ALFA News
American Art Collector Features ALFA’s “Fleeting Moments: Works en Plein Air” November 2017
The tradition of plein air painting is one that has lasted over the centuries, with artists setting up their easels and reinterpreting the sights of the great outdoors firsthand. In …
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Joe Paquet in Western Art & Architecture Magazine August/ September 2017
Following principles laid by the Ashcan School and famed Modernists, contemporary artists paint America’s industrial landscapes. In a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, cemetery, on a gray, sleety morning, Joe Paquet stood working …
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George Gallo Featured in California Art Club’s Newsletter, Summer 2017
George Gallo is the writer/director of the three-time award winning movie, Local Color, the first film to portray modern-day artists dedicated to painting realistically. Gallo, a landscape artist himself, also …
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Christopher Slatoff in The Los Angeles Times August 17, 2017
Since the 1930s, the life-size bronze warrior Tommy Trojan has been the unofficial mascot of USC and a central campus gathering spot. Now he has a female counterpart at USC …
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Alexey Steele Featured in California Art Club Newsletter Summer 2017 Edition
Painter Alexey Steele’s entry into the California Art Club’s recent 106th Gold Medal Exhibition was a portrait called “Ricky.” The three-quarter bust shows a raw-boned young man with a defiant …
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Tim Solliday Featured in Southwest Art July 2017
The first time Tim SoIliday walked into the Los Angeles home and studio of the artist who would become his most important teacher, it felt like stepping into a movie …
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Christopher Slatoff in Pasadena Star-News for Enduring Heroes Monument, May 30, 2017
The families of 11 Pasadena-area troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan came together Monday to witness the public unveiling of a monument honoring their lost loved ones. Local Gold …
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Teresa Oaxaca Featured in The Artist’s Magazine, May 2017
“My work is about pleasing the eye,” says Teresa Oaxaca. Indeed, though her oeuvre includes conventional portraits in charcoal and oil and straightforward still lifes, Oaxaca’s portfolio is dominated by …
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Peter Adams Featured in Art of the West, May/June 2017
Peter Adams admits to being somewhat of a rapscallion in his early years. When he was a junior, the military school he was attending instituted an art program. Unimpressed with …
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Southwest Art Magazine, April 2017; Notes on ALFA Artists Peter Adams, Béla Bácsi, Scott W. Prior, Mian Situ, Alexey Steele, and William Stout
A prominent group of traditional fine-art painters came together to establish the California Art Club over 100 years ago. Today the club continues to strive toward the celebration of California …
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