Carl Joe Williams – The Power of Color Carl Joe Williams discusses his artistic process and the importance of color in his work.
...moreThe ultimate road trip, to a thousand destinations, for one unforgettable exhibition. In 2013, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s curatorial team hit the road to investigate what’s happening in American art today. Over the course of a year, the team logged more than 100,000 miles, crisscrossing the United States to visit nearly 1,000 artists.
Traveling to communities large and small, the Museum sought to discover artists whose work has not yet been fully recognized on a national level. On their travels, museum curators conducted hundreds of hours of one-on-one conversations with artists in their studios.
The result of this unprecedented journey is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that draws from every region of the US, offering an unusually diverse look at American art. State of the Art brings together the artwork of more than 100 artists, ranging from works on canvas and paper to photography and video to installation and performance art, and more. The exhibition examines the ways in which today’s artists are informed by the past, innovating with materials old and new, and engaging deeply with issues relevant to our times.
Carl Joe Williams – The Power of Color Carl Joe Williams discusses his artistic process and the importance of color in his work.
...moreCatalina Delgado – Art Grows From Traditional Stories Catalina Delgado-Trunk explains the myths and symbolism depicted in her work.
...moreCatalina Delgado-Trunk b. 1945 STUDIO IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM Growing up in Mexico, Catalina Delgado-Trunk developed a lifelong love of Mesoamerican cultural traditions, especially that of papel picado (cut paper). After a long career in the United States teaching French and ballet, she returned to art school in her 40s and reconnected with her childhood love. For
...moreCelestia Morgan b. 1981 STUDIO IN BIRMINGHAM, AL Celestia Morgan originally planned to be an elementary school educator, not a photographic artist. But once she was introduced to the medium, it became a natural outlet for her. A nod to her cultural roots, Morgan’s early projects focused on the Southern tradition of making homemade biscuits
...moreChris Larson b. 1966 STUDIO IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN Chris Larson’s artwork can take many forms—drawing, performance, sculpture, video—depending on the concept he seeks to convey. Sometimes, as in his video Heavy Rotation, Larson deploys all of these media to dramatic effect. The video begins with an overhead shot of the artist using a rudimentary compass to
...moreChris Sauter b. 1971 STUDIO IN SAN ANTONIO, TX Chris Sauter works in a studio converted from an old church. Upended pews, church hymnals, and the artist’s work fill the space from floor to ceiling. The setting befits Sauter’s artistic practice, which questions traditional binaries of human experience, like nature and nurture, science and religion.
...moreCobi Moules b. 1980 STUDIO IN BROOKLYN, NY Cobi Moules’s paintings of landscapes, created from his own travels across the United States, honor the traditions of the “Great American Landscape” as envisioned by the Hudson River School painters. At the same time, Moules’s images challenge the landscape’s literal and metaphorical dominance. Where the Hudson River School
...moreCobi Moules – Entering the Landscapes of Cobi Moules Cobi Moules explains his series of landscapes and how they reflect a sense of play and exploration.
...moreCobi Moules – Many Selves: Gender and Identity Cobi Moules shares how exploration of his own identity is expressed in his art.
...moreColin Chillag b. 1971 STUDIO IN PHOENIX, AZ Colin Chillag’s paintings look unfinished. In Desert Grave with Daily Schedule, for example, an image of a graveside memorial crisply emerges, but the realistic illusion of the painting ends abruptly as your eye moves out from the center. The artist leaves large swaths of the canvas unpainted. Those
...moreDan Steinhilber b. 1972 STUDIO IN WASHINGTON, DC Dan Steinhilber’s studio occupies a portion of a bustling industrial warehouse filled with sculptural and everyday materials. Steinhilber was trained in drawing and painting, but in his work he is continually pushing everyday materials—often found and then altered—into large-scale sculptural forms. He has worked with garbage bags, chain-link
...moreDan Webb b. 1965 STUDIO IN SEATTLE, WA Dan Webb’s carved wood sculpture Destroyer tells a story of becoming. Two finely modeled arms emerge from a rectangular, human- scale block of fir. The gloved hands grip a carver’s mallet and a chisel. At the shoulder, these disembodied limbs are bound to the main body of the
...moreDan Witz b. 1957 STUDIO IN BROOKLYN, NY Dan Witz’s artwork spans the realms of public art, graffiti, and fine-art painting. He estimates that 60 to 70 percent of his work is given away for free—he creates masterful trompe l’oeil paintings and installs them in unexpected places on the streets of metropolises around the world, waiting
...moreDanial Nord b. 1960 STUDIO IN SAN PEDRO, CA After years of working in the field of commercial television production, Danial Nord has a substantial tool kit of technical capabilities at his disposal. He now deploys these skills in the making of large-scale works of art, often incorporating sculptural forms and video imagery. For State
...moreDave Adey – A New Way of Looking at the Body Dave Adey discusses the making of Hide.
...moreDave Adey – Experimenting with Ideas Dave Adey describes his artistic process and the role of experimentation in his work.
...moreDave Greber b. 1982 STUDIO IN NEW ORLEANS, LA All day, every day, we are overwhelmed with images: scrolling feeds, digital touchscreens, glowing pixels. Multiple simultaneous voices continuously tweet and share and like, interrupting one another to find their way into our consciousness. Using a similarly tumultuous structure, Dave Greber’s video work co-opts the vocabulary
...moreDave Greber – Creating an Artist’s Life in New Orleans Dave Greber discusses his transition from commercial video to art and how the city of New Orleans contributed to his career.
...moreToday we present another guest blog post: this time by State of the Art artist Kristen Cliffel. Cliffel participated in the Museum’s Symposium in November, and returns to Crystal Bridges this coming weekend to lead both adult and youth workshops in making art using your own memorabilia. (Learn more about them here: there are still
...moreJason Vaughn‘s photo series hide features lovely, sometimes haunting images of the semi-permanent deer-hunting stands he has discovered in his adopted home of Wisconsin. Vaughn grew up far from the rural culture of hunting, and so when he began this project, he associated the stands with killing and death. As he met and talked with the hunters who owned
...moreState of the Art is an exhibition that reaches a wide group of individuals from all over the country, but especially for the Northwest Arkansas region. The State of the Art Catalog is one of the ways in which individuals can take a piece of the exhibit back home. What makes the catalog even more unique
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