GROWING UP ON THE EAST COAST, MARION AND BOB AURAY were used to traditional architecture, the kind that depends on right angles and clean, classic lines. So when Marion walked into a home at an open house in Scottsdale, Arizona, that was designed by architect...
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL COUPLE LIVING LONDON, their new Rocky Mountain home would be as much about art as it was about architecture. Despite the distances separating the participants, the thoroughly collaborative effort resulted in all of the components working together to create a harmonious whole in...
TO UNDERSTAND AARON MORGAN BROWN'S PAINTINGS, it helps to know that he spent many summers hanging out in the Creede Repertory Theatre, located in a tiny mountain town in Colorado, where his father worked in the late 1970s. In those days, the company staged plays...
ARTIST DIANA MADARAS IS PURSUING TWO OF HER LIFE PASSIONS: philanthropy and painting. As a philanthropist, she has donated more than $500,000 in artworks to more than 100 charities. She has also raised more than $200,000 through the Art for Animals Foundation, a charity she founded...
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT for Arlena Markinson back in 1986. Not so for her Brooklyn-born husband, Martin (Marty), a Broadway producer in Midtown Manhattan. [caption id="attachment_17569" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] In the kitchen, the wool and silk rug from Feizy accents bar stools...
ACCORDING TO ROD FRASER, when people visit and sit on the patio at his family’s 3D Ranch in Bozeman, Montana, they become easily transfixed. “Everyone who visits has been universally impacted; I think people tend to get very reflective very quickly,” he says. “There’s a...
STRIDING PURPOSEFULLY THROUGH SIX FLAGS OVER MID-AMERICA (now Six Flags St. Louis) on a warm June day, Teresa Elliott suddenly stopped in her tracks. In front of her was an attraction where artists sat with paper and pastels, rapidly sketching the likeness of each person...
NOT MANY WORKING ARTISTS CAN CLAIM A DIRECT CONNECTION to an artform that’s hundreds of years old, but Luis Tapia continues to give new relevance to the art of the santo, revitalizing a form of Chicano religious iconography that dates to the turn of the...
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...
WHEN JONATHAN FOOTE DESIGNS A HOUSE, he thinks like a composer. “When I’m designing buildings,” the architect explains, “I have music going through my head. Key changes, rhythm changes, they’re really key to conceptualizing a building, especially where there are volumes of space, passages, resting...