“Glow: Beauty Reigns”
Rex Ryan, Jamie Brunson and Fausto Fernandez all drawn on nature to offer abstract images full of eye-popping visual effect. More...
Albert Oehlen
Billboard signage, cows and an approach to composition akin to forming a jigsaw puzzle add to to "Rawhide," in which Albert Oehlen shows profundity is no match for a good visual joke. More...
Noah Purifoy
A desire for change fueled the assemblage of Noah Purifoy, who first came to attention with a series in response to the Watt Riots of 1964, and much later retired to Joshua Tree to create the most ambitious works of his career. More...
Inka-Maaria Jurvanen
The political vein of Inka-Maaria Jurvanen's art is right there in titles like "Anarchy" and "Mutiny," though the images are rarely straightforward. The aftermath of abuse is a consistent part of her desolate scenes. More...
Zombie Abstraction (Part 3)
Abstraction in the 21st century remains both a vital and relevant part of today's art world, particularly in the right hands. More...
Susan Giles
Bouncing from small paper sculptures to room filling installations, Susan Giles moves us from admiration for precise craftsmanship to a feeling of participating directly in the artist's experience. More...
Nancy Monk
Nancy Monk spins a whimsical take on the wonders of nature using terse visual means and a deceptively complex working process. More...
William Barnhart
William Barnhart's "Seattle Series" of paintings resemble stained-glass windows. Boat docks and tranquil waters are transformed into sacred places, human figures are ethereal. More...
Todd Camplin
Lines of text, or streams of strings flow and repeat to form compelling patterns that Todd Camplin presents in free from shapes that are derived from design motifs Camplin produced very early in his career. More...
Arvie Smith
Arvie Smith turns pernicious racial stereotype into parody in paintings that are as visually garish as they are acidic. More...
Díaz Lewis
Creative partners Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis draw on their very different backgrounds. They focus their attention on a partially completed Iowa residential development. More...
Writers and Art Mags
DeWitt Cheng continues his dialogue with Irving Sandler's 2012 questions to art writers: How do art magazine policies affect art criticism? More...
Al Souza
Al Souza has been working with rare and vintage books, the kind bound in leather with hand-decorated covers and intricate endpapers. More...
“Finland: Designed Environments”
Finnish product design, we are reminded in "Designed Environments," globalized the idea of 'form follows function.' More...
Time to Declare Victory
At the recent "Superscript" conference addressing "Arts Journalism in a Digital Age," James Yood listened to what has become a familiar litany of challenges and ills and comes to his own conclusion. More...
Shaun O’Dell
The formal constructions of Shaun O'Dell's new works feel current, but their ironic lyricism also takes us back. More...
M.J. Anderson
The province of natural history and aesthetic form blur and meet in M.J. Anderson's series of stone sculptures, "Acqua Pietrificata," translated from the Italian, "petrified water." More...
“Intimate Horizons”
Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu’s "Intimate Horizons" is a visually dynamic and architecturally responsive installation full of huge inflatables, video projections and colorful abstract forms that are beautifully scaled and positioned. More...
“Straight from Cuba”
"Straight from Cuba" offers three artists who represent the aesthetic diversity and dynamism newly accessible to the American audience. More...
Shana Moulton
In "Picture Puzzle Pattern Door" Shana Moulton installs video, interactive and mixed media objects that address the uncomfortable mix of alternative health products with conventional commercialism. More...
