The Creator & The Muse

Didi Menendez, the muse of PoetsArtists, asked members of the group to create portraits of other members for an upcoming exhibition.

WILD & FREE

Many will disagree with Izaak Walton’s statement, “As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

Moments in Time

For the past 20 years, artist Philip Smallwood has built a successful career as a watercolorist focusing primarily on realistic narratives, as well as landscapes and still lifes.

MIGHTY STEEDS

Among the great horses of history is Bucephalus, the wild stallion tamed by Alexander the Great.

Chasing the Spark

Principle Gallery hosts an exhibition highlighting the artwork of Geoffrey Johnson, which walks a thin line between reality and abstraction.

Lasting Legacies

The love Matthew Sievers has for old barns and trees is in his blood.

Journey through Space and Time

Joseph McGurl grew up on the shore near Boston Harbor.

A Quiet Nature

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem,” says A.A. Milne from the popular book Winnie the Pooh.

A Family Tradition

Tom and T.M. Nicholas have a shared passion for the land and sea of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

Through the Seasons

Layer upon layer of thick oil paints slathered onto the canvas and etched into landscapes charged with energy—these are the paintings of Plein air artist Lynn Boggess. He works solely with palette knives and trowels in his wet-on-wet technique, which gives him the freedom to capture the raw energy of nature as he perceives it, as opposed to getting wrapped up in the unnecessary details.

Spring Showcase

The International Guild of Realism’s Spring Salon Online Exhibition will feature more than 200 paintings by artists from around the globe.

Telling Tales

The figure is one of the classic images in paintings, ranging from simple sketches that hone in on the anatomy to large-scale narratives that are relatable or otherworldly. In the April exhibition, The Art of the Figure, at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, four artists— Aneka Ingold, Daniela Werneck, Geoffrey Laurence and Tor-Arne Moen—will present artwork that often melds the classic and contemporary. The pieces will dive into age-old techniques, while the stories and themes are often rooted in today’s world.

Southern Traditions

While many of us celebrate a plethora of life moments and holidays throughout the year, Wells Gallery out of South Carolina invites viewers to honor themes of tradition, “a custom passed down from generation to generation,” explains gallery director Emily Wagner. “We have cultural traditions and family traditions, and each contributes to a sense of practice and belonging.”

Soulful

Joseph Todorovitch’s latest paintings show his ongoing exploration of technique and style.

Reflecting Nature

This home in the East End of Long Island, New York, features art focused on the surrounding environs.

Art of the Sole

For the past 20 years, artist Adam Port has been creating pop culture and sports art in incredibly precise detail. His style, more known as photorealism, has always been a strong interest for him going back as far as early childhood. The world of sports has also been quite an inspiration for Port’s work, as an avid sporting event attender and also as an athlete.

Animal Instincts

French artist Valéry Vecu Quitard’s love of animals is on full display in his whimsical realistic paintings. His works, which are done in a Trompe l’Oeil style where the portrait of the animal is silhouetted within a hand-painted wall or frame, anthropomorphize any number of creatures from rabbits and birds to mice and tigers. The pieces are typically painted on a smaller scale and are “meant to be a hymn to benevolence, naiveté and bonhomie.”

The ALCHEMIST

Brad Kunkle turns lead into silver and gold for his newest show at Arcadia Contemporary.

A Look Inside

Kenny Harris’ newest paintings focus on the interiors of homes and castles in Ireland.

A Brush with Her Story

Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso spotlights historic women artists in her newest museum exhibition.

Garden Delights

During the Golden Age in the Netherlands, tulip bulbs fetched extraordinary prices in a market bubble called “tulipmania.

DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS

Santa Fe-based collector Skot Foreman’s home features artwork that transcends periods and genres.

The Unseen

Stone Sparrow NYC celebrates the innate artistic ability of women across the world in a major exhibition of nearly 80 works.

An Awakening

A new exhibition, titled An Awakening, at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York, brings to light the idea that “the eyes are the windows to the soul.”

SNOWED IN

Nathaniel Currier published Frances Flora Bond Palmer’s lithograph American Winter Scenes: Morning in 1854. At that time, James Merritt Ives was his bookkeeper.

SUPPORT for the Arts

The IBEX Collection features artwork from 24 international artists that speaks of human nature, condition and connection.

FIGURATIVE REALISM IS BACK, WOMEN CONTINUE TO RISE

We asked major art collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt to recap their latest buying journey to Miami this past winter.

Baroque Beauty

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

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.

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.