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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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Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination

by John Yau February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.

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“Creative Seeing” in the Paintings of Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt

by John Yau February 10, 2022February 11, 2022

Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.

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Brenda Goodman’s Fearless Self-Portraits

by John Yau February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

While I have seen Goodman’s self-portraits numerous times, the unlikely combination of raw pathos and tenderness always stops me in my tracks.

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Walking for Art

by John Yau February 2, 2022February 3, 2022

The visual stutter of Mary Lum’s artwork invites us to enunciate the staccato repetitions of sounds we hear and see when we walk through the city.

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Hannah Lee’s Dreamlike Realism

by John Yau January 27, 2022January 28, 2022

Being bowled over by an unknown artist’s first one-person show does not happen often but when it does, it renews your faith that the art world is not just about buzz and hype.

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Robert Gober Looks Into Our Heart of Darkness

by John Yau January 26, 2022January 27, 2022

In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.

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Something Is Not Right With The World

by John Yau January 20, 2022January 25, 2022

Alexi Worth’s paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.

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Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief

by John Yau January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Crys Yin’s subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.

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Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough

by John Yau January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

It is precisely Moon’s openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.

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The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki

by John Yau January 12, 2022January 13, 2022

For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.

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Paintings Rather Than Pictures

by John Yau December 22, 2021December 23, 2021

This desire to go beyond the ordinary without forgetting its existence seems to be one motivation that Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski shared.

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This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books 2021 (Mostly)

by Albert Mobilio and John Yau December 22, 2021January 4, 2022

John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.

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