Patricia Brown / American MUD 2024

Ed Brothers / SOAG artist featured in Russian Magazine

Margy Nelson / Member discussion of Generative AI

Earlier this summer, eight members of the gallery met to share their thoughts about art created using generative AI. Below is a summary of our discussion. We hope to start a discussion on the blog about this issue. The image above was created in ~ 5 minutes by Margy using the prompt, “Teddy bears hugging […]

Diana Ozolins / Pleine Air Painting, June 17, 2024

Katrina Morse / Look Club Trains Us to See

“Take a long look at this piece of art. Look at all four corners, the sides, and the middle. Take an uncomfortably long look.” This is how the monthly Look Club at the State of the Art Gallery starts. Without mention of the artist or the title we just look and let our eyes roam […]

Margy Nelson / Drawing from a dream

A few days before Christmas I awoke from a vivid dream about creating a painting, something vaguely reminiscent of early 20th century French painters (Les Fauves, maybe?) I felt frustrated because just before I woke up I was trying to find the right color for part of the woman’s face, but I woke up before […]

Ed Brothers / An Experiment in “Real” Expressionism

Ethel Vrana / Botanical Motifs from Land and Sea

Daniel McPheeters / Bubbletrees and the Forest Fantasia

Patty Porter / Patty Porter on “Looking Forward, Looking Back”

Susan C. Larkin / Nate Jr., a 1941 Ford, and a Garage

Susan C. Larkin / JT Shevalier (Buffalo Road) and Tim Larkin (Bailor Road)

Olivia Kinne / Artistic Process Series: “New Work” by Jane Dennis and Harry Littell

Olivia Kinne / A Brief History of the Photo Show

Olivia Kinne / Artistic Process Series: “Wings, Petals, and Leaves”

Olivia Kinne / Artistic Process Series: “Double Vision”

Olivia Kinne / Artistic Process Series: Patricia Brown

Olivia Kinne / Artistic Process Series: Ed Brothers

Margy Nelson / Gaston Mouse Returns

Nancy Ridenour / Five Years in Laos

Patty Porter / Marvin’s Pond III ~ Between the Seasons – 2022

Christine Chin / Making Cyanotypes inspired by the Ara Pacis

Ed Brothers / A street corner in Paris

Margy Nelson / The Gallery Mouse

Today while putting the finishing touches on our wonderful February show, “Awakenings”, Jay and Patty encountered a mouse in the gallery. It went to ground in the supply closet, but has since sent me a message: “Please, please, I am an artist too! Please let me join the gallery, you are a wonderful group and […]