Barbara Bilotta’s Fierce Abstractions Spotlighted in Three Solo Shows
Imagination can break any boundary and go in any direction, leading to virtually endless possibilities. For proof of this assertion, art lovers need look no further than the fiercely vibrant paintings...
View ArticleJames Croak: Art and an Artist That Sidestep Expectations
As an artist, James Croak’s preferred medium—dirt combined with a material that allows it to be sculpted and hardened—is not at all what you’d call typical. But then again, neither is Croak, a...
View ArticleIN STUDIO – Steve Miller and X-Ray Art
Artist Steve Miller works in a light-filled space near the train tracks along a rural stretch of land in Sapaponack on Long Island’s East End. Miller’s studio was initially built as a train station for...
View ArticleKevin Teare: All You Need Is Art
For anyone interested in puzzling out the identity of Kevin Teare, there are abundant clues strewn in the path, and most are so self-evident that they might as well be road signs. For starters, there’s...
View ArticleRoisin Bateman: Abstractions Crackling with the Energy of Change
The west coast of Ireland has very intriguing weather patterns. Sudden atmospheric changes can happen in an instant, revealing electric colors of nature in one minute that vanish into a darkening gloom...
View Article“Donut Rush” by Jae Yong Kim May Be the Happiest Show in Chelsea
Jae Yong Kim's installation of small sculptures might be the happiest in Chelsea. After all, when doesn't the idea of a sugar-glazed donut bring a smile? Since last month, Kim's clay glazed donuts have...
View ArticleAlexis Portilla’s Layered Color and Circular Forms Create “Surface Tension”
Abstract paintings by Alexis Portilla compel and surprise. There's something about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure...
View ArticleAthos Zacharias: Driven To Explore Frontiers of Artistic Expression
At 88, painter Athos Zacharias has the energy and enthusiasm for artistic exploration of a man one quarter his age. Clad in a striped t-shirt and suspenders, he showed a visitor around the expansive...
View ArticleMira Lehr: Navigating Subtropical Florida’s Vast Arc of Nature
Beauty is never enough for Mira Lehr. She likes setting fires. Incendiary dangers burn their way into Lehr's luminous paintings and sculpture. Her recent art incorporates gunpowder stains and residue...
View ArticleDan Rizzie Looks to His Past to Get Started on His Future
Artist Dan Rizzie searched for the right term to describe the publication this spring of his new monograph, Dan Rizzie by University of Texas Press. Watershed moment? Mile marker? Benchmark? The...
View ArticleScott McIntire: A Close-Up View of The Life Around Us
“I am trying to make the invisible visible,” Scott McIntire declares, issuing himself a timeless impossible challenge. His latest efforts to meet that challenge, and more, have taken the form of an...
View ArticleARTSI Artists Revealed: Janet Culbertson, Katherine Hammond and Roz Dimon
There are 15 artists presenting their art from their studios or homes on Shelter Island for the sixth annual ARTSI Open Studio Event to be held August 15 and 16, 2015 from noon to 5 p.m. each
View ArticleARTSI Artists Revealed: Megan Hergrueter, Emily Rose Larsen, Liss Larsen &...
There are 15 artists presenting their art from their studios or homes on Shelter Island for the sixth annual ARTSI Open Studio Event to be held August 15 and 16, 2015 from noon to 5 p.m. each
View ArticleSculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp: A Real Man of Steel
“I have never been so busy in my life, I have more going on now than I ever have,” Hans Van de Bovenkamp said with a look of mild surprise on a recent relatively quiet summer day
View ArticleARTSI Artists Revealed: Diana Malcolmson, Joe Reilly, Susan Schrott & June...
There are 15 artists presenting their art from their studios or homes on Shelter Island for the sixth annual ARTSI Open Studio Event to be held August 15 and 16, 2015 from noon to 5 p.m. each
View ArticleARTSI Artists Revealed: Olive Reich, Peter Waldner, Mike Zisser & Jana Sheinker
There are 15 artists presenting their art from their studios or homes on Shelter Island for the sixth annual ARTSI Open Studio Event to be held August 15 and 16, 2015 from noon to 5 p.m. each
View ArticleMike Laptew’s Unexpected Underwater Scenes
After years as a competitive spear fisherman, Mike Laptew was hooked by another calling. Upon buying an underwater camera around 1990, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island native was drawn in to what he calls a...
View ArticleSavio Mizzi’s Paintings Blend Forms in Surreal Worlds
In one painting, a fish, shimmering and looming larger than life in the foreground, eyes the hook that snagged it. In another, the shadowy silhouette of an angler perched on a rock casts a line against a
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