Johanne Mangi: Sighthounds are fascinating to me and I welcome opportunities to see them in person as well as to paint them. I was taken by the emotion of this dog. Intense, anxious, trusting, soulful, complicated. Rescue dogs drag their past lives along with them while incorporating traits and emotions of new owners. Capturing all of that is the challenge. Accepted into Oil Painters of America 31st National Exhibition.
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What is the most interesting thing you have painted/sculpted and why?
Angela Mia De la Vega: Some years ago, I was going through a very difficult time in my personal life.
I was immobilized, unable to move out of the situation. A wonderful group of friends and family (my butterflies) came to my rescue. Without them, I would not have been able to extricate myself from the situation.
To fly – to soar – we must know that we won’t crash and burn if we don’t succeed; we’ll have a safety net to catch us.
My butterflies caught me, lifted me up, and helped me move forward.
In honor of them, and the power of friendship, I created a sculpture, Lift Her with Butterflies.
What is the best thing about being an artist?
Angela Mia De la Vega: Over the years of doing my artwork, I have learned that when I create a work of art based on a story that I want to tell, my clients usually don’t know the story I’m telling, but they see their own story in my work.
My story is adopted as their story, and vice versa.
This creates a beautiful bridge, built upon the art, that leads to a lasting relationship.
These relationships are what inspire me every day, to create more, to sculpt more.
To see more of Angela’s work, visit: www.delavegastudios.com
As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
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The Pastel Society of Colorado’s (PSC) 18th Annual Mile High International Pastel Exhibition opens April 9th and will be on display through May 21, 2022 at the historic Washington Hall Gallery in Central City, CO.
The opening reception and awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 9 and is open and free to the public. Exhibition judge and juror Christine Debrosky will share comments on the show and present the extensive cash and merchandise awards. The exhibit can also be viewed during regular hours at Washington Hall Gallery and all paintings are available for purchase.
This is the premier exhibition held by PSC annually and showcases 95 pastel paintings in a variety of genres – landscape, portrait and still life – rendered in realistic to abstract forms by some of the finest pastel artists today.
Debrosky selected the paintings for this year’s show from nearly 300 works submitted. “We are thrilled that Christine agreed to jury this year’s show,” said PSC president, Ivadell Marie. “Her impressionistic paintings have not only gained recognition throughout the U.S., they have also garnered artistic awards internationally.”
PSC will host pastel painting demonstrations in the Washington Hall Gallery on select weekends during the show. For a schedule of artists, dates and times see www.pastelsocietyofcolorado.com/shows.php.
“We encourage the community to enjoy viewing these paintings in person or online, and to learn more about the enduring pastel medium first championed by such popular painters as Degas, Renoir and Cassatt,” added Jeannette Stutzman, co-chair of the show.
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“The Heavens Declare! Celebrating the Glory of the Skies”
Museum of Western Art
Kerrville, Texas
museumofwesternart.com
Through July 9, 2022
The Museum of Western Art is set to open an exhibition with a truly uplifting title: “The Heavens Declare! Celebrating the Glory of the Skies.” These words are drawn from Psalm 19 in the Bible, which compels us to look up and take notice: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.”
On view will be recent sky scenes created by 10 talented artists: Phil Bob Borman, Russell Case, Laurel Daniel, Linda Glover Gooch, David Griffin, David Grossman, Michael Magrin, Denise LaRue Mahlke, Phil Starke, and John Taft.
In 2020 the show’s premise was proposed by Mahlke, who has been busy coordinating it alongside the museum’s executive director, Darrell Beauchamp.
The official opening reception will occur on April 9, a busy day that will also offer artist talks and tours, plus a lunchtime presentation featuring collector Tim Newton. In addition, the museum will host a monthly workshop presented by one of three participating artists — Linda Glover Gooch, Denise LaRue Mahlke, or John Taft.
Opened in 1983, the Museum of Western Art is located a short drive northwest of San Antonio in Texas’s scenic Hill Country. Its original building was designed with rugged timbers and walls that give it the air of a fortified hacienda. The 14,000-square-foot facility encompasses galleries and study spaces, as well as the 6,000-volume Griff Research Center.
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Family Farm can be seen at the Oil Painters of America National Show in Steamboat Springs.
What is the best thing about being an artist?
When asked the question, what is the best thing about being an artist I would have to answer with a cliché “Being able to work at what you love doing”, but it is the truth. Much of the time I am frustrated, broke, and disillusioned, but I get to travel and paint in beautiful places, meet, and paint interesting people, and interpret the scenes and sensations through my paintings. Several years ago, I was painting in the snow along the Pecos River in northern New Mexico with a dear friend, it was a beautiful day, a beautiful place, and the painting was going well. I can remember saying to myself” it doesn’t get much better than this.” That says it all!
To see more of Carolyn’s work, visit: www.carolynlindsey.com
Landscapes and Still Life Paintings on View > From April 1 through April 29, 2022, the F.A.N. Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) will present a one-person exhibition of works by painter Nancy Bea Miller. The first solo exhibition in several years of Miller’s still life and landscape paintings in oil, “Nancy Bea Miller: New Paintings” showcases the artist’s thoughtful and affirming representational work, at a time when we all need a little lift.
More than forty oil paintings comprise the exhibition in sizes ranging from a few inches to a few feet. The majority of the paintings were created during the recent pandemic and are described by Miller as “the expression of ideas and feelings that have been forming in my mind for many years. Having a long period of enforced downtime meant that I finally had the time to focus more intensively on what I have been wanting to express.”
The paintings merge techniques of alla prima (all in one go) painting, bravura brushstrokes and expressionistic knife work, with the delicacy of layered glazes and close attention to detail. The artist’s decades of exploration of the medium of oil paint show through in the confident fresh handling of paint texture and colors.
“This is Nancy’s first solo show with the gallery, and she joins a long history of extraordinary Philadelphia artists that F.A.N. Gallery has championed over the decades. This exhibition will reveal the technique and spirit that is integral to Nancy’s artistry,” said Fred Al-Nakib, F.A.N.’s Director. “I am extremely pleased to share what will be an unforgettable and enjoyable exhibition of contemporary representational painting. Viewers will never look at a block of butter from their refrigerator the same way again!”
Miller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English Literature and Art History. She went on to attend Tyler School of Art, and then received her 4-year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She worked as an art conservator’s assistant for over ten years ultimately leaving to concentrate on developing her growing painting career, raising her family and teaching. (Miller is married to furniture designer Paul Downs, and they have three sons.) She earned her MFA from PAFA in 2014 and now teaches at various colleges and art centers in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Miller’s deeply felt still-life work is representational and painterly in style. Critics have said, “A suburban Chardin: she brings subtle technique and a wry peacefulness of spirit to bear on her canvases.” (Gerritt Henry, The Village Voice), “…warm, appealing paintings” (Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer), “The works are lovely and imbued with a kind of restraint.” (Roberta Fallon, ARTblog).
Miller says, “I paint the world around me that I know and feel, with all its infinite richness and possibility. The artist and poet William Blake wrote:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
It’s my belief that a whole world can also be seen by looking closely into the heart of a block of butter, or a gleaming red onion.”
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“I am sensitive to color relationships and the melting of shapes into a poetic unity,” said OPA Master Artist Kevin Macpherson. “The fluid and sculptural qualities of oil paint and my soft focused impressionistic style combine to create the style the results I seek. If the spots of color are accurate, it will ring more true than slavishly rendered details.”
Hagan Fine Art (Charleston, SC) will be hosting a noteworthy exhibition of original artwork from Macpherson for the month of April.
From the gallery:
Says Karen Hewitt Hagan, owner of Hagan Fine Art, “This is a very special and unique show for us to host. It will be his first show with us made up entirely of his wonderful custom-made pochade boxes.” (A pochade box is what ‘plein air’ artists use to hold the palette while painting outside.)
“Each pochade features the 6×8 original plein air painting with its palette of paints that were used in the creation of the work. These unique collector’s items are one-of-a-kind originals with a slice of history tied to the origin of the painting itself.”
Collectors are invited to make a private appointment to meet Kevin at Hagan Fine Art Showroom in the afternoon of Friday, April 1st. These 30-minute appointments can be booked online now at www.HaganFineArt.com or by calling 843-901-8124.
“These appointments are limited, so make plans now to enjoy a prosecco and mimosas, meet Kevin, and find your special pochade painting to add to your collection. Like his works, he is an inspiration.”
“Colorful Conversations” will feature over ten original oil paintings presented in a custom-made, handcrafted Kevin Macpherson Signature Series Pochade box.
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On View: “Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the Divine”
Andover, Massachusetts
addisongallery.org
through July 31, 2022
The Addison Gallery of American Art is humming with a major show of Georgia O’Keeffe’s little-known photography. Curator Gordon Wilkins has wisely complemented that exhibition with another titled “Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the Divine,” which features paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs by the artist who forever changed O’Keeffe’s approach while teaching her at Columbia University in New York City.
His radically anti-academic, mystical approach to artmaking, with its emphasis on emotion and personal vision rather than faithful representation, inspired her and many of her classmates.
Drawn almost entirely from the Addison’s George and Barbara Wright Collection of works by Dow, this project features not only his art, but also the ephemera he collected on his global travels, most significantly in Japan, where he developed his pioneering theories of composition.
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The 68th edition of The Winter Show takes place April 1–10, 2022 at 660 Madison Avenue, the former flagship location of Barneys New York, following the postponement of the January show due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Following this temporary move, The Winter Show, a benefit for East Side House Settlement, will return in 2023 to its longtime home at the Park Avenue Armory.
More from the organizers:
The 2022 edition features over 60 exhibitors across four floors of 660 Madison Avenue’s iconic building, presenting museum-quality works that span art, antiques, and design, from antiquities to contemporary art. The booths are arranged non-chronologically, allowing for a lively exchange across time periods, regions, artists, and makers. The Show includes a number of thematic presentations and specially curated displays in collaboration with notable designers.
In keeping with The Winter Show’s commitment to presenting works that are the highest standards of quality in the art market, every object that is presented on the Show floor is vetted for authenticity, date, and condition by a committee of more than 120 experts from the United States and Europe.
Exhibitor highlights at the 2022 fair include:
● Boccara (New York, USA) presents a unique tapestry that was designed by Alexander Calder and woven in the Cauquil-Prince workshop in Paris, as well as works by important artists of the modernist era and mid-century tapestry renaissance such as Sonia Delaunay and Jean Lurçat.
● Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., (New York, USA) specializing in American paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the 18th-20th centuries, brings a pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Campanile at Lido – one of his earliest pastels made in Venice upon the artist’s arrival in 1879.
● Milord Antiqués (Montreal, Quebec) features a suite of 17 stained glass panels representing symbolic images of the Old and New Testament by Max Ingrand, alongside fine 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture and works of art ranging from classical pieces to unique modernist designs.
● Richard Green (London, UK) showcases a painting by Pierre Bonnard, Paysage d’automne (environs de Vernon) from 1915, among further paintings by notable artists from the 17th to the 21st century.
For more details, please visit thewintershow.org.
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