Michael Kessler creates large-scale, mixed-media artworks that straddle the line between abstraction and realism. His meticulous mashups of neatly plotted grids and biomorphic tree forms invite viewers to contemplate their own place in the natural world. Using at least 40 and sometimes as many as...
Sherry Johnson’s recent paintings of sun-bleached skulls adorned with vibrantly colored flowers — a series she calls “Bones & Blossoms Collection,” epitomized in the painting Santa Fe Bull — breathe new life into the centuries-old artistic genre known as memento mori, literally “remember death.” But...
Kimerlee Curyl’s intimate, up-close fine art photographs celebrate the exquisite beauty found amidst bands of wild horses that roam parts of the American West. At the same time, her works express the heartbreaking plight of these endangered national treasures. “Wild horses,” she says, “are being...
Somers Randolph strives to uncover infinity within a block of stone. Whether monument-sized or small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand, his sculptures often possess smooth, sinuous swirls and loops that curve back upon themselves like the Mobius strips so many of...
Mike Roths instills every piece of fine furniture he crafts with the spirit of Western history and tradition. Consider his recent Pursuit of the Spirit Buffalo Console Table, which sold this past September at the Buffalo Bill Art Auction in Cody, Wyoming. He made the...
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,...
Paintings by Rich Bowman hover in a liminal space between imagination and reality. Though his work is inspired by many landscapes he has seen and photographed, it aims to capture and convey deeply felt emotions, executed in a style that, when pressed for a label,...
Reen Axtell aims to “explore the Old West in a new, contemporary way” through vibrantly toned mixed-media pieces that combine transfers of archival photos and other images; patterns and shapes she applies with the aid of tools and objects as diverse as drafting compasses and...
Andy Taylor’s abstracted landscapes distill and impart the emotions the artist feels upon first encountering those scenes. He imbues them with a surprising intensity that results in part from a close and longstanding familiarity with his subjects. In fact, most of his works have found...