Quiet Tide | Solo Exhibition
Oct
5
to Feb 14

Quiet Tide | Solo Exhibition

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In early October, I had the incredible experience of traveling to New Berlin, New York, for the opening of my solo exhibition, Quiet Tide, at the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery (SAGG). This exhibition showcases over 18 years of my watercolor work, highlighting my use of a limited palette to create expressive, layered portraits that convey a sense of depth and emotion. It’s an honor to display my work in this space, which celebrates my ongoing collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, known for their dedication to innovation in art materials.

I arrived a few days early, which gave me the opportunity to connect with some members of my watercolor community, “The Aligators”. Our time together will forever be in my heart. We toured the Golden facility, enjoyed a walk-through of the exhibition, spent time sitting together as I demonstrated my painting techniques, and even spent a day sightseeing. Sharing this time with the Aligators made the opening especially meaningful, as we celebrated not only the art on the walls but also meaningful friendships. Quiet Tide runs through February 14, 2025. I hope you’ll be able to visit if you’re in the area!

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Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art | Painting the Figure Now III
Oct
8
to Dec 12

Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art | Painting the Figure Now III

Painting the figure now will show quality paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure today; contemporary approaches to portraiture, narrative, and any and all visualizations focusing on the human form in life, action, play, work and repose. We are exhibiting artists who understand the finest traditions of figurative art. We believe the human form is an endlessly interesting subject with inexhaustible potential.

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Everyone's A Winner | Robert Lange Studios
Sep
6
to Oct 4

Everyone's A Winner | Robert Lange Studios

This September Robert Lange Studios (RLS) in Charleston, SC will celebrate 15 years of bringing contemporary artists to Charleston with a group show featuring 50 artists from around the globe. Each artist will create one work that exemplifying their specific style, genre and subject matter. The exhibition will hang through September with a reception, featuring music, wine, and hors d’oeuvres that will take place on September 13 from 5-8PM and is open to the public.

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Heartland Art Club | Survey of Excellence
Aug
23
to Sep 28

Heartland Art Club | Survey of Excellence

St. Louis will be home to an extraordinary exhibition of representational art from some of the most respected artists in the country. The exhibition highlights outstanding representational artwork created by artists from the Central US. The exhibition aims to inspire all artists in the center of the country to strive for excellence. Visitors will be treated to an exhibition and events with a carefully curated variety of beautiful, top quality visual art. The exhibition is sure to move the most seasoned collector, and connect with people who didn’t even know they were art lovers.

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Watercolor USA 2019 - Springfield Museum of Art
Jun
8
to Sep 1

Watercolor USA 2019 - Springfield Museum of Art

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Organized in 1962 by the Springfield Art Museum, this event aims to attract the best in contemporary American watermedia and strives to exhibit work by artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium. This is the 58th exhibition of Watercolor USA, a national, annual juried exhibition recognizing aqueous media painting. The event is open to artists from all 50 states and US territories and judged for a variety of prizes and possible purchase by the Museum. This year's exhibition will be judged by Dean Mitchell, an internationally recognized watercolorist and the recipient of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Watercolor USA Honor Society.

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Ali Cavanaugh book signing and show in Ste Geneveive, MO
Apr
26
to May 3

Ali Cavanaugh book signing and show in Ste Geneveive, MO

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This book signing and "pop up" show will be held in Ali’s hometown of Ste Genevieve, Missouri, at The Merchant Street Gallery.


This event is both a book signing for her new book, Modern Fresco Paintings, and the 10 year anniversary of "Brilliance in the lost moment of hesitation", The Milly Paintings.

There will be books for purchase at the event or you can bring your copy for Ali to sign.

(The book is available online at Target, Walmart, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc)


The work that will be featured at this show include twenty modern fresco paintings that were painted from 2009-2019. These works are both on loan from collectors and from Ali's personal collection. The selection will include twelve paintings of Milly, and eight paintings of people that Ali met through Milly's inner circle.


This event will be held during Ste Genevieve's Fourth Friday Art Walk. There will be art shows and events throughout the town. Everyone is welcome!

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The International Biennial Portrait Competition | WMOCA
Apr
9
to Jun 29

The International Biennial Portrait Competition | WMOCA

Ali’s painting, “I’ll never let you go” was curated into this year’s portrait competition at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. The show is curated by David Hummer and Margaret Bowland Painting Instructor, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.

Reception for Artists April 25, 6-8pm open to the public

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Strand Bookstore - Book Signing/Book Release
Mar
13
6:30 PM18:30

Strand Bookstore - Book Signing/Book Release

Join us in the second floor art department as Ali shares her collection!

Modern Fresco Paintings is the first collection of Ali Cavanaugh’s paintings, and it follows her entire career using watercolor on kaolin clay to create her modern fresco technique and the lovely work that flows from it. Beginning with her hyper-realistic portraits and ending with her latest, more free-flowing pictures, her use of light, color, and the human form captures the essence of her models and their forms and feelings in a particular moment.

Cavanaugh’s artistic sensibility was developed by two important events in her childhood. Her dependence on the visual world began when she lost much of her hearing through spinal meningitis when she was two, and her creative spirit developed out of her being raised in a rural environment where she had to create her own ways of expressing herself and making her own fun.

She developed her stunning modern fresco medium almost by accident as she was learning to apply the outer layer of plaster to her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This volume illustrates her growth as an artist and her mastery of the technique.

These are lovely works, painted masterfully. Both long-time followers of Cavanaugh’s work---from the earliest “Sock Arms” paintings to those who found her through more recent work like the Chroma series---and those who are discovering her and her art for the first time, will be delighted by this collection.

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Art Palm Springs | Travelogues Fine Art
Feb
15
to Feb 19

Art Palm Springs | Travelogues Fine Art

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The sixth annual Art Palm Springs returns to an eager audience. Art Palm Springs is strategically scheduled over the extended President’s Day Weekend coinciding with Palm Springs Modernism Week at the height of the Coachella Valley’s season. Art Palm Springs and Modernism Week turn the Desert into a cultural mecca over this weekend, attracting over 14,000 acquisition oriented art lovers to the Fair in 2016. The City of Palm Springs announced in 2015, that this President’s Day weekend set a record as the largest number tourists visiting in its history. The results were stunning at Art Palm Springs, with hundreds of art works finding new homes and robust art sales recorded by a majority of exhibiting galleries

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Women Painting Women: In Earnest
Aug
10
to Oct 1

Women Painting Women: In Earnest

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"Women Painting Women: In Earnest is an exhibition that honors the human spirit and shares s the thoughtful and unique vision of 30 contemporary artists who explore the complexity of being a woman today. Each artist looks beyond the surface of her subject, beyond mere replication of the physical world before her, in search of deeper realities." 

September 16 there will be a guided tour by the curator and artists. Everyone is welcome. 

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BRINE
Jun
4
to Jul 4

BRINE

Ali has four paintings in the group show, BRINE, curated by Victor Grasso. SOMA Gallery hosts this incredible exhibit. Other artists in the show include Bo Bartlett, Shepard Fairey, Kris Lewis, Danny Galieote, Graeme Camerson, Adam Wallacavage, Steve Gibson, Greg Bennett, Frank Kallop, Stan Sperlak, and Frank Weiss. 

Opening reception: June 4th 6-9pm
SOMA Gallery
31 Perry St

Cape May, NJ 08204

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Immerse paintings and a collection of other works from 2015
Jan
15
to Feb 12

Immerse paintings and a collection of other works from 2015

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Ali's "Immerse" paitnings debuted at Art Hamptons in New York this summer, then traveled to Boston in September, followed by Miami in December, and now its final showing is at Fontbonne University in Ali's hometown, St Louis, Missouri.

The opening reception is Friday, January 22nd from 6-8 pm. Open to the public. 

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