Sandra Hildreth, an artist from Saranac Lake, New York, is currently the subject of a solo show at the Adirondack Artists Guild, in Saranac Lake. The paintings are culled from her pieces painted out West.

Knowlton Gallery, in Lodi, California, hosts the show "Pacific Rhythms: The Beauty of California's Coast" from July 2 through August 24. Kim Lordier, Randall Sexton, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Ray Roberts, Debra Huse, Kathleen Dunphy, Gil Dellinger, John Cosby, Dennis Ziemenski, and Charles Muench will have pieces on display at the exhibition, which focuses on the extremely varied coastline along California.

An exhibition of Jeff Sojka's distinctive landscape paintings opens April 27 at Trowbridge Gallery, in Ojai, California. This show focuses on landscapes painted on location in the Ojai area.

How did John Singer Sargent's watercolors differ from his oil paintings? Why did he paint them? What is so special about the two large groups of watercolor paintings on display now in New York City? 

Here's a challenge: Take a huge subject, such as mountains, or sprawling prairies, or roiling oceans, and depict it in a small work. California plein air artist Glenn Dean does just that in his solo show at Maxwell Alexander Gallery, in Culver City, California.

The Casselberry Art House in Casselberry, Florida, is hosting an exhibition and series of painting demonstrations by four accomplished artists. Find out when Morgan Samuel Price, Hodges Soileau, Mary Erickson, and Bill Farnsworth will be demonstrating.

This summer, Frederic E. Church's magnificent home, Olana, will present an exhibition titled Maine Sublime that will include nearly 30 oil and graphite sketches by the master of outdoor painting.