Life took John Grillo from New England to Japan to California to New York and then back to New England as the abstract expressionist studied, taught, and created paintings, sculptures, and collages ...

Emerson Woelffer, a self-styled Abstract Expressionist painter who inspired two generations of artists with his aesthetic vitality and commitment to excellence, died Sunday. He was 88. He had suffered ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

Willard Grayson Smythe, a renowned abstract painter who also established himself as an award-winning graphic artist and an art professor, died Friday at a North Side nursing home. He was 89. Born in ...

Barbara Beamer is a retired art teacher who hopes her students — and everyone in general — continue to be inspired. “Keep exposing yourself to art and ideas,” she’d tell her students. Beamer first ...

Wendy Sussman, 51, a painter of massive figurative canvasses and a UC Berkeley art professor. The Brooklyn-born Sussman earned a master of fine arts degree from Brooklyn College and taught at the ...

Krisha Davis, of Westminster, is the learning facilitator for Visual Art at Springdale Preparatory School in New Windsor (springdaleps.org). She has been there since the first day it opened. When ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Charis Lillene Fleshner grew up in the Houston area and as a child, sculpted things she found in nature. Her jewelry was made from pine needles. She views her past as a “…quirky, creative kid.” Her ...