Gary Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible.
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There’s Something Special About Jim Osman’s Sculpture
Osman’s care for and attention to his modest materials, the particularities of their identity, is rare in a society where excess is celebrated daily.
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Pete Schulte’s Magical Abstract Drawings
Schulte seems at once focused and restless, determined and open.
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Don Voisine’s Restless Shapes
Voisine’s paintings ask us to consider what we pay attention to and why.
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Altoon Sultan’s Powerful Challenge
Sultan’s works implicitly reject the corporate scale of the Minimalists in favor of a domestic and intimate space
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Drawing as Refuge
Pete Schulte’s drawings at first seem to be easily apprehended and quickly digested, but they demand a deeper reflection on choices and motives.
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A Painter’s Dissonant Geometry
Gary Petersen is a highly intelligent painter, which is to say he has absorbed a lot of art history and, more importantly, is at ease with it.
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Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting
With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.
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Altoon Sultan’s Enigmatic Views
Sultan is both the artist and the artisan — a view that goes against the grain characterizing art as a purely conceptual activity, a form of entrepreneurship.
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The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black
Jason Karolak’s colors grab your attention like flashing LEDs in a dark-as-midnight casino.
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Don Voisine Makes Geometry Sexy
Every color in a Voisine painting has its own material identity. Even the narrow bands edging or running through the panel’s border colors convey a distinctive feel to their physicality.