Beth Cavener’s ceramic sculptures defy easy explanation and gravity alike. Since her 2002 residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Cavener has sculpted animals — mostly goats, hares, and wolves, but also outliers like the life-sized snow leopard staring intently at a hornet’s...
With modest brevity, Mardie Rees describes herself as “a sculptor of the human figure and the portrait.” Yet, that summation embraces a breadth of subjects in the expressive artworks she produces in the studio beside the home she shares with her architect husband, Jeremy Broderick,...
When she was growing up in Indiana, Sheila Miles drew just about anything within her orbit: cows, horses, barns, even the calves her family raised in the backyard. In a household of six kids, making art was a way of finding some space for herself,...
Sarah Lamb first discovered the appeal of still life paintings more than three decades ago as a teenager in Atlanta, Georgia, while taking three-hour-long group classes two nights a week from local artist Sarah Brown. Early on, Lamb says she realized she “just loved depicting...
Interior designer Sharon Lohss, founder of Shelter Interiors, based in Bozeman, Montana, credits good genes for her deep-rooted creativity. “My mother could have been a landscape designer; she is so talented at transforming a space and has a major green thumb,” she says. “My dad...
With the ability to choose from thousands of paintings to purchase from highly respected galleries, museum shows, and art auctions, what factors influence a patron’s decision to commission a specific artwork? And conversely, why do some artists accept commissions while others do not? Galleries often play...
George Matthews has lent his expertise to everything from real estate and oil investments to cattle operations and managing the game ranch he and his wife, Betsy, own in the Texas Hill Country. The couple maintains several residences, but they are especially endeared to the...
Western and Native American art sales so far for 2020, a year slated to be remembered for a global pandemic and economic challenges, prove that you can’t keep a good auction down. Events carried on amid difficulties, with some venues opting to go entirely online and...
A couple years ago, I fell asleep in a hotel room painted with sky blue walls and puffy clouds with faces on them; a little girl in ceremonial dress sat cross-legged, and a city on a hilltop rose in the distance. Above me, the ceiling...
Heavy Metal Pendants from Buster + Punch “Street-inspired” describes the work of Buster + Punch, a London-based fashion label that patented these precision-cut pendants and their bayonet-style light bulbs. Designer, founder, and architect Massimo Buster Minale started his company in an East London garage, influenced by...