Stacey Gillian Abe Reclaims Indigo Blue in Tender Paintings of Women
The loss of a family member can have a remarkable impact on the life of an artist. A…
Gabriele Münter’s Groundbreaking Modernist Vision Is Coming into Focus
Art Portrait of Gabriele Münter, 1903. Photo by Robert Beyschlag. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Gabriele Münter, Still Life…
Ali Banisadr’s Mesmerizing Paintings Make Sense of Chaos
Art Portrait of Ali Banisadr. Photo by Charlie Rubin. Courtesy of Olney Gleason. Ali Banisadr’s childhood in Tehran…
Élise Peroi’s Woven Paintings Are a Transcendent Take on Tapestry
I stumbled just before reaching the door of Élise Peroi’s home and studio in Arles, France. While the…
In Noelia Towers’s Subversive Paintings, Troubled Women Are the Stars
“I like troubled women,” Noelia Towers remarked, sitting cross-legged on a large couch in the cozy Chicago apartment…
Painter Agrade Camíz Captures the Beauty and Brutality of Life in Rio de Janeiro
Growing up, Agrade Camíz never thought she would become an artist. From her perspective as a child in…
Rising Painter Emil Sands Finds Beauty in the Vulnerability of the Human Form
Emil Sands first saw Doryphoros, Polykleitos’s fifth-century BCE sculpture of the “ideal man,” during one of his childhood…
How Renegade Sculptor Judy Pfaff Made a Career Breaking the Rules
Art Portrait of Judy Pfaff in the studio, c. 1991. Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery.…
Rising Painter Eva Helene Pade Captures the Rhythm of Dancing Bodies
Art Portrait of Eva Helene Pade. Photo by Petra Kleis. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac. Eva Helene Pade, Rød…
At 84, Painter Pat Lipsky Is Returning to Her Color-Soaked Origins
Art Portrait of Pat Lipsky. Photo by Thomas Victor. Image via Wikimedia Commons. When she was in the…
Ronan Day-Lewis on Directing His Father and Painting from Nostalgia
Art Portrait of Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis on the set of Anemone. Photo by Maria Lax /…
Nanette Carter Is a Pioneer of Black Abstraction—and She’s Still Experimenting Today
Art Portrait of Nanette Carter. Courtesy of the Wexner Center for the Arts. When she was in high…