Books
The Five-Star Delight of Driving Across America with Ron Padgett
At the heart of Padgett’s writing is an innocence: he sees everything — no matter how banal or how curious or strange — with the same attentive, innocent eye.
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.
Art
Peter Dreher Paints a Thousand Skulls
Done over a period of more than forty years, the series now numbers more than five thousand. The paintings present viewers with a visual conundrum: they are exactly the same but each one is unique.
Art
Sonja Sekula’s Time May Have Finally Come
Sekula was part of a number of different overlapping scenes, and she was loved and thought highly of by many. And then nearly everything about her and her work got forgotten.
Art
Thomas Trosch’s Pointed Confections
Trosch has not had a solo show in New York since 2009, which is more than a generation and nearly a lifetime in art-world years.
Art
Nancy Haynes Invites Us to Look Closely
For those who have followed Haynes’ work, her open-ended, experimental approach is not surprising. She is both rigorous and adventuresome without ever claiming these qualities for herself.
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Shawn Thornton’s Intricate Cosmos
Thornton’s art is the result of his research into the ways different religious traditions convey the underlying nature of mystical and occult experiences.
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Steve Keister’s Cargo Cult of One
The first thing that makes Keister an outlier is that he made sculpture that you didn’t back into, but which you bumped your head against.
Art
Branden Koch Looks at America and Doesn’t Like What He Sees
There are eighty works on paper in the exhibition, Branden Koch: Bald Ego at Regina Rex, all of which speak to and about the dilemma of being an artist and sympathetic human being in America under the current regime.
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Everybody Should Want to Belong to Sedrick Huckaby’s Tribe
Huckaby, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was raised, and teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, draws people he knows: family, friends, and neighbors in the African American community: he makes the local become something more.
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Dawn Clements’ Love of Things
Clements’ dedication to drawing — “the way she sees,” as she once told Susan Swenson — is registered in the shifts and jumps in perspective, and in her use of separate sheets of paper to define the limits of her focus.
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Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
For an artist known for her flawless alignments (or deliberate misalignments) of overlapping wave patterns to achieve a memorable optical effect, the inclusion of “bruises” seems a bold and unexpected move.
Art
Paul Gagner Is Wise Beyond His Years
Gagner’s attention to details is laced with a sharp, self-mocking wit. And yet, there is a gentleness running through the paintings, a sense of humor at once compassionate and tough.