Mike Kelley
There was almost nothing that the late Mike Kelley was afraid to try and subject himself or his viewer's to. This massive retrospective is consistently confrontational, suggestive, offensive as well as politically charged. Perhaps the leading artist of his generation. More...
Daniela Edburg
They at first appear to be lovely and prosaic, but Daniela Edburg's "Killing Time" photographs quickly take on a heavier, even ominous tone. More...
Paul Nudd
If distorted figuration is a special Chicago tradition, the "gross out" calibre paintings of Paul Nudd are the purist Chicago. More...
William Ivey
The art of the late William Ivey, a classmate Diebenkorn and Lobdell, and student of Still and Rothko, is probably more discussed now than during his lifetime. Here's why. More...
Mother of Northwest Art
The wife of Seattle's then most celebrated artist, art critic and curator, Margaret Bundy Callahan was a top flight writer in her own right--and possibly more. More...
Mike Rea
Taking ordinary cuts of lumber Mike Rea constructs, more or less, a movie set made entirely of wood. More...
Suzanne Anker
Suzanne Anker's art encompasses biology and technology in radical ways to dazzle the eye and embrace unexpected consequences. More...
Ray Eames
Ray Eames is properly associated with her husband and collaborator Charles Eames, but she was more the artist. More...
Kathryn Arnold
Kathryn Arnold’s colorful fields of markings hover between abstraction and a covert representation which includes recognizable objects and indecipherable texts discernible within the thickets of marks. More...
What is an Art Critic?
How we regard the art critic has evolved in recent years such that the notion of an authoritative voice for art has come under fire. More...
Ryan Reggiani
Whatever Ryan Reggiani's sculptural objects may resemble, he will confound what you know and expect. More...
Darrel Morris
"...waiting for nothin'" takes us from textile artist Darrel Morris' intensely personal early work to the more universal concerns that now occupies him. More...
Mitchell Albala and John McCormick
Widely admired academic realists, Mitchell Albala and John McCormick, show new work alongside one another. McCormick's is a bucolic landscape fantasy world; Albala is obsessed with the horrors of war. More...
Bruce Conner and Gay Outlaw
Witty sculpture by Gay Outlaw and inkblot drawings by the late Bruce Conner pair strong but distinct artistic personalities. More...
Kara Walker
Above and beyond its historical and sociocultural resonance, there are many reasons for the enduring appeal of Kara Walker. More...
Camille Patha
Camille Patha grew up in an era of sexist adversity to become one of the Northwest's leading painters of both abstract and representational subjects. More...
A Lad's Disdain
That MCA Chicago is making a big deal of its upcoming "David Bowie Is" show is a misguided effort to broaden their constituency. More...
Julianne Swartz and Ken Landauer
Julianne Swartz' and Ken Landauer's "Miracle Report" is lit primarily by videos of hands, floating on black backgrounds, accompanied by cacophonous sounds of numerous people speaking softly. More...
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen specializes in photographing the physical, geographical and ideological sites and boundaries that divide us. More...
