Jamie Okuma has been making art of one kind or another since she was a child. Her process varies from project to project, and from day to day. “While I’m working on one thing, I’m thinking about what to do next,” Okuma says. “Whatever piques my...
Michelle Osman’s skyscapes center around the transformational nature of clouds conveying an expansive horizon and the turbulent presence of the unknown. “I work from photographs, because each painting takes a couple of months, and I love the specificity of the clouds I paint,” Osman says. “For...
The installation of artist Armond Lara’s 75 winged blue buffalo, cast in resin and hand-finished, feels like a lost herd cresting above the horizon, their silenced, thundering voices, muffled for centuries, at last audible to history. Inspired by his family’s experiences, Lara’s most recent project speaks...
Lightsculpture by William Leslie When you learn that William Leslie grew up in Southern California and loved to surf, you tend to look at his “Lightsculptures” in a new way. Reminiscent of light shining through a wave during the “magic hour” of the day, his pieces...
Most art collectors remember their first purchase with the same clarity and emotion that they remember their first date with their spouse, or first kiss. Plunking down a wad of cash, which for many young professionals is their first disposable income, for a piece of...
Singular pieces from high-profile, private collections sold swiftly and well at a series of auctions of American art by Sotheby’s and Christie’s. The latter auction house generated buzz with a beautifully rendered painting by Thomas Hart Benton of the U.S. Southwest and its peoples. Navajo Sand...
It is doubtful the U.S. could boast a national center for Dale William Nichols, the 20th-century artist whose acclaim rested on depicting red barns and realistic representations of rural life in the American Midwest, without the single-minded and whole-hearted efforts of Anna Nolan and her...
Casual comfort was the everyday standard at designer Scott Corridan’s childhood home in Riverside, California. “I was raised in a house where it was perfectly acceptable to kick off your shoes and put your feet on the sofa,” Corridan says. “My mom would say to...
In 1853, after an arduous journey from Independence, Missouri, to the territory now known as Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Sisters of Loretto founded the Academy of Our Lady of Light, a Catholic school that grew from small beginnings to cover a square-block near the...
Grant Kirkpatrick, Founder of KAA Design, describes his architectural style as “warm contemporary,” and when questioned about the firm’s philosophy, he returns again and again to the idea of timelessness. Think of that term not just as a desire to design houses that can’t be...