Ben Jackel
Sculptural replicas of masculine accouterments of aggression and protection reflect Ben Jackel's equivocal and poignant referencing of male heroics. More...
My Art-Crush on Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
Recently to be seen at the Frick in New York, and on it's way to San Francisco and Fort Worth, Sargent's "Lady Agnew" is one of Richard Speer's all time art crushes. More...
David Schafer
David Schafer is a conceptualist whose sculptural and sound works add up to more than meets the eye. Still, there is plenty to look at--and listen to in this immersive installation. More...
Tony DeLap
Tony DeLap explains, “I don’t want to minimalize anything; what I want to do is complicate it.” And his work is indeed playfully complex, tricks the eye and redefine the space it inhabits. More...
Lucinda Parker
Lucinda Parker’s recent paintings focus on geological forms, mountain landscapes filtered through jigsaw-like, interlocking forms. More...
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli records his personal and aesthetic response to daily reality of the twenty-first century as it arrives daily upon his Brooklyn doorstep with the delivery of his copy of The New York Times. More...
Pard Morrison
Pixels are blown up to grand proportions in Pard Morrison's sculpture and paintings. The artist's refined formal sense is deployed to achieve a nuanced multi-layered effect. More...
Hal Fischer
A single 1977 project, "Gay Semiotics," secures Hal Fischer's place in history for having welded structuralist photography to gay culture. More...
Jessica Rath
Using sculpture, light, and sound to illustrate the methods used by bumblebees to find "A Better Nectar," Jessica Rath's multi-sensory installation is both aesthetically vigorous and highly informative. More...
Katsumi Hayakawa
Centered mainly on paper and glue, and an endlessly repetitive cutting procedure, Katsumi Hayakawa produces a ghostly, floating and quite magical city along with other intricate grid-based works loaded with bits of visually enriching detail. More...
Michael Kaysen
Vases that you'd never want to try to fill make up Michael Kaysen's minimalist installation that is at once traditional and contemporary. More...
Artist Biographies: An Annotated Selection
Twenty years ago James Yood started a reading project that continues today: Artist biographies. Here's a primer to some of the best among the hundreds he has read in case you want to catch the bug too. More...
Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm has refined his rotary-sander on aluminum technique over years of practice to produce calligraphic works that possess dazzling depth and movement. More...
William Binnie
William Binnie's bleached denim conflagrations may carry a novelty factor, but he has sure mastered these blue jeans. More...
Jim Morphesis and the Quest for Self
Betty Brown sees a key example of art for the sake of realization in Jim Morphesis’ body of work, which amounts to a carefully balanced response to the tradition of deeply historical Christian iconography and modernist expressionism. More...
Lisa Ludwig
These birds' nests by Lisa Ludwig are cast in bronze--but only after she first undertakes a laborious process of reconstruction. More...
Angie Bray
Angie Bray possesses an ability to rein in her materials and still evoke strong emotion with the reduced means. A quiet mind and still eye allow the art an opportunity to speak. More...
Robert Jessup
In moving from figuration to abstraction, Robert Jessup permitted himself great expressive freedom to compelling results. More...
An Interview with Peter Selz
Now 95, Peter Selz has seen--and had an active hand in--the arrival and departure of many of the major art movements of the last half century. Here are some of his latest thoughts about the continuing impact of Pop Art and more. More...
Mel Chin
Mel Chin makes visible on paper his thoughts on far-ranging subjects. His acuity over a long career is leavened by levity. More...
