At a time when a debate rages over the value and the meaning of a painting generated by artificial intelligence — or as international auction house Christie’s described Portrait of Edmond Belamy, “an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses” — it...
Blur a few details, and the Hassayampa Inn refocuses on another time: Calvin Coolidge is president; the improved Model A is replacing the iconic Model T on American roads; America is partying in speakeasies; and the Great Depression approaches stealthily, inexorably. During the “Roaring 20s,” architect...
A vision of the mysterious light in Spanish Shawl, one of JoAnn Peralta’s most notable paintings, came to her as she was waking up one morning. The light was so purely brilliant, she felt she had to match it exactly. But she won’t reveal how...
Maybe it was her childhood spent across the street from the picturesque, historic Wind Point Lighthouse on Lake Michigan that first sparked designer Kathleen Burke’s love of beautiful spaces. Perhaps it was watching her parents remodel their family home, an old farmhouse with good bones....
For almost 35 years, Scot Levitt has been collecting, organizing, appraising, and selling art. His position at Bonhams Auction House, as vice president and director of fine arts in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, provides excitement and satisfaction, with fresh opportunities present every day....
The question of why people create art has led to many poetic musing by some of civilization’s greatest thinkers. Preceding written language, drawing was likely the first expression of human thought hundreds of thousands of years ago. The first known artistic representations — markings made...
David Fjeld creates stained glass windows using traditional techniques that date back to the 11th century. Working all over the country, from New York City to Hawaii, Fjeld designs windows for private homes as well as churches and commercial establishments. Commissioned for a fishing cabin on...
Landscape painter Jay Moore translates his visceral experiences into visual experiences captured in oils through his brushwork and palette, his line and composition. “After painting landscapes for 20 years, trying to make everything look convincing — a cloud should look like something floating in the air...
Using hyper-realism Tracy Stuckey’s narratives evoke a mythical West. His characters, a mixture of slick billboard models and pulp fiction storylines, speak to the way the West is portrayed and misunderstood. These scenarios, like a funhouse mirror, allow us to examine our own absurdities. “There are...
Scraping each layer to reveal a glimpse of what waits beneath, Andrew Skorut patiently creates his landscapes. It’s as if he’s uncovering the distance by offering a compressed surface, a surface beveled and scratched with the notion of space. “It’s interesting to me; from a distance,...