I will be serving as faculty at The Art of the Portrait Conference 2024!

to register: https://www.portraitsociety.org/2024-in-person-conference

This prestigious International exhibition showcases the best of contemporary watercolorists.

My painting titled, “Notice” was awarded 7th place ($2700 cash award)

Art Escape Italy hosts an immersive painting experience in the Tuscan countryside. Learn with Ali Cavanaugh as she teaches her colors and approach to painting the figure on Aquabord.

CREATE! Magazine, Juried exhibition in Philadelphia at the PxP Contemporary Art Gallery.

La Galerie Roja hosting a 3 day watercolor retreat with Ali Cavanaugh in the beautiful city of Sevilla, Spain.

Opening reception Thursday January 20, 6-8pm

Celebrating Ten Years
Ali’s painting “Wash of Quiet” will be available for auction from December 3 - December 18th 5pm.
If you’d like to bid on this painting visit www.westmont.edu/museum/5x5 or contact the museum.

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.

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.

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.

Arcadia Contemporary presents Five and Under, a group exhibition featuring works from over 50 international artists, priced at $5,000 or less. This is one of our most popular exhibitions, and the first in our new 3,000 sqft gallery in Pasadena.

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.

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!

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

Mondo Tondo is an exhibition of paintings on 24-inch diameter round artefex panels, by 52 of the worlds best contemporary representational artists.

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

Ali Cavanaugh is an internationally represented artist from St. Louis, Missouri.  The selected work in this exhibit represents the past ten years of Cavanaugh's stunning experimentation with Watercolor on Kaolin Clay, otherwise known as her "modern frescoes."

Nine new paintings will be featured with Travelogues Fine Art at this Chicago Art Fair. 

Sight Unseen is a group show curated by Alia El-Bermani. 

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

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. 

L Ross Gallery celebrates 10 successful years with a group show of selected gallery artists. I have been with LRoss for 8 of their 10 years! Memphis has been very good to me over the years and my work resides in countless art collections throughout the city, thanks to Linda's excellent representation. Cheers!