Fine Art

Shan Michael Evans presents playful, bold designs that could be at home in a hipster toy store. “[If] any of these works receive a smile from someone passing by, well, that works for me.”

Downtown Las Vegas’ latest Aerial Gallery features a diverse batch of work

March 21st, 2019

Shan Michael Evans presents playful, bold designs that could be at home in a hipster toy store. “[If] any of these works receive a smile from someone passing by, well, that works for me.”

  • “People are expressing themselves in different ways that were hidden before and not talked about. It gives you a chance to say, ‘Here I am. ...

  • Between Starbucks and Border Grill, an oasis awaits. Twenty-four medium-format paintings by Kisho Mwkaiyama hang on the wall, their complex significance perhaps overlooked by conference ...

  • Most of Las Vegas knows Ed for Paint This Desert, the blog that began as an Andy Warhol Foundation grant-funded platform for exploring Las Vegas ...

  • She plans to cover UNLV’s Archie C. Grant Hall in giant rainbow swaths of fabric. But her vision goes beyond just changing the look of ...

  • It’s game-changing show featuring a colossal 400 multimedia artworks by more than 50 artists who may or may not be queer, may or may not ...

  • Depio’s 11-by-40-foot Moapa mural works as a Nevada time capsule, traveling to the time of industrialization and the type of “creative destruction” that naturally occurs ...

  • Almost uniformly, the artists shun Asian art traditions and draw upon the Western canon.

  • Many of the artists in the exhibition were impacted by the AIDS crisis, which contributed to the disappearance of their histories over time.

  • The poems are honest and deeply personal. They ruminate on themes of forgiveness, nature, the difficulty of love and even the innocent desire to pet ...

  • The exhibit will feature new and previously displayed large-scale work, and will be staged in such a way as to take full advantage of the ...

  • Her piece, comprising thousands of hand-cut yellow turkey, goose and iridescent acrylic faux-feathers, is an interpretation of Diptyque’s “olfactory landscape” and a nod to Las ...

  • Her artworks now fetch upwards of $7 million at auction, making Kusama the most expensive living female artist.

  • From illustrator Mary Felker to painter Robert Beckmann.

  • Shimmering Zen presents Stanford’s mandalas at the size of record sleeves, big enough to allow you to stare deeply into the details or for them ...

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