What: “Painting the World Beautiful” exhibit ... “I like to paint the sea, the ocean, the waves, the rocks, the coastline, sunsets. I like colors and see all those colors in the ocean ...

Marie Van Elder has always been terrified of the ocean, so she forces herself to sit at its shore and make paintings of it. This gives tension to her work — and when John Lindsey saw this sense ...

These paintings of Kiwa hirsute, the yeti crab discovered at a hydrothermal vent on the Easter Island Microplate, are imbued with romantic narratives, with the subjects' elongated furry pincers ...

But if it is just my own, I apologize.) The great part begins in 1968, when Diebenkorn starts painting his “Ocean Park” series — stately, abstract evocations of the intersections of ...

But in a good way. The ocean waves swirl and ebb and flow and rush around you. There is a breathless calm and an effervescent majesty in the paintings of Ran Ortner. You could drown in their ...