BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — The concept of “improvisational painting” might evoke the idea of loose compositions with abstract shapes — Kandinsky-like squiggles and half-formed images, or a visual jazz of ...

Susan Jane Walp, “Green Grapes in a Turquoise Teacup II” (2013), oil on gessoed paper, 7 1/2 x 8 inches (courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery) Painting reached a turning point with Paul Cézanne wherein a ...

For the year’s first exhibition, Esther Schipper Seoul invited Minjin Chae to curate a group presentation by artists based in South Korea. Titled Still Life: Objects of Our Time, the exhibition ...

In the large main gallery is "A Feast of Fruit & Flowers," a robust, focused selection of paintings by women from the 17th Century (mostly) in a sharp tour of approaches to the still life. Supporting ...

There’s a whimsical element in Liese Chavez’s paintings. A woman is baking a pie, but there’s feathers next to the pie, or a woman is holding a pear in her hand, but the pear is a house with a smoking ...

"Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William ...

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still life genre Sharon Core, "Boston Cremes," from the series "Thiebauds," 2004. C ...