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Remembering Jack Whitten's Vision and Conviction
Whitten, an artist often situated in relation to the legacy of Abstract Expressionism but whose work ranged far beyond, died on January 20 at age 78.
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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An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
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Catherine Murphy Sets the Bar Higher and Higher
Murphy shows viewers things they know — a cherry pie or a pile of broken dishes — in ways that are arresting, straightforward, and extremely unsettling.
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A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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A True Renegade Painter
The humor running through Sally Webster’s paintings can be goofy and good-natured. The intensity of her devotion to detail makes them more than that.
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Edvard Munch’s World Without Pity
Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.
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Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
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Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
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Four Bay Area Iconoclasts and Eccentrics
For New Yorkers, the artists Jean Conner, Wally Hedrick, Deborah Remington, Franklin Williams range from little-known and neglected to unknown altogether.
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Totems for a Religion of One
Michelle Segre’s rejection of commodity fetishism and a society that worships shiny surfaces is to be admired because she does it with such verve.
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Matt Bollinger’s America
This is the American dream gone wrong.