Description
You?ll love this issue of Southwest Art if:
- You?re ready to plan your most-important fine-art events of the coming year.
- You love surveying the best works from national art competitions to find undiscovered talent to follow and collect.
- You love the brilliant colors and textures of pastel artworks.
- You love seeing the different ways artists interpret the landscape and bring it to life on the canvas.
In the January 2018 issue of Southwest Art you?ll find dozens of world-class art-collecting opportunities to add to your 2018 calendar, from the Coors Western Art show in Denver the first week of January, to the Santa Fe Art Auction at the other end of the year. Also in this issue you?ll find dozens of award-winning emerging artists whose work has been turning heads in art competitions. In our ?Artists to Watch? feature, we talk to 10 oil painters we will be keeping an eye on, artists whose works are already garnering top honors at major shows and eliciting invitations to prestigious exhibitions. In ?Jurors? Choice? you?ll find more than two dozen entries that made it to the final round of jurying in the annual art competition presented by our sister publication the Artists Magazine. Explore works from all five categories?Abstract/Experimental, Animals/Wildlife, Landscape, Portrait/Figure and Still Life/Interior?and discover the inspiration for each piece.
Finally, take a look at the work of our three featured artists: Bill Baker travels the world visiting indigenous peoples who maintain centuries old traditions. These colorful cultures and warm human interactions inspire his vibrant pastel paintings. Cindy Wilbur was always inspired to create art, but becoming an artist proved challenging. Through sheer determination, and the support of family and friends, she rose above one life-changing obstacle after another to finally do what she really loved: capture the California landscape in oils. Originally from Pennsylvania, Andy Taylor fell in love with the landscape of the West while attending college in Colorado and relocated to the Rockies when he was finished with school. He has been painting ever since. Taylor approaches painting as exploration and discovery, both of the landscape itself and the ways to capture it in paint. Read more about our featured artists and explore art happenings around the West in the January issue!
Features
Artists to Watch
Ten talented painters to know in the year ahead. By Kim Agricola
Collector?s Preview
A calendar of top annual shows, auctions, and other collecting opportunities in the West and beyond.
Shoot for the Moon
With a little help, painter Cindy Wilbur aims high and makes it higher. By Gussie Fauntleroy
Colors of the World
Bill Baker?s paintings chronicle the indigenous peoples he meets on his global adventures. By Norman Kolpas
The Discovery of a Lifetime
Andy Taylor paints his journey through the Southwest. By Elizabeth L. Delaney
The Jurors? Choice
Winners and finalists from Artists Magazine?s 34th Annual Art Competition.
Show Previews
Coors Western Art Show
National Western Stock Show Complex, Denver, CO
Leanin? Tree Art Auction
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ
American Women Artists
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Gallen, MacLeod & Robertson
Borrego Art Institute, Borrego Springs, CA
Southeastern Wildlife Expo
Charleston Place Hotel, Charleston, SC
LA Art Show
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Columns
From the Editor
Gaining inspiration
Special Advertising Sections
Art of Arizona, Pastels
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