John Yau

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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.

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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.