Here is a most intriguing chapter in the history of painting in the Southwest. Rane’s large body of paintings form a cosmic codex with stylized female figures and pictographs referring to ancient myth.
Rare is the artist who could claim to have dived as deep into the unconscious and survived the journey — bringing back images of intense imagination and technical brilliance. As proof, this recluse kept his life’s works buried in a dilapidated shack in the hills of Eugene, Oregon. The...
This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told.
Leo is the only American artist who actually grew up in the circus. He became a pioneer in Pop Art in the early 1960s, and was the first to create kinetic Pop sculpture. Here’s a fascinating and truly unique chapter in the history of American Art.
This Figurative Expressionist lived the Bay Area for two decades before settling in Greenwich Village in 1957. He was a regular at the Cedar Bar with his AbEx friends and exhibited at several New York galleries. He even taught at MoMA but soon became a reclusive painter living what he called “a...
