Thom Ross may be best known for his bold, stylistic artwork. At his core, however, he is a historian — a storyteller driven not by myth but by a deep desire to understand and reinterpret it. For Ross, creativity is a tool for unearthing truths...
Kim Lordier, a celebrated pastel artist in the American West, captures not just the fleeting colors of dawn or the hush of ocean mist rolling in — she captures the light that lives within those moments. Raised in the Bay Area and inspired by the...
Urban renewal often equates demolition with progress, causing the old to disappear in favor of the new. This is why, in the rapidly changing heart and landscape of lower downtown Denver, Colorado, once home to streets of graceful 19th-century Victorian buildings, a lone survivor of...
Midway between the shores of Puget Sound and the Great Cascade Mountains in Washington lies a precipice where the meandering Snoqualmie River drops a staggering 268 feet. This spectacular waterfall, more than 100 feet higher than Niagara Falls in New York, has been at the...
Deco Vessel Sink by Indikoi A nod to timeless design with a bold twist, this artful porcelain sink is hand-thrown in Bozeman, Montana, at Indikoi. Founded by a team of ceramic artists passionate about merging functionality with beauty, the studio specializes in creating sinks that are...
While it’s hardly an anomaly, it’s a bit unusual for siblings to cofound an architectural firm. However, Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis, founders and principals of the award-winning Portland, Oregon-based William /Kaven Architecture, regard their brotherhood as one of their chief assets. They share...
Effie Anderson Smith [1869–1955] had a theory about the lovely hues of atmospheric haze in the Arizona desert, a landscape she loved and painted for more than 50 years. She believed that microscopic particles of mineralized dust were suspended in the dry desert air, changing...
With Jeff Legg’s still-life Divine Balance, you cannot avert your eyes because the longer one looks, the more mesmerizing the subjects become. They don’t defy reason, but they do defy gravity — the same as the composition dares to challenge what the mind expects to...
Linda Infante Lyons celebrates her homeland and Native Alaskan heritage through landscapes that may bring to mind Magic Realism, a meticulously detailed yet dreamlike spiritual style also favored by artists as diverse as Rockwell Kent, Frida Kahlo, Grant Wood, and — a particular favorite of...
In recent years, Peggi Kroll Roberts has boldly and joyously veered away from the people-filled beach and parkland scenes that had secured her reputation as a sought-after plein-air artist depicting life along the sun-kissed West Coast. “I just totally burned out on the beach thing,...