With a mission centered on the promotion and reinvigoration of representational art, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) is at the forefront of the 21st-century representational art movement. Founded as a ...

Surely the most persistent current in painting is the representation of recognizable things, particularly the figure. In one form or another, representational painting has been around for about 15,000 ...

In the late 1980s, artist and art instructor Penny Fregeau organized the Once a Year Art Gallery in the local community of ...

Despite working under the rubric of photorealism, Nona Garcia considers the simple, real-life objects she recreates through paint to be only one aspect of her subject matter. With every canvas, the ...

Rangy ex-Marine Diebenkorn. 35, is a Berkeley painter whose style was formed by the influence of Abstractionists Clyfford Still, David Park and Mark Rothko at San Francisco’s California School of Fine ...

Thinking about paintings, one usually imagines big museums filled with thousands of exhibits and tourists sympathetic to art.

Maija Miettinen's art practice is focused mainly on non-representational painting. Maija Miettinen was born in Helsinki, Finland but currently lives and works in Columbus where she is a third-year ...