Jim Richard

Art Stroll

2017

Jim Richard Yard Mood, 2017 Flashe on canvas 53 3/4 x 39 1/2 in (136.5 x 100.3 cm) This work is on view as part of the exhibition "I Know a Place", through July 7, 2018 For his fo...

Jim Richard That Yard, 2017 Flashe on canvas 42 x 56 in (106.7 x 142.2 cm) This work is on view as part of the exhibition "I Know a Place", through July 7, 2018 For his fourth sol...

Beat, 2012 oil on linen, 24-1/4 x 21-1/2 inches In each saturated color image, Jim Richard seamlessly collages photographs of fine art objects into pictures of living rooms decked in 1960s and 70s...

Sigrid Sandström Untitled, 2012 Acrylic on board, 60 x 48 inches Sigrid Sandström was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden and currently Professor of Fine Arts at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She studied at Cooper Union School of Art, Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands (BFA 1997), attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000) and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2001. She has exhibited widely since then, with solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and her native Sweden. Sandström's work was included in the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston's 25th anniversary exhibition, Perspectives @ 25. Her first solo museum exhibition, Ginnungagap: Recent Works by Sigrid Sandstrom...

Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...

Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...

"One Of The Ways" depicts a densely populated grove. As with other of Carpenter's paintings, this scene invites viewers to look closer and also to go out to explore nature. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...

Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...