Painter Kevin Chupik combines the iconic past with concerns of contemporary thought. His paintings — scenarios, really — capture a sense of the unexpected. Most of all, his work discusses the conundrum of knowing and living in the West today. [caption id="attachment_29620" align="aligncenter" width="428"] Shadow Boxer...
ARCHITECTURE | Dick Clark + Associates CONSTRUCTION | Turrentine Properties Inc. INTERIOR DESIGN | Samantha Voges Design Luxury is a lifestyle for a Louisiana couple living out their dreams just off the shore of Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in the heart of Texas Hill Country. As one of...
The materials interconnect and tell a story: There is cloth dyed by hand with cochineal, sumac, and Osage orange trees. There are beads — there must be beads, for beads are the beating heart of this art — made of wood and glass, of bronze,...
Painter Dave Santillanes is an expert in muted colors, edgy quietness, and ethereal light. His landscape and figurative paintings beckon. Although his plein air pieces are too dignified to shout, they nevertheless have a magnetism that has brought admiring collectors. “Everywhere I look, there is...
ARCHITECTURE | Land+Shelter CONSTRUCTION | Terralink Structures After decades of living in Aspen and Snowmass, Colorado, Jocelyn and Dave Durrance migrated to Carbondale’s River Valley Ranch in 2017 to build their forever home on the 15th fairway of the 520-acre community on the Crystal River. For Dave,...
In Central Texas, a home’s architecture reflects a deep appreciation for its setting. Elk Edge Retreat, named for an elk herd that often roams the property, is surrounded by acres of open, undeveloped ranchland and is situated to capture the views of the rugged, rolling...
“Time is a constant in all of our lives,” says artist Jason Kowalski. His evocative paintings of weathered, often abandoned restaurants, motels, vehicles, and other artifacts of the West comprise, he says, “an archival portrait of the American story.” Rife with rust, dust, fading paint,...
Though many of Curt Mattson’s sculptures are tabletop-size, the artist himself is larger than life. A sculptor, painter, preacher, historian, and horse trainer, Mattson brings decades of study, skill, and execution to his artworks, and then that ineffable quality that defies easy definition — spirit....
Oil painter Elizabeth Pollie extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary. Her still-life depictions of shells and sake jugs, of tiny, blue-spotted eggs and feathers, reflect expansively on the alchemy of daily routine and pull on the threads of the lacy beginnings of awareness. She also...
ARCHITECTURE | Hendricks Architecture CONSTRUCTION | John Radleigh Construction, Inc. There was a time when the Lyons family enjoyed rappelling from a bunk bed with a rope down a ladder staircase in the middle of the night. They also recall instances when the family of five took...