Category Archive: ART

Chris Pappan: Honoring Heritage

As a citizen of the Kaw Nation, Osage, Lakota, and European descent, artist Chris Pappan pays tribute to his Native American heritage through his vigorously detailed art. As an avid believer that time is a circular concept and everything comes back around, Pappan uses his art as a way to connect with his ancestors. 

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Hunter Blaze Pearson: Made in California

As his name suggests, Hunter Blaze Pearson uses bright, blazing colors. The multidisciplinary visual artist depicts psychedelic American iconography on a variety of objects, ranging from shoes to canvases to whiskey bottles. This spring, Pearson’s “American Dream” was a part of the Brea Gallery’s 39th Annual “Made in California” exhibition, and it won the “Director’s Choice” award. 

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Amoako Boafo: Exhibition in Space

Many pieces of art can be considered out of this world, but this artist’s paintings are actually out of this world.

In 2021, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched with three paintings on its exterior panels as part of the Uplift Art Program. The paintings were made with materials that would survive the journey into space and return to earth. Done in his signature finger-painting style, Amoako Boafo launched a self-portrait and portraits of his mother and childhood friend, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, into space. 

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Tyler Mitchell: Visualizing Utopia

In September 2018, Beyoncé graced the cover of Vogue dressed in a frilly white dress and stunning floral headpiece. This was one of many images of the singer featured in that issue, all of which were praised for treading the line between reality and fantasy, documentary and portraiture, subtly refracting the glossy light that tends to fall on fashion and celebrity toward a softer, more nuanced feeling.

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