If an artist is not necessarily someone who is lonely, starving and unstable, then what does an artist look like? The new portrait of a profitable, successful artist includes creating and showing, but also travel, community, teaching, authoring, serving and changing the world. And this is one such case.

Jackie Saccoccio was born in Providence, RI, and received her MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. She is currently living and working at the American Academy in Rome, along with her husband and current Fellow Carl D'Alvia.

"Second Life," is the title of Lisa Adams' show of new work at CB1 Gallery. The ambiguity between the show's title and the imagery is no coincidence. Second Life is actually the name of an online virtual world, where users, aka avatars, interact with each other in different social settings.

Sideshow Gallery's current exhibition, Dana Gordon + John Mendelsohn: New Paintings, features the art of two established non-objective artists who operate well within the vagaries of abstraction.

Painter Gary Langhas enjoyed a celebrated career worthy of his keen talent. Free of the burden of conceptual angst that plagues most artists of our er...

At Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica painter/teacher/critic Lawrence Gipe is currently exhibiting thirty small paintings that simultaneously r...

You see, I was dipping into a little of that meditation on the million points of the physical with bits of light in the spaces between them, in my drawings, so I was easily seduced. Then came a period where it was all about me and critics be damned, I loved you Georgia O'Keeffe.

Mary Abbott fought the stigma of her Katherine Hepburn beauty, her Walden Pond heritage, and the 1940s and '50s era that catered to homemakers to become one of the most talented artists to ever grace the Abstract Expressionist Movement.

It is a simple truth that in any given month, if you added up all of the available space in commercial galleries around the country, the amount dedica...

Through shapes and color, Webster expands, stretches and explores the certain type of confidence that could be found on an effortless napkin drawing.

The heat has been turned way up on the East Coast, which is all the more reason to duck into a few galleries as you trudge through the city. As is typ...

Michael Knight's new exhibition is entitled "Wayward," as in whimsical, fickle, perverse or even incorrigible. These waves of tickling curiosity to fu...

Today is the birthday of painter, printmaker and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly. The ardent explorer of color spectrums and panel paintings turns 89 years o...

Happy Birthday to Cy Twombly, the lanky Virginia-born painter who became an expert amateur. He would turn 84 today, if he were still with us. Twombly ...

Sometimes the phrase "blurring the line between abstraction and representation" gets thrown around so much in art talk that it starts to lose its magi...

Hadley Holliday's works are heavy on the eyes, yet the borders and lines are crafted with youthful indulgence. While her new series at Taylor De Cordo...

Jonas Wood's works, in theory, are fairly straightforward. They are representational paintings of the spaces he inhabits, from his artist studio to hi...

There are dozens of painting exhibitions on view in March, and Los Angeles looks particularly strong. In late March, LA Louver will open an exhibition...

Mark Schoening's paintings react to the age of information overload with an understandable reaction: a giant head rush. Sometimes the flood of adverti...

Talk about making an impression: Mark Rothko's 1961 solo show at Whitechapel is still described as nothing short of electrifying. The gallery is now hosting an exhibit which pays homage to the artist and the show that stunned a nation.

Gerhard Richter is at the head of a changing art market. The German artist, known for his ability to cover a range of styles, from the abstract to the...

From an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings by Leon Kossoff, who works for years on each canvas, to an exhibition of "Unfinished Painti...

If painting articles and blog posts from the past month are any indication, our interest in abstraction and figurative painting has never been more vi...

The Norton Simon Museum has the best collection of art in Southern California. This is the last museum that should ever have to acquire modern and con...