Mosaic artist Marlea Taylor began her fine-art career in printmaking. But frustrated with the limits of working on paper, she decided to delve into mosaics, using tiles and repurposed broken pottery and plates. She hasn’t looked back since. “I’m a retired teacher and taught kindergarten through...
In 1989, fine art woodworkers Marilyn Endres and Eucled Moore started Kazi Studio together in Driftwood, Texas. The intricate woodturning methods and meticulous beadwork on their vessels and platters evoke a contemporary perspective on classic forms. [caption id="attachment_18112" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Contemporary Interpretation of an Olla Basket...
After sculpting for more than 40 years, Kevin Robb suffered a stroke in 2004, but that didn’t impinge on his artistic voice. Although his vocabulary and some mobility were limited, his stainless steel sculptures continue to portray a lightness rarely seen in metalwork. “He loves working...
Jonathan Keeton’s series of watercolors, Nocturnes, envelops the solitude that comes with empty streets and dimly lit shops. They bring out the echoes of footsteps on concrete and the silence of parked cars. “Yes, they’re moody. That’s what I like about night scenes,” Keeton says. “They’re...
Patrick Dean Hubbell explores his Diné (Navajo) identity through materials and processes that speak to nature and traditional design by way of abstract patterns. In a recent series titled Earth, Hubbell traversed the boundaries of the Navajo reservation, within Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of...
WILDLIFE ARTIST CARRIE WILD HAS SPENT thousands of hours outdoors, tracking, viewing, and photoraphing wildlife. She is equally at home among the impressive, soaring mountain peaks and expansive valleys of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as she is on the African plains, or in the frigid polar...
RON HICKS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FIGURATIVE PAINTER. As a little kid, he could draw the neighbors with innate accuracy. He earned scholarships in high school and college to study fine art, and though Hicks pursued a career in graphic design after college, he says...
ENCOUNTERING ONE OF PATRICK DOUGHERTY'S “stick work” sculptures feels like a mythological discovery. Architectural, anthropomorphic, or abstract, his site-specific installations transform ordinary environments into provocative illusions resembling enchanted dwellings, suspended cyclones, or wooly creatures. [caption id="attachment_18057" align="aligncenter" width="547"] River Vessels | 2010 | Waco Cultural Arts...
IF YOU'VE EVER SAT IN A CLASSROOM, waited in an airline terminal, or worked in a cubicle, chances are the chairs and tables were designed by Charles and Ray Eames, regarded as one of the most influential design teams of the 20th century. Starting in...
STEPPING INSIDE THE HOME OF SCULPTOR GLENNA GOODACRE in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is like entering an art museum. It’s also like following “a roadmap of her long and illustrious career, that also traces her passion for collecting,” says her manager, Daniel R. Anthony. [caption id="attachment_18020"...