Kevin Courter’s landscape paintings of the greater San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and raised a family — and of the mountains surrounding Redding, California, where he and his wife have lived for almost six years now — possess an enthralling, almost spiritual...
Del Curfman’s joyously colorful figurative paintings deliver pointed messages about the present-day societal issues Indigenous peoples face. Take, for instance, his Selfie with a Stereotype, in which Crow artist and activist KamiJo Whiteclay poses in traditional dress while pursing her cherry-red lips, fashion model-style, to...
One afternoon last December, as Julie Oriet drove across a bridge near her home in Cody, Wyoming, she spied a brilliant blue stream clogged with ice floes, backed by russet-hued grassy banks and birches aglow in the sunlight. “I had to paint it,” she recalls....
Steven A. Jackson deploys his camera and the modern digital darkroom tools of Photoshop to record and transform scenes that, once processed and printed under his expert eye, often eerily express the subtle interactions between humans and the natural world in the Southwest, near and...
Danuta Tomzynski’s close-up, painstakingly detailed still-life oils of hand-tooled saddles and other leatherwork aim to look at life in the West through a cowboy’s eyes. “All the time in art,” she says, “we see them depicted on horses in scenic landscapes. But, meanwhile, they’re sitting...
Doug Atwill may well embody the definition of a modern Renaissance man. Yes, he paints landscapes and garden scenes bursting with vibrant colors and lively patterns in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has made his home for the past five and a...
Lori Putnam captures enthralling scenes of the natural world, including iconic Western landscapes and wildlife, in oil-on-panel works that provide viewers with a sense of immediacy. Yet, Putnam prefers to consider her paintings not so much realistic depictions of places and things but rather “abstracted...
Kaetlyn Able creates her multimedia art in a way that at times may seem more akin to lacemaking, or the almost-finer-than-the-naked-eye-can-see form of embroidery called petit point, than to simply brushing paint onto a surface. Such a complex approach seems appropriate, considering the depth and...
When Georgia Rowswell’s landscape Thunderhead Off Happy Jack Road won Best of Show during last spring’s Cowgirl Up! exhibition at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona, the judges described it as “mind-blowing.” That’s a term not often used in museum-speak. Yet, it sums...
James Penfield’s paintings often possess the kinetic energy of a live performance, taking viewers’ eyes on a dynamic journey across canvases that simultaneously feel like abstract compositions and convincingly realistic images of Western wildlife, people, and landscapes. His 2024 painting Minerva, for example, offers dramatic...