Indholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2023 i Art & Antiques

Glass artist Chris Tarpley is a curiosity seeker and adventurer in both his life and his art. His lifelong inclination to travel, while seeking out new and ancient cultures, and his formal art education have led Tarpley to create pieces coveted by collectors and museums alike. Tarpley, who was raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and comes from a multi-ethnic family, draws on childhood experiences, world travels, and formal studies to play with traditional techniques and motifs in unforeseen ways. “My personal aesthetic has generally leaned towards the classical,” writes Tarpley of his work. “Archaeology has fascinated me since early childhood, and I’ve always been attracted to the design sensibilities of the ancients.” Having worked as a foundryman, lapidary, sculptor, silversmith, and glassblower, Tarpley integrates these various skills with different…

CARVING STONE ONE OF Santa Fe’s most established and well-known galleries, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, will open a show by the renowned Native sculptor Doug Hyde on Aug. 12, Doug Hyde: Collection of Unique Stone Sculptures. The show will remain on view until Sept. 2. Hyde is of Nez Perce, Assiniboine, and Chippewa heritage and began his artistic career working in stone before adding bronze to his repertoire. While he still works extensively in bronze, stone is the material that he feels the most attuned to. Hyde says that since he was young, he’s felt stones talking to him, telling him what they want to be. A winner of multiple national art awards including the Award for Sculpture from the Autry National Center of the American West, Hyde’s work can…

Is Chris Schanck a designer or an artist? He is both, but Does it matter? he asks. Schanck, who has emerged as a leading figure in the world of design over the past decade, has said that he views himself as an artist who found his way through design. Hybrids of sculpture and furniture, Schanck’s bold constructions blend biomorphic forms with elaborately crafted symbolism and draw upon influences ranging from Brutalist and Art Deco architecture to ancient Egyptian, Anatolian, and Aztec iconography. His pieces look as if they might have come from either a galaxy far, far away or possibly an underwater wonderland. Despite overt references to fantasy and metafiction, Schanck’s furniture and decorative pieces are grounded in the reality of human existence. “In my work, I take inspiration from…

Western Masterpieces THE COEUR d’Alene Art Auction, one of the most significant auctions in the world for historical and contemporary art of the American West, will take place July 15 in Reno, Nev. Featuring paintings and sculpture by many of the most sought-after artists in the genre, this year’s auction will offer an unusual number of masterworks for sale, giving serious collectors the opportunity to obtain artworks that have been off the market for decades. One of the top attractions of this year’s auction is the 2008 painting Paper That Talks Two Ways—The Treaty Signing (est. $2-3,000,000) by Howard Terpning. Depicting a Native American man speaking to a gathered group of his fellow tribe members to express his warranted distrust of the American government’s treaty, this piece was so beloved…

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, “Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker” (on view through August 27th), highlights the groundbreaking achievements of a lesser-known, late Cinquecento painter from Bologna. To be certain, Fontana was an exception to the socio-political position afforded to women at the time. The word “exception” has both negative and positive connotations. Read as “exception,” the artist is in contrast to the rule—a woman working beyond the restrictions of her sex. Read as “exceptional,” we associate the talent with being unusual or rare—a comment upon skill. Lavinia Fontana was no mere “exception”; she was an “exceptional” artist. As NGI curator Aoife Brady argues, she was not simply an artist “prevailing” beyond her sex but rather one of “prodigious skill in painting” that begs (re)consideration. Much of…

NOT ONLY did the largest gem-quality ruby make its auction block debut, but it sold for a record breaking $34.8 million at a recent Sotheby’s auction. “It’s difficult to express the range of emotions I felt when I first laid eyes on the Estrela de Fura,” said Quig Bruning, Head of Sotheby’s Jewels, Americas and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). “But to put it simply, I was entranced. With its unprecedented size, piercing color, and rare degree of optical transparency and clarity, it truly deserved the record-breaking price today, as it now joins the ranks of the world’s most legendary gemstones.” Known as the Estrela de Fura, the 55.22-carat stone was cut from an exceptional 101-carat rough stone discovered at Fura Gems’ ruby mine in Mozambique in July…