Like many little girls, Mary Ross Buchholz loved to draw and she loved horses. As a professional artist, she incorporates her childhood passions into her work. Using primarily charcoal and graphite, Buchholz’s drawings bring out the textures and characters of her subjects. Her fine attention...
Mixed-media artist Kathleen Hope approaches her abstract cement paintings from a color perspective. Through the use of industrial construction materials and the aesthetics of abstraction, Hope conveys a contemporary perspective of modern life. Her work speaks to our state of mind as well as our...
THERE'S THE POSTCARD VERSION of spectacular Western American landscapes, places such as national parks, for example, that shout out, “This is beauty!” And then there’s the more common and intimate magnificence that most people drive on past. This second kind of beauty is what artist...
[caption id="attachment_17349" align="alignleft" width="211"] "Taking Flight" | Cobobolo Wood (duck), Manzanita Wood (branch), Black Walnut (base) | 31 x 24 x 23 inches[/caption] Twelve years ago, Tom Dean left corporate America and never looked back. Now, he focuses on his passion for woodcarving, and credits his...
Jill Carver translates the landscape into line and color. Her ongoing dialogue with place brings us into an intimate setting and allows us to eavesdrop on her surroundings. The exchanges, although quiet with studied pauses, are rendered with an understated palette and minimal brushwork to...
Nature Design Series by Hastings Tile and Bath No longer do we have to decide between white or a solid color for a newly designed bathroom, thanks to Hastings Tile and Bath, a company specializing in a wide range of luxury contemporary designs in ceramic bathroom...
All original prints are not created equal, yet there is a rule of thumb that experts say to apply across the spectrum of artists, printmaking methods, and condition of items at issue: Buy what you love and what you wish to see on your walls...
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...