February 2016
Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion
February 25, 2016
| This major exhibition of more than 120 paintings by masters including Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, and Millais will highlight Liverpool's significant role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, reinforcing the city's position as the Victorian art capital of the north. |  |
| The show runs from February 12 - June 15, 2016 at the Walker Art Gallery - William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EL, England. To learn more about this and other events, please click here. | |
ARCALM™ Richard T Scott Exhibition
February 24, 2016
 | ARC Associate Living Master™ Richard T Scott will be holding a solo show of his work entitled "Americana". His work drifts between history and the present, reality and the supernatural, like a semi-lucid dream. The exhibition runs from March 10 - 27, 2016 at the Galerie – L'Oeil du Prince &45; 7 rue de l’Odéon, 75006 in Paris, France. For more information about this and other events, please click here. |
New ARC Associate Living Master™
February 23, 2016
| ARC is pleased to welcome Tina Garrett as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™! In the few short years since Tina's introduction to oil she has studied intently the Selective Start Method described in Alla Prima. Tina continues to learn and try to push her work to the next level. In the course of her serious pursuit of fine art mastery, the love Tina pours into each work pervades her imagery, helping Tina create a growing family of private collectors and commissioned clients throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. To view her new gallery on ARC, please click here. |  |
Juliette Aristides at the Search for Meaning Book Festival
February 22, 2016
 | ARC Living Master™ Juliette Aristides will be speaking at the Seattle University Search for Meaning Book Festival. Her lecture, titled, "On Seeing: Art as a Portal to Living More Fully", will take place on Saturday, February 27, 2016, from 1:00pm-2:00pm at the Vachon Gallery – Fine Arts Building, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.seattleu.edu/searchformeaning/ |
New ARC Living Master™
February 19, 2016
| ARC is pleased to welcome Jeff Hein as our newest Living Master™! Jeff Hein is an American artist born 1974. He works in a variety of mediums but is best known for his figurative oil paintings. In 2007 Hein founded the Hein Academy of Art, which is also an ARC Approved Atelier™ and in 2014 he won second place in the Figurative Category in the International ARC Salon. To view his new gallery on ARC, please click here. |  |
New ARC Living Artist™
February 18, 2016
| ARC is pleased to welcome Laurie Anspach as an ARC Living Artist™. Laurie's career began by earning a BA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She created designs for leading fashion industry studios in New York and later for the top European market. | |
 | In a project close to her heart, she is working with HeartsApart.org and the Heart Galleries, two national nonprofit organizations, to paint portraits of military families for dedicated service men and women who are being deployed oversees and to paint foster children in need of permanent homes. To view her gallery on ARC, click here. |
SAA Organizes Workshop
February 17, 2016
| The Society of Animal Artists (SAA) has joined in a coordinated effort with the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation (SKB) to create the single most comprehensive artist training workshop in the history of the SAA. This event, which consists of instruction from a series of top award winning SAA members will take place from May 22 – 27, 2016 in Kerrville, TX. To learn more and to register, click here. |  | |
Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi Solo Show
February 16, 2016
 | ARC Living Artist™ Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi is an accomplished artist who has exhibited in national and international juried competitions. This exhibition will showcase his portraits, still lives and landscapes. The show will be held at The Ventulett Gallery - 805 Mount Vernon Hwy NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 from March 3 – 24, 2016. For more information, please click here. |
New ARC Associate Living Master™
February 12, 2016
| ARC is pleased to welcome Richard T Scott as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™! | |
| Working between New York and Paris, Richard is a painter, writer, and designs coins for the United States Mint. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York Academy of Art. His work is held in private and public collections, and his paintings have been exhibited across Europe and North America. In addition to having given lectures and workshops at The Representational Art Conference, Laguna College of Art and Design, and the Lyme Academy, Richard is the founder of the Berkshire Painting Residency. To view Richard's gallery on ARC, please click here. |  by Richard T Scott |
Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of genius
February 11, 2016
 | Hieronymus Bosch is viewed worldwide as the most intriguing and exciting Netherlandish artist of the late Middle Ages. The exhibition includes the lion's share of his surviving paintings and drawings, and is based on the most comprehensive research ever performed into the artist's oeuvre: the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP). Never before have so many of Bosch's works returned to his home town of 's-Hertogenbosch, where he created them over 500 years ago. The exceptionally large number of works loaned to the exhibition will offer visitors a unique opportunity to study close up the revolutionary and highly imaginative visual language of Hieronymus Bosch. |
| The exhibition runs from February 13 - May 8, 2016 at the Het Noordbrabants Museum - Verwersstraat 41, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. For more information, please visit our exhibitions page. | |
Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale
February 10, 2016
| Three ARC Living Masters, John Buxton, Jeremy Lipking, and Morgan Weistling, are participating in one of the country's premier Western art shows. Each year, 75 nationally recognized, contemporary Western artists challenge themselves to create and exhibit their very best work. Stylistically and thematically diverse, their works represent the extraordinary range of subject matter that contemporary, historic, and mythic Western experiences inspire. |  |
| The exhibition runs from February 6 - March 20, 2016 at the Autry Museum of the American West - 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027. For more information, please click here. | |
Vigée Le Brun - Woman Artist in Revolutionary France
February 9, 2016
 | Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the finest eighteenth-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. She achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) New York, NY will be holding the first retrospective devoted to Vigée Le Brun in modern times. The eighty works on view will be paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections. |
| The exhibition runs from February 15 - May 15, 2016. To view more on this and other events, please click here. | |
ARC Salon Exhibition
February 5, 2016
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| The ARC Salon exhibition has ended, but we will be accepting entries to the 12th annual ARC Salon Competition starting March 1, 2016. We will be posting the prospectus sometime this month. Please continue to visit the ARC website for additional announcements regarding the upcoming competition. |
New ARC Associate Living Master™
February 4, 2016
| ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Cameron as our newest Associate Living Master™! | |
 | “Svetlana Cameron (b. 1978) is a Russian-born British portrait artist dedicated to the revival of traditional fine art. Trained in the methods of Old Masters in the private atelier system, she specializes in portraiture in the style of classical realism. Svetlana is based in the Isle of Man (British Isles) where she works from her studio in Braddan. A sought-after portrait painter, she travels internationally to exhibit and meet her sitters.” To view her gallery on ARC, please click here. |
Carlo Russo Painting Sold
February 3, 2016
| Carlo Russo’s painting, Mortars, which won an honorable mention in the Still life Category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition, has now sold. The painting is a part of the first live exhibition of the ARC Salon which traveled from the MEAM Museum in Barcelona and is now on display at the Salmagundi Club, New York City, until February 4th. To view a list of the other works available for sale, please click here. |  |
Hsin-Yao Tseng Work Sold
February 1, 2016
 | Listen to Myself, by Hsin-Yao Tseng, which was a finalist in the Figurative Category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition has sold. The painting, part of the first Live ARC Salon, is currently on display at the Salmagundi Club, New York City, until February 4th. To view a list of the other works available for sale, please click here. |