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Richard Hull’s Hall of Mirrors
Hull’s “stolen portraits” are funny, weird, seductive, robust, mysterious, saucy, and nearly impossible to decipher.
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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A Trailblazer of Computer Drawing Gets Her Due
An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.
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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s Guide to the Americas
In Vásquez de la Horra’s cosmology, we encounter fantastical creatures on whatever journey we take, whether it is to a real place or an imagined future.
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When Paintings Are Stitched, Unstitched, Twisted, and Knotted
Julia Bland combines weaving with paint to make works that don’t quite fit comfortably in a single category.
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Jay DeFeo and the Anarchic Spirit of Surrealism
For DeFeo, Surrealism was not a technique, but a state of seeing and experiencing everyday life.
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Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
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The Unwanted Guest at Modernism’s Table
Martin Barré’s work refutes the American view that painting is something that could be used up — as if it came in a pail rather than a well.
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Cy Twombly’s Extravagant Synesthesia
Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.
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A Minimalist Transformation of Minimalism
Otis Jones proves that painting’s parameters continue to be commodious — even reductive painting has not been used up.
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Deana Lawson’s Iconoclastic Portraits
Lawson confronts viewers with multifaceted visions of black identity, as embodied by strangers and neighbors alike, with whom she has established an intense rapport.
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When a Painting Becomes an Incantation
Douglas Florian’s choice of words reminds us how much our nation indulges in name-calling and name checks.