Susan and Jake Potje have a serious art addiction. To be fair, Susan’s parents, Tom and Ann Morrow, are to blame. They launched the Celebration of Fine Art in Scottsdale in 1991 and handed over the reins to Susan and Jake in 2008. With 100...
Arizona-based artist Gedion Nyanhongo’s stone sculptures explore the shared humanity found in the culture and art of the Shona tribe of his native Zimbabwe with all people around the world. His sculpture Song of Protectedness depicts a family of six held by a pair of...
Cathy Sheeter uses scratchboard to create award-winning portraits of wildlife, barnyard animals, birds, and pets. A medium many kids tried in grade school art classes and then left behind, Sheeter’s scratchboard pieces are so startlingly lifelike that some viewers insist they’re photographs. Even more compelling...
Suzanne Falk gives still life painting a distinctly retro pop-cultural twist. Her meticulously assembled compositions combine her own and friends’ treasured possessions, along with finds from flea markets, yard sales, and antique shops, to create delightfully quirky scenes with an uncanny ability to spark personal...
Ray Tigerman’s wide-ranging creativity makes him a sort of Renaissance man of the West. Primarily, he’s an artist creating brilliantly colored, richly textured, boldly abstracted acrylic on canvas portraits of Native Americans, like the recent Truth Speaker. But he’s also a rock and country singer-guitarist...
Two signature Western art events celebrated record-breaking totals amid September shows and sales in a sign that the rise of the genre’s popularity has yet to set. It was difficult to assess market strength tied to any one medium or any one style, as a...
Artists often do some odd things that can appear counterintuitive or even self-destructive — like inviting you over to see their latest work, then refusing to sell it to you. This isn’t a ploy to get you to pay more (though it might be). More...
Meredith Owen’s dream of becoming an interior designer reads like a playwright scripted it. The scene opens with a 10-year-old girl and her family moving into an older home that needs some work. “I played with fabrics and wallpapers while my mom was updating the...
Even before I started writing the Collector’s Notebook for Western Art & Architecture, I loved the magazine’s oversized, glossy pages filled with gorgeous photos and insightful stories. Honestly, it’s one of the only magazines I collect because each issue is like an oasis on...
Michael Kessler creates large-scale, mixed-media artworks that straddle the line between abstraction and realism. His meticulous mashups of neatly plotted grids and biomorphic tree forms invite viewers to contemplate their own place in the natural world. Using at least 40 and sometimes as many as...