Works by contemporary and historical Western artists prompted robust responses from collectors during the dawn of 2024. Auction houses and events that offered masterpieces with historical significance or contemporary importance reached millions of dollars. Sotheby’s presented a collection of Western art and design from the Bar...
Artists spend their lives creating a type of non-verbal, visual communication. They often work alone, occasionally collaborating with fellow artists, but, for the most part, making art is a solitary journey. Because art comes from a personal place of introspection, it can be difficult for some...
When Kathy Anderson started her interior design firm in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988, she never would have guessed that one day she’d work for musicians Jon Bon Jovi and Blake Shelton or help renovate the interiors of the legendary Grand Ole Opry. However, she did...
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...
Susan Eddings Pérez arrived at the realization that she was, in fact, an abstract artist when the interior design clients for whom she’d been creating elaborate, atmospheric custom wall and ceiling finishes asked if they could keep, to display in their homes, the sample boards...
When international sculptor and octogenarian David Marshall announces that he’s considering retiring and opts to open his private studio in rural Colorado for visitors to “take a look at this and that,” you’d be crazy not to go. Over the last 55 years, Marshall has...
Andy Johnson, the founder and principal architect of DAJ Design in Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t believe there should be such a thing as an “environmental architect.” To him, that’s just an understood element of the job. So, while he’s not aiming at by-the-numbers sustainability awards, he’s...