“Chiaroscuro” is often taught as a technique, but it endures as an idea. It reminds us that meaning is rarely found in pure brightness or total darkness but in the uneasy space between the two.

Ugo da Carpi might not have had any formal training as an artist, but after about 1516 he had a profound impact on the course of Italian art for the next century. How? Ugo got a patent, or whatever ...

It seems that nothing is off limits as a source material for artist John Garrett. Piano wire, beads, bedsprings, and plastic cups, to name a few items, are repurposed into sculptural forms using what ...

Italian chiaroscuro woodcuts are among the most technically innovative of Renaissance prints for being printed in color. A woodcut is made from a wooden plank that is carved in relief, inked, and ...

Renowned Plains Cree painter Jeff Kahm (1968-2021) made a permanent move from Canada to New Mexico in 2003, and he soon began teaching at his alma mater, the Institute of American Indian Arts. A ...