David Ridgway at WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington

David Ridgway’s oil painted landscapes reflect a joy, love and understanding for his environment. Whether painting plein aire or in his studio, his images of the hills, valleys, boats, and houses of the San Juan’s and Skagit counties are an appreciative expression of the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. David pares the landscape down to interlocking…

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R. J. Kern at Klompching Gallery in NYC

R. J. Kern’s exhibition at KLOMPCHING GALLERY is the artist’s first solo show in New York, bringing together a selection of color photographs from his three critically-acclaimed projects: The Unchosen Ones, Out To Pasture and Divine Animals: The Bovidae. “Mr. Hofsós, Skagafjardarsysla, Iceland,” 23.5 x 30 inches, archival pigment print, Ed 7 + 1AP, 2014 © R. J.…

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John Bradford at Anna Zorina Gallery in New York City

“Hamilton, History, Lincoln and Paint”, is John Bradford’s first solo exhibition at the Anna Zorina Gallery. The show features the artist’s latest paintings that offer his contemporary take on historical subjects. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION John Bradford: “I am employing violent scraping, palette knifing, dabbing, dripping, reducing, tearing apart, cutting through, and building up so the…

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James Grubola “The Friday (and Thursday) Sessions”

This exhibition marks a returning to my first love – figure drawing. In  August 1975 I began teaching drawing in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Louisville with a special emphasis on figure drawing.  Over the next forty-two years I worked with hundreds of students, scores of models, and set up innumerable…

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Amy Sands at Rourke Art Museum

“I am interested in the interaction of color, space and memory – both from a perspective of the artist’s process as well as from the viewer’s active interaction with a finished piece.  My art originates in my interest of the day-to-day experiences influenced by color, pattern and space, and how this is recorded in memory.…

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Bob Nugent at Erickson Fine Art Gallery

There is a word in Portuguese, “Sentido”, that has to do with experiencing things with all one’s senses.  Not just to transfer what you have seen….but to use all your senses to record the place or object.  That is what my work is about. When I go into the Amazon for instance, I take pictures,…

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Norman Rockwell’s Christmas: Original Artwork for Hallmark

Hallmark has a remarkable legacy of collaboration with some of the world’s most renowned artists and designers. Perhaps none of these is more beloved than the American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom Hallmark founder J.C. Hall commissioned to produce 32 paintings for the company’s greeting cards between 1948 to 1957, at the height of his career.…

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Michael Bentley “New Works on Paper” at Gruen Galleries

“Walking out to the shore every morning and looking out over the sea, I am still in awe of its beauty” — Michael Bentley With these new works, Bentley continues to explore abstract seascapes, with his unconventional use of gouache. Working with the medium’s brilliance and range of opacities and the intricate use of white…

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Heidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain

Heidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain consists of graphite drawings and paper sculptures created by Hogden while she was the Artist-in-Resident at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Through these works, Hogden explores the physical frailty of the natural world and the relationship between place and identity on a symbolic level. This work represents moments of transformation;…

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