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Kyle Larson’s Anxious Dreamscapes
His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination.
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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Danny Moynihan’s Landscapes Look Back at Us
His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed.
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Brenda Goodman Paints the Pain of Being Human
Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.
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How Bob Thompson Created an Art Community
Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative.
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The Mind-Body Split in Kibong Rhee’s Paintings
Rhee's paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface.
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David Baker’s Paintings About Seeing
He has taken appropriation art, which often consists of commonplace acts of citation, quotation, and parody, and set it in a new direction.
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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.
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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.