“As I get older and the firm gets more experienced,” Rick Joy says, “we’re really drawn to that feeling of creating silence and making architecture where there’s nothing you can take away or add.” It might seem odd to describe orthogonal, pared-down, minimalist design as intensely...
MY FRIENDS WHO WERE HOSTING MY VISIT HAD TO SHOW ME THE DOLPHINS, of course. We’d just taken a lovely stroll along the downtown Kelowna boardwalk and Waterfront Park, feeling the soft breeze off Okanagan Lake and stopping to watch ducks and turtles at Rotary Marsh. We’d...
What makes Charlie Ringer a contemporary Western artist isn’t subject matter — or geography — although the Montana metal artist has cut, ground, and welded into being any number of bison and swirling trout. Instead, Ringer embodies the ethos of the West populated by cowboys,...
When designers Leela Brightenburg and Alissa Pulcrano first met in Portland, Oregon, they realized they had something unique in common. “We were working for another local design firm, and we both kept trying to break all the rules,” says Brightenburg, laughing. “Alissa and I developed...
AS ONE OF ONLY 23 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES in the U.S., New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon was occupied by the Pueblo people between 850 and 1250 A.D. Home to thousands, the community consisted of the largest collection of buildings in North America until the 1800s. The...
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL COUPLE LIVING LONDON, their new Rocky Mountain home would be as much about art as it was about architecture. Despite the distances separating the participants, the thoroughly collaborative effort resulted in all of the components working together to create a harmonious whole in...
TO UNDERSTAND AARON MORGAN BROWN'S PAINTINGS, it helps to know that he spent many summers hanging out in the Creede Repertory Theatre, located in a tiny mountain town in Colorado, where his father worked in the late 1970s. In those days, the company staged plays...
ARTIST DIANA MADARAS IS PURSUING TWO OF HER LIFE PASSIONS: philanthropy and painting. As a philanthropist, she has donated more than $500,000 in artworks to more than 100 charities. She has also raised more than $200,000 through the Art for Animals Foundation, a charity she founded...
In each issue of Western Art and Architecture, we explore the creative process and the resulting work that encourages viewers to consider the West in a new light. The journey that takes an artist from idea, to execution, to examination by an audience may be filled with...
Bubble Lighting from Lindsey Adelman Studios We love fresh inspiration, especially when it comes to interior components that we live with day to day. Take, for example, this bubble chandelier designed by Karl Zahn for Lindsey Adelman Studio; its inspiration comes from a succulent known as...