Sloan creates a narrative with a past and a future, some of it mysterious, some of it surreal, some of it funny.

Contemporary artist Amit Ambalal uses animals to poke fun at human foibles. “[They] are a visual device through which I traverse the unknown," says the artist.

Channeling her lifelong enchantment with animals, Heffernan stages unique situations to anthropomorphize these creatures in playful, sometimes political, often histrionic, narratives.

In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of ...

For some of the fat animal paintings, the artist actually hired a pet painter to create initial works, which Franco then painted over. "Fat Squirrel" opened Nov. 25 and will be on view through Dec ...

Walton Ford’s hyperrealistic watercolor paintings of the natural world are often compared to John James Audubon’s, but they harbor disturbing undercurrents—glimpses of cruelty and compassion ...