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Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 50 of 50 Today we’re featuring Diana Horowitz’s “Tulips” (2008). Three tul...
07/24/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 50 of 50

Today we’re featuring Diana Horowitz’s “Tulips” (2008). Three tulips lie across a pale tabletop, their delicately curved stems and folded leaves extending through the composition. In the foreground, one flower opens into an arrangement of curling petals, while the two tulips behind it recede in softer tones of orange. Horowitz brings the viewer close to the flowers, allowing the warm blossoms to emerge against the cool gray surface, while subtle shadows give weight to their folded forms. Painted on an intimate scale, Horowitz has long favored small paintings and direct observation, through which she finds both immediacy and freedom in concentrating the visible world within a limited space.

Today is the final day to see “Fresh Cut,” closing Friday, July 24th!

Image: Diana Horowitz, “Tulips,” 2008, Oil on muslin panel, 5 x 8 inches

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 49 of 50 Next we’re featuring Antone Könst’s “Arrangement with Cherry Blos...
07/23/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 49 of 50

Next we’re featuring Antone Könst’s “Arrangement with Cherry Blossoms” (2026). Vibrant petal-like forms, cascading blossoms, and looping stems fill the composition, while the rounded green vase rests against the rigid geometry of the checkered tabletop. The leaning forms and shifting angles create a tension of balance, giving the still life vitality and movement. At first glance the work appears to be a playful still life, but with sustained looking, faint human faces begin to emerge from the vase and surrounding foliage, blurring the boundary between botanical and human forms. Working in figurative abstraction, Könst renders flowers, faces, and natural forms through simplified geometric shapes, inviting familiar subjects to be experienced as expressive forms that carry meaning beyond their appearance.

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Antone Könst, “Arrangement wittg Cherry Blossoms,” 2026, Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 47 of 50 Today we’re featuring Ruth Miller’s “Anemones, Gourd, Jug, Bottle...
07/23/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 47 of 50

Today we’re featuring Ruth Miller’s “Anemones, Gourd, Jug, Bottle.” The bouquet is framed by broad blue and ochre vessels, a bottle, a jug, and a gourd, allowing the tightly clustered anemones to emerge at the center of the painting through their vibrant color. Miller uses color to distinguish and construct each form, creating a composition held together through relationships of shape and hue. Throughout her career, Miller was deeply invested in how color could organize a composition, not simply describing objects but creating structure and defining the spaces between them.

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Ruth Miller, “Anemones, Gourd, Jug, Bottle,” Oil on canvas, 12 × 14 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 46 of 50 Next we’re featuring Lois Dodd’s White “Amaryllis and Window” (20...
07/22/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 46 of 50

Next we’re featuring Lois Dodd’s White “Amaryllis and Window” (2025). A white amaryllis extends across the composition, its long green stem cutting diagonally through the gray geometry of the windowsill. Sunlight falls in bright bands across the ledge, while the view beyond the window opens onto strips of green lawn and clipped shrubs. Painted from direct observation, Dodd returned throughout her career to the familiar places and objects around her, finding enduring subjects in the particulars of everyday life.

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Lois Dodd, “Amaryllis and Window,” 2025, Oil on masonite, 20 x 20 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 44 of 50 Today we’re featuring Xico Greenwald’s “Bowl of Figs” (2026). Ref...
07/21/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 44 of 50

Today we’re featuring Xico Greenwald’s “Bowl of Figs” (2026). Reflections dissolve across the curved surface of the glass bowl, where densely packed figs shift between deep plum, blue, olive, and violet against an intense black background. A solitary cherry, set apart from the arrangement, echoes the saturated red of the velvety tabletop, creating a chromatic dialogue that unifies the composition. Rooted in a belief that the commonplace is rich subject matter, Greenwald’s still lifes reveal the poetry of everyday objects through attentive observation.

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Xico Greenwald, “Bowl of Figs,” 2026, Oil on canvas over panel, 18 x 22.5 inches

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 42 of 50 Next we’re featuring Hiroyuki Hamada’s Untitled Painting 048 (202...
07/21/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 42 of 50

Next we’re featuring Hiroyuki Hamada’s Untitled Painting 048 (2021). A single white flower occupies the panel with striking deliberateness, set against an expansive, weathered ground where traces of pale blue emerge beneath layered acrylic. The broad dark brown plane below lends the composition a sense of stability, accentuating the flower’s crisp geometry. Best known for his sculpture, Hamada approaches painting with the same precision and sensitivity to form. Like much of Hamada’s work, the piece remains intentionally untitled, allowing the composition to unfold through shape, proportion, and balance.

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Hiroyuki Hamada, Untitled Painting 048, 2021, Acrylic on wood, 40 x 30 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 41 of 50Next were featuring Alix Bailey's "Tulip" from c. 2011. Painted a...
07/20/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 41 of 50

Next were featuring Alix Bailey's "Tulip" from c. 2011. Painted against a background of cool blues and soft grays, a single pink bloom rises from a glass vessel in a composition that transforms an everyday still life into a tender meditation on light, color and atmosphere. Celebrated for her intimate interiors, portraits, and still lifes, Bailey's expressive brushwork and subdued palette create paintings that feel both deeply personal and quietly enduring.🌷

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” which closes Friday, July 24th!

Image: Alix Bailey, "Tulip," c. 2011, Oil on canvas, 8 x 6 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 41 of 50 Thick passages of oil paint build a lush tangle of orchids and br...
07/20/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 41 of 50

Thick passages of oil paint build a lush tangle of orchids and broad green leaves, their shapes continually shifting between botanical observation and abstraction. Li transforms the garden into an immersive field where foreground and background remain in constant dialogue. Working directly from nature, she uses color, gesture, and richly textured paint to convey not only the appearance of a place but also its atmosphere, movement, and sensation. For Li, color lies at the heart of the painting process, conveying mood, memory, and a distinct sense of place while serving as the composition’s organizing force. “Wild Orchids” exemplifies her ability to unite perceptual painting with the expressive language of Abstract Expressionism.

Come see this work in “Fresh Cut” through July 24!

Image: Ying Li, “Wild Orchids,” 2025, Oil on linen, 24 x 19 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 40 of 50Sunny sunflowers stand tall against a hazy New Mexico sky in Grego...
07/20/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 40 of 50

Sunny sunflowers stand tall against a hazy New Mexico sky in Gregory Botts' "August Sunflowers #1," the blossoms' geometry play off the soft, atmospheric bands of the landscape behind them. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1952, Botts trained at the School of Visual Arts and studied under New York School painters Paul Georges and Fairfield Porter, artists who sought a modern vocabulary for representational painting rooted in Abstract Expressionism. The artist divides his time between New York City and New Mexico, where he has spent the last 25 summers. His signature style — marrying the abstract to the concrete through color, texture, and layered underpainting — turns this simple bouquet into a quiet meditation on land, light, and the fleeting beauty of late summer. 🌻☁️

This is the final week to see “Fresh Cut,” closing Friday, July 24th!

Image: Gregory Botts, "August Sunflowers #1," 2019, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches.

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 38 of 50 Next we’re featuring Jack Ceglic’s Untitled (Avocado, Halves) (20...
07/18/2026

Fresh Cut | Featured Work of the Day | Artist 38 of 50

Next we’re featuring Jack Ceglic’s Untitled (Avocado, Halves) (2024). Ceglic turned to still life in recent years, drawing upon a lifelong fascination with food and its visual possibilities. A freshly cut avocado, its pit removed to reveal a luminous interior of buttery yellows and chartreuse greens at the height of ripeness, occupies the center of the composition. The plate’s concentric bands of smoky mauve, chestnut, pale blue, and cream echo outward beneath the fruit, making its freshly cut interior appear almost to glow. The avocado becomes an emblem of summer, celebrating the visual pleasures found in the everyday.

Come see this work in “Fresh Cut” through July 24!

Image: Jack Ceglic, Untitled (Avocado, Halves), 2024, Oil stick on paper, 19 × 24 inches.

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