American Art Collector Issue 197, March 2022

2 Debbie Korbel, Michael, terra cotta, mixed media, 28 x 24 x 22\" 3 Lisa Gleim, Dancing With Fireflies, pastel and gold leaf, 36 x 24\" 4 Zoey Zamarripa, Kimberly, oil, 20 x 24\" 5 FELICIA, Expecting, bronze on a walnut turn base, 17 x 5 x 4\" 6 Anat Michaeli, Alectrona, oil on linen, 24 x 24\" 7 Kim Kori, Double Jeopardy, bronze, 7¼ x 6½ x 4½\" 8 Jammey Huggins, Finders Keepers, bronze, 17½ x 17 x 5½\" 6 AR T SHOW PRE VIE W 149 78

9 10 11 9 BF Reed, It’s Always Sunny, pastel, 27 x 19\" 10 Lisa Battle, Ritual II, ceramic, 33 x 16 x 12\" 11 Louise Solecki Weir, Lullaby for Earth and Sky Opus 4, polymer gypsum with oils, limited edition of 10, 18 x 7 x 6\" 12 Cher Pruys, Catching Snowflakes, acrylic, 12 x 10\" 13 Nora Pineda, Southern Kiss, ceramic, 6 x 5½ x 5\" 12 13 into something new. Kori’s Double Jeopardy features a lizard Southern Kiss, by Nora Pineda, that is Another popular subject is wildlife, such looking up at butterflies on a candlestick, highlighted by the artist’s craftsmanship as in Lisa Gleim’s towering bear painting while Jammey Huggins’ Finders Keepers and design abilities through the painted titled Dancing With Fireflies. Gleim is a is a beautifully sculptured raven holding a surface. signature member of American Women key to a treasure chest in its mouth, with Artists and serves on its board of directors. some of the treasure coins below. Breaking Through: The Rise of American She is the show chair for the exhibition at Women Artists will have an opening Customs House Museum. Dancing With Other artwork in the show includes the reception and awards ceremony on March Fireflies is a pastel and gold leaf work, happy still life It’s Always Sunny by BF 12. During this event the artists will learn which shows off her ability to capture Reed that shows sunflowers and a yellow- who received the grand prize of $10,000 gorgeous details while adding a sense of and-white striped background; a ceramic and other additional awards. American Art mystery and intrigue to the painting. Kim by Lisa Battle titled Ritual II that shows off Collector returns as a proud media sponsor the beauty of firing; and another ceramic, of the exhibition. 150 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

American Women Artists • National Juried Museum Exhibition & Sale BREAKING THROUGH: THE RISE OF AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS CUSTOMS HOUSE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE March 5 - May 29, 2022 • 100+ works by AWA members all available for purchase LISA GLEIM SIGNATURE MEMBER 'DQFLQJ:LWK)LUHæLHV Soft Pastel • 36”x24” LisaGleimFineArt.com Online exhibition, schedule of events, and purchasing information available at americanwomenartists.org

American Women Artists • National Juried Museum Exhibition & Sale BREAKING THROUGH: THE RISE OF AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS KIM KORI MASTER-SIGNATURE MEMBER DEBBIE KORBEL SIGNATURE MEMBER Double Jeopardy Michael Bronze • 8”x7”x5” • kimkoristudio.com Terra Cotta, Mixed Media • 28”x24”x22” • debbiekorbel.com BF REED SIGNATURE MEMBER CHER PRUYS ASSOCIATE MEMBER ,WÖV$OZD\\V6XQQ\\ &DWFKLQJ6QRZæDNHV Soft Pastel • 27”x19”ÝEIUHHGåQHDUWVFRP Acrylic • 12”x10” • artbycher.ca

CUSTOMS HOUSE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE March 5 - May 29, 2022 • 100+ works by AWA members all available for purchase Online exhibition, schedule of events, and purchasing information available at www.americanwomenartists.org LOUISE SOLECKI WEIR ASSOCIATE WITH DISTINCTION PAIGE WALLIS ASSOCIATE WITH DISTINCTION /XOODE\\IRU(DUWKDQG6N\\2SXV 2QFH,:DV$Q2SWLPLVW Polymer Gypsum with Oils • 18”x6”x5” • louisesoleckiweir.com Acrylic • 24”x20” • soothedbyrainfallstudios.com ANAT MICHAELI ASSOCIATE MEMBER LISA BATTLE ASSOCIATE MEMBER $OHFWURQD Ritual II Oil • 24”x24” • anatmstudio.com Ceramic • 33”x16”x12” • lisabattlesculpture.com

American Women Artists • National Juried Museum Exhibition & Sale BREAKING THROUGH: THE RISE OF AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS CUSTOMS HOUSE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE March 5 - May 29, 2022 • 100+ works by AWA members all available for purchase NORA PINEDA ASSOCIATE MEMBER FELICIA ASSOCIATE MEMBER 6RXWKHUQ.LVV Expecting Ceramic • 6”x5.5”x5” • norapineda.com Bronze • 17” x 4” x 5” • feliciasculpture.com JAMMEY HUGGINS SIGNATURE MEMBER ZOEY ZAMARRIPA, ASSOCIATE MEMBER )LQGHUV.HHSHUV .LPEHUO\\ Bronze • 17.5” x 17” x 5.5” • jammey.com Oil 20” x 24” • zoeyzamarripa.com Online exhibition, schedule of events, and purchasing information available at americanwomenartists.org

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AWARD LOREN DIBENEDETTO WINNER Huntersville, NC • [email protected] • www.lorendibenedetto.com Lasting Moments DiBenedetto received the American Art Collector Award of Excellence at the 2021 International Guild of Realism Spring Online Salon. A rt and flowers have been in artist 1 2 Loren DiBenedetto’s life since a young age. Her parents were artistic and dabbled into fruits and things like that because I the stems and leaves of the tomatoes. A in painting, while her own journey in art wanted to catch the moment in time. These traditional still life view would obscure began to take a more serious shape during things will never look the way they look [at some of these elements, even the gentle high school. She also grew up working in that moment] again. Everything evolves folds and ripples of the cloth in the her aunt’s flower shop and found a creative and changes, and what attracts me to still painting. Another work, Five Acorns, was outlet in the abundance of blooms. The two life is being able to capture the moment of inspired by a tree branch that had fallen passions merged as her professional art light in a certain way.” during a storm. “The simplest things career developed. inspire me, and the acorns were still on Simplicity has been a uniting factor of it,” she says, “It was such a gift. It was just “I struggled sometimes with what her compositions, as it helps create space incredible and that’s what inspired me.” I wanted to paint,” DiBenedetto recalls. “But for the objects, light and shadows to play. they say paint what you know. That made Often DiBenedetto will set up her still lifes DiBenedetto is represented by Anderson so much sense to me, so I started painting outside—preferring early morning or late Fine Art Gallery in St. Simmons Island, flowers. That’s when I really knew I could afternoon when shadows are longer—and Georgia; Sage Creek Gallery in Santa Fe, have a career; when I found the passion for take photographs of what she wants to New Mexico; and at Art Cellar Gallery in what I wanted to paint.” paint. This allows her to explore the subject Banner Elk, North Carolina, where she will from a variety of angles and atmospheres. have a solo show in August. Her painting In the earlier years, DiBenedetto painted Pomegranates was juried into American large florals and then expanded to other Vase of Scabiosa, for example, has a Women Artists’ upcoming exhibition natural objects. “I always felt like I could seemingly equal focus on both the object Breaking Through: The Rise of American find inspiration in anything, and that’s why and its elongated shadow. Tomatoes in a Women Artists on view March 5 through I like still life,” she says. “I went from flowers Green Bowl is a still life from above that, May 29 at Customs House Museum & she says, lets the viewer appreciate the Cultural Center in Clarksville, Tennessee. color of the bowl and allows them to see 156 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

3 AMERIC AN ART COLLEC TOR AWARD WINNER 157 1 Five Acorns, oil, 30 x 40\" 2 Vase of Scabiosa, oil, 24 x 18\" 3 Tomatoes in Green Bowl, oil, 22 x 28\" 4 Pomegranates, oil, 18 x 24\" 4

INDEX ARTISTS IN THIS ISSUE Akhriev, Daud 98 Hicks, Ron 77 Oxborough, Paul 101 Alberto, Jorge 122 Hinojosa, Paloma 128 Patten, Nick 60 Astone, Daniela 119 Hirano, Miho 52 Paul, Terry Romero 71 Baker, Richard 104 Huggins, Jammey 149 Penix, Derek 79, 114 Balmert, Nancy 70 Hughes, Neal 38 Piraza, Telvinia 71 Barlow, Elizabeth 66 Hyland, Jeanne 71 Poskas, Peter 100 Barnes, Julia Whitney 65 J Louis 127 Preston, Larry 122 Barr, Timothy 64 Jackson, Tomashi 34 Read, Megan Elizabeth 117 Batchelder, Peter 102 Johnson, Beth 129 Roda, Anne-Christine 116 Baughman, Charles 110 Jones, Joel Carson 101 Rosner, Heidi 68 Bayer, Koko 81 Keys, Daniel J. 77, 96 Ruddy, Sally 68 Bennett, Nathan 78 Kling, Chris 38 Sacketti, Linda 69 Beshara, Crystal 71 Korbel, Debbie 148 Salzman, Janine 69 Box, Kevin 129 Kori, Kim 149 Schmid, Richard 65 Brown, Krystal 38 Kusama, Yayoi 36 Scott, O’Neil 76 Butler, Curt 108 L.HUNT 130 Shelton, Doug 125 Butler, Elizabeth 69 Labarca, Gerado 40 Sherwood, Mary 125 Cortelyou, Jacques 61 LaFosse, Michael G 129 Sigler, Leslie Lewis 60 Courier, Michelle 80 Lang, Robert J. 129 Steinworth, Skip 66 Dean, Freyja 53 Lawler, Steven 117 Steirnagle, Michael 112 DeDecker, Jane 79 Levinthal, Aubrey 59 Stott, Christopher 58, 94 DiBenedetto, Loren 156 Little, Chad 41 Trachok, Cathryne 126 Dworkin, Mona 36 López, Nicola 36 Vadnais, Bennett 58 Evans-Cato, Nicholas 58 Magsig, Stephen 57 Van Fossan, James 121 Eveyln, Leya 102 McGurl, Joseph 100 Van Fossan, Leigh Ann 120 Fairey, Shepard 81 Mederos, Darian 118 Vergara, Jose Lopez 119 FELICIA 148 Mejia, Brisaidita 70 Wallis, Paige 147 Feuerman, Carole A. 41 Michaeli, Anat 149 Weaser, Audra 40 Fillmore, Michelle Elizabeth 106 Minichino, Gina 61 Wessel, Fred 66 Floyd, Elizabeth 122 Mitchell, Dean 36 Will, Tara 71 Glass, T.M. 65 Moore, Robert 78 Wilson, Samuel K. 86 Gleim, Lisa 148 Murray, Tom 125 Yang, Rimi 44 Gregg, Tom 60 Neely, Stephanie 70 Yarrow, David 41 Greive, Amanda 90 Nelson, Lori 50 Zamarripa, Zoey 148 Hannick, Lisa 68 Nienartowicz, Agnieszka 117 Zappalorti, Robert E. 101 Hextrum, Robin 76 Ortega, Hector 32 Zink, Beth 68 158 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com



INDEX ADVERTISERS IN THIS ISSUE A Sense of Place Fine Art Gallery / Fresno, CA 17 Hannick, Lisa / Hawley, PA 63 Pruys, Cher / Devlin, ON 152 Abend Gallery / Denver, CO Cover 3 Huggins, Jammey / Seminole, TX 154 Onessimo Fine Art / Palm Beach, FL 22 African American Artists Hutchison, Julee / Placerville, CO 73 Rainforest Baskets / Portland, OR 141 Collective / Kansas City, MO 18 Hyland, Jeanne / Santa Fe, NM 135 Raitman Art Galleries / Vail, CO 23 American Women Artists / Lodi, CA 151-154 J Louis / New York, NY 15 Reed, BF / Jacksonville, NC 152 Anne Neilson Fine Art / Charlotte, NC 7 Klein, Ren / Hendersonville, NC 63 Rehs Contemporary Galleries / New York, NY 8-9 Arcadia Contemporary / New York, NY Cover 2, 1 Korbel, Debbie / Sherman Oaks, CA 152 RJD Gallery / Romeo, MI 2-3 Arizona Fine Art Expo / Fountain Hills, AZ 67 Kori, Kim / Sedona, AZ 152 RiNo Art District / Denver, CO 83 ART NOW FAIR / Salt Lake City, UT 84 L.HUNT Gallery / Corona, CA 67 Ruddy, Sally / Waterford, CA 145 Balmert, Nancy / Seabrook, TX 26 Lily Pad West / Milwaukee, WI 13 Salzman, Janine / San Juan Capistrano, CA 135 Barlow, Elizabeth / Carmel, CA 10 Linda Sacketti Art / Palatine, IL 145 Seerey-Lester, Suzie / Osprey, FL 24 Battle, Lisa / Columbia, MD 153 Longton, Vesna / Attleboro, MA 141 Shain Gallery / Charlotte, NC 11 Bennett Prize, The / Pittsburgh, PA 33 Mann, Linda / Bellvue, WA 131 Solecki Weir, Louise / Vancouver, BC 153 Beshara, Crystal / L'Orignal, ON 146 Mary Calengor Fine Art / Winona, MN 43 Thunderbird Artists / Carefree, AZ 130 Big Sky Studio, Inc. / Basalt, CO 83 Menendez, Didi / Bloomington, IL 12 Trachok, Cathryne / Napa,CA 39 Blue Rain Gallery / Santa Fe, NM Cover 4 Michaeli, Anat / Ft. Lauderdale, FL 153 Uline / Pleasant Prairie, WI 140 Celebration of Fine Art / Scottsdale, AZ 27 Origami in the Garden / Cerrillos, NM 25 Vernon Filley Art Museum / Pratt, KS 20 Charleston Gallery Association / Charleston, SC 73 Paddock, Sarah / Spencerport, NY 28 Vigil, Suzanne / Albuquerque, NM 146 Claggett/Rey Gallery / Edwards, CO 19 Pamela Winters Sculptures / Tulsa, OK 140 Wallis, Paige / Malden, MA 153 Dunn, Cristy / Mountain City, TN 140 Paul, Terry Romero / Sherman Oaks, CA 42 Wessel, Fred / Northhampton, MA 63 Eydel Fine Art / Naples, FL 131 Pine Moon Fine Art / Steamboat, CO 62 West Wind Fine Art / Colorado Springs, CO 43 FABA Pagosa / Pagosa Springs, CO 62 Pineda, Nora / Chico, CA 154 Westward Gallery / Denver, CO 21 Felicia Studio Gallery / Edwards, CO 154 Plouffe, Renel / Ooltewah, TN 29 Will, Tara / Hampstead, MD 37 Ferris, Jennifer / Alpharetta, GA 135 Pollak, Laura / Greensboro, NC 35 Zamarripa, Zoey / Austin, TX 154 Gallery 1261 / Denver, CO 5 Portrait Society of America / Tallahassee, FL 159 Gleim, Lisa / Atlanta, GA 151 160 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

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