Valton Tyler

Black Smith Anger

1990

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...

A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...

Vera Barnett is best known for creating elements of her composition—by sewing and painting plastic, building objects with cardboard and tape, and assembling found objects—then settin...

“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...

Vera Barnett has taken on a range of themes in her works, producing series of paintings inspired by phobias (as in this painting), famous artworks, and the written word. Barnett’s...

Wonderful modern floral still life oil painting of ranunculus in white vase and mustard weed on table by acclaimed artist and art critic Walter Pach (American, 1883-1958), 1911. Pach...

"Giant Poppies" is an illustration style painting by Romina Milano where a dance of gestures unfolds across colorful landscapes. Romina Milano is an Italian artist renowned for her ...

David Kroll Vase and Nest, 2011 oil on linen 32" x 28" Artist David Kroll is known for his finely crafted paintings—precise still lives and exquisite landscapes that allude to bot...

In "Outpost", Jacobsen’s new body of work records scenes from a year when societal boundaries where crossed and personal dreams set into motion. The paintings in this exhibition continue and expand on the ideas of Jacobsen’s 2014 exhibition, “Lean-to,” which featured artworks that invited viewers to contemplate still-life images of interiors from the artist’s domestic spaces and black and white arrangements from the artist’s workspace. While seemingly traditional still lives, the works served as the artist’s subtle critique of industrialized society. The content and technique speak to Jacobsen’s attempt to insulate himself from this very type of industrial environment and modernist influences. Jacobsen purchased a miner’s cabin in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado just prior to the legalization of marijuana, and the paintings in Outpost serve as documents of his experiments in growing this newly legal plant. In these still lifes, the marijuana plant is the central focus against a dark background, along with wild mushrooms collected on long hikes and crystals gifted from friends. These paintings hearken back to traditional Dutch paintings of tulips, itself a coveted plant in its day. Deploying the technique of lens flare, Jacobsen highlights the importance of the camera, while also referencing the religious, spiritual, and cultist motif of light symbolizing the divine. The usage of this “heavenly” light on these cannabis plants...

The title of the series is Arquitecturas Domésticas and has this interesting link with the a Spanish Baroque. What Gloria is doing with these pieces is reinterpreting the Spanish Bar...

The title of the series is Arquitecturas Domésticas and has this interesting link with the a Spanish Baroque. What Gloria is doing with these pieces is reinterpreting the Spanish Bar...