Art
Daniel Boccato: Sculpture in a Crowded Field
In a savvy move, Daniel Boccato has latched onto a currently popular color-and-shape-based aesthetic and taken it to a material extreme.
Stephen Maine
Art
Of Lava and Lava Lamps: Marilyn Gold and Robert Guillot
Marilyn Gold is a painter; Robert Guillot makes sculpture and drawings. Both have been working in New York for decades. As their studio output indicates, they have profoundly different interests and divergent means of exploring them.
Art
A Breach in the Membrane: Gwenn Thomas
In recent years, luminosity itself has emerged as Gwenn Thomas's ultimate subject.
Art
Mary Carlson’s Favorite Demons
What does evil look like?
Art
The Political Abstractions of Beverly Buchanan
The argument driving this engrossing show is that Buchanan was actually a thematically ambitious and multi-faceted artist who participated in the avant-garde movements of her day, bringing to them a distinct perspective informed by her sense of identity as black and female.
Art
Toy Story: Chris Macdonald’s Tabletop Sculptures
Is Macdonald trying to tell us that, in some important sense, artworks are toys — that there is no significant difference between the two categories of objects?
Art
Kenji Fujita's Vernacular of Accumulation
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our “rhizome”-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
Art
The How Is the What: The Essential Harry Leigh
Since the early 1970s, Harry Leigh has been producing distinctive, elegant, deceptively simple wall-based sculptures, mainly of wood.
Books
The Secret Life of Infrastructure: Lynn Saville’s 'Dark City'
Realism is the default mode for street photography — in New York, anyway — so it is impressive when a photographer transcends the genre by embracing the attributes and effects of a different approach.
Art
Painting the Wilderness of Artistic Imagination
Demonstrating formal finesse, visual wit and disarmingly direct technique, the recent paintings of Olive Ayhens are a pleasure to behold.
Books
Mary Heilmann's Good Vibrations
With summer almost upon us, we note the arrival on these shores of Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations, published last year by Walther König, Cologne, to accompany the artist’s reception of the prestigious Biennial Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) and its related exhibition.