Terri Ford was attending an opening reception in January 2016 for the California Art Club at its gallery in San Marino’s 200-year-old El Molino Viejo, a historic grist mill originally built to serve San Gabriel Mission. In the late afternoon light, she spied a scene...
Brad Overton rs asked in early 2008 as if it were yesterday. “Are you sculpting, or are you wasting your talent?” That challenge came from Angelo Caravaglia, his former sculpture professor from the University of Utah, where Overton had graduated with a Bachelor of Fine...
Stephanie Hartshorn paints portraits of the built West: weathered barns, ranch houses, and grain silos; vintage tractors and railroad cars; and sun-bleached neon signs advertising small-town spots where hardworking people gather. “I feel more of a connection, a pull to them than I do to...
When Terri Loewenthal creates one of her photographic artworks, a bystander might wonder what on earth is happening — that is, should the rarest of chances lead an intrepid hiker to the ultra-remote locations she selects. On her Mamiya 645, a medium-format professional-quality camera that...
Dan Knepper lives contentedly amidst the gentle farmlands of western Ohio, in a town where, he wryly boasts, “we now have two stoplights.” But again and again, he revisits the tranquil grandeur of the Rocky Mountain West. “I find myself wanting to paint those big,...
Mike Wise vividly remembers his 9-year-old self being mesmerized by the half-hour PBS series “The Joy of Painting,” which debuted in early 1983. “I watched Bob Ross pretty regularly,” he says of the cult-favorite show’s cheerfully reassuring, bearded, and permed creator and host. “I loved...
David Kammerzell brings images of the Old West to vibrant new life by combining carefully researched photos, diligently studied classic illustration styles, and his own contemporary sensibilities. “The West has always been a romanticized place,” says the Denver, Colorado-based artist. “I want to idealize or...
Erik Gonzales’ large-scale creations might at first appear to be paintings. After all, they hang on the wall and possess a boldly abstracted pictorial quality. But, in fact, they are fashioned from mixtures of powdered marble and clay, sand, earth, polymers, denatured alcohol, and other...
LaQuincey Reed is building his reputation as a figurative sculptor of bronzes that, though mostly sized to fit on a tabletop or pedestal, possess impressive monumentality. “My goal,” he says, “is to pay attention to their forms so that they feel bigger than they actually...
Susan McKinney’s creations in clay, and now sometimes glass, embody the meeting point of art, design, and craft. “A lot of the work I do starts with my background in industrial design,” she says, describing that role as “advocating for the human experience in objects...