The eight artists at the exhibit Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea and Sky are modern proponents of an American tradition, responding to the natural world — to the night, to the sky, to the eternities found at Earth’s wild margins — with subtle, contemporary spirituality. Much of the work at Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea, and Sky at CSU reads (at least at first) […]
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With the weather changing here in North East Ohio, may I suggest a trip to Massillon Museum’s Studio M to look at the mood-altering drawings of Sandra Benny? The gallery is an explosion of color like a tropical botanical garden. The drawings fill the room with marriages between feathers and flowers. It is the first time that I noticed […]
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Stepping off the elevator on the second floor of the Massillon Museum of Art you are greeted by a monumental work by Richard Vaux. Elevation VII is an oil on panel that is 79” x 12”. It is a work that needs to be seen in person to appreciate the scale as are so many of the […]
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Throughout the years, historians and art critics have described the art of Richard Vaux as Formalist, Romanticist and Impressionist. He is certainly all of these but, above all, his abstract construction of space and the use of light make him a true Abstract Impressionist. In a 1993 essay, art historian Irma B. Jaffe refers to the art of Richard Vaux […]
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