Aaron Fowler
Up and comer Aaron Fowler produces collage paintings packed with consumer objects and personal ephemera, building up energetic sculptural surfaces that are densely layered and full of purposeful funkiness. More...
Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history. More...
Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways. More...
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Thick paint and clunky objects are somehow made to work together in Daniel Rios Rodriguez' paintings/assemblages. Illusion and affixed objects blend the illusion of things with the things themselves. More...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. More...
Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly considered cultural heroes, others not so much. Creatives today, writes DeWitt Cheng, should in any case aspire to more than just good citizenship. More...
Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like. More...
“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. And this is why Richard Speer finds our current craze for selfies--in particular "art selfies"-- so unnerving. More...
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. More...
David Aylsworth
Working in the abstract with a build-up of multiple layers, David Aylsworth's paintings end up being bright, playful and suggestive. More...
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 ghetto neighborhood that leave archetypes of modernist art history crippled. More...
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 otherwise distorted. Homeless or disabled subjects appear poignantly oblivious to the street life around them. More...
Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like. More...
“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. And this is why Richard Speer finds our current craze for selfies--in particular "art selfies"-- so unnerving. More...
