In this issue

Human Nature: Collector’s Focus: Figurative Art • The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Florida • The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Park City, Utah • Oil Painters of America’s Western Regional Juried Exhibition • The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Canada • Mixing it Up • Cesar Santos: Under the Hood • Scott Avett: Familial Connections • Jivan Lee: Monumental • Previews of works for sale at upcoming shows coast to coast

Mixing It Up

The art collection in David Halperin’s New York City apartment juxtaposes contemporary cityscapes and classic portraiture.

3 mins

Under The Hood

Cesar Santos assembles his newest pieces in layered segments revealing the mechanisms at work under the paint.

4 mins

Monumental

The landscape in and around Taos, New Mexico, is central to Jivan Lee’s latest paintings.

4 mins

The Concept of Self

Painter Jen Mann’s new show is a twisty-turny​ spiral into an almost absurd amount of meta reflection—paintings of other paintings, of art galleries, mirrors, fake magazine covers, film stills of films that don’t exist, self-portraits of self-portraits— but deep down in her hyper-colored world of self-satire and fourth-wall-breaking imagery is a mirror that is aimed not at Mann, but the viewer.

2 mins

Baroque Beauty

Classically trained artist Francesco Lombardo finds inspiration for his ethereal work from the Baroque and pentimento.

2 mins

Stretching The Imagination

While painting relies fundamentally on its ability to create a threedimensional illusion through a combination of elements like volume and perspective, the medium of sculpture utilizes a literal three-dimensional space through shape and movement of the physical form.

2 mins

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American Art Collector Magazine Description:

Previewing upcoming art exhibitions from coast to coast, American Art Collector is a unique monthly magazine specially designed to bring living representational artists, galleries and active art collectors together in one place.