flock to the state’s picturesque Eastern Shore for the annual Waterfowl Festival. Now in its 54th year, the three day event champions waterfowl species and the environment through a wide range of activities curated to highlight the creativity, culture and conservation of the Chesapeake Bay region. Seven venues, all within walking distance from the central exhibition in the Waterfowl Building, will showcase sculptures, paintings, carvings, photography and mixed media works inspired by the natural world by 70 juried artists from all over the country and Canada. An additional 30-plus artists will participate in other capacities throughout the festival. “For centuries, the Delmarva Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay have been a…
Opening mid-November, the American Artists Professional League hosts its largest event of the year—the Grand National Exhibition, now in its 97th edition. The overall mission of the show, and AAPL, is to support and honor artists who excel in realist art. Artists from across the country submit works in mediums like oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphics and sculpture. The top 100 works are shown in an exhibition at the historic Salmagundi Club in New York City. This year’s guest jurors were Kara Ross, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Art Renewal Center; and Signature AAPL Members Joel Edwards and Don Taylor. The Juror of Awards is Frederick Brosen, a renowned watercolor artist and instructor. “We are proud that our members bring such diverse training and perspectives to AAPL, and…
If you happen to stop into a FedEx store in Atlanta and see a woman obsessively cutting out shapes from blown up photocopies of photographs of grand interiors, then splicing them together to create a cohesive composition of near proportional perfection, it may be artist Gail Wegodsky. It is one step in a long, painstaking creative process that results in elaborate oil paintings of the interiors of some of the world’s architectural wonders. A little more than a decade ago, Wegodsky took a selection of her paintings to New York to shop them around to galleries. In her portfolio were figurative works, interiors, landscapes, still lifes and portraits. “For years, I would paint whatever I saw in my daily life that I found inspirational,” shares Wegodsky. “I’d be walking early…
