How the silo, a new gallery run by a writer and a painter, sees defending artists as a “practice of art criticism by other means”

For some time, husband and wife duo Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause Rubinstein— an art critic and an artist, respectively — are planning to open an art gallery. The plan was to launch the silo: living with the art gallery next year, in 2023, at the 19th-century farmhouse that Raphael bought some 20 years... Read More

Dan’s Cover Artist Halim Flowers Blooms

This week’s cover by artist/writer Halim Flowers is a message of love and hope – a message from a man who spent 22 years locked away in a place devoid of either and who now hopes to share her transformative message in the Hamptons, New York City, Palm Beach and beyond. Despite stellar grades... Read More

Painter Cannon Dill: “I almost have to beat the canvas like a drum”

Cannon Dill was the kid who always had paint on his hands. Even today as an adult, making art is really the only thing he can focus on. “I’m a very calm person, too calm for retail jobs and too anxious for office work,” he told 48hills. “Art has always been my thing, it... Read More

Q&A with artist/writer Robert Maniscalco | Community News

Originally from Detroit, artist Robert Maniscalco apprenticed in the early 1980s to his internationally renowned portrait painter father, Joseph, who believed it was a sin to hide his talent. His gifts led him to become an accomplished multimedia artist. Robert Maniscalco focuses primarily on oil portraiture and fine art, describing his style as expressive... Read More

The fascinating effects of Shigeko Kubota’s video sculptures

By the time Shigeko Kubota left Japan for the United States in 1964, she had already met John Cage and Yoko Ono, and had had her first solo exhibition at the Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, in 1963. Entitled “1st Love, 2nd Love… ”, the exhibition included an interactive sculptural installation which, although Kubota is a... Read More

Booming figurative painter Dominic Chambers joins Lehmann Maupin – ARTnews.com

Dominic Chambers believes in personal care. The burgeoning figurative painter has been recognized for his vast canvases in which the mundane and the magical converge. In a youthful work, a woman seated on a sofa is absorbed by a book; the sofa floats along an abstract blue background reminiscent of a tumultuous river. The... Read More

Tony Woodward’s vibrant sculptures aren’t just Tasmanian landmarks, they’re his laughing legacy

It put Sigmund Freud and Leon Trotsky in a car together in the suburbs and a smiling king on the side of one of Tasmania’s busiest highways. Tony Woodward’s original mosaic and concrete sculptures can be seen across Hobart and the upstate, from Crawfish to Revolutionaries to Fog Personified. The artist and educator died... Read More

British artist Julian Opie’s animal sculptures, an Incheon-inspired work unveiled at the Kukje gallery

A view of the installation of the exhibition “Julian Opie” at the Kukje Gallery (Courtesy of the artist and the Kukje Gallery) British artist Julian Opie presents his third solo exhibition at the Kukje Gallery in Seoul, following two solo exhibitions in the country in 2017 and 2018. Inspired by familiar subjects of everyday... Read More

Painter Reginald O’Neal on the upcoming exhibition “They Dreamed of Us” at Spinello Projects

Hidden among lush greenery is a small iron gate on the corner of NW Seventh Avenue and 29th Terrace in Allapattah. Enter under the lion’s head and you find yourself inside Spinello Projects. Go up a flight of stairs and in the hallway to the left is the space occupied by Reginald O’Neal. O’Neal... Read More

Dinosaurs Have Next in the Art of San Francisco Painter Michael Kerbow

San Francisco painter Michael Kerbow wants to make art that matters. Indeed, the artist says that it is quite easy to make art to decorate someone’s wall, but it can also explore important issues and communicate critical ideas. “I am making art on environmental challenges like climate change, plastic pollution and habitat destruction because... Read More

Overlooked No More: Remedios Varo, Spanish painter of magic, mysticism and science

Varo, then well in his forties, made his breakthrough with a group exhibition in 1955, showing paintings that dealt with the subconscious, the mystical, and the metaphysical; in many, the protagonist looked like Varo. She was interested in tarot, astrology and alchemy, which she balanced with a long-standing love for science, especially geology, Arcq... Read More

Rosemary Mayer’s fabric sculptures oscillate between form and form

Since her death in 2014, Rosemary Mayer’s formally demanding, diverse and conceptually rigorous body of work has remained vastly underestimated. Yet there is no shortage of venerable historical context for his practice: in situ installations that foreshadowed the modulation of performance art from public intervention to semi-private relational aesthetics; the phenomenological separation of the... Read More

Molly Peacock’s lush biography of Canadian painter Mary Hiester Reid becomes intimate glimpse into life and marriage

There is something magical about approaching a painting. The canvas nose is bold, even when you’re not under the watchful eye of a museum keeper. It is a humiliating experience. It is often too easy to forget that this job in front of you is a physical manifestation of a person’s vision and talent.... Read More

After losing the use of his dominant arm, painter changes life with CGI

NEYAGAWA, Osaka Prefecture – Toshio Katsuma, a painter, was devastated when he lost the ability to use his dominant left hand due to sudden illness 11 years ago. He no longer knew how to draw. It was a blow, and he almost lost the will to live. But seven years later, the artist fulfilled... Read More

Painter Wes Lang unveils ‘Endless Horizons’ at Almine Rech in Aspen

Painter Wes Lang in his Los Angeles studio. The artist opened the solo exhibition “Endless Horizons” on Friday. Wyatt Troll / Courtesy of the artist Painter Wes Lang started and gave up and painted over countless versions of what would become his “Endless Horizons” series, eventually finding a creative groove with serious messages of... Read More

The art world remembers the late painter Hung Liu, who valued everyday immigrants in monumental portraits

On the eve of her first retrospective in a museum, Oakland painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to have achieved success in the United States, died on Saturday August 7 of pancreatic cancer. She was 73 years old. During his career, Hung Liu created large-scale paintings and installations based on photographs,... Read More

Painter Christine Ferrouge explores the magical world of childhood, girls in tow

A narrative and insightful chronicle of the magical world of childhood unfolds in the work of Oakland painter Christine Ferrouge. Much like an anthropologist, her work is guided by our human instinct for survival and adaptation to our social and physical environments. The artist has always used the people around her as a subject,... Read More

Paintings and sculptures in the spotlight in artist Gabriel Villa’s exhibition in Chicago | visual arts

Gabriel Villa’s painting “EL Luchador” is on display at the Hyde Park Art Center. The “The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa” exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago features the “Orange” painting. Artwork by artist Gabriel Villa is featured in a solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center. “The Gabriel Villa Makeover”... Read More

Textile sculptures capture the magnificent movement of ocean creatures

Passionate about fabric and guided by her intuition, the artist Mariko Kusumoto creates sculptures inspired by the things that fascinate her. The sometimes portable pieces often revolve around the ocean, and marine inhabitants, like coral, inspire shapes. They blend perfectly with the softness and translucent qualities of the fabric; the pieces have a billowy... Read More

Sonoma County Painter Opens Exhibition in Hometown – Yonkers

Long-time Sonoma County artist Jack Stuppin has an enviable reputation for his colorful and distinctive paintings of northern California landscapes, but his latest exhibition deals with a very different part of the country. “Jack Stuppin: The Beginning of My World” opened earlier this month at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, in... Read More

Chinese artist Yu Ji makes sculptures using rubble, flowing water and “wasted mud”. The best curators in the world are obsessed with her

There’s something about Yu Ji’s work – he can stop even the most seasoned and seen curator in his tracks. Today, the Shanghai-based artist continues his rapid rise to world art fame with a solo exhibition at the prestigious Chisenhale Gallery, his first institutional exhibition outside Asia. Chisenhale is known to propel emerging artists... Read More