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My recent painting of Ana Montoya, titled “The Firestarter,” was recently featured in American Art Collector magazine, a national publication.

The portrait was created for a Chicago exhibition titled “Creator & The Muse,” featuring portraits of artists, collectors, gallerists and other art world elites from the genre of figurative painting.

The exhibition, scheduled to open May 15 at 33 Contemporary Gallery, was canceled due to COVID-19.

The painting’s subject, Ana Montoya, is an artist and the owner of AnArte Gallery in San Antonio.

“The Fire Starter (Portrait of Ana Montoya).” 24”x36,” oil on linen, 2020.

With a free account, the digital article is available to view on American Art Collector’s website.

I just received the high-resolution images of one of my recent paintings from my photographer and couldn't be more thrilled to share them. It's not often that you see a photograph of a painting and feel that the camera did the art justice - but in these images, I see every detail and color captured correctly.

That might be because my photographer has access to a shiny new 100 megapixel camera that spits out images that are a whopping 400MB in raw form. Behold:

"Crush," 24"x24" oil on canvas, 2017, Megan Van Groll.

This painting is the latest of my new series of paintings and drawings that use the nude figure to explore our capacity for a vast range of emotional and psychological experiences. Expressions of fury and rage become the raw contemplation of our deepest fears; erotic desire or pleasure; sharp, crushing grief or despair.

To read the story of how this series came about, click here.

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