Melissa Dickenson’s large-scale, sensuously abstracted canvases take landscape painting far beyond plein air into a realm that could be called “plein terre.” The artist doesn’t merely survey and take visual notes on the scenes she’ll portray. She returns to her studio in San Francisco’s Mission...
Kevin Courter’s landscape paintings of the greater San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and raised a family — and of the mountains surrounding Redding, California, where he and his wife have lived for almost six years now — possess an enthralling, almost spiritual...
Del Curfman’s joyously colorful figurative paintings deliver pointed messages about the present-day societal issues Indigenous peoples face. Take, for instance, his Selfie with a Stereotype, in which Crow artist and activist KamiJo Whiteclay poses in traditional dress while pursing her cherry-red lips, fashion model-style, to...
One afternoon last December, as Julie Oriet drove across a bridge near her home in Cody, Wyoming, she spied a brilliant blue stream clogged with ice floes, backed by russet-hued grassy banks and birches aglow in the sunlight. “I had to paint it,” she recalls....
Recently, a musician shared a story from the stage about the quiet courage it takes to be an artist — and the uncertainty that often comes along with it. He introduced a song by revealing it was written in his bedroom when he was a young...
Joe McGuire and Matthew Tenzin of Joe McGuire Design consider themselves design nomads. Although their business is based in Aspen and Boulder, Colorado, they have designed projects in Chicago and New York City as well as Miami, Palm Beach, and beyond. [caption id="attachment_29978" align="aligncenter" width="250"] In...
In its most benign form, artificial intelligence (AI) is just another tool artists can use for advanced research. It’s not truly thinking up novel works of art; instead, AI quickly scours the internet’s data and images to generate answers to queries. It learns from data,...
Step into the Frederick, Colorado, home of sculptor Tony Hochstetler and his wife, Shannon, and you’ll discover a world shaped by the same careful precision that defines his bronze sculptures — thoughtful, finely crafted, and quite dazzling. Everything here reflects a deep appreciation for form,...
Late spring auction results demonstrate the enduring appeal of Western and American art in its many forms. Institutions and auction houses reported impressive sales, with collectors responding enthusiastically to both historic masterpieces and modern reinterpretations. In May, Heritage Auctions totaled a combined $12.18 million in sales...
There have been moments in artist Francis Livingston’s life where something suddenly shifted inside him, with consequences lasting throughout his career. One such moment occurred while he was a young illustration student at San Francisco’s Academy of Art College in the late 1970s. During his...