The Western installation-fiber-art duo Emilie Odeile and Ken Chapin are so in sync that they regularly finish each other’s sentences. Like when talking about winning an Arts in Society grant through Colorado Creative Industries, to make a life-sized replica of Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s book...
Alexandra Manukyan’s latest body of work is a surrealist exploration of femininity, mythology, and fashion. Born and raised in Armenia, she studied there at the Fine Art College and the State Pedagogical University before immigrating to the United States where she has made her home...
Patrick Michael Charron Stevens Jolly is a native of Detroit, a graduate of Western Michigan University, holds a BFA in sculpture, is a father, a grandfather, an art dealer, a recovering alcoholic, a painter, a woodsman, a prickly pickleball player, a printmaker, and a seeker...
In Chinese astrological terms, the universe has literally aligned for Mel Auberty’s latest show at Gallery 123 in Dallas, Texas, which coincides with the Year of the Horse celebration beginning on February 17. “This is a dream project for me that began about three years...
Arizona-based artist Gedion Nyanhongo’s stone sculptures explore the shared humanity found in the culture and art of the Shona tribe of his native Zimbabwe with all people around the world. His sculpture Song of Protectedness depicts a family of six held by a pair of...
Cathy Sheeter uses scratchboard to create award-winning portraits of wildlife, barnyard animals, birds, and pets. A medium many kids tried in grade school art classes and then left behind, Sheeter’s scratchboard pieces are so startlingly lifelike that some viewers insist they’re photographs. Even more compelling...
Suzanne Falk gives still life painting a distinctly retro pop-cultural twist. Her meticulously assembled compositions combine her own and friends’ treasured possessions, along with finds from flea markets, yard sales, and antique shops, to create delightfully quirky scenes with an uncanny ability to spark personal...
Ray Tigerman’s wide-ranging creativity makes him a sort of Renaissance man of the West. Primarily, he’s an artist creating brilliantly colored, richly textured, boldly abstracted acrylic on canvas portraits of Native Americans, like the recent Truth Speaker. But he’s also a rock and country singer-guitarist...
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...