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...
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,...