Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. Richard Mayhew, a painter of Black and Native ...

The name of Chu Teh-Chun (1920–2014) should be no stranger to art market watchers. The late Franco-Chinese painter is best known for his poignant abstract paintings that marry the techniques of ...

At first sight, AJ Atwater's abstract paintings are just that: abstract. But spend a little more time with them and you'll discover that those colorful shapes and prominent brushstrokes are actually ...

In his fourth-floor studio at the Crane Arts building, Fabian Lopez is applying paint to a small canvas perched on two stacked buckets. The point of the brush in his hand is as thin as thread. “This ...

Landscape painters often fit into one of two categories. On the impressionist side of the fence, landscape is seen as an optical phenomenon transferred onto canvas through a stylistic or realistic ...

SONOMA, California — If you were to ask an art lover to name a famous female Abstract Expressionist who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, there is really only one likely answer: Jay ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

This year marks 250 years since the birth of one of the country's greatest landscape artists John Constable.

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 ...

Artists who prefer to paint the light houses of Lake Michigan or the rolling hills of the Sleeping Bear Dunes are called landscape artists. They use nature as their palette. The end product can be a ...

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 ...