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The Politics of Desire and Oppression in Anita Steckel's Art
Steckel compelled audiences to acknowledge uncomfortable realities about systemic sexism that persist decades later.
Natalie Haddad
Natalie Haddad is Reviews Editor at Hyperallergic and an art writer and historian. She holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California San Diego and has written extensively on modern and contemporary art.
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Jon Pylypchuk’s Chorus of Loss
Pylypchuk’s art has always been deeply engaged with the most painful parts of life, those that human beings tend to push aside or deny in order to get by.
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Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO
Through her encounters with the spirit Lacamo, Peavy developed a cosmology based on 12,000-year cycles of evolution.
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Rosemary Mayer’s Art of the Unseen
For Mayer, the passage of time is imbued with a sense of melancholy, of something already lost to the past.
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Fred Eversley's Joyful Light
Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena.
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Henrik Olesen’s Formless, Transgressive Bodies
For much of his career, Olesen has confronted both psychological and physical violence, perpetrated by power structures against non-normative bodies.
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Painting the Family Dynamics of Toys and Food
Ulala Imai does more than project human feelings onto toys; she proposes that they represent us, and that we share some of their qualities.
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Doug Aitken’s Cities of Loss
Aitken’s exhibition "Flags and Debris" is informed by a dialectic of embodiment and absence.
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Clarence Holbrook Carter, an American Surrealist Who Painted Life, Death, and Rebirth
Carter’s paintings gesture toward unknown realms, whether death or nonhuman consciousness.
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Four Artists Recall a Year to Forget
Judith Bernstein, Carroll Dunham, Alia Ali, and Tomashi Jackson talk about what got them through 2020.
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The Fallacies of Whiteness
Divya Mehra offers a complex view of race and identity that supplants the myth of a monolithic Other.
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Rodney McMillian Deftly Treads the Line Between Politics and Aesthetics
In Body Politic, McMillian unveils the insidious racial exclusion and oppression in Abstract Expressionism and landscape painting.