Category: Visual Arts

  • Visual Artist Onikepo Soyinka’s Impressive Debut Exhibition Attracts Lagos Audience

    16-year-old visual artist Onikepo Soyinka recently debuted her collection at the Lagos Fringe Festival, garnering admiration and acclaim from art enthusiasts at the Freedom Park Hall. Representing a new wave of fearless and expressive creatives, she displayed dozens of artworks that showcased her intellectual abilities beyond her years. In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP, Onikepo…

  • Composition with Foley Vase

    Posted Dec 30, 2023  Updated: Dec 30, 2023 @ 9:15 AM Local artist Steve Creighton’s oil painting, “Composition with Foley Vase,” has been juried into the 2024 14th Biennial National Art Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, Fla. Read More

  • Warsaw Area Artist’s Painting Chosen For Florida Exhibition

    Local artist Steve Creighton’s oil painting, “Composition with Foley Vase,” has been juried into the 2024 14th Biennial National Art Exhibition in Punta Gorda, Fla. Image provided. News Release WARSAW — Local artist Steve Creighton’s oil painting, “Composition with Foley Vase,” has been juried into the 2024 14th Biennial National Art Exhibition at the Visual…

  • Two Iranian artists’ works on show at Arts Club Dubai

    TEHRAN-The 8th Stairway Exhibition is underway at the Arts Club Dubai with works by renowned artists from the region selected from a collection by the Farjam Foundation, a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization. Titled “Contemporary Middle East,” the exhibition showcases pieces by Middle Eastern artists whose works fall across a spectrum of styles, techniques, and aesthetics,…

  • Carole Rose: NCAL December Artist of the Month

    – Advertisement – The Nature Coast Art League has named Carole Rose Artist of the Month for December. This award-winning, endlessly creative artist received this distinguished honor at the November meeting of the league, an organization whose mission is to promote visual arts and support artists in Hernando County and surrounding areas. Rose’s winning art…

  • New Quentin Blake museum to provide a London home for a booming art form

    The work of a talented illustrator, whether Sir John Tenniel, creator of the sinister 19th-century Alice in Wonderland images, or Axel Scheffler and his scary Gruffalo, is as recognisable as the stories they have helped to tell. And while drawings once played second fiddle to the author’s words, the impact of the art of illustration,…

  • Langdon gallery exhibit showcases work of Fond du Lac educators and more news in weekly dose

    FOND DU LAC – The exhibit “Beyond the Bounds: A gathering of personal artwork by art educators in the Fond du Lac School District” will be on display Jan. 3 through Feb. 6 at the Langdon Divers Community Gallery. It is located inside the south entrance of the Fond du Lac Public Library at 32…

  • Visual Art Commentary: Boston and Sargent, For Better, For Worse.

    By Trevor Fairbrother Boston’s veneration of John Singer Sargent is awkwardly implicated in the city’s habit of denouncing modern art. A shared photo posted on the MFA’s Facebook page of a visitor to the “Fashioned by Sargent” exhibit. The liaison between Boston’s cultural establishment and the expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was fruitful in…

  • An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory

    At a reception for OpenAI’s first developer conference in San Francisco last month, a crowd mingled, wine in hand, as withering criticism of art created with artificial intelligence flashed on a blue wall at the front of the room. “I’ve seen more engaging art from a malfunctioning printer,” one critic jabbed. “The fine-art equivalent of…

  • First Fridays Gallery Openings for Red Deer

    Title: Healing Journeys Through Art Artists: Friends of Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre The Red Deer Arts Council Community Gallery, 6–4919 49 Street Exhibition Dates: January 4 – February 13, 2024 #FirstFridaysRedDeer reception January 5th, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. with CASASC staff, board and friends in attendance! Description: Art therapy is…