Lester Johnson, “Three Transparent Heads” (1961) (all images courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects) Lester Johnson (1919–2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into ...

In a cluttered studio on South Flores, weak sunlight from the January morning suffusing two big windows, Sandy Whitby squats over a large canvas stirring a plastic bucket of white house paint. Dressed ...

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara’s next art exhibit will feature works by Santa Barbara artist Sophia Beccue. During the past two years, while living through cancer and a global pandemic, ...

Hazmat suits, gloves, a respirator — Fabiola Menchelli needs all of it to handmake her large format art. For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...