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 the evolving emphasis on professionalism that has displaced the process of aesthetic vetting to a troubling degree. More...
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. More...
Bernard Chadwick
Bernard Chadwick's spiritually powerful video is triggered in the gallery by sounds and sensors that create a constantly shifting flow of images and sensations. More...
Roy Lichtenstein
This extensive survey of Roy Lichtenstein's rich vein of prints draws connections between his pop art and appropriation. More...
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 and elements of chance that both contain a strong sense of mystery and are quite enticing. More...
Kemang Wa Lehulere
South African Kemang Wa Lehulere fashions muscular constructions that show how the personal connects to the historical. More...
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-between, an imposter." Just as the works here are made from more than just ceramic, Datchuck the artist is more than just the sum of her parts. More...
It Has Happened Here
The incoming President and Congress will pose significant challenges to our creative communities freedom of expression. In their media art has on occasion been used to misrepresent serious aesthetic activity into misleading fearmongering among a public already hostile to its exercise. More...
Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Emotional affect in Patricia Lay-Dorsey's homage to her marriage maintains a steady and credible honesty that ultimately proves elevating. More...
“Uncertainty”
"Uncertainty" bring art and science together both practically and aesthetically, with the science component narrowly outpacing the art side. More...
“Artists’ Choice”
Gallery affiliated artists selected one non-affiliate each, and "Artists' Choice" adds up to a surprisingly coherent group show. More...
Toba Khedoori
This survey brings Toba Khedoori's now familiar images of precise but spare post-minimalist objects centered on large, empty sheets. Arrangements of anonymous doors, chairs, fencing or windows repeat serially, but often with noticeable variations. More...
Garrick Imatani
Garrick Imatani’s “A Broken Tower” provides a bittersweet farewell to the consistently superb Hap Gallery, which closes its doors at the end of the month. The tower that gives the show its title appears to glow from within; photographic prints are united by lines drawn along gallery walls. More...
“Identity / Insight”
"Identity/Insight" is an instructive delving into representational art dealing with personality, fantasy, psychological states and more. More...
Sara Rafferty
Small works encircling the gallery reflect the cumulative range of subjects that Sara Greenberger Rafferty has engaged in her career. More...
“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 is the point, and as the title hints, the act of painting is today as relevant as it's ever been. More...
Aaron Parazette
Bold geometric paintings on shaped canvases draw Aaron Parazette closer in look and spirit to Ellsworth Kelly--but no too close. More...
“Online/Offline”
The artists included in "Online / Offline" perch on the barrier between the real and virtual worlds as the separation continues to blur. More...
“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire" is a group selection of powerful and engaging sculpture about compassion, resilience, and above all, resourcefulness. More...
A Lesson on Interconnectivity
David S. Rubin's encounters with Gordon Onslow Ford sparked and then deepened his understanding of interconnectivity. More...