Tina Roy gets new show at Palm Springs gallery
Opening October 2 at Rubine Red Gallery in Palm Springs, California, is Tina Roy’s Charged Stillness. “Clouds carry stories of transformation. They gather, dissolve, illuminate in an endless cycle of becoming,” the artist writes. “My cloudscapes are inspired by the transformative power of desert monsoon skies, where intense heat gives way to towering clouds, shifting light and the promise of rain. These moments reveal nature at its most dynamic—simultaneously powerful, unpredictable and restorative. This collection explores the energy that exists in moments of change, reminding us that change is both inevitable and beautiful, and that we, too, are part of nature’s continual rhythm of transformation.”

 

David Dornan finds Western inspiration
Now on view at Altamira Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a new still life painting from David Dornan, who will have a show with Douglas Fryer through October 6 at the Wyoming gallery. “…David builds these incredibly layered worlds where objects, imagery and the physical act of painting all collide,” says gallery owner Jason Williams. Dornan’s new work is titled Let’er Buck. It shows an artist’s studio with a saddle painting on the easel. In addition to jars of wash and paint, there is a Western calendar on the wall. The work seems to call out to Western collectors who are searching for artists who are interacting with the West in unique ways. 

 

Phoenix-based artist Ken Peters excavates the West
In a new series titled American Excavations, Arizona painter Ken Peters brings together fragments of the West to tell more personal stories about the people who call the desert home. Peters’ works explore “American history, popular culture and the myths we’ve built around both,” he says. “[These are] a series of handcrafted mixed-media artifacts that examine how the American West has been remembered, romanticized, commercialized and ultimately preserved through advertising, souvenirs, television, packaging and other pieces of everyday ephemera. This work ‘excavates’ the cultural fragments that have shaped our collective memory of the West.”

 

Greg Newbold finishes major new work for Medicine Man Gallery
In 2025, artist Greg Newbold submitted an award-winning work for Medicine Man Gallery’s Masters of Drawing exhibition in Tucson, Arizona. That drawing has now led to a major new oil painting, Conference Call, which is brimming with color, something the original drawing didn’t have. The painting features two crows cawing at each other while they cling to red, white and pink hollyhocks. Behind the birds and botanicals is a desert landscape. The piece is now available at Medicine Man Gallery. Additionally, Newbold was recently invited to the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale in Denver. That show is slated for January 2027.