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The Enigmatic Genius of Magalie Guérin’s Paintings
In her latest exhibition, what struck me immediately about Guérin’s work was that it neither looked like anyone else’s nor immediately disclosed its meaning.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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The Indecipherable Mark-Making of Rosaire Appel
Appel’s vertical and horizontal formats suggest a narrative that can be read, but what is within their borders resists understanding.
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An Original Artist in a World of Copies
Tom Burckhardt is a conceptual artist who has never defined himself as one because he knows the label is limiting.
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Kim Uchiyama Captures the Light of Sicily
Uchiyama’s question was how to capture the collision between nature and the manmade, the changing light and aging ruins she encountered in Sicily
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David Amico Brings LA’s Streets Into the Gallery
For years, Amico has driven around Los Angeles early in the morning and taken photographs in industrial neighborhoods of walls and surfaces.
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Kevin McNamee-Tweed’s Objects of Amazement
What is most satisfying about McNamee-Tweed’s work is that he has not lost his sense of wonderment.
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Ode to Yvonne Jacquette
Along with Lois Dodd and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Jacquette successfully pushed back against Minimalism and Conceptual Art.
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Richard Mayhew's Visionary Mindscapes
Mayhew has not been embraced by the art world because the trajectory he has pursued challenges the categories to which Black artists are consigned.
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Trompe L’oeil With a Touch of BDSM
Sarah Palmer melds a formal device of trompe l’oeil with her content, which largely relates to the objectification of women and how women choose to present or stage themselves.
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Dreaming in the Afternoon Light
Through her attention to detail and light, Hannah Lee transforms a banal view into something uncanny.
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Let Legibility in Art Be Damned
The slippage between legibility and illegibility in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s work pushes against the assumption that a painting must acknowledge its surface.
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Liu Xiaodong’s Empathetic Eye
One of the underlying commonalities among the sites Liu has painted is the deleterious consequences of modernization on a traditional society or group.