It is no secret that racism exists in all areas of the art world. In its museums, history, schools, education, and among its artists. The world of art is a primarily white space that, in most cases, ...

The miniseries, nominated in three categories, prominently features works by Norman Lewis as well as two contemporary artists ...

Sam Gilliam, the groundbreaking abstract artist known for his work with draped canvas, died Saturday at 88, the galleries that represented him confirmed in a joint statement on Monday. "Sam Gilliam ...

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja took a winding and intuitive path to realizing her vision as an artist—from early enjoyment to a self-taught discipline and years as an educator, to a practice built on ...

Chances are when Sean Scully paints, it will look something like this: geometric, colorful grids, stripes woven together, his signature style. "I use very simple structure," Scully told correspondent ...

There was a time when Nicole Buffett couldn't afford cable TV or health insurance, perhaps not unusual for an abstract artist. It may not even be unusual given the fact that she's a granddaughter of ...

Kathryn MacNaughton is all about encouraging curiosity with her abstract work. And she's inspired by a range of mediums from collage to cutouts, vintage palettes to digital illustration which is ...

Among the swirls of color, texture and abstract shapes, hints of the natural world emerge. Deep blues with hints of gold and white reveal a forest scene on the cusp of dusk. Conversely, swaths of ...

In a literal sense, every artist contemplates and reckons with a lifetime's worth of places and encounters. A Wisconsin native who studied at Columbia College, and now resides in Tacoma, Washington, ...

The city of Reno has named abstract artist Joanna Drakos as its city artist for 2026. Drakos was appointed by the Reno Arts & ...

Ellsworth Kelly, whose deceptively simple use of color and shape made him one of the past century’s most significant and enduring abstract artists, died Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y. He was ...

A brilliant colorist, he hung his canvases from ceilings in great curves and loops, or pinned them, gathered, to walls, taking his medium into three dimensions. By Roberta Smith Sam Gilliam, a ...