In this issue

Michael Scott: Elemental Visions • Marc Trujillo: American Purgatory • Jeremy Lipking: Contemporary Master • Collector’s Focus: Florals & Botanicals •Collector’s Focus: Women Artists • The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Colorado • Art Fair & Art Show Previews • Upcoming Solo & Group Shows • Calendar of Events • Artist Focus

ELEMENTAL VISIONS

Artist Michael Scott explores the mythology, symbolism and science of an existence born out of a chain of chemical— and alchemical—reactions.

6 mins

American Purgatory

Artist Marc Trujillo distills the sterility of American consumerism into haunting snapshots of the mundane, liminal, moments that make up much of our lives.

6 mins

Jeremy Lipking

A Contemporary Master of American Art

7 mins

BOUNTIFUL Bouquets

Mary Oliver stood among the flowers and wrote, “The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject.

8 mins

CREATIVE Expression

Tula Telfair has a studio in Old Lyme, Connecticut, home to what the Hartford Courant called in 1907, “the most talked about art colony in America today.”

7 mins

Deeper Meaning

A masterful grasp of the human form, alongside multi-layered metaphor, stunning composition and superb demonstrations of light and color—these are just a few of the elements that make up 33 Contemporary’s MASTERWORKS exhibition.

3 mins

Object Lessons

Still life painters have fascinating studios. Their subjects are their things, and their things are their subjects.

4 mins

Bizarre Beautiful

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, founded in Australia in 2013, began curating exhibitions around the world in 2015.

2 mins

A Fresh Take

Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, honors the still life genre in its upcoming group show Still Fresh.

3 mins

Breaking the Rules

In recent years, painter Ron Hicks has been looking at his work with a thoughtful eye. “What have I been hiding behind?” he asked himself.

2 mins

The Simple Things

Wes Hempel has long been known for his elaborate, conceptual works that place male figures in art-historical settings, re-envisioning what the cannon of fine art might look like if homosexuality had been accepted and included.

3 mins

Awash in Color

Jones & Terwilliger Galleries are pairing two artists that take a dramatically different approach to the exploration of color in a joint show that opens at their Palm Desert, California, location on March 3.

2 mins

Joyful Show-off's

There’s still life painting, and then there’s garden-to-easel still life painting. “Except for the orchids, everything that I paint, we have grown in our garden,” floral artist Jane Jones tells us. In other words, she takes process to a higher level.

2 mins

Fervent Emblems

Growing up in Iowa, Kevin Sloan took the landscape of planted fields for granted.

2 mins

A Celebration of Women Artists

Lee Vasu has been hosting an annual juried exhibition of exceptional women artists at Dacia Gallery in New York’s East Village for 10 years now.

3 mins

Painting Becomes Exciting Again

Gross McCleaf Gallery artist Elizabeth Geiger gets ready for her one-woman show Borrowed Rhythms, where she presents around 16 new paintings featuring still life subject matter.

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.