Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...

Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. The geometric designs and vivid colors suggest modern abstract art, but the items in a new exhibition at the ...

Mary Mathews has come a long way since her first log cabin crazy quilt in 25 years. She started improvising and learned to see her art with a different lens. Duluth abstract quilter Mary Mathews ...

Lou Ann Smith recently returned home from the Quilt National 2015 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Ohio, where her beautiful abstract quilt known as “Leaf 2” was one of just 86 quilts selected for the ...