John Yau

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What Abstraction Can Face Up To

Ha Chong-Hyun has survived the many catastrophes that have befallen Korea during his lifetime, and his work is inextricable from his life.

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Deborah Remington’s Singular Place in Art

By employing a slow, deliberate process in which control is paramount, Remington shaped her passage in time.

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Photographs That Bring the Past Into the Present

By constructing a highly detailed world based on historical events, Jasper de Biejer gives himself permission to ponder the past.

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Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief

In her “Mother Paintings,” Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.

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John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings

By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time.

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John Giorno's Beautifully Disgruntled Poem-Paintings

Giorno sets up your expectations and then pulls the rug out.

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Clare Grill’s Untranslatable Paint

Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change.

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Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora

Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.

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A Painter of Organized Chaos

Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.

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Marilyn Lerner Shifts Gears, Again

Lerner’s new works evoke an asymmetrical kaleidoscopic hum, as geometric forms and multiple hues dance around each other.

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An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions

Derek Boshier’s commitment to being a witness to the catastrophes and jarring discrepancies of daily living has contributed to his near-invisibility in New York.

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Matt Bollinger’s Working-Class Elegy

Bollinger is a major artist chronicling a substantial sector of American life.