Alexa Meade doesn't paint on a canvas. She paints directly on people and spaces — turning three-dimensional reality into something that looks flat. The effect is disorienting in the best way: you're ...

Narsiso Martinez is an artist whose work celebrates the vital and often invisible labor performed by farmworkers. Martinez’s work is informed by his own experiences as a farmworker, spending summers ...

According to Dan Robbins, the roots of conceptual art can be found in the American homemakers and aging hobbyists of the 1950s who spent $3 on a kit of canvas and oils and — without pretense or ...

Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait. By Amanda Fortini IN EARLY 2021, Jordan Casteel, the painter known for her tender, exquisitely ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. Mecklenburg, Virginia M., "Edward Hopper: the watercolors," Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian ...