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Architectonic Collage in Two and Three Dimensions
Sharon Lawless’s visual dynamics are so vigorous you can almost hear them rattle, bang, churn and chug.
Stephen Maine
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American Monuments Then and Now
The much-anticipated second edition of Lee Friedlander’s The American Monument coincides with the opening skirmishes of an extended battle over the control of history.
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Swarming Geometry, Floral Colors, and Technological Space
Berran’s new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.
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Russell Maltz's Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it's broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.
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The Clothes Make the Painting
Medrie MacPhee's newest paintings are made from the shapes and contours of disassembled garments, giving “pattern painting” an entirely new meaning.
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Inquiry Meets Imagination in Jen Durbin's "Jackie Series"
In a series of drawings derived from frames of the Zapruder film, Durbin tracks the shifting spatial orientation of Jackie Kennedy's pink pillbox hat — and by implication, Mrs. Kennedy's bodily response to the unfolding horror.
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Gina Ruggeri’s “Maneuver X”
Beginning around 2012, Ruggeri’s work underwent a shift, then an overhaul, then something like a transformation.
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What Lies Beneath: Carl D'Alvia's Buried Meanings
Though he wears his scholarship lightly, Carl D'Alvia is adept at the semaphores of 20th-century sculpture.
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Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
Sometimes a single, simple pictorial device is all it takes to set your work apart.
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Shari Mendelson: Message in a Bottle
Shari Mendelson's artifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subject matter. In turn, they appeal to something preconscious in the viewer.
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Katharina Wulff: Sachlichkeit in Marrakesh
Katharina Wulff grew up in East Berlin and moved to Marrakesh some fifteen years ago. Her work reflects her situation amid the elaborate, distinctly Islamic decoration that adorns traditional architecture in Morocco.
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Leah Tacha: In the Zone
Leah Tacha doesn't poach styles or genres for their own sake. She has found a personal through-line in her enthusiasms that allows her to both plumb her moment and link to our collective past.