2024

KEVIN YAUN
ART MEMO - In Between Walls
November 16, 2024 | By Ashley Ouderkirk

In his first solo show with Billis Williams Gallery, Yaun delves into our complicated relationship with the feeling of ‘home.’  Originally from Georgia, Yaun’s transient lifestyle has moved him across the United States as well as to international locales in Northern Europe and Southeast Asia. Capitalizing on this experience, his work cautiously examines the elements that make a place feel like home, balancing internal emotions with the way we perceive our surroundings.

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MARGARET LAZZARI
DIVERSIONS LA - Between the Figurative and the Abstract – Margaret Lazzari at Billis Williams
October 27, 2024

Margaret Lazzari’s recently closed compelling solo exhibit The Space of Color at the Billis Williams Gallery showcases mysterious paintings that exist in the space between figuration and abstraction. These works are psychologically disorienting as Lazzari plays with the viewers expectations of spatial relationships.

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KEVIN YAUN
ARTSY - Atlanta Art Fair’s Lively Debut Positions the City as a Rising Art Hub
​October 4, 2024 | By Maxwell Rabb

Long a cornerstone of the music and film industries, Atlanta has often been overlooked when it comes to its place in the art world. But in recent years, its position has been rapidly ascending thanks to a thriving artistic community, as the VIP day of the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair demonstrated on October 3rd.

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SUZAN WOODRUFF
BOLD JOURNEY Interview - Meet Suzan Woodruff
July 30, 2024

"I paint very physically and with mindful mediation. Abstraction through the influence of nature. I invented a gravity easel over 20 years ago that moves and tilts in all directions, so I can create natural phenomenon on panels ... My new paintings seem to explode with life." - Suzan Woodruff

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BEN SCHWAB
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION - 2023-24 Artist Grantees
July 25, 2024

Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal expenses. Past recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants acknowledge their critical impact in allowing concentrated time for studio work, and in preparing for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as accepting a residency.

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THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XIV
HIJINX ARTS - 13ThingsLA: July 17
July 16, 2024 | By Shana Nys Dambrot and Hijinx Arts

The landscape and all that it entails, from sweeping natural vistas to glittering urban skylines, intimate details and stolen glimpses, to fantasy-infused and historically narrative senes, is an endlessly beguiling muse for artists of all stripes, who never fail to offer inventive and multivalent interpretations.

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LINDSEY WARREN
HIJINX ARTS - 13ThingsLA: June 12
June 11, 2024 | By Shana Nys Dambrot and Hinjinx Arts

In Intangible Time, Warren uses a combination of plein air, photographic studies, and studio invention to create sweeping vistas filled with rich detail, speaking to her desire for fealty to realism and the transcendence of emotional impression.

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KEVIN YAUN
CANVAS REBEL - Meet Kevin Yaun
June 10, 2024

"I’m an oil painter based in California where I make artworks that examine an abstract idea of home. Inspiration for me comes from artists like Rothko, Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell, and Caspar David Friedrich. My background is in representational art, but I’m more interested these days in art that expresses a feeling. Since leaving my hometown in Georgia 20 years ago, I’ve lived in a different place almost every year." - Kevin Yaun

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JUDY NIMTZ & KENNY HARRIS
ART DIVISION GALLERY - HEADS
​June 8, 2024

HEADS is inspired by the 1991 exhibition, Head On/The Modern Portrait, curated by artist Chuck Close for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which featured over 170 works of art culled from the museum’s permanent collection, and explored the various ways that artists build portrait images.

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CARLA FALB
OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART - More Dispruption: Representational Art in Flux
June 8, 2024 | Juried by John Seed, Aleah Chapin, and Timothy Robert Smith

This exhibition explores representational art that has been reshaped and “disrupted”—including by abstraction, web-based imagery, and socio-political concerns—in response to contemporary life and its challenges.

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RON RIZK
AMERICAN ART COLLECTER - An Inviting Emptiness
June 2024 | Issue 224

Ron Rizk simplifies and abstracts homes and other buildings from his past when he builds paper models of them. Painting the models in a misty setting—sometimes the same building in different settings—he illustrates the impermanence of memory and the poetic interpretation of historical fact.

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SUZAN WOODRUFF
ARTILLERY MAG - Gallery Rounds: Suzan Woodruff
May 29, 2024 | By William Moreno

Remarkably, these emotive works are meditations on beauty and consciousness, spectral ciphers playing on light with a bit of calculated randomness. In the same way light and space artist James Turrell crafts shifting light environments with physical elements, Woodruff seemingly bends and fashions light within her paintings. 

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MELA M
CANVAS REBEL - Meet Mela M
May 27, 2024

Setting the specifics aside, I want my general works in particular to convey through geometric abstract shapes, the endless variety and possibilities of creating transcendent individual perspectives that will ultimately serve to unite us existentially in an overarching vision that can accommodate, as well as provide, a rich fertile ground for cross cultural understanding and inspiration.

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ADAM HARRISON
GREAT PARK GALLERY - California Landscapes: Then & Now
May 26, 2024

In collaboration with the Irvine Museum, California Landscapes: Then and Now features a selection of historical California Impressionist reproductions from the Irvine Museum collection, exhibited together with a survey of contemporary artists who have chosen the diverse cityscapes and landscapes of California as subjects to explore in a variety of media.

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SUZAN WOODRUFF
HIJINX ARTS - 13ThingsLA: May 8
May 8, 2024 | By Shana Nys Dambrot and Hijinx Arts
Suzan Woodruff has always been attracted to the edges—of things, of knowledge, of poetry and spirit, of darkness and light, in places where the earth and sea and sky meet, and places where fire and ice touch, geologically and metaphorically. Her painstakingly engineered yet foundationally intuitive abstract compositions echo and express a state of perpetual, universal liminality, enacting in pigment and motion the phenomenological cavortings of her terrestrial and celestial muses.

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TERRY LENESS
PLACE CURATED - The Experience of a Better Suburbia: The Suburban Landscape Paintings of Terry Leness
May 2024 | By Melissa Malouf Belz

Leness is often asked “Why that house?”, which she has trouble answering. There is just something about the compositions and structures that catch her eye and that she ultimately selects for her paintings. 

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SUZAN WOODRUFF
CANVAS REBEL - Meet Suzan Woodruff
April 29, 2024

"Being able to spend my life expressing my artistic visions in my own creations is by far the most rewarding aspect of being an artist. I love it when people respond to the work. Everyone seems to bring their own insight and interpretation. Or memories of certain places they’ve been or maybe wish to go. And many collectors have said they feel emotion that resonates with them when they see my work. That is so gratifying." - Suzan Woodruff

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MARGARET LAZZARI
DIVERSIONS LA - Margaret Lazzari Takes Viewers Along on a Perilous Journey at USC Fisher Gallery
April 13, 2024 | By Nancy Kay Turner

When Margaret Lazzari received her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2003, she crossed over into the frightening and disorienting kingdom of the sick. A classically trained figurative painter and masterful draftsman, she began a body of work to help her sort her feelings. Over two years she created over 30 paintings, drawings and videos which traced her internal and external journey towards wellness and recovery with grace, honesty and bravery. 

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STEPHEN WRIGHT
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR - A Sense of Wonder
April 2024 | Issue 222 | By Chelsea Koressel

Bodies of water have always mesmerized and challenged the human mind and soul—their sublime nature evoking a sense of wonder.

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LESLIE LEWIS SIGLER
WOMEN CREATE - Lewie and Leslie Lewis Sigler
March 12, 2024 | Photography by Shannon Christerson

Leslie paints portraits of heirloom silver and copper. She’s interested in the histories and lifespans of these objects, their ability to reflect personal life stories and family histories, and the way they continue to connect individuals to one another in time and space. In her paintings, she explores the character evident in their inherent design and ever-changing patina.

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CHRISTINE RASMUSSEN
CANVAS REBEL - Meet Christine Rasmussen
February 29, 2024

"As a painter I investigate the in between, transforming ordinary urban landscapes into moments of wonder. My exploration of liminal spaces is a metaphor for life, offering solace from life’s dualities by seeking transcendence in the everyday." - Christine Rasmussen

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LESLIE LEWIS SIGLER
CREATE MAGAZINE - Exploring the Timeless Beauty of Leslie Lewis Sigler's Still-Life Paintings
February 16, 2024 | Issue 42
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Leslie Lewis Sigler (b. 1983) is a contemporary painter whose still-life renditions of silver and copper heirlooms capture the enduring beauty and profound depth of these transcendent domestic objects. Her work reflects individual and collective histories, telling stories of the legacy of personal and familial ties.

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NINA TICHAVA
JW ART NEWSLETTER - Some Art My Friends Like: Nina Tichava (Guest Post!)
January 10, 2024 | By Cat New and JD Williams

Nina has gained recognition for her large-scale paintings, often diptychs, that layer patterns, geometric elements, and natural forms to inspire a dialogue between digital and analog design and memory. Hand-painted screens of dots she refers to as “Pixels” and stripes combine with abstract brush strokes and painterly details.

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PAUL PITSKER
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR - Labor of Love
January 2024 | Issue 219

His new paintings stay true to the themes that run through his earlier work, mainly having to do with mortality and unfulfilled longings. His delicate, translucent creatures are often placed in potentially hazardous, unsustainable scenes of temporary confinement or looming disaster that pose the question "what next?"

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