Full of unexpected resonance, depth, and a sense of harmony, Tricia Rissmann employs color and texture to extoll the power of abstract form and composition. “I don’t usually have anything mapped out,” she says. “I just get in there and start creating and working for a...
After creating a variety of metalsmith work, Glenn Gilmore is returning to his first love: fireplace doors. The hearth, historically a central place to gather, cook, and share stories, can also convey a homeowner’s passions. Gilmore enjoys the gratification he gives to clients when he...
Angus Wilson’s still-life paintings quicken with color, bloom with shape, and speak of the artists upon whose shoulders he stands, and the future that he sees from that viewpoint. He identifies himself as a contemporary Post-Impressionist painter, a label he’s created, but one that helps...
Mixed-media artist Amy Brakeman Livezey combines found objects with contemporary abstracted landscapes. Livezey picks up bits of detritus from the past, incorporating them like mementos into her paintings; places where traces of time tie an historical past with a present sense of things lost and...
In 1921, the federal government banned the Pueblo tribes sacred “pagan” dances. About the same time, a San Ildefonso woman started painting pictures — though only men of her tribe were supposed to paint. That artist, Quah Ah, captured the defiant, inner strength of her...
A Hawaiian feather cape more than 237 years old, traveling from New Zealand to Honolulu, arrived in astonishingly good condition at the Bishop Museum in March 2016. The cape’s vivid yellow and red feathers were plucked from approximately 20,000 birds, and it was maintained impeccably at...
First-generation immigrants, Jack and Rebecca Benaroya met at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. They fell in love, and for 70 years they lived and appreciated life in a grand way. With a laugh, Rebecca tells how her husband was conceived in Beirut and delivered...
Figurative works and landscapes led western art sales in the closing weeks of 2018, with images of the region’s storied figures competing with renderings of its storied places. In early November, the Santa Fe Art Auction saw several small-sized yet stunning portraits by Taos Society Artists E....
Inside this issue of WA&A, we share the assorted ways that artists and architects use their mediums to express their ideas. Materials that seem fixed — canvas, oil paint, barn wood, concrete, and stone — are transformed into images that communicate beliefs, or structures that...
“Right now, all our projects are for repeat clients,” architect Brian Tichenor remarks. “Is that true?” his partner and wife, Raun Thorp, asks, not expecting an answer. [caption id="attachment_17210" align="alignleft" width="202"] A painting by Tichenor hangs in their Los Angeles office. All photos: Roger Davies for...