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John Yau

John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His latest poetry publications include a book of poems, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and the chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). His most recent monographs are Catherine Murphy (Rizzoli, 2016), the first book on the artist, and Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert (Black Dog Publishing, 2015). He has also written monographs on A. R. Penck, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. In 1999, he started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation, and criticism. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2007–2011) before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic. He is a Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).

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Rose B. Simpson Embeds Ancestral Histories in Clay

by John Yau March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

She has taken clay and used it to recall its ancestral roots in Pueblo culture and address the present history of postcolonial recovery and ongoing trauma.

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Mark Thomas Gibson’s Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere

by John Yau March 19, 2023March 21, 2023

If Thomas Nast, who is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” has an heir, it is Gibson, who goes one step further and elevates caricature and commentary into art.

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Miyoko Ito’s Mysteries and Longings

by John Yau March 12, 2023March 10, 2023

In Ito’s art we glimpse something we cannot comprehend. A sense of longing and mystery, isolation and solitude fill the paintings.

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Raging Against the Dying of the Light

by John Yau March 1, 2023March 1, 2023

Jake Berthot’s paintings are haunted by an awareness of mortality and, beyond that, a feeling that no light awaits in the darkness.

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My Travels in the Land of Winkfield

by John Yau February 23, 2023February 24, 2023

Trevor Winkfield’s modestly scaled acrylic paintings abound in puzzling, private symbols.

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Brenda Goodman, Scars and All

by John Yau February 21, 2023February 21, 2023

The paradoxical combination of freedom and entrapment animates Goodman’s composition in her latest body of work.

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The Gap Between Things and Their Names

by John Yau February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

A deep sense of loss, of being cut off or isolated from communication, runs through Elsa Gramcko’s works, imbuing them with inchoate feelings that precede language.

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Judy Ledgerwood’s Playfully Subversive Patterns

by John Yau February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

What distinguishes Ledgerwood’s work from the earlier generation of women artists working in the domain of Pattern and Decoration is its bluntness and humor.

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History Is Not an Open Book 

by John Yau February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

The 1969 exhibition 5 + 1, and now Revisiting 5 + 1, are reminders that the history of Black Art in the United States is diverse rather than monolithic.

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Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times

by John Yau February 1, 2023February 2, 2023

In Seongmin Ahn’s paintings, it is not our past we are looking at but our possible future.

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Seeing Ourselves in Greg Colson’s Quirky Pie Chart Paintings 

by John Yau January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

The artist’s droll paintings present the pie chart as a useful monitor of a group’s behavior, while also revealing it to be exclusionary and superficial.

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Abstract Art Did Not Begin With Paul Cézanne

by John Yau January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

Odili Donald Odita challenges the long-held belief that abstract art is a purely Western tradition.

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