IN THE NEW ISSUE A Peter Loftus landscape tells the invigorating and compelling story of the northern and central coasts of California from sun up to sun down.
IN THE NEW ISSUE Johnny Swing - the man knows his money. One of the few artists who goes to the bank to make his art.
07 September 2008
“I’m not sure of anything, and I’m okay with it,” Joe Ramiro Garcia says. The Santa Fe, New Mexico, painter has a priceless personality that is as unique as his art. Observation, relevance and honesty - that’s Joe’s thing. His paintings look a lot like collage, instead he modified printmaking techniques to create his [...]
05 September 2008
Click here for exclusive, limited time offer for fans of alexandrahedison.com. Alexandra Hedison is moving on and moving up. When we first met Alex two years ago she was coming off a bad break-up with Ellen DeGeneres. At the time she was backing away from acting and committing to her fine art photography. The result of [...]
05 September 2008
It’s one of the most storied rock n’ roll cities in the world, and now San Francisco has a major music festival that does its history justice. One hundred fifty thousand people packed Golden Gate Park under mild, late August skies. The sounds coming from the six stages set on rolling grassy meadows in the [...]
03 September 2008
Southern California sculptor Guy Dill is known for his graceful, metal sculptures - they are abstract forms pieced together to form a kind of sculptural dance. His Venice Beach studio is his home away from home. Its a large space - more than 12, 000 square feet. A working studio and what amounts to a gallery [...]
09 August 2008
Oliver Jackson blindsided me. Setting up our interview on the phone, he was polite and seemingly mild-mannered. Driving up to Oakland, I somehow avoided the infamous traffic on Interstate 880. I located Oliver’s place - a cool live/work space in an industrial building on the city’s busy north side - with no problem at all. [...]
06 August 2008
When Marc Trujillo goes to Costco, it’s an inspirational experience. He walks around the store, sometimes with his wife, Linda, other times alone, taking it all in. And not just Costco; he does it at Radio Shack, Target, and Wendy’s, too. As an urban landscape painter, Marc finds a kind of ironic poetry in views [...]
05 August 2008
Rex Ray is unexpected on so many different levels. He wields a pair of scissors like other artists grip a brush. With his bald head, chunky earring and gravely voice, it would be easy to get the wrong impression. But there is no Harley parked out back. He lives alone, likes to garden in his [...]
04 August 2008
Photographer Huntington Witherill is not your typical “car guy.” He is not a collector and says he is not mechanically inclined, but he knows great lines when he sees them. “I choose subjects for their aesthetics,” he says. “Whether it’s a car, a building or a tree, the approach is the same. It’s about light, [...]
25 July 2008
As kids, many of us remember putting chalk to pavement and creating fleeting works of art - a child’s acceptable alternative to crayons on white walls. Parents were cool with the chalk art because it was so temporary - one squirt of the hose or a summer rain storm and the drawing was history. For [...]
21 July 2008
See Artworks’ Video Report from Art Santa Fe here. Artistically speaking, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is always a hopping place, but in mid-July even more so. 75 galleries gathered in the high desert for Art Santa Fe to show off established and emerging contemporary artists. The event was surrounded and supported by a community that embraces [...]
