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With a Room of Her Own, Emily Mason’s Ethereal Abstractions Bloomed
Mason’s expansive Chelsea studio became her tuning fork — the barometer she used to check that colors and shapes were humming at the right frequency.
Miles McEnery Gallery
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Warren Isensee’s Breakthrough
Isensee has gone from being a dutiful geometric abstractionist to defining his own trajectory, and gaining a verifiable freedom for himself.
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Phillip Allen’s Astonishing Achievement
I have come to think of Phillip Allen as one of the most wonderfully challenging painters around.
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In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity
The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.
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Suburban Visions to Make Your Skin Crawl
Amy Bennett gives us just enough tantalizing visual details to enthrall and mystify, without becoming heavy-handed.
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Deciphering Inka Essenhigh’s Blurred Visions
Essenhigh reveals a freedom that resonates with all manner of fusion: of figure and design, of abstraction and narrative, of sentiment and humor, and more generally, of ambitious painting with a readable narrative.