Cleveland Dean
In “Recto/Verso – Duality of a Fragile Ego” Chicago artist Cleveland Dean uses material, abstraction and text to show us who we are, both literally and figuratively. The paintings and sculpture visually manifest damage, often including mirrors that reflect back on we viewers. More...
Jasper Johns
"Something Resembling Truth" is a mixed bag of Jasper Johns' long since iconic flags, targets and numbers. It also discloses how the artist's early verve over time retreated into a self-absorbed hermeticism. More...
Claudio Dicochea
From sci fi to history, Claudio Dicochea packs his mixed-media images to resemble celebrity posters gone amok. More...
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine covers the walls and floors of a gallery with stuffed animals of all colors, shapes and sizes. It's an installation that plays with our emotions, and it feels both sentimental and repulsive to be immersed in their midst. More...
Holly Roberts
Starting with a photograph, Holly Roberts layers paint and other materials to create haunting, yet nostalgic figurative images. More...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is keenly aware of lost worlds: open landscapes covered with orange groves, old Hollywood, the era of film noir and Coconut Grove kitsch. She play with images and with words, and "over time the images beat out the words." More...
Julian Stanczak
Op Art pioneer Julian Stanczak's precise and vibrant kinetic fields, here covering a wide range of his output, are flamboyant yet subtle. More...
Lindsay Rhyner
Lindsay Rhyner dyes, cuts and re-sews recycled media into masterfully finished, wall-bound quilts of ambiguous narratives More...
Adrián Villar Rojas
In "The Theater of Disappearance," Adrian Villar Rojas transforms a vast exhibition space into a quasi-undersea environment, a post-apocalyptic world filled with concrete columns and illuminated refrigerators populated with found and fabricated artifacts. More...
Casper Brindle
In Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat Generation novel, “The Dharma Bums,” the book’s narrator Ray Smith answers the big question asked by some kids: “Why is the sky blue?” to which Smith answers, “The sky is blue because you wanta know why is the sky blue.” Casper Brindle offers a similar answer, only with paint. More...
Weldon Butler and Amanda Knowles
Weldon Butler's working life has been as varied as the rather populist use of materials from which he constructs rough but diagrammatic abstractions. Amanda Knowles produces ghostly images of urban construction projects that feel like fantasy. More...
Jodi Colella
Coming across 19th century daguerreotypes of women, Jodi Colella was struck by their anonymity. So she embellished them. More...
“Cuba Is”
"Cuba Is" represents the island nation today with an array of documentary photography and more, a stage set of a cafe meant to provide a sense of transport. More...
