When people talk about art meccas, New York City, Paris, and L.A. come to mind. Colorado Springs, however, not so much, if at all, which is unfortunate because, at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to philanthropic visionaries Julie and Spencer Penrose, the town...
Internationally renowned photographer Douglas Friedman is driving through a flat, empty desert in an open black Jeep on a lonely dirt road. Pulling up with a flourish in a cloud of dust next to a flowering white yucca framed against a brilliant blue sky, he...
Art collectors are a curious and rare breed. So rare, in fact, that according to research published in 2015 by Larry’s List, an art industry research company, there are just 8,000 to 10,000 art collectors in the world. The world. Because collecting is such a dedicated...
One autumn afternoon in 2016, Karen Vance set out on a painting jaunt from her home in Winter Park Ranch, Colorado. Her destination was 40 minutes north in Rocky Mountain National Park: Bowen-Baker Gulch, where snowmelt-fed headwaters of the Colorado River flow beneath Baker Mountain....
Andrew Denman reimagines wildlife painting within a context of contemporary and modern art, dramatically shifting viewers’ perceptions. Take, for example, The Usual Suspects. The acrylic-on-cradled-board work presents 20 impeccably contoured ravens — some compositionally cropped along its edges — in four neat lineups against a...
Gordon McConnell breathes dynamic new life into the West of the imagination in acrylic paintings that “appropriate” imagery from classic films and transform them into boldly graphic celebrations of our great American mythology. His recent Django No Perdona … Viva Django, for example, takes its...
Prices heated up in recent auctions, where buyers showed equal enthusiasm for traditional Western art and contemporary works that explored the themes of landscape, history, and society in new ways. The art market has been buffeted in recent years by the same challenges people have sought...
Nate Fischer can identify two major influences that led him to open his interior design firm: his love for the ocean and art. Growing up in Monterey, he appreciated the “eclectic mix of coastal California design” found in his hometown, Big Sur, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. After completing his...
Art can take us to unfamiliar settings, remind us of our favorite places, heighten our imaginations, or challenge our worldviews. It’s a gift to have such an array of expressions to depict and describe the human condition — all within reach to learn from, wonder...
This past summer, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) reopened its seminal exhibition, Here, Now and Always. More than 1,100 objects were uninstalled to give way to a new, re-envisioned museum experience that will once again become the standard for how museums relate...