Jacob Lovett’s artworks literally and figuratively open windows onto “the cowboy culture of the modern West,” the artist explains, by combining a spare, contemporary style and palette with techniques gleaned from the Old Masters. “I haven’t really reinvented the wheel here,” he says modestly. “But...
Whitney Brooks Abbott celebrates quotidian moments of life along California’s Central Coast. From cloud-swept beaches to rural landscapes, abandoned greenhouses to the tranquil interior of her home south of Santa Barbara, her quietly expressive oil paintings are informed not only by devoted academic study but...
GL Richardson’s recent Bless Our Plans and Guide Our Hands delivers the powerful yet subtle impact of a painter possessing creative talent, from its scripture-inspired title to its moody palette and miasmic brushwork. It might come as a surprise, then, to learn that the artist...
James Corwin paints wildlife from across the Rocky Mountain West and worldwide in boldly close-up compositions and a vividly ultra-realistic style that forges intimate connections with viewers. In Unison, for instance, a mother gray wolf rests in a snowy forest clearing and raises her muzzle...
Jacqueline Jones brings a fresh perspective to her paintings of the West. Raised and trained as an artist in New England, which she still calls home, in recent years, she’s been paying regular visits to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Desert Southwest, reveling in the...
When Kathryn Stedham heads out of the barn just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the horse she rides each morning, she acknowledges and takes in the details of the land and sky. Rock formations, cloud cover, canyon walls, silent mesas, and distant peaks...
David Dibble spent his early years on the land his parents and grandparents worked in northern Utah near the Great Salt Lake, surrounded by the fields, livestock, weathered buildings, and well-worn machinery he now celebrates in atmospheric oil paintings. “It’s no surprise to me that...
Geoffrey Gersten’s Hollywood Summer uncannily feels like a portal into idyllic post-World War II America. Rendered large-scale in near-photorealistic detail, a carhop delivers food to the driver of a Plymouth sedan, against the backdrop of L.A.’s Art Deco masterpiece, Wiltern Theatre. Look closer, though, and...
Lisa Bennett’s growing list of collectors may find it challenging, at times, to come up with a general term to describe the artworks she composes from such objects gathered in the wild or thoughtfully sourced as feathers, quills, shells, and precise slices of branches, bones,...
Barbara Berry seemed destined to create art. She grew up in an art-filled home in rural Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and her talented mom earned money painting portraits of local children. “I would stand behind her and absorb it, and I assumed that I should be...