New American Paintings

07/18/2025

🥳 We are thrilled to announce the release of NORTHEAST ISSUE # 176! 🥳⁠
Artist selections by Laura Phipps
Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art ⁠
Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 incredible artists in the Northeastern United States. 💌⁠

For 32 Years, New American Paintings has introduced exceptional emerging and under-recognized artists to collectors, curators, and art-lovers. We carefully review thousands of artists every year in a blind jurying process and, with the help of museum curators, we present our readers with the art-stars of tomorrow. ⁠
A huge thank you to all 40 included artists and to all of the artists who applied ❤️⁠
Congratulations and welcome to the NAP Family⁠⁠⁠⁠

07/11/2025

🎉Our NORTHEAST Call for Artists is now open!🎉⁠

Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured in print with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists living and working in the northeastern United States.⁠

For 32 years, we have connected your work with a deeply engaged audience of curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts.
DEADLINE: 8.30.245
11:59 pm (EDT)⁠⁠
All artists living/working in CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT are eligible to apply.⁠⁠⁠
A $50 application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

07/03/2025

🎉 Our PACIFIC COAST Call for Artists is now EXTENDED!🎉⁠ Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists on the pacific coast.⁠
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7.7.2025⁠
11:59 pm (EST)⁠⁠
JUROR:
BILL POWERS
Owner, Half Gallery


All artists living and working in AK, CA, HI, OR, and WA are eligible to apply.
A $65 extended application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

07/02/2025

SRIJON CHOWDHURY featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue No. 175 Juried by Jerry Saltz 🎉⁠⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging artists on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Image 1:
Eye (Birth)
oil on linen, 72 x 114 inches

Image 2:
Detail: Eye (Birth)
oil on linen, 72 x 114 inches

“My paintings present, as a feeling, an idea of a version of a reality. ”⁠⁠
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07/01/2025

IONE BLEU BUSTOS .bleu featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue No. 175 Juried by Jerry Saltz 🎉⁠⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging artists on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Image 1:
Can somebody tell me how the f**k to get to the next room? (2)
acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, 35 x 23 inches

Image 2:
Can somebody tell me how the f**k to get to the next room? (3)
acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, 23 x 35 inches

“Ione Bleu Bustos is a Los Angeles-based artist with a multidisciplinary studio practice that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. Her work is rooted in the evolution of her specific identities and their nuances, Bustos regularly mining herself and her lived experiences as source material. The figures that fill her works, which are almost always manifestations of herself, speak to the artist’s relationship with herself and the larger world at hand.

Bustos is also informed by the history and practice of electronic music and its highly sophisticated subculture, as well as the experiences of navigating her own place within it. By weaving these two central themes together, Bustos’s larger body of work aims to orchestrate an entirely new and subverted reality in which she is the central character.”⁠⁠
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06/12/2025

06/07/2025

🎉 Our PACIFIC COAST Call for Artists is now open!🎉⁠ Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists on the pacific coast.⁠
DEADLINE: 6.30.2025⁠
11:59 pm (EST)⁠⁠
JUROR:
BILL POWERS
Owner, Half Gallery

All artists living and working in AK, CA, HI, OR, and WA are eligible to apply.
A $50 application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

06/05/2025

🎉 Our PACIFIC COAST Call for Artists is now open!🎉⁠ Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists on the pacific coast.⁠
DEADLINE: 6.30.2025⁠
11:59 pm (EST)⁠⁠
JUROR:
BILL POWERS
Owner, Half Gallery

All artists living and working in AK, CA, HI, OR, and WA are eligible to apply.
A $50 application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

05/30/2025

James Zucco (NAP Alum Issue # 155) will be featured in our upcoming New American Paintings Legacy Addendum on the occasion of our 30th Anniversary! Look out for the release of this exciting free digital issue shortly

IMAGE 1:
James Zucco
The Weight of a Halo
mixed media on paper
30 x 22.5 inches

IMAGE 2:
James Zucco
Soulmate
sumi ink on paper
18 x 24 inches

IMAGE 3:
James Zucco
She Found Herself in the Silence
scratchboard panel
12 x 9 inches

IMAGE 4:
James Zucco
Rebirth
scratchboard panel
12 x 9 inches

IMAGE 5:
James Zucco
Collective Unconscious
sumi ink on paper
24 x 18 inches

05/29/2025

YUWEI TU featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue No. 175 Juried by Jerry Saltz 🎉⁠⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging artists on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Image 1:
Self-Portrait of a Daughter
oil on ACM panel, 12 x 9 inches

Image 2:
Whenever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls
oil on ACM panel, 14 x 11 inches

“I am interested in articulating the nuance and complexity of our interior worlds compared to those visible and exterior through oil painting. Using delicate and precise language, my work explores human conditions of love, loss, loneliness, and longing. Often via self-portraiture, my layered paintings study the relationships between individuals and identities—the ones society imposes upon us and those we create for ourselves. My practice is informed by personal experiences and reflections guided by my interests in psychology and Zen Buddhism. These readings and philosophies influence not only my practice but the way I navigate life as a whole. Through my work, I hope to create a visual translation of the intricacies of our fragile, yet resilient psyches as I seek to better understand myself and the world around me. ”⁠⁠
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05/22/2025

KELLY BJORK featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue No. 175 Juried by Jerry Saltz 🎉⁠⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging artists on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Image 1:
Emotional Oasis (Domestic Scene)
Gouache, watercolor, acrylic, wax pastel, and pencil on paper
20 x 15 inches

Image 2:
The Dream
Gouache, watercolor, acrylic, wax pastel, and pencil on paper
8 x 10 inches
“Kelly Bjork is a q***r artist making q***r art in a[nother] time in which the LGBTQ+ community is facing discrimination at every level: social, physical, and political. In this way, they position themselves within a lineage of artists who have done the same in the face of violence. Bjork creates space to leave the harsh world of now, for a moment, and enter their world to be held and seen. Their work serves as a reminder to both those who struggle to remember, and those who refuse to accept, that we aren’t going anywhere. We will continue to experience joy, tenderness and love.”⁠⁠
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05/21/2025