A mid-morning sun gently breaks and casts an incandescent glow on the kaleidoscopic stained glass doors leading into the home of Dr. V. Joy Simmons.

With 700 artworks from 550 emerging and established artists, you’re certain to find the perfect piece to add to your collection while supporting  SMMoA’s free exhibitions and programming.  For one night only, seasoned and new collectors alike have the opportunity to purchase stunning art works now presented in a 10″x 10″ format.  Purchase tickets to […]

April is the month of fools, and we can think of no better way to celebrate than with the pinnacle of Internet ephemera: The Animated GIF. The Current Sea is a GIF design team in Los Angeles that focuses on the confluence of the Analog and the Digital. They create whimsical digital chimeras, often employing Analog […]

  The sea by Jürgen Wolf  (translated from German by Marlen Tischer) She absolutely wants to read a story written by me about the sea. I asked her, she said she wants to read a story about the sea or heard her saying, maybe she hears while reading. Anyways I know she wants a story about […]

The paintings of San Francisco based Ryan Martin are hypnotic in their rich color and harken to the tradition when painters were inspired by a muse. His work captured our attention at VOLTA NY as it straddled the lines between an unapologetic imagination and fantastic vision.             Featured Image:  Ryan Martin, Sweet Thing, oil on […]

As an inspirational starting point, I have been thinking about the works of 19th Century landscape painters like Albert Bierstadt (see below) or Frederic Edwin Church, which depict the U.S. landscape as grand, transcendent, and even sublime. Painted from and for a European-American point of view, however, those works reflect and project a colonial gaze—one […]