While so many Western artists paint the region’s majestic mountains, canyons, buttes, and plains, Linda Glover Gooch turns her well-trained artist’s eye toward the skies above. The results are cloudscapes as awe-inspiring as the landscapes below. So, it may come as a surprise to learn...
Matthew Grant evokes the essence of Western life in his oil paintings that combine photorealism with a finely trained painterly eye. Born and raised in Texas and now living in Lehi, Utah, he describes his approach and style as “abstract photorealism,” executed in “loosely textured...
Luke Anderson instills Western themes with a bold contemporary sensibility in the mixed-media works he creates in a spirit of experimentation, combining elements of collage, stenciling, and energetic brushwork in acrylics and sometimes oil. “I have always described myself as an experimental artist,” he explains....
Mary Kay West does more than merely “fool the eye” with her trompe-l’oeil still-life paintings. In her recent work White Roses and Bluebird, for example, she certainly creates, as any artist working in that genre should, the powerful illusion that we are gazing into an...
Victoria Veedell paints the world around her to capture its enduring emotional impact. Rather than faithful physical representations, she says, “I create atmospheric landscapes that are memories of places or the emotions I was feeling when I was there.” Consider, for example, Nightfall San Francisco. The...
Among Leslie Lambert’s most vivid childhood memories are trips with her mother from their home in Ashton, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., to the National Gallery of Art. She especially loved looking at the bold, fluidly abstract canvases of America’s Color Field painters of...
Suzie Baker showed early signs that she’d march through life to her own artistic melody. One day in second grade, back in central Louisiana, the teacher handed her an outline of an owl to color with her box of crayons. “I can almost picture myself...
Bridger Barksdale has always seemed destined to become an artist. After all, his late grandfather, Ralph Barksdale, who passed in 2021 at the age of 88, was a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles who went on to be a...
When Taylor Pierce ventured out this past spring to Red Rock Canyon, a dramatic and pristine conservation area not far from her home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, Nevada, her main goal was to snap photo references of the seasonal flora that burst into...
Jennifer Tafoya blazes a fresh, contemporary path in pottery from the Santa Clara Pueblo, building upon traditions passed down from her parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and “untold generations before,” as she puts it. The dynamic combination of expertise and innovation she achieves in her work has...