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,...
Paintings by Rich Bowman hover in a liminal space between imagination and reality. Though his work is inspired by many landscapes he has seen and photographed, it aims to capture and convey deeply felt emotions, executed in a style that, when pressed for a label,...
Reen Axtell aims to “explore the Old West in a new, contemporary way” through vibrantly toned mixed-media pieces that combine transfers of archival photos and other images; patterns and shapes she applies with the aid of tools and objects as diverse as drafting compasses and...
Andy Taylor’s abstracted landscapes distill and impart the emotions the artist feels upon first encountering those scenes. He imbues them with a surprising intensity that results in part from a close and longstanding familiarity with his subjects. In fact, most of his works have found...
Kim Casebeer depicts landscapes that seem to go on forever, in which the sun, hovering near the horizon, imbues fields, hills, mountains, and clouds alike with a radiance that seems to emanate from within. Depicted in expressive, textured brushwork, her Western and Midwestern subjects also...
Melissa Dickenson’s large-scale, sensuously abstracted canvases take landscape painting far beyond plein air into a realm that could be called “plein terre.” The artist doesn’t merely survey and take visual notes on the scenes she’ll portray. She returns to her studio in San Francisco’s Mission...
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...