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The Nostalgia of Painting
Evan Halter’s use of collage in his trompe l’oeil paintings is about loss and our inability to see the actual world in all its complexity.
John Yau
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An Art Inhabited by Higher Spirits
In his paintings, Joshua Hagler seems to follow a path where logic and convention are left behind in favor of visions and dreams.
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Can We Really See Art?
The longer I sat with the artworks in David Reed’s studio, the more I felt that I wasn’t fully seeing what was there.
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Without Content Doesn’t Mean Empty
Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one.
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Jimmy Gordon’s Homegrown Surrealism
The artist, a pioneering member of Lexington’s LGBTQ+ art world, used circus and sideshow imagery to create poignant meditations on isolation.
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Eric Avery’s Healing Art
In a career that stretches across a catastrophic half-century of health crises and wars, Avery applies his activist and empathetic social conscience to all he does.
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The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art
The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists, the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.
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Brenda Goodman’s Unknowable Language of Grief
The fluidity of the artist’s line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event.
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Fritz Scholder’s Art of Non-Belonging
Scholder, who called himself a "non-Indian Indian," refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American.
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Seeing Is Creating in Mark Milroy’s Art
Milroy begins his paintings with direct observation but ends up someplace that I cannot name.
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Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youth
The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
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Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined
I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.