A Moment Held in Golden Light Branches stretch across the sky, framing an ocean horizon washed with evening light. Below them, the sand gathers shadows and warmth in countless small ridges. In Eric Wiles’s Carmel Sunset, the setting sun touches the scene with gold,...
Streetlights gather in a rainy roadway, their small flashes of yellow and white drawing us into the distance. Buildings soften beneath a violet-gray sky, while overhead wires cut across the scene with quick, dark strokes. Frank Hoeffler’s 9th and Van Buren St on a...
Three figures sit together beneath leafy trees, their faces opening into laughter. Blue and red garments catch strokes of pale light, while flowers and foliage surround the encounter. In Grady T Zeeman’s Holy Laughter, joy travels through the whole painting. The...
A face emerges from a brilliant field of red, blue, green and violet. The eyes meet our gaze, while curls, luminous fragments and layered patterns gather around the portrait. In Marcelle Mansour’s Self-Portrait: Unveiling the Invisible, the encounter is immediate and...
A woman sits with an open book while the city gathers around her. Tables, flowers, a guitar, a dog and overlapping buildings fill the painted space, brought together by washes of pink, green, yellow and blue. In A. Lang’s The Heart of the City, an interior opens into...
Stand before Helene Steene’s YELLOW PORTES and the surface begins to reveal its many tempos. Strong arches and upright panels establish a measured structure. Within them, yellow glows against pale blue, while cream-colored passages carry the irregular textures of a...
A figure stretches through a deep blue field, the body traced in flickering lines of gold, pale blue and red. One arm reaches outward as the torso lifts, giving the movement a sense of release. In Marina Gavanski Zissis’s Blue Diver (Body of Light), the figure seems...
A rounded head lowers into the shelter of curving limbs. Bronze bands sweep inward and around one another, holding open spaces within a compact, folded form. Daniela Ament’s In Isolation gives an inward moment a physical presence. Before we search for a face or a...
The Lucas Museum, which opened on September 22, gives Los Angeles something rare: a new cultural landmark whose architecture looks as if it belongs to a story before anyone has entered it. Rising in Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art curves above...
Large circles seem to drift forward while smaller ones gather into repeating sequences. Red moves into orange, green meets blue, and the same colors reappear inside shapes that appear to float over the surface. Karin Monschauer’s Espansione Quantica holds the eye in...