BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — The concept of “improvisational painting” might evoke the idea of loose compositions with abstract shapes — Kandinsky-like squiggles and half-formed images, or a visual jazz of ...

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still life genre Sharon Core, "Boston Cremes," from the series "Thiebauds," 2004. C ...

For the year’s first exhibition, Esther Schipper Seoul invited Minjin Chae to curate a group presentation by artists based in South Korea. Titled Still Life: Objects of Our Time, the exhibition ...

Susan Jane Walp, “Green Grapes in a Turquoise Teacup II” (2013), oil on gessoed paper, 7 1/2 x 8 inches (courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery) Painting reached a turning point with Paul Cézanne wherein a ...

There’s a whimsical element in Liese Chavez’s paintings. A woman is baking a pie, but there’s feathers next to the pie, or a woman is holding a pear in her hand, but the pear is a house with a smoking ...

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

By integrating three tightly curated shows in its main galleries, The Hyde Collection has presented a sweeping view of the still life, as created by women, both in the 1600s and today. In the large ...

In the large main gallery is "A Feast of Fruit & Flowers," a robust, focused selection of paintings by women from the 17th Century (mostly) in a sharp tour of approaches to the still life. Supporting ...