John Bishop Fine Art

A new show called Material Matters I’m very lucky to have been selected to participate in a juried group exhibition at The Ardest Gallery in The Woodlands, Texas. If you’re not familiar with the concept, a juried exhibition is one where not every artist who applies is accepted. The work is reviewed and selected by a juror, in this case, artist Benji Stiles. Once the selections were made, gallery owner Julie Verville curated and installed the show, thoughtfully placing each pi

Did you know there are patterns in the way you collect art? You may not be consciously aware of them—I’m not sure I am either—but they are there. While there are certainly people in the art world who would love to analyze what drives our purchasing decisions, I sometimes wonder whether it’s more important, and perhaps safer, for us to understand those patterns ourselves. Art collecting is shaped by far more than the galleries we visit or the communities we move within. It is