Jenene Nagy
In "Mass" Jenene Nagy uses the fluid relationship between two- and three- dimensions to expand our notion of landscape. Minimalist in appearance, each black surface has imagery to yield up; so spend the time. More...
Civics 101
What does the current, wild political season have to do with visual art? Historically art has usually served the wealthy and powerful; even in the present day environment of aesthetic independence, patronage is not limited only to the most elite. Artists are as free as they have ever been to use their art to make a difference. More...
Paige Powell
The East Village (New York) art scene of the 1980s remains a topic of wide interest, and artist and in-the-day girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat Paige Powell sifts through her archive of pictures and relics to animate "The Ride" she took, and which we can now relish at the arm's length of 30 years later. More...
Eva Isaksen
Eva Isaksen builds images that complicate the picture plane by layering and overlapping collaged elements of her own paintings on paper, which she cuts up and reassembles on canvas. More...
Livia Stein
Livia Stein paints up a storm. Colors are adventurous, brushwork loaded with energy. The characters are gross, and you soon love 'em. More...
Oscar Berglund
Cycles of development and decay in an urban context inform the multimedia aesthetic of Oscar Berglund More...
Patricia Sannit
Stacked cylinders by Patricia Sannit are rough-hewn sentinels, metaphorical witnesses to history's repeating cycles of rise and fall. More...
Roy Thurston and Monique Prieto
The pairing of light and space veteran Roy Thurston's shimmering hybrids and Monique Prieto's abstract diptychs suggestive of human ears represents an interweaving of the senses of vision and hearing. More...
The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple. More...
Kasumi Chow and Desiree Espada
Twelve arresting color photographs by Kasumi Chow and Desiree Esada are stark images of intense psychodramas. More...
“Few Were Happy with Their Condition”
A group of Romanian artists born before that country's 1989 Revolution look at upheaval and transition through the lens of documenting everyday life. Overall the 17 artists favor poetic expression over didactic explanation. More...
Louis Kahn
Given the massive architectural output of mid-20th century giant Louis I. Kahn, he often devoted years, even decades to his key projects. More...
Beth Ames Swartz’ Spiritual Balancing Act
The subject of the recently released film "Reminders of Invisible Light," Beth Ames Swartz aesthetic of spirituality draws on a heady mix of California Light and Space, Jewish and Native America ritual, Hindu cosmology and her own rich imagination. More...
Josh Reames and Jose Lérma
Josh Reames' crafty airbrushed and tromp l'oeil-heavy paintings are given a healthy re-fresh through a collaboration with Jose Lérma. Together they create two mural-sized paintings, "He Hath Founded It Upon The Seas (I and II)." More...
Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject. More...
Aaron Fowler
Up and comer Aaron Fowler produces collage paintings packed with consumer objects and personal ephemera, building up energetic sculptural surfaces that are densely layered and full of purposeful funkiness. More...
Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history. More...
Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways. More...
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Thick paint and clunky objects are somehow made to work together in Daniel Rios Rodriguez' paintings/assemblages. Illusion and affixed objects blend the illusion of things with the things themselves. More...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. More...
