Fine Art News

After 40 years selling modern art from many of the most respected painters and sculptors of the 20th century, London-based, Australian-born art dealer Adrian Mibus says, “Fashions in art can be fickle. Some of the most successful collectors I know are the [Read More]

Lively, realistic and sumptuously magical in whimsy, the works of Italian-born painter Giovanni Gelardi assimilate themes of culture and politics as much as they do symbols of dreams and imaginings. A self-taught artist, Gelardi was urged to create through his innate desire [Read More]

Leonardo Aguirre di Matteo from Uruguay will visit Trifecta Gallery for the opening night of his August 2-30, 2012 exhibit “6191.” The shows title, Six-thousand one-hundred and ninety-one is named for the amount of miles from his South American home to Las [Read More]

Robert Langstaff is a painter whose inquiry into the nature of composition, color and form has evolved into explosive abstraction which expresses both basic instinct and the complexities of the subconscious. Fascinated by the drip paintings of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollack since [Read More]

Kunstmuseum Bern and the Museum Wiesbaden have organized a comprehensive retrospective illustrating the scope and complexity of Saura’s art with some 200 works, on view through 11.11.2012. The Kunstmuseum Bern has already presented the art of the greatest Spanish painter Pablo Picasso [Read More]

The Old Sorting Office presents the first UK solo art show by Mr. Brainwash opening August 5. Mr. Brainwash will embrace the global art scene by taking over The Old Sorting Office, a colossal space centrally located next to the British Museum [Read More]

Noted national artist/educators Mary Walling Blackburn and Brittany Ransom have been appointed to faculty positions in the Division of Art at SMU Meadows School of the Arts, beginning in fall 2012. Blackburn, a New York-based artist and writer known for conceptually dense, [Read More]

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE) presents American Realism on August 1st 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM. Presented by LACE & Space 15 Twenty, American Realism is a one-day extreme endurance piece for eight actors, about contemporary labor, spoken through the voices of [Read More]

Elena Yevseyeva’s large scale canvases exude a joy and spontaneity that enlivens and characterizes her work, complementing her expert hand. The artist’s works focus on exquisite details in her environment. As if using a special, glorifying visual magnifying glass, she takes the [Read More]

With virtuoso brushstrokes, Eric W. Shute leads his viewer back to the simplest essence of nature. He studies his subjects, often en plein air, and succeeds in recreating through his art the almost lost connection to our agrarian beginnings. Though his paintings [Read More]

Message Body: The artist who calls himself Douglas The Boogie Man is not as fearsome as he sounds. In fact, his work is decidedly magnificent, rewarding exploration. Douglas crafts wonderfully alive, natural abstractions of the ocean using a thick impasto technique influenced [Read More]

Ballroom Marfa presents CARBON 13 in conjunction with The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate & Sustainability on view 31 August 2012–17 February 2013 Carbon 13 presents newly commissioned work by eight international artists who have focused the lens of their [Read More]

Saint Charles Riverfront Arts (SCRA) is hosting a FREE “Adult Artists Workshop” program series for St. Charles area adults from the ages of “18 to 118”. The “Adult Artists Workshop” series will be held from 7:00 until 9:00 pm weekly on Wednesday [Read More]

Art Platform – Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles will debut its second edition from September 28–30, 2012, with a preview on September 27 at the historic Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. Art Platform – [Read More]