2025
Carole Garland, born and raised in Chicago, graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., She studied figure drawing and oil painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas, Mexico City. After moving to Los Angeles she studied privately with Keith Finch, Venice. Concurrent with her art pursuits, Garland worked as a magazine editor, publicist, director's assistant, book editor, and sales executive. After a brief hiatus from painting, she looked to the outdoors for inspiration and began plein air watercolor studies with Don Blaisdell, UCLA.
Boredom
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Boredom - Children are waiting in line and each child expresses his/her impatience in a different way. The painting is called "Boredom" because one boy doesn't hold back on his feeli...
Oil, Wood Panel
Summer's End
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Summer's End" -- As summer still simmers, the signs of it coming to an end are apparent. Children are going back to school and cooler nights approach. In the meantime, sunbathers fi...
Oil, Wood Panel
Children in the Park
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A deliciously warm summer day in the park. The young children are idle with a growing sense of expectancy. Any moment something exciting could happen. If only. Their caretakers atten...
Oil
Point of View
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemporary Realism
Oil, Wood Panel
THE ARTFUL DODGERS
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The artist Carole Garland is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and so thought a painting of sporting figures in motion would pay tribute. At the s...
Oil, Wood Panel
Venice Beach
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Depicts Carole Garland reveling in a hot summer day at the Venice Beach. Colorful beach umbrellas shield the timid from the burning sun while sunbathers bask in the searing heat. Yellow and blue ribbons floating on the wind celebrate Venice’s chaos and its whimsy. To focus the figure of a preteen who stands sentinel, Garland fades out the foreground sunbather on right and obfuscates the crouching man on left. The artist leads us to the groups of mysterious standing and sitting figures in the shadows and beyond. Garland’s collection of figurative work speaks to a contemporary sensibility in her approach to painting, while expressing a curiosity about the human form and an irrepressible concern for the human spirit. Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with artists Keith Finch and Ron Pekar, taken numerous workshops and was mentored by David Gallup...
Oil, Wood Panel
Neighborhood Geometry
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Oil
Fete
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown discusses the inspiration for her latest body of work . . . This show features pieces focusing on crowds and still life subjects. The quotidian rhythm of domestic...
Canvas, Acrylic
J. F. Sunday Festival
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
California visual artist Kim Frohsin is unsurpassed in her depictions of figures, mostly female, usually in paintings that are intimate in size and scale. All of her work, whether re...
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pigment
Festival
By Jessica Krause Smith
Located in New York, NY
Festival 2014 Acrylic on canvas 39 x 39 inches Caption: The title for Festival is inspired by a feeling of celebration, loud sounds and visuals and all the cacophony and sense domin...
Acrylic
Party Time, Oil painting by Greg Kessler
By Greg Kessler
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Greg Kessler, American (1966 - ) Title: Party Time Year: 1995 Medium: Oil and Collage on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 48 in. x 72 in. (121.92 cm x 182.88 cm)
Oil
Downtown, Peninsula
By Sherry Czekus
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sherry's paintings combine figuration and abstraction, with a series of colors and abstract forms combining to produce an image of people in groups. Czekus’ work examines the everyda...
Canvas, Oil
