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John Yau

John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His latest poetry publications include a book of poems, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and the chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). His most recent monographs are Catherine Murphy (Rizzoli, 2016), the first book on the artist, and Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert (Black Dog Publishing, 2015). He has also written monographs on A. R. Penck, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. In 1999, he started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation, and criticism. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2007–2011) before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic. He is a Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).

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The Deeply Satisfying Pleasures of Harriet Korman’s Paintings

by John Yau March 17, 2022March 17, 2022

Walter Pater famously said, “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Korman’s paintings exist in a musical state.

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Robert Ryman’s Joyful Last Paintings

by John Yau March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

The pleasure Ryman took in seeing and sensing the world of things so closely is what viewers who are open to his work will take away.

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The Pleasures of Slow Looking

by John Yau March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

Jule Korneffel is not after denial in her paintings but rather affirmation, even in these chaotic, seesawing times.

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Alone in the Dying of the Light

by John Yau March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.

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A “Boobs-Eye View” and Other Perspectives on the Body

by John Yau March 3, 2022March 3, 2022

In Danica Lundy’s paintings it seems that I can see two places at once, inside and outside my body.

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Jenny Dubnau Captures a Momentary Encounter

by John Yau March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

With her portraits, Jenny Dubnau seems to be drawn to that psychologically charged instant of the momentary encounter.

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Asako Tabata Paints a World Between Reality and Imagination

by John Yau February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

The subject running through all of Tabata’s works is the meeting place of one’s inner and outer life, of psychic states and outward responsibility, and the different frictions that can arise in that gap.

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David Diao’s Long Search for Painting’s Many Identities

by John Yau February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.

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Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination

by John Yau February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.

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“Creative Seeing” in the Paintings of Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt

by John Yau February 10, 2022February 11, 2022

Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.

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Brenda Goodman’s Fearless Self-Portraits

by John Yau February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

While I have seen Goodman’s self-portraits numerous times, the unlikely combination of raw pathos and tenderness always stops me in my tracks.

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Walking for Art

by John Yau February 2, 2022February 3, 2022

The visual stutter of Mary Lum’s artwork invites us to enunciate the staccato repetitions of sounds we hear and see when we walk through the city.

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