Our annual spotlight on young & emerging artists

By Bonnie Gangelhoff

Southwest Art magazine | September 2012 cover

Welcome to Southwest Art’s annual spotlight on emerging artists. One of our most popular features since it debuted in 2000, it has helped launch the careers of more than 250 young artists. This year’s honorees hail from 11 states, from New York to California. The artists share their unique backgrounds (one gave up his law career to pursue fine art), hopes for the future (one is currently studying veterinary medicine while also creating her artworks), some of their greatest fears (student loans, water bugs), as well as some of their least known secrets (one artist is legally blind, another hard of hearing due to a hereditary condition).

We invite you to peruse the links below and help us celebrate the bright futures of these rising stars.

California contemporary realism painter

California still-life painter

Illinois figurative artist

Alabama oil painter

California contemporary realism painter

Colorado still-life and figurative painter

Colorado oil painter

Oklahoma cowboy and western artist

New Jersey charcoal drawing artist

Florida still-life, figurative, and landscape painter

Colorado landscape and figurative painter

California contemporary realism painter

California contemporary realism painter

Michigan figurative and still-life painter

Ohio-based landscape painter

New York figurative, still-life, and landscape painter

California-based wildlife artist

New York figurative painter

Utah-based wildlife artist

New York-based still-life painter

Arizona-based western artist

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