Painter Thomas Aquinas Daly expresses the exquisite beauty of living through the lens of death. Echoing the work of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch vanitas still life painters, whose main concerns were mortality, the transience of human existence, and the futility of materialism, Daly also points...
Throughout her life, Abigail Gutting cannot remember a time when she was not drawing or painting. The Idaho-based artist has spent the last two decades as a professional painter, “living her dream career.” She shares a studio with her mother, Susan Gutting, a graduate of the...
Luminosity and radiance are two words that come to mind when describing D. Eleinne Basa’s paintings. The light in her work seems to live and breathe, to extend beyond the brushstrokes and reach a viewer’s mind and heart. The award-winning artist is modest and straightforward...
Situated on the banks of the Rio Grande, the Pueblo Revival home of gallerists Richard and Nedra Matteucci is a compendium of the modern adobe. It’s not only the construction — using traditional sun-baked bricks — but also the thoughtful curation of the furnishings and...
If a picture says a thousand words, then Hopi potter Nampeyo [c. 1859 – 1942] has shared many great tales. Widely known as the most remarkable Pueblo potter of all time, Nampeyo was a prolific artist, and her legacy upholds its place in the world...
When Gladys Roldán-de-Moras tells her story of becoming a painter, it’s hard to believe fate was not involved. The San Antonio, Texas-based artist has made a name for herself in the Western art world, capturing her Hispanic heritage with a striking color palette and deft...
Mid-century Modern architect Kenneth Birkemeier built approximately 700 houses and apartments in the Portland, Oregon, area during his long career. The architect’s thoughtfully sited, thoroughly modern, post-and-beam-style ranch homes were custom-designed, with careful consideration given to light, flow, and sense of place. When an empty-nester couple...
Bridgette Meinhold paints large-scale landscapes inspired by the Mountain West she calls home, imbuing these artworks with an almost trancelike quality through the medium of encaustic. She applies as many as 20 separate thin layers of pigment-colored beeswax and three to four coats of milk-based...
Kathleen Frank’s oil paintings portray the natural world with lively patterns inspired by her training in woodblock printmaking; exuberant color rooted in a love of Mexican and Central American culture; and a heightened sense of drama derived from her familiarity with the geography and weather...
Steve Latimer has legitimately considered himself a fine artist of Western scenes for most of his 77 years. Yet, for the past four decades, he has lived in the Central Florida city of Lakeland, and it was only three years ago that he experienced the...