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Yun-Fei Ji’s Great Leap Forward

by John Yau January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

The Chinese painter learned the state-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism and then elected to unlearn it in order to reinvent himself.

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Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world.

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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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Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney February 15, 2022February 16, 2022

Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread.

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Cathartic Art for Precarious Times

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk November 7, 2020January 14, 2022

Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.

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The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 12, 2019October 11, 2019

Josiah McElheny’s glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.

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Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire

by John Yau June 16, 2019June 14, 2019

Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.

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The Making of an American Original

by John Yau September 23, 2018September 22, 2018

In the age of 40-character electronic announcements and Instagram, Kathy Butterly has slowed looking down to a snail’s pace.

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An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement

by John Yau May 13, 2018May 13, 2018

Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.

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Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex

by John Yau May 6, 2018May 4, 2018

Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.

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In Praise of the Baffling

by John Yau January 28, 2018January 26, 2018

Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.

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Painting the Sky on Sunday

Avatar photo by Louis Bury January 27, 2018January 26, 2018

Byron Kim’s diaristic texts offer a bird’s-eye view of his life — the youth soccer games, the dinner parties, the glum and the optimistic moods, the children going away to college.

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