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The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings
Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable.
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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When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World
Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans.
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Jim Dine Gets to Work
For Dine, physical labor and art-making are interchangeable: “When you paint every day, all year long, then the subject is essentially the act of working.”
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A San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds
With the layers of his collaged "paste-ups," Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime.
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The Double Life of Aji V.N.’s Art
Aji’s bifurcated practice reflects his experience of living and working in two different worlds, India and the Netherlands.
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Damien H. Ding’s Dreams of a Modernist Past
In his paintings, Ding establishes an imaginary dialogue with architect I. M. Pei that reveals something about both the artist and his subject.
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Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color
Paintings that appear ever-changing make us conscious of how we see.
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A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.
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A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.
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Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins
In Eveleth's work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice.
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A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings
In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.
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Tony Bechara Creates Chaos With Grids
Bechara’s grid paintings are dazzling, engaging, and unsettling, since they undermine any sense of stability that we associate with a grid.