In his art, Wyeth’s favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth often noted: “I paint my life.” One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina’s World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art inNew York City. This tempera was painted in 1948, when Wyeth was 31 years old.

artwork by Cheryl Molnar

 Molnar explained to me that her landscapes are collages in more sense than one.  She has held several artist residencies in the thirteen years she has lived and worked in New York, and the spaces she’s worked and lived in pop up, albeit chopped up and reconfigured, throughout her work.  Taken Aback (see this article’s header image), for instance, was made while in residence at the Wave Hill botanical garden in the Bronx.  It features an elegant glass dome and rolling hillside that nods to its Bronx companion without recreating it. Molnar’s are inviting, whimsical landscapes in which to lose yourself.

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced that it would open the first solo New York museum exhibition devoted to the work of Stanley Whitney, whose heavily brushed, brightly colored canvases have made him a kind of painter’s painter over the last few decades.

The show, “Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange,” which opens July 16 and continues through Oct. 25, will feature mostly recent creations, 30 paintings and works on paper, including a painting completed this year. The museum noted that Mr. Whitney, who was raised in Philadelphia, moved to New York City the same year the Studio Museum was founded, in 1968, and that the museum was one of the first public institutions to present his work, in the early 1980s. Though he labored mostly in obscurity for many years, his work has developed an avid following, and is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery and those of several other museums in the United States and Europe.

In an interview, Mr. Whitney, 68, who studied with Philip Guston and Al Held, said that because he had worked in New York for so long, it was gratifying to have his first large museum show in the city. “It seems that people are more open now to artists like me, who have been working a long time to develop something,” he said, adding that he hoped viewers would also take their time to appreciate the results. “I always wanted sit-down paintings, a work that someone would sit down with, ideally for years, and live with and it would change for them over time.”

Angelina Gualdoni: This Brooklyn-based painter focuses on modern ruins, giving an uneasy grace to housing projects, neglected parking garages, and decaying corporate high-rises. Angelina’s clearly on-the-rise: She’s part of an upcoming group show at Chelsea’s prestigious Mixed greens Gallery.

My paintings are a carefully observed negotiation, manipulated layer upon layer in order to create a work of art as equivalent as possible to the complexity of real life.They are an attempt to control the almost uncontrollable substance that is oil paint, and the equally untamable expression of the human condition.

ART101 presents artist William Downey. His paintings in “West Of The Mississippi, American Landscapes,” capture the impact of an overwhelming and ever-changing sky, rocks and buttes whose shape and color shift with every change of light and shadow, endless plains and prairies, and a seemingly unreachable horizon.

Kristin Jones holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from Yale University. Her work has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Fulbright Commission, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the American Center in Paris, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Artists Space, Art Matters, the National Endowment for the Arts, the David W. Bermant Foundation, the New York Dance and Performance Awards, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.

For more information: http://www.kristinandreajones.com/

Ed Brodkin, takes great pleasure in using a variety of materials: acrylics enamels, glazes, varnishes, collages, printed or woven fabrics on varied grounds including canvas, burlap, fiberboard and pressed wood, sometimes combined. Occasionally non-rectangular shapes are used possibly even perforated. All the above allow him the pleasure of always experimenting, never becoming formulaic and never settling on a “signature” style.

 Fernando Molero’s vibrant paintings in colors of azure and emerald evoke his childhood home in southern Spain. Real architectural sites, such as the 14th-century Patio de los Arrayanes in Alhambra, Granada, make appearances in Molero’s paintings, as do fantastical buildings, conjured from the artist’s imagination. “Many artists use light as a tool to illuminate their subjects,” says Molero. “I make light the subject itself.” This interest in light often manifests in a painted veil, which acts as a barrier and an invitation to the viewer. Molero studied at the University of Barcelona, and taught art at the Leonardo da Vinci Academy of Art in Barcelona.

Art has been a passion of mine in which I have channeled my energy and emotions for over the past 5 decades. With the use of brushes, oils, watercolors, pastels, strokes and color I have created an area in my life that I cannot enter into except for while creating art. There is balance between the delicacy and strength with the use of art mediums I have been able to extract art from my mind and soul.  ~ Michael J Palladino ~