What a Difference a Letter Can Make!
Change, posits James Yood, is always exciting. But what a difference a change of location can make for an artist. Consider the opportunity to take a university teaching post. The location of otherwise excellent schools can shape an entire creative path. More...
Maximo Gonzalez and Xawery Wolski
Maximo Gonzalez' collages paired with the sculpture of Xawery Wolski make the connection of repetition and transformation. More...
Middle Class of the Art World
If much of the public attention is drawn to the art world's elite, Bill Lasarow reminds us that there is a large and vital creative "middle class," many of whom congregate to operate artist run spaces and co-ops that play a key role in providing entry and creative sustenance. More...
Ana Teresa Fernandez
Ana Teresa Fernandez manages competing aesthetic and topical imperatives, making art about feminism and immigration without falling into the traps of art-celebrity worship or academic obscurantism. More...
Lauren Mantecón
One time Portland fixture Lauren Mantecón relocated to Santa Fe, where she continues to evoke in her paintings the misty, atmospheric sfumato of the Pacific Northwest. More...
20 Years/20 Shows
"20 Years/20 Shows" honors SITE's anniversary with exhibits featuring artists who have previously appeared in the contemporary art space. More...
Christiane Feser
Christiane Feser creates illusionistic dimensions by photographing real objects and going one better by cutting into the print's surface. More...
Miguel Soler-Roig
Miguel Soler-Roig returns to photograph his childhood home in Barcelona after 35 years. Its interiors are in disarray, as though suddenly abandoned. And the treatment of light and shadow is gorgeous. More...
Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban development. The results are both beautiful and shocking. More...
Susan York
Susan York's dense graphite sculptures and drawings display a surprising visual affinity with Georgia O'Keeffe's work. More...
Artist Designed Sanctuaries III: Alex Grey
Alex Grey produced his "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors" over the decade of the 1980s, and moving next year to its permanent home in Wappinger, New York. It is one of the pinnacles of visionary art of the late 20th century. More...
Ann Gale
Ann Gale's figures are objectively older, often heavy-set, not at all glamorous. But her brushwork's staccato energy makes it all work. More...
Emma Sulkowicz
The self-portrait of Emma Sulkowicz is actually three portraits in one: The artist herself on a platform; a life-size sculpture; and a miniature 3D-printed replica. It adds up to a distinctive form of interaction with an artist. More...
"Revolution in the Making ..."
"... Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016" makes the case for their key contributions to the best art of the contemporary era. More...
Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya’s “Don't Hold On to Your Bones” is a visually and aurally overwhelming installation. From ceiling to floor, the artist has wallpapered the back gallery with brightly patterned, abstracted paper squares. And that's just the beginning. More...
Thomas Kinkade, Huckster of Light
The late Thomas Kinkade was the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world. He got no respect — and with good reason. But two very different Kinkade-centric exhibitions have recently revisited the question of whether the self-branded “painter of light” deserved his déclassé reputation. More...
Gordon Parks
Selections from Gordon Parks' photo essays on the 1963 march on Washington and the Black Power movement depict the turbulent sixties. More...
Dianna Frid and Richard Rezac
This pairing pits Dianna Frid's expressive fabric works against Richard Rezac's cool, high-gloss sculptures. More...
MANUAL (Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom)
In "Raising Nature," the collaborative team MANUAL presents two series of dazzling images of trees, "Yellow Birch Cycle" and "Trees Flower." The first is a birch’s canopy shot from below, while the other is of flowering branches magically floating in mid-air. More...
Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process. More...
