The crates arrived before the architect did. At 8:30 on the morning of the photo shoot, American Women Artists (AWA) staff were unpacking paintings in a house made almost entirely of concrete and glass. The photographer, Luca Prodi, arrived shortly after. The homeowner, San Diego...
If Cara Romero is not photographing with fire, she certainly is trying to ignite one. Romero is an artist-provocateur upending a tradition that has seen Native Americans and their images pushed into the pages of history. Her mission as a member of the Chemehuevi Indian...
There’s a lot of history in this land,” says interior designer William Peace about his clients’ home set between Livingston, Montana, and the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Surrounded by almost 60 acres of land that run alongside Mill Creek, the 25-year-old house and...
Byron and Keely Lewis had outgrown their 1930s Craftsman home, where they’d lived happily for 30 years. More precisely, their art collection had outgrown the house, Byron’s office, and the guest house next door — they had even lent art to museum shows. Once they...
Wandering is the word occupying much of David Griffin’s mind on this warm September morning. “It always appeared to imply that you were wasting time,” he says. “You didn’t have a purpose or some intent, but as I discovered my particular way of finding images,...
There is more than meets the eye in the layered paintings, prints, and murals of celebrated Chicano artist Tony Ortega. Pieces by this artist reflect a mythmaker and man of many roles, talents, and cultural traditions (Mexican, American, and the distinctive cultures of the American...
The summer after high school, lifelong New Mexican Eric Romero and a few friends were backpacking in Spain. It was during what he calls his bohemian period, and they were “crazy and irresponsible and completely broke after three weeks.” In San Sebastián one day, they...
George Phippen changed sculptor Bill Nebeker’s life. Twice. The first time came when Nebeker attended a Phippen art show in Prescott, Arizona, in 1964. “My wife Merry says I had an epiphany and my life changed direction that day,” Nebeker recalls. George Phippen (1915-1966) died two years...
Mitch Blake can’t remember what attracted the clients for the ChaChe Residence to the architecture firm he and Tom Ward founded in Jackson, Wyoming, in 1996. There are numerous possibilities, like Ward|Blake’s distinctive modern designs. Or maybe the firm’s biophilic philosophy, which drives them to...
From its inception, the renovation of a 3,200-square-foot condominium on the 22nd floor of a mid-century high-rise on San Francisco’s Russian Hill was deeply personal. The owner was newly-widowed and downsizing from a home in Sea Cliff, California. She wanted a fresh beginning, a place...