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Where Painting Can Live
Jason Stopa's desire to infuse his paintings with joy mixes sophistication and innocence without privileging either one.
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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Matthew Wong’s Indelible Impressions
Just three years after he first devoted himself to art, Wong assembled an abstract vocabulary to create an entire world that is parallel to ours.
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The Gallery Dealer as Tightrope Walker
Rather than identifying with a style or brand, Klaus Kertess was remarkably independent in his choices, and was not averse to risks.
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Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
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Yikui (Coy) Gu’s Tour of the US
There is nothing subtle about Gu’s work: it is in your face because the racism he encounters is always there.
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An Artist Between Two Worlds
Nearly 50 years ago, Choong Sup Lim left South Korea for New York City in search of freedom in art and life.
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Another Chapter of Black Art History
The legacy of Cinque Gallery demonstrates that the work of Black artists between 1969 and 2004 was as diverse as its mainstream counterpart.
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Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
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The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself.
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Guy Goodwin’s Colorful Inelegance
With subjects and materials such as diner menus and discarded cardboard, Goodwin resists a view of history as progress in search of ultimate truths.
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Don Voisine’s Restless Shapes
Voisine's paintings ask us to consider what we pay attention to and why.
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An Artist Standing Outside an Either/Or World
L. Brandon Krall seems simultaneously to embrace systems and flights of imagination.