Visual Arts

The renowned live artist Amy Burkman treated the audience to the speed paintings of both the front and back covers, of the ELYSIAN’s Fall 2022 “Travel & Technology” Issue. The longer painting, beginning with a blank canvas was transformed in front of an audience of over one hundred people over a two-hour span. Then, in ten minutes, to the cadence of music, the cover image took place before our eyes. Amy “speed pained” an upside-down painting which was turned right side up, to the audience’s surprise as they gasped at the remarkable composite of the front cover of Jan Zakin herself. A magical experience for everyone!

Artists working in any genre incorporate many influences into their work. We highlight here a selection of Asian American and Pacific Islander women whose careers exemplify dedication and inspiration, who share their hard work and life experiences with us in innovative ways. Their work is inspiring, and much of it can be experienced right on your phone or laptop.

This highly independent woman rejected marriage and motherhood for herself, but through her unique and wonderful Impressionist paintings and prints, a century later she remains the art world’s preeminent advocate of mothers, children, and family.

As more survivors are lost to us every year now, we so often look to art and culture to preserve first-hand accounts of remembrance, as humans have been doing for millennia. Films and the newer immersive “virtual reality” experiences both are key ways that survivors’ stories are shared today, but nothing compares to hearing from an old friend who says, “That’s my story too.”

A person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. She encourages, inspires, engages, influences, or otherwise enthralls, captivates, and captures an artist on an…

The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates women artists–across the years and around the world. Only one major art museum in the world is exclusively dedicated to women—the…

Amsterdam is the capital and most populated city in the Netherlands, which is interchangeably known as the country of Holland. This historic city lies within the Dutch province of North…

“Her work soothes the eye and touches the soul, inspiring viewers to reconnect with their own higher calling, their soulful longing . . . to remind them to deepen their…

The Spring 2022 Issue of ELYSIAN magazine will have its “reveal” on March 5, 2022, in Palm Beach at the EVEY Fine Art. On the cover, and featured as one of ELYSIAN’S newest Inspiring Women, is California-based entrepreneur, interior designer, and HGTV host BREEGAN JANE. Also featured is CARLA BERENICE GROH, co-owner of EVEY Fine Art. “Palm Beach reminds me of St. Moritz,” says Carla. “It’s seasonal and small. You get to know the clientele, who are knowledgeable, sophisticated, and appreciate art.”

There was a time when Tribeca, SoHo, and Greenwich Village was the hub of modern art in New York and an invisible border separated them from Uptown galleries that catered…

IN 1223, SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, THE PATRON SAINT OF ITALY, created the tradition of the Crèche, or Nativity scene, as a representation of the birth of Jesus Christ to…

by E. Page Leggett Nearly everyone knows who Michelangelo and da Vinci are. But you’ve probably never heard of Irene Parenti Duclos, Elisabeth Chaplin or Violante Siries Cerroti—female painters who…