James Drake
Twenty years ago James Drake spent time filming and photographing transgender sex workers living and working in Ciudad Juarez on the border across from El Paso. He now re-interprets these in the very different context of 2019 and using a rich mixture of media. More...
Remembering Selma Waldman, Activist Artist
The late Selma Waldman spent most of her career in obscurity but produced some of the most expressive and skillful political art of her generation. More...
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. More...
Sean Healy
Sean Healy did not title his show "Beautiful Downer" lightly, informing it with his own alcoholism and the richness of the Northwest landscape. More...
Configuring Language
David S. Rubin explains how two recent exhibitions, one featuring Allen. Ruppersberg, the other featuring Mel Bochner show how text-based art can be engaging and lively rather than a tedium to get through. More...
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. More...
“Dilexi Gallery: Early Years”
Techno-nostalgia is a real thing these days, and this show revisiting the 50s-era Dilexi Gallery, one of several to come, implies that a fresh look at those then rebellious avant gardists is the art world's very timely equivalent. More...
Anthony Lepore
"Performance Anxiety" is Anthony Lepore's way of bringing amusement and self-deprecation together. His success in doing so a direct result of the way photography and sculpture are effectively integrated. More...
Susan Burnstine
Susan Burnstine's completely unmanipulated photographs evoke dreamlike memories of travel both real and imagined. More...
Hiromi Takizawa
Hiromi Takizawa’s sculptural works of hand-blown glass, volcano ash, lights and live plants both respond to and appropriate from nature. Clear glass branches sway with air currents. An installation captures and magically transmits ambient light. Then there are the powdered glass fungi. . . More...
Reconsidering the Art Museum Post #MeToo
Manet at the Art Institute of Chicago sounds awfully good. But the show's curators could not have made it any more irrelevant to the present moment. More...
Esao Andrews
Two small paintings hung side-by-side reveal important threads running throughout Esao Andrews’ current exhibition. “The Range” depicts a cart loaded down with baggage. In “Bouquet,” a trio of stems are tipped with three small bunches of long black hair. It's all both so real and fantastical. More...
Never Look Away
The recent film "Never Look Away," loosely based on the life of Gerhard Richter, traces an artist's complex journey from repression to freedom. More...
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. More...
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. More...
Suzanne Lacy
What at first often looks and feels like a Hollywood production are real situations performed by regular folks. The invisible hand of Suzanne Lacy is behind all of it, this theater and drama of the ordinary taken to extraordinary lengths. More...
Virginia Folkestad
Virginia Folkestad employs a mix of art and found media to evoke the inherent conflict between the natural and manmade worlds. More...
Inez Storer
Inez Storer’s current mixed-media paintings allude to our crisis-riddled times while functioning as satisfying aesthetic objects that portray dream-like, non-narrative states of consciousness. Titled "Trip-Wire," they are really about overcoming deliberately placed (aesthetic) obstacles without being defeated by them. More...
Mark di Suvero
Know primarily for his monumental public sculpture, a series of phosphorescent paintings more than just complement the maquette on view here. They clarify how gestural mark making lies at the root of the three dimensional work. More...
