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Geometric Abstraction for a Shattered World
Gary Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible.
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 Endless Realities of Evelyn Statsinger's Art
Statsinger has created a world that is simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic, cellular and cosmological, wherein the inexplicable and enigmatic coexist.
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A Studio Visit With Jillian Conrad
In her sculpture, Conrad is disengaging from permanence and the imposition of one’s will, as taken up by sculptors from Michelangelo to Serra.
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A Travelogue of Imaginary Lands in Stamps
Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands.
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Stories That Need to Be Told
Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.
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Stanley Lewis in a Wayward World
Lewis's tattered canvases and pasted over drawings mirror a world in need of constant upkeep and repair.
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Yarn Against the Patriarchy
Michelle Segre’s art is truer to the actual world we live in than to the ideal one proposed and refined by the art world and its institutions.
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“Do We Still Recognize Ourselves?”
In an age when everything is called into doubt, Squeak Carnwath’s concern with seeing carries a deep urgency.
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In Praise of Illegibility
Nadia Haji Omar’s art asks us: Can we look for the sake of looking? Or must looking always be about gaining and extraction?
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Opening Up the Thingness of Painting
Dana Lok explores a range of perceptual conundrums in an impressive debut exhibition.
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Thornton Willis's Aversion to Perfection
The openness of Willis's art suggests that he does not believe that painting needs to attain visual perfection; painting is a process that does not search for closure.
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Gloria Graham Records the Movement of the Earth
Graham is inspired by science and draws on her deep knowledge of it, which ranges from chemistry and molecular structures to botany.