Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart. More...
Odd Nerdrum
In "Pupils of Apelles" narrative realist Odd Nerdrum pays homage to the early Greek painter that he conceptually emulates, together with his own role as mentor to a group of artists that follow in his footsteps. More...
Jeff Fontaine
Jeff Fontaine walks a narrow path between tough and autonomous artworks that risk becoming merely decorative. More...
“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and aesthetics to content. More...
Claire A. Warden
Claire A. Warden messes with her photographic prints at the emulsion stage to come up with intriguing abstract studies. More...
Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face. More...
Suzan Woodruff / Tom Martinelli
The ephemeral abstractions of Suzan Woodruff and Tom Marintelli's process-based stripe paintings are visual complements. More...
Pop Art’s Enduring Life (Part I)
Pop art, argues Matthew Kangas, is not only currently resurgent, it's influence on contemporary art is creating waves of fresh discourse. The Seattle Art Museum's current "Pop Departures" exhibition makes the case. More...
Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray. More...
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 road. Stinson juxtaposes myth against reality. More...
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 rating the AIC #1 in the world, he shows that the claim is kinda wrong in the real world. More...
Artists as Producers: DIY to Big Budget
That many artists avail themselves of the model and technologies available to Hollywood producers is an open secret. But in the end it's the aesthetics that should make or break these artists, not their production values. More...
Eric Orr; Sebastián
Eric Orr's mystical abstract paintings coming out of the Light and Space movement pair intriguingly with the rational geometrics of Sebastián's sculpture. More...
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 work. More...
Scott Short
Copy after copy on a copier produces an image divorced from the original at which point Scott Short picks up his brush. More...
