Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey's classic Light and Space work toys with viewers’ perception and how we process light emotionally and psychologically. More...
Lisa Lindvay
Heart is what resonates in "Hold Together," Lisa Lindvay's 7-year long photography project revolving around the members of her own family, a family visibly impacted by the absence of their mother due to mental illness. More...
Latino Studies
The pioneering Chicano artist Mel Casas recently passed away, marking an apropos moment for David S. Rubin to assess the progress San Antonio's Latino artists have made in contributing to that citiy's cultural vitality. More...
Chuck Close
Chuck Close has built a remarkable body of work around the face--not so much the portrait because these images are about a physical fact. More...
Dan Budnik
Dan Budnik chronicled the Abstract Expressionsts in the 1950s, then went on to record the heart of the Selma march in 1965. More...
David Michael Smith
Primarily figurative and narrative, David Michael Smith prominently features one youthful male or female figure against a backdrop of fauna or flora that is imbued with a subtle feeling of danger or doom. More...
“The Heart is the Frame"
".. the heart is the amorous organ of repetition" wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze in "Difference and Repetition." In "The Heart is the Frame" artists explore how desire stimulates our experience of the everyday. More...
Travis Pond
"Northwest Wildlife" aptly describes the current assemblages of Travis Pond, who cuts up metal detritus in order to repurpose it. More...
Orr Menirom
Orr Menirom builds deftly mined universal spaces of ambiguity and emotion in her videos--that are sourced, for example, from a heated interview conducted on a TV news show. More...
David Lackey
Best known for his appearances on Antiques Roadshow, David Lackey's assemblages show him to also be an accomplished surrealist. More...
Ten Suggestions for a New Year
The heck with New Year resolutions and ten-best lists. DeWitt Cheng offers a set of ten guidelines for the art-perplexed to welcome in 2015. More...
Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart. More...
Odd Nerdrum
In "Pupils of Apelles" narrative realist Odd Nerdrum pays homage to the early Greek painter that he conceptually emulates, together with his own role as mentor to a group of artists that follow in his footsteps. More...
Jeff Fontaine
Jeff Fontaine walks a narrow path between tough and autonomous artworks that risk becoming merely decorative. More...
“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and aesthetics to content. More...
Claire A. Warden
Claire A. Warden messes with her photographic prints at the emulsion stage to come up with intriguing abstract studies. More...
Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face. More...
Suzan Woodruff / Tom Martinelli
The ephemeral abstractions of Suzan Woodruff and Tom Marintelli's process-based stripe paintings are visual complements. More...
Pop Art’s Enduring Life (Part I)
Pop art, argues Matthew Kangas, is not only currently resurgent, it's influence on contemporary art is creating waves of fresh discourse. The Seattle Art Museum's current "Pop Departures" exhibition makes the case. More...
Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray. More...
