For Ashley Macuga, becoming an interior designer is rooted in her past and has deep meaning in her present. She founded Collected Interiors in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. Though she has lived in the Bay Area for the last 13 years, Macuga’s...
An astute art collector once told me that whenever he’s in Manhattan, he visits the Whitney Museum of American Art to sit on the bench in front of an immense Jackson Pollock drip painting. The collector doesn’t do this because he likes the painting. He...
Auction houses and museums offered an exciting array of artworks for sale, and buyers proved interested, turning up for online and in-person events this spring. In March, the 2024 Scottsdale Art Auction totaled more than $10.4 million, marking several world auction records for artists such...
To William P. Healey, art is the manifestation of American Western history, a subject he’s been interested in since childhood. His older brother, a bibliophile, shared countless volumes detailing Western events with him; but more important than books, Healey says, were the art prints of...
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,...