Like many sculptures Pati Stajcar creates, her recent work titled Seascapes did not start with a specific concept but rather with the material itself: a chunk of red cedar burl, a knobby growth on tree trunks that loggers cut away because its dense, swirling grains...
Steve Kessler and his wife, Pam, weren’t looking to move out of Southern California, where Kessler had built a thriving company constructing production homes. But when his college fraternity brother called, gushing about a neighborhood near Tahoe called Montrêux, the Kesslers decided to check it...
One evening a few years back, friends of Linda Lillegraven stopped by for dinner. Earlier in the day, she’d been working on a landscape of rolling grasslands spooling out across many miles to the horizon and a somber, cloudless sky. The only indication of human...
Joel Ostlind has a preternatural ability to tell a story in simple lines, without relying on color to fill in details like time of day or season. But how he transforms those drawings into elegant small-edition etchings, pulled by hand, as the earliest printmakers of...
In early July, a fire began near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — a fire that grew so hot, it created its own weather system. Relentless dry winds fueled what would become a “megafire,” casting superheated clouds into the sky that towered over...
Upon accepting the commission to design a residence in Martis Camp, California, architect Clare Walton simultaneously decided to defy and embrace nature. [caption id="attachment_30401" align="aligncenter" width="276"] Architect Clare Walton responded to the steep topography of a site in California’s Martis Camp by designing a house whose...
A lifelong New Mexican, designer-builder Seth Anderson knows instinctively when he’s found a spot with unique resonance. [caption id="attachment_30389" align="aligncenter" width="377"] Inside, custom steel hides the powder room. The 100-year-old mesquite door is 10 feet wide. The ceramic Catrina sculpture in the niche was found in...
Thom Ross may be best known for his bold, stylistic artwork. At his core, however, he is a historian — a storyteller driven not by myth but by a deep desire to understand and reinterpret it. For Ross, creativity is a tool for unearthing truths...
Kim Lordier, a celebrated pastel artist in the American West, captures not just the fleeting colors of dawn or the hush of ocean mist rolling in — she captures the light that lives within those moments. Raised in the Bay Area and inspired by the...
Urban renewal often equates demolition with progress, causing the old to disappear in favor of the new. This is why, in the rapidly changing heart and landscape of lower downtown Denver, Colorado, once home to streets of graceful 19th-century Victorian buildings, a lone survivor of...