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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 lighten things. She does it all in highly stylized ceramic figures, which are at times abstract generalizations, at other times very specific. More...


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 exhibition. More...


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 gloss medium, many works bisect the canvas to effect a dynamic visual interaction. More...


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. More...


Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to tell a narrative of migration, surveillance and ominous danger. More...


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 get inside their heads. More...


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 mark--all are in some way inspired by a Virginia Woolf short story. More...


Confessions of an Art Biographer (Pt I)
Matthew Kangas shares some of the insights, and pitfalls, he has gained as a writer over the years. More...


“Earthscapes: Contemporary Views of and from the Land”
Prolifically explored a subject as landscape has been for as long as that has been so, "Earthscapes" sets out to establish that artists continue to enrich it with new knowledge that enlarges the context in which it is interpreted. More...


Catherine J. Davis
Catherine J. Davis documents the realities between the water and land of the U.S. Gulf Coast between Florida and Texas. More...


Julião Sarmento
Juliao Sarmento's recent crater prints evoke the Martian surface as revealed by the Curiosity Rover. More...


Lies to Deceive, Lies to Reveal
Art is all about lies that "enables us to realize the truth." But then there are lies of deceit, which our culture today is wallowing in. More...


“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 our eyes. More...


Chadwick and Spector
Funhouse mirror versions of art historical portraits are painted by Laura Spector on Chadwick Gray's body, and then photographed. More...


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 conjoined twins of beauty and tragedy echo an ambiguous present. More...


Otobong Nkanga
The geological earth is treated by Otobong Nkanga not romantically but as victimized by the human hand. She contemplates the distance between raw material and what it might become. More...


Michael Spafford
This three-gallery survey of veteran Pacific Northwest painter Michael C. Spafford brings together dozens of paintings and prints, a hardbound catalogue, beautiful installations and lighting. But why wasn’t it all in an art museum? More...


Feminizing Male Stereotypes
Conventional notions of masculinity are questioned in the work of young artists Nathan Vincent and Jose Villalobos. More...


Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin’s scrim installation demonstrates that how nothing about perception is an absolute. More...

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