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Joe Sola
Joe Sola’s “I Drove to San Francisco and Back” is a digitized romp through tropes and tricks, but the star attraction is a VR experience. More...


Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman was born to art world royalty and attending an elite school when she took her life at age 22. This show validates her emerging originality and talent, while forcing reflection on her tragedy. More...


Marjorie Norman Schwarz
Marjorie Norman Schwarz's superb all over abstractions draw on images and colors extracted from deep within her mind’s eye. More...


Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford appropriates and reinterprets landscapes by artists such as Friedrich, Constable and Singer Sargent, presenting them as backgrounds. Monochromatic and close-up depictions of plant-life push the sources into the background. More...


Tess Mosko Scherer
Tess Mosko Scherer beckons us to consider the rich complexities of silence. She crumples paper, creating terrains of light and shadow. It is torn, soaked, peeled, and manipulated to signal the interplay of nature and nurture. More...


On Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, established as one of the literary geniuses of her generation, had a vital but uneven relationship with the visual arts. More...


Árpád Forgó
Árpád Forgó's luminous shaped canvases shift color and shape as you move around them. Meticulous and modular, they mesmerize. More...


Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between Romanticism and Modernism. Ring’s technique and subjects are very much of the 19th century, but we see how he adjusted to modern technology and aesthetic thinking. More...


”Woven: Connections and Meanings”
“Woven: Connections and Meanings” explores a lineage of craftsmanship that is historically feminine. Tanya Aguiñiga, Florencia Guillén, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Marta Palau and Georgina Valverde contribute works with textiles and weaving at their cores. More...


“Abstraction in Photography”
“Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography” presents artists who expanded photography beyond its documentary origins. More...


Tania Candiani
Inside a narrow passageway, ephemera from a collective sound action undertaken by Tania Candiani lines a single wall. The work, "Pulso," was originally staged in Mexico City subway passages as an aesthetic take on the significance of water. More...


Currency as Art
Artists have been crying out about money and corruption for many years. David Rubin takes a look at some incisive examples. More...


Rauschenberg Effect
Robert Rauschenberg's legion of young acolytes have been popping up steadily for years--decades really--and show no signs of abating. More...


Donna Ruff
Donna Ruff's ironically titled "Utopia" reflects anything but. Book pages are burnt methodically to obliterate words and letters, is some cases enriched to suffuse mosaic. More...


Damiàn Ortega
Damiàn Ortega uses materials associated with construction in the making of collages and sculpture to evoke protective gear and therianthropic architecture. More...


Tom Lamb, Soheila Siadate
Mixed media paintings by Soheila Siadate and aerial photography by Tom Lamb engage in a dialogue of visual origin and working process. More...


Anne Le Troter
Anne Le Troter turns a gallery into a cryobank waiting room outfitting with moving audio speakers that utter phrases used by the specialists who work there. You take a seat and enter into this Brave New World. More...


Joel Swanson and Cody Hudson
Joel Swanson riffs on school-day memories that are stirred by such objects as black-and-white composition notebooks, index cards, yellow highlighters and Pink Pearl erasers. Cody Hudson plays abstract landscapes and small sculptures that mimic shapes in his paintings. More...


Origin Story
Richard Speer was first drawn to images of art and architecture in his grandparents' encyclopedias. The guilded age art displayed at a Baltimore restaurant wowed him. Living in Europe he developed an adolescent obsession with the European Baroque. Then in college he discovered the necromancy of Mondrian. More...


Deadness, Beauty, the Deep Past
The upcoming generation of art fans are skeptical of the art historical canon that is both exasperating and refreshing. More...

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