Andy Goldsworthy
Using only materials found in nature Andy Goldsworthy shows why he is recognized as one of the world's most engaging environmental artists.
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Vernon Fisher
Vernon Fisher's 'K-Mart Conceptualism' has left it's mark on cutting edge art while managing to remain visually splendid.
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Lee Kelly
A current retrospective at the museum traces the Oregon artist’s career while an accompanying book, “Lee Kelly,” includes lush photos
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Frederick Wight
Frederick Wight was first a prominent museum curator and director at UCLA, and then became best known for landscape paintings he produced af
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Vija Celmins
A small but very focused survey illuminates the early transition of Vija Celmins painting and sculpture.
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Ansen Seale
Ansen Seale deploys slitscan photography to show us the world as it unfolds over time.
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Phyllis Green
Phyllis Green is a sculptor who blends in traditional craft materials in a manner that is playfully subversive.
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Margie Livingston
Starting with a hairball, Margie Livingston works her way to objects constructed of paint. She remains a painter.
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Mayme Kratz
Fish bones, cicada wings, rattlesnake ribs: these form the palette of Mayme Kratz. She uses these things to make magic; but she is not a wi
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West of Rome Public Art
West of Rome began in 2005 in a private residence located in the suburban hills of Pasadena. Emi Fontana, who had operated Galerie Fontana i
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Ingrid Calame
Originally a native of New York, Calame made the move west to attend the California Institute of the Arts in
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Larry Mullins
The works of Larry Mullins signal a rare moment where the fragility of language is met with an equally
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder's work as seen here form a triumvirate of form, balance and joy. Particularly joy.
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Charles Garabedian
Charles Garabedian has had a career engagement with figuration as the arena where humanism sorts out its psychic, social, daily and mythic c
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Rusty Scruby
Starting with snapshots from the family album, Rusty Scruby duplicates source images from scores to hundreds of times to create evocative te
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Mike Kelley
Two projects, 'Kandor' and 'EAPR' have Mike Kelley creating theatrical props from a comic book world and the art world.
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Astrid Preston
From her earliest renditions of architectural fragments on aluminum cutouts in the 1970s, to the patterned formal gardens
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John Yoyogi Fortes
Eclecticism and hybridity may be common practice these days, but who would have thought that graffiti art, pop surrealism, and identity art
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Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey projects light directly on gallery walls as slowly changing colorscapes that induce subtle perceptual epiphanies.
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Maritta Tapanainen
A trio of collage artists, Echiko Ohira, Maritta Tapanainen and Alan Valencia expand the boundaries of paper usage
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Martin Mull
There is a certain air of poignancy that wafts through the paintings of Martin Mull. Sifting through the attic
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Jane Brucker
Jane Brucker places a collection of objects that vibrate with hints of past lives.
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Adam Ekberg
For Adam Ekberg light is both subject and object in his seemingly casual domestic settings.
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Cork Marcheschi
In this mini-retrospective Cork Marcheschi's more than 40-year engagement with light is seen to be varied and multi-faceted.
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''Radioactive and Bright''
Luminosity is the shared characteristic in this group show, which builds on the tradition of jewel-like glazes applied to whimsical and eleg
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Suprasensorial
Latin American artists interest in light and space actually predated LA's breakthrough movement, as 'Suprasensorial' demonstrates, and to ge
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''Enter Slowly,'
This group of young Irish artists climb up the gallery steps and sprawl throughout the dimly lit upstairs space.
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Bart Exposito
Drawings and paintings on paper show Bart Expositio to be a master of architectural abstraction.
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Michel Verjux
Michel Verjux conflates space and memory to create a magical entry into gloriously lit spaces.
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James Robie
This survey of James Robie's diverse work embrace both design and fine art shaped by one dramatic vision.
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Judy Pfaff
In a series of multi-layered collages Judy Pfaff confers a powerful sense of movement as much about the work of the hand as they are about l
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Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen aestheticizes photographs that document military and intelligence surveillance operations.
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Theodore Svenningsen
Theodore Svenningsen is a latter day conceptualist whose use of the word serves as the central formal element in intensely visual images.
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Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha sharpens the distinction between the car as fetish object versus a tool for viewing the world in 'Road Tested.'
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Camille Seaman
As the polar ice caps grow endangered Camille Seaman preserves images of icebergs that she treats as portraits.
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''Gods of Angkor''
This selection of 26 bronzes produced by the ancient Khmer empire symbolizes the mystery and wonder that surrounds that civilization.
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Beili Liu
Titled 'Extent,' Beili Liu takes miles of thread and lengths of wicker to create thoughtful sculpture whose delicate presence belies the tan
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Norman Zammitt (1931-2007)
You tend to stand in front of a Norman Zammitt painting like you would a Mark Rothko--that is, silenced by its transcendent quality. You're
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Laura Karetzky
Laura Karetzky's paintings are subtly deceptive, seeming at first to be common everyday scenes. But nothing is quite what it seems.
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''Framing Abstraction''
Carefully curated, 'Framing Abstraction' successfully shuttles between the poles of the spiritual and nihilistic traditions.
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Halim Alkarim
Halm Alkarim's photo-based faces are among the most moving being produced today, and manage to meaningfully examine
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''In the Dark''
A trio of artists eschew color in favor of the dark; and they extrude the subtle joys of tone, texture and context.
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Doug Aitken
In a culture over-saturated with media, how do we make sense of the information that bombards us? The constant input of sights, sounds and s
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Geoffrey Todd Smith
Psychedelic, hypnotic, dizzying, hallucinogenic. Standing in the midst of Geoffrey Todd Smith's recent show at
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Mayumi Nishida
Glass and acrylic spheres serve to amplify minute shifts in ambient light in Mayumi Nishida's reliefs and an interactive installation.
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Deborah Oropallo
Deborah Oropallo explores gender power, the symbolism of the uniform, and the role or iconic imagery in shaping female identity.
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Ray Turner
In a long series of portraits Ray Turner's obsession in recent years with the face has gelled thanks to his free but disciplined painterly a
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Marvin Zindler
Marvin Zindler was for decades a popular news icon at Houston's ABC Channel 13, but before that he was an intrepid crime photographer.
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David Levinthal
This sampling of photographs from various of David Levinthal's series is a great introduction to grown up narratives that can be drawn from
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Michael Kessler
There are apocalyptic undercurrents to Michael Kessler's mixed media paintings that impose organic messiness on orderly grids.
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Linda Fleming
Linda Fleming's sculptures are geometric, but enlivened by nature that imbues them with mystery.
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Tony Delap / Ruth Pastine
Tony Delap brings his trademark master of illusion to paintings keyed in green. Ruth Pastine works with elegant systems of color
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Darren Waterston
Nothing is what it seems to be in the work of San Francisco artist Darren Waterston. Barely-there orbs ooze from one
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Some Assembly Required
'Some Assembly Required' is a panoramic survey of assemblage and collage, an especially vital tradition over the last century in Southern Ca
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''Art in the Streets''
'Art in the Streets' raises that classic question: what happens when art is shifted from its natural context to the refined precincts of a m
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Matt Sellars
It's not the sea as subject that make Matt Sellar's current show so distinctive, it's the unexpected stylistic interpretation of it.
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Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey often inserts herself into witty and richly ambiguous color photographs that get you to create your own story.
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Naomie Kremer
The sheer scope of Naomie Kremer's body of work is impressive, but so much the more for her mature clarity and relentless inquiry.
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Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew's gridded constructions of recycled wood serve as an aesthetic wake-up call to global consumerism's endless party.
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''Surface Truths''
"Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties" shows how sincerely the post-Abstract Expressionist artists admired their forebears.
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Eric Elliott
They may be still lifes, but Eric Elliott's paintings are filled with near monochrome daubs of paint the nearly obscure their subjects.
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A Lens on the Land
The American West has been defined by its landscape, and its landscape, in turn, has been defined by photography. While the paintings of Tho
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Tom Cramer
Tom Cramer's new paintings and wood reliefs of Oregon landmarks strike a quirky truce between romantic homage and kitsch.
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Felis Stella
IKEA inspired art sounds like an oxymoron, but Felis Stella brings mixes an informed etymological interest with just enough creative mischie
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LA Sculptors: Nathan Mabry
Among the new generation of young, LA-based sculptors who reference modernism explicitly in their work, few do it with the wit, smarts, reve
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Marie Thibeault
Although Marie Thibeault's paintings look frenetic at first glance--teeming with blocks of bold, jumbled color and
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Julio Cesar Morales
Having grown up on the Mexico/U.S. border, Julio Cesar Morales has straddled two worlds since childhood. Wearing multiple identities
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Johannes Girardoni
Johannes Girardoni merges architecture and light in two distinct bodies of work that somehow work together.
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Eric Zener
Trees and bushes replace water as Eric Zener's visual interest. Photo real at a distance, they are as chaotic as nature up close.
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Dario Robleto
Like music 'sampling,' Dario Robleto brings literal elements of source material to images that are meticulous evocations of
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Sarah Moon
Sarah Moon was among the first female haute couture photographers who is both a technical innovator as well as a probing intellectual.
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Hung Liu
Painter Hung Liu feels she 'has lived many lives, some of them my own.' Liu came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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Roland Bernier
Roland Bernier has been making art for 50 years. His chosen medium--words. While many of his artworks have
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Heidi Norton
Like many of us, Heidi Norton doesn't start out with the intention of killing her houseplants. On occasion
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Tim Bavington
While not the typical cultural hub, Las Vegas has been essential to English-born artist Tim Bavington's success. Bavington left
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Thomas Glassford
Thomas Glassford received international attention last year when his permanent light installation Xipe Totec wrapped a...
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Shepard Fairey
A collaboration between Obey Giant Art, Subliminal Projects, and Robert Berman Gallery, 'Revolutions' features 80 original
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Cole Sternberg
Conceptual art was the big news at the end of the last century, and also at the beginning of this one. When it comes to painting,
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Nic Nicosia
In the context of a larger group show, Ni Nicosia's "I See Light" offers a compelling visual space freighted with psychological heft.
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Now Dig This!
"Now Dig This!" examines the legacy of African American artists in L.A., providing a coherent context for multiple generations of artists.
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Hans Burkhardt
Beneath the ferocity of Hans Burkhardt’s exacting brushwork and application of oil paint there is an undeniable remnant of hope.
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Juan Downey
The groundbreaking video installations of Juan Downey link aesthetic and social energy and explicate it in a rich variety of ways.
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Gajin Fujita
Gajin Fujita masterfully integrates tagging and traditional Japanese ukiyo-e painting, much as he has done for several years now.
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Cyrus Tilton
For Cyrus Tilton the human race has become like a Biblical plague of locusts. “The Cycle” makes a disturbing, funny and, sadly,
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Andy Wing
Evolving from abstract expressionist roots, Andy Wing's artistic purpose was to immerse his most personal self in the creative process, merg
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford deftly crafts a bridge between high and low culture, from art worthy of this museum survey to the goings-on of a women's hair
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Susan Mikula
Susan Mikula's hazy Polaroids of industrial and harbor sites evoke memories of faded glories.
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Meyers / Molina
Their work is distinct, but Mike Meyers' and Yvette Molina's interest in the earth as a gigantic and holy machine enlivens the pairing.
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How and Nosm
Twin brothers and collaborators How and Nosm seem at first a mass of confusion only to unfold impressive scenarios.
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"Agitated Histories"
"Agitated Histories" takes aim at historical orthodoxies, raising the question: just how agitated is the viewer supposed to become?
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Peter Alexander
Peter Alexander's velvet paintings with their diverse and sensual surfaces, are environments with a decided "wow" factor.
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David Eckard
David Eckard extends a sense of invitation to performance art. This pair of exhibitions show objects and outfits to be far more than leftove
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Carolee Schneemann
In this career survey, feminist pioneer Carolee Schneemann's aggressive use of sexuality, media, and movement remain powerfully visceral.
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Modern Antiquities
"Modern Antiquities" demonstrates how four of the best early avant garde artists responded to and were acutely aware of the art of Greece an
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Sarah Bostwick
Sarah Bostwick's landscapes and architecture in relief are detailed and intricate monochromes, which keeps them more delicate and nuanced.
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John Marin
John Marin is shown to have been among early modernism's most gifted landscape painters in this selection of over 60 oils and watercolors.
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Maddy LeMel
The found object sculptures of Maddy LeMel may be simply constructed but they are rich in visual reference and imaginative interpretation.
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Rumi Koshino
In an installation of paper pyramids Rumi Koshino makes aesthetic use of the eccentric qualities of Form/Space Atelier's floor and stairs.
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Michael Roque Collins
The land- and seascape paintings of Michael Roque Collins are visually rich to the point of being hallucinatory, often feeling familiar yet
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ASCO
One of the best ideas to come out of Pacific Standard Time is a retrospective of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco, a gr
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Still Amazing
It was on a sunny morning back in August of 2004 when then Denver mayor--now Colorado governor--John Hickenlooper announced that Patricia St
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Kirsten Everberg
Drive down almost any Los Angeles street, and you're sure to find an eclectic mix of architectural styles--Tudor, Mediterranean
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Yvette Gellis
Originally from the Midwest, Gellis grew up in an idyllic community just outside Chicago. She describes the experience of
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Andrei Molodkin
Oil is both subject and object in Andrei Molodkin's installation of abstract kineticism that electrifies the museum space.
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Jim Waid
Jim Waid's sensual paintings imbue immersive landscape imagery with musical references.
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Sue Williams
This min-retrospective includes memorable individual works, but leaves us wondering how Sue Williams got from here to there.
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"Interior Margins"
Raw imagination and materials replace overt feminism or references to traditional women's work in "Interior Margins", a group of eleven wome
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Peter Shelton
Cantankerous renegade Peter Shelton converses with yet thumbs his aesthetic nose at the convictions of the old New York School.
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"Phenomenal"
“Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface” is the PST show focused on those breakout '60s styles: Light & Space and Finish
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Bay Area Abstraction
Three to abstract painters of the San Francisco Bay Area proved that, at the time, New York School painting was being matched on the West Co
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Vivian Maier
Remarkably, a self-motivated nanny, Vivian Maier, left an only recently discovered body of work that places her among the great street photo
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Martin Lubner
Martin Lubner probes memory for primal layers in paintings of "Impossible Forms" made poignant due to their very unreality.
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Moshe Elimelech
Moshe Elimelech's current watercolors tickle the eye and offer visual clues that leave the door to viewer engagement wide open.
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''Facture''
"Facture" adds a new wrinkle to the ongoing discussion about what it means to paint - here, on glass.
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Surrealism
"Surrealism: New Worlds" is a sprawling survey of about 100 works that refreshes appreciation for the movement with numerous highlights.
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Roger Kuntz
From 1959 to 1962 Roger Kuntz produced a series of Southern California landscape paintings of freeway signs, ramps and blimps.
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Piper O'Neill
Dubbed "the blue-eyed devil" by feminist artist Kiki Smith, Piper O'Neill is a Seattle artist whose delicate work makes manifest female grow
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Ryan Travis Christian
Anyone who didn't grow up in the suburbs knows someone who did. There is a common cultural vision of suburban reality, which is so pervasive
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DJ Hall
Venice-based painter DJ Hall has made a career of parlaying the ideal Southern California lifestyle into
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Phillip King
Phillip King contributed to the revolution in British sculpture beginning in the 1960s, and this survey puts on display his blend of whimsy
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Robert Kingston
The large-scale lyrical abstraction of Robert Kingston unfolds sequentially to gradually resolve as balanced and integrate wholes.
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Best Kept Secret
The years covered by "Best Kept Secret" were the first of a then new UC Irvine program that produced a startling group of top then new art t
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Peter Halley
Peter Halley's abstraction smartly engages architectural references, the "Prison" image here an element he has returned to for 30 years.
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Ellsworth Kelly
This survey of "Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings" shows why this work must be experienced directly, so their humanity and nuance become
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Joseph Havel
Joseph Havel's "Plus or Minus" moves us to reflect on how we interact with visual images - and the history we bring to bear on them.
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Stephen De Staebler
The existential humanism of Stephen De Staebler has not been particularly fashionable for decades, but the work stands up and looks fresher
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Suzanne Opton
American soldiers stare out from two series of large-scale color photographs by Suzanne Opton, not artificially elevated but revealing a tru
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Flavio Garciandia
Flavio Garciandia’s paintings are equal parts de Kooning, Twombly, and Cuba, and it’s a tasty mix: deep and rich, without becomi
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Fernandez and Reisch
In "Sublimation Simulacrum" Kit Reisch appropriates the city of Prague for the simulacrum, while Angel Fernandez constructions fulfill the s
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"Dissecting Nature:"
Continuing through February 25, 2012
Andy Goldsworthy’s exquisite “Leaf Horn” (1996) represents one approach taken by the
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Katherine Westerhout
Katherine Westerhout documents decaying buildings just as she finds them, in all their ruin and beauty, still somehow vibrant and grand.
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“Dream States”
Although 11 different artists participated in “Dream States,” each visually interpreting their own personal unconscious, there i
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"The Edge of Vision"
"The Edge of Vision" is a breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, curated by Lyle Rexer, that investigates light, form and abst
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Liz Glynn
As an aficionado of antiquities and all their respective baggage, in particular the museum artifact, Liz Glynn is nothing if not rigorous in
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"Sonic Architectonic"
Sound rivals smell as the most neglected of the senses in the fine arts. "Sonic Architectonic" throws down the gantlet for n
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
“The Courthouse Steps” is an example of a painting that, although it has the feeling of pure abstraction, is underpinned with gl
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Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame makes tracings of debris on sidewalks or streets that produce intricate compositions of overlapping stray marks.
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Editor's Note
Mike Kelley was the brilliant Romantic artist of the boomer generation, by turns angry and hilarious, irrational but intellectually acute.
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Sarah Walker
Vertiginously immersive abstract paintings by Sarah Walker are gorgeously rich fusions of digital thinking with visionary psychedelia.
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Performing for Camera
The aesthetics of danger and risk are very much on display in the group show "Performing for the Camera," and the results are exhilarating.
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Peter Halasz
Large scale paintings by Peter Halasz of nighttime scenes are meticulous, elegant and evocative of collective memory.
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Tim Ebner
Years ago Tim Ebner looked at a comic strip of goofy fish and exclaimed "That's perfect," and fifteen years later he is still making his fis
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Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine’s artistic practice is akin to identity theft, blatantly replicating familiar masterworks to address image consumption
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Sean Cheetham
Borrowing a TV catchphrase for the opulence of celebrity, Sean Cheetham's subjects are anything but.
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Joe Thurston
Joe Thurston's "container" sculpture once more departs from recent carved relief works, just as those abandoned the grotesquely beautiful po
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Richard Diebenkorn
In 1966 Richard Diebenkorn relocated to Santa Monica's Ocean Park district and devoted himself to the now legendary "Ocean Park" paintings.
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Barbara Smith
An understated body of work tackles the mightiest of concepts: Time. Barbara Smith achieves a tone of poetic contemplation.
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Oli Sihvonen
Oli Sihvonen was devoted to endless permutations of Color Field painting by way of intricately structured paintings.
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Lise Sarfati
Lise Sarfati deals with women's identity, presenting photographic portraits that are at once lovely and utterly abject.
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David Michael Smith
"Elegy" marks the entry of a promising new talent, David Michael Smith in paintings of great complexity that blend beauty with tragedy.
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Fred Wilson
This elegant but poignant exhibition shows Fred Wilson to wholeheartedly embrace postmodernist social critique.
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Kristen Morgin
It's hard to believe Kristen Morgan current work is all made of clay. She handles her media masterfully and with clever conceptual strategi
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Isaac Julien
The spectacular ''Ten Thousand Waves" began as Isaac Julien's response to 9/11. He sets a new standard for the use of video
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John M. White
The "Artificial Hatch" gestural paintings of John M. White convey the joy fish might feel in the presence of a fresh insect. Yum!
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''Time-Lapse''
"Time-Lapse" starts small by opening big, with Mary Temple's installation "Currency," and ends with the individualized mark of our transient
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Amy Casey
Houses, stacked precariously high or bundled together and swinging through the air, are the unifying feature in Amy Casey’s new work.
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Kimiko Miyoshi
Deliberateness and deliberation are much in evidence in the work of Kimiko Miyoshi, who also injects her work with a delightful sense of pla
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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko's trajectory from figuration through Surrealist experimentation and finally into AbEx maturity is followed
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Paul Gauguin
Former stockbroker Paul Gauguin abandoned his family for art and Polynesia in search of an idealized exotic. We learn here what he actually
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''Interlopers''
"Interlopers" emphasizes draughtsmanship, with an attitude that the skill has become so outside the mainstream of art that it has become reb
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Ann Phong
Ann Phong's paintings call upon the artist's memories of her native Vietnam, which she fled as a refugee. In recalling the past Phong celebr
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Nigel Poor
The banned book is Nigel Poor's subject, literally cleaning copies to "water them down," crumpling them into sculpture, then presenting them
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''Breaking in Two''
"Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood" takes a hard look at a theme too often reduced by sentimentality.
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Fred Wilson
This elegant but poignant exhibition shows Fred Wilson to wholeheartedly embrace postmodernist social critique.
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John M. White
The "Artificial Hatch" gestural paintings of John M. White convey the joy fish might feel in the presence of a fresh insect. Yum!
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''Time-Lapse''
"Time-Lapse" starts small by opening big, with Mary Temple's installation "Currency," and ends with the individualized mark of our transient
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Richard Diebenkorn
In 1966 Richard Diebenkorn relocated to Santa Monica's Ocean Park district and devoted himself to the now legendary "Ocean Park" paintings.
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''Interlopers''
"Interlopers" posits the lasting power of great draughtsmanship as an art form, while also being far-reaching in its scope.
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Paul Gauguin
Former stockbroker Paul Gauguin abandoned his family for art and Polynesia in search of an idealized exotic. We learn here what he actually
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Conner and Herms
Bruce Conner's "action photos" of the punk scene in San Francisco are paired with a small group of George Herms assemblages.
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Ruth Weisberg
This exhibition shows that Ruth Weisberg's classically-based painting transcends her moment while being very much of its time.
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Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder altered the course of Native American art by combining the image of Native Americans with the idioms of modernist art.
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"Clay's Tectonic Shift"
Peter Voulkos first brought truth to materials and abstraction to clay, then John Mason and Kenneth Price expanded on his ideas.
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Lorraine Peltz
Chicago-based artist Lorraine Peltz explores the ideas of memory, identity and the positioning of women in
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Kim Keever
Romantic landscape painters once sought to express a sense of their humility in the face of a supreme power. Their majestic
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Laurie Danial
Regularly lauded by critics, Danial's oil paintings are loose and exuberantly colored compositions wherein the organic
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The Boneyard Project
The Boneyard is a special place of fantasy and intrigue in Tucson--a sought-after destination for tourists from around the world. "The Boney
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"Clay's Tectonic Shift"
Peter Voulkos first brought truth to materials and abstraction to clay, then John Mason and Kenneth Price expanded on his ideas.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
This retrospective makes a mostly successful effort to link architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright to present day developments.
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Frederick Hammersley
Frederick Hammersley's large geometric abstractions are balanced with small organic compositions go far beyond mere formalism.
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''The Art of Mono-ha''
"The Art of Mono-ha" or "school of things" expressed Japanese artists' response to 1960s era minimalism, process art and earth art.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
This retrospective makes a mostly successful effort to link architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright to present day developments.
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''The Art of Mono-ha''
"The Art of Mono-ha" or "school of things" expressed Japanese artists' response to 1960s era minimalism, process art and earth art.
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James Smolleck
James Smolleck's installation "Neophyte Doublestare into the Eight Dimension" is a deep and immersive draught of immersive fantasy.
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Guirguis / Hagler
Sherin Guirguis and Joshua Hagler is a pairing of distinctive sensibilities who both deal with the connection between past and present.
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Surrealism's Myths
LACMA's current "In Wonderland" exhibition provoked Betty Ann Brown to reflect on some prevailing misconceptions of Surrealism's history.
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Alina Szapocznikow
Holocaust survivor Alina Szapocznikow's sensuous sculptural forms and materials are both beautiful and startling.
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Alwyn O'Brien
Porcelain "vessels" of delicate complexity by Alwyn O'Brien stand apart and outshine a number of current ceramic shows.
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Robert Townsend
Jazzy rhythms and cheerful color shift from Robert Townsend's by now familiar pop-realist style to hard edge abstraction to good effect.
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Lisa / Fernandez
Concurrent exhibitions by the late Argentine Esteban Lisa and the far younger Venezuelan Magdalena Fernandez are a fortuitous pairing.
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Barer / Hsu
Cara Barer photographs old newspapers; Pang-Chieh Hsu paints paper currency. Both arrive at a kind of cultural vanitas.
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Agnes Martin
Despite Agnes Martin's desire to eradicate her pre-grid artistic history, this exhibition revealingly gathers much of what survived the "pur
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Kim MacConnel
Systems and intuition appear in roughly equal balance in Kim MacConnel's current abstract yet smartly referential paintings.
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Mitchell Marti
Mitchell Marti's prints and animations resonate from geometric configurations that writhe and twist like that were, well, living things.
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Theophilus Brown
This small survey of Theophilus Brown, who passed away earlier this year, is a convincing first shot at securing his historical place.
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Theophilus Brown
This small survey of Theophilus Brown, who passed away earlier this year, is a convincing first shot at securing his historical place.
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Kim MacConnel
Systems and intuition appear in roughly equal balance in Kim MacConnel's current abstract yet smartly referential paintings.
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Eirik Johnson
Eirik Johnson documents decay and the fringe of the contemporary west in two series of "Camps" and "Cabins".
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Nina Katchadourian
This is an entire exhibition of art made on airplane flights using only what comes available of the plane. And Nina Katchadourian delivers.
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Erick Swenson
Eirick Swenson imbues lifelike realism with a reluctent sense of mortality in these memento mori.
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Jean Lowe
Jean Lowe combines the decorative overkill of let them eat cake interior decor with the discount consumerism of Wallmart.
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Erick Swenson
Erick Swenson imbues lifelike realism with a reluctent sense of mortality in these memento mori.
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Nina Katchadourian
This is an entire exhibition of art made on airplane flights using only what comes available of the plane. And Nina Katchadourian delivers.
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Anthony Velasquez
Warm and inviting still life paintings by Anthony Valesquez bring together assemblage-type objects in sculpture-like arrangements.
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Masako Miki
The deer as a symbol of graceful innocence is central to Masako Miki's new paintings and sculpture.
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Irene Kung
The singular beauty and mystical power of a tree is aptly conveyed in Irene Kung's digitally manipulated photographs.
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Claudia Bucher
The darkness apparent in Claudia Bucher's body of work is lightened by humor and escapism and the suspended chaos of her installation.
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LA Raw
"LA RAW" assembles a diverse group of artists who present figurative art that for decades has engaged the abject, that quintessentially post
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Zachary Buchner
Zachary Buchner's "Just Say Yes" turns out hyper-mannerist visual delicacies that are so pretty and gooey as to be funny.
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Sean Duffy
Duffy transported nearly the entire contents, a treasure trove of the past and present, from his home garage into Susanne Vielmetter's Culve
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Ali Smith
Ali Smith's paintings evoke associations, ranging from the continuous dynamic of Gorky's lyricism to Kandisky's spiritual compositions to fa
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Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen's compressed graphite replicas and paintings with chewing gum reflects on where we once we and where we are now.
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John Chiara
The handmade aspects of John Chiara's approach to photography push the limits of the medium and lends it a distinctive physicality.
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Heaven, Hell and Dying Well
"Images of Death in the Middle Ages" were truly fearsome centuries ago. If we can see why, today they are more memorable for their beauty.
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The Chicago Attitude
In the history of art, Chicago is a well-respected place to be born or educated, and the list of major American artists who have done so is
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Michael Petry
The Director of MOCA London presents his bold and poetic multi-faceted art for the first time stateside.
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John Chiara
The handmade aspects of John Chiara's approach to photography push the limits of the medium and lends it a distinctive physicality.
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Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen's compressed graphite replicas and paintings with chewing gum reflects on where we once we and where we are now.
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Peter Shire
This survey of Peter Shire's cups, more sculptural than utilitarian, are a natural complement to his signature teapots.
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Cy Twombly
The last paintings created by Cy Twombly prior to his recent passing retain remarkable vitality of scale, energy and those great clouds of p
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Clyfford Still Museum
The author shared his initial impressions of the newly launched Clyfford Still Museum that opened last November. It immediately because one
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Robert Brady
Literally, the first object that Berkeley-based artist Robert Brady made with clay changed his life. It was in his
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Patti Oleon
A haunting aura of mystery inhabits the paintings of nostalgic, lavish interiors made by San Francisco artist...
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''LIGHT''
This a thoughtful four-person show, "LIGHT," surveys the ways in which artists utilize the notion of light across diverse media.
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The End of the Wild
Man versus nature is a conflict yet to be settled, as this small gathering of installation art, photographs and other media demonstrates.
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Jeff Brouws
Jeff Brouws’s work is testimony to how new tendencies in art are frequently misunderstood even by the best informed.
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Pard Morrison
Pard Morrison’s wall reliefs stand out about three inches from the wall, creating the illusion of another sculptural surface.
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PLANEfurniture
"PLANEfurniture" is an erudite yet accessible show focusing on various porous boundaries we take for granted today.
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From Moscow with Love
"From Moscow with Love" is remarkable cache of work that runs the gamut from the political to the purely graphic to the ponderous.
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Lee Friedlander
With this new body of work Lee Friedlander again demonstrates why he is one of the most celebrated American photographers.
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Ivory Yeunmi Lee
Wandering the imaginary landscapes of the paintings of Ivory Yeunmi Lee is like floating through an eerie, pastel-hued reverie.
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang's work involves a laborious process in which volunteers help to stencil canvases with gun power which is then ignited.
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Gay Block
In 1981 Gay Block photographed 7- to 15-year-old girls at a summer camp. Fast-forward to 2006, she tracked down and re-photographed the gir
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Gina Han
Gina Han uses cheery color and organic pours of bas relief paint to span geometrically fragmented grounds of negative space.
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Joan Watts
“Poems and More” is a series of monochromatic works by Joan Watts that don’t necessarily appear to be monochromatic.
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''City Zoo''
"City Zoo" is all about the uncertainty and emotional provocation of mammals on the furrier side of the fence.
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Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson's abstract paintings are ever more built up, ever more colorful, with delightfully unexpected combinations.
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Gay Block
In 1981 Gay Block photographed 7- to 15-year-old girls at a summer camp. Fast-forward to 2006, she tracked down and re-photographed the gir
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''Made in L.A. 2012''
"Made in L.A. 2012," occupying three venues, features sixty contemporary artists who may help write the history of the next generation.
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Gary Hill
This survey clarifies why Gary Hill has been recognized as a pioneer of video art since his early experiments in the 1970’s.
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John-Paul Philippe
This exhibition presents an honest pairing of Jean-Paul Philipppe's sculpture with paintings that feature looping shapes and subtle colors.
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14,000 Years of Art
“It’s About Time” just as its title implies covers everything from early Pueblo pottery to the Transcendentalists to the c
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Damien Hirst
This modestly scaled show of works on paper lets the scope, wit and humor of Damien Hirst come out.
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Gary Hill
This survey clarifies why Gary Hill has been recognized as a pioneer of video art since his early experiments in the 1970’s.
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''Made in L.A. 2012''
"Made in L.A. 2012," occupying three venues, features sixty contemporary artists who may help write the history of the next generation.
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Gina Han
Gina Han uses cheery color and organic pours of bas relief paint to span geometrically fragmented grounds of negative space.
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Joan Watts
“Poems and More” is a series of monochromatic works by Joan Watts that don’t necessarily appear to be monochromatic.
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Made In L.A. 2012
The first L.A. Biennial consciously sought difficult to digest work, and much of it is in line with expanding contemporary art's conventions
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Made In L.A. 2012
The first L.A. Biennial consciously sought difficult to digest work, and much of it is in line with expanding contemporary art's conventions
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John Valadez
For decades John Valadez has portrayed Chicanos of the post-civil rights era. Despite the modernity of his subjects, his approach is old-sch
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John Valadez
For decades John Valadez has portrayed Chicanos of the post-civil rights era. Despite the modernity of his subjects, his approach is old-sch
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Ann Lofquist
There's a glorious quality of light in Ann Lofquist's coastal paintings that feels incredibly fresh.
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''Wilderness Mind''
“Wilderness Mind: Dissolving Duality” starts from the assumption that every place affected by mankind’s “civilizing&
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''Wilderness Mind''
“Wilderness Mind: Dissolving Duality” starts from the assumption that every place affected by mankind’s “civilizing&
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''Pop Noir''
Carla Gannis and Sandra Bermudez explore the intersection of popular culture with issues of desire, perversion and pornography
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Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critica
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Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critica
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Dennis Oppenheim
A selection of works documenting Dennis Oppenheim’s Sixties-era land art projects demonstrate how he helped expand the field of artist
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Lucien Clergue
Sand dunes or zebras become nudes in Lucien Clergue's re-visioning of lines and forms into erotic illusion.
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Lisa Gronseth
Lisa Gronseth looked out her hotel window in Dubai and found reflections and reflections of flections across its landscape of skyscrapers.
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Misha Gordin
Selections from multiple series by Misha Gordin drive images of the absurd and surreal that represents this former dissident's view of Sovie
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The Phoenix Fridas
The Phoenix Fridas are a women's collective who present their latest annual homage to icon Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
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Lucien Clergue
Sand dunes or zebras become nudes in Lucien Clergue's re-visioning of lines and forms into erotic illusion.
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Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critica
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Rusty Scruby
Grids and repetition lie at the heart of Rusty Scruby's art, yet this core is informed by vastly disparate sources.
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John Valadez
John Valadez portrays the Chicano community of the post-civil rights period. But despite the modernity of his subjects, his materials are ol
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Charles Ross
Charles Ross explores sunlight via its destructive capacity. By artful means he incorporates, in very literal ways, the concept of time.
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Mel George
Mel George missed her Austrialian home, but after returning from Portland found she missed her adopted city too. Her artwork expresses those
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Matthew Sontheimer
Matthew Sontheimer’s fascination with language is obvious. What’s less fundamental is the insinuated pleasure he takes in the pr
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Charles Ross
Charles Ross explores sunlight via its destructive capacity. By artful means he incorporates, in very literal ways, the concept of time.
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Matthew Sontheimer
Matthew Sontheimer’s fascination with language is obvious. What’s less fundamental is the insinuated pleasure he takes in the pr
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Mel George
Mel George missed her Austrialian home, but after returning from Portland found she missed her adopted city too. Her artwork expresses those
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Japan’s Textile Pioneers
Fourteen Japanese artists associated with the global fiber-art movement show the range of what artists can create with these materials, push
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Misako Inaoka
There are two prominent species in Misako Inaoka's current sculpture: would-be cyborgs, and eldritch animals of simple otherness.
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Land Art to 1974
"Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" adds to a legacy of conceptually savvy and historically rich exhibitions by a museum recently shaken b
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Maxwell Hendler
Each of Maxwell Hendler's paints consists of layers of a resin tinted singular color, the kind you’ll struggle to find words to descri
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Christel Dillbohner
Christel Dillbohner fills this industrial-looking space with works that express environmental displacement and vertigo.
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James Turrell
With its neon-like red, blue and green shapes that seem to hover mid-air, these holograms will be familiar to admirers of James Turrell.
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Woody Gwyn
Woody Gwyn’s vision of the Pacific shore captures the moods of the sea and shimmering atmosphere from an elevated point of view.
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Lou Beach
"Stories and Pictures" is a new kind of exhibition for Lou Beach, featuring new collages works along with readings from his recent book.
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David Shrigley
David Shrigley manically bombards us with funny, odd, sometimes gross and dark takes on life or random observations
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Lou Beach
"Stories and Pictures" is a new kind of exhibition for Lou Beach, featuring new collages works along with readings from his recent book.
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Woody Gwyn
Woody Gwyn’s vision of the Pacific shore captures the moods of the sea and shimmering atmosphere from an elevated point of view.
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James Turrell
With its neon-like red, blue and green shapes that seem to hover mid-air, these holograms will be familiar to admirers of James Turrell.
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George Grosz
A Berlin Dadaist is invited to Dallas by a department store executive … Sounds like a set up for a joke, right?
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Seymour Rosofsky
A selection of Seymour Rosofsky's works on paper possess an intimacy and narrative quality that subvert normally familiar situations.
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Lee Mullican
Lee Mullican's "Taos Clay" sculptures are every bit as enigmatic and surreal as the paintings he is best known for.
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Peter Sarkisian
Peter Sarkasian's video installations engage viewers like few others. You'll want to touch a bucket or grab a steering wheel.
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Jack Goldstein
Throughout Jack Goldstein’s art runs an undercurrent of power and control on one hand, and a sensation of futility on the other.
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Gregg Renfrow
The polymer-and-pigment sheets of cast acrylic by Gregg Renfrow appear to drip off their picture planes like gooey stalactites or petrified
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Charles Linder
Charles Linder presents twenty works in diverse materials and equally diverse meanings that explore the polarities of the sublime and the ab
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Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin
In a provocative and complex multimedia collaboration, Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin blur the lines between the natural and the technologicall
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Peter Sarkisian
Peter Sarkasian's video installations engage viewers like few others. You'll want to touch a bucket or grab a steering wheel.
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George Grosz
A Berlin Dadaist is invited to Dallas by a department store executive … Sounds like a set up for a joke, right?
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Roberto Cortazar
Roberto Cortazar's ''Dynamic: Blue Note After Rivera'' are based on and departs from Diego Rivera's portrait of Dr. Clarence Moore.
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Loretta Bennett
Quilter Loretta Bennett comes from a renowned family of Gee's Bend quilters, adding vibrant color and imagery inspired by her extensive trav
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s palette is reminiscent of shrubbery past its prime, wet tea bags and clotted cream decanted three days past.
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Federico Solmi
"Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth," Federico Solmi's latest video and related paintings is a provocative satirical attack.
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"Skyscraper"
The theme show "Skyscraper" is not only appealing but possesses an openness is paralleled by an experiential accessibility.
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Anna Fidler
Anna Fidler reimagines Oregon history, imagining, with tongue in cheek, that important Northwest historical figures were in fact vampires.
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Gustave Klimt
“Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line” starts by displaying the artist's academic chops and then tracing his journey to the avant gar
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Clarence Hinkle
The sun dappled landscapes and portraits of Clarence Hinkle were characteristic more of abstraction than of Impressionism.
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Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar examines the tormented dames of 19th Century literature and illuminates the once fashionable tradition of gender suppression.
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Barry McGee
Barry McGee's first retrospective delivers, from huge and highly detailed installations to the smallest bits of artistic ephemera.
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Gary Stephan
A slew of loose geometric paintings puts Gary Stephan's balancing of spontaneous gesture and precise draftsmanship.
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Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan’s figures and interiors simultaneously deploy both visceral and graphic sensibilities, his commanding line summoning an exp
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Storm Tharp
The fetishization of fabric and flesh in Storm Tharp’s exhibition, "Holding a Peach" is a sly approach to the romantic and the grotesq
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Charles Gaines
Often referenced as a conceptual artist, the work of Charles Gaines is more akin to arts-based research than classic conceptualism.
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Laura Paulini
The geometric paintings of Laura Paulini infuse the razzle-dazzle of Op Art with a shimmering digital update.
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Anne Lindberg
Anne Lindberg's current work divides between a series of drawings' object quality and a string installation's intuitive color and space.
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Jenny Holzer
This selection of Jenny Holzer's work of the 1980's mixed with recent work shows her socially engaged use of language remains vital.
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Nic Nicosia
In "dreams and other stories" Nic Nicosia summons us into a cryptic world or eerie, nighttime pulse-quickening moments.
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s palette is reminiscent of shrubbery past its prime, wet tea bags and clotted cream decanted three days past.
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Federico Solmi
"Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth," Federico Solmi's latest video and related paintings is a provocative satirical attack.
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"Skyscraper"
The theme show "Skyscraper" is not only appealing but possesses an openness is paralleled by an experiential accessibility.
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Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan’s figures and interiors simultaneously deploy both visceral and graphic sensibilities, his commanding line summoning an exp
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Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar examines the tormented dames of 19th Century literature and illuminates the once fashionable tradition of gender suppression.
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Barry McGee
Barry McGee's first retrospective delivers, from huge and highly detailed installations to the smallest bits of artistic ephemera.
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Storm Tharp
The fetishization of fabric and flesh in Storm Tharp’s exhibition, "Holding a Peach" is a sly approach to the romantic and the grotesq
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Sewell Sillman
A thoughtful selection of the mid-century abstraction of Sewell Sillman emphasizes vibrant color and a triumphant tone.
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Raymond Saunders
Raymond Saunders new works emphasize vibrant improvisations and collaged syncopations that give way to invigorating painted passages.
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Masami Teraoka
The priests get skewered in Masami Teraoka’s latest lavish panels. It is a shuddering paroxysm; the Church is having a guilty nightma
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Elise Wagner
In her current show Elise Wagner employs round motifs, often concentrically ringed, to depict the black hole’s fierce, yawning mouth.
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Look Both Ways
"Look Both Ways" samples highlights from an illustrious stable artists that introduces Hosfelt Gallery's grand new space.
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Fire and Sand
“Fire and Sand” is titled for the two elements that forge glass, and shows glass art can surprise.
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Charles Gaines
Often referenced as a conceptual artist, the work of Charles Gaines is more akin to arts-based research than classic conceptualism.
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Jenny Holzer
This selection of Jenny Holzer's work of the 1980's mixed with recent work shows her socially engaged use of language remains vital.
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Nic Nicosia
In "dreams and other stories" Nic Nicosia summons us into a cryptic world or eerie, nighttime pulse-quickening moments.
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Antonio Muniz
Rooted in classic Surrealism, Antonio Muniz walks a tight path between allowing the eye delightful room to explore and bringing you to the p
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Cosgrove and Costache
Concurrent shows from Erin Cosgrove and Cris Costache provide simultaneous tests of Biblical and political knowledge.
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Clare Rojas
From tapestry-inspired patterning and folk figures Clare Rojas shifts to paintings that are minimal, flat and quiet. The wit and strangeness
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Frances Lerner
Frances Lerner's new paintings establish engimatic narratives recalling satirical tales about victims of social unrest.
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Tony de los Reyes
Tony de los Reyes "Border Theory" is a series of abstract works, each depicting a clearly drawn border between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Ant Farm
The Ant Farm Media Van in 1970 traveled the country shooting photos and video, installing inflatable shelters and offering the beginnings of
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John Opera
John Opera’s cyanotypes of ordinary bottles, ropes, chains, fossils and hands possess the otherworldliness of a near alchemical proces
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Catherine Opie
In a dramatic and and painterly series of photographs entitled "Twelve Miles to the Horizon" Catherine Opie lends substance to solitude.
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Don Voisine
The gentle play of color and shape in Don Voisine's paintings are broadly symbolic plays of pure abstraction and font design.
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Raymond Saunders
Raymond Saunders new works emphasize vibrant improvisations and collaged syncopations that give way to invigorating painted passages.
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Clare Rojas
From tapestry-inspired patterning and folk figures Clare Rojas shifts to paintings that are minimal, flat and quiet. The wit and strangeness
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Antonio Muniz
Rooted in classic Surrealism, Antonio Muniz walks a tight path between allowing the eye delightful room to explore and bringing you to the p
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Friedrich Kunath
There is an element of spectacle to Friedrich Kunath's march of loafers though a gallery full of paintings that is downright carnival-like.
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Victor Maldonado
The act of mark making is directed towards negation of imagery in much of Victor Maldonado's recent work, and it's all defiant yet winning.
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Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher brings together a disparate inventory of objects whose internal logic is as certain as the fact that they make no sense together
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Andrea Modica
Andrea Modica photographs pairs of ordinary Italian teenagers that address the nature of youthful intimacy that transcends the ordinary.
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Ant Farm
The Ant Farm Media Van in 1970 traveled the country shooting photos and video, installing inflatable shelters and offering the beginnings of
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Catherine Opie
In a dramatic and and painterly series of photographs entitled "Twelve Miles to the Horizon" Catherine Opie lends substance to solitude.
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''When I'm Sixty-Four''
A group of eight artists explore the varied realms of the aged, from issues of loneliness and depression, to vibrancy and persistence.
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Kenneth Noland
Color Field master Kenneth Noland's concentric circle paintings from the "Mysteries" series are precise, deliberate and captivating.
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Philip Buller
A single color photograph of a crowded beach scene provides all the little secrets Philip Buller needed to probe the one and the many.
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Jessica Drenk
Jessicca Drenk parses the boundaries between the natural and manmade to demonstrate that everything we know is fodder for transformation.
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Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher brings together a disparate inventory of objects whose internal logic is as certain as the fact that they make no sense together
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Friedrich Kunath
There is an element of spectacle to Friedrich Kunath's march of loafers though a gallery full of paintings that is downright carnival-like.
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Ken Price
Ken Price was a key figure in transforming ceramics into an art form of the highest sort. This retrospective makes the case.
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William Eggleston
"Los Alamos" celebrates small town America and provided William Eggleston a vehicle to expose the contradictions of modernity.
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Winston Roeth
Winston Roeth's latest paintings deploy color to attain maximum dramatic intensity, eschewing nuance to go for the gut.
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Asay and Davis
Using gravel from the Salt River bed collaborators Roger Asay and Rebecca Davis mount an installation of Zen-like minimalist forms.
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''6/one''
Six artists collaborate, crediting only the group and offering no titles of explanations. "6/one" ends up holding together when it could has
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''When I'm Sixty-Four''
A group of eight artists explore the varied realms of the aged, from issues of loneliness and depression, to vibrancy and persistence.
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Kenneth Noland
Color Field master Kenneth Noland's concentric circle paintings from the "Mysteries" series are precise, deliberate and captivating.
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Steve McQueen
Known equally for his primarily video based art as well as feature films, Steve McQueen moves easily from visually lush set pieces to unabas
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Debra Barrera
The conceit of conflating car culture with freedom, Debra Barrera goes beyond to mine the promise of space exploration.
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Deborah Butterfield
Deborah Butterfield's horse sculptures take on a life of their own in convincing arrangements of tree branches cast in bronze.
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Mark Baugh-Sasaki
Mark Baugh-Sasaki is making compelling art that raises big questions by aesthetically tracing the path taken by water from source to pumping
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''Departures''
This group of four artists each create abstract paintings that are personal but also immersed in nature.
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Ken Price
Ken Price was a key figure in transforming ceramics into an art form of the highest sort. This retrospective makes the case.
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William Eggleston
"Los Alamos" celebrates small town America and provided William Eggleston a vehicle to expose the contradictions of modernity.
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Alison Saar
Alison Saar deploys unexpected combinations of objects and images to address issues of race, gender, and spirit.
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Liam Everett
Sculpture suggestive of theater props, paintings suggestive of removal add up to impending activity in Liam Everett's current work.
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Luis Gispert
Luis Gispert's stark photographs of symbolic combines are loaded with wide ranging cultural baggage, from youth to luxury.
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Edith Baumann
Edith Baumann paints using a slow layering process of slightly adjusted glazes that speaks of a deep engagement in a state of calm.
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David Kapp
From bicycle riders to taxi cabs to fast-moving pedestrians, David Kapp is clearly at home in the hustle and bustle of urban environments.
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Steve McQueen
Known equally for his primarily video based art as well as feature films, Steve McQueen moves easily from visually lush set pieces to unabas
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Rania Matar
In "A Girl and Her Room," Rania Matar paddles into the precarious estuary where girlhood and womanhood intermingle.
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Héctor Zamora
In two distinctive installations Hentor Zamora offers compelling commentary on barren desert life, an area with strong ties to the military
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Renee Lotenero
Lotenero photographs her handmade ceramic tiles, rescales and prints them en masse, using them to create some remarkable objects.
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Blake and Morgan
Holly Blake and Jeremy Morgan express love of nature while demonstrating the continuing aesthetic relevance of the spiritualized landscape.
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Mary-Austin Klein
Mary-Austin Klein's paintings are invitations to explore the Southern California desert environment.
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Martha Alf
Drawing, as Martha Alf does it, is an exercise in deep contemplation in which the artist gazes upon and becomes one with the object under sc
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Karl Benjamin
Karl Benjamin said he "kept working, trying to get the right line, the right color, hoping that something would gel." And so much did.
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Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe's high octane textile works lie between sculpture, fashion and painting, but perhaps more significantly between the handmade and i
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Rogelio Manzo
For Rogelio Manzo, the practice of portraiture is more than a way to capture a likeness. These are darkly compelling images of the human fig
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Jacob Hashimoto
Jacob Hashimoto creates ethereal and disembodied installations using innumerable small paper kites.
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Chester Arnold
The miner, the tools and residue of his life, and the world he inhabits are the focus of Chester Arnold’s newest body of paintings.
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Christina Hale
In her sweet but nasty drawings Christina Hale puts out the vibe of a disillusioned flower child slowly coming to grips with harsh reality.
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Stephen Strom
Stephen Strom’s background as a Harvard-trained astronomer is relevant to his alertness to pattern and detail in this survey of his ph
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Swallow and Vance
Contemporary artists Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance, command an upstairs gallery that traditionally houses 18th century decorative arts.
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Marion Lane
The small, square abstract paintings of Marion Lane with their tumbling form and colors amount to a profound rebuke of aesthetic austerity.
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Hector Zamora
In two distinctive installations Hentor Zamora offers compelling commentary on barren desert life, an area with strong ties to the military
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''Rediscoveries''
“Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture” encompasses an array of artists who have been central to recent art history
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Jim Gaylord
Jim Gaylord turns still photographs from television programs and movie DVDs — often the least intelligible — as elements for hi
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Mike Kelley
In Mike Kelley's "Central Mass" clumps of stuffed animals make up sculptural "satellites" alternately mashing in close or getting spread out
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Justin Cooper
Justin Cooper's slapstick-style humor is here more playful and lighthearted, starting with a title that provides witty links among the work.
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Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes combines the art of body painting with performance and photography, viewing performance as integral.
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Marco Brambilla
Artist and filmmaker Marco Brambilla goes 3D with a vortex into which seemingly every commercial trope disappears into a multi-colored atmos
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Russell and Romano
Serrah Russell and Maggie Carson Romano interpret the elusive traces of bodies and memory during a recent motel stay.
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Letters from L.A.
The subject of "Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art" is typography or text brought to works of art.
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"Facing West/Looking East"
"Facing West/Looking East" examines issues faced by California’s Asian American communities through the creative eyes of this group of
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''Rediscoveries''
“Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture” encompasses an array of artists who have been central to recent art history
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Marcus Jansen
Marcus Jansen explores urban landscapes in discomfiting ways whose raw technique echoes the Ash Can School - and more.
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Nayland Blake
Nayland Blake revisits topics of sexual and racial identity in an exhibition divided into five areas or, as they are titled, "stations."
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Christina Hale
In her sweet but nasty drawings Christina Hale puts out the vibe of a disillusioned flower child slowly coming to grips with harsh reality.
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Stephen Strom
Stephen Strom’s background as a Harvard-trained astronomer is relevant to his alertness to pattern and detail in this survey of his ph
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"End of the World"
A group of 15 artists stare into the maw of the apocalypse and manage to express both the humor and dangers of our fascination with it.
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Letters from L.A.
The subject of "Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art" is typography or text brought to works of art.
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James Krone
James Krone maintains a clear relationship to minimalist painting, but more interestingly reference an algae-filled aquarium.
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Ann Gale
The densely worked, emotionally charged paintings of Ann Gale are marvelous portraits that defy traditional conventions of portraiture.
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Homeboy Industries
Pastor and author Gregory Joseph Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1992. Through it this trio of young artists have used art to overcome g
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Josef Albers
Culled from two of Albers' print portfolios, we see that his signature rectilinear forms made up only one portion of his creative output.
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Alfredo De Stefano
Alfredo de Stefano walks a conceptual path, fabricating and then photographing primitivist tableaux that convey a strong ecological subtext.
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Miriam Wosk
Perhaps best known for her magazine and fashion illustration, Miriam Wosk also produced art packed full of visual energy and event.
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Alan Bur Johnson
Alan Bur Johnson crosses the divide between art and science with his wall pieces using laboratory-like slides of biological specimens.
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June Harwood
June Harwood's version of hard edge abstraction resists reference to specific shapes found in the natural world, yet feel organic to the eye
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Chris Fraser
Chris Fraser turns an art gallery into a wonderland of color and line in his interactive installation of light, "In Passing."
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Critiquing Ourselves
Some prominent critics have raised questions of art's integrity and relevance over the years. It's time to reflect on art criticism's changi
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The Sandy Hook Aesthetic
Rather than Best of the Year lists, the lingering images of Sandy Hook cast the upcoming year in art in a whole new light.
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Ann Gale
The densely worked, emotionally charged paintings of Ann Gale are marvelous portraits that defy traditional conventions of portraiture.
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Homeboy Industries
Pastor and author Gregory Joseph Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1992. Through it this trio of young artists have used art to overcome g
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"End of the World"
A group of 15 artists stare into the maw of the apocalypse and manage to express both the humor and dangers of our fascination with it.
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R.H. Quaytman
R.H. Quaytman’s project-based research and mining of this non-collecting museum’s archives turns into homage, with an emphasis o
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Ynez Johnston
Restlessness and wonder lie at the heart of Ynez Johnston's schematics of stacked and layered cities.
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Inez Storer
Inez Storer’s paintings posit an ocean voyage to the French Riviera during Matisse’s heyday are all joyous color and lyrical gra
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Ronald Davis
Day-Glo colors captured in sculptural, geometric arrangements populate Ronald Davis’s latest body of digital work.
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Alfredo De Stefano
Alfredo de Stefano walks a conceptual path, fabricating and then photographing primitivist tableaux that convey a strong ecological subtext.
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Miriam Wosk
Perhaps best known for her magazine and fashion illustration, Miriam Wosk also produced art packed full of visual energy and event.
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Jonathan Wateridge
Known previously for him movie set and disaster scenes, Jonathan Wateridge gets more subdued in images that give us more than meets the eye.
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William Bailey
William Bailey crafts a highly detailed world, both eerie and muted, that has been dredged from his own psyche.
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Miguel Palma
A spirit of adventure imbued Miguel Palma's tenure in Arizona, seen in his heat-laden road trip to a remote area of the state.
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Catherine Wagner
Well worn classic books, one image of the closed volume paired with one open, share one striking trait in Catherine Wagner's series: they a
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Jeff Koons
Two works are enough for Jeff Koons to evoke contrasting ideals of childhood that are masked behind less flash than usual.
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Art Bizarro Worlds
James Yood often writes about art that is championed by diverse micro-communities of professionals and aficionados. Here's why.
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R.H. Quaytman
R.H. Quaytman’s project-based research and mining of this non-collecting museum’s archives turns into homage, with an emphasis o
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Ynez Johnston
Restlessness and wonder lie at the heart of Ynez Johnston's schematics of stacked and layered cities.
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Goshka Macuga
Goshka Macuga repurposes art historical figures and events for installations that turn research into aesthetic backdrop for, in one case, or
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Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl came to prominence with Neo-Expressionism’s resurgence of figurative art, his loosely rendered sexual psychodramas, provoc
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Cathy Daley
The female figures central to Cathy Daley's black oil pastel drawings are secondary to the billowy gestural marks that represent kinetic lig
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Sid Avery
Sid Avery’s candid shots of celebrities half a century ago now seem like an anomaly: neither posed nor artificial, yet respectful.
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John Albok
The Depression-era photographs of John Albok offer a shortcut into details of life on the streets when people had a shortage of hope.
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Washed Up: Ocean in Peril
We habitually stand on shore and look out to sea. In "Washed Up: Ocean in Peril" twenty artists address that land-based perspective and its
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Jonathan Wateridge
Known previously for him movie set and disaster scenes, Jonathan Wateridge gets more subdued in images that give us more than meets the eye.
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Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson has built a career throwing and pouring prodigious amounts of paint onto installations, many of them room-size.
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Pedro Farias-Nardi
Thematically confrontational, technically immaculate, Pedro Farias-Nardi’s portrait series, "El Otro," is a model of intense empathy.
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Black Space
“Black Space,” a collection of works on paper united by their wanton darkness. Perfect for the bleakness of Santa Fe's late win
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What's it All About?
That the art world has come to be shaped by market forces in recent decades makes the critical integrity of the art critic more crucial than
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John Albok
The Depression-era photographs of John Albok offer a shortcut into details of life on the streets when people had a shortage of hope.
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Llyn Foulkes
How a master of ambivalence can emerge as such a passionate voice, how bitterness transforms into affection explain why the art world long u
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Driss Ouadahi
Driss Ouadahi's current work breaks into two themes: cityscapes of unfinished buildings and chain-link fences silhouetted against a twiligh
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Robert Burnier
The wall-bound sculptures of Robert Burnier are not the artfully crumpled masses of paper they appear to be.
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Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl came to prominence with Neo-Expressionism’s resurgence of figurative art, his loosely rendered sexual psychodramas, provoc
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Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson has built a career throwing and pouring prodigious amounts of paint onto installations, many of them room-size.
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John Thomson
John Thomson, was well known as a traveler, geographer and primarily a photographer, the first to record 19th century China.
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Shane Guffogg
Shane Guffogg bases his new series on Leonardo da Vinci’s "Ginevra de’Benci," and in doing so renders the old quite new.
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Bas Jan Ader
The thirty-three year old Bas Jan Ader disappeared in 1975 while attempting to complete a performance - crossing the Atlantic alone in a 13-
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Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon delved into the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library to make art from compiled images of handshakes, swimming pools
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Llyn Foulkes
How a master of ambivalence can emerge as such a passionate voice explains why the art world long underestimated Llyn Foulkes.
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''Picasso and Chicago''
"Picasso in Chicago" is only in part about stating Chicago's importance in the shadow of New York's cultural dominance. It takes us beyond t
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Beth Secor
A series of "Trees" in effect documents Beth Secor's visits to her elderly father at a nursing home, where she connected to both plants and
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Stanley Casselman
How we grasp new scientific paradigms of nature is a role embraced by Stanley Casselman in paintings that explore evolution and metaphysics.
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Alex Steckly
Alex Steckly's meticulous bi-chromatic works are like Beach Boys songs written about Agnes Martin's car.
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Second Take(Over)
The latest takeover bid of MOCA by LACMA is encountering softened resistance compared to 2008, but is it really the right thing to have happ
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Shane Guffogg
Shane Guffogg bases his new series on Leonardo da Vinci’s "Ginevra de’Benci," and in doing so renders the old quite new.
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Ron Rizk
Superbly painted tableaux of antique toys, chess pieces, fishing lures are familiar yet worn suggestions of a slowly fading time.
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Geoff Hippenstiel
Geoff Hippenstiel’s paintings are a study in contrast — explosive yet controlled, abstract but still vaguely representational.
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''Big Pictures''
Standouts in this fine show of large scale photography, "Big Pictures," include Abelardo Morell's “Camera Obscura Image of Times Squar
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Stephen Beal
Stephen Beal amplifies the minutest and seemingly inconsequential gesture in work dedicated to doing so mindfully.
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Is Anybody There?
Who is the world’s most famous living visual artist? Pause. While you’re mulling that over, let’s look at the question mor
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Stanley Casselman
How we grasp new scientific paradigms of nature is a role embraced by Stanley Casselman in paintings that explore evolution and metaphysics.
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''Picasso and Chicago''
"Picasso in Chicago" is only in part about stating Chicago's importance in the shadow of New York's cultural dominance. It takes us beyond t
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Ahmed Alsoudani
Iraqi expat artist Ahmed Alsoudani places himself squarely in the tradition of depicting war's toll on the innocent in works that ratchet up
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Kehinde Wiley
In his trademark bright style, Kehinde Wiley presents stunning portraits featuring his preferred subject: young, beautiful black men.
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Arturo Mallman
Vast landscapes by Arturo Mallman are built of loose washes of color the come together suggestively to host minuscule figures.
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Frieke Janssens
Young children apparently engaged in smoking in Frieke Janssens' photographs critiques the nostalgic glamorization of a bygone era.
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Wesley Younie
Wesley Younie conjures fantasias of lotus flowers, waterfalls, pagodas, and distant mountains that strike notes of both reactionary fondness
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Stephen Beal
Stephen Beal amplifies the minutest and seemingly inconsequential gesture in work dedicated to doing so mindfully.
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Nancy Jackson
Intricate, multi-media sculptural pieces by Nancy Jackson are exquisitely fabricated and loaded with subtle innuendoes.
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Deb Sokolow
"The Bodies in Mitchell's Cabin," set the tone of Deb Sokolow's current exhibition. The black cloths each cover what looks to be a small hum
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Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams’ nocturnal paintings are lonely, moody, haunting, eerie, mysterious, desolate, and ominous. They could be anywhere in r
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Darren Waterston
Darren Waterston pares down his visions from stark detail to a dark shadow, leaving much to the imagination.
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Kehinde Wiley
In his trademark bright style, Kehinde Wiley presents stunning portraits featuring his preferred subject: young, beautiful black men.
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Francine Seders: Silhouette
The longest standing private gallery in Seattle, Francine Seders, arrived from France knowing only that she did not want to be ordinary.
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Christopher Taggart
Cut up playing cards are arranged with care and precision by Christopher Taggart to form mesmerizing images.
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Randy Twaddle
Electric transformer wires form the basis for Randy Twaddle's impressively varied range of drawings, tile works, textiles and assemblages.
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Claire Baker
Claire Baker arrives at her paintings through a series of steps and a mixture of references that are collapsed with deceptive simplicity.
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David Byrd
Octogenarian David Byrd never exhibited any of thousands of paintings produced during a long career as a hospital orderly. Subject and idiom
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John M. Miller / Eben Goff
John M. Miller continues to deliver potent perceptual variations within a set geometric formula. Eben Goff mixes visual cues in sculpture th
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Nancy Jackson
Intricate, multi-media sculptural pieces by Nancy Jackson are exquisitely fabricated and loaded with subtle innuendoes.
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Deb Sokolow
"The Bodies in Mitchell's Cabin," set the tone of Deb Sokolow's current exhibition. The black cloths each cover what looks to be a small hum
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Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith's deceptively casual and off-hand references to film and literature in collage hide a probing examination of a lost time.
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Soo Sunny Park
Soo Sunny Park uses Plexiglas cells spread out the a gallery like netting to manipulate light the way painters manipulate paint.
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Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger’s "Lunar Mirrors" translates the mathematics of astronomy diagrammatic paintings and sculpture of the moon.
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Nancy Youdelman
Mixed media artist Nancy Youdelman uses mundane materials to create assemblages that are majestically feminine.
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G. Ray Kerciu
First causing a splash in the deep south when he turned segregationist slogans on their aesthetic head, G. Ray Kerciu displays the qualities
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Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson’s Imagist paintings are known for strange sex, gaudy ornament, vintage Americana; yet they possess a calm order.
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Casebeer
Casebeer writes snippets of overheard conversations on her arm with a Sharpie, later translating these into a compelling "Sentence Camera."
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Diane Arbus
Long associated with images of striking unconventionality, even freakishness, times have caught up with Diane Arbus to replace shock with em
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Shai Kremer
Photographs documenting the city and layering images to reveal it in cubistic manner are two distinct suites that Shai Kremer presents toget
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Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith's deceptively casual and off-hand references to film and literature in collage hide a probing examination of a lost time.
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Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger’s "Lunar Mirrors" translates the mathematics of astronomy diagrammatic paintings and sculpture of the moon.
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Urs Fischer
The energy of this full on Urs Fischer exhibition is formidable. There is a populist appeal that some have termed ingratiating. It's definit
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Takashi Murakami
In "Arhat," which refers to a fully enlightened Buddhist, Takashi Murakami makes it a challenge to invest oneself in the Death & Rebirth the
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Marcelyn McNeil
The latter day "push and pull" abstraction of Marcelyn McNeil explores chromatic relationships while creating spatial tensions.
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Wayne Higby
Wayne Higby emerged to prominence with the American Ceramic Studio movement in the 1960s, and this retrospective shows he has never ceased t
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Creativity & the Flow
There is a state of total absorption, the "flow," closely associated with intense creative activity. Brown explores the individual experienc
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Annie Lopez
These blue dresses are far more than they at first appear. Annie Lopez builds them out of cyanotypes - and words and images mined from her p
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Channa Horwitz
We sadly note the recent passing of Channa Horwitz, and this final exhibition of new work helps mark her legacy for rigorous by lyrical abst
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''Lifelike''
“What happens when we encounter something we think is real but realize it isn’t?” is the question and brand of realism po
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David Lloyd
David Lloyd brings together abstract imagery with an altered state of narration that is mystical and topical.
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Diane Arbus
Long associated with images of striking unconventionality, even freakishness, times have caught up with Diane Arbus to replace shock with em
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Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson’s Imagist paintings are known for strange sex, gaudy ornament, vintage Americana; yet they possess a calm order.
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Creative Expropriation
Two of creative expropriation's leading proponents have recently seen their art subjected to the soft shoe shuffling of "uncool jokers."
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Urs Fischer
The energy of this full on Urs Fischer exhibition is formidable. The populist appeal here is a thrill ride.
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Eirik Johnson
Diptych photographs by Eirik Johnson of the far northern town of Barrow, Alaska pair landscapes of winter and summer.
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Manuel Mendive
The colorful and energetic art of Manuel Mendive has long been an expression of his religious devotion to Santeria.
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Marco Petrus
Paintings of urban architecture are handled stylishly, with bold use of perspective, by Milan-based Marco Petrus.
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Forrest Bess
The personal history of Forrest Bess is intimately tied to an art that is comparably poignant to that of his spiritual mentor, Van Gogh.
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Gems of the Medici
"Gems of the Medici" is a rare amalgam of treasures of the fabulously wealthy family culled from museums in Florence, Italy.
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Fernando de Szyszlo
In his dream chambers Fernando de Szyszlo injects richly composed suggestions of the human figure that also allude to animals and hybrids of
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Two Weeks in L.A.
Seattle-based Matthew Kangas blew through numerous L.A. museums and galleries recently, leaving with mostly favorable impressions mixed with
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James Turrell
James Turrell has shifted the way we engage light, and has done so in a monumental manner. A massive retrospective is consistent with both t
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Clarissa Tossin
Maps and aerial photographs are the givens for Clarissa Tossin, who then alters them in multiple and fascinating ways.
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Jasmine Justice
Author Philip K. Dick inspires the strange and dreamy paintings of Jasmine Justice. Perfect circles and precise lines are offset by washy gr
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Nicholas Shake
Nicholas Shake constructs immense sculptures on site using trash found on the outskirts of his hometown of Palmdale. What we see are long ex
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Alison Blickle
Her depiction of scantily clad hotties is questionable, but Alison Blickle's paintings are about her attraction to and skepticism of occulti
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Virtual Reality Art
Notation and technology have enabled ordinary folk to experience a simulation of creative greatness, but not yet so in art.
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Manuel Mendive
The colorful and energetic art of Manuel Mendive has long been an expression of his religious devotion to Santeria.
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Forrest Bess
The personal history of Forrest Bess is intimately tied to an art that is comparably poignant to that of his spiritual mentor, Van Gogh.
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David Maisel
The ariel photography of David Maisel documents how human interaction with nature has taken a toll - and exerts a striking visual presence.
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Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi's brand of modernism was among its most elegant and thoughtful iterations, and this installation in a Japanese Garden plays to
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Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin pairs photographs of masterworks from the Louvre with her own images. But her homage to history allows for a fresh reading of her
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Gems of the Medici
"Gems of the Medici" is a rare amalgam of treasures of the fabulously wealthy family culled from museums in Florence, Italy.
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Orit Hofshi
There is a melancholy sense of history at the heart of Orit Hofshi's extraordinarily complex, obsessive and polished large scale printworks.
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James Turrell
James Turrell has shifted the way we engage light, and has done so in a monumental manner. A massive retrospective is consistent with both t
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Michael Jang
Then student Michael Jang photographed family members forty years ago in this series that is of more than anthropological interest.
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Jeffrey O'Connell
Photographs are altered by Jeffrey O'Connell with paint and digital manipulation display more whimsy than earlier, related series of paintin
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Libby J. Masterson
'Mizugiwa' means water’s edge in Japanese and describes perfectly Libbie J. Masterson’s elegant photographs of the South of Fran
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Daniel Bauer
Daniel Bauer’s photos of Israel bear the markings of time and human activity, but are notably void of the figure.
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Andrea Heimer
Andrea Heimer demolishes scary suburbia in mostly small but precise paintings that brim with rage and hilarity.
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''Six Rising Stars''
The divergent methods and materials that painters can summon in the name of abstract art are pleasingly sampled in “Six Rising Stars.&
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Covington Jordan
The mysterious, goth-flavored paintings of Covington Jordan are as densely crafted as they are thematically elusive.
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Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright combines ideo, performance, photography, and poetry in an art that revolves around the theme of injustice.
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David Maisel
The ariel photography of David Maisel documents how human interaction with nature has taken a toll - and exerts a striking visual presence.
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Biennale Fever
Off goes the author on another trip to the Venice Biennale, which remains absolutely the best way to be thrown into the deep end of contempo
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Katharina Grosse
Gallery spaces are blasted with color that Katharina Grosse sprays everywhere. The encounter makes you feel like a participant in the artist
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Anderson & Low
Granted access for two years inside the training facilities of China’s elite gymnasts, Anderson & Low document the daily pressures of
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John Tarahteeff
John Tarahteeff's paintings of seaside and marine motifs are replete with surrealistic elements and implausible circumstances.
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Anointed and Adorned
A great ritual tradition is documented and conveyed in this installation titled "Anointed and Adorned: Indian Weddings in Houston."
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Daniel Bennett
Young artist Daniel Bennett displays conceptual sophistication and a quality of child-like fascination in his new video work, "Definitions 1
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Hunt Slonem
In his rich paintings of birds, butterflies, flowers and human faces Hunt Slonem reveals a deeply intimate, sensitive familiarity and keen t
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Andrea Heimer
Andrea Heimer demolishes scary suburbia in mostly small but precise paintings that brim with rage and hilarity.
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Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright combines ideo, performance, photography, and poetry in an art that revolves around the theme of injustice.
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California-Pacific Triennial
Switching from a Biennial of California to a Triennial of artists from the West Coast, Asian and Latin American countries boldly embraces ar
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Donald Bradford
The day after the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage Donald Bradford’s show, “Love and War,” looked prescient
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Barbara Sternberger
Barbara Sternberger uses her innovative technique to stretch paint application to balance densely clustered brushwork against broad expanses
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Bittman/Pionkowski
They complement each other, but Samantha Bittman builds up painted surfaces, while Gabriel Pionkowski unravels and rebreeds canvas strands.
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Anderson & Low
Granted access for two years inside the training facilities of China’s elite gymnasts, Anderson & Low document the daily pressures of
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Daniel Bennett
Young artist Daniel Bennett displays conceptual sophistication and a quality of child-like fascination in his new video work, "Definitions 1
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''Rogue Wave''
"Rogue Wave" is essentially one gallery's biannual new talent show. This year's group edges more into mid-career than emerging territory.
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David C. Kane
Imaginary portraits by David C. Kane draw on historical cubism and decline to specify identities, while moving towards a cautious optimism.
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Transmissions
The ephemeral connects with the concise in selections by four artists who display convincing conceptual intelligence.
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Gail Roberts
In a series titled "Spiral" Gail Roberts portrays nature's process of decomposition via images of birds' nests.
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Mark Dell’Isola
The intense color and dizzyingly intricate detail of Mark Dell'Isola's paintings are unapologetically psychedelic and imaginatively suggesti
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Yvonne Venegas
Photographer Yvonne Venegas is frequently mistook for her twin sister, star pop singer Juliet, which has led to her to images that reveal th
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Good Bad and Bad Bad
Reflecting on one exhibition of willfully badly executed art, Richard Speer muses on the inherent enigma of such a posture.
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California-Pacific Triennial
Switching from a Biennial of California to a Triennial of artists from the West Coast, Asian and Latin American countries boldly embraces ar
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''Journey Forth''
More considered than many summer group shows, "Journey Forth" reveals how the digital revolution has altered the way we perceive nature, ac
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Hassel Smith
Hassell Smith was one of those painters whose work reflect a highly rational intellect and riotous spontaneity.
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''Backstory''
For the three artists of “Backstory,” LaToya Rudy Frazier, Ron Jude and Guillaume Simoneau, personal vulnerability displayed in
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''Labour and Wait''
Its title derived from the poem "A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow, "Labour and Wait" erases the barriers between craft and fine art.
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Sabino Osuna
Sabino Osuna’s dramatic images of the Mexican Revolution, and of the battle’s many heroes and villains are often startlingly cin
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''Rogue Wave''
"Rogue Wave" is essentially one gallery's biannual new talent show. This year's group edges more into mid-career than emerging territory.
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June Yong Lee
The familiarity of the body becomes new and unfamiliar ciphers and archetypes in the digitally manipulated photographs of June Yong Lee.
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Louisa McElwain
Louisa McElwain painted in the landscape that she lived in to leave a body of painterly work displaying great luminosity and reverence.
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Bill Braun
They may look like torn paper collages, but Bill Braun uses trompe l'oeil painting charm to draw our attention to larger moral issues.
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Shaw / Graves
Ceramicist Richard Shaw and collagist Ken Graves do their part to sustain art's power to represent reality and embody meaning.
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James Verbicky
The humor in James Verbicky's abstract mixed media work is so sly that it may be hard to tell who or what exactly is being speared.
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Michael Ottersen
Michael Ottersen's current paintings re-internalize abstraction via the figure to express an intimate and mysterious power.
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From Above
Aerial photography has the power to astound, with its access to remote places and bird’s-eye angles. Considered as art, "From Above" s
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Podoll / Bunga
In Joshua Podoll's new paintings a structural framework now supports his starbursts. Carlos Bunga offers elegant yet folksy monochromes.
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Amusant.com
An old critical conversation about art as spectacle re-emerged in recent years in terms of "participatory experience." Is this merely shorth
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''Journey Forth''
More considered than many summer group shows, "Journey Forth" reveals how the digital revolution has altered the way we perceive nature, ac
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Isaac Layman
Isaac Layman transmutes quotidian household objects — ice cube trays, stovetops, heating vents — into the stuff of minimalist ep
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Beatriz da Costa
Beatriz da Costa’s video installation “Dying for the Other” is a product of the late artist's battle with cancer. She grab
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Irene Olivieri
Narrative paintings on wood panels by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri are replete with animals, even when it is the artist herself purring out at u
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Stefan Sagmeister
"The Happy Show" actually makes happiness its subject rather than its objective. Still, Stefan Sagmeister's installation is a kick.
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Olga de Amaral
The textiles of Olga de Amaral have the iridescence of moving water, the opulence of precious metal and the delicacy of bird feathers.
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Feibleman / Emmert
Adam Feibleman's spray-enameled urban landscapes are accompanied by stencils. William Emmert's sculptures mimic ordinary studio objects.
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Michael Ottersen
Michael Ottersen's current paintings re-internalize abstraction via the figure to express an intimate and mysterious power.
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Joe Willie Smith
What elevates Joe Willie Smith’s junkyard sculptures from curiosities to objects of admiration is that they are participatory sound sc
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Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon referred to his dark charcoal drawings as "noirs," and indeed they are loaded with melancholy magic.
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Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring.
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Eric Pedersen
Eric Pedersen makes people's faces the dramatic center of interest even - no, especially - when those faces are somnolent.
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Katherine Lee
Meticulous brushwork and intelligently composed scenarios distinguish Katherine Lee's disquieting paintings of "Exteriors."
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Buster Simpson: Surveyor
Buster Simpson's unwieldy and environmentally informed sculpture and performance is at its best outside the museum galleries, but consistent
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Amanda Joseph
The "white trash" female figures of Amanda Elizabeth Joseph are blatant stereotypes that direct us to assess our own preconceptions.
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Arnold Helbling
Arnold Helbling flirts with both abstraction and representation, at times enabling his to merge them together.
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Stefan Kürten
Interior and exterior architectural spaces by Stefan Kürten are abandoned by their inhabitants in a series of moody but luminous painti
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''Links: Australian Glass''
Glass art produced in Australia has been on the radar here since the founding of the Pilchuck Glass School. Color receives less emphasis in
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''Nature Doesn't Knock''
In "Nature Doesn't Knock" eight artists draw on a reference from Emily Dickinson to explore the power of subconscious desires.
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Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring.
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Irene Olivieri
Narrative paintings on wood panels by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri are replete with animals, even when it is the artist herself purring out at u
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Isaac Layman
Isaac Layman transmutes quotidian household objects — ice cube trays, stovetops, heating vents — into the stuff of minimalist ep
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''Desecration''
It has long been common practice that artists tear down the precedents they are most closely wedded to. How refreshing to encounter some who
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Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring.
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Eric Pedersen
Eric Pedersen makes people's faces the dramatic center of interest even - no, especially - when those faces are somnolent.
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Michael Crowder
Michael Crowder transforms an art gallery from a white rectangular box into a cabinet of wonders featuring numerous textured glass butterfli
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Kai & Sunny
Monotone screen prints by British art and design duo Kai and Sunny are complex, elegant echoes of M.C. Escher.
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Stas Orlovski
Stas Orlovski's subtle, minimalist mixed-media works, combine a number of his trademark motifs to conjure up enigmatic enchantment.
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Joseph Kohnke
In "Displacements" Joseph Kohnke brings life to inanimate objects. The works turn on when a viewer walks by sensors that trigger motions.
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A Tale of 3 and 7
Nothing of importance ever happens in years ending in 3 or 7 says James Yood. So here we are in a '3' year, and sure enough its been one of
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Arnold Helbling
Arnold Helbling flirts with both abstraction and representation, at times enabling his to merge them together.
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''Links: Australian Glass''
Glass art produced in Australia receives less emphasis on color in favor of plastic form, along with other differences made apparent in this
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David Kroll
Few artists have mastered the art of still life painting as thoroughly as David Kroll. New works underscore his strengths though they break
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John Divola
The ruins of an abandoned Malibu residence served as John Divola's canvas in a now classic series of 1977-78 that he took "As Far as I Could
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George Herms
Assemblage godfather George Herms' selection of recent and older work expertly and with humor finds beauty in the decrepit.
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Dawoud Bey
The 16th Street Baptists Church bombing of 1963 is the inspiration of Dawoud Bey's series of dignified and powerful portrait diptychs.
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Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views.
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Michael Crowder
Michael Crowder transforms an art gallery from a white rectangular box into a cabinet of wonders featuring numerous textured glass butterfli
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Kai & Sunny
Monotone screen prints by British art and design duo Kai and Sunny are complex, elegant echoes of M.C. Escher.
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Joseph Kohnke
In "Displacements" Joseph Kohnke brings life to inanimate objects. The works turn on when a viewer walks by sensors that trigger motions.
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Nicholas Sistler
The minuscule, flat, pattern-like abstractions of Nicholas Sistler display a narrative bent in works and how they are installed.
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Steven Hull
Steven Hull has fun making art. His works are playful installations with miniature steam engines and marionettes.
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Book-Bound
The non-visual aspects of art have always been a key to enriching visual experience. But in recent decades has the role of theory drained ar
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David Kroll
Few artists have mastered the art of still life painting as thoroughly as David Kroll. New works underscore his strengths though they break
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Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views.
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John Divola
The ruins of an abandoned Malibu residence served as John Divola's canvas in1977/78 series that he took "As Far as I Could Get."
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George Herms
Assemblage godfather George Herms' selection of recent and older work expertly and with humor finds beauty in the decrepit.
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Dawoud Bey
The 16th Street Baptists Church bombing of 1963 is the inspiration of Dawoud Bey's series of dignified and powerful portrait diptychs.
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Mark Hagen
Mark Hagen's Erector Set-like steel towers are clever, ever funny. "Gradient" paintings relate to the towers except from a viewing distance.
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Roxy Paine
Only a pair or works make up Roxy Paine's first Chicago show. But these full on dioramas of a restaurant counter and a control room are jaw
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Ben Butler
Ben Butler allows the accretion of hundreds of simple elements to for irregular and dynamic wholes.
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William Lane
The modestly sized rectilinear abstractions of William Lane make up in the alchemy of color what they lack in spectacle.
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Meow Wolf
Santa Fe based collective Meow Wolf's "Nucleotide" is a creative habitat loaded with colorful outer space and underwater denizens that prove
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Lynn Aldrich
The "Uncommon Objects" of Lynn Aldrich "transforms the known into something curious and unexpected while offering a critical consumerist spi
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Kermit Oliver
Kermit Oliver applies polished representational technique to depictions of animals, portraits and narrative that are just idiosyncratic enou
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Eric Nash
The great historian Lewis Mumford regarded ordinary city signs and commercial structures in terms of "social creativity." Painter Eric Nash
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Modernist Siblings
Matthew Kangas profiles the modernist sculptures commissioned over the last 40 years by the Seattle Arts Commission.
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Ben Butler
Ben Butler allows the accretion of hundreds of simple elements to for irregular and dynamic wholes.
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William Lane
The modestly sized rectilinear abstractions of William Lane make up in the alchemy of color what they lack in spectacle.
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Ed Mieczkowski
A survey of Ed Mieczkowski's focus on the aesthetics of optical perception since the early 1960s reflects both compositional playfulness and
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Jordi Alcaraz
Jordi Alcaraz works in a minimalist vein--sort of. Unfettered imagination and rich associations derive from deliberately self-imposed limita
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Jim Riswold
Clever titles do not guarantee and a good show, but Jim Riswold's "Art for Oncologists" is both well conceived and very personal.
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Dannielle Tegeder
A group of large drawings and a hundred small ones accompanied by computed-generated music add up to Dannielle Tegeder's "Library of Abstrac
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“Slow Read”
in "Slow Read" five painters select books to accompany their bodies of work, providing unusually specific conceptual contexts for viewing ab
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Meow Wolf
Santa Fe based collective Meow Wolf's "Nucleotide" is a creative habitat loaded with colorful outer space and underwater denizens that prove
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Lynn Aldrich
The "Uncommon Objects" of Lynn Aldrich "transforms the known into something curious and unexpected while offering a critical consumerist spi
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Eric Nash
The great historian Lewis Mumford regarded ordinary city signs and commercial structures in terms of "social creativity." Painter Eric Nash
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Modernist Siblings
Matthew Kangas profiles the modernist sculptures commissioned over the last 40 years by the Seattle Arts Commission.
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Leo Vroegindeweij
The Latin "Mutatis Mutandis" phrase translates: "only the necessary changes have been made." In assemblage and inkjet prints Leo Vroegindewe
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William Catling
Through his clay figures William Catling ponders on which side of the divide between earth and heaven most people belong.
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Wary of the Spiritual
Are we strictly thinking and material beings? Betty Ann Brown revisits the impact of the Cartesian tradition on the spiritual impulse in art
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Gaylen Hansen
Folk and regional tropes notwithstanding, Gaylen Hansen's paintings of an atavistic nature are among the best contemporary narrative works.
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Abelardo Morrell
Abelardo Morrell uses rooms as cameras, bringing the outside to the interior. Setting up tents to do the same allows him to record this appr
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Jim Riswold
Clever titles do not guarantee and a good show, but Jim Riswold's "Art for Oncologists" is both well conceived and very personal.
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Without Fear or Favor
For 30 years the "New Art Examiner" was the fiercest voice of iconoclastic art journalism outside of New York, notes former editor James Yoo
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Bicycling Fish
No, Gloria Steinem is not the one said “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Richard Speer shares how he writes.
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Julianne Swartz
Wires and pipes and sticking your head in a funnel opens up the visual and auditory senses in Julianne Swartz' bracing babel of voices, chim
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Alchemy of Ordinary
The range and volume of art in "The Alchemy of the Ordinary" proves an asset in demonstrating the extraordinary elasticity of the collage pr
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"Tapping the Third Realm"
A multi-generational selection of artists map the "Third Realm" in personal, often idiosyncratic ways that would have been incomprehensible
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Mitra Fabian
Mitra Fabian's pod-like forms made of poured white hydro-stone are lightly tethered to a jumble of long, unpainted wooden sticks.
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"Tapping the Third Realm"
A multi-generational selection of artists map the "Third Realm" in personal, often idiosyncratic ways that would have been incomprehensible
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Leon Gaspard
Russian-born Leon Schulman matured as a painter at home, and resettled in Taos on doctor's orders due to wounds sustained in the Great War,
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Jordi Alcaraz
Jordi Alcaraz works in a minimalist vein--sort of. Unfettered imagination and rich associations derive from deliberately self-imposed limita
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Abelardo Morrell
Abelardo Morrell uses rooms as cameras, bringing the outside to the interior. Setting up tents to do the same allows him to record this appr
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William Catling
Through his clay figures William Catling ponders on which side of the divide between earth and heaven most people belong.
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Lucinda Parker
"All clouds choose the loftiest peak to pile themselves upon" entitles Lucinda Parker's series starring Oregon's iconic Mount Hood.
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Danto's Divine Comedy
DeWitt Cheng notes, with the recent passing of philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto, the writer's graceful style that mostly eschewed did
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Sam Francis
This in-depth survey of Sam Francis' career encompasses even his early landscapes and runs through his final works.
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Margaret Lazzari
Margaret Lazzari departs, for the most part, from the figurative work we know her for in favor of more abstract work that expresses fresh jo
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Susan kae Grant
Science and art make happy bedfellows in Susan kae Grant's "Night Journeys," which record the whispers and fuzzy thinking of her recorded dr
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Richard Morhous
His early training in graphic design and printmaking is quite visible, to uneven effect, in paintings that at their best combine structure a
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David Rudolph
For David Rudolph the process from abstraction to figuration is unforeseen “… without knowing what I was creating ... something
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Anne Hirondelle
Seriality and deconstruction of curved and circular forms are central to Anne Hirondelle’s ceramic forms and works on paper.
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Brian Wills
Rayon thread in the role of formalist stripes play against dimensional wood panels from which Brian Wills draws ingenious effects.
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Reflections on Collecting
Some people just cannot help but collect; Matthew Kangas calls it the "collector gene," and it can be wonderfully contagious - even to those
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Liliana Porter
Early works by Liliana Porter display a surpassing contrast to her best known work for their conceptualism and austerity.
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Paul Sietsema
Paul Sietsema's trompe l'oeil works on paper, sculpture and on 16mm film democratize the histories of the various assembled subjects.
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“Face to Face”
With just 35 paintings and illuminated manuscript illustrations, “Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting,” p
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Margaret Lazzari
Margaret Lazzari departs, for the most part, from the figurative work we know her for in favor of more abstract work that expresses fresh jo
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"Flesh and Metal"
“Flesh and Metal“ is a cross-section of modernist reconciliation between art and mechanization.
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Norton Wisdom
This survey of mostly paintings by Norton Wisdom curated by fellow artist Llyn Foulkes builds endlessly on a basic illusion of three-dimensi
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Anne Appleby
Anne Appleby's green rectangles conjure a verdant, eco-minimalist updating of Robert Ryman with a specific reference to the Montana landscap
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To Fee or Not to Fee
James Yood illuminates museum admission rates; even today not all charge. The revenue is well deserved - but it is the right thing?
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Liliana Porter
Early works by Liliana Porter display a surpassing contrast to her best known work for their conceptualism and austerity.
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“Face to Face”
With just 35 paintings and illuminated manuscript illustrations, “Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting,” p
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Dale Chihuly
"Rotolo" means "coils," and they are as abstract as any work Dale Chihuly has done. Color is sparse, transparency rules.
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Stephen Beal
The modestly-sized grid paintings of Stephen Beal, with their multiple. spatial layers, make a compelling case for the thing itself.
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Beth Secor
After a show focused on her elderly father, Beth Secor now turns her attention to her mother, turning possessions into both art and tribute.
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Carson Fisk-Vittori
In “Women Weed and Weather,” Carson Fisk-Vittori the femininity is false, the flora is artificial and nature is powerless.
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Gisela Colon
Gisela Colon's smooth and luminous sculptures tell us that something is germinating inside their iridescent interiors.
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Norton Wisdom
This survey of mostly paintings by Norton Wisdom curated by fellow artist Llyn Foulkes builds endlessly on a basic illusion of three-dimensi
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"Flesh and Metal"
“Flesh and Metal“ is a cross-section of modernist reconciliation between art and mechanization.
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Requiem by a Teacher's Pet
Already an art world anomaly, Gary Baseman attempts a reverse transmogrification of his whimsical cartoon style to a vehicle honoring resist
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Norman Kelley
The Norman Kelley design collaborative takes on the venerable Windsor style chair. They retain details of authentic Windsor fabrication to p
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The Capital of Art
A lot of folks bellyache about Art Basel Miami Beach. Four days loaded with art and art people all over the place? C'mon, says Richard Spee
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Ellen Tanner
Ellen Tanner brings together her own take on Aesop's Fables with the fine detail and glaze-over-grisaille ground favored by Renaissance-era
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Christa Assad
Based on the technical conventions of pottery, Christa Assad exhibits the implements of war to address the sad persistence of civil violence
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Colin Cochran
The outdoor subjects of Colin Cochran minimize the quantity of brushwork to extract the visceral potential of paint.
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Karen Carson
Gestural master of large, swooping brushwork Karen Carson transforms depictions of farm tractors into a meditation on landscape and culture.
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Christa Assad
Based on the technical conventions of pottery, Christa Assad exhibits the implements of war to address the sad persistence of civil violence
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Chihulyland
Dale Chihuly has not been a central figure in the glass art movement forever, but to many it may seem that way. The Chihuly Garden and Glass
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Wayne Thiebaud
Despite his deserved association with the emergence of Pop Art, Wayne Thiebaud is seen here as an exponent of painterly structure and form b
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"Renaissance to Goya"
This selection from the British Museum provides insight into the motivations and intents of some of Europe's most influential masters.
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"Latin American Group Show"
Hardly a survey, the selection of Latin American artists here complement one another in ways that offer challenges to current art practice.
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Bloomfield & Churchill
Oral histories and ambient sound are integral to the photography of both Debra Bloomfield and Christopher Churchill.
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David Adey
Self-imposed limits given David Adey's studio practice, and the elaborate results prove both playful and offbeat.
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James Martin
Merging comics and cartoon with surprising composition and painterly effect, James Martin, now 85, retains an impressive sense of improbabil
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Kaori Takamura
The orderliness and conformity of patchwork quilts gets turned on its head in the paintings of Kaori Takamura.
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D.J. Hall
We know D.J. Hall for her blissed out depictions of SoCal glamor girls. But these "Into Plein Air" paintings invite an aesthetic re-evaluati
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Kelly Moran
Kelly Moran evokes memories of a happy 50's era childhood with paper doll and media references that don't require your having been there.
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Leon Kossoff
A gloom-ridden London is a subject that Leon Kossoff has returned to frequently and energetically over the past half-century. But the monoc
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Dale Chihuly
"Rotolo" means "coils," and they are as abstract as any work Dale Chihuly has done. Color is sparse, transparency rules.
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Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli enlists seemingly every media option imaginable to create a visual thrill. It's quite a ride.
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Daniel Healey
Working with shredded bits of magazine catalogues that are laminated with ultra-transparent tape, Daniel Healey are chaotic yet purposeful.
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Phil Stern
Phil Stern has recorded the faces of show biz since approximately forever, specializing in “his subjects’ hat-cocked complicity
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Andrea Bowers
"#sweetjane" revisits the scene of an Ohio rape committed by members of a popular local high school football team. Andrea Bowers' project is
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Opportunity or Corruption?
There is nothing wrong with self interest and the profit motive existing in the art world. But it's a shame to see talented artists being re
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"Unveiled: Nudes"
"Unveiled: Nudes" offers a thoughtful mix of eight artists divided between those already canonized in modernist history and a selection of c
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Freddy Chandra
Lovers of understated form as a carrier of complex emotional and intellectual freight should not miss the art of Freddy Chandra
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Faith Wilding
Known for her groundbreaking oeuvre as a second-wave feminist artist, this retrospective of Faith Wilding's pseudo-scientific imagery is pun
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Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock's extensive body of conceptual drawings is sampled in “Some Stories are Worth Repeating.” They form the compelling
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Wayne Thiebaud
Despite his deserved association with the emergence of Pop Art, Wayne Thiebaud is seen here as an exponent of painterly structure and form b
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"Latin American Group Show"
Hardly a survey, the selection of Latin American artists here complement one another in ways that offer challenges to current art practice.
more...
David Adey
Self-imposed limits given David Adey's studio practice, and the elaborate results prove both playful and offbeat.
more...
James Martin
Merging comics and cartoon with surprising composition and painterly effect, James Martin, now 85, retains an impressive sense of improbabil
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Leon Kossoff
A gloom-ridden London is a subject that Leon Kossoff has returned to frequently and energetically over the past half-century. But the monoc
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Daniel Healey
Working with shredded bits of magazine catalogues that are laminated with ultra-transparent tape, Daniel Healey are chaotic yet purposeful.
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Phil Stern
Phil Stern has recorded the faces of show biz since approximately forever, specializing in “his subjects’ hat-cocked complicity
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Andrea Bowers
"#sweetjane" revisits the scene of an Ohio rape committed by members of a popular local high school football team. Andrea Bowers' project is
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Cable Griffith
The style of video games may be painter Cable Griffith's taking off point, but there is so much more: traffic sign code, ancient petroglyphs
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Heather Mekkelson
Playful in spirit, Heather Mekkelson's sleek installations are rich media stews preoccupied with outer space.
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Andrew Hayes
Andrew Hayes repurposes the printed pages of books for sculpture that display both wit and craft.
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Zimoun
The sound of one of Zimoun’s installations is the multitude of many identical noises such at raindrops or typewriters that is a music
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Faith Wilding
Known for her groundbreaking oeuvre as a second-wave feminist artist, this retrospective of Faith Wilding's pseudo-scientific imagery is pun
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Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock's extensive body of conceptual drawings is sampled in “Some Stories are Worth Repeating.” They form the compelling
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"Unveiled: Nudes"
"Unveiled: Nudes" offers a thoughtful mix of eight artists divided between those already canonized in modernist history and a selection of c
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Nick Albertson
Pattern-based and monochromatic, Nick Albertson’s images initially appears to be abstractions. But they are in fact carefully staged
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Fernando Casas
Fernando Casas is both artist and philosopher, and has explored speculative questions in his images for over 40 years.
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Zoe Dusanne
A new biography restores Seattle dealer Zoe Dusanne as a key player in the Pacific Northwest post-war art scene. She was the first to exhibi
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Frank E. Cummings III
This survey shows that some of the most detailed and delicate wood work in recent decades has come from the studio of Frank E. Cummings III.
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Jane Lindsay
For "From the Outside In" Jane Lindsay taught inmates to draw, interviewed them, and then brought out her camera. This is the result.
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Cable Griffith
The style of video games may be painter Cable Griffith's taking off point, but there is so much more: traffic sign code, ancient petroglyphs
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Heather Mekkelson
Playful in spirit, Heather Mekkelson's sleek installations are rich media stews preoccupied with outer space.
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Zimoun
The sound of one of Zimoun’s installations is the multitude of many identical noises such at raindrops or typewriters that is a music
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"Surface Tension"
The three artists in “Surface Tension” - Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Gwendolyn Blunkett and Jon Lee - all work in multiple layers,
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"Self(ie) Portraits"
"Self(i.e.) Portraits" explores new meanings of self image wrought by social media and the rise of the selfie.
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Inappropriate Behavior
DeWitt Cheng sees the coverage of the recent smashing of a Han Dynasty vase decorated by Ai Weiwei as signifying the disconnect that has ari
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Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré's new venture into ceramics outshine the drawn animation frames, but the completed animations mesmerize.
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Opportunity or Corruption?
There is nothing wrong with self interest and the profit motive existing in the art world. But it's a shame to see talented artists being re
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Rory Devine
Rory Devine sources numerous images from Google searches to produce paintings that covey a melancholic nostalgia laced with irony.
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Michael Madzo
There is an air of nostalgic calm to Michael Madzo’s surrealist collage paintings that is familiar yet mysterious, comforting yet unse
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Why Paint?
OK, we live in a digital world. But I am continually drawn to images that aren't generated on the flickering screen but by a hand of a paint
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C. L. Utley
Playful and mysterious, C.L. Utley's paintings reveal worlds with completely persuasive yet wildly irrational images.
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Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen specializes in photographing the physical, geographical and ideological sites and boundaries that divide us.
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"Self(ie) Portraits"
"Self(i.e.) Portraits" explores new meanings of self image wrought by social media and the rise of the selfie.
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Inappropriate Behavior
DeWitt Cheng sees the coverage of the recent smashing of a Han Dynasty vase decorated by Ai Weiwei as signifying the disconnect that has ari
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Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré's new venture into ceramics outshine the drawn animation frames, but the completed animations mesmerize.
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Zoe Dusanne
A new biography restores Seattle dealer Zoe Dusanne as a key player in the Pacific Northwest post-war art scene. She was the first to exhibi
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Jane Lindsay
For "From the Outside In" Jane Lindsay taught inmates to draw, interviewed them, and then brought out her camera. This is the result.
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Frank E. Cummings III
This survey shows that some of the most detailed and delicate wood work in recent decades has come from the studio of Frank E. Cummings III.
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Nick Albertson
Pattern-based and monochromatic, Nick Albertson’s images initially appears to be abstractions. But they are in fact carefully staged
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A Lad's Disdain
That MCA Chicago is making a big deal of its upcoming "David Bowie Is" show is a misguided effort to broaden their constituency.
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Kara Walker
Above and beyond its historical and sociocultural resonance, there are many reasons for the enduring appeal of Kara Walker.
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Camille Patha
Camille Patha grew up in an era of sexist adversity to become one of the Northwest's leading painters of both abstract and representational
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Why Paint?
OK, we live in a digital world. But I am continually drawn to images that aren't generated on the flickering screen but by a hand of a paint
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Michael Madzo
There is an air of nostalgic calm to Michael Madzo’s surrealist collage paintings that is familiar yet mysterious, comforting yet unse
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Ray Eames
Ray Eames is properly associated with her husband and collaborator Charles Eames, but she was more the artist.
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What is an Art Critic?
How we regard the art critic has evolved in recent years such that the notion of an authoritative voice for art has come under fire.
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Darrel Morris
"...waiting for nothin'" takes us from textile artist Darrel Morris' intensely personal early work to the more universal concerns that now o
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Ryan Reggiani
Whatever Ryan Reggiani's sculptural objects may resemble, he will confound what you know and expect.
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A Lad's Disdain
That MCA Chicago is making a big deal of its upcoming "David Bowie Is" show is a misguided effort to broaden their constituency.
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Camille Patha
Camille Patha grew up in an era of sexist adversity to become one of the Northwest's leading painters of both abstract and representational
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Kathryn Arnold
Kathryn Arnold’s colorful fields of markings hover between abstraction and a covert representation which includes recognizable objects
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Suzanne Anker
Suzanne Anker's art encompasses biology and technology in radical ways to dazzle the eye and embrace unexpected consequences.
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Mike Rea
Taking ordinary cuts of lumber Mike Rea constructs, more or less, a movie set made entirely of wood.
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Susan Sironi
Using scissors, scalpels and books, Susan Sironi performs artistic alchemy that transforms books into astonishing 3-D curiosities.
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Mother of Northwest Art
The wife of Seattle's then most celebrated artist, art critic and curator, Margaret Bundy Callahan was a top flight writer in her own right-
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Ray Eames
Ray Eames is properly associated with her husband and collaborator Charles Eames, but she was more the artist.
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What is an Art Critic?
How we regard the art critic has evolved in recent years such that the notion of an authoritative voice for art has come under fire.
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William Ivey
The art of the late William Ivey, a classmate Diebenkorn and Lobdell, and student of Still and Rothko, is probably more discussed now than d
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Paul Nudd
If distorted figuration is a special Chicago tradition, the "gross out" calibre paintings of Paul Nudd are the purist Chicago.
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The Smell of Paint
CalArts was originally Chouinard, and along with Otis College, observes Peter Clothier, these private art schools went through near simultan
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Daniela Edburg
They at first appear to be lovely and prosaic, but Daniela Edburg's "Killing Time" photographs quickly take on a heavier, even ominous tone.
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Mike Kelley
There was almost nothing that the late Mike Kelley was afraid to try and subject himself or his viewer's to. This massive retrospective is c
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Mother of Northwest Art
The wife of Seattle's then most celebrated artist, art critic and curator, Margaret Bundy Callahan was a top flight writer in her own right-
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Suzanne Anker
Suzanne Anker's art encompasses biology and technology in radical ways to dazzle the eye and embrace unexpected consequences.
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Keith Carter
Keith Carter’s new photographs from the series “Ghostland” are moody, mysterious and often as murky as the East Texas swam
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Shane McAdams
When Shane McAdams invokes "Scorched Earth" as an exhibition title he references more than just a strategy of war.
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A Curatorial Triptych
Among curators, David S. Rubin is among those most regarded as devoted to artists. Here he sheds light on how the aesthetic thinking of arti
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Martin Facey
Though versed in the varieties of current artistic expression, Martin Facey mostly sticks with the old-school religion of modernist abstract
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Roberto Gil de Montes
Longtime L.A. resident Roberto Gil de Montes invokes memories of early childhood in Mexico--Orozco murals, the symbolism of the Pre-Columbia
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Mike Kelley
There was almost nothing that the late Mike Kelley was afraid to try and subject himself or his viewer's to. This massive retrospective is c
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The Smell of Paint
CalArts was originally Chouinard, and along with Otis College, observes Peter Clothier, these private art schools went through near simultan
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William Ivey
The art of the late William Ivey, a classmate Diebenkorn and Lobdell, and student of Still and Rothko, is probably more discussed now than d
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Sultan and Mandel
Dating from the late 1970s, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's collaboration, once subversive, remains as endearingly perverse as ever.
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Debra Baxter
Enigmatic, ambiguous surrealist-inspired abstract objects by Debra Baxter defy conventional sculptural categories.
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Eric Kasper
Children may appear in much of Eric Kasper's work, but that hardly means that his moody narrative themes are kid friendly.
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A Curatorial Triptych
Among curators, David S. Rubin is among those most regarded as devoted to artists. Here he sheds light on how the aesthetic thinking of arti
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Roberto Gil de Montes
Longtime L.A. resident Roberto Gil de Montes invokes memories of early childhood in Mexico--Orozco murals, the symbolism of the Pre-Columbia
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Martin Facey
Though versed in the varieties of current artistic expression, Martin Facey mostly sticks with the old-school religion of modernist abstract
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Pablo Helguera
Best known for his conceptual project “The School of Panamerican Unrest,” for which he organized a schoolhouse on wheels to driv
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Mary Lou Zelazny
Among the best at intertwining painting and collage, Mary Lou Zelazny's current work is explosive and self-reflexive.
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“The Armory Show”
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Art originated as a contemporary alternative to the more commercial offerings of local galleries. The ori
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Chris Engman
Intellectual yet hypnotically beautiful, Chris Engman’s images carry photography into worlds that by turns disorient, please and frust
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Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin makes incursions into modes of historical narrative art to both revive and critique the interpretation of stories we only thou
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Debra Baxter
Enigmatic, ambiguous surrealist-inspired abstract objects by Debra Baxter defy conventional sculptural categories.
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Manuel Neri
Now 84, Manuel Neri explores the "partial figure" with virtuoso technique, psychological insight, sensuality and power.
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Shepard Fairey
Shephard Fairey owns a 45 rpm cut in 1978 by Little Roger and the Goosebumps that became the basis for contemporary DJ-ing--not to mention f
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Q and A
For James Yood it remains a nettlesome question whether an artist is less consequential because they do not work out of New York.
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Ben Murray
If large scale and grand gesture are typically associated with the heroic and the tragic, Ben Murray manages to turn those traits into somet
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"Nur: Light"
The Arabic word for "light," Nur, lends itself to the title of a gathering of Islamic treasures that mainly reflect the mature skills of a m
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“The Armory Show”
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Art originated as a contemporary alternative to the more commercial offerings of local galleries. The ori
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Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin makes incursions into modes of historical narrative art to both revive and critique the interpretation of stories we only thou
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Chris Engman
Intellectual yet hypnotically beautiful, Chris Engman’s images carry photography into worlds that by turns disorient, please and frust
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Sarah Knobel
Sarah Knobel freezes feathers, wigs, toys in gelatin molds, allows them to thaw, and photographs them as they melt, exposing the contents to
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John Singer Sargent
Initially private works, watercolors became an exceedingly vital part of John Singer Sargent's body of work, which the selections here demon
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Spring Salons in Seattle
May is Seattle is known as the season of the double rainbows that span maybe ten miles within the city. New sources of artistic life are per
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William H. Johnson
After two decades spent absorbing international and modernist styles, William Johnson returned to New York to mine his African-American root
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Tim Ebner
Stuffed and embroidered, sumptuous and loopy, Tim Ebner's fish suspended or mounted atop metal rods call up lush Victorian-era curtains and
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Q and A
For James Yood it remains a nettlesome question whether an artist is less consequential because they do not work out of New York.
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"Nur: Light"
"Nur," Arabic "light," lends itself to the title of a gathering of Islamic treasures that reflect the mature skills of a major civilization.
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Shepard Fairey
Shephard Fairey owns a 45 rpm cut in 1978 by Little Roger and the Goosebumps that became the basis for contemporary DJ-ing--not to mention f
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Janet Lippincott
Active in Santa Fe as one of the New Mexico Modernists for half a century, the late Janet Lippincott receives her due and returns it in this
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The Sarkisians
Paul and Peter Sarkisian, father and son, make art that is visually distinct, but connected by a tromp l'oeil element in both bodies of work
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Defining the Critic
In his latest response to Irving Sandler's 14 questions to fellow critics, DeWitt Cheng notes that there is a constant process of adaptation
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Christina Mackie
Christina Mackie's color investigations are material rather than conceptual, experiential rather than formal.
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Hayley Barker
In "Apparition Hill" Hayley Barker renders an explicitly mystical brand of solar phenomenon.
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Koji Takei
Koji Takei's high-relief wall sculptures of musical instruments are directly inspired by the classic Cubism of Picasso and Braque as well as
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John Singer Sargent
Initially private works, watercolors became an exceedingly vital part of John Singer Sargent's body of work, which the selections here demon
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Tim Ebner
Stuffed and embroidered, sumptuous and loopy, Tim Ebner's fish suspended or mounted atop metal rods call up lush Victorian-era curtains and
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Gugger Petter
Gugger Petter takes newspaper and paint into the territory of medieval mosaics, Julian Schnabel's broken crockery and more.
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Melinda Stickney-Gibson
Melinda Stickney-Gibson heads to the mountains of upstate New York to paint, and the dramatic contrasts in her work stand in for that betwee
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The Second Triptych
David S. Rubin continues his tracing the process of museum curating with his "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" show.
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Michal Rovner
Rovner's video projections juxtapose a progression of silhouettes against a barren landscape. The repetition of simple forms leisurely cycl
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Douglas Cooper
He may not be a Seattle resident, but Douglas Cooper's conflated portraits of the city are among the best ever.
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Yarn Bombing L.A.
Yarn Bombing of Los Angeles, since 2010 actively crafting installations, is full of bracing and rebellious optimism.
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Defining the Critic
In his latest response to Irving Sandler's 14 questions to fellow critics, DeWitt Cheng notes that there is a constant process of adaptation
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The Sarkisians
Paul and Peter Sarkisian, father and son, make art that is visually distinct, but connected by a tromp l'oeil element in both bodies of work
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Emily Mason
Octogenarian Emily Mason juicy abstractions are wantonly unpredictable arrangements of Kool-Aid pinks and foamy blues.
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Zack Wirsum
Zack Wirsum's notoriously complex paintings will use five lines where another artist would use one. These are labyrinths of twisting, layere
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Jaime Scholnick
Jaime Scholnick translates awkward polystyrene packaging passed to her by family and friends to evoke architectural monuments.
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Rose Cabat
Pick up one of Rose Cabat's diminutive vases, what she calls "feelies." This still active centenerian's glazes have the feel of goatskin sue
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Sara Rockinger
An installation of translucent, ghostlike figures is not only pleasurable eye candy, but a powerful political statement on the subject of im
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of figures from wax museums and taxidermy specimens convey exceptional enigma and mystery.
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Yuko Someya
Beautiful and deliberate floral paintings by Yuko Someya are inspired by Japanese literature and, more importantly, their exotic fairy tale
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The Second Triptych
David S. Rubin continues his tracing the process of museum curating with his "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" show.
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Douglas Cooper
He may not be a Seattle resident, but Douglas Cooper's conflated portraits of the city are among the best ever.
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Jay Giroux
Stare at Jay Giroux' paintings for awhile and all the abstract black and white layers will reveal plenty to see and engage.
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Ed Moses and Larry Poons
Pairing Ed Moses and Larry Poons matters simply because it places side by side two of our best living painters who are linked by the languag
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A Real Whodunit
For nearly a century "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" was among the Art Institute of Chicago's most beloved masterworks. Suddenly that all
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“Deco Japan: 1925-1945”
Because it was so tainted politically, the exhibition "Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture 1925-1945" is only now possible.
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Bill Owens
Bill Owens’ “Surburbia” is a series of black-and-white portraits of housing tract Northern California families taken betwe
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McArthur Binion
McArthur Binion is a native of rural Mississippi who became the Cranbrook Academy's first African American MFA recipient, and who now is enj
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Rose Cabat
Pick up one of Rose Cabat's diminutive vases, what she calls "feelies." This still active centenerian's glazes have the feel of goatskin sue
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Sara Rockinger
An installation of translucent, ghostlike figures is not only pleasurable eye candy, but a powerful political statement on the subject of im
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Sean Healy
In "Extroverts" Sean Healy stares down contemporary masculinity through such motifs as a cigarette--not as a subject but as a drawing tool.
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June Wayne
A new survey of June Wayne's varied career focuses on her achievements in lithography, but not to the exclusion of so much more.
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Corinne Chaix
In "Submerged" surrealist Corinne Chaix draws your attention to a topsy-turvy world right around the corner.
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Shan Goshorn
Native American artist Shan Goshorn weaves what at first appears to be traditional Cherokee baskets--but they are far from that.
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“Vanishing Points"
Art photography, photo journalism and advocacy blend into a compelling photo show "Vanishing Points" that features work by Sant Khalsa, Step
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Ed Moses and Larry Poons
Pairing Ed Moses and Larry Poons matters simply because it places side by side two of our best living painters who are linked by the languag
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A Real Whodunit
For nearly a century "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" was among the Art Institute of Chicago's most beloved masterworks. Suddenly that all
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"Surface to Air”
“Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the Sixties and the Materials That They Used” may be the first show to contextualize how
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Modernism in the Northwest
"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest" presents a canon of greatest hits with new accessions bound to become iconic pictures themselves.
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Dan Attoe
Dan Attoe makes a drawing each day, and the examples showcased in this show counterbalance lowbrow-style pictorial imagery with enigmatic, b
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Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's impulsively provocative approach to figurative art can be seen in these watercolors and sculptures. What surprises is that to
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“Vanishing Points”
Art photography, photo journalism and advocacy blend into a compelling photo show "Vanishing Points" that features work by Sant Khalsa, Step
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Sean Healy
In "Extroverts" Sean Healy stares down contemporary masculinity through such motifs as a cigarette--not as a subject but as a drawing tool.
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June Wayne
A new survey of June Wayne's varied career focuses on her achievements in lithography, but not to the exclusion of so much more.
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Sullied by Celebrity
Celebrities who engage in visual art do themselves a disservice when they dabble and galleries that should know better indulge their lust fo
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"Parallel Myths"
The figure is a point of reference for the four artists in the exhibition "Parallel Myths," but each has their own distinctive result.
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Rex Brandt
Rex Brandt specialized in watercolors and California light. This retrospective revives our appreciation for his obsessive interest in sea an
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Terrell James
Terrell James' "Box Drawings" stand out among the jauntily rhythmic compositions that integrate foreground and background.
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Marc Dombrosky
In a provocatively divided show Marc Dombrosky embroiders discarded handwritten notes; and crafts sculptures that are sly and hilarious.
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Matthew Rolston
Originally a Warhol protégé who is regarded as a leading Hollywood glamour photographer, Matthew Rolston's "Talking Heads" are
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Josef Hoflenhner
Maho Beach on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean is positioned adjacent to an airport. Josef Hoflenher does the rest.
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Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's impulsively provocative approach to figurative art can be seen in these watercolors and sculptures. What surprises is that to
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Modernism in the Northwest
"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest" presents a canon of greatest hits with new accessions bound to become iconic pictures themselves.
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Rex Brandt
Rex Brandt specialized in watercolors and California light. This retrospective revives our appreciation for his obsessive interest in sea an
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Sullied by Celebrity
Celebrities who engage in visual art do themselves a disservice when they dabble and galleries that should know better indulge their lust fo
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Jerry Uelsmann
You would think that these surrealist photomontages by Jerry Uelsmann were adeptly Photoshopped. Boy, would you be wrong.
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David Hockney
The iPad based Yorkshire landscapes of David Hockney distill a lifetime of experimentation that makes full use of the European art canon.
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Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka's photographs of Czech resistance to the 1968 Soviet invasion made him an exile--and secured his well deserved fame as an obs
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Marc Dombrosky
In a provocatively divided show Marc Dombrosky embroiders discarded handwritten notes; and crafts sculptures that are sly and hilarious.
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Nancy Popp
Nancy Popp scales walls or climbs poles, cascading her body up, down and across architectural spaces. Her movement is recorded through video
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John Gossage
The 'photographic distractions' of John Gossage feature interplay between the photographic image and cut-paper elements.
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Miller & Shellabarger
Miller & Shellabarger is a husband-and-husband artist duo known for their collaborative works that address their lives as a couple.
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David Hockney
The iPad based Yorkshire landscapes of David Hockney distill a lifetime of experimentation that makes full use of the European art canon.
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John Altoon
This look at the too-short career of John Altoon stacks his classic spontaneous gestural abstract against his earlier figurative painting.
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“Temporal Domain”
"Temporal Domain” is made up of a roster of blue-chip artists whose work has little in common formally but does share an underlying to
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"Measurable Inconsistencies"
In the hands of Richard Blackwell, Cole Pierce, and Zin Helena Song the practice of geometric abstraction is shown to retain a capacity for
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The New Interactivity
Influenced by rapidly evolving digital technologies, many artists have become attracted to new interactive possibilities.
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Yoshitomo Saito
Yoshitomo Saito uses mimesis creatively and magically, a key to which is his full embrace of the Italian investment method of bronze casting
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Ross Palmer Beecher
Ross Palmer Beecher's cut-and-woven recycled metal quilts are an utterly unique amalgam of folk art, Pop Art and social-political art.
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Auguste Rodin
When Auguste Rodin drew on paper his powerful hands carved form in space as if manipulating pliant clay or obdurate stone.
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Abigail McLaurin
Family scenes based on period snapshots from the immediate post-WW II era provide ample source material for Abigail McLaurin's energetic can
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Christopher Benson
Paintings quiet interiors and desolate street scenes by Christopher Benson squeeze out narrative and expression in favor of crisp, clear for
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A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which
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Nancy Popp
Nancy Popp scales walls or climbs poles, cascading her body up, down and across architectural spaces. Her movement is recorded through video
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The New Interactivity
Influenced by rapidly evolving digital technologies, many artists have become attracted to new interactive possibilities.
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James Ensor
James Ensor had two brilliant careers, first as an avant-garde Realist and then as a forerunner of modern Expressionism.
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Ilona Pachler
Two major events, both floods of historic proportions, anchor Ilona Pachler's look at memory's fleeting nature.
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Bill Braun
What looks like cute little paper cut-out folk collages by Bill Braun are in fact meticulously rendered paintings that creates palpable tens
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Alan Sekula
"Ship of Fools," Alan Sekula's last series, are maritime images of docked ships and dockworkers that reflect themes of labor, transport and
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For Whom I Write
In his continuing commentary of Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng suggests who writers write for is less important than what shoul
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Ross Palmer Beecher
Ross Palmer Beecher's cut-and-woven recycled metal quilts are an utterly unique amalgam of folk art, Pop Art and social-political art.
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A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which
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Auguste Rodin
When Auguste Rodin drew on paper his powerful hands carved form in space as if manipulating pliant clay or obdurate stone.
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Klingbiel and Somers
Karl Klingbiel presents seemingly windblown abstract paintings; together with Marti Somers' collaged imagery immersed in encaustic.
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"Made in L.A."
"Made in L.A." is the Hammer Museum's biennial nod to what is hot, new, trendy and not to be missed in Los Angeles. Strong threads of perso
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Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, located in Norfolk, England shares selections from Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Master paintings and decorative art
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Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas’ new sculpture is for the proletariat: the collection of works make for an upbeat collection of industry meets art.
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Lucy + Jorge Orta
Lucy and Jorge Orta's collaborative projects encompass design, architecture, couture and a research organization.
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Remembering China (Part 1)
Mathew Kangas' visit to China 22 years ago let a lasting impression both for the centerpiece Kazuaki Kita exhibition and the surrounding dip
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James Ensor
James Ensor had two brilliant careers, first as an avant-garde Realist and then as a forerunner of modern Expressionism.
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For Whom I Write
In his continuing commentary of Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng suggests who writers write for is less important than what shoul
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Bill Braun
What looks like cute little paper cut-out folk collages by Bill Braun are in fact meticulously rendered paintings that creates palpable tens
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Ron Weil and William Schwob
Nice pairing here. Ron Weil makes virtuosic drawings in powdered charcoal, achieving complex textural effects. William Schwob’s attenu
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May Sun
May Sun’s installations and public art projects are research driven and site inspired. In humanizing the built environment her works a
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David Geiser
In “Oceanic," David Geiser's signature ultramarines appear in judicious patches, permitting a porousness that evokes sea sponges.
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Honor the Wanderjahre
James Yood's real New Year is the start of the school year, and he serves a reminder of the special calling and challenge of choosing art.
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Hiroshi Yamano
Much of Hiroshi Yamano’s reputation is based on variations of blown-glass vases decorated with fish. His new work mostly dispenses wi
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Roberto Fabelo
New to Los Angeles, Cuban artist Robert Fabelo's strong figurative imagery memorably evokes the best magical realism.
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Rob and Nick Carter
Rob and Nick Carter update, even revitalize Old Master imagery by re-framing references in a subtly moving video format.
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Klingbiel and Somers
Karl Klingbiel presents seemingly windblown abstract paintings; together with Marti Somers' collaged imagery immersed in encaustic.
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Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, located in Norfolk, England shares selections from Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Master paintings and decorative art
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Lucy + Jorge Orta
Lucy and Jorge Orta's collaborative projects encompass design, architecture, couture and a research organization.
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Honor the Wanderjahre
James Yood's real New Year is the start of the school year, and he serves a reminder of the special calling and challenge of choosing art.
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May Sun
May Sun’s installations and public art projects are research driven and site inspired. In humanizing the built environment her works a
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Florence Miller Pierce
Resin, Plexiglas and pigment coalesce into a luminous minimalism in Florence Miller Pierce's contributions to the Transcendental Painting Gr
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Evan Blackwell
Evan Blackwell builds his abstract geometric objects element by element from a variety of construction materials and tools.
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Bludgeoned by Beauty
On a recent trip through the far northwest of Canada and Alaska Richard Speer found himself comparing his direct encounter with nature with
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Minoru Ohira
Sculpture and wall pieces composed of salvaged construction materials by Minoru Ohira are both intuitive and whimsical.
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Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards' paintings are polished, clear and simple. But they are informed by a complex menu of art history, politics and much more.
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Pepe Mar
An astonishing 16th-century sculpture garden in northern Italy populated by monstrous, larger-than-life figures and surreal structures inspi
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Roberto Fabelo
New to Los Angeles, Cuban artist Robert Fabelo's strong figurative imagery memorably evokes the best magical realism.
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Hiroshi Yamano
Much of Hiroshi Yamano’s reputation is based on variations of blown-glass vases decorated with fish. His new work mostly dispenses wi
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Margaret Wharton
Margaret Wharton's use of re-purposed objects, especially chairs, carved out a unique place in the Chicago Imagist movement dating to the 19
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Dario Robleto
Dario Robleto’s interest in a wide range of topics is reflected in complex constructions and thought-provoking wall pieces.
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Remembering China (Part 2)
The second part of Matthew Kangas account of his 1992 participation in a Beijing exhibition that helped establish friendly cultural relation
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John Santoro
Referring to himself as an Abstract Post-Impressionist, John Santoro deploys churning vortices of impasto that are spontaneous and playful.
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Ruth Asawa
During a brief fellowship at the Tamarind Workshop in 1965 Ruth Asawa produced 54 editions, 23 of which are included in a show that draws a
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Evan Blackwell
Evan Blackwell builds his abstract geometric objects element by element from a variety of construction materials and tools.
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Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards' paintings are polished, clear and simple. But they are informed by a complex menu of art history, politics and much more.
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Roberto Chavez
This retrospective of pioneer Chicano artist Roberto Chavez shows him to be a vigorous painter and mentor.
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Sherrie Wolf
Sherrie Wolf's opulent tableaux of flowers and vessels here provide the foreground to painted reproductions of iconic art historical images.
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David Johns
David Johns' deploys Navajo visual--and linguistic--idioms to enliven abstract paintings that visually oscillate with spiritual energy.
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Bludgeoned by Beauty
On a recent trip through the far northwest of Canada and Alaska Richard Speer found himself comparing his direct encounter with nature with
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“Intimate Horizons”
Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu’s "Intimate Horizons" is a visually dynamic and architecturally responsive installation full of huge
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Giuseppe Penone
Trees fascinate Giuseppe Penone: their form, growth and decay. He projects our being into theirs through sculpture and other media.
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Kirk Pedersen
An eye for the ordinary positions Kirk Pedersen as a curator of the commonplace, an observer of the unnoticed.
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Paul Metivier
In an uneven mix of works, Paul Metivier does show a particular affinity for symbolic, socially rooted subject matter.
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Jason Middlebrook
In "There is a map in every tree" Jason Middlebrook beautifully integrates intricate line work with the grain of wood planks. But he then ab
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Ruth Asawa
During a brief fellowship at the Tamarind Workshop in 1965 Ruth Asawa produced 54 editions, 23 of which are included in a show that draws a
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Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger brings a different kind of Asian aesthetic influence into the layered surfaces of her distinctively colored paintings, the nih
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Wendy Given
Gaelic motifs meet the Columbia River Gorge. Decay and death permeate Wendy Given's deceptively gorgeous body of wok.
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Dave Lefner
Dave Lefner depicts L.A.'s neon signs not at night, as you would expect, but as linear shapes that during the day cast shadows.
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Rough and Ready
"Rough and Ready" is a four artist show geared to youthful Goth sensibilities, as well as their elder grognards of the Beat persuasion.
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Really: What IS an Art Fair?
It's not like James Yood thinks there has been a lack of discussion about art fairs. But here he gets one of the most obvious and oft misun
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“Intimate Horizons”
Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu’s "Intimate Horizons" is a visually dynamic and architecturally responsive installation full of huge
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Paul Metivier
In an uneven mix of works, Paul Metivier does show a particular affinity for symbolic, socially rooted subject matter.
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HJ Bott
HJ Bott translates "20 Basic Scribbles"--fundamental marks researched and identified back in 1970--into his own system of symbols, patterns
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Alison Saar
For Alison Saar the title of her show, "Hot House," evokes both form and content in works that evoke deep personal and political notes.
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Bathos in Sex and Art
Richard Speer finds dispiriting similarities in the ways in which sexuality and visual art are thought of in contemporary culture. This is r
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Randy Colosky
Randy Colosky's works assume forms dictated by the nature of the materials he chooses but still remains adventurous.
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Sayre Gomez
First Sayre Gomez bombards us with an installation of music, nonsense slogans and consumerist themes; and then contrasts this with serene ve
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Luis González Palma
20 years of work by Luis Gonzalez Palma center on his distinctive portraits and beyond, always retaining a flair for the dramatic.
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Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton's "the common SENSE" is loaded with dead animal pelts, products, photographs (for the taking!) in a spectacle of slaughter that
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Rough and Ready
"Rough and Ready" is a four artist show geared to youthful Goth sensibilities, as well as their elder grognards of the Beat persuasion.
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Mickalene Thomas
The central figure of Mickalene Thomas' current show, "I was born to do great things," is her late mother Sandra Bush. Thomas walks a fine l
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Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century.
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Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato's domestic interiors of introspective young women draw on deeply historical sources with a contemporary counterpoint.
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Ryo Toyonaga
The mixture of media in Ryo Toyonaga's exhibition "Awakening" teem with viscera and appendages that glisten wriggle and go bump in the night
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Amber Jean Young
"There's Shape in These Hills I Know" describes Amber Jean Young's quilt-based works drawn from the Northern California landscape.
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Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton's "the common SENSE" is loaded with dead animal pelts, products, photographs (for the taking!) in a spectacle of slaughter that
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Alison Saar
For Alison Saar the title of her show, "Hot House," evokes both form and content in works that evoke deep personal and political notes.
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Gabriel de la Mora
Gabriel de la Mora makes much with the humble match--in bulk quantities. Striking, gathering and counting all add up.
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Kahn and Selesnick
Artist duo Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn fill the gallery floor to ceiling with an epic cast of characters that resonate a sense of dr
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“Ten-in-One”
The circus comes to MCA in the form of ten diverse artists who share a fascination with the fantastical.
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Gil Kofman
Gil Korman photographs surfers who project the expected kinesthetic vitality in high contrast shots that grab and place the athletes onto th
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The Long View Middle Way
Should critics ignore the proliferation of new media in art? Of course not, but DeWitt Cheng distinguishes between faddish razzle-dazzle and
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Mickalene Thomas
The central figure of Mickalene Thomas' current show, "I was born to do great things," is her late mother Sandra Bush. Thomas walks a fine l
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Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century.
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Rusty Scruby
Rusty Scruby transforms flat photographs, drawings, plastic, and even thin sheets of poplar into faceted, three-dimensional wall pieces comp
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Francis DeFronzo
Francis DiFronzo’s ominous series, "The Earth’s Sharp Edge,” contains the stark realism of the Southern California hinterl
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Alfredo Arreguín
Intricate, lace-like patterns underlie and overlay figurative and landscape scenes combining a signature look and culturally relevant subjec
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Udo Nöger
Udo Nöger’s paintings appear at first glance to be gestural Abstract Expressionism, but they are really about subtleties of light
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Emerson Woelffer
This cross section of Emerson Woelffer's work reminds how he brought a myriad of influences and a distinctively personal sensibility to West
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On Artist-Run Spaces
What San Antonio lacks in mainstream commercial art galleries it more than makes up for in adventurous artist-run spaces.
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Jonas Wood
Scenes of conventional contemporary domestic interiors, single and group portraits and still lives as interpreted by Jonas Wood are eye popp
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Gil Kofman
Gil Korman photographs surfers who project the expected kinesthetic vitality in high contrast shots that grab and place the athletes onto th
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Deborah Roberts
What was once an interest in fashion mags Deborah Roberts shifts the model of glamor into collaged portraits that are anything but.
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Trip Advisor Loves AIC
The Art Institute of Chicago is a wonderful art museum, one of the best. But if Chicago-based James Yood enjoyed TripAdvisor's recent poll
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Michael Vahrenwald
Michael Vahrenwald compiles images of once proud neoclassical buildings that over time fell into decline and reuse.
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Scott Short
Copy after copy on a copier produces an image divorced from the original at which point Scott Short picks up his brush.
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Mike Osborne
Did you ever play that classic game, "Monopoly"? Mike Osborne's photographs the model for the game, Atlantic City, now gone kind of eerie w
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Elizabeth Turk
Elizabeth Turk works with marble to give us lace and living forms. These objects are pristine, undulating and breathtaking.
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Eric Orr; Sebastián
Eric Orr's mystical abstract paintings coming out of the Light and Space movement pair intriguingly with the rational geometrics of Sebasti&
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Alfredo Arreguín
Intricate, lace-like patterns underlie and overlay figurative and landscape scenes combining a signature look and culturally relevant subjec
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Emerson Woelffer
This cross section of Emerson Woelffer's work reminds how he brought a myriad of influences and a distinctively personal sensibility to West
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On Artist-Run Spaces
What San Antonio lacks in mainstream commercial art galleries it more than makes up for in adventurous artist-run spaces.
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James Drake
James Drake has been concentrating on drawing, and the key works here combine a number of individual drawings joined to make a single larger
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Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray.
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Tom Birkner and Don Stinson
The American West is the subject for painters Tom Birkner and Don Stinson. Birkner's interest is in lost moments barely see at 70mph on the
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Jeff Fontaine
Jeff Fontaine walks a narrow path between tough and autonomous artworks that risk becoming merely decorative.
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Elizabeth Turk
Elizabeth Turk works with marble to give us lace and living forms. These objects are pristine, undulating and breathtaking.
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Eric Orr; Sebastián
Eric Orr's mystical abstract paintings coming out of the Light and Space movement pair intriguingly with the rational geometrics of Sebasti&
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Deborah Roberts
What was once an interest in fashion mags Deborah Roberts shifts the model of glamor into collaged portraits that are anything but.
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Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face.
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Odd Nerdrum
In "Pupils of Apelles" narrative realist Odd Nerdrum pays homage to the early Greek painter that he conceptually emulates, together with his
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“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and
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Claire A. Warden
Claire A. Warden messes with her photographic prints at the emulsion stage to come up with intriguing abstract studies.
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Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart.
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Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray.
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Orr Menirom
Orr Menirom builds deftly mined universal spaces of ambiguity and emotion in her videos--that are sourced, for example, from a heated interv
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David Lackey
Best known for his appearances on Antiques Roadshow, David Lackey's assemblages show him to also be an accomplished surrealist.
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Travis Pond
"Northwest Wildlife" aptly describes the current assemblages of Travis Pond, who cuts up metal detritus in order to repurpose it.
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“The Heart is the Frame"
".. the heart is the amorous organ of repetition" wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze in "Difference and Repetition." In "The Heart is the
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Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart.
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“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and
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Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face.
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Latino Studies
The pioneering Chicano artist Mel Casas recently passed away, marking an apropos moment for David S. Rubin to assess the progress San Antoni
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Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey's classic Light and Space work toys with viewers’ perception and how we process light emotionally and psychologically.
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Chuck Close
Chuck Close has built a remarkable body of work around the face--not so much the portrait because these images are about a physical fact.
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Dan Budnik
Dan Budnik chronicled the Abstract Expressionsts in the 1950s, then went on to record the heart of the Selma march in 1965.
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David Michael Smith
Primarily figurative and narrative, David Michael Smith prominently features one youthful male or female figure against a backdrop of fauna
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Betty Gold
The deceptively simple geometric sculpture of Betty Gold is in fact rooted in complexity. Flat sheets of steel are folded and shaped to int
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“The Heart is the Frame"
".. the heart is the amorous organ of repetition" wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze in "Difference and Repetition." In "The Heart is the
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Travis Pond
"Northwest Wildlife" aptly describes the current assemblages of Travis Pond, who cuts up metal detritus in order to repurpose it.
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An Interview with Peter Selz
Now 95, Peter Selz has seen--and had an active hand in--the arrival and departure of many of the major art movements of the last half centur
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Lisa Lindvay
Heart is what resonates in "Hold Together," Lisa Lindvay's 7-year long photography project revolving around the members of her own family, a
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Mel Chin
Mel Chin makes visible on paper his thoughts on far-ranging subjects. His acuity over a long career is leavened by levity.
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Robert Jessup
In moving from figuration to abstraction, Robert Jessup permitted himself great expressive freedom to compelling results.
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Angie Bray
Angie Bray possesses an ability to rein in her materials and still evoke strong emotion with the reduced means. A quiet mind and still eye a
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Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey's classic Light and Space work toys with viewers’ perception and how we process light emotionally and psychologically.
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Latino Studies
The pioneering Chicano artist Mel Casas recently passed away, marking an apropos moment for David S. Rubin to assess the progress San Antoni
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Chuck Close
Chuck Close has built a remarkable body of work around the face--not so much the portrait because these images are about a physical fact.
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Pard Morrison
Pixels are blown up to grand proportions in Pard Morrison's sculpture and paintings. The artist's refined formal sense is deployed to achie
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Lisa Ludwig
These birds' nests by Lisa Ludwig are cast in bronze--but only after she first undertakes a laborious process of reconstruction.
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William Binnie
William Binnie's bleached denim conflagrations may carry a novelty factor, but he has sure mastered these blue jeans.
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Jessica Rath
Using sculpture, light, and sound to illustrate the methods used by bumblebees to find "A Better Nectar," Jessica Rath's multi-sensory insta
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An Interview with Peter Selz
Now 95, Peter Selz has seen--and had an active hand in--the arrival and departure of many of the major art movements of the last half centur
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Lisa Lindvay
Heart is what resonates in "Hold Together," Lisa Lindvay's 7-year long photography project revolving around the members of her own family, a
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Mel Chin
Mel Chin makes visible on paper his thoughts on far-ranging subjects. His acuity over a long career is leavened by levity.
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Angie Bray
Angie Bray possesses an ability to rein in her materials and still evoke strong emotion with the reduced means. A quiet mind and still eye a
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Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm has refined his rotary-sander on aluminum technique over years of practice to produce calligraphic works that possess dazz
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Hal Fischer
A single 1977 project, "Gay Semiotics," secures Hal Fischer's place in history for having welded structuralist photography to gay culture.
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Michael Kaysen
Vases that you'd never want to try to fill make up Michael Kaysen's minimalist installation that is at once traditional and contemporary.
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Katsumi Hayakawa
Centered mainly on paper and glue, and an endlessly repetitive cutting procedure, Katsumi Hayakawa produces a ghostly, floating and quite ma
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Lisa Ludwig
These birds' nests by Lisa Ludwig are cast in bronze--but only after she first undertakes a laborious process of reconstruction.
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Jessica Rath
Using sculpture, light, and sound to illustrate the methods used by bumblebees to find "A Better Nectar," Jessica Rath's multi-sensory insta
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David Schafer
David Schafer is a conceptualist whose sculptural and sound works add up to more than meets the eye. Still, there is plenty to look at--and
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Lucinda Parker
Lucinda Parker’s recent paintings focus on geological forms, mountain landscapes filtered through jigsaw-like, interlocking forms.
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Tony DeLap
Tony DeLap explains, “I don’t want to minimalize anything; what I want to do is complicate it.” And his work is indeed pla
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Steven Williams
Steven Williams records lost and forgotten moments, objects and places of the American West in gorgeous black and white silver gelatins prin
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Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli records his personal and aesthetic response to daily reality of the twenty-first century as it arrives daily upon his Brookly
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Larry Sultan
This survey of Larry Sultan's documentary-based photography carries a degree of intensity and density that sets it apart. Don't let the devi
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Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko's meticulously constructed collages destroy and reconfigure photographs in ingenious, seemingly inexhaustible inventions.
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Ben Jackel
Sculptural replicas of masculine accouterments of aggression and protection reflect Ben Jackel's equivocal and poignant referencing of male
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Globalization and Art
In the tenth of his series of responses to a 2012 essay by Irving Sandler, DeWitt Cheng tackles the impact of globalization on art.
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“Art of the American West”
Works from the recent major donation by the Haub Family Collection of "Art of the American West" significantly upgrade this museum's permane
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Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli records his personal and aesthetic response to daily reality of the twenty-first century as it arrives daily upon his Brookly
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Lucinda Parker
Lucinda Parker’s recent paintings focus on geological forms, mountain landscapes filtered through jigsaw-like, interlocking forms.
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Eric Wesley
Along with the more familiar use of a monumental I beam Eric Wesley has casted sleeping figures, fabricated stained glass windows full of gl
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Takahiko Hayashi
Circle, very many of them, lines and organic shapes make up the lyrical, richly associative works of Takahiko Hayashi.
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Jake Longstreth
The bright colors and sharp lines of Jake Longstreth's prior work are muted and atmospheric in paintings that mark a new phase.
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Axle Contemporary
Axle Contemporary has been a pop up gallery on wheels for five years. This survey brings them indoors, displaying the rich variety that over
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Robert Williams
Recent paintings and sculpture by Robert Williams feature the rich, convoluted psychedelia and outside the box thought process we are all fa
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Globalization and Art
In the tenth of his series of responses to a 2012 essay by Irving Sandler, DeWitt Cheng tackles the impact of globalization on art.
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“Art of the American West”
Works from the recent major donation by the Haub Family Collection of "Art of the American West" significantly upgrade this museum's permane
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Ben Jackel
Sculptural replicas of masculine accouterments of aggression and protection reflect Ben Jackel's equivocal and poignant referencing of male
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Dani Tull
This romp of an exhibition by Dani Tull connects up all kinds of unrelated metaphors for developing consciousness.
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Walter Quirt
At one time Walter Quirt was a "painter to watch" alongside Jackson Pollock. A relocation to teach in Michigan removed him from the historic
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“Try Youth As Youth”
Four photographers address the human drama of incarcerated child using distinct approaches that enrich our understanding.
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Yu Ji
Yu Ji's figurative works display a mastery of obsessive detail that isolate individuals within their own worlds.
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Virginia Wright (Pt 1)
Virginia Wright, with her late husband Bagley, was among Seattle's top art patrons for decades. Matthew Kangas offers the first of a two-par
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“Feminism Today”
Connections to empowerment, equality and other themes of significance to women are subtle but quite discernible in this group of 13 Arizona-
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Robert Williams
Recent paintings and sculpture by Robert Williams feature the rich, convoluted psychedelia and outside the box thought process we are all fa
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Joseph Goldberg
Joseph Goldberg's deceptively simple oil-and-wax paintings possess unique topographies within their jagged edges.
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Christine Frerichs
The layers of scarred and molded paint Christine Frerichs are expressive, but rejects predecessors' anxiety.
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David Kapp
The urgency of urban life is the real subject of David Kapp's paintings of architecture and crowds thickly painted and full of kinetic energ
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Rosemarie Beck
Rosemarie Beck recoiled from much of the posturing of her AbEx peers, exploring the figure in allegorical settings. This survey reveals her
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Dani Tull
This romp of an exhibition by Dani Tull connects up all kinds of unrelated metaphors for developing consciousness.
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Virginia Wright (Pt 1)
Virginia Wright, with her late husband Bagley, was among Seattle's top art patrons for decades. Matthew Kangas offers the first of a two-par
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Pascal
Interlocking wood segments, simple and harmonic, are Pascal's signature. The push pull between static and kinetic energy keeps your eye work
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Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eye popping images of urban decay have recently hit an art world sweet spot. Rodrigo Valenzuela smartly reverses this trope.
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Patrick Renner
Patrick Renner juxtaposes his sculptural constructions alongside examples of African art, the effect being for each to illuminate the impact
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Ruth Pastine
Color and system is the name of the game for Ruth Pastine. Her rhythmic layerings are full of harmony even as the volume of hues are turned
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Joseph Goldberg
Joseph Goldberg's deceptively simple oil-and-wax paintings possess unique topographies within their jagged edges.
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David Kapp
The urgency of urban life is the real subject of David Kapp's paintings of architecture and crowds thickly painted and full of kinetic energ
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Mernet Larsen
Mernet Larsen's blocky figures are typically engaged in banal moments of intense contemplation. The visual drama comes not from the narrativ
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Alexis Anne Mackenzie
Strips of one image are mounted over a second to varying degrees of recognizability that causes the eye to shift back and forth in Alexis An
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“Testable Predictions”
Sculpture by Michelle Liccardo, prints by Perry Doane and Amy Bernstein's paintings make "Testable Predictions" crackle with energy.
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Virginia Wright (Pt 2)
The second of Matthew Kangas' two part appreciation of one half of one of Seattle's most important art patrons, Virginia Wright.
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Luis Sahagun
The humble materials recycled into Luis Sahagun's work speak clearly to an urban vernacular and express the masculine aspect the creative pr
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Carol Es
Carol Es' "The Exodus Project" displays her penchant for bright color and rough form. Here is also documented the creative stimulation that
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David Bradley
The identity of Santa Barbara's art market is a key subject in David Bradley's paintings, which also delve into layered and ironic character
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Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eye popping images of urban decay have recently hit an art world sweet spot. Rodrigo Valenzuela smartly reverses this trope.
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Ruth Pastine
Color and system is the name of the game for Ruth Pastine. Her rhythmic layerings are full of harmony even as the volume of hues are turned
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Virginia Wright (Pt 2)
The second of Matthew Kangas' two part appreciation of one half of one of Seattle's most important art patrons, Virginia Wright.
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Mernet Larsen
Mernet Larsen's blocky figures are typically engaged in banal moments of intense contemplation. The visual drama comes not from the narrativ
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Carol Es
Carol Es' "The Exodus Project" displays her penchant for bright color and rough form. Here is also documented the creative stimulation that
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Robert Ginder
Robert Ginder's gold leaf embellished portraits of post-war Los Angeles suburban bungalows treat our own recent history as though it were ce
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Dirk Staschke
Dirk Staschke leaves the backs of his ceramic still-life sculptures exposed for a reason: to remind us it is all made by hand.
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Alt-Weekly Arts Writing
VAS contributor Richard Speer is most familiar to Portland area readers for his 13-year run with Williamette Week. The response to the annou
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Lance Letscher
Lance Letscher's intricate collages push the eye relentlessly while keeping us engaged with accumulations of familiar objects.
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Paul Booker
Two series of works by Paul Booker expand on earlier signature work and vibrant layered polyurethane images of complex formations that are b
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“Rooted in Soil”
"Rooted in Soil" is firmly planted in the issue of conservation as seen through the creative lens of this group of 17 artists.
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Sharon Feder
Sharon Feder has the ability to transform the ordinary into something extra-ordinary, a telephone pole is more than just that.
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“1900: Adornment”
"1900: Adornment for Home and Body" serves as a great excuse to put excellent by under-appreciated works before the public.
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Elliot Norquist
Elegant geometric sculpture, mailing wall-hung, pushes your eye all around the gallery turning minimalist images into a vibrant flow of colo
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Kim MacConnel
Kim MacConnel's "Avenida Revolucion" paintings place you in the middle of a technicolor spectacle of a parade down the streets of a Mexican
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Alt-Weekly Arts Writing
VAS contributor Richard Speer is most familiar to Portland area readers for his 13-year run with Williamette Week. The response to the annou
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Robert Ginder
Robert Ginder's gold leaf embellished portraits of post-war Los Angeles suburban bungalows treat our own recent history as though it were ce
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Dirk Staschke
Dirk Staschke leaves the backs of his ceramic still-life sculptures exposed for a reason: to remind us it is all made by hand.
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Pedro Tyler
Working with systems of measurement, for Pedro Tyler, means using a lot of rulers and measuring tapes. Some of the works are kinetic, emitti
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Trevor Paglen
For Trevor Paglen geography and photography equals diptychs that present a buried layer of surveillance just below picturesque surfaces.
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Fraser Taylor
There is a colorful and celebratory side to Fraser Taylor's work and there are compositions of mourning. The two are two sides of the same
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A Commencement Show
The commencement ritual is a key annual ritual at thousands of schools throughout the country. James Yood's longtime base, the School of th
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JMW Turner
British Romantic painter JMW Turner is shown to be a great experimenter in this selection of paintings, many from the Tate Museum's holdings
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Kim MacConnel
Kim MacConnel's "Avenida Revolucion" paintings place you in the middle of a technicolor spectacle of a parade down the streets of a Mexican
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Jonathan Ryan Storm
Comprised of six brilliantly colored paintings, Jonathan Ryan Storm's "The Mortimer Trap" takes its title from a chess trick.
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Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro’s abstract sculpture made use of recycled industrial building materials painted them in bright, playground-cheerful color
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Robert Brady
In a varied selection of sculpture that is free standing and attached to the walls, figurative and calligraphic, it's all tough and primitiv
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Katherine Rohrbacher
Katherine Rohrbacher’s recent quirky but delicate self-portraits hold a metaphorical mirror to her personal, physical and emotional st
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Jacob Lawrence
"Jacob Lawrence as Printmaker" attests that his late move to the relative isolation of the Pacific Northwest resulted in some of his best wo
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A Commencement Show
The commencement ritual is a key annual ritual at thousands of schools throughout the country. James Yood's longtime base, the School of th
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Trevor Paglen
For Trevor Paglen geography and photography equals diptychs that present a buried layer of surveillance just below picturesque surfaces.
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Rachel Bess
If her subjects are decidedly of the present day in appearance and dress, Rachel Bess draws heavily on the Baroque and Romantic eras for sty
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Jock Sturges
Presented chronologically over a 15 year period, Jock Sturges has followed the development of Fanny from childhood to motherhood.
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Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky addresses a dichotomy between abundance and loss in a selection of vivid aerial photography.
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Helen Redman
Helen Redman’s art is expressed through the lens of herself in relationship to motherhood, facing gender issues boldly.
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Richard Misrach
Visual pleasure and social commentary may seem contradictory aims, but Richard Misrach is an established master of this balancing act, as th
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Zombie Abstraction (Pt 2)
The recent resurgence of optical abstraction goes well beyond rehashing 1960s-era Op Art. Conceptual, cosmological and emotional vantage poi
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Jacob Lawrence
"Jacob Lawrence as Printmaker" attests that his late move to the relative isolation of the Pacific Northwest resulted in some of his best wo
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Al Souza
Al Souza has been working with rare and vintage books, the kind bound in leather with hand-decorated covers and intricate endpapers.
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Mark Grotjahn
Markings seem to emanate from a central core in the aggressive new "face" paintings of Mark Grotjahn.
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Daniel Leivick
The found satellite imagery of the world that is readily available at Google Maps is the basis for a series of otherworldly landscapes.
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“Straight from Cuba”
"Straight from Cuba" offers three artists who represent the aesthetic diversity and dynamism newly accessible to the American audience.
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Shana Moulton
In "Picture Puzzle Pattern Door" Shana Moulton installs video, interactive and mixed media objects that address the uncomfortable mix of alt
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Rachel Bess
If her subjects are decidedly of the present day in appearance and dress, Rachel Bess draws heavily on the Baroque and Romantic eras for sty
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William Barnhart
William Barnhart's "Seattle Series" of paintings resemble stained-glass windows. Boat docks and tranquil waters are transformed into sacred
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Arvie Smith
Arvie Smith turns pernicious racial stereotype into parody in paintings that are as visually garish as they are acidic.
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Díaz Lewis
Creative partners Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis draw on their very different backgrounds. They focus their attention
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Sherry Karver
Sherry Karver enhanced photography-based images with both paint and text, using the latter to take us within figures in a crowd.
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Writers and Art Mags
DeWitt Cheng continues his dialogue with Irving Sandler's 2012 questions to art writers: How do art magazine policies affect art criticism?
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Todd Camplin
Lines of text, or streams of strings flow and repeat to form compelling patterns that Todd Camplin presents in free from shapes that are der
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M.J. Anderson
The province of natural history and aesthetic form blur and meet in M.J. Anderson's series of stone sculptures, "Acqua Pietrificata," transl
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Shaun O’Dell
The formal constructions of Shaun O'Dell's new works feel current, but their ironic lyricism also takes us back.
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Time to Declare Victory
At the recent "Superscript" conference addressing "Arts Journalism in a Digital Age," James Yood listened to what has become a familiar lita
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Noah Purifoy
A desire for change fueled the assemblage of Noah Purifoy, who first came to attention with a series in response to the Watt Riots of 1964,
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“Straight from Cuba”
"Straight from Cuba" offers three artists who represent the aesthetic diversity and dynamism newly accessible to the American audience.
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Writers and Art Mags
DeWitt Cheng continues his dialogue with Irving Sandler's 2012 questions to art writers: How do art magazine policies affect art criticism?
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Díaz Lewis
Creative partners Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis draw on their very different backgrounds. They focus their attention
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Nancy Monk
Nancy Monk spins a whimsical take on the wonders of nature using terse visual means and a deceptively complex working process.
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Susan Giles
Bouncing from small paper sculptures to room filling installations, Susan Giles moves us from admiration for precise craftsmanship to a feel
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Inka-Maaria Jurvanen
The political vein of Inka-Maaria Jurvanen's art is right there in titles like "Anarchy" and "Mutiny," though the images are rarely straight
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Time to Declare Victory
At the recent "Superscript" conference addressing "Arts Journalism in a Digital Age," James Yood listened to what has become a familiar lita
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Noah Purifoy
A desire for change fueled the assemblage of Noah Purifoy, who first came to attention with a series in response to the Watt Riots of 1964,
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Mel Katz
Sculptor Mel Katz is still gong strong at 83, and two major surveys show what a vital force he has been since the 1960s.
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Albert Oehlen
Billboard signage, cows and an approach to composition akin to forming a jigsaw puzzle add to to "Rawhide," in which Albert Oehlen shows pro
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Frye Salon
Historically under appreciated, the founding collection of the Frye Museum today can no longer be dismissed thanks to fresh knowledge.
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El Anatsui
Hardly the first to employ cheap, non-art materials such as bottle caps, El Anatsui shimmering wall hangings are complex and just gorgeous.
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“Glow: Beauty Reigns”
Rex Ryan, Jamie Brunson and Fausto Fernandez all drawn on nature to offer abstract images full of eye-popping visual effect.
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Nancy Monk
Nancy Monk spins a whimsical take on the wonders of nature using terse visual means and a deceptively complex working process.
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Clarissa Tossin
Gallery baseboards are painted green to match the trim of houses in Clarissa Tossin's photographs. These pair modest cabins juxtaposed with
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Eileen David
The streetscapes of San Francisco favor the timeless over ceaseless change in Eileen David's painterly vision. Beautifully composed images o
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Eli Reed
Eli Reed's career dates from the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s, and his photography has long combined stylishness with social activism.
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Kelli Vance
Kelli Vance may be the star of her own suggestive narratives, but she keeps herself out of the story. Vance is just the model.
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Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow blows up junk assemblage practice to a scale massive enough to walk into. And when you do, what at first appears weighty an
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Frye Salon
Historically under appreciated, the founding collection of the Frye Museum today can no longer be dismissed thanks to fresh knowledge.
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Mel Katz
Sculptor Mel Katz is still gong strong at 83, and two major surveys show what a vital force he has been since the 1960s.
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Sarah HaBa
Sarah HaBa’s delicate and contemplative watercolors on paper depict that very material: bound paper, books, notebooks, and popup books
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Scott Greene
Everything is in a state of falling apart in Scott Greene's desperate landscapes--but are still, just barely, hanging on.
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House on Mango St.
In "The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" Sandra Cisneros' novel is updated through the eyes of artists from around the co
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Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright makes paintings out of videos. Especially intriguing is that the playthings populating her girl-in-the-bedroom avatar become
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Kelli Vance
Kelli Vance may be the star of her own suggestive narratives, but she keeps herself out of the story. Vance is just the model.
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Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow blows up junk assemblage practice to a scale massive enough to walk into. And when you do, what at first appears weighty an
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Eli Reed
Eli Reed's career dates from the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s, and his photography has long combined stylishness with social activism.
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“Dwell”
"Dwell" consists of a thoughtful range of art addressing architectural subjects in which community interchange and personal freedom appear a
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Still Nothing Like Venice
It's got to be the most stressful to negotiate, chaotically presented art festival in the world, but between Venice itself and its impossibl
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Georgia O’Keeffe
The works of Georgia O'Keeffe in "Color, Line and Composition" focus on the formal development and influence of her work.
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Nathaniel Thayer Moss
Nathaniel Thayer Moss' optical geometric abstractions face a pair of large panels across from a large grid of smaller works.
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“Night Begins the Day”
The Romantic Sublime informs the work of this wide ranging group of artists, along with the Jewish tradition that the day begins not at sunr
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Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright makes paintings out of videos. Especially intriguing is that the playthings populating her girl-in-the-bedroom avatar become
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House on Mango St.
In "The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" Sandra Cisneros' novel is updated through the eyes of artists from around the co
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“Body Mass Index”
Four emerging Chicago artists, Abel Guzman, Mike Rubin, B. Quinn and Ross Normandin visualize the body mostly in the form of its traces tha
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Nosego
The zany visual mashups of Nosego might reflect the deep contemplation of a monk or the ravings of a cartoonish idiot. Probably both.
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“Eye 2 Eye”
Artists of the Eye Lounge collective offer both collaborative and individual works, with the solo ventures finally winning the race.
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Still Nothing Like Venice
It's got to be the most stressful to negotiate, chaotically presented art festival in the world, but between Venice itself and its impossibl
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“Dwell”
"Dwell" consists of a thoughtful range of art addressing architectural subjects in which community interchange and personal freedom appear a
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Kim Stringfellow
Early homesteading in the desert environment of the Morongo Basin dates only from 1938. A minimal structure built on the otherwise free prop
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Donald Lipski
Donald Lipski stretches, drapes and otherwise tortures the shape of glass bottles, fills them with Scotch and us with surprise.
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Jessica Hess
Paintings of urban ruins by Jessica Hess that embellish or further despoil them with graffiti are gorgeous to the eye but so dystopian.
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Michael Arcega
Anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner reflected on American culture from a detached viewpoint by turning our name around to become "Nacirema.
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Rick Oginz
Sculptor and illustrator Rick Oginz mines his imagination, his observations of current events and his personal issues before he ever puts a
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Alice Shaw
California is known as the "golden state," which conceptualist Alice Shaw plays to the hilt in her witty send-up of wealth and celebrity.
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The Artist as Charity
It makes us feel very nice to see artists contributing their work for glittery charity events that support good causes, no doubt. But might
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“Hapsburg Splendor”
This drop dead gathering of treasures from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is an absolute visual feast and a history lesson.
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Faheem Majeed
Ordinary particleboard serves as a central vehicle for Faheem Majeed to express personal and community histories and issues. Freely addressi
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Nosego
The zany visual mashups of Nosego might reflect the deep contemplation of a monk or the ravings of a cartoonish idiot. Probably both.
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Michael Arcega
Anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner reflected on American culture from a detached viewpoint by turning our name around to become "Nacirema.
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Hometown Expats
It's tempting to gripe about the well known pattern of artists moving into a crummy neighborhood to get cheap space; upgrading the area and
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The Artist as Charity
It makes us feel very nice to see artists contributing their work for glittery charity events that support good causes, no doubt. But might
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Rick Oginz
Sculptor and illustrator Rick Oginz mines his imagination, his observations of current events and his personal issues before he ever puts a
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“Hapsburg Splendor”
This drop dead gathering of treasures from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is an absolute visual feast and a history lesson.
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Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman's narrative painting satisfies both viscerally and intellectually. Her visual one liners pack a wallop, usually delivered w
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Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada's new sculpture expresses the stolid solemnity of the children in stages of identity and age transformation.
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Rumi Vesselinova
A destructive local fire several years ago lead Rumi Vesselinova to record and interpret blackened trees on rolling hillsides, tempting the
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Constant Change
The format of the gallery exhibition has long served as the art world's model of presentation. Could that era be coming to an end?
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David Hockney
David Hockney brings together "Painting and Photography," which he's really been doing anyway for years. How much of an object we can see at
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Hometown Expats
It's tempting to gripe about the well known pattern of artists moving into a crummy neighborhood to get cheap space; upgrading the area and
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“GLEAN”
The five artists contributing works to "GLEAN" were all mandated to forage through Portland's Metro Central Transfer Station. The garbage d
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John Chiara
The huge, hand built camera is nearly as interesting as the evocative and felt images of Mississippi produced by John Chiara.
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Liz Robb
The sewn sculptures of Liz Robb are "weighted objects in space" that make apt use of wide ranging visual associations.
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Darn, Trump Beat Me To It
A number of commentators have pegged the Presidential candidacy of Donald Trump as a kind of performance art, and not exactly to praise him.
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Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios
Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios' massive gestural paintings are both expressive and immersive in their depiction of a blooming and fecund world t
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Pablo D’Antoni
New paintings by Spainish-based artist Pablo D’Antoni pay homage to artists past and present, displaying a magical realist tendency in
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Russell Crotty
Well know for his drawings and globes of celestial detail, tendinitis forced changes in style and technique that have led to fresh and convi
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Marilyn Lowey
Marilyn Lowey moves from producing light show spectacles for major events to the comparative simplicity of installations that use projected
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“Interaction”
The group of artists included in "Interaction" differ widely in their aesthetics but are curated to emphasize a good deal of playful interac
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Constant Change
The format of the gallery exhibition has long served as the art world's model of presentation. Could that era be coming to an end?
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Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada's new sculpture expresses the stolid solemnity of the children in stages of identity and age transformation.
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“GLEAN”
The five artists contributing works to "GLEAN" were all mandated to forage through Portland's Metro Central Transfer Station. The garbage d
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Darn, Trump Beat Me To It
A number of commentators have pegged the Presidential candidacy of Donald Trump as a kind of performance art, and not exactly to praise him.
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Poland’s Cultural Recovery
National museums in Warsaw and Krakow provide a yardstick by which Poland's recovery from historical and cultural abuses may be measured.
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Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew spent his childhood playing in a dump near his family's home, so producing found object sculpture second nature. He turns this
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Tom Orr
A well distributed installation of ten works by Tom Orr expresses the artist's search to reconfigure and expand materials and structures in
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Depth of Field
"Depth of Field" is an extensive gathering of photography connected to the non-profit Rfotofolio, normally an online-only archive.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry's rise from iconoclastic local advocate of chain link fencing and rough plywood panels to the world's most recognizable architec
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Marilyn Lowey
Marilyn Lowey moves from producing light show spectacles for major events to the comparative simplicity of installations that use projected
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Jamie Hamilton
Jamie Hamilton is a sculptor and aerialist, and his work here scales down the razor this stage he constructs for his performances. It posses
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Joseph Havel
The spherical bronze shells of Joseph Havel are transmogrified fabric forms reflecting an age dubious of empty ideologies.
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Sarah Perry
New works by Sarah Perry bring bugs into your home via electric outlets, put bees in your walls and seduce you with creepiness.
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Sarah Awad
Sarah Awad's paintings bring residential iron gates into the center of our cultural conversation. They are natural metaphors of borders and
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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry's rise from iconoclastic local advocate of chain link fencing and rough plywood panels to the world's most recognizable architec
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Poland’s Cultural Recovery
National museums in Warsaw and Krakow provide a yardstick by which Poland's recovery from historical and cultural abuses may be measured.
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Lynne Golob Gelfman
The ephemeral nature of texture and pattern are key to Lynne Golob Gelfman's "Dyeing the Grid" paintings, inspired by the artist’s col
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Cecilia Z. Miguez
"The Presence of Absence" presents Cecilia Miguez typically elegant and surreal figures contemplating the void.
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My Only Advice
With the recent retirement of Kenneth Baker, we welcome Charles Desmarais to the key role of art critic at The SF Chronicle. DeWitt Cheng o
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Preston Singletary
Tingit artist Preston Singletary is both an ethnic-specific traditionalist and an internationalist collaborator who blows great glass.
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Jessica Stockholder
Common household objects translate into colorful, multi-dimensional installations in a number of artists' work nowadays, and a good part of
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Howardena Pindell
Underexposed in SoCal in spite of an otherwise stellar track record this show tries to make up for it by showcasing multiple facets of her o
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Paul Horiuchi
Paul Horiuchi went from serving as an assistant to Mark Tobey to earning recognition for bridging Japanese and New York school aesthetics.
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Jon Furlong
John Furlong has documented Shepard Fairey and his OBEY team for the last decade. These photographs place Furlong into a mixed role of obse
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Richard Meier
This survey covers an impressive range of architect Richard Meier's public buildings, along with screen prints and collages.
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Shannon Finley
Starting with a computer-generated image, Shanon Finley builds his paintings up layer after layer to achieve sometimes geometric, other time
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Joseph Havel
The spherical bronze shells of Joseph Havel are transmogrified fabric forms reflecting an age dubious of empty ideologies.
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Sarah Awad
Sarah Awad's paintings bring residential iron gates into the center of our cultural conversation. They are natural metaphors of borders and
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Jessica Stockholder
Common household objects translate into colorful, multi-dimensional installations in a number of artists' work nowadays, and a good part of
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My Only Advice
With the recent retirement of Kenneth Baker, we welcome Charles Desmarais to the key role of art critic at The SF Chronicle. DeWitt Cheng o
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Cecilia Z. Miguez
"The Presence of Absence" presents Cecilia Miguez typically elegant and surreal figures contemplating the void.
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Preston Singletary
Tingit artist Preston Singletary is both an ethnic-specific traditionalist and an internationalist collaborator who blows great glass.
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Larry Cwik
Photographic images of "The Far North" by Larry Cwik are lovely to look at but also serve to connect the environmental dots.
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Karla Wozniak
The verdant paintings of Karla Wozniak were produced during time spent, and in response to the Knoxville and Smokey Mountain area. Back in t
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Dan Bayles
Dan Bayles’ new paintings unsettle our acceptance of Constantino Brumidi's dome mural at the U.S. Capitol building as a symbol of demo
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Alicja Bielawska
Works by Alicja Bielawska are light and spare, they are free standing, leaned against walls and hung from the ceiling. They add up to a cog
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Ishiuchi Miyako
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was born shortly after WWII, and important currents in her work reflect on war and its aftermath.
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Paul Horiuchi
Paul Horiuchi went from serving as an assistant to Mark Tobey to earning recognition for bridging Japanese and New York school aesthetics.
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Ron Rizk
Ron Rizk is an established master of shallow space tromp l'oeil painting, meeting it up with California assemblage. His latest work reflects
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“The Book of Scores”
Guest curator Chiara Giovando has the idea of a musical score in mind, the artists here making the connection but obliquely.
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Édouard Vuillard
While Edouard Vuillard contributed to the development of modernist pictorial space, he importantly remained a product of bourgeois culture.
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Anila Quayyum Agha
Anila Quayyum Agha's installation, "Intersections," projects complex shadow patterns from a single light source placed within a suspended bl
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Ishiuchi Miyako
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was born shortly after WWII, and important currents in her work reflect on war and its aftermath.
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Eugenio Merino
Eugenio Merino turns his scathing eye on the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Works here such as "Under Pressure," "The Iron
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“Gyre: The Plastic Ocean”
"Gyre: The Plastic Ocean" is art as a warning. A "gyre" is a vortex, here an ecological disaster located deep in the Pacific Ocean.
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POLIN and Treblinka
Polish and Jewish history are linked through achievement and tragedy. Matthew Kangas takes us to two museums in Poland that address both sid
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Cornelius Völker
Cornelius Völker explores the traditional genres of still life and portraiture, with a twist, luscious brushwork and lively color.
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Danielle Frankenthal
Danielle Frankenthal paints on both sides of multiple sheets of transparent acrylic resin panels and stacks them to display multiple layers
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Lynn Aldrich
The latter day ready-mades of Lynn Aldrich come from hardware and office supply stores but are imbued with spiritual qualities.
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Laszlo Layton
These photographs of wildlife specimens, with added hand painting and carefully controlled color, draw us to nature's fragile beauty.
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Guy Diehl
Guy Diehl favors a deliberate rendering technique that evokes Old-Master realism. His still lifes do more than pay homage to Zubaran, they r
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“The Book of Scores”
Guest curator Chiara Giovando has the idea of a musical score in mind, the artists here making the connection but obliquely.
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Ron Rizk
Ron Rizk is an established master of shallow space tromp l'oeil painting, meeting it up with California assemblage. His latest work reflects
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Édouard Vuillard
While Edouard Vuillard contributed to the development of modernist pictorial space, he importantly remained a product of bourgeois culture.
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POLIN and Treblinka
Polish and Jewish history are linked through achievement and tragedy. Matthew Kangas takes us to two museums in Poland that address both sid
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Richard Renaldi
Given the high 'stunt' quotient, Richard Rinaldi's often uncomfortable pairing of strangers can get quite interesting--even deep.
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Virginia Katz
Virginia Katz definitely makes landscape paintings, but piles on the paint until they become sculptural. But it is her feel for environmenta
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“MOMMY”
From the reassuring to the not-so warm and fuzzy, a range of recent works on motherhood is hardly unmined territory, but this group still pr
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“Ten: Modern Abstract”
Spotlighting how ten Arizona artists get to their own place within the broad genre of abstraction allows for some sifting. Some of the work
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Lipogram Vanity
Do art critics love to play word games? James Yood reminds us that they are, after all, WRITERS; it's OK to have fun with the raw material.
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Thomas Gardiner
How Americans and Canadiens are viewed in other parts of the world is a question and engages photographer Thomas Gardiner, a Canadian whose
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Kelley Devine
In her close-ups of faces--both her own and friends'--are combined with collaged texts that suggest the subjects' inner life.
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Barry McGee
The impression of chaos is by design. Barry McGee's manic energy sharpens into a joyful but socially engaged installation.
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Todd Christensen
Books discarded by libraries and obtained at rummage sales are torn, written on and otherwise repurposed into Todd Christensen's neurotic re
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Virginia Katz
Virginia Katz definitely makes landscape paintings, but piles on the paint until they become sculptural. But it is her feel for environmenta
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“Ten: Modern Abstract”
Spotlighting how ten Arizona artists get to their own place within the broad genre of abstraction allows for some sifting. Some of the work
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Peat Duggins
The sheer power of blind, amoral nature is expressed with power and elegance by Peat Duggins. Animals and animal parts are depicted with a r
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Bill Dambrova
Bill Dambrova's take on human anatomy is at once anarchically psychedelic yet harmoniously composed.
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Leslie Kenneth Price
The abstract works of Leslie Kenneth Price are the product of a strong lineage, attentive observation and a vigorous approach to painting.
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Jay Kvapil
Tightly formed and beautifully pure, Jay Kvapil's current series of ceramic vessels are titled "Control and Chaos" for their glazed surfaces
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Lawren Harris
Well recognized in Canada, Lawren Harris' early modern depictions of the northern landscape are something of a revelation for their clarity
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Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's human-animal chimeras act out surreal and enigmatic folkloric narratives that consistently fascinate.
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“The Mapmaker’s Dream”
A selection of five artists -- Maurizio Anzeri, Marius Bercea, Linda Conner, Chris McCaw and Pae White -- take diverse approaches to how we
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Did AIDS Change Art?
"Art AIDS America" is hardly the first or last exhibition about AIDS, but it is expansive, well curated and researched, and may be seen and
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Dirk De Bruycker
Flowingly liquid color fields by Dirk De Bruycker bloom out towards you and makes their impact deceptively quickly.
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Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, a
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“Frida Kahlo: Her Photos”
An extensive selection of archival photographs provide an irresistibly personal glimpse into the life of the iconic Frida Kahlo.
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New Year's Resolve
Bill Lasarow has long regarded art's essential element as one's authenticity. But now our domestic politics have turned the content of that
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“Between Two Worlds”
"Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience" presents the personal experience and perspective of more than 20 arti
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Sandow Birk
Islam's sacred text and how it reverberates in modern America is the subject of Sandow Birk's "American Qur'an", an earnest and sometimes po
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Jessica Halonen
Prussian blue and the idea of transition inform Jessica Halonen's paintings that respond to the brief times of sunrise and sunset.
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Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin's invented mythological figures, painted and in cut steel, reference Art Nouveau, psychedelia, Milton Glaser and the Kabbalah
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Ben Huff
"The Last Road North" is photographer Ben Huff's paean to Alaska's Dalton Highway, an uncannily spartan, 414-mile stretch of arboreal forest
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Ron English
Ron English revels in masking up symbols and striking colors that attract and repel. The current "Neo-Nature" series of fanciful animals cas
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Chaco Terada
Traditional Japanese calligraphy and silkscreened nature photography meet in Chaco Terada's rippling compositions.
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Superstructure
If we want a better country, a better world, and a better art world, how do we make art with human values in a culture glamorizing vapidity
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Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism.
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Rodrigo Lara Zendejas
The title of Rodrigo Lara Zendejas' exhibition, "Deportable Aliens," references the term used to describe forcibly repatriated immigrants du
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Jefferson Pinder
Jefferson Pinder's performance-based works resonate in their reversal of the deeply racist black-face cabaret of a century ago. Here black p
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Jackson Pollock
"Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is the most significant and art historically important show at this museum in decades.
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Moving Day
For the second time in seven year the Art Institute of Chicago has shuffled the presentation of its permanent collection, and it all works.
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Barry McGee
The impression of chaos is by design. Barry McGee's manic energy sharpens into a joyful but socially engaged installation.
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Lipogram Vanity
Do art critics love to play word games? James Yood reminds us that they are, after all, WRITERS; it's OK to have fun with the raw material.
more...
Jay Kvapil
Tightly formed and beautifully pure, Jay Kvapil's current series of ceramic vessels are titled "Control and Chaos" for their glazed surfaces
more...
Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's human-animal chimeras act out surreal and enigmatic folkloric narratives that consistently fascinate.
more...
Did AIDS Change Art?
"Art AIDS America" is hardly the first or last exhibition about AIDS, but it is expansive, well curated and researched, and may be seen and
more...
Dirk De Bruycker
Flowingly liquid color fields by Dirk De Bruycker bloom out towards you and makes their impact deceptively quickly.
more...
Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, a
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“Between Two Worlds”
"Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience" presents the personal experience and perspective of more than 20 arti
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New Year's Resolve
Bill Lasarow has long regarded art's essential element as one's authenticity. But now our domestic politics have turned the content of that
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Sandow Birk
Islam's sacred text and how it reverberates in modern America is the subject of Sandow Birk's "American Qur'an", an earnest and sometimes po
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Superstructure
If we want a better country, a better world, and a better art world, how do we make art with human values in a culture glamorizing vapidity
more...
Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism.
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Raphaëlle Goethals
The richly atmospheric encaustic and pigment paintings that comprise Raphaëlle Goethals "Echoes" are free, lyrical and quite discipline
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William LeGoullon
William LeGoullon's images of immaculately recorded bullets and bullet-riddled found objects lend poetic power to act after act of violence
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Site Specific Sanctuaries
Art as a site of secularized religious experience gains new practitioners in noteworthy recent projects springing up around Texas.
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Gordon Watkinson
Architectural photography Gordon Watkinson examines a dozen original Bauhaus buildings paired alongside recent structures that preserve and
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David Maisel
Taken in Spain, David Maisel's aerial photographs record irregular patterns of human activity with an emphasis on the sort of earth tones as
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Moving Day
For the second time in seven year the Art Institute of Chicago has shuffled the presentation of its permanent collection, and it all works.
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Jackson Pollock
"Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is the most significant and art historically important show at this museum in decades.
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Joseph Lorusso
Joseph Lorusso produces tightly focused set pieces in subdued reds, browns and golds. They evoke intimacy with a dash of mystery. These narr
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Ben Haggard
For five years Ben Haggard has painted numerous faces in Santa Fe, San Francisco and Berlin. About 200 of these adds up to--what?
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“Earthworks”
Madeline Dietz, Perla Krauze and Mario Reis bring an earthworks aesthetic into the relative intimacy of a gallery environment.
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Jean and Barbara Edelstein
This mother-daughter pairing brings together divergent aesthetic visions that both derive significantly from Asian traditions. Jean's accord
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Site Specific Sanctuaries
Art as a site of secularized religious experience gains new practitioners in noteworthy recent projects springing up around Texas.
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Chris Bradley
For Chris Bradley, ceilings are anything but monotonous or unnoticed. Replicas of unspecial ceilings are dropped from the heights of a hang
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Kenneth Callahan
Perhaps the most multi-faceted talent to emerge and play a dominant role in the advanced art of the Northwest was Kenneth Callahan.
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“Our Stars, Our Selfies"
Forging a personal relationship with artists and artworks we love, or love to hate, is part of what makes the creative life so rewarding. An
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Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like.
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Ryan Foster
What appears in the foreground of one of Ryan Foster's paintings may be pushed back in another. Backgrounds tend to be out of focus or other
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“Earthworks”
Madeline Dietz, Perla Krauze and Mario Reis bring an earthworks aesthetic into the relative intimacy of a gallery environment.
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Jean and Barbara Edelstein
This mother-daughter pairing brings together divergent aesthetic visions that both derive significantly from Asian traditions. Jean's accord
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Kent Monkman
Kent Moneyman's "Failure of Modernity" is a series of large scale paintings that read like a row of windows looking out on an embattled ghet
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David Aylsworth
Working in the abstract with a build-up of multiple layers, David Aylsworth's paintings end up being bright, playful and suggestive.
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Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly consider
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Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky.
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Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Thick paint and clunky objects are somehow made to work together in Daniel Rios Rodriguez' paintings/assemblages. Illusion and affixed objec
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Kenneth Callahan
Perhaps the most multi-faceted talent to emerge and play a dominant role in the advanced art of the Northwest was Kenneth Callahan.
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“Our Stars, Our Selfies"
Forging a personal relationship with artists and artworks we love, or love to hate, is part of what makes the creative life so rewarding. An
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Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like.
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Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways.
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Oscar Berglund
Cycles of development and decay in an urban context inform the multimedia aesthetic of Oscar Berglund
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Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject.
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Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen has practiced a hard-edge brand of realism that is informed by surrealism for more than 40 years, and continues to join both a s
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Aaron Fowler
Up and comer Aaron Fowler produces collage paintings packed with consumer objects and personal ephemera, building up energetic sculptural su
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Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history.
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Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky.
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Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly consider
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Josh Reames and Jose Lérma
Josh Reames' crafty airbrushed and tromp l'oeil-heavy paintings are given a healthy re-fresh through a collaboration with Jose Lérma.
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Livia Stein
Livia Stein paints up a storm. Colors are adventurous, brushwork loaded with energy. The characters are gross, and you soon love 'em.
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Tomoko Sawada
Self-portraiture for Tomoko Sawada is all about the connection between a woman's interior life and outer appearance.
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Louis Kahn
Given the massive architectural output of mid-20th century giant Louis I. Kahn, he often devoted years, even decades to his key projects.
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Paige Powell
The East Village (New York) art scene of the 1980s remains a topic of wide interest, and artist and in-the-day girlfriend of Jean-Michel Bas
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The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple.
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Patricia Sannit
Stacked cylinders by Patricia Sannit are rough-hewn sentinels, metaphorical witnesses to history's repeating cycles of rise and fall.
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Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways.
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Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject.
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Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history.
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Eva Isaksen
Eva Isaksen builds images that complicate the picture plane by layering and overlapping collaged elements of her own paintings on paper, whi
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Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process.
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Civics 101
What does the current, wild political season have to do with visual art? Historically art has usually served the wealthy and powerful; even
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Jenene Nagy
In "Mass" Jenene Nagy uses the fluid relationship between two- and three- dimensions to expand our notion of landscape. Minimalist in appear
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Paige Powell
The East Village (New York) art scene of the 1980s remains a topic of wide interest, and artist and in-the-day girlfriend of Jean-Michel Bas
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The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple.
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Gordon Parks
Selections from Gordon Parks' photo essays on the 1963 march on Washington and the Black Power movement depict the turbulent sixties.
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Helen Lundeberg
Combining avant garde surrealism and classical illustration launched Helen Lundeberg career long journey, mapped here, to a mature abstracti
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Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya’s “Don't Hold On to Your Bones” is a visually and aurally overwhelming installation. From ceiling to flo
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Eva Isaksen
Eva Isaksen builds images that complicate the picture plane by layering and overlapping collaged elements of her own paintings on paper, whi
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Civics 101
What does the current, wild political season have to do with visual art? Historically art has usually served the wealthy and powerful; even
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Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process.
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Emma Sulkowicz
The self-portrait of Emma Sulkowicz is actually three portraits in one: The artist herself on a platform; a life-size sculpture; and a minia
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Ann Gale
Ann Gale's figures are objectively older, often heavy-set, not at all glamorous. But her brushwork's staccato energy makes it all work.
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Susan York
Susan York's dense graphite sculptures and drawings display a surprising visual affinity with Georgia O'Keeffe's work.
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Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban dev
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Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya’s “Don't Hold On to Your Bones” is a visually and aurally overwhelming installation. From ceiling to flo
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Miguel Soler-Roig
Miguel Soler-Roig returns to photograph his childhood home in Barcelona after 35 years. Its interiors are in disarray, as though suddenly ab
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Christiane Feser
Christiane Feser creates illusionistic dimensions by photographing real objects and going one better by cutting into the print's surface.
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Jennifer Greenburg
Jennifer Greenburg appropriates found photographs into which she inserts herself, and in so doing "Revises History".
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20 Years/20 Shows
"20 Years/20 Shows" honors SITE's anniversary with exhibits featuring artists who have previously appeared in the contemporary art space.
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Lauren Mantecón
One time Portland fixture Lauren Mantecón relocated to Santa Fe, where she continues to evoke in her paintings the misty, atmospheric
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Ana Teresa Fernandez
Ana Teresa Fernandez manages competing aesthetic and topical imperatives, making art about feminism and immigration without falling into the
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“A Visual Artifact”
A well curated selection of representational art debuts as a gallery manifesto that contributes immediately to the expanding Seattle scene.
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Eric Hesse and Tim Vermeulen
Encaustics by Eric Hesse aptly depict the variously filtered light of urban Los Angeles. In "Alphabet" Tim Vermeulen's precise paintings loo
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20 Years/20 Shows
"20 Years/20 Shows" honors SITE's anniversary with exhibits featuring artists who have previously appeared in the contemporary art space.
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Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban dev
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Scott Greene
Scott Greene depicts waste that is not quite biodegradable and processes that are vast and irreversible. He drops a postmodern take on histo
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Liam Everet
The act of painting is central to Liam Everett's abstract images. Evidence of application and tools are everywhere.
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David Michael Lee
Over his 15-year career David Michael Lee has used painting's formal building blocks to construct multiple series. The visual energy release
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“By Hand”
The six artists in "By Hand", reference the figure as produced through the artists' gestural subjectivity.
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Daniel Joseph Martinez
David's "The Death of Marat" is the direct inspiration for Daniel Joseph Martinez' installation, the central tableau featuring life-size fig
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Ana Teresa Fernandez
Ana Teresa Fernandez manages competing aesthetic and topical imperatives, making art about feminism and immigration without falling into the
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Eric Hesse and Tim Vermeulen
Encaustics by Eric Hesse aptly depict the variously filtered light of urban Los Angeles. In "Alphabet" Tim Vermeulen's precise paintings loo
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“A Visual Artifact”
A well curated selection of representational art debuts as a gallery manifesto that contributes immediately to the expanding Seattle scene.
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Tamas Dezso
Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso documents the changing social and physical landscape of post–Soviet era Hungary and Romania, partic
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“H2O”
The three artists comprising "H20" may be timely, but all steer clear of the obvious polemics in their smart, lovely work.
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Julia Brown
Researching documents of the 1960s civil rights movement lead Julia Brown to visually record and respond to the creation of man-made as well
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Rachel Hellmann
Rachel Hellmann assembles paintings into compelling sculptural objects whose abstract forms wrestle their way into the gallery space.
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Marilyn Minter
If Marilyn Minter's work seems to connote photorealism, her innovative and charismatic body of work is far too visceral and political to be
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Ed Moses
"Ed Moses @90" pays tribute to this artist's insatiable search for the process of creation, "not to be in control, but to be in tune."
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Robb Report Art
What constitutes artistic credibility? There is a breed of aesthetic entrepreneur who chases fame and fortune through means unbeholden to tr
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David Michael Lee
Over his 15-year career David Michael Lee has used painting's formal building blocks to construct multiple series. The visual energy release
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Christine Tarkowski
In Christine Tarkowski's series of sculptures titled “Chthonic Void,” material is content and the making process is paramount.
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Bay Area Boom or Bust
Not long ago the Bay Area's economic demographics plunged much of the local art world into near despair. Suddenly with the re-opening of SFM
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Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs.
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Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh re-creates his New York City apartment in a museum, but using transparent polyester fabric, wire rods and frottage. You move from
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Meow Wolf
About 135 creatives, together they are Meow Wolf, have filled a cavernous permanent space with a two-story Victorian house that opens to a
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Cris Bruch
"Dispatch" presents a 10-year swath of Cris Bruch's paintings and sculpture. This richly varied work affirms the mystery of form instilled i
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Jeff Slim
Jeff Slim explores his Diné (Navajo) heritage while presenting images of young, urban figures navigating the contemporary world.
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Justine Frischmann
Justine Frischmann brushes and sprays oil paint atop subtly printed digital photographs infused on aluminum, a mash-up of painting and photo
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Agnes Martin
The patient, reductive work of Agnes Martin may appear as simple as the grid template from which it grew. But it was her freedom from any pr
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“Hidden Narratives”
If you don't think that the medium of glass lends itself to the telling of stories, the four artists included in "Hidden Narratives" beg to
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Saskia Jordá
Saskia Jorda works with yarn, felt and thread and, yes, they feel whimsical. But her themes of displacement also imply tragedy.
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How to Visit an Art Museum
As a seasoned teacher and art critic, James Yood has visited museums all over the world. He shares his preparation and approach to visiting
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Boyang Hou
The basketball hoop serves as the template for Boyang Hou's witty, circle-in-a-square abstract paintings.
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Claire Falkenstein
A lively survey of Claire Falkenstein's sculpture, paintings and prints traces her development as a self-aware modernist. From her earliest
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Ed Moses
"Ed Moses @90" pays tribute to this artist's insatiable search for the process of creation, "not to be in control, but to be in tune."
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Robb Report Art
What constitutes artistic credibility? There is a breed of aesthetic entrepreneur who chases fame and fortune through means unbeholden to tr
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Julia Brown
Researching documents of the 1960s civil rights movement lead Julia Brown to visually record and respond to the creation of man-made as well
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Marilyn Minter
If Marilyn Minter's work seems to connote photorealism, her innovative and charismatic body of work is far too visceral and political to be
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Meow Wolf
About 135 creatives, together they are Meow Wolf, have filled a cavernous permanent space with a two-story Victorian house that opens to a
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Bay Area Boom or Bust
Not long ago the Bay Area's economic demographics plunged much of the local art world into near despair. Suddenly with the re-opening of SFM
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Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs.
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Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber's retrospective of her lengthy career in photojournalism is as much a testament to her courage and persistence as to the remarka
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Chuck Close Comes Home
If you thought Chuck Close, the master of the face who suffers from prosopagnosia, hails from New York, think again, he's from the Seattle a
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Linnea Glatt
Linnea Glatt's hypnotic works exude serenity that depends on a succession of shapes in alternating sizes that imply movement produced by rhy
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Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham derives his paintings and mixed media works from personal turbulence and connects it to collective experience.
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Tom Kiefer
Tom Kiefer translates mundane personal effects into politically laden emblems of our government’s handling of illegal immigration.
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Carmen Vetter
Carmen Vetter brings together photographs and kiln-formed glass in effectively two distinct bodies of work. The glass stands out for the cle
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Splatters, Spurts, Sex
Erotic drawings by Sam Francis recently seen in Pasadena were an unfamiliar, uncharacteristic pleasure of frank exuberance.
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Lee Godie
Both self-taught and homeless, Lee Godie managed to insinuate herself into Chicago's art history. Beyond a constant output of paintings her
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“Hidden Narratives”
If you don't think that the medium of glass lends itself to the telling of stories, the four artists included in "Hidden Narratives" beg to
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How to Visit an Art Museum
As a seasoned teacher and art critic, James Yood has visited museums all over the world. He shares his preparation and approach to visiting
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Cris Bruch
"Dispatch" presents a 10-year swath of Cris Bruch's paintings and sculpture. This richly varied work affirms the mystery of form instilled i
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Agnes Martin
The patient, reductive work of Agnes Martin may appear as simple as the grid template from which it grew. But it was her freedom from any pr
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Claire Falkenstein
A lively survey of Claire Falkenstein's sculpture, paintings and prints traces her development as a self-aware modernist. From her earliest
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“Radiant Space”
“Radiant Space" is an impressive selection of glowing, translucent, transparent and reflective works of art. Deriving primarily from L
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Kendall Glover
Line driven and delicate, Kendall Glover uses deceptively slight means to establish a rich array of aesthetic connections.
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Ai Weiwei
One wall of Ai Weiwei’s “Overrated" features forty photos of the artist’s hand, prominently in the foreground and center,
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Cindy Sherman
The numerous personas of Cindy Sherman have formed one of the most provocative and relevant bodies of work by a single artist over the last
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Chuck Close Comes Home
If you thought Chuck Close, the master of the face who suffers from prosopagnosia, hails from New York, think again, he's from the Seattle a
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Carmen Vetter
Carmen Vetter brings together photographs and kiln-formed glass in effectively two distinct bodies of work. The glass stands out for the cle
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Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham derives his paintings and mixed media works from personal turbulence and connects it to collective experience.
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Splatters, Spurts, Sex
Erotic drawings by Sam Francis recently seen in Pasadena were an unfamiliar, uncharacteristic pleasure of frank exuberance.
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Christian Marclay
Remember his "The Clock"? The six recent videos here continue Christian Marclay's intense and methodical process of bringing together thousa
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Leslie Vigeant
The artificial standards of female beauty sprout under sickly pink florescent lights in Leslie Vigeant's heartbreaking and hilarious work.
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Andrea Bowers
Starting with a 19th century illustration of a May Day worker's march, Andrea Bowers brings 21st century compassion and craft.
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“Burnt Generation”
What we call Generation X is the "Burnt Generation" in Iran, and this group of nine mid-career Iranian photographers provide telling insight
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“Virtual Object”
3D printers are used by the artists here to create three dimensional objects: Sculpture. The technology is still novel, the effect of these
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Michael Brophy
Michael Brophy's acclaim as a painter of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest receives a fresh boost in these pictorial vistas of manmade de
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Ballad of a Free Man
Krems, Austria is not your normal tourist destination. James Yood heads there this summer for an artist residency program, which is about mo
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Jim Melchert
Veteran conceptualist Jim Melcher has lately been into ceramics. In "Channels" he breaks up and reassembles store-bought porcelain.
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Lena Moross
Working with watercolors Lena Moross has spent years paintings the transgender Carmine Messina. It is a study in empathy and a celebration o
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El Mac
Well known for his murals, El Mac excels in the ultra-close-up depiction of ordinary people in a distinctive style of contoured lines. This
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Amy Sherald
Know for her portraits of African-American subjects, Amy Sherald brings down the emotional temperature and emphasizes the larger context fro
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“Burnt Generation”
What we call Generation X is the "Burnt Generation" in Iran, and this group of nine mid-career Iranian photographers provide telling insight
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“Subduction”
Harold Mendez, Sharon Koelblinger and Ronny Queued were select for "Subduction" to highlight the labor involved in material transformation.
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“Text”
“Text” is an off-the-grid group exhibition exploring the ways we use the written, printed, spoken, sung and texted word.
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Nina Tichava
The dazzling motion achieved in the mixed media works of Nina Tichava is produced by working layers of pigment, paper and resin to build com
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Peter Combe
The patriotic title notwithstanding, Peter Combe’s "Stars and Stripes" is less about Independence Day than the mysteries of appearance
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On Globalization
Globalization was not long ago considered both necessary and desirable, but it has come under attack this political season. The art world of
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Ballad of a Free Man
Krems, Austria is not your normal tourist destination. James Yood heads there this summer for an artist residency program, which is about mo
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Michael Brophy
Michael Brophy's acclaim as a painter of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest receives a fresh boost in these pictorial vistas of manmade de
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Lena Moross
Working with watercolors Lena Moross has spent years paintings the transgender Carmine Messina. It is a study in empathy and a celebration o
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Courtney M. Leonard
In “Breach: Log 16” Courtney M. Leonard makes salient connections among topics such as the degradation of coral reefs and the et
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Joel Shapiro
This is not the Joel Shapiro who fuses geometric abstraction and the human figure. These colorful works could almost serve as dwellings.
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Cindy Sherman
The numerous personas of Cindy Sherman have formed one of the most provocative and relevant bodies of work by a single artist over the last
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“Subduction”
Harold Mendez, Sharon Koelblinger and Ronny Queued were select for "Subduction" to highlight the labor involved in material transformation.
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“Text”
“Text” is an off-the-grid group exhibition exploring the ways we use the written, printed, spoken, sung and texted word.
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Peter Combe
The patriotic title notwithstanding, Peter Combe’s "Stars and Stripes" is less about Independence Day than the mysteries of appearance
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Neil Beloufa
Neil Beloufa's take on global tensions is expressed in a mixture of film, sculpture and installation. The disconnect between the feeling of
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Gigi Mills
Gigi Mills' female figures lounge about, homeless men sleep in the street in modernist idioms that match bohemian roots against a bourgeois
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Sisyphean Creativity
The distillation of human experience into cathartic forms that we may share in is a key task of creative artists. Richard Speer's experience
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Barbara Rossi
Long associated with the Chicago Imagists, these early works by Barbara Rossi filter vernacular imagery through an intuitive creative proces
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Wendy Red Star
The trophy heads you'd normally expect are removed while the bodies of these dear remain, gold Mylar ribbons spilling out like shimmering in
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Jae Ko
Kraft paper manipulated into large sculptural reliefs is the singular material that Jae Ko uses to transform cold walls and floors into chur
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On Globalization
Globalization was not long ago considered both necessary and desirable, but it has come under attack this political season. The art world of
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Johanna Billing
A pair of films based on an intentional traffic jam comprise Johanna Billing's "Learning How to Drive a Piano." Think about that.
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“It’s Official”
The four designated "Texas State Artists" together show why they received the state's highest official recognition.
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MK Guth
Long plaits of fabric first formed during a residency by MK Guth during a New York residency find their way to Portland, where they are tran
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Ron Ulicny
The gallery serves as a repository for wood sculpture that Ron Ulicny manipulates in a number of surprising ways.
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Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse draws on Oscar Wilde's children's story "The Happy Prince" in new works anchored by wire-mesh and colored glass heads.
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Stephanie Syjuco
Stephanie Syjuco offers a cacophony of visual information, much of which consists of what appears to be consumer goods from big box chain st
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Abigail Goldman
The miniature dioramas of Abigail Goldman reflect her background as a crime reporter. The forensic nastiness depicted in one scene after ano
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Mabel Dodge Luhan
Taos was established as an arts magnet by Mabel Dodge Luhan more than any single person, as this biographical show documents.
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi was both highly regarded (more in Paris than at home) and vilified during his lifetime but obscured
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Jae Ko
Kraft paper manipulated into large sculptural reliefs is the singular material that Jae Ko uses to transform cold walls and floors into chur
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Sisyphean Creativity
The distillation of human experience into cathartic forms that we may share in is a key task of creative artists. Richard Speer's experience
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Victor Maldonado
Victor Maldonado addresses the racial stereotyping he has experienced by mining the symbol of the Mexican masked wrestler.
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Angel Cabrales
In "Delineation" Angel Cabrales provocatively joins images of gun violence to objects of childhood innocence.
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Photographic Matrices
In three recent photography exhibitions, artists and curators have arranged individual portraits in grid formations that bring to mind the p
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“What Birds Can See”
James Collins, Rachel de Joode and Alwin Lay establish a palpable sense of remove between the viewer and the artists’ subject matters.
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Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte turns rooms into stage sets that bombard the viewer with visual and sonic elements. "A Season in He’ll" is inspired by A
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Alan Corkery Hahn
Paperback book pages are elevated by Alan Corkery Hahn with something as insubstantial as thread--and a lot of interesting ideas.
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Decontextualization Run Amok
As has happened before, an entrenched aesthetic over time loses its capacity to surprise and becomes formulaic and unconvincing. Such has be
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“Piston Head II”
Custom made cars are not only a match for Los Angeles, "Piston Head II" shows they are fodder for art. Each here tells their own story rangi
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Peter Krasnow
This retrospective pegs Peter Krasnow a "Maverick Modernist," suggesting that he didn't necessarily stick with the program.
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Katherine Joseph
Working for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Katherine Joseph captured the dignity of work during the golden age of unionized
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Ken Price
Ken Price is and will remain best known for his sculpture, but here we get him as a draftsman. These quirky and colorful drawings offer cont
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“Transported"
The four artists comprising "Transported" each travel widely to produce work that takes us to both the exotic and the local.
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Karla Klarin
San Fernando Valley native Karla Klarin has thrived artistically from the absence of a center and the banal aspects of L.A. The survey of pa
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Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall's reputation for impeccably skillful painting, strong narrative and searing content stand up in this outstanding survey
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David Hockney
David Hockney’s “Yosemite Suite” iPad drawings stress the invigorating and joyful experience of being in that most iconic
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Rahul Mitra
Rahul Mitra is acutely aware of the economic disparity in today's world, and this exhibition provides insight into what this means.
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George Tice
The urban landscape in decline may be an eyesore to most of us, but for George Tice the details of aging hometowns provide the source and in
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Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse draws on Oscar Wilde's children's story "The Happy Prince" in new works anchored by wire-mesh and colored glass heads.
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Mabel Dodge Luhan
Taos was established as an arts magnet by Mabel Dodge Luhan more than any single person, as this biographical show documents.
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi was both highly regarded (more in Paris than at home) and vilified during his lifetime but obscured
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Photographic Matrices
In three recent photography exhibitions, artists and curators have arranged individual portraits in grid formations that bring to mind the p
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“What Birds Can See”
James Collins, Rachel de Joode and Alwin Lay establish a palpable sense of remove between the viewer and the artists' subject matters.
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Victor Maldonado
Victor Maldonado addresses the racial stereotyping he has experienced by mining the symbol of the Mexican masked wrestler.
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Alan Corkery Hahn
Paperback book pages are elevated by Alan Corkery Hahn with something as insubstantial as thread--and a lot of interesting ideas.
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Run Amok
As has happened before, an entrenched aesthetic over time loses its capacity to surprise and becomes formulaic and unconvincing.
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Peter Krasnow
This retrospective pegs Peter Krasnow a "Maverick Modernist," suggesting that he didn't necessarily stick with the program.
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“Transported"
The four artists comprising "Transported" each travel widely to produce work that takes us to both the exotic and the local.
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Karla Klarin
San Fernando Valley native Karla Klarin has thrived artistically from the absence of a center and the banal aspects of L.A. The survey of pa
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Megan Murphy
The bucolic landscape of Idaho is the main subject of Megan Murphy's unorthodox production method blending photography, drawing, painting an
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Amy Bennett
"Small Changes Every Day" is at once the title and the methodology of Amy Bennett's new paintings. She renders an invented landscape and the
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Jeff Perrone
Jeff Perrone sews buttons onto Malian mud cloth in gridded compositions that depict and convey charged, difficult to decipher words.
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Home Land Security
"Home Land Security" at San Francisco's Presidio is the latest production of the FOR-SITE foundation. It's a compelling setting for an inter
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Cannon Bernáldez
Documentation and context are key in Cannon Bernaldez' photography, which takes off from Mexico's violent drug cartel culture.
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William Cannings
William Cannings' sculptural forms are never as simple as they look, often suggestive of formalist minimalism, but referencing a wide range
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David Hockney
David Hockney’s “Yosemite Suite” iPad drawings stress the invigorating and joyful experience of being in that most iconic
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George Tice
The urban landscape in decline may be an eyesore to most of us, but for George Tice the details of aging hometowns provide the source and in
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Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer paints in-between places, clearly taking pleasure in the play of ambiguities. His technique is quite polished, is utterly logic
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George Herms
A selection of pioneering assemblagist George Herms' new work reaffirms his past and current relevance. The Dude abides.
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Mark Klett
"Desert Citizens" are saguaros cactii as photographed by Mark Klett, which gives you a good idea as to the spirit of these images.
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“30 Americans”
This survey of works from Miami's Rubell Family Collection focuses on African American artists and offers how formerly excluded and marginal
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Rebeca Puga
It can take years for Rebeca Puga to complete some of her paintings, but they often feel as though they are the product of a dream-like inst
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Dana Hart-Stone
Dana Hart-Stone’s renders cascades of snapshots, aligning them in vertical strips that form skillfully orchestrated patterns.
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SITElines.2016
If many surveys of American art tend to think Each Coast-West Coast, "SITElines" is oriented on a North-South axis. The artists here emphasi
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Kirstine Reiner Hansen
Inspired by both old and modern masters, Kirstine Reiner Hansen recycles her own portraits and collages to make the imperfect real.
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Michael T. Hensley
The rich but agitated surfaces of Michael T. Hansley's mixed media paintings are like walls or billboards that display multiple generations
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“Symbol Pleasures”
Squeak Carnwath, Walter Robinson and Orlando Leyba make up a three-part funk-art harmony that is delightfully free-spirited.
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The Democratic Lens
Richard Speer is both delighted and exasperated by the now ubiquitous presence and use of the smartphone camera. If it has democratized the
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Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko's large painting installation work "Mirage" anchors an arresting, striking colorful exhibition of paintings and ceramics.
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Pablo Picasso
A pair of exhibitions focus on Pablo Picasso's great draftsmanship as well as his creative process. Works represent many of his stylistic pe
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Home Land Security
"Home Land Security" at San Francisco's Presidio is the latest production of the FOR-SITE foundation. It's a compelling setting for an inter
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Harold Mendez
Harold Mendez multimedia assemblages are loaded with association, symbolism and historical reference.
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“Structures and Feelings”
"Structures and Feelings" is the first of four exhibitions organized by curator-in-residence Michele Fiedler. The artists here probe connect
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Thomas Kellner
Thomas Kellner's exploded photographic grids of iconic international sites evoke violent flux through orderly means.
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Karon Davis
"Pain Management" addresses Karon Davis' experience of her late artist husband Noah Davis' losing battle with cancer in a two-gallery instal
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Remembering Edward Albee
The late playwright Edward Albee is remembered here for his very real struggle for critical acceptance and the good work of his foundation.
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Mark Flood
Mark Flood mines the cultural, social, and political condition of our media saturated lives in a multi-room installation that evokes the sen
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Richard Baker
Scenes of 21st century California leisure are Richard Baker's recalibration of the Impressionists' vision of Paris in the 1870s.
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Marnie Weber
Marnie Weber presents a modern fairy tail of a film and an installation that expands on the ever after of the narrative.
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Ross Bleckner
The sober beauty of Ross Bleckner's painting is apparent in floral-motif screenprints of the 1990s that depict blossoms, minus stems and lea
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“Sacramental Vessels”
Glowing with light, Banjo's glasswork art merges counterculture and fine art with nods to Native American and Asian sources.
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Roloff and Webber
In “Two Artists Collaborate,” Sam Roloff and Shawn Webber wrestle with their individual identities while also confronting one an
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“Alcoves 16/17”
Opening centers, empty spaces, and strong subtleties are the hallmarks of "Alcoves 16/17," the current in a series of seven shows that serve
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Looking Ahead 15 Years
In 2004, James Wood resigned as Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, succeeded by James Cuno, who was succeeded in turn in 2011 by Doug
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Robert Williams
While the public calls it Pop Surrealism, Robert Williams calls it Slang Aesthetics, an outcast visual vernacular that he has spent his care
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“Pick Your Poison”
"Pick Your Poison" offers a thumbnail review of the last five centuries of protest, dissidence, satire and propaganda in prints.
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Marlana Stoddard Hayes
Marlana Stoddard Hayes literally incorporates mushrooms into her paintings, which counterintuitively, are abstract.
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Rocky Schenk
Rocky Schenck documents a world that may seem a "Recurring Dream" to many, but feels familiar to the eye of an Angeleno. Lurking behind his
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Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey is a portraitist with a talent for capturing people's intimate expressions--despite the fact that they are posed.
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“He/She/They”
“He/She/They” is a group show proposing traditional male dominance is endangered, and that this is a good thing that was decades
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Adonna Khare
Adonna Khare draws the heck out of animals that make the point we are indeed all political animals. While making rhetorical points gracefull
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Alison Keogh
In “Pixels” Alison Keogh engages the intersection of structure and chaos. Gestural drawings in sumi ink, idigo and graphite are
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Justin John Greene
In “Secret Slob,” L.A.-based artist Justin John Greene references J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Re
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“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire" is a group selection of powerful and engaging sculpture about compassion, resilience, and above all, resourcefulness.
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Margarita Cabrera
“Space in Between,” a collaboration between Phoenix fiber artist Margarita Cabrera and members of the local immigrant community,
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It’s All True
Bruce Conner's retrospective in timely fashion reminds us what an uncompromising, socially critical avant-garde career looks like.
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“Energy Charge”
The artists included to show alongside the late artist in “Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta” convey an electric energy.
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Manuel Neri
Manuel Nero, now 86, has for decades been a virtuoso of sculptural verisimilitude of the human figure, while having been a central player in
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Jeffrey Vallance
Drawings comprising Jeffrey Vallance's "Now More Than Ever" range from the folksy to the exacting and amount to a quirky visual treasure hun
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Paul Sietsema
Paul Sietsema may be making the most interesting tromp l'oeil around with fields of paint punctured by crinklings, gouges, and scratches.
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Rachel Schwind Gardner
Rachel Schwind Gardner has a special affinity with wild creatures such as deer, wolves and ravens. The title of the show is “Prey," an
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“Online/Offline”
The artists included in "Online / Offline" perch on the barrier between the real and virtual worlds as the separation continues to blur.
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Cannon Bernáldez
Documentation and context are key in Cannon Bernaldez' photography, which takes off from Mexico's violent drug cartel culture.
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George Herms
A selection of pioneering assemblagist George Herms' new work reaffirms his past and current relevance. The Dude abides.
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“30 Americans”
This survey of works from Miami's Rubell Family Collection focuses on African American artists and offers how formerly excluded and marginal
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SITElines.2016
If many surveys of American art tend to think Each Coast-West Coast, "SITElines" is oriented on a North-South axis. The artists here emphasi
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Michael T. Hensley
The rich but agitated surfaces of Michael T. Hansley's mixed media paintings are like walls or billboards that display multiple generations
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The Democratic Lens
Richard Speer is both delighted and exasperated by the now ubiquitous presence and use of the smartphone camera. If it has democratized the
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Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko's large painting installation work "Mirage" anchors an arresting, striking colorful exhibition of paintings and ceramics.
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Pablo Picasso
A pair of exhibitions focus on Pablo Picasso's great draftsmanship as well as his creative process. Works represent many of his stylistic pe
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Remembering Edward Albee
The late playwright Edward Albee is remembered here for his very real struggle for critical acceptance and the good work of his foundation.
more...
Richard Baker
Scenes of 21st century California leisure are Richard Baker's recalibration of the Impressionists' vision of Paris in the 1870s.
more...
Looking Ahead 15 Years
In 2004, James Wood resigned as Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, succeeded by James Cuno, who was succeeded in turn in 2011 by Doug
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“Alcoves 16/17”
Opening centers, empty spaces, and strong subtleties are the hallmarks of "Alcoves 16/17," the current in a series of seven shows that serve
more...
“Pick Your Poison”
"Pick Your Poison" offers a thumbnail review of the last five centuries of protest, dissidence, satire and propaganda in prints.
more...
Rocky Schenk
Rocky Schenck documents a world that may seem a "Recurring Dream" to many, but feels familiar to the eye of an Angeleno. Lurking behind his
more...
Adonna Khare
Adonna Khare draws the heck out of animals that make the point we are indeed all political animals. While making rhetorical points gracefull
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It’s All True
Bruce Conner's retrospective in timely fashion reminds us what an uncompromising, socially critical avant-garde career looks like.
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“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire" is a group selection of powerful and engaging sculpture about compassion, resilience, and above all, resourcefulness.
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Aaron Parazette
Bold geometric paintings on shaped canvases draw Aaron Parazette closer in look and spirit to Ellsworth Kelly--but no too close.
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Sara Rafferty
Small works encircling the gallery reflect the cumulative range of subjects that Sara Greenberger Rafferty has engaged in her career.
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“American Painting Today”
An abandoned thrift shop serves as home to "American Painting Today," a mixed but exhilarating self-selection of over 90 artists. Painting i
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“Uncertainty”
"Uncertainty" bring art and science together both practically and aesthetically, with the science component narrowly outpacing the art side.
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Garrick Imatani
Garrick Imatani’s “A Broken Tower” provides a bittersweet farewell to the consistently superb Hap Gallery, which closes it
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“Artists’ Choice”
Gallery affiliated artists selected one non-affiliate each, and "Artists' Choice" adds up to a surprisingly coherent group show.
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Toba Khedoori
This survey brings Toba Khedoori's now familiar images of precise but spare post-minimalist objects centered on large, empty sheets. Arrange
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“Energy Charge”
The artists included to show alongside the late artist in “Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta” convey an electric energy.
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Jeffrey Vallance
Drawings comprising Jeffrey Vallance's "Now More Than Ever" range from the folksy to the exacting and amount to a quirky visual treasure hun
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“Identity / Insight”
"Identity/Insight" is an instructive delving into representational art dealing with personality, fantasy, psychological states and more.
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Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Emotional affect in Patricia Lay-Dorsey's homage to her marriage maintains a steady and credible honesty that ultimately proves elevating.
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Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Identity is addressed in ceramics by Jennifer Ling Datchuk, the daughter of a Chinese mother and Russian-Irish father who long felt "in-betw
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Kemang Wa Lehulere
South African Kemang Wa Lehulere fashions muscular constructions that show how the personal connects to the historical.
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Phillip K. Smith III
Deeply influenced by classic light and space art, Philip K. Smith III's sculptures bring together light, color, reflection, constant change
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Roy Lichtenstein
This extensive survey of Roy Lichtenstein's rich vein of prints draws connections between his pop art and appropriation.
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It Has Happened Here
The incoming President and Congress will pose significant challenges to our creative communities freedom of expression. In their media art h
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Bernard Chadwick
Bernard Chadwick's spiritually powerful video is triggered in the gallery by sounds and sensors that create a constantly shifting flow of im
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Joyce Pensato
The basis for Joyce Pensato's intense paintings for over 40 years is classic cartoon characters, which she pushes to the verge of collapse.
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“Poetic Minimalism”
If you think of minimalist art as hard and austere, "Poetic Minimalism" challenges the stereotype and will change your impression.
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Critique Week!
James Yood takes us inside the single most intense experience that any would-be artist is likely to experience: the crit. Yood muses over th
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Catherine Colangelo
“Talismanic," the title of Catherine Colangelo’s current show, borrows a term that describes objects with the power to protect f
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Genius on Paper
Prints by Pablo Picasso chronicling his visual innovation are paired with an emotionally moving selection by Edvard Munch.
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Milford Zornes
Part of the California Scene painting group during the 1930s, Milford Zornes specialized in watercolor depictions of a then unspoiled (by ex
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“American Painting Today”
An abandoned thrift shop serves as home to "American Painting Today," a mixed but exhilarating self-selection of over 90 artists. Painting i
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“Uncertainty”
"Uncertainty" bring art and science together both practically and aesthetically, with the science component narrowly outpacing the art side.
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“Artists’ Choice”
Gallery affiliated artists selected one non-affiliate each, and "Artists' Choice" adds up to a surprisingly coherent group show.
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“Identity / Insight”
"Identity/Insight" is an instructive delving into representational art dealing with personality, fantasy, psychological states and more.
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It Has Happened Here
The incoming President and Congress will pose significant challenges to our creative communities freedom of expression. In their media art h
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Roy Lichtenstein
This extensive survey of Roy Lichtenstein's rich vein of prints draws connections between his pop art and appropriation.
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Ryan Goolsby
Ryan Goolsby's "Totem" sculptures are both spare and compelling. Referential but not specifically so, carefully designed but of no utility,
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Madelin Coit
Madelin Coit returns to the gallery every Friday to make and add new works made from magazine paper and sheets of metal mesh.
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Larry Bell
An original glass installation, "Pacific Red" is given context with a survey of Larry Bell's "physical vapor depositions."
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View of a Royal Family
Asks DeWitt Cheng, how do we foster both an informed electorate and an art audience immune to hucksterism? The recent passing of culture cri
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Juventino Aranda
In his gallery debut, Juventino Aranda treads a fine line between elegance, humor and flat out anger. Textiles replace paint but quote the l
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Francesca Pastine
Francesca Pastine composes art objects from art magazines, thus making her a purveyor of conceptual irony with an element of surprise.
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Greg Miller
Greg Miller combines densely layered pop imagery with gestural painting to effect a jigsaw view of our unfolding cultural landscape.
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Donald Woodman
Nearly 40 years ago Donald Woodman accompanied Agnes Martin on a backcountry river trip in Canada's Northwest Territory. The photographs may
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The Real Inauguration Day
The January 21st Women’s Marches in the U.S. and abroad demonstrated our capacity for a mass democratic uprising. The many visual and
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Lisa Cardenas
The lyrical abstractions of "Silence is Home" combine art with an awareness of technology expressed with what appear to be musical notations
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“En Face”
The portrait may be the topic of "En Face," but the artists reveal more about the nature of people and the spaces they inhabit.
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Pedro E. Guerrero
As a young photographer Pedro E. Guerrero worked for Frank Lloyd Wright. Here he goes beyond the architectural photography to document the a
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Wes Hempel and Kal Mansur
Wes Hempel's politely homoerotic men are inserted into old master art historical settings. Kal Mansur's geometric constructions occupy the o
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Grand-daddy of Op
Francis Celentano began as a scholar of Abstract Expressionism, but evolved into one of our top hard edge true believers.
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Magdalena Fernández
"Flexible Structures" includes works as far back as 1999, but the sculptures and installation are new and dominate the show. Black steel sph
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Tom Lieber
In ten new paintings, Tom Lieber sustains his decades long commitment to the power of gestural abstraction.
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The survey of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy shows him to have been among the most inventive and eloquent inventors of early modernism.
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Will Wilson
Will Wilson turns modern anxiety to fascination in the way he imagines a survivalist dwelling. The shakiness of the collages here enables us
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Taos Society
The Taos Society of Artists were European trained academics who shared in common having been drawn to the outlying town of Taos.
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Aesthetics and Action
Richard Speer reflects on the broader impact of artistic discourse. Progressive as it is, does it have any measurable impact on the furthera
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Greg Miller
Greg Miller combines densely layered pop imagery with gestural painting to effect a jigsaw view of our unfolding cultural landscape.
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Juventino Aranda
Juventino Aranda quotes the likes of Mark Rothko. But the use of a Pendelton shirt rather than paint also reads as a symbol of ethnicity and
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“Poetic Minimalism”
If you think of minimalist art as hard and austere, "Poetic Minimalism" challenges the stereotype and will change your impression.
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Critique Week!
James Yood takes us inside the single most intense experience that any would-be artist is likely to experience: the crit. Yood muses over th
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Genius on Paper
Prints by Pablo Picasso chronicling his visual innovation are paired with an emotionally moving selection by Edvard Munch.
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Milford Zornes
Part of the California Scene painting group during the 1930s, Milford Zornes specialized in watercolor depictions of a then unspoiled (by ex
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Larry Bell
An original glass installation, "Pacific Red" is given context with a survey of Larry Bell's "physical vapor depositions."
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View of a Royal Family
Asks DeWitt Cheng, how do we foster both an informed electorate and an art audience immune to hucksterism? The recent passing of culture cri
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Ryan Goolsby
Ryan Goolsby's "Totem" sculptures are both spare and compelling. Referential but not specifically so, carefully designed but of no utility,
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The Real Inauguration Day
The January 21st Women’s Marches in the U.S. and abroad demonstrated our capacity for a mass democratic uprising. The many visual and
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Magdalena Fernández
"Flexible Structures" includes works as far back as 1999, but the sculptures and installation are new and dominate the show. Black steel sph
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Grand-daddy of Op
Francis Celentano began as a scholar of Abstract Expressionism, but evolved into one of our top hard edge true believers.
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Pedro E. Guerrero
As a young photographer Pedro E. Guerrero worked for Frank Lloyd Wright. Here he goes beyond the architectural photography to document the a
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Johannes Girardoni
A suite of candy-colored minimalist sculptures titled “Resonance” by Johannes Girardoni are devastatingly gorgeous — and d
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Greta Young
Greta Young's deformed cartoons twist through the soiled white space, ready to swallow up a person, should they magically spring to life.
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Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades earned a reputation as a "bad boy" artist who broke conventions in hard to navigate installations, seemingly chaotic agglomera
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Love Trumps Hate
"Love Trumps Hate" has been advocated through art for decades, and now we need to get this kind of art out there again.
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Dennis Mukai
The meticulous detail of Dennis Mukai's paintings is actually produced by sanding to remove layers of paint. Removing tiny areas of this or
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Adrianne Rubenstein
A jolt of hyperchromatic pizzazz makes you take notice of Adrianne Rubenstein's highly expressive acid-toned paintings.
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“Terra Mater”
In “Terra Mater,” or Mother Earth, three Arizona artists -- Michael Lundgren, Mayme Kratz and Christopher Colville -- bring a h
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Rachel Lachowicz
Red lipstick has been a signature material in Rachel Lachowicz's oeuvre. So it is in her current installation "Lay Back and Enjoy It", cover
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Kahlo: Her Photos
Photographs of and by Frida Kahlo both reinforce the storied narrative of her life, but also allow us to enter into its intimacies.
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Where Art Hordes Go
Like the planets aligning once every long while, three of Europe's most significant art festivals as concurrent this year.
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Peter Power
For Peter Power, artwork is not just the product of the studio, it is about what happens in the studio. One leaning, wall-sized work and a b
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Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith's soft touch of an installation flirts heavily with post-Duchampian mischievousness, but with an immense amount of freedom
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“Holy Barbarians”
“Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast” brings together six key beat-era artists who helped change the art culture of
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Protest and Authenticity
Genuine political outrage channeled through the sensibilities of strong, creative individuals can certainly generate great art. They are the
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Aesthetics and Action
Richard Speer reflects on the broader impact of artistic discourse. Progressive as it is, does it have any measurable impact on the furthera
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The survey of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy shows him to have been among the most inventive and eloquent inventors of early modernism.
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Taos Society
The Taos Society of Artists were European trained academics who shared in common having been drawn to the outlying town of Taos.
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Johannes Girardoni
A suite of candy-colored minimalist sculptures titled “Resonance” by Johannes Girardoni are devastatingly gorgeous — and d
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Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades earned a reputation as a "bad boy" artist who broke conventions in hard to navigate installations, seemingly chaotic agglomera
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Love Trumps Hate
"Love Trumps Hate" has been advocated through art for decades, and now we need to get this kind of art out there again.
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Dennis Mukai
The meticulous detail of Dennis Mukai's paintings is actually produced by sanding to remove layers of paint. Removing tiny areas of this or
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Where Art Hordes Go
Like the planets aligning once every long while, three of Europe's most significant art festivals as concurrent this year.
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Kahlo: Her Photos
Photographs of and by Frida Kahlo both reinforce the storied narrative of her life, but also allow us to enter into its intimacies.
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Yvette Mayorga
The attraction of the sweet, buttery scent of frosting runs up against the cut-out, glitter-covered words “GO BACK” hung from a
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Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk’s sprawling “American Qur’an” is unintentionally timely, given current efforts to impose travel bans and
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Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon recorded public places in Europe, but edits out the masses of people so as to transform the architecture into mysterious virtual
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Christine Frerichs
The landscape paintings of Christine Frerichs dazzle us with their light, which is decidedly a light of place as well as time of day or nigh
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Archipenko on the West Coast
Ukranian native Alexander Archipenko rose to become one of cubist sculpture's most important talents early in what became a globe-trotting c
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Stacey Steers
Filmmaker Stacey Steers' "Edge of Alchemy" draws on silent film era footage and 19th century engravings and woodcuts collaged into a loose n
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Ellen Berman
Ellen Berman’s paintings of food and domestic objects seem as though they could come alive and provide nourishment.
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Bryan David Griffith
"Rethinking Fire" is Bryan David Griffith's artful way to question why we disrupt the cycle of naturally occurring wildfires.
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Sophia Dixon Dillo
More than 20 miles of metallic copper thread ebb and flow like streams of golden light in Sophia Dixon Dillo’s “Illumination.&rd
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Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age.
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“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of arc
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Laurent Millet
Laurent Millet cites his childhood memories building things from sticks and rocks. The early works retain more of the intuitive mystery of c
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Linarejos Moreno
“Art Forms in Mechanism,” which refers to Linarejos Moreno’s ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the industrial
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“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies.
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Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism.
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Tom Bolles
"Reverence," the title of Tom Bolles' current show, emphasizes and achieves a careful balance of color, light and texture.
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin’s paintings were more about empty spaces than what is visible. Starting in the late 1940s he was among a tiny handful
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Margaret Lazzari
For Margaret Lazzari her ability to represent the natural world facilitates the symbolism of "Wild Biology's" autobiographical source materi
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David Simpson
Iridescent color radiates, shifts and glows so as to keep the eye moving in David Simpson's constantly moving color field paintings.
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Rhonda Wheatley
Rhonda Wheatley presents herself as a modern day shaman, and her use of found objects and vintage appliances with organic material such as s
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The Pregnant Void
The immaculately spartan works of Kirshio Suga provoked Richard Speer to reflect on the dialogue between shape and space.
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Christopher Russell
Christopher Russell provides a lesson in how to marry together smart use of digital tools with fastidious hand-craftsmanship.
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Corey Stein
Corey Stein takes quaint little glass beads sewn onto felt to build sophisticated images that speak of environmental concerns and cultural r
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Cameron Martin
The aggressively optical abstract paintings of Cameron Martin are built on linear patterns that fool the eye in clever and unexpected ways.
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Francisco Toledo
Not known for his textile media, this show of felt tapestries by Francisco Toledo bring together the deep tradition of Oaxaca wool with cont
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Ann Johnson/Desira Garcia
Political content plays a key part on Ann Johnson's mixed media sculptures. Desira Garcia's paintings critique the questionable effects of s
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Frederick Hammersley
In a career survey, Frederick Hammersley's wide-ranging technical skills are impressive, but the real story is the vibrancy of personality a
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Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball's paintings are drawn from photographs of new arrivals at Ellis Island, and of displaced migrants in their own country of Romania
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The Propeller Group
Working between their native Vietnam and Los Angeles, The Propeller Group's striking body of video, sculpture and installation works are dri
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Frank Romero
Boyle Heights in East L.A. is closely associated with Chicano culture, and few artists are more associated with it as an emerging cultural f
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Lauren Greenfield
The relationship of self-image to privileged materialism has long driven Lauren Greenfield's photography and filmmaking. Her current book, "
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teamLab
The immersive installation "Flowers and People, Cannot by Controlled but Live Together - A Whole Year per Hour" presents the Japanese collec
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Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed.
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“Politics of Place”
The message-laden "Politics of Place" is an aesthetic grappling with female empowerment, immigration, and, well, tweets.
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Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson's portraits of African Americans from around the country are packed with revealing, often surprising narrative details.
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Al Loving
The late Al Loving is better known on the East Coast, so his evolution from a hard edge minimalist aesthetic to a much more energized, swirl
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Lynn Hanson
Daily nature walks inform Lynn Hanson's art. What she sees and records by camera translates into land- and seascapes infused with feeling.
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Ken Fandell
Examples from three series of layered photographs turn a blown out tire, some bricks, and palm tree trunks into rich visual journeys.
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Rick Bartow
Known more for his animal/human hybrids, Rick Bartow's modest "Tot Blumen" botanicals reflect profoundly on mortality.
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Marcus Zúñiga
Newcomer Marcus Züñiga contextualizes a cosmic perspective through a personal and ethno-centric lens. Materials are contemporary
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Gisela Colon
Mysterious and magical, Gisela Colon's color and light sculptures defy any simple explanation of how they were produced.
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Alex Weinstein
Stand under the sun and close your eyes to see the light on your closed lids. Dive under a wave, look up and see the sun droplets above your
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Protest and Authenticity
Genuine political outrage channeled through the sensibilities of strong, creative individuals can certainly generate great art. They are the
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Archipenko on the West Coast
Ukranian native Alexander Archipenko rose to become one of cubist sculpture's most important talents early in what became a globe-trotting c
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Christine Frerichs
The landscape paintings of Christine Frerichs dazzle us with their light, which is decidedly a light of place as well as time of day or nigh
more...
Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age.
more...
“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of arc
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Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism.
more...
“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies.
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The Pregnant Void
The immaculately spartan works of Kirshio Suga provoked Richard Speer to reflect on the dialogue between shape and space.
more...
Margaret Lazzari
For Margaret Lazzari her ability to represent the natural world facilitates the symbolism of "Wild Biology's" autobiographical source materi
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Corey Stein
Corey Stein takes quaint little glass beads sewn onto felt to build sophisticated images that speak of environmental concerns and cultural r
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Cameron Martin
The aggressively optical abstract paintings of Cameron Martin are built on linear patterns that fool the eye in clever and unexpected ways.
more...
Ann Johnson/Desira Garcia
Political content plays a key part on Ann Johnson's mixed media sculptures. Desira Garcia's paintings critique the questionable effects of s
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Frederick Hammersley
In a career survey, Frederick Hammersley's wide-ranging technical skills are impressive, but the real story is the vibrancy of personality a
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Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed.
more...
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball's paintings are drawn from photographs of new arrivals at Ellis Island, and of displaced migrants in their own country of Romania
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Lauren Greenfield
The relationship of self-image to privileged materialism has long driven Lauren Greenfield's photography and filmmaking. Her current book, "
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teamLab
The immersive installation "Flowers and People, Cannot by Controlled but Live Together - A Whole Year per Hour" presents the Japanese collec
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Al Loving
The late Al Loving is better known on the East Coast, so his evolution from a hard edge minimalist aesthetic to a much more energized, swirl
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Lynn Hanson
Daily nature walks inform Lynn Hanson's art. What she sees and records by camera translates into land- and seascapes infused with feeling.
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Zadok Ben-David
Zadok Ben-David’s “People I Saw But Never Met” consists of 30,000 chemically etched aluminum figures that build on the con
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Emily Wood
Emily Wood has long chronicled the landscape of the western U.S. Hers are luminous and reliable scenes across the mountainous divide between
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Georgina Spengler
Georgina Spengler's woodland streams and lush greenery are immersive and abstract. They are also an homage to Greek Nobel winning poet Gior
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“A New Look”
“A New Look” is a fresh take on current figurative art in which the relationship of the figure to art history is only a sliver o
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Mike Carney
Mike Carney favors the use of surprising media because they allow him to explore how images are constructed and the illusion involved in tr
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“Crossing Boundaries”
“Crossing Boundaries" presents the work of six women artists who delve into diverse media. But the real point is that each artist appr
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Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Not perhaps as much an event as the recent Monet or Matisse and Diebenkorn exhibitions, Stuart Davis dazzles at the de Young Museum. It clar
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Art Business as Unusual
Documenta and the Venice Biennale have opened; major retrospectives are gearing up. Beneath the surface, all is not well.
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Alexandra Eldridge
Alexandra Eldridge is a longtime acolyte of William Blake, and the mystical journey this exhibition takes us on shows why.
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Rex Ray
A selection of Rex Ray's paintings and collages, "We Are All Made of Light" are baroque-hallucinatory Rorschach tests.
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Firelei Báez
A powerful feminine aesthetic of dense patterns, jewel-toned palettes and female figures dominates Firelei Báez’s “Vessel
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Carroll Dunham
The nude male frolicks and wrestles his way through Carroll Dunham's current paintings. He strikes a knowing balance between in your face ag
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Christine Cassano
Ecology, biology and technology all feed into Christine Cassano's walk-in installation, "Black Box."
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Ray Carofano
The Los Angeles River is both subject and stage for photographer Ray Carofano. He finds concrete beauty and uses his knowledge of light to p
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Benny Fountain
Benny Fountain produces seemingly infinite permutations on a repeated theme of still-lifes and domestic scenes drawn from memory.
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Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon's sculpture allows screws, magnets, fasteners and other finishing materials to both enrich the surfaces of his organic forms
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John Baldessari
"Eight Colorful Inside Jobs" is a serial transcription of one of John Baldessari's best known early projects, "Six Colorful Inside Jobs."
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Jefferson Hayman
The things Jefferson Hayman photographs range from oranges wrapped in tissue, to an ace of spades playing card, to a bird in flight.
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Alexander Yulish
In "Out of Order," Alexander Yulish paints in a celebratory tone with vibrant hues, curvaceous forms and electrified movement.
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Ken Fandell
Examples from three series of layered photographs turn a blown out tire, some bricks, and palm tree trunks into rich visual journeys.
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Alex Weinstein
Stand under the sun and close your eyes to see the light on your closed lids. Dive under a wave, look up and see the sun droplets above your
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Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Not perhaps as much an event as the recent Monet or Matisse and Diebenkorn exhibitions, Stuart Davis dazzles at the de Young Museum. It clar
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Emily Wood
Emily Wood has long chronicled the landscape of the western U.S. Hers are luminous and reliable scenes across the mountainous divide between
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“A New Look”
“A New Look” is a fresh take on current figurative art in which the relationship of the figure to art history is only a sliver o
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Art Business as Unusual
Documenta and the Venice Biennale have opened; major retrospectives are gearing up. Beneath the surface, all is not well.
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“Crossing Boundaries”
“Crossing Boundaries" presents the work of six women artists who delve into diverse media. But the real point is that each artist appr
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Paul Komada
Paul Komada spent well over a year more than memorializing the Alaskan Way viaduct, scheduled to be demolished next year.
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Hilario Gutierrez
Hilario Gutierrez came late to painting, but his work rapidly came to embody the collision of emotions felt before a western landscape.
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Terry St. John
Second generation Bay Area Figuration painter Terry St. John receives an abbreviated survey of his painterly expressionism.
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Phil Dike
Watercolor specialist Phil Dike, born in 1906, spent his career observing and responding to the parade of early modernist movements from the
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Benjamin Weissman
Both an active fiction author and artist, in "We Never Kissed" Benjamin Weisman obsesses over images of gorillas having sex.
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Daniel Johnston
Potter Daniel Johnston's large and numerous vessels crowd the gallery into a labyrinth of narrow and curved corridors that lead us into a da
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Anna Fidler
Female empowerment is celebrated in depictions of archetypal Amazons in action by Anna Fidler.
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Roni Horn
A grouping of seven five-ton cast glass sculptures glow with color and luminous intensity, each delicate at the surface despite their huge m
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Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon immerses himself in the settings he chooses to document. The three series from which this exhibition draws focus on historical e
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Ray Carofano
The Los Angeles River is both subject and stage for photographer Ray Carofano. He finds concrete beauty and uses his knowledge of light to p
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Benny Fountain
Benny Fountain produces seemingly infinite permutations on a repeated theme of still-lifes and domestic scenes drawn from memory.
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John Baldessari
"Eight Colorful Inside Jobs" is a serial transcription of one of John Baldessari's best known early projects, "Six Colorful Inside Jobs."
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Paul Komada
Paul Komada spent well over a year more than memorializing the Alaskan Way viaduct, scheduled to be demolished next year.
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Phil Dike
Watercolor specialist Phil Dike, born in 1906, spent his career observing and responding to the parade of early modernist movements from the
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Monroe Hodder
Monroe Hodder's painting revels in the circus, the carnival, the funhouse. It's a Ronald McDonald fantasia of a childhood idyll.
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Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist's “Pixel Forest” is composed of a “forest” of some 3,000 suspended glowing orbs arranged to allow us
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Erik Olson
The colorful paintings of Erik Olson ooze painterly brushwork that form into portraits that at first are barely recognizable as such.
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Ricardo Mazal
Ricardo Mazal has a distinctive feel for the painted strata of geological formations that are endowed with spiritual meaning.
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Takashi Murakami
“Superflat" anime-inspired imagery is what Takashi Murakami is most closely identified with. But this survey, "The Octopus Eats Its Ow
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Roni Horn
A grouping of seven five-ton cast glass sculptures glow with color and luminous intensity, each delicate at the surface despite their huge m
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Steve Schapiro
Steve Schapiro’s documentary skill and empathy are evident in "Freedom Now,” an exhibition of Civil Rights era photographs.
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“Bold Disobedience”
"Bold Disobedience" pairs practicing artists with under voting age Chicago high-schoolers, and the combination is marked by bluntness and a
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Artists of Coenties Slip
For a decade during the 1950s, a tiny slice of lower Manhattan sheltered artists who separated from prevailing artistic orthodoxy.
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Tom and James Franco
Assemblagist Tom Franco and his brother, actor James, present a series of sewer pipe pillars altered by prodigious carving and painting.
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“Tomorrow is Another Day”
Mark Bradford's Venice Biennale installation covers multiple rooms in an impassioned aesthetic wail that laments a disgraced nation.
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Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken's immersive video installations, as seen here, consistently expand expressive possibilities of the media. The well-conceived ins
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Rafael Soriano
A career survey traces Cuban expatriate Rafael Soriano's transition from bright but stark geometric abstraction to an organic and luminous s
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Candida Alvarez
Candida Alvarez' artistic trajectory has been anything but linear, her use of abstract and symbolic elements coming and going.
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Sono Osato
In "Submergence" Sono Osato's flat layers of transparent space in which are suspended silhouettes--but of what?
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Betye Saar
The core of Betye Saar's "Keepin' It Clean" is a series of washboard assemblages that delight the eye while conveying historical pain.
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Jacqueline Ehlis
Tucked away from the main gallery, Jacqueline Ehlis little hybrids form the most incongruous whole, invigorating to the verge of the freneti
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Steve Yazzie
Native American artist Steve Yazzie takes indigenous culture as his point of departure to arrive at a video installation that is both immers
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The Eclipse is Coming
The August 21st full solar eclipse crosses the U.S., offering a unique visual experience to millions in approximately two minute intervals.
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Takashi Murakami
“Superflat" anime-inspired imagery is what Takashi Murakami is most closely identified with. But this survey, "The Octopus Eats Its Ow
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Erik Olson
The colorful paintings of Erik Olson ooze painterly brushwork that form into portraits that at first are barely recognizable as such.
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Artists of Coenties Slip
For a decade during the 1950s, a tiny slice of lower Manhattan sheltered artists who separated from prevailing artistic orthodoxy.
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“Tomorrow is Another Day”
Mark Bradford's Venice Biennale installation covers multiple rooms in an impassioned aesthetic wail that laments a disgraced nation.
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Steve Schapiro
Steve Schapiro’s documentary skill and empathy are evident in "Freedom Now,” an exhibition of Civil Rights era photographs.
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The Eclipse is Coming
The August 21st full solar eclipse crosses the U.S., offering a unique visual experience to millions in approximately two minute intervals.
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Rafael Soriano
A career survey traces Cuban expatriate Rafael Soriano's transition from bright but stark geometric abstraction to an organic and luminous s
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Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken's immersive video installations, as seen here, consistently expand expressive possibilities of the media. The well-conceived ins
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Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach may not be a prophetic doomsayer, but his photographic images convey decipherable signs of incipient collapse. And the recen
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“Eclipse”
This mix of art and science revolves around the August 21st solar eclipse, both celebrating the phenomenon and using it as a point of depart
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Jeffrey Wolin
In two bodies of photographs, Jeffrey Wolin visits and then revisits residents of the Pigeon Hill housing projects in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Chad Hasegawa
Chad Hasegawa is a street artist whose current easel paintings are about their survival in the harsh conditions the murals must put up with.
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Sebastiao Salgado
Globep-trotting photographer Sabastiao Salgado’s work sits in a space between art, documentary and photo-journalism. In his images we
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Dont Fret
Dont Fret is a street artist who brings the same spontaneity and questioning of convictions to the work in this gallery exhibit.
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Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz dies prematurely, but the vibrancy of this retrospective convinces the key role he played in elevating the ambitions of the L
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Robert Grosvenor
Sculptures from multiple points of Robert Grosvenor's career juxtapose and aesthetically balance the use of offbeat materials.
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A Talent for Talent
The late curator Walter Hopps, "elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules," was as responsibl
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The Kangas Six
The third Seattle Art Fair drew a large and diverse audience. Matthew Kangas discusses a half dozen artists who stood out for their ability
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Jayna Zweiman
Zweiman is a co-originator of the Pussyhat Project, and she again blends craft and activism with the "Welcome Blanket." Contributors world-w
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Kimberly Brooks
Kimberly Brooks takes her painting in a new direction that she describes as "Brazen", allowing her brush to wander where it will.
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Jessica Hess
Realist vision and photorealist technique meet in Jessica Hess' slices of architectural life in urban America.
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“Monet’s Etretat”
Claude Monet's pair of ethereal paintings of the cliffs at the north coastal town of Etretat are paired with those of William Henry Lippinco
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Doris Totten Chase
Seattle artist Doris Chase's early work in her home town enjoyed hard won acceptance in New York during her time there in the 1970s. Her dan
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Trey Egan
Trey Egan’s energetic abstractions, "Future Glow," embrace lyrical abstraction enriched by his use of a variety of instruments for pai
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Hei Myun C. Hyun
Originally from Korean, Hei Myun C. Hyun expresses a balance of Eastern and West Coast aesthetic traditions in her evolving use of the grid.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela
“General Song” is Rodrigo Valenzuela's studio constructed photographs on the theme of borders, barriers, and protest barricades.
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Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares' survey "Any Moment Now" displays her skill at transforming found objects unmoored from their original use and meaning in ord
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Not “Good Muse”
San Francisco's Legion of Honor's latest effort to bring contemporary artwork into dialogue with its collection simply flops.
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A Talent for Talent
The late curator Walter Hopps, "elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules," was as responsibl
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“Eclipse”
This mix of art and science revolves around the August 21st solar eclipse, both celebrating the phenomenon and using it as a point of depart
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Johnnie Winona Ross
Johnnie Winona Ross is influenced by the often imperceptible effects of nature on the New Mexico desert. What starts as a sensual abstractio
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Eva Speer
In Eva Speer's “Outrageous Fortune,"she breaks up hyperrealistic images with color fields that expose the artifice of object-making.
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Jack Pavlik and Louis Watts
Jack Pavlik’s "10 Waves" kinetic sculptures sit silently before they begin moving rhythmically, producing a chiming metallic music. Lo
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Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Alfred Ramos Martinez offered intimate insights into the pluralistic nature of Mexican culture with an eye trained in modernism.
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Edvard Munch
Apart from SFMOMA's current show of Edvard Munch's paintings, this gallery show of his prints and works on paper display the freedom of Munc
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“Small Sculpture”
On two long, white tables, 55 small sculptures by as many artists form an array of artworks resembling specimens laid out for inspection, ru
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Gay Outlaw
Gay Outlaw's "Ozone" references climate change with a wide range of media, quality craftsmanship, and wide open wit.
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Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
in 1974 Los Four strode through the Los Angeles County Museum, spray-painting the front of the building as they arrived. One of them, Gilber
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Gilliam and Hurley
Denzil Hurley and Sam Gilliam, in simultaneous exhibitions, exemplify very distinct approaches to abstract painting; both work.
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Shawn Huckins
Pre-20th Century American portraiture is defaced with smart phone phrases and graphic icons in Shawn Huckins’ canceling of historical
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Julije Knifer, Mangelos
Going back to the 1950s Yugoslavian artists Julije Knifer and Mangelos produced some of the earliest conceptual-based works.
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Hans Burkhardt
No, Hans Burkhardt was not Latin American, but the native Swiss modernist did find a spiritual second home in Mexico, having traveled and li
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Moonlighting Movie Stars
Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt or Jim Carrey tend to infuriate many artists by gaining undeserved attention for art that is half baked. Sti
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Dedicated archivists, image of industrial facades and structures such as water towers, grain elevators and blast furnaces by the late Bernd
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“Past/Future/Present”
The vibrancy of Brazilian contemporary art is on full display in “Past/Future/Present,” the first large-scale U.S. appearance of
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Laura Aguilar
Laura Aguilar focuses her camera on herself as well as others, often overweight, queer and working class, that many of us don’t tend t
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock has been visualizing these stories since he was a kid. But the conflict between the Mounds and the Vegans is for grown
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Elise Wagner
Runes, astrological symbols, and celestial imagery have figured prominently in Elise Wagner’s body of work, and now climate change and
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Mary Corse
Mary Corse spare but muscular version of reductivist painting and installation over a half century is summarized in this extended visual man
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“Future Shock”
SITE Santa Fe itself is part of the story, reopening after more than a year of new construction with "Future Shock," whose ten artists prese
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Dinh Q. Lé
In "The Scrolls: Distortion" Dinh Q. Lé, drapes rolls of original and appropriated images on paper cascading from ceiling to floor.
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Sheldon Figoten
If Sheldon Figoten's subtle geometric abstractions that emphasize balancing dualities call to mind John McLaughlin, there's a good reason.
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The Walking Cure
The heartlessness of much contemporary art, argues DeWitt Cheng, reflects the lack of an ethical center in American culture.
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Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz dies prematurely, but the vibrancy of this retrospective convinces the key role he played in elevating the ambitions of the L
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The Kangas Six
The third Seattle Art Fair drew a large and diverse audience. Matthew Kangas discusses a half dozen artists who stood out for their ability
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“Monet’s Etretat”
Claude Monet's pair of ethereal paintings of the cliffs at the north coastal town of Etretat are paired with those of William Henry Lippinco
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Doris Totten Chase
Seattle artist Doris Chase's early work in her home town enjoyed hard won acceptance in New York during her time there in the 1970s. Her dan
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Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares' survey "Any Moment Now" displays her skill at transforming found objects unmoored from their original use and meaning in ord
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Not “Good Muse”
San Francisco's Legion of Honor's latest effort to bring contemporary artwork into dialogue with its collection simply flops.
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Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Alfred Ramos Martinez offered intimate insights into the pluralistic nature of Mexican culture with an eye trained in modernism.
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Jack Pavlik and Louis Watts
Jack Pavlik’s "10 Waves" kinetic sculptures sit silently before they begin moving rhythmically, producing a chiming metallic music. Lo
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Edvard Munch
Apart from SFMOMA's current show of Edvard Munch's paintings, this gallery show of his prints and works on paper display the freedom of Munc
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Peter Foucault
Peter Foucault uses small robots to draw, making the point that process may be deliberately deployed to take us beyond taste.
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Nancy Graves
"After Image" presents a selection of Nancy Graves' black grounded paintings of the 1980s. Lines and patterns burst with colorful energy.
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“Disruptive Perspectives”
"Disruptive Perspectives" explicates the multiplicity of experience when it comes to gender and sexual identity. Works here boldly make the
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Mona Hatoum
Dislocation and alienation are natural constants in Mona Hatoum's work, with an undercurrent of danger and a sense of precariousness. No won
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“Kinesthesia"
The retro-futuristic flavor of “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969” is well suited to its Palm Springs host city.
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Larry Kornegay
Larry Kornegay assumes the role of a would-be archaeologist who finds his pleasure in the oddest artifacts and striking juxtapositions. He f
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Sayre Gomez
Sayre Gomez' hyper-realistic paintings foreground a chain link fence, with backgrounds behind the fencing tantilizingly blurred. Additional
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Amanda Williams
With her background in architecture, Amanda Williams' art practice speaks to place and community. Vacant homes are painted in vivid hues and
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“Changing Landscapes”
Three artists wrestle with traditional Chinese landscape painting's blend of realism and calligraphy. We see modernization, urbanization and
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Wookjae Maeng
Wookjae Maeng's sculptures line the walls like taxidermied trophies from a world that is almost but not quite our own.
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The Greatest Rediscovery?
The rediscovered da Vinci portrait of Jesus goes up for auction, and a new biography's film rights promise a big 21st century moment.
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“Small Sculpture”
On two long, white tables, 55 small sculptures by as many artists form an array of artworks resembling specimens laid out for inspection, ru
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Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
in 1974 Los Four strode through the Los Angeles County Museum, spray-painting the front of the building as they arrived. One of them, Gilber
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Gilliam and Hurley
Denzil Hurley and Sam Gilliam, in simultaneous exhibitions, exemplify very distinct approaches to abstract painting; both work.
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Shawn Huckins
Pre-20th Century American portraiture is defaced with smart phone phrases and graphic icons in Shawn Huckins’ canceling of historical
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Moonlighting Movie Stars
Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt or Jim Carrey tend to infuriate many artists by gaining undeserved attention for art that is half baked. Sti
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Hans Burkhardt
No, Hans Burkhardt was not Latin American, but the native Swiss modernist did find a spiritual second home in Mexico, having traveled and li
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“Past/Future/Present”
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The Walking Cure
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Laura Aguilar
Laura Aguilar focuses her camera on herself as well as others, often overweight, queer and working class, that many of us don’t tend t
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Kent Williams
Kent William’s current paintings materialize their subjects through a haze of expressive, yet meticulous brushwork.
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Judith F. Baca
Judith Baca is a force of nature. The artist and activist is responsible for approximately 250 murals in Los Angeles that have captured the
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Rubén Ortiz Torres
Rubén Ortiz Torres’ "White Washed America" gives Finish Fetish a decidedly 21st century makeover, albeit without the didacticis
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“Mutual Intelligibility”
“Mutual Intelligibility” questions the ability of speakers of related but non-identical languages to understand one another. Jef
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Ray Mack
Newcomer Ray Mack makes zany narrative tableaux that are hilariously warped quotations of images familiar from art history.
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Susan Budge
The fierce instinct of maternal protection manifests itself in Susan Budge's large totemic ceramic sculptures. These guardians or sentinels
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Francisco Toldeo
A series of self-portraits that comprise the entirety of Francisco Toledo's current show take us to a profound and honest view of the man.
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Ato Ribeiro
The quilts that Ato Ribeiro makes are not with cloth and stitches but with discarded wood imbued with layers of meaning.
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“Video Art in Latin America”
The timeline of "Video Art in Latin America" dates from the 1970s, and an installation of hanging bunches of bananas draws the primary atten
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
This relatively small selection still manages to include much of what made Manuel Alvarez Bravo one of the 20th century's great photographer
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An Antidote for Our Woes
Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Rooms" are among the finest, and certainly most popular examples of the genre of interactive or immersive installat
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“Future Shock”
SITE Santa Fe itself is part of the story, reopening after more than a year of new construction with "Future Shock," whose ten artists prese
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“Kinesthesia"
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The Greatest Rediscovery?
The rediscovered da Vinci portrait of Jesus goes up for auction, and a new biography's film rights promise a big 21st century moment.
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Martin Ramirez
Mexican immigrant Martin Ramirez arrived in the U.S. only to be institutionalized with schizophrenia, where he began to draw. And draw.
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Maurice Burns
Maurice Burns bright, kinetic painting style lends itself to the musical characters he depicts with flair and delight. You just might want t
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Alejandro Diaz
Following an ambitious show, Alejandro Diaz fell into a depression that ground his work to a halt. This show is what he did to get going aga
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Jinie Park
Color Field painting meets up with a fetishistic approach to the picture plane reminiscent of Arte Povera in Jinie Park's hand-stitched, pai
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Frank Romero
Frank Romero's fascination with L.A. car culture and master of bold color and dramatic lighting hallmark this small but well selected survey
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Deborah Handler
Curved ceramic sculptures are stacked vertically and glazed gesturally. Deborah Handler imbues it all with instability and nuance.
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Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and these color photographs of empty architectural spaces certify that ped
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Rachel Hellmann
Rachel Hellmann presents two distinct bodies of "Sculptural Paintings" and "Paintings on Paper", both emphasizing pattern and hard edge.
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“Myth & Mirage”
Spanish Colonial Revival (SCR) architecture in its early 20th century heyday aspired to endow the future Golden State with a ready-made fabr
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“Visual Voyages”
"Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin" lends insight into how Europeans viewed the New World.
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Polychromed
This time the Legion of Honor gets it right. "Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World" takes down a long misconstrued cultural myth.
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Nancy O’Connor
Nancy O'Connor met Milam Thompson more than 30 years ago, and the ranch hand's story and spirit has infused her art ever since.
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Sam Messenger
Sam Messenger's networks of veils float like fishing nets or polyhedral domes, forming white membranes against dark grounds Structure and se
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Sarah Charlesworth
Seductive and intriguing, Sarah Charlesworth's photographic appropriation of existing imagery possess a magetism far exceeding their origin.
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“UnDocumenta"
“UnDocumenta" includes the work of six Mexican, Latino and American artists who wrestle with issues of immigration and the border, bic
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“Art of Devotion”
A selection of historical devotional objects are explicitly religious, historical and political themes permeate throughout.
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Seattle’s Best of 2017
Matthew Kangas revisits Seattle's top exhibitions of 2017, and discovers a scene currently in a state of exceptional flux.
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“Annus Horribilis”
James Yood looks back as "a year of disaster or misfortune," the hopeful note for the art world being the current administration's indiffere
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Sarah Williams
Night and isolated dwellings are the subject of Sarah Williams' paintings, which are both comfortably familiar and eerie.
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Richard Morhous
Early modernist models infuse Richard Morhous' 21st century approach to brilliantly colored and fragmented landscape painting. Morhouse make
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Ichiro Irie
One large scale black marker drawing of an auto junkyard makes Ichiro Irie's exhibition a must see. And knowing that the marker will gradual
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Wu Bin
Among the most prestigious of a Chinese scholar’s personal assets, Lingbi stones are naturally formed rocks prized by scholars and col
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Refrigerated Art
Two installations, one by Mary Corse, another by Adrian Villar Rojas, employ refrigeration to interesting and divergent purpose. More than t
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Gennaro Garcia
Phoenix artist Gennaro Garcia's vibrant mixed media paintings are a celebration of Mexico through a street art sensibility.
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Gustave Baumann
Gustave Baumann settled in Taos after WWI. His woodblock prints were some of the best early depictions of the southwestern landscape.
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Lezley Saar
Three series completed over the last five years put Lezley Saar's ability to convey human dignity and build visionary narratives on full dis
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Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon paints architecture with care, and with the maximum degree of disorientation in which ceiling can double as floors.
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Christopher Knowles
Christopher Knowles did not speak until age 12. Now 58, the former protege of Robert Wilson is one of the unique creative voices of his gene
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Eddie Owens Martin
The land of Pasaquan was created by Eddie Owens Martin over a 30-year period at his compound in Buena Vista, Georgia. His vivid kaleidoscope
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Humaira Abid
The detritus of the personal disaster of displacement is reproduced with detailed, loving craftsmanship by Humaira Abid. Humble materials an
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Senga Nengudi
The political and gender-oriented aesthetics of Segunda Nengudi during the 1970s has aged well--if her pantyhose not so much.
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“Changing Landscapes”
Three artists wrestle with traditional Chinese landscape painting's blend of realism and calligraphy. We see modernization, urbanization and
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Judith F. Baca
Judith Baca is a force of nature. The artist and activist is responsible for approximately 250 murals in Los Angeles that have captured the
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Ray Mack
Newcomer Ray Mack makes zany narrative tableaux that are hilariously warped quotations of images familiar from art history.
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Francisco Toldeo
A series of self-portraits that comprise the entirety of Francisco Toledo's current show take us to a profound and honest view of the man.
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
This relatively small selection still manages to include much of what made Manuel Alvarez Bravo one of the 20th century's great photographer
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Alejandro Diaz
Following an ambitious show, Alejandro Diaz fell into a depression that ground his work to a halt. This show is what he did to get going aga
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“Myth & Mirage”
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William Georgenes
William Georgenes assemblages of mainly toys alter what is naturally nostalgic into objects of pure, formal aesthetic.
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Mickalene Thomas
What has set Mickalene Thomas' art apart has been her ability to expand common definitions of beauty. Recognized as a painter, "Muse" distin
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Chad Attie
Chad Attie constructs 2- and 3-dimensional islands that act as creative safe havens to the inhabitants placed in them.
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Sandi Seltzer Bryant
Accumulating interesting papers in her travels led Sandi Seltzer Bryant to assemblages that hint at subjects without depicting them.
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Hayley Barker
An implacable visage crowned by a floral headdress is the central image in Hayley Barker's mystical feminist totems.
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Félix Candela
A dual citizen of Spain and Mexico, architect Felix Candela was an innovator of thin-shell concrete structures that he made remarkably light
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Two Novels for Artists
A one time English Lit teacher, Matthew Kangas combines that ongoing interest with his primary immersion in art writing here, with a pair of
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Gary Goldberg
Photographer Gary Goldberg’s large tapestries are transfers of architectural details of the facades of Mexican colonial buildings.
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Henk Pander
Henk Pander likes to reference the Dutch Old Masters, but maintains a looser if still facile style. This all-drawing show considers disaster
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Edgar Heap of Birds
Protest of the commercial and cultural appropriation of sites sacred to Native Americans is the heart of Edgar Heap of Birds' painterly sent
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Elisabeth Ajtay
The skeletons of discarded umbrellas, in the hands of Elisabeth Ajtay, become insectile robots climbing walls, daring to be swatted.
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R. Luke DuBois
"A More Perfect Union" immediately references the Preamble of the Constitution and former President Barak Obama's famous March, 2008 speech
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Having a Good Time?
The recent art world documentary "Blurred Lines," James Yood tells us, talks a lot about the art world, but no much about the art itself.
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Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods' small but fierce collages, shown along with selections by her mentor Ken Graves, are more than just an homage.
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Nicole Anona Banowetz
You hear it before you see it. Nicole Anona Banowetz' soft sculptures are inflated by blowers, the large white forms rising up to become tub
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Safwat Saleem
Safwat Saleem uses vintage magazine pics and handwritten text to fashion well designed reflections on the state of the world.
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“Cuba Is”
"Cuba Is" represents the island nation today with an array of documentary photography and more, a stage set of a cafe meant to provide a sen
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Casper Brindle
In Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat Generation novel, “The Dharma Bums,” the book’s narrator Ray Smith answers the big quest
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Jodi Colella
Coming across 19th century daguerreotypes of women, Jodi Colella was struck by their anonymity. So she embellished them.
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Ed Moses
The recent passing of Ed Moses reminded curator and critic David S. Rubin how 40 years ago Moses altered his grasp of West Coast art.
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Lindsay Rhyner
Lindsay Rhyner dyes, cuts and re-sews recycled media into masterfully finished, wall-bound quilts of ambiguous narratives
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Adrián Villar Rojas
In "The Theater of Disappearance," Adrian Villar Rojas transforms a vast exhibition space into a quasi-undersea environment, a post-apocalyp
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Julian Stanczak
Op Art pioneer Julian Stanczak's precise and vibrant kinetic fields, here covering a wide range of his output, are flamboyant yet subtle.
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Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is keenly aware of lost worlds: open landscapes covered with orange groves, old Hollywood, the era of film noir and Coconut Gr
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Holly Roberts
Starting with a photograph, Holly Roberts layers paint and other materials to create haunting, yet nostalgic figurative images.
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Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine covers the walls and floors of a gallery with stuffed animals of all colors, shapes and sizes. It's an installation th
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Claudio Dicochea
From sci fi to history, Claudio Dicochea packs his mixed-media images to resemble celebrity posters gone amok.
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Jasper Johns
"Something Resembling Truth" is a mixed bag of Jasper Johns' long since iconic flags, targets and numbers. It also discloses how the artist'
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Eduardo Chillida
Primarily regarded for his muscular sculpture, Eduardo Chillida's work on paper, which constitutes the bulk of this exhibition, argue that t
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Cleveland Dean
In “Recto/Verso – Duality of a Fragile Ego” Chicago artist Cleveland Dean uses material, abstraction and text to show us w
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Art and Apocalypse
Images of annihilation have take on fresh urgency during the past year. Richard Speer calls our attention to a pair of exhibitions that sugg
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Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann was one of the world's key curators in the 1960s and 70s, effectively launching a new era of artistic diversity. "Museum of
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Karine Laval
Nature and culture commingle in Karine Laval’s “Heterotopia” color photographs, still shots excerpted from a video that th
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Ed Mieczkowski
"Vibrations of the Eye, Mind and Soul" marks the late Ed Mieczkowski as a leading pioneer of Op and Geometric art.
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Lorser Feitelson
"Figure to Form" concisely traces Lorser Feitelson's long transition from New Classicism's response to European Surrealism to his "Magic Spa
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Hail to the Chief
DeWitt Cheng shares the affection so many hold for former President Obama; but not quite so much for the recently unveiled official portrait
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Nancy O’Connor
Nancy O'Connor met Milam Thompson more than 30 years ago, and the ranch hand's story and spirit has infused her art ever since.
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Wu Bin
Among the most prestigious of a Chinese scholar’s personal assets, Lingbi stones are naturally formed rocks prized by scholars and col
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Richard Morhous
Early modernist models infuse Richard Morhous' 21st century approach to brilliantly colored and fragmented landscape painting. Morhouse make
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Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon paints architecture with care, and with the maximum degree of disorientation in which ceiling can double as floors.
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Christopher Knowles
Christopher Knowles did not speak until age 12. Now 58, the former protege of Robert Wilson is one of the unique creative voices of his gene
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Eddie Owens Martin
The land of Pasaquan was created by Eddie Owens Martin over a 30-year period at his compound in Buena Vista, Georgia. His vivid kaleidoscope
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Humaira Abid
The detritus of the personal disaster of displacement is reproduced with detailed, loving craftsmanship by Humaira Abid. Humble materials an
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Senga Nengudi
The political and gender-oriented aesthetics of Segunda Nengudi during the 1970s has aged well--if her pantyhose not so much.
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Mickalene Thomas
What has set Mickalene Thomas' art apart has been her ability to expand common definitions of beauty. Recognized as a painter, "Muse" distin
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Two Novels for Artists
A one time English Lit teacher, Matthew Kangas combines that ongoing interest with his primary immersion in art writing here, with a pair of
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Gary Goldberg
Photographer Gary Goldberg’s large tapestries are transfers of architectural details of the facades of Mexican colonial buildings.
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Having a Good Time?
The recent art world documentary "Blurred Lines," James Yood tells us, talks a lot about the art world, but no much about the art itself.
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Edgar Heap of Birds
Protest of the commercial and cultural appropriation of sites sacred to Native Americans is the heart of Edgar Heap of Birds' painterly sent
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Ed Moses
The recent passing of Ed Moses reminded curator and critic David S. Rubin how 40 years ago Moses altered his grasp of West Coast art.
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Casper Brindle
In Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat Generation novel, “The Dharma Bums,” the book’s narrator Ray Smith answers the big quest
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Jodi Colella
Coming across 19th century daguerreotypes of women, Jodi Colella was struck by their anonymity. So she embellished them.
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“In Repose”
"In Repose" shows that artists' interpretation of the figure remains diverse and vital. The late Wade Reynolds provides the focal point.
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Kathryn Maxwell
Ornate and absorbing, Kathryn Maxwell's image simultaneously looks through the microscope and the telescope. But the images are neither; it
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Tony DeLap
Timed with Tony DeLap's 90th year, this retrospective confirms his place as one of our most original minimalists.
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Guy Diehl
Guy Diehl is recognized for his virtuoso still life paintings. Realism is superbly balanced against elegantly minimalist composition. Refere
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Kim Schoenstadt
Particularly now, the values that a government building's architecture embodies are up for grabs. Kim Schoenstadt offers a cool but sharp e
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Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones paintings of standing, featureless figures posing in landscapes and interiors are all about color and implicit drama.
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Liz Tran
With its high-keyed chromaticism and circus-tent iconography, Liz Tran’s “Elation Station” is a carnivalesque retinal plea
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Natalie Arnoldi
The ominous interior spaces painted by Natalie Arnoldi are that way for a reason. They are relics of history’s most brutal episode.
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Kate Gilmore
It takes a while to grasp what we are looking at. As Kate Gilmore's "Morning Rage" becomes clear we share the catharsis.
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Devorah Sperber
Familiar art historical icons are reconstructed by Devorah Sperber using spools of thread that are viewed through an ocular sphere.
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Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster.
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Alex Couwenberg
The "Chevron" motif invoked by Alex Couwenberg plays off of commercial, historical and modern art references to establish a layered complexi
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FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration.
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Kate Gilmore
It takes a while to grasp what we are looking at. As Kate Gilmore's "Morning Rage" becomes clear we share the catharsis.
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The Power of Mark Making
Recent exhibitions by Robin Mitchell and Robert Walker demonstrated the continued viability of obsessive mark making. The accumulated effect
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Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host o
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Art and Apocalypse
Images of annihilation have take on fresh urgency during the past year. Richard Speer calls our attention to a pair of exhibitions that sugg
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Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is keenly aware of lost worlds: open landscapes covered with orange groves, old Hollywood, the era of film noir and Coconut G
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Jasper Johns
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Hail to the Chief
DeWitt Cheng shares the affection so many hold for former President Obama; but not quite so much for the recently unveiled official portrait
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Steve Fitch
“Much of what I have photographed is gone or in ruins. … It is as if I had a sixth sense that what I was making pictures of wa
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Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination.
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Anna Kunz
Anna Kunz’s “Color Cast” is a gallery-sized abstract painting full of transparent layering and vibrant hues. She immerses
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Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko integrates collage and geometric abstraction in an intricate mélange of the quotidian and inspired imagination.
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Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin’s scrim installation demonstrates that how nothing about perception is an absolute.
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Robert Colescott
Robert Colescott wit and empathy to expose racism while appropriating art historical sources to help sharpen the point.
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Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick
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Brian Mashburn
Brian Mashburn’s landscape vistas that delight and awe despite their eerily disquieting subject matter.
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Maggie Taylor
A decade ago Maggie Taylor published a set of 45 illustrations to "Alice in Wonderland." Now she presents her new series of "Through the Loo
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Matthew Picton
With its gleaming gold leaf and trenchant subject matter, Matthew Picton’s “El Dorado” considers the millennia-old quest f
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Jay DeFeo
A selection of works on paper by Jay DeFeo draws from three series of the 1970s following her departure from traditional paint media.
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Lorser Feitelson
"Figure to Form" concisely traces Lorser Feitelson's long transition from New Classicism's response to European Surrealism to his "Magic Spa
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Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann was one of the world's key curators in the 1960s and 70s, effectively launching a new era of artistic diversity. "Museum of
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Kim Schoenstadt
Particularly now, the values that a government building's architecture embodies are up for grabs. Kim Schoenstadt offers a cool but sharp e
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“In Repose”
"In Repose" shows that artists' interpretation of the figure remains diverse and vital. The late Wade Reynolds provides the focal point.
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Tony DeLap
Timed with Tony DeLap's 90th year, this retrospective confirms his place as one of our most original minimalists.
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The Power of Mark Making
Recent exhibitions by Robin Mitchell and Robert Walker demonstrated the continued viability of obsessive mark making. The accumulated effect
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Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones paintings of standing, featureless figures posing in landscapes and interiors are all about color and implicit drama.
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“Walk in My Shoes”
The group show “Walk in My Shoes” stirs empathy and compassion from the portrayals of the human condition, as the title implies.
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Peter Bogardus
In ‘’Going to Gansu,” Peter Bogardus presents photogravures taken during a two-day train ride the western edge of the Gobi
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Paul Lee
Paul Lee's assemblages bring together tambourines with painted squares and rectangles that reference computer touch screens.
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Louise Bourgeois
The monumental prints that Louise Bourgeois produced in her late nineties reveal an artist whose mastery never waned. The selection here rea
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Michael Spafford
This three-gallery survey of veteran Pacific Northwest painter Michael C. Spafford brings together dozens of paintings and prints, a hardbou
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“Plato in L.A.”
"Plato in L.A." brings together eleven artists who draw on everything from the familiar cave simile to the ambluatory method of discourse.
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Emil Bisttram
Emil Bisttram carved out a prominent position in New Mexico's art history as a pioneering modernist, teacher and muralist.
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Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson's "The Rainbow Sign" floods the galleries with and array of densely layered works. From "Untitled Escape Collages" to "Untitl
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Francisco Moreno
"The Chapel" is the centerpiece work in Francisco Moreno's current show that immerses us in murals and history.
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Hannah Piper Burns
In a three-channel video and audio installation “Venus Retrograde,” multi-media artist Hannah Piper Burns critiques the popular
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Matthew Szosz
"Inflatables" and "Ropeworks" by Matthew Szosz are two series of glass sculptures that toy with our notions of what glass can do.
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Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst's small cityscape "Tiffany" expresses a sheer rapture for the electrifying vitality of New York City at night. It's a radiant
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Ned Evans/Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's work transports us to a visually magical landscape. Ned Evans' colorful abstractions celebrate the earth's fierce shape-making
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Viola Frey
A selective survey of Viola Frey's New York years makes on want to know more about how her experiences there shaped her emerging aesthetic,
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Karin Broker
The #MeToo movement may be recent, but Karin Broker has addressed related matters of the evolving role of women in her art for years.
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Artists with Disabilities
When Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood was 44, when an artist is usually considered to be at mid-career, she lost the use of her dominant h
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Penny Truitt
Steel is a new medium for Penny Truitt, better know for her ceramic sculpture. In "Confluence" the works are made up of two elements that wr
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Tim Cross
Tim Cross' see-through leaves against a dark background call to mind pottery decoration and wallpaper patterns; but that is where they start
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Kelly Catarino
Among a lush frame of greenery, the tumbling, cavorting pink bodies of Kelly Catarino’s “Garden” suggest a carefree, pre-a
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FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration.
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Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host o
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Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster.
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Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin’s scrim installation demonstrates that how nothing about perception is an absolute.
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Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination.
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Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick
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Artists with Disabilities
When Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood was 44, when an artist is usually considered to be at mid-career, she lost the use of her dominant h
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Brian Mashburn
Brian Mashburn’s landscape vistas that delight and awe despite their eerily disquieting subject matter.
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Camille Rose Garcia
Camille Rose Garcia’s lush and surreal exhibition “The Wonderful World of Dr. Deekay” is immersive, vividly colorful and p
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Kira Dominguez Hultgren
In Argentina Kira Dominguez Hulgren studied the Mapuche culture’s warp-faced weaving tradition on a vertical post loom. She now brings
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“Circle / Squared”
Like the circular dial of a precision timepiece, the artists in “Circle/Squared” carry us forward from the past to an unknowable
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Kiyomi Baird and Robert Koch
The dual cultural background of Kiyomi Baird use paintings of spheres to express her spiritual feelings for the cosmos. These pair with Robe
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Mr. Rodin meet Mr. Schnabel
The Legion of Honor's contemporary artist series the last couple years has sought to stir the pot of its own traditionalism. So who better t
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Lucinda Cobley
Her paintings may be serene, but Lucinda Cobley sure knows how to manage layers of light and color for optical effect.
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Roland Reiss
Roland Reiss' "Miniatures" and "Florals" survey back over 40 years, but include new works that display both continuity and fresh interests.
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Colin Chillag
Colin Chillage conjures memories of childhood from found photographs, which he embellishes with notation-like notes and painterly details.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela
Rodrigo Valenzuela builds a barn-like structure in which he displays a number of art objects, but there is no entrance. We can only peek ins
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Otobong Nkanga
The geological earth is treated by Otobong Nkanga not romantically but as victimized by the human hand. She contemplates the distance betwee
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Jun Kaneko
Known primarily as a second wave contemporary clay artist, Jan Kaneko's painting and mark making take center stage here.
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“Trump Card”
The artists of "Trump Card" make it more than an exercise of free expression. Their mockery and indictments ask that we see what is before o
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Lawrence Gipe
"Another Cold Winter" is Lawrence Gipe's latest reflection on the visual rhetoric of the past, here the immediate post-war decade. The conjo
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Catherine J. Davis
Catherine J. Davis documents the realities between the water and land of the U.S. Gulf Coast between Florida and Texas.
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Betsy Schneider
What are today's teens experiencing and thinking about themselves? Bet Schneider has photographed teens since 2012 in an effort to help us g
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Considering the Viewer
Often artists either fail to consider their viewers, or pointedly disregard them. Richard Speer explains the value of concern for the viewer
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Chadwick and Spector
Funhouse mirror versions of art historical portraits are painted by Laura Spector on Chadwick Gray's body, and then photographed.
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Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to
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Joerael Elliot
Her floral imagery is appealing, but its natural beauty collides with the harsh mechanics of firearms in Joerael Elliot's show, "A Clip of P
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Julião Sarmento
Juliao Sarmento's recent crater prints evoke the Martian surface as revealed by the Curiosity Rover.
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Michael Spafford
This three-gallery survey of veteran Pacific Northwest painter Michael C. Spafford brings together dozens of paintings and prints, a hardbou
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“Plato in L.A.”
"Plato in L.A." brings together eleven artists who draw on everything from the familiar cave simile to the ambluatory method of discourse.
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Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson's "The Rainbow Sign" floods the galleries with and array of densely layered works. From "Untitled Escape Collages" to "Untitl
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Francisco Moreno
"The Chapel" is the centerpiece work in Francisco Moreno's current show that immerses us in murals and history.
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Ryan Burghard
Ryan Burghard focuses on traces of things we sense but cannot see. An impaled bumblebee, the charred imprint of an unseen flame, a chalk mar
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James Lumsden
The abstract vision of James Lumsden display a mature formalism that is also full of feeling. Consisting of numerous layers of pigment and g
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David Hockney
David Hockney has been painting a whole lot of portrait over the last few years, and they are gathered into a guilty pleasure of an exhibiti
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“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal bea
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Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina takes on issues ranging from social media obsession to political corruption, but injects whimsy and humor to leaven and ligh
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Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set the
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Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson revitalized his paintings by razoring many of them, running them through the washer, then repurposing the fragments into coll
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Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for whi
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Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to h
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Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on
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Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American a
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Jeff Sonhouse
Jeff Sonhouse's portraits of African American men keep one foot in realism, but they sure make us wonder.
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Kehinde Wiley
Two paintings of Ethopian Jews by Kehinde Wiley are in the tradition of the heroic portrait. Both are superb for their detail and execution.
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Jaydan Moore
Jaydan Moore's "Dust" exhibition is shaped by his family's history of tombstone carving. He recasts tableware and other found objects into t
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For the “LOVE” of Indiana
Robert Indiana, thanks to a single work of "LOVE," remained popular with the public for decades, while often being dismissed by the mainstre
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Mary Hayslip
The art gallery as a fantasy garden of imaginary flowers and invented creatures forms the heart and soul of Mary Hayslip's current exhibitio
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Brimming with both symbolism and narrative skill, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's survey proves fascinating and morally charged.
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Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl makes use of collage to discover the right composition of figures to occupy familiar settings in his usual formally complex pain
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Ai Kijima
In a survey of her quilt/collages, the evolution of Ai Kijima's technical expertise and eye for subject matter are unpacked. From the influe
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Kate Ballis
In “Hypercolour Fantasy: Infra Realism” Kate Ballis attacks the eye with a vivid spectrum of purple and indigo flora, hot pink l
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Thomas Glassford
Thomas Glassford brings together organic materials such as gourds with contemporary manufactured products in richly metaphorical works.
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Phranc
Phranc, also known for her LGBTQ activism and "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folk" music, displays "Swagger" (the show's title) in both her fo
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Jay DeFeo
Dualities of flat and illusory space, thick and thin brushwork and vigorously handled against untouched surfaces are, in the hands of Jay De
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Belltown Blues
Matthew Kangas recounts the early rise of a progressive scene in Seattle, to which he returned in the late 1970s.
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“Compression”
Elana Herzog and Luanne Martineau have a shared affinity for paper, textiles and heavily worked surfaces loaded with visual detail.
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Ravi Zupa
Drawing on the Northern European Renaissance and Indian mythology, Ravi Zupa repurposes both to offer a modern cultural critique.
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Avisheh Mohsenin
Avisheh Mohsenin has been recovering with Houston from Hurricane Harvey over the past year. From the many damaged photographs that she salva
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Kris Hargis
Kris Hargis takes an unsparing look at his own visage in "A Michigan Winter," in which he appears as melancholic and haunted.
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Agnes Martin
A suite of 10 small prints executed by Agnes Martin in 1990 balance the wavering precision that are all about her world devoid of objects.
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Engaging with Immersive Art
Noting the recent growth in popularity of immersive art, David S. Rubin finds a focused individual experience to be a key measure of success
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Ned Evans/Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's work transports us to a visually magical landscape. Ned Evans' colorful abstractions celebrate the earth's fierce shape-making
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Viola Frey
A selective survey of Viola Frey's New York years makes on want to know more about how her experiences there shaped her emerging aesthetic,
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Tim Cross
Tim Cross' see-through leaves against a dark background call to mind pottery decoration and wallpaper patterns; but that is where they start
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Mr. Rodin meet Mr. Schnabel
The Legion of Honor's contemporary artist series the last couple years has sought to stir the pot of its own traditionalism. So who better t
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Roland Reiss
Roland Reiss' "Miniatures" and "Florals" survey back over 40 years, but include new works that display both continuity and fresh interests.
more...
Jun Kaneko
Known primarily as a second wave contemporary clay artist, Jan Kaneko's painting and mark making take center stage here.
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“Trump Card”
The artists of "Trump Card" make it more than an exercise of free expression. Their mockery and indictments ask that we see what is before o
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Lawrence Gipe
"Another Cold Winter" is Lawrence Gipe's latest reflection on the visual rhetoric of the past, here the immediate post-war decade. The conjo
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Considering the Viewer
Often artists either fail to consider their viewers, or pointedly disregard them. Richard Speer explains the value of concern for the viewer
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James Turell
Four of James Turrell's "Glass" works are portals, not just light and color saturated shapes, that cloak us in veils of colored mist.
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“Selected Affinities”
"Selected Affinities" is a small group shows built around the late Allan Sekula, particularly his "Fish Story" series that splits the differ
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“A Conscious Surrender”
In "A Conscious Surrender" six artists push aside their normal working methods in favor producing out of character works.
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Kari Wehrs
For her “Shot” series of tintype portraits, Kari Wehrs took to parts of the Arizona desert used by recreational shooters.
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“Casa Tomada”
The title translates as "House Taken Over" for this group show centered on the subject of occupation. Setting that aside, this is about as d
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Kenneth Tam
In "Griffith Park Boys Camp" Kenneth Tam brings “working-age” adult males of varying backgrounds and races together for a weeken
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Nery Gabriel Lemus
The journeys and plights of Latin American immigrants play to the spirit of Emma Lazarus' iconic poem, but with some deeper intents.
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“In Red Ink”
The ghost of Edward Curtis both informs and stimulates push back from this group of Native American contemporary artists.
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Burning Down the House
On September 2nd Brazil's National Museum burnt nearly 2 million art, historical and scientific artifacts. Primarily a victim of inadequate
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Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to
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Julião Sarmento
Juliao Sarmento's recent crater prints evoke the Martian surface as revealed by the Curiosity Rover.
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David Hockney
David Hockney has been painting a whole lot of portrait over the last few years, and they are gathered into a guilty pleasure of an exhibiti
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“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal bea
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Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set the
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Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to h
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Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for whi
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Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson interviews Chicago residents on opposite north and south ends of longitudinal running streets. Not surprisingly the nei
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Maxim Walkultschik
Thousands of wood dowels dotted with paint the size of toothpicks are Maxim Walkultschik's answer to optical art.
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Paul Berger
Paul Berger seemly explored multiple directions of the future of photography relatively early in his career. Berger approaches his various s
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Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's dreamlike scenarios are populated with human/animal hybrids caught in some intense situations.
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Robert Adams
One of the central players of the "New Topographics" deadpan aesthetic in photography, this selection of Robert Adams' black and white photo
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Belltown Blues (Part 2)
Concluding his account of the brief period of Belltown's key impact on Seattle's art culture, several of the most important talents are reca
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Elizabeth Turk
Deservedly renowned for her intricate carvings, these "Extinct Bird Cages" constitute an inquiry into the memorial presence of something now
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Catherine Wagner
Using photography to examine social forces and institutions that shape it is Catherine Wagner's forté. She conveys the inherent beau
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Donald Roy Thompson
Donald Roy Thompson returned to an "Echo Series" of paintings after about a 40 year break, and it's worth the wait.
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Sam Fresquez
Sam Fresquez uses a central tunnel-like sculpture, paired with text-based objects that include wooden cubes of laser-cut calligraphy and pai
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William Volkersz
Dutch emigre Willem Volkersz engages mid-20th century America by way of road-trip souvenirs, ceramic figurines and travel postcards. But he
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Chicago Pop Redux
Pop art, Chicago style, appears back in vogue, back perhaps due to its seriously screwball renditions of the human condition.
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John Wilcox
A gallery size retrospective of a little know artist rarely succeeds in making its case. John Wilcox, however, is the exception.
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Mabry Campbell
Houston’s distinctive architecture serves as Mabry Campbell’s primary subject in sharply focused, dramatic photographs. Mostly b
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Wendy White
Atari-era pixelated hearts underscore the vernacular of Wendy White’s collaged denim and digital prints of ads for sports cars.
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Pat O’Neill
Pat O'Neill's “The Decay of Fiction” is a five-channel installation projected onto three walls, immersing you in a muted spectac
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“Living with Clay”
"Living with Clay" provides some answers to the question why some people amass large collections of ceramic art.
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Never Give a Inch
Ken Kesey's Stamper family stubbornness makes Bill Lasarow wonder why a third of the country acts as though we never had it so bad.
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Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on
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Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American a
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For the “LOVE” of Indiana
Robert Indiana, thanks to a single work of "LOVE," remained popular with the public for decades, while often being dismissed by the mainstre
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Brimming with both symbolism and narrative skill, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's survey proves fascinating and morally charged.
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Belltown Blues
Matthew Kangas recounts the early rise of a progressive scene in Seattle, to which he returned in the late 1970s.
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Engaging with Immersive Art
Noting the recent growth in popularity of immersive art, David S. Rubin finds a focused individual experience to be a key measure of success
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Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis interprets nature by observing with care and internalizing its forces. It is her rich use of pattern set dramatically against f
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Pascal Pierme
Pascal Pierme explains the unusual title of his exhibition "Hylê Forever“ -- "What will happen if I mix this with that…?&
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Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis' photography, sculptures and paintings are witty, sensual and unexpected, even after more than 40 years of practice. It is the
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Michael Viglietta
Text is prevalent in Michael Miglietta's imagery, but it serves to have us consider our own mental and emotional landscapes.
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“Group Therapy”
Outlandish pseudoscience of the 19th century informs the artists included in "Group Therapy', who use it to make more serious points.
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James Turell
Four of James Turrell's "Glass" works are portals, not just light and color saturated shapes, that cloak us in veils of colored mist.
more...
“Selected Affinities”
"Selected Affinities" is a small group shows built around the late Allan Sekula, particularly his "Fish Story" series that splits the differ
more...
“Casa Tomada”
The title translates as "House Taken Over" for this group show centered on the subject of occupation. Setting that aside, this is about as d
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“In Red Ink”
The ghost of Edward Curtis both informs and stimulates push back from this group of Native American contemporary artists.
more...
Burning Down the House
On September 2nd Brazil's National Museum burnt nearly 2 million art, historical and scientific artifacts. Primarily a victim of inadequate
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When Artists Play with Fire
Certain of the exhibitions in San Francisco that Richard Speer recently visited refreshed memories of the recent wildfires the consumed so m
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Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson interviews Chicago residents on opposite north and south ends of longitudinal running streets. Not surprisingly the nei
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Belltown Blues (Part 2)
Concluding his account of the brief period of Belltown's key impact on Seattle's art culture, several of the most important talents are reca
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Frank Sampson
Now in his 90s, Frank Sampson remains a vital force. His recent allegorical paintings are emotionally and formally complex.
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Jenny Heishman
Jenny Heishman does not exhibit a large number of works, but the "rugs" here are surprisingly composed from pulped paper, one corner curled
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Matthew Mullins
The patterns and textures of New Mexico's landscape serve as the taking off point for Matthew Mullins, who is constantly looking for connect
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Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky's large scale aerial photographs are spectacular. Viewing the painterly pattens of landscape seen from afar is pure eye can
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Frohawk Two Feathers
Frengland is a fictional colonial empire, and it serves as the aesthetic foundation for the art of Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Features.
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Liminal Art
"Liminal," meaning between two states, worked its way into art jargon some time ago, and its aesthetic presence has made itself known in a n
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Joe Mancuso
Joe Mancuso remains consistent in his sensibilities and methodical in his execution. For more than a decade, he has been re-examining and re
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John Fraser
John Fraser works with mixed media and found objects to create abstract constructions, 27 of which comprise this exhibition.
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“Natural Persuasion”
“Natural Persuasion” brings together two photographers with a penchant for documenting an unusual subject — the impact of
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Project Blue Boy
Project Blue Boy constitutes an unusual blend of rather unique if not standard performance art and public engagement.
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Adrian Piper
In addition to being part of the first wave of conceptual art, Adrian Piper evolved to encompass interactive performance, making charged soc
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Whitney Bradshaw
Women are photographed in mid-scream and presented by Whitney Bradshaw in two vast grids that surrounds us with their voices.
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Meleko Mokgosi
In “Objects of Desire: Reflections on the African Still Life” Meleko Mokgosi balances classical technique and conceptual rigor.
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Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work.
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Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayon culls from the mythos of the Cuban Abakua secret society to draw universal connections with other religious symbolism.
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Catherine Wagner
Using photography to examine social forces and institutions that shape it is Catherine Wagner's forté. She conveys the inherent beau
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Chicago Pop Redux
Pop art, Chicago style, appears back in vogue, back perhaps due to its seriously screwball renditions of the human condition.
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Never Give a Inch
Ken Kesey's Stamper family stubbornness makes Bill Lasarow wonder why a third of the country acts as though we never had it so bad.
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“Living with Clay”
"Living with Clay" provides some answers to the question why some people amass large collections of ceramic art.
more...
Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis interprets nature by observing with care and internalizing its forces. It is her rich use of pattern set dramatically against f
more...
“Group Therapy”
Outlandish pseudoscience of the 19th century informs the artists included in "Group Therapy', who use it to make more serious points.
more...
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis' photography, sculptures and paintings are witty, sensual and unexpected, even after more than 40 years of practice. It is the
more...
When Artists Play with Fire
Certain of the exhibitions in San Francisco that Richard Speer recently visited refreshed memories of the recent wildfires the consumed so m
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Frohawk Two Feathers
Frengland is a fictional colonial empire, and it serves as the aesthetic foundation for the art of Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Features.
more...
Liminal Art
"Liminal," meaning between two states, worked its way into art jargon some time ago, and its aesthetic presence has made itself known in a n
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Ward Sanders
Ward Sanders' "Nightboxes" take on grim subjects in homage to Theodore Gericault's landmark "Raft of the Medusa". His found objects inspire
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Jim Carrey
Actor Jim Carrey expresses his political outrage over the present administration in a flow of posted tweets and very expressive political ca
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Margie Livingston
Margie Livingston's constantly shifting body of work does so because it is about the nature of painting itself and how a painting gets made.
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Matthew Picton
The "Cultural Mapping" of Matthew Picton is visually quite rich, but how humanity evolves the built environment is the real subject.
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Seamus Conley
Seamus Conley's protagonists are stand-ins for we the viewer, “daydreaming or ... wrapped up in one's internal universe while simultan
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Sonya Clark
Working with cloth and hair, Sonya Clark calls on us to reflect on our personal histories through her own family narrative.
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Matt Wedel
Working with porcelain and stoneware, Matt Wedel's hulking masses catch us up in their process of making.
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How to Bump into a Sculpture
The ironic title refers to Barnett Newman's witty put-down back in the 1950s. The point is that these artists--well, sculptors--find ways to
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Melting Pot Aesthetics
In direct contrast to the current political tribalism, key artists have been freely and effectively blending racial and cultural signifiers.
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Georges Rouault
George's Rouault's suite "Misery and War" is a visual critique of a bleak era, and mixes modernist expressionism with powerful religiosity.
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John Fudge
This small survey of paintings by the late John Fudge show him to be a meticulous craftsman but still irreverent and edgy.
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Daniel Brice
Daniel Brice’s “Polaroid Paintings” are inspired by a single Polaroid of flowers in a vase which was hanging on the wall o
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Diego Pérez
Playing with myriad intersections between cultures, historical periods, and methods of communication, Diego Pérez' works thrust us in
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John Fraser
John Fraser works with mixed media and found objects to create abstract constructions, 27 of which comprise this exhibition.
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Project Blue Boy
Project Blue Boy constitutes an unusual blend of rather unique if not standard performance art and public engagement.
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Black and Blue
David S. Rubin finds new and unexpected insights to the art of Alexander Calder and Betye Saar in their recent exhibitions.
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Adrian Piper
In addition to being part of the first wave of conceptual art, Adrian Piper evolved to encompass interactive performance, making charged soc
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Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work.
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Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson knows what to do with all manner of fabric, glitter, plastic jewels and faux flowers, the masses of colors and patterns f
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Theodora Varnay Jones
Drawing on Plato's ancient idealism, Theodora Varnay Jones deploys her layered work in the service of art and philosophy.
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown here exhibits works from the 1960s that, in hindsight, were adventurous and experimental for their time for their deft interweavin
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Loring Taoka
Loring Taoka pins his acrylic paintings on Plexiglas to a support that makes it feel like they are floating in space.
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Art and Houseplants
Richard Speer visits some Portland businesses that take their art seriously, not just using it for ambience, but with real curatorial intent
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Rick Bartow
A startling and magical aura fills Rick Bartow's work, concocting a blend of mainstream American sensibility with a shamanistic spirituality
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Alfredo Arreguín
“Life Patterns” is partly a pun on Alfredo Arreguint’s signature undergirding of lines added beneath and over images. It a
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Mokha Laget
Mocha Laget’s paintings combine flat, geometric, colorful shapes with the illusion of depth, toggling from singular to multiple shape
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Laura Davis and Dan Devening
Laura Davis and Dan Devening seem to come from very different aesthetic camps. Devening is a cool formalist, while Davis culls from the sent
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Civics Lesson from a Mural
A group recently sought to have a mural located at a Los Angeles school painted out because it reminded them of the Japanese battle flag,
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Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan's sprawling installations can seem to grow like weeds taking over large gallery spaces. But it is her use of materials that ste
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Timothy Harding
Holding strong to a minimalist abstract aesthetic, Timothy Harding heads in a new direction imbued with waveforms, arcs and curved lines.
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Judithe Hernández
Among the founding members of Los Four, Judith Hernandez has, until now, been the most under the public's radar. Her bold use of color and d
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Viola Frey
The plates and massive figures included in this small selection of Viola Frey's ceramics capture her eye for human foibles.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
There are multiple ways to experience Trenton Doyle Hancock's “An Ingenue’s Hues.” There is the rich visual imagery. And t
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Rebecca Reeve
Rebecca Reeve takes to the woods with powdered pigments to spray-paint ferns, logs, stones, and twigs in a spectrum of vivid colors. She the
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Laura Ball
Ball’s flora- and fauna-themed watercolors brim with dreamlike scenes evoking our primal natures and good versus evil.
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Sharon Kopriva
Three decades of Sharon Kopriva's career are highlighted by works from three series, “Meditations, Migrations and Muses.” Often
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Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer's large screen prints on aluminum begin on an iPad, the idea being to simulate the surface and glow of the computer screen.
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Deborah Boardman
"Painter &" reveals longtime Chicagoan Deborah Boardman to be an artist of spirituality, symbolism and vulnerability.
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That Minimalist Wall
There is the idea being discussed of turning Trump’s Great Wall into a monument to folly, greed and stupidity. Screw the wall, save th
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Two Novels for Millennials
Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" (1930) follows a circle of post-WWI twenty somethings; while Dawn Powell's "The Golden Spur" (1962) follo
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Melting Pot Aesthetics
In direct contrast to the current political tribalism, key artists have been freely and effectively blending racial and cultural signifiers.
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Georges Rouault
George's Rouault's suite "Misery and War" is a visual critique of a bleak era, and mixes modernist expressionism with powerful religiosity.
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Black and Blue
David S. Rubin finds new and unexpected insights to the art of Alexander Calder and Betye Saar in their recent exhibitions.
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Art and Houseplants
Richard Speer visits some Portland businesses that take their art seriously, not just using it for ambience, but with real curatorial intent
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Liss LaFleur
Liss LaFleur's blown glass fruits alluding to body parts puts exaggeration, artifice and irony at the service of LGBT issues.
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Martha Friedman
Tipping and tilting as they move around their pedestals, Martha Friedman uses muscular materials to suggest anatomical dismemberment and dis
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Mayme Kratz
In Mayme Kratz' current exhibition politics intersects with plants and animals encountered during time spent at Bears Ears National Monument
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Paige Pinnell
The late Paige Pinnell's photography is exhibited alongside an number of other photographers whose work he collected.
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Diana Al-Hadid
In "Temperamental Nature" Diana Al-Hadid shreds her paintings into lace-like incompletion that somehow feel complete. Landscape and figures
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Paul Kremer
Paul Kremer goes for a bold, graphic look and gets dynamic results which depend on deliberately limited means.
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Yoshitomo Saito
Weaving in bronze doesn't sound right, but it is what Yoshitomo Saito does in straddling both media and culture to achieve dual affinities.
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Pablo Picasso
This selection of prints by Picasso are presented to allow for a personal and casual encounter that reveals the artists conflicting personal
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James Martin
At 90 the tempestuous James Martin remains as acidic a social satirist as ever. These wildly implausible narrative paintings occupy their ow
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Albert Contreras
Albert Contrera's abstract and heavily impastoed paintings are juicy even as they conform to geometric patterns and shapes.
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Kenturah Davis
Kenturah Davis’s “Blur in the Interest of Precision” features contemplative portraiture with a complex visual vocabulary,
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Art Films
With the recent release of attention grabbing films set in or about the art world, DeWitt Cheng offers a "best of" selection of such films s
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Ian Davenport
Materials and the art-making process are central to Ian Davenport's stripe paintings. Poured and often allowed to pool on the floor, they ex
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Cheryl Ann Thomas
The ultra-thin porcelain abstractions of Cheryl Ann Thomas constantly appear to risk breaking to pieces to achieve their beautiful forms and
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Finnbogi Pétursson
Finnbogi Petursson's "Infra-Supra 2019" begins quietly with its huge screens empty. Sounds are generated by speakers set over a pool of wate
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Nikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee photographs herself playing a variety of characters joined by men who are cropped mostly out of frame.
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Sasha Pierce
The paintings of "Passementarie" reference fringes. Sasha Pierce forms patterns out of strands of paint rather than thread.
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A Beautiful Mess
Moving away from the crowded galleries of a blockbuster museum show can lead to unexpected rewards, as Maria Porges recently learned.
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Tara Donovan
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That Minimalist Wall
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Kay Hofmann
Covering Kay Hofmann's lengthy career, "pour toujours" (for the long haul) not only displays great consistency, but a figurative sensibility
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Tomiko Jones
"Hatsubon" is Tomiko Jones' response to her deceased father in the form of this sober but effecting exhibition.
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Brigitte Carnochan
In her mixed media photographs Brigitte Carmochan offers her own poetic take on one of our best photographers, Emily Dickinson.
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Jamey Hart
More goes into the small, simple-seeming forms that Jamey Hart constructs than at first meets the eye. The forms are clear and sensual, impo
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Joseph Paul Gerges
Joseph Paul Gerges' prints of animals metaphorically express our personal life journeys, with the vulnerability and loss that it must entail
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John Buck
Bold foreground figures and objects surrounded by sardonic line drawings have been a central feature in John Buck's work for decades.
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Piero Manzoni
A forerunner of the late 1960s Italian “Arte Povera” movement, Piero Manzoni believed that painting had run its course as a via
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In Praise of Art Criticism
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Two Novels for Millennials
Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" (1930) follows a circle of post-WWI twenty somethings; while Dawn Powell's "The Golden Spur" (1962) follo
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Deborah Boardman
"Painter &" reveals longtime Chicagoan Deborah Boardman to be an artist of spirituality, symbolism and vulnerability.
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Mayme Kratz
In Mayme Kratz' current exhibition politics intersects with plants and animals encountered during time spent at Bears Ears National Monument
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Fought and Pittman
David Fought's tabletop-scale sculptures of humble materials are paired with Steuart Pittman's simple abstractions that are not so simple.
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Chelsea Ryoko Wong
Chelsea Ryoko Wong's mixed-media paintings tackle the multi-cultural panorama of street life in the neighborhoods of San Francisco.
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Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby builds big things that feel like they sprang right out of the earth, move easily from pop culture references to art historical
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Carrie Ann Baade
Symbolism culled from art history abounds in the work of Carrie Ann Baade. These visual clues feel like a treasure map search that lead us
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Charles White
Currently the subject of a LACMA retrospective, Charles White's aesthetic progeny are popping up elsewhere around L.A. to amplify his messag
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Sherrie Wolf
Sherrie Wolf's "Found" exhibition is so titled because she’s painting from photographs of things exactly as she found them during her
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Floyd Newsum
Floyd Newsum's style and subject matter are deliberately childlike, but graphically complex. Their links to folk art are as clear as to mode
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“Beyond the Framework”
The five artists in “Beyond the Framework” seek precision of geometric abstraction, but also to reflect on topical issues.
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Takashi Murakami
There is plenty for Takashi Murakami fans to cozy up to here, but go upstairs to see where the artist is going now. He gets self-reflexive i
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“Solidary and Solitary”
"Solidary and Solitary" offers a fresh look at the development of African-American art through the lens of a private collection.
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A Beautiful Mess
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Nikki S. Lee
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Douglas Miles
In "Everyday Sacred" Douglas Miles prompts us to consider troubling issues of historical displacement and contemporary marginalization of in
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Lisa Solomon
A blend of personal identities is personal for Lisa Solomon, whose varied array of media investigates the effects of WW II internment camps.
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Hadley Radt
Hadley Radt’s modestly-sized abstractions somehow conjure the mysteries of time and space from economic means — liquid ink and a
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Allen Ruppersberg
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Javier Valle Pérez
Javier Valle Pérez' visual narrative blends a childlike style with brilliant color and vigorously interacting forms.
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Leigh Merrill
Leigh Merrill manufactures a sense of uncertainty from a photo-collage technique that results in completely fabricated realities drawn from
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Never Look Away
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Derek Boshier
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“The Body is Work”
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Ward Schumaker
Moving from large canvases to book-size paintings on cardboard, Wade Schumaker's felt epiphanies open us up to our own.
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“Docufiction”
“Docufiction” highlights three artists -- Drew Leshko, Julie Blackmon and Travis Walker -- who distort what our eyes tell us is
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Matthew Porter
Matthew Porter’s “Skyline Vista” combines hilltop cityscapes, dripping with golden-hour sunlight, and flying muscle cars.
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Natalie Christensen
Natalie Christensen's swimming pool images, "Last night I dreamt I knew how to swim," treat them as a gateway to a world not quite our own.
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Alejandro Diaz
Alejandro Diaz popularized the satirical variant of the '60s cliché "Make Tacos Not War." Common materials and witty phraseology make
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Carmen Menza
Carmen Menza's latter day take on light and space bathe the gallery and the eye in bold color and sound.
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“A Patterned Language”
Fist-size found objects, by artist Matt Magee, sit atop a white oblong panel supported by four sawhorses. Albert Chamillard's cross-hatched
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Mildred Howard
“TAP: Investigation of Memory” is an expansive installation carpeted with over a thousand gleaming silver shoe taps imported fro
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My Own Private Artspeak
Everybody claims to hate artspeak, and most of us art critics will offer full-throated denials that we sink to using it. Anyone who writes a
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Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen's current show concentrates on animal forms - birds, horses, etc. - that are evoked in often minimalist forms.
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Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whol
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Agnes Pelton
Spirituality, desert landscape and early modern ideas about abstraction form the aesthetic core of this Agnes Pelton survey.
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Mark di Suvero
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Inez Storer
Inez Storer’s current mixed-media paintings allude to our crisis-riddled times while functioning as satisfying aesthetic objects that
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This Must Be the Place
Lorraine Peltz' survey of chandeliers and bouquets are now deeply connected to her late husband, art critic and educator James Yood.
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In Praise of Art Criticism
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Sterling Ruby
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Charles White
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Virginia Folkestad
Virginia Folkestad employs a mix of art and found media to evoke the inherent conflict between the natural and manmade worlds.
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Suzanne Lacy
What at first often looks and feels like a Hollywood production are real situations performed by regular folks. The invisible hand of Suzann
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Karl Wirsum
One of the original Hairy Who in the early 1970s, Karl Wirsum's current graphic imagery is as smart and screwy as ever.
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Esao Andrews
Two small paintings hung side-by-side reveal important threads running throughout Esao Andrews’ current exhibition. “The Range&r
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Hiromi Takizawa
Hiromi Takizawa’s sculptural works of hand-blown glass, volcano ash, lights and live plants both respond to and appropriate from natur
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Takashi Murakami
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Allen Ruppersberg
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Never Look Away
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Derek Boshier
That British pop artist Derek Boshier pops up in a Houston gallery reminds us that he resided and taught here during the 1980s and 90s.
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“The Body is Work”
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My Own Private Artspeak
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Susan Burnstine
Susan Burnstine's completely unmanipulated photographs evoke dreamlike memories of travel both real and imagined.
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Anthony Lepore
"Performance Anxiety" is Anthony Lepore's way of bringing amusement and self-deprecation together. His success in doing so a direct result o
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Sean Healy
Sean Healy did not title his show "Beautiful Downer" lightly, informing it with his own alcoholism and the richness of the Northwest landsca
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Peter Gronquist
He states that light is central to his current work, but the shiny gestures here add up to both more and less than that.
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Configuring Language
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Justin Adian
Think Lynda Benglis poured paintings and Ellsworth Kelly's shaped canvases: you've got Justin Adian's seductive fusion.
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James Drake
Twenty years ago James Drake spent time filming and photographing transgender sex workers living and working in Ciudad Juarez on the border
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Lynn Aldrich
Lynn Aldrich transforms common consumer materials into metaphoric artworks that reflect the “excess, spectacle and artificiality&rdquo
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Barbara Takenaga
Immersing us, Barbara Takenaga delves into her otherworldly feeling for space, beneath the sea and into the animal kingdom.
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Shawn Demarest
Cars become the stuff of visual ecstasy in Shaw Demarest's glistening paintings. Flaring headlights and psychedelic color produce a fresh vi
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Inka Essenhigh
Inka Essenhigh’s blend of the familiar and the surreal in fables and narratives feel as grounded in reality as they are utterly fanta
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Alexandra Grant
Antigone in Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy exclaimed "I was born to love not to hate," and so Alexandra Grant takes for here current large
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Lagomorphs
The recent auction sale of Jeff Koons' "Bunny" is just the latest reminder how much the big money art market just pisses DeWitt Cheng off.
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Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whol
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Mark di Suvero
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This Must Be the Place
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Suzanne Lacy
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John Buck
John Buck’s kinetic sculptures produce the pleasure of seeing clashing symbols all moving in concert, wryly playful yet joyless.
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Daniel Heimbinder
Three of Daniel Heimbinder’s monumental ink and watercolor drawings comprise the entire show, and it’s enough. Detailed figurati
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Francesca Longhini
Two large-scale quasi-representational paintings are in evocative conversation with a suite of quite different smaller abstractions in Franc
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David Beck
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Natasha Bowdoin
“Seedling” is the latest iteration of an expansive installation of shaped panels that depict nature run amok with floral element
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Guillermo Kuitca
Guillermo Kuitca's nuanced paintings feature a muted color palette that softens the transition from dark to light. Large, open rooms with do
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Jordan Casteel
The portraits and street scenes of Jordan Casteel are at once understated and extravagant; she breaks down barriers in multiple ways.
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Configuring Language
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Lagomorphs
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John Buck
John Buck’s kinetic sculptures produce the pleasure of seeing clashing symbols all moving in concert, wryly playful yet joyless.
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Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock says her “American Bedroom” show is a “cultural and anthropological study.” Indeed, these photograph
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Michael Wright
A New York expat, Michael Wright found “the light and clarity of New Mexico inspired new directions in my art.”
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Christopher Jagmin
The word packed paintings of Christopher Jagmin blend dissection of contemporary culture with autobiography to powerful effect. Personal and
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Joe Clower
Jagged lines, geometric forms and subtle architectural references populate Joe Clower’s paintings. He specializes in ambiguity that is
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Javier Peláez
Javier Peláez' offers potent reminders that happiness follows despair with his effective balance of painted shards, trees and high pi
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Kevin Tolman
Kevin Tolman’s abstract paintings are influenced by the Southwestern landscape, but paintings from a recent trip to Portugal leave a s
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Marianne Kolb
The advantage of Marianne Kolb’s female figures, their ambiguity, becomes a disadvantage as the art world comes to favor more social
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Gina M. Contreras
In “Sola Chola,” Gina Contreras uses a simplified color palette that powerfully stirs emotions of sex, desire, and longing.
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Daniel Ramos
In his archival print, “Coyote,” a polaroid of an open highway is taped atop a creased, weathered paper on which is typed the ta
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Anthony Hernandez
Los Angeles has been Anthony Hernandez subject for decades, and "Screened Pictures" is no exception in this. He shoots through bus shelter m
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Rag Bone Grace Truth
Margaret Hawkins drove to meet with her summer class thinking a break from art might be nice. And realized that art is always there to be fo
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"Sin Fronteras"
The artists featured in "Sin Fronteras" - Patrick McGrath Muniz, Nicholas Herrera and Tomas Vigil, bring historic Catholic imagery into the
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Claude Monet
Why another Claude Monet exhibition? "Monet: The Late Years" solidifies the case that Monet introduced bold innovations during his final dec
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Benny Fountain
There is an unlikely chemistry between geometric abstraction and nostalgia in Benny Fountain's new "window room" paintings.
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Bradford Salamon
Bradford Salamon paints in fine detail and with vibrant color to make the most banal objects take on unique identities in "Retro Mania." The
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Shizu Saldamando
Shizu Saldamando's world is a place where human experience is rich and varied, and people aren’t defined by what surrounds them.
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David Beck
This survey of David Beck's mostly small, always intricately detailed and imaginatively rich works is riveting. If the model of the Enlighte
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John Armleder
When John Armleder explores an idea he takes a deep dive, as he does hear. The subject is a splash, as in water, and Armleder quotes a varie
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“Victorian Radicals”
The Pre-Raphaelites lead the impulse to create socially and politically relevant art--in mid-19th century Great Britain.
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Kristen Cliburn
The carefully modulated abstraction paintings of Kristen Cliburn encourage contemplative viewing and individual interpretation. They evoke
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Assaf Evron
A single motif binds the works of Assaf Evron: the nature-inspired “meander,” a decorative aesthetic that is a trans-cultural re
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Clark Richert
Geometric abstractionist Clark Richert is a veritable Renaissance man, versed in architecture, math and physics, in addition to his art pedi
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Art and Incarceration
It is virtuous if unsurprising that artists are today producing projects geared towards prison inmate rehabilitation. Indeed, prisoners them
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Anthony Hernandez
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Rag Bone Grace Truth
Margaret Hawkins drove to meet with her summer class thinking a break from art might be nice. And realized that art is always there to be fo
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Daniel Ramos
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Play It Down
The recent controversy over Victor Arnautoff's Depression-era murals at George Washington High School has attracted national attention.
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Cable Griffith
Already among our best abstract painters, Cable Griffith's forests and cityscapes express nature in peril with force and clarity.
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“Groping in the Dark”
Curator Alex Young has gathered eclectic meditations on the relationships between body, mind and earthly matter. What unfolds is the horrify
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Mary Iverson
Mary Iverson juxtapose the stunning natural beauty of Washington and its three national parks with the industrial ephemera of Seattle’
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“Coming Together”
Meg Griffiths, Christos J. Palios and JP Terlizzi present luscious photographs that reveal the narrative power of the simple ritual of mealt
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Julian Stanczak
Pioneer Op artist Julian Stanczak developed a remarkable system using contrasting colors and linear grids to stimulate and trick the eye.
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Nari Ward
Throughout a career spanning more than 25 years, Nari Ward has created powerful and poignant sculptures addressing politically charged subje
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Jason Middlebrook
Local wood provides Jason Middlebrook with a natural ground for abstract and stylized paintings that convey their own secret inner lives.
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Claude Monet
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Art and Incarceration
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“Victorian Radicals”
The Pre-Raphaelites lead the impulse to create socially and politically relevant art--in mid-19th century Great Britain.
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Play It Down
The recent controversy over Victor Arnautoff's Depression-era murals at George Washington High School has attracted national attention.
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Clark Richert
Geometric abstractionist Clark Richert is a veritable Renaissance man, versed in architecture, math and physics, in addition to his art pedi
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Luis Gonzalez Palma
Complex interior and exterior worlds collide with Luis González Palma. Steering between portraiture and abstractions created using v
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Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder rose to prominence as a disruptor of visual clichés of Native Americans. Here we get a feel for the transition to his
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Gladys Nilsson
The female figure, in the hands of Gladys Nilsson, undulates with distorted scale and physicality that overwhelms a cast of Lilliputian men.
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Enrique Martinez Celaya
His exhibition title, "The Tears of Things," Enrigue Martinez Celaya tells us, is a line extracted from Virgil's "The Aeneid." The bronze sc
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Darren Jones
Darren Jones takes pencil to paper to record crumbling castles that remind us of 19th century Romanticism, but here they are critiques of va
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Writing About Art
Jerrett Earnest's new book, "What it Means to Write About Art" is a page-turner for this genre. The subjects really have interesting things
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Mary Ann Peters
Images that express feelings of erasure and diaspora have informed Mary Ann Peters' work for years. In "traveler" paintings could be faded o
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Sam Perry
Sam Perry turns wood into looping tangles, knots and ribbons that allude to themes of adventure and return.
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Judy Chicago
In her early work from 1965-73 Judy Chicago was already operating at the cutting edge of both second wave feminism and mainstream Minimalism
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Cody Trepte
Cody Trepte's installation, "By Any Possibility," evades categorization, drawing as it does from the conceptual and the visceral.
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Reuben Wu
The basis of Reuben Wu’s archival pigment prints is traditional and expertly executed landscape photography. The pure awesomeness of g
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Nari Ward
Nari Ward's powerful and poignant sculptures address a widerange of politically charged subjects.
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“Groping in the Dark”
Curator Alex Young has gathered eclectic meditations on the horrifying extent to which human bodies have been colonized by chemical culture.
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Igor Melnikov
Ogpr Melnikov's paintings of emotionally ambiguous young children with large, searching eyes and lightly flushed cheeks are a probing psycho
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Emily Matyas
Emily Matyas photographic reflections on the intimate relationship between Mexico and the U.S. are both lucid and moving.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela
In photographs of studio constructions Rodrigo Valenzuela draws on both early modernist references a immigration narratives.
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David Aylsworth
Small, gestural and seemingly simple, David Alysworth's paintings are loving and painstaking studies in the process of abstraction.
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Turning Guns into Art
David S. Rubin shows how a number of artists are making creative and effective statements on the issue of gun control in a variety of ways.
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Scott Johnson
"Fissure" is both a geological and social term. Scott Johnson shakes up our understanding of materials and perception of space with seemingl
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“Altered States”
The four artists featured in "Altered States" reflect upon the morbid beauty of our civilization's effort to fulfill doomsday prophecies.
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Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade chemically treats sheets of glass to becoming color-shifting mirrors. Orbs are place so as to appear at times whole, other time
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Tomas Ochoa
The environment, race and the southern border are among the themes expressed in monochromatic paintings and rooted in personal experience.
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Gina Adams
Gina Adams’ visceral, multilayered mixed media works reflect an artist coming to terms with the harm done to her Native American ances
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The Beauty/Truth Problem
James Tissot forsook the family business, resulting in his father cutting him off, in favor of pursuing a career as an artist. That career t
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Dorothy Hood
The large scale of Dorothy Hood's paintings is noteworthy given that she was doing it nearly a half century ago. That her color field abstra
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Philip Guston
As it turns out, Philip Guston, a quintessential artist’s artist is just as much of a cartoonist’s cartoonist.
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Polly Apfelbaum
Polly Apfelbaum works with a remarkably complex structure of woodblock prints that are constantly rearranged in an electric aesthetic.
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Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo's Mixografia prints translate his iconic modernist images so as to retain the surface richness of his painting.
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The Beauty/Truth Problem
James Tissot forsook the family business, resulting in his father cutting him off, in favor of pursuing a career as an artist. And that care
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“Altered States”
The four artists featured in "Altered States" reflect upon the morbid beauty of our civilization's effort to fulfill doomsday prophecies.
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Tomas Ochoa
The environment, race and the southern border are among the themes expressed in monochromatic paintings and rooted in personal experience.
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Gina Adams
Gina Adams’ visceral, multilayered mixed media works reflect an artist coming to terms with the harm done to her Native American ances
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Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade places orbs around glass sheets so as to appear at times whole, other times bisected, their color changing as you walk around t
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Scott Johnson
In "Fissure" Scott Johnson shakes up our understanding of materials and perception of space with deceptively simple installations.
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Our Bodies, Our Art
That women's bodies are the subject of museum attention is hardly news. But Margaret Hawkins finds two recent shows, of Eleanor Antin's "Car
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Our Bodies, Our Art
Margaret Hawkins reflects on two recent shows, of Eleanor Antin and Rebecca Belmore, that draw from and expand on key themes of modern femin
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Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo's Mixografia prints translate his iconic modernist images so as to retain the surface richness of his painting.
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John Belingheri
John Belingheri's unplanned approach to painting reminds us that no program is necessary to attract and hold our gaze. Impulse and imaginati
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Dornith Doherty
In "Atlas of the Invisible" Dornith Doherty arranged and photographs arrangements of bird feathers that initially read as beautifully render
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Stephen Wilkes
In “Day to Night,” Stephen Wilkes offers a series of breathtaking panoramic photographs that fool us into thinking the crowded l
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Tom Orr
Tom Orr is a careful observer of spacial relationships who delights in manipulating our perception, in this case of lines and waterfalls.
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Trey Egan
Musical melodies and tonal mood permeate Trey Egan's vibrant paintings. Abstract and dreamlike, this is a visually charged exhibition that c
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Ann Johnson
The topic of Ann Johnson's assemblages is the continuing reverberations of slavery, primarily through portraits of anonymous African America
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John Boskovich
The late John Boskovich's home and studio is as much the subject of "Psycho Salon" as the art that inhabits it because the gallery recreates
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Takahiko Hayashi
The wabi-sabi aesthetic is central to Takahiko Hayashi's exhibition of seemingly weathered works on paper, "Vibes in the Lines."
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Florine Démosthène
The collaged and painted figures conjured by Florine Demosthene are presented against empty grounds that makes their dramatic gestures even
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Christopher Mir
Christopher Mir derives his distinctive archetypal vocabulary of schooners and disembodied arms from magazines, online images and other sour
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Seiko Tachibana
What starts out as minimalist in Seiko Tachibana's modestly scaled paintings gains lyrical and poetic momentum as you stay with them.
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Norman Lundin
Norman Lundin is a master of "remembered detail," and it shows in these varied examples of still lives, nudes and landscapes often recalled
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Jinie Park
Jinie Park's mixed media wall sculptures assert gentle chromatic persuasions with a deconstructivist twist and an Arte Povera sensibility.
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Wanda Koop
In her "Dreamline" series of paintings Wanda Koop meditates on the intersection of found nature and the built environment.
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Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's personal encounters with homelessness and the homeless are similar to that of most Angelenos. He reflects on how artists rangi
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Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson’s turned-and-carved-wood sculptures are materialized from recycled found logs, branches and driftwood that carry symb
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“thread.”
Using everyday materials, the artists of “thread.” evoke a full range of human emotions, from love and familial harmony, to ange
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"Layers of Existence"
"Layers of Existence" offers a thoughtful mix of six artists who examine the burdens we carry, the identities we struggle with, and the impe
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Laura Fritz
The gothic-romantic sensibility of Laura Fritz produces a supremely elegant integration of great craft, minimalist panache and a splash of t
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David Kessler and Jim Waid
Jim Waid's paintings are layered with color, texture, and his own whimsical mark making. They exude a joy for the natural world free of pole
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Democracy's Trial
Artists typically require a modicum of calm and long stretches of time to focus and create, but these are not those times. Many artists have
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Virgil Grotfeldt
Darkly luminous paintings by the late Virgil Grotfeld are distinctive biomorphic abstractions that traverse vast and microscopic space.
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Isadora Stowe
Hundreds of everyday objects float in a colored haze that Isadora Stowe works like overlapping memories from various times and recollections
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Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own Native Amer
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Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson offers glimpses into a not-so-friendly parallel earth in an earthy palette that evokes early sepia photography.
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Julie Mehretu
Her large scale abstractions at first read as exercises in gestural painting, but Julie Mehretu builds layers of media and imagery drawn fro
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Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's reflects on how a wide range of artists and art organizations have brought art to bear in helping address the major social il
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E.J. Hill
E.J. Hill has drawn attention to himself as a statue (of himself), but here a series of paintings take center stage. The best of these are t
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A Taste for Spain
Spanish old masters are represented in highlights of the UK's Bowes Museum collection, featuring the most familiar masters and beyond.
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Judith Ann Miller
A dress made from vintage advertisements and clothing catalogue pages summon now archaic gender norms in order to draw our attention to thei
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Adam Katseff
Adam Katseff's "Waterfalls" discard color in favor of shadow, motion and light. Their presence is striking in spite of their lack of specifi
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Shirin Neshat
The language of the Farsi poets of Shirin Neshat's native Iran is inscribed onto the people she photographs--and it is their lives that thes
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Origin Story
Richard Speer was first drawn to images of art and architecture in his grandparents' encyclopedias. The guilded age art displayed at a Balti
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Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own culture.
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Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's large scale abstractions at first read as gestural paintings, but are in face built-up layers of imagery drawn from widespre
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A Taste for Spain
Spanish old masters are represented in highlights of the UK's Bowes Museum collection, featuring the most familiar masters and more.
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Democracy's Trial
DeWitt Cheng finds reflection on the death of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates offers important lessons for today's artists.
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Origin Story
Richard Speer developed an adolescent obsession with the European Baroque. Then in college he discovered the necromancy of Mondrian.
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Joel Swanson and Cody Hudson
Joel Swanson riffs on school-day memories that are stirred by such objects as black-and-white composition notebooks, index cards, yellow hig
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Tom Lamb, Soheila Siadate
Mixed media paintings by Soheila Siadate and aerial photography by Tom Lamb engage in a dialogue of visual origin and working process.
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Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between Romanticism and Modernism. Ring’s technique and su
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Damiàn Ortega
Damiàn Ortega uses materials associated with construction in the making of collages and sculpture to evoke protective gear and theria
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Anne Le Troter
Anne Le Troter turns a gallery into a cryobank waiting room outfitting with moving audio speakers that utter phrases used by the specialists
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Rauschenberg Effect
Robert Rauschenberg's legion of young acolytes have been popping up steadily for years--decades really--and show no signs of abating.
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Donna Ruff
Donna Ruff's ironically titled "Utopia" reflects anything but. Book pages are burnt methodically to obliterate words and letters, is some ca
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Árpád Forgó
Árpád Forgó's luminous shaped canvases shift color and shape as you move around them. Meticulous and modular, they mesm
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Tania Candiani
Inside a narrow passageway, ephemera from a collective sound action undertaken by Tania Candiani lines a single wall. The work, "Pulso," was
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Currency as Art
Artists have been crying out about money and corruption for many years. David Rubin takes a look at some incisive examples.
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The Rauschenberg Effect
Robert Rauschenberg's legion of young acolytes have been popping up steadily for years--decades really--and show no signs of abating.
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Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between 19th century Romanticism and 20th century Modernism.
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Tess Mosko Scherer
Tess Mosko Scherer beckons us to consider the rich complexities of silence. She crumples paper, creating terrains of light and shadow. It is
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Joe Sola
Joe Sola’s “I Drove to San Francisco and Back” is a digitized romp through tropes and tricks, but the star attraction is a
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Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford appropriates and reinterprets landscapes by artists such as Friedrich, Constable and Singer Sargent, presenting them as back
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Marjorie Norman Schwarz
Marjorie Norman Schwarz's superb all over abstractions draw on images and colors extracted from deep within her mind’s eye.
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Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman was born to art world royalty and attending an elite school when she took her life at age 22. This show validates her emer
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On Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, established as one of the literary geniuses of her generation, had a vital but uneven relationship with the visual arts.
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Currency as Art
Artists have been crying out about money and corruption for many years. David Rubin takes a look at some incisive examples.
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Woven
“Woven: Connections and Meanings” explores a lineage of historically feminine craftsmanship, with textiles and weaving at their
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David Eckard
There is a palpable feeling of nostalgia imbued in David Eckard''s vaguely human body parts in the process of deterioration.
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Julia Fish
In her quiet, minimalist works Julia Fish ensures that the way we experience space is changed. The light, palette and architecture of her ow
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Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous and elegant as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control.
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Nicola Roos
Nicola Roos' full sized figures examine Yasuke's mythical and historical status. Yasuke was the first African to serve in Japan as a samurai
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On Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, established as one of the literary geniuses of her generation, had a vital, uneven relationship with art.
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Sophie Calle
Photographer and conceptualist Sophie Calle veils images of people, places and things behind curtains stamped with poetic musings.
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Naama Tsabar
In "Inversions" Naama Tsabar's geometric wall works are fashioned from thick colored felt that cascades off the wall. Completed with piano s
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Darryl J. Curran
Darryl J. Curran has integrated and extended photography’s conceptual strategies into his work as it evolved and morphed through the a
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Gregg Laananen
Gregg Laananen’s latest shimmering, pointillistic landscapes expose a possible transition between realism and formalism.
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Mural Madness
One of Portland's newest architectural landmarks started so promisingly, until its mural facade of psychedelic protozoa was added at the end
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Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control.
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Sámi Intervention
For an exhibition that covers so much ground, “Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada” is deceptively and wonde
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser despised straight lines and took pains to avoid them. This is very much in evidence in the prints, which are a p
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Graphic Subversion
Mark Steven Greenfield and Mark Dean Veca approach mark making as a vehicle for reinterpreting historical and media imagery.
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Patrick Renner
Patrick Renner builds installations of found wood, has for years. All manner of objects and refuse find their way from the streets of Housto
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“The Lavender Palette”
"The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State" takes a fascinating dive into an overlooked chapter of the region's art
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John Upton
At age 87, photographer John Upton receives his first solo exhibition. It's a condensed retrospective covering six decades in four series of
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Mural Madness
One of Portland's newest architectural landmarks started so promisingly, then came its mural facade.
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Graphic Subversion
Mark Steven Greenfield and Mark Dean Veca approach mark making for reinterpreting historical and media imagery.
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The Lavender Palette
"The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State" addresses an overlooked chapter of art's history.
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Hannah Epstein
Hannah Epstein wallpapers white bricks onto the wall and carpets the floor of a gallery with a fiery pattern of bubbling lava. To this groun
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Robert Buelteman
Robert Buelteman's carefully arranged plant photographs are subjected to a panoply of techniques that produce auras and other delightful eff
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John Baldessari
John Baldessari, whose recent passing has been an emotional trauma for much of the local and international art world, is seen here as, yes,
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“Women in Neon”
“She Bends: Women in Neon” spotlights the She Bends network of female-identifying artists who work primarily with neon.
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Subhankar Banerjee
Environmental activist and photographer Subhankar Banerjee organizes different low-precipitation landscapes into a singular statement.
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Apps for Art
Augmented reality is a technological art form that recently has been gaining favor. Instead of viewing through goggles, we use an iPhone or
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Margot Voorhies Thompson
The gouache and watercolor paintings that comprise Margot Voorhies Thompson’s “Desert Light” take inspiration from the ari
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“Signs of the Times”
"Signs of the Times" reaches back over the last century through photography to posit that the same social, political, and cultural issues ha
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Barbara Kasten
Barbara Kasten's aims her camera lens at sculpture and architecture with props to produce carefully staged abstract images.
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Amir H. Fallah
Iranian born Amir H. Fallah's paintings regard American culture and political rhetoric as existing in a warped reality. Ten portraits of vei
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Carrie Ann Plank
Carrie Ann Plank’s mixed-media abstract prints integrate a wealth of scientific influences — mapping, numerical sequences, fract
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Jessica Rath
In “fruiting bodies,” Jessica Rath explores the wide-ranging effects of human activity on plants and bees in her superbly crafte
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Anna Bogatin Ott
Anna Bogatin Ott’s luscious abstract paintings build a surface through repetitive markings in strong colors that culminate in an image
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Knowledge Bennett
Knowledge Bennett directly quotes iconic images of postwar American art to convey various atrocities and outrages perpetrated against Africa
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Catherine Opie
By entitling her recent pictures under the title “Rhetorical Landscapes,” Opie consciously references our dystopian political cl
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Seeing Through a Stethoscope
Among the exhibitions cut short by the pandemic, Sarah Fransler Lavin and Stephanie Wood brought together music and sculpture in the object
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“Women in Neon”
“She Bends: Women in Neon” spotlights the She Bends network of female-identifying artists who work with neon.
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Apps for Art
Augmented reality is a technological art form that recently has been gaining favor. Instead of viewing through goggles, we use an iPhone or
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Leave Nothing Out
Phoenix' Musical Instrument Museum turned out to be anything but the musty place Margaret Hawkins imagined it would be.
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Jacquelyn Royal
Jacquelyn Royal’s landscape needlepoints center on graffiti in order to explore the authenticity of mark making and the record it leav
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“Uncanny Valley”
“Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI” refers to the deep curve of a graphed line measuring human emotional response and
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The New Cultural Paradigm
Conditions have altered the global system. Our Weekly Newsletter will be changing with it--short term certainly, perhaps well beyond.
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Jessica Rath
In “fruiting bodies,” Jessica Rath explores the wide-ranging effects of human activity on plants and bees in superbly crafted wo
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Amir H. Fallah
Amir H. Fallah's ten portrait paintings regard American culture and political rhetoric as existing in a warped reality.
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“Signs of the Times”
"Signs of the Times" posits that the same social, political and cultural issues have remained continually relevant since the 1920’s.
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Leave Nothing Out
Phoenix' Musical Instrument Museum turned out to be anything but the musty place Margaret Hawkins imagined it would be.
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Our Antinomian Time
Antinomian: Any view which rejects the rule of law and argues against moral, religious or social norms.
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A Surprise Awaits
The author's mother recently died. Not particularly close for years, they had grown together more recently. It's complicated--but isn't it a
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Here We Stand
How is it possible that words so obvious, so ordinary in their moral clarity become the very instrument of our self-immolation? “Equal
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Randi Matushevitz
Randi Matushevitz deploys Expressionism to respond to resurgent sexism, racism, homophobia and white supremacism.
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Galleries in the Streets
Stumbling on public art hooked Lynn Trimble on the stuff long before she started frequenting galleries and writing about the shows. She stil
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Making a Difference
Created in 1992, Robbie Conal's "Freedom of Choice" skewered thee pre-RBG Supreme Court in support of Planned Parenthood.
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Rachmaninoff’s Last Stand
Fears of obsolescence haunt everyone — even, or especially, those in the cultural pantheon. Eeven if you’re Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Artist's Charts
For those who like visual poetry or puzzles, I recommend some artist’s charts to peruse while riding out the pandemic.
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Wait Til Next Year
On July 24 Chicago woke up to the news that two statues memorializing Christopher Columbus had been removed.
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Chris Revelle
Race and its dark history in America permeate Chris Ravelle's varied body of work, which effectively drives a pickaxe through it's myths.
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Decomposed Art
Disposal, decay and rejuvenation has long played a role in shaping art's response to cyclical structures and the effects of time.
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Laura Parker's Finch
Laura Parker’s photograph of an ordinary finch sits framed by a circular splash of white light and a terrifyingly deep universe.
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Serfdom and Surfing
Removal from the “carnival attached to a stock market” has produced no withdrawal side-effects for this art addict.
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The Squirrel Metaphor
Squirrels invaded Bill Lasarow's garden, foraging friut meant for the Gardner, who found himself having to contemplate their eradication.
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Limbo
Donna Tennant's visit with her grandmother on this occasion was sidelined by this exchange with Mrs. Carroll.
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Artist of Conviction
Jorg Dubin is an anomaly in his home base town who has long since abandoned market friendly for conviction art.
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Yari Ostovany
Yari Ostovany's painting blend Abstract Expressionist, Persian and Taoist roots to produce a feeling of spiritual illumination.
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Natalie Niblack
With her series of pointedly satirical ceramic portraits Natalie Niblack has established herself as an elite comic interpreters of the Age o
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Dakota Noot
While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused many to feel depressed or exasperated from isolation and boredom, Dakota Noot has found lockdown to b
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An American Resurrection
The contrast between normal and deranged has never been less private. By the end of the long, televised Inauguration Day,, most of us were s
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Ann Morton
Ann Morton pleases the eye and teases our mind in mainly textile and found object works that are, finally, effectively searing.
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Lawn Art
The monotony of pandemic mornings is both comforting and boring. But boredom is the soil in which creative thoughts grow.
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Italo Scanga
Twenty years after his death, Italo Scanga's influence remains, but his achievement is not fully appreciated.
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Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin has worked extensively with fluorescent light fixtures recently, but this may be the first time anyone has not bothered to plug
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Tod Bailey
Tod Bailey's brand of figuration possesses a sense of urgency that exudes exceptional emotional and sexual energy.
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Christian Marclay
In a selection of five collages and nine digital prints Christian Marclay constructs extremes of emotion built bit by bit.
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Bradford Salamon
For Bradford Salamon the pandemic lockdown led to intense self-reflection. His interest has gravitated towards women's faces.
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Grant Wood's Secret
Like the myth of Main Street U.S.A., the closeted Grant Wood hid behind his own myth as an exemplar of traditional agrarian values.
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Pandemic Solutions
JD Beltran surveys a cross section of how the arts have adopted to pandemic conditions. Both institutions and artists have produced a wide r
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Nasher Mixtape
The idea for "Nasher Mixtape" comes from a widespread practice that began in the ’80’s, of recording a list of songs on a casset
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Laura Hapka
Laura Hapka engages modernist geometric reductivism through beeswax and humor that bathes her paintings in emotional warmth.
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The MCA Blows It
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art drew fire for claiming the mantle of diversity and staff support, while laying workers off and failing
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Neal Ambrose-Smith
Narrative works bye Neal Ambrose-Smith rearrange iconic symbols and tell a story without a clear beginning or end.
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Martha Alf
David S. Rubin revisits the contributions of Martha Alf through a small but carefully curated cross section of works.
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Omar Velázquez
In a jewel box of an exhibition Omar Velazquez combines a lush surrealism with a philosophic agenda.
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Dylan McLaughlin
Working in a multiplicity of media, Dylan McLaughin examines the resonant effect of industry and colonialism.
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Holly Wong
Holly Wong's "Phoenix" is composed of drawings on pieces of mylar stitched together to form "the thing with feathers."
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Tom Uttech, “Origin”
The recently renamed and reopened Figge Museum features a single, fortuitous painting by spiritual landscapist Tom Uttech.
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Jason Karolak, “Fictionless”
Jason Karolak uses oil on linen to create luminous compositions of neon-like color that jumps off from black backgrounds. The point of view
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Jacques Garnier
Jacques Garnier has a passion for architecture, art history and poetry that shapes a series of striking black and white photographs.
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Wade Guyton
Wade Guyton makes his paintings on the computer, culling newspaper images, textures, his own images ... and glitches.
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Cannupa Hanska Luger
In Cannupa Hanska Luger's "Something to Hold Onto," strands of unfired clay beads hang suspended in a circular form, each one symbolizing a
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Diane Arbus
The photography of Diane Arbus served to expand our understanding of the human species. As curated by Carrie Mae Weems they meld the aesthet
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David Wilson
In an art world advanced by technology and virtual reality, in “Sittings” David Wilson taps into the real world and immerses us
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Karen Reimer
A repurposed fabric construction from an 2016 installation now becomes "Sea Change," essentially cool quilts end up anything but.
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Mel Prest
Mel Prest’s “Color Unfolding” paintings of overlaid stripes initially look like precionist Op Art, but it's all hand done.
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Roberta Harris
Roberta Harris applies blood-red paint to canvas with expressionistic brushstrokes that evoke emotional and physical pain.
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Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu juxtaposes her sculptures with, even as she offers a visual critique of Western representation's history.
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Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers integrates thoughtful interpretations of current and historic events with beautifully crafted art.
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Jeffrey Cortland Jones
In his paintings Jeffrey Cortland Jones explores urban spaces and rural landscapes via abstraction. He exploits the way color seeps and refr
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Jack Pierson
The title of Jack Pierson's "Less and more" is a misnomer because it hardly implies the breadth of his body of work.
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Anna Mavromatis
Anna Mavromatis' suspended three-dimensional dresses constructed from folded and printed paper bear social and political messaging.
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Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist combines performance and video, is frequently the protagonist, and throws a visceral assault at the lens that is immersive an
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Immersive Van Gogh
"Immersive Van Gogh" is an entertainment spectacle, so go for the oversize, animated projections on walls and floors.
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Oscar Muñoz
Oscar Muñoz repeatedly draws the ephemeral that dries up and disappears or is dissolved, subject to forces beyond the artist.
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Tristan Eaton, “All At Once”
Tristan Eaton may be best known to the public for toy designs, but also for his many murals with a message. The very volume of work here mak
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Carrie Mae Weems, “Witness”
Carrie Mae Weems produces project after project that reveals not only a high aesthetic awareness but a new historical consciousness from her
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Michael Childress
Visually charged with chromatic progressions that cross the entire color spectrum, Childress’ paintings emit an aesthetic heat.
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Jiyoung Chung
As stark and formal as Jiyoung Chung's mixed media works appear, each is subject to breezes, flutters of air, with open space between each l
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"Frisson"
With the late Richard and Jane Lang's donation of NY School art, SAM attains a leadership position for AbEx holdings.
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Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick's art and personality go hand-in-hand. So when he says "Jesus of Western Avenue" is his final museum show, believe him.
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Garry Knox Bennett
In "Illumination: Time, Containment and Bling," Garry Knox Bennett presents a representative selection of his carefully crafted objects that
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HJ Bott
The "Displacement-of-Volume System" was dreamed up by JHJ Bott 50 years ago and its shapes have informed his work ever since.
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Don Suggs
Donald Suggs varied his imagery from one project to the next, with geometric shapes used to alter or expand a work’s interpretation.
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Peter Halley
Peter Halley's "Cell Grids" are made up of single hue square or rectangular panels joined together to form a larger work.
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Robin Kandel
Robin Kandel's pencil drawings both pare down to parallel stripe structures and allow her to work spontaneously against those stripes to pro
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Jinie Park
The immaculate, color blocked compositions of Jinie Park may be rough hewn, but they posses a spirit of regal aloofness.
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Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers paints on quilts others have made to extract contemporary inspiration from their histories, referencing "Codex" with good pu
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Marietta Patricia Leis
Marietta Patricia Leis injects a distillation of evanescent impressions, feelings, and details of memories into ostensibly simple objects.
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Francesco Clemente
The venue of the Santa Monica Old Post Office and the effectiveness of Fracesco Clemente's installation highlight the Neo-expressionist elec
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“were-: Nenetech Forms”
Colonizer narratives crumble amid the weight of collective mythologies, where collaborative labor has given rise to “were-: Nenetech F
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Molly Vaughan
Molly Vaughan's "Project 42" takes as its subject 42 murdered transgender women of color--and dresses.
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Joan Mitchell
The protean Joan Mitchell as seen in this retrospective mates voluptuary hedonism to feverish agitation in some of the best abstract brushwo
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A Binary Season
Even as many artists grapple with public issues as crises of political and physical health continue, they also choose to withdraw into the i
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Dion Johnson
The contemporary take on hard-edge painting by Dion Johnson is vibrant and oscillating, as the show's title promises.
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Hung Liu
Both Hung Liu and her mother died as a result of pancreatic cancer, which is evoked both emotionally and symbolically in this moving exhibit
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Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall puts our powers of observation to the test in this group of large-scale digital prints. They initially are believable, but the per
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Anne Siems, “Inner Wild”
Inscriptions of tattoos on the necks, bodies, and shaved heads of teenage girls lend them the feel of punk centerfolds, and marks a departur
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Stephanie Robison
Stephanie Robison pairs polished, fluid marble with patches of colored felt to achieve inventive, suggestive and humorous results.
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“Networked Nature"
“Networked Nature” presents a group of digital works interpreting “nature" bound up and integrated with artificial intelli
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2020: Three Artists
Carrie Zeller, Jorge Dubin and Tom Lamb display their distinct creative and healing responses to the travails of life during the Covid pand
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I Was Here
Th small-town sprawl of the Los Angeles that Bill Lasarow grew up in was very different from the diverse urban metropolis familiar today. Ch
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Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson is said to be the father of mail art. Over 100 collages and archival material are absorbing yet frustrating because the element
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Beverly McIver
A survey of Beverly McIver's lively figurative painting displays her ability to move from the intensely personal to the profoundly universal
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Ling Chun
Ling Chun attacks the fine art identity of ceramics through her treatment of scale and media add-ons.
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From Dawn to Dusk
"From Dawn to Dusk" is a superb cross section of late 19- early 20th-century Nordic landscape and portrait painting.
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Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander combines Hindu, Muslim, and Western imagery, injecting her fusion with humor, ambiguity, and eroticism.
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Marcelyn McNeil
Marcelyn McNeil is a latter day color field painter who layers her pours in veils punctuated by solid bands of color.
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“Wear Your Love Like Heaven”
Yes, the title derives from Donovan's 1967 single. A dozen artists channel its theme of love and hope, with expansive views of human experie
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Jovencio de la Paz
Fiber artist Jovencio de la Paz gets between the hand and the machine to explore Nils Aall Baricelli's math and Symbiogenesis.
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Alice Neel
Alice Neel's retrospective casts fresh light on the way that her personal relationships and philosophy shaped her approach to portraiture.
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Sonya Clark
Sonia Clark presents works based on a flag in the archives of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C
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Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle's artworks from the 60s conjoin aesthetic expertise with primitive energy, all infused with vitality and sensuality.
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J.J. Martin
In "Role Models" J.J. Martin depicts Nobel Peace Prize recipients as jubilant stars, athletically fit, dressed in high fashion celebrities.
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Bibiana Suarez
In “De: Lata (What Gives Us Away),” Bibiana Suarez addresses the depictions of women on food packaging to prompt a purchase.
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Monica Aissa Martinez
Monica Aissa Martinez draws human figures and biological forms that challenge us to consider new realities and relationships.
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Rick Silva, “PEAKING”
“PEAKING” is a site-specific installation by sound and video artist Rick Silva that questions how human beings impact nature, do
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Pancho Jiménez
The ceramic sculptures of Pancho Jiménez continue the Bay Area tradition of ceramic satire, but in a subtler vein. These pseudo-artif
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Found Object Facsimile
Daniel McClain, Claudia Tarantino and Bill Abright employ illusionism to powerful effects all adept at tricking the brain.
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Touring the Timken
The refurbished Timken Museum is a jewel box of art dating from the 14th - 20th century. Liz Goldner leads us through.
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Alternate Realities
Four of the West Coasts key abstractionists' connections and individual distinctions are succinctly revealed in "Alternate Realities."
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Shingo Francis
Immaculate geometry and illusionistic effects all meet in Shingo Francis’s “Transparent Reflection” suite of paintings.
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XO Seattle
The pop-up exhibition "Forest for the Trees," at the Seattle Rail Spur building, offered a portent of what is possible here.
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Carlos Villa
“Worlds in Collision” examines Carlos Villa’s emergent work of the 1970s and early 1980s focused on magic and mystery.
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“Drawing Down the Moon”
“Drawing Down the Moon” is an encyclopedic exhibition that examines the universal affection for the moon as represented in both
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Urs Fischer
The broken toys, gadgets, clothes, tools--hundreds of them--seem ordinary. But the digital renderings projected into the next room are not.
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Marc D'Estout
Small scale sculptures by Marc D'Estout are full of both absurdist humor and elegant form that feel both melancholy and soulful.
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Julia Maiuri, "Mindscreen"
"Mindscreen" refers to a film practice that depicts what a character in thinking about. In her small paintings, which draw on or reflect fil
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Yuna Kim
Yuna Kim's hand-drawn animations link the everyday experience of Covid-19 and the meaning of universal struggle.
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Liz Ward, "Silver River"
The Mississippi River is the dominant and consistent theme of Liz Ward' current work. The river traverses these mixed media works as a meand
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Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's luminescent landscapes are donated by pyramids and other triangular structures integrated into natural settings.
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An Te Liu, “Low Fidelity”
An Te Liu fashions his sculptures into images that draw from his childhood and reference ancient artifacts and modernist sculpture.
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Fluid in Nature
Preston Singletary, Raven Skyriver, and Dan Friday demonstrate how Italian glassblowing techniques have infiltrated American glass.
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"Off-Kilter"
"Off-Kilter's" group of artists present a gratifying response to conceptual art history. It embraces that history with extra doses of whimsy
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Alia Ali
Growing up in Yemen, Alia Ali brings memory of local textile markets now wraps models in fabric and photographs them.
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Stas Orlovski
Stas Orlovski has deployed a vocabulary of motifs — waves, vortices, plants, and more — to create poetic depictions of conscious
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Michael Harnish
For Michael Harnish, utopia is a collage of juxtaposed painterly responses to printed representations of a lush nature.
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Earlie Hudnall
The daily lives of people residing in Houston's African American neighborhoods forms the core of Earlie Hudnall's street photography.
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Cindy Sherman, 1977-1982
The early photography of Cindy Sherman remains both a personal and art historical high water mark. Andy Brumer asked how such familiar, and
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Matthew Cerletty
The paintings of Matthew Cerletty's "True Believer" are precise, even sculptural objects devoid of emotional baggage.
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Agnieszka Pilat, “ROBOTa”
The exhibition is, on the face of it, a selection of mixed media paintings. But the real subject and medium are robots. Agniezka Pilat makes
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Henry Taylor
Prolific figurative painter Henry Taylor is a sophisticated naïf and a brilliant visual raconteur who chronicles public and private liv
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Alex Chitty
“Figs break open of themselves,” is a product of Alex Chitty's foray into genealogy and the creativity of women in her family.
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Poppy Jones, “Body & Soul”
Poppy Jones small and intimate paintings are close-cropped depictions of everyday things — jackets, folded shirts, flowers, lamps, etc
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Another World
The Transcendental Painting Group shared faith in painting’s potential to evoke heightened spiritual consciousness.
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero's stylized figures, done in large, exaggerated forms, are among the most recognizable artworks in the world.
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Ori Gersht
Metaphorically, Ori Geshi's decompositions suggest the detritus left over from the material tendency to obsolescence.
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Alfred Conteh
Alfred Conteh paints larger-than-life portraits of people he gets to know, seeking to represent their lives without telling explicit narrat
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Bruton Sisters
The popularity of the three Bruton sisters ran from the 1920s through the War. After that they gradually faded into obscurity, until now.
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Jud Bergeron
Jud Bergeron's cast bronze and resin wall reliefs called “Cyclopean Runways” fuses the archaic with the modern.
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Jud Bergeron
Jud Bergeron's cast bronze and resin wall reliefs called “Cyclopean Runways” fuses the archaic with the modern.
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Daniel Nez
Daniel Nez uses geometric forms in his “Fractal Lineage” exhibition to embody elements of Navajo cosmology.
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Henry Jackson-Spieker
Henry Jackson-Spieker's “Interstitial Volume” comprises three distinct installations designed to be experienced together.
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Henry Jackson-Spieker
Henry Jackson-Spieker's “Interstitial Volume” comprises three distinct installations. Each stands alone, while designed to be ex
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“From the Ground Up”
“From the Ground Up” chronicles the rise of a class of Black architects that has a growing track record of achievement.
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Bruton Sisters
The popularity of the Bruton sisters ran from the 1920s through the War. After that they faded into obscurity. Until now.
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Alfred Conteh
Alfred Conteh paints larger-than-life portraits of people he gets to know, seeking to represent their lives free of narratives.
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Ori Gersht
Metaphorically, Ori Geshi's decompositions suggest the detritus left over from the material tendency to obsolescence.
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Anish Kapoor
Paintings by Anish Kapoor transport us into mythic spaces brimming with chthonic, creation-story texture and energy.
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Anish Kapoor
New paintings by Anish Kapoor transport us into archetypal mythic spaces brimming with chthonic, creation-story texture and energy.
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Virgil Grotfeldt
This selection of carbon powder drawings and acrylic paintings of amorphous biomorphic figures are suggestive and poignant.
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Virgil Grotfeldt
This selection of carbon powder drawings and acrylic paintings of amorphous biomorphic figures are suggestive and poignant.
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Barbara T. Smith
Barbara T. Smith entered the art world as a frustrated suburban housewife during the 1950s. She became a pioneer of performance art.
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David Frazer
David Frazer creates visual metaphors for complicated contemporary phenomena that are individualistic and instantly recognizable.
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David Frazer
David Frazer creates visual metaphors for complicated contemporary phenomena that are individualistic and instantly recognizable.
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Jónsi, “FLÓÐ (Flood)”
FLÓÐ (Flood), an immersive installation by Sigur Rós' Jónsi addresses climate change with neither soporific optimis
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Jónsi, “FLÓÐ (Flood)”
FLÓÐ (Flood) is an immersive installation by Sigur Ros' Jónsi that manages three things. First, it addresses climate chang
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Ted Kincaid
Conceptual artist and photographer Ted Kincaid presents an investigation of the natural beauty of the elements: earth, sea, and sky.
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Ted Kincaid
Conceptual artist and photographer Ted Kincaid presents an investigation of the natural beauty of the elements: earth, sea, and sky.
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Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power.
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Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power.
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Delfin Finley, “Coalescence”
Delfin Finley joins other artists who celebrate people of color by making sympathetic, often idealized portraits of them that debunk prejudi
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Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating.
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Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating.
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Paula Jean Rice
Three-dimensional and wall-mounted relief sculptures blend autobiography with cosmic, geographic, and historical references in Paula Jean Ri
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Melina Ausikaitis
Melina Ausikaitis' works are soft, indistinct scenes punctuated weight and form. Tangible details are immersed in an ethereal ground.
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Gaylen Hansen
At age 102, Gaylen Hansen still produces vigorous paintings full of anger and courage that match his long held view on the endangered enviro
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Sarah Charlesworth
The brightly colored "Neverland" series of 2002 moved beyond appropriation to photograph ordinary household objects.
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Sarah Charlesworth
The brightly colored "Neverland" series of 2002 moved beyond appropriation to photograph ordinary household objects.
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Gaylen Hansen
At age 102, Gaylen Hansen still produces vigorous paintings full of anger and courage.
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Melina Ausikaitis
Melina Ausikaitis' works are soft, indistinct scenes punctuated weight and form. Tangible details are immersed in an ethereal ground.
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John Roloff
John Roloff has made environmentalism one of the cornerstones of his diverse art practice since the mid-1970s.
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John Roloff
John Roloff has made environmentalism one of the cornerstones of his diverse art practice since the mid-1970s.
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Celia Alvarez Munoz
Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s artistic vision goes beyond traditional Chicano iconography to the symbols and storytelling of Chi
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Elaine Reichek
Elaine Reichek puts her mastery of hand stitched and digitally controlled embroidery to concept. and feminist aesthetic purpose.
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Celia Alvarez Munoz
Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s artistic vision goes beyond traditional Chicano iconography to the symbols and storytelling of Chi
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Elaine Reichek
Elaine Reichek puts her mastery of hand stitched and digitally controlled embroidery to concept. and feminist aesthetic purpose.
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In “Coming Back to See Through, Again” Njideka Akunyili Crosby juxtaposes photographic transfers and painted depictions of inter
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In “Coming Back to See Through, Again” Njideka Akunyili Crosby juxtaposes photographic transfers and painted depictions of inter
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Ben Ashton
Historic portraits in the Grand Manner inspire Ben Ashton's melted and stretched period portraits with attention-grabbing results.
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Ben Ashton
Historic portraits in the Grand Manner inspire Ben Ashton's melted and stretched period portraits with attention-grabbing results.
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Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike many of his fellow California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch townscapes and street scenes of early Laguna Beach.
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JooYoung Choi
JooYoung Choi's paintings with cut paper (and one soft sculpture) show an affinity for comic books, toys, and galactic superheroes.
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JooYoung Choi
JooYoung Choi's paintings with cut paper (and one soft sculpture) show an affinity for comic books, toys, fairytales, and galactic superhero
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Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike most of the other California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch was interested in townscapes and street scenes.
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Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike most of the other California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch was interested in townscapes and street scenes.
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Junko Yamamoto
In her new "Cosmic Web" paintings Junko Yamamoto combines geometric elements with curvy blobs of brighter color.
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Junko Yamamoto
In her new "Cosmic Web" paintings Junko 'Yamamoto combines geometric elements with curvy blobs of brighter color.
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Asian Underworlds
"Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds" ranges across ten centuries of Asian art and cosmology, and almost as many cultural traditions.
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Annetta Kapon
Proxy Gallery is a 12-inch cube used by Annetta Kapon since 2013. This is exhibition #85. surveying the many collaborating artists.
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Annetta Kapon
Proxy Gallery is a 12-inch cube used by Annetta Kapon since 2013. This is exhibition #85. surveying the many collaborating artists.
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Darren Orange
Darren Orange has maintained a long inquiry into the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, currently via pure abstract painting.
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Darren Orange
Darren Orange has maintained a long inquiry into the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, currently via pure abstract painting.
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Ruhee Maknojia
The elaborately patterned paintings of Ruhee Maknojia are based on fables that engender civil discourse and discussion.
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Ruhee Maknojia
The elaborately patterned paintings of Ruhee Maknojia are based on fables that engender civil discourse and discussion.
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Richard T. Walker
Richard T. Walker interrogates nature and the solitary observer through multimedia works. The playfully ironic title, “Never Here /Alw
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Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer examines the unsettling language associated with Trumpism, QAnon, and artificial intelligence.
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Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer examines the unsettling language associated with Trumpism, QAnon, and artificial intelligence.
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Tony Feher
Tony Feher’s creative inspiration began when he was momentarily mesmerized by light interacting with marbles seen through a window.
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David Schell, "Casual Plans"
David Schell's shapes are biomorphic but not figurative, geometric but not hard-edged, kinda squishy, like a grilled cheese sandwich left to
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David Schell, "Casual Plans"
David Schell's shapes are biomorphic but not figurative, geometric but not hard-edged, kinda squishy, like a grilled cheese sandwich left to
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Tony Feher
Tony Feher’s creative inspiration began when he was momentarily mesmerized by light interacting with marbles seen through a window.
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Trees, Fox & Friends
”Trees, Fox & Friends” assembles an impressive survey featuring the centrality of trees in a time of severe climate change.
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Trees, Fox & Friends
”Trees, Fox & Friends” assembles an impressive survey featuring the centrality of trees in a time of severe climate change.
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Josephine Taylor
How do images come into existence? Josephine Taylor provides some answers in three series of new paintings.
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Josephine Taylor
How do images come into existence? Josephine Taylor provides some answers in three series of new paintings.
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Jeffrey Chong Wang
Visual set pieces by Jeffery Chong Wang present an awkward sense of space and situations informed by historical Western painting.
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Jeffrey Chong Wang
Visual set pieces by Jeffery Chong Wang present an awkward sense of space and situations informed by historical Western painting.
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Albert Contreras, “Albert”
Albert Contreras failed to break through in New York during the 1970s and 80s, so he worked as a garbage truck driver until returning as a s
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Albert Contreras, “Albert”
Albert Contreras failed to break through in New York during the 1970s and 80s, so he worked as a garbage truck driver until returning as a s
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Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger presents artworks that stem from assignments he has given to his students. On view are his own responses to prompts such
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Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger presents artworks that stem from assignments he has given to his students. On view are his own responses to prompts such
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Ambreen Butt
Ambreen Butt's “Lay Bare My Arms,” was three years in the making, and the expenditure of creative labor teems with visual incid
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Ambreen Butt
Ambreen Butt's “Lay Bare My Arms,” was three years in the making, and the expenditure of creative labor teems with visual incid
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Tim Roda, “Vantage Points”
Tim Roda's constructed-set black-and-white photographs featuring family members use jerry-rigged lumber, unfired ceramic props, kitsch eleme
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Hung Viet Nguyen
Hung Viet Nguyễn envisions imaginary “sacred landscapes,” in which the spiritual energies of nature are made visible.
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Hung Viet Nguyen
Hung Viet Nguyễn envisions imaginary “sacred landscapes,” in which the spiritual energies of nature are made visible.
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Luis Rivera Jimenez
In a group of installations Luis Rivera Jimenez visually poses tough questions about racism while guiding us through multiple aesthetic pers
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Ricardo Duffy
A selection of forty works by Ricardo Duffy pair well crafted painting with deep knowledge of his Mexican heritage and of world affairs.
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Ricardo Duffy
A selection of forty works by Ricardo Duffy pair well crafted painting with deep knowledge of his Mexican heritage and of world affairs.
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Jess T. Dugan
St. Louis-based Jess T. Dugan, who identifies as queer/nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has assembled a suite of portraits and still l
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Todd Gray
Todd Gray's “Rome Work” features iconic architecture and churches in Rome with images from Gray's previous bodies of work.
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Hugh Hayden, "Hughman"
Hugh Harden's "Hughman” rims the perimeter of the gallery with a wall of more than 20 gray toilet stalls, each featuring a mini-exhibi
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Hugh Hayden, “Hughman”
Hugh Harden's "Hughman” rims the perimeter of the gallery with a wall of more than 20 gray toilet stalls, each with a door bolt indica
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Todd Gray
Todd Gray's “Rome Work” features iconic architecture and churches in Rome with images from Gray's previous bodies of work.
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David Fertig
David Fertig's "Paintings and Pastels" are small, poetic works that are nearly all based on the Napoleonic wars of 1803-1815.
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Jónsi, “Vox”
Jónsi's sound-works are not meant to overpower the gallery or the viewer, but are inviting and contemplative. Though electronically c
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Jónsi, “Vox”
Jónsi's sound-works are not meant to overpower the gallery or the viewer, but are inviting and contemplative. Though electronically c
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John Miller, “New Horizon”
John Miller began his career during the era of the “pictures generation." This survey conveys his outright distain for the limits of a
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Ardent Mystics
Of "Ardent Mystics'" three artists, Morris Graves was the historic trendsetter and very much a mystic; Letha Wilson and Mariah Robertson not
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John Miller, “New Horizon”
John Miller began his career during the era of the “pictures generation." This survey conveys his outright distain for the limits of a
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Ardent Mystics
"Ardent Mystics'" includes three artists: Morris Graves is the historic, trendsetting mystic; Letha Wilson and Mariah Robertson.
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Nancy Youdelman
Involvement with costuming and storytelling in the early 1970s led Nancy Youdelman to create a significant body of photographic work.
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Nancy Youdelman, "Dreamwork"
Involvement with costuming and storytelling in the early 1970s led Nancy Youdelman to create a significant body of photographic work. This e
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Krista Svalbonas
Laser-cut pigment prints fuse photographs of facades of buildings shot during Krista Svalbonas' travels to Lithuania, Latvia, and Germany.
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Krista Svalbonas
Laser-cut pigment prints fuse photographs of facades of buildings shot during Krista Svalbonas' travels to Lithuania, Latvia, and Germany.
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Kelly Akashi
Kelly Akashi’s “Encounters” operates convincingly as a collection of discrete objects surrounded by related, but not neces
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Kelly Akashi
Kelly Akashi’s “Encounters” operates convincingly as a collection of discrete objects surrounded by related, but not neces
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Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie's square formatted paintings at first appear to be minimalist monochrome throwbacks. But they are actually rich in color.
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Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie's square formatted paintings at first appear to be minimalist monochrome throwbacks. But they are actually rich in color.
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On the Passage. . . .
The exhibition “On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time” showcases art with social and political th
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Joan Brown
Joan Brown sought to reconcile her spiritual inclinations with contemporary life through the means and platform of her painting.
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Joan Brown
Joan Brown sought to reconcile her spiritual inclinations with contemporary life through the means and platform of her painting.
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