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An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.
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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The Devotional Act of Touching a Brush to Canvas
Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.
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Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade Looks at the Inevitable and Doesn’t Blink
It is one thing to get lost in a meticulous, intricate work of overlapping abstract patterns, and quite another to have it look back at you.
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Scott Stack Rethinks the Rules of Op Art
A number of Stack’s paintings look as if a storm swept through the repetitive patterns of Op Art, breaking them into shards.
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Judy Ledgerwood’s Blunt Celebrations of Female Sexuality
A delicious tension animates Ledgerwood’s combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
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Matthew Wong’s Hallucinatory Pilgrimages
Wong proceeds mark by mark without knowing in advance what will happen or where he will go.
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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.
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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.