Art Trends | Gallery Owners
By Norman Kolpas Gallery owners across the nation share their insights on the coming year’s art scene Mark Tarrant at Mountain Trails Gallery MARK TARRANT MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY JACKSON, WY What’s happening in 2008 at Mountain Trails? We’re going to work with fewer artists so that we can put more attention...
Top Emerging Artists of 2009 | Gregory Frank Harris
By Norman Koplas Contemporary landscapes in oil or acrylic by Gregory Frank Harris defy easy categorization, even by the artist himself. “I would say they’re minimalist,” he begins. “Still representational, of course, but up close they’re very abstract, with a total lack of detail. Maybe you could call them abstracted landscapes.”...
Greener Palettes
Landscape artists are taking up environmental causes
Top Emerging Artist of 2009 | Norman Akers
By Norman Koplas With their swirling compositions of realistically rendered animals, Indian and Anglo symbols, geometric shapes, and map grids, the large-scale oil paintings of Norman Akers resemble nothing so much as dreams captured on canvas. “Let’s face it,” the artist laughs, “surrealism has had a connection to my work. I’m...
Art Trends | Art on the Fly
Public art finds an ideal venue in unlikely places airports
Top Emerging Artists of 2009 | David Slonim
One of our 10 artists to watch in 2009
Buying Art Online
Top galleries have begun to sell art via the world wide web
Sandy Scott | Taking Flight
Wildlife bronzes by Sandy Scott reflect a lifetime of observing nature
Jill Carver | In Pursuit of Painting
Plein-air artist Jill Carver searches for images that inspire her