Kyle Ma was determined to view the Grand Canyon’s Powell Point under just the right conditions while gathering references during a stormy early springtime last year. “It took me four tries returning to that location to get the kind of lighting I was looking for,”...
Robert Rivera was struck by artistic inspiration one foggy autumn day in the early 1970s while he and his wife, Linda, drove from their home in New Mexico to their native California to visit her parents north of San Diego. “We passed this farmhouse with...
Gabriela Aguiló paints enthralling imaginary landscapes drawing on such powerful imagery as alchemical symbols and the archetypes of the collective unconscious identified by the great 20th-century Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst Karl Jung. Though those subjects will certainly enhance one’s understanding of her art, there’s no...
Amanda Markel’s bronze works portray their subjects by what she leaves out just as much as by what she includes. Aria, for example, melds a fluid Eastern yin-yang symbol with the natural grace of a horse’s foreleg and head. As viewers rotate the sculpture, they...
Andy Mast cannot recall the horrific 2009 accident that forever changed his life at the age of 17. Nor did anyone else see it happen. Yet, his ordeal ultimately led to his current triumph as an ever-more-widely heralded artist working in the ages-old medium of...
Nancy Seamons Crookston’s colorist paintings overbrim with joy. Working primarily in oils from her plein air studies and reference photos, she captures uplifting moments from the world all around her: children frolicking along the shoreline; horses and riders pausing for refreshment along a Rocky Mountain...
Whitney Gardner was camping and plein air painting last spring at Lost Dutchman State Park east of Phoenix. Before sunset one day, she decided to capture reference photos of the nearby Superstition Mountains, her view punctuated by a solitary saguaro and a blossoming ocotillo. “To...
Scott Baxter brings to his photographs of present-day American ranchers the insights of a scholar, the eyes of an artist, the magic of an alchemist, and the heart of a true friend. The results are images that go far beyond simply portraying their subjects, establishing...
Bridgette Meinhold paints large-scale landscapes inspired by the Mountain West she calls home, imbuing these artworks with an almost trancelike quality through the medium of encaustic. She applies as many as 20 separate thin layers of pigment-colored beeswax and three to four coats of milk-based...
Kathleen Frank’s oil paintings portray the natural world with lively patterns inspired by her training in woodblock printmaking; exuberant color rooted in a love of Mexican and Central American culture; and a heightened sense of drama derived from her familiarity with the geography and weather...