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Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us
From limbless bodies to gorging, ravenous figures to gouged surfaces, there has always been something broken and deeply damaged about Goodman’s art.
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The History Paintings of Jenny Snider
Snider’s interest in the relationship between popular culture, theater, dancing, innovative art, politics, and persecution, as seen through the lens of the Russian Revolution and Soviet art, addresses the present moment.
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Painting on a Knife’s Edge
With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth.
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A Painter's Playful and Profound Deconstructions
Engels the Artist doesn’t seek out these other vocabularies — he is firmly a painter, but one who employs a number of deconstructive tools in his work.
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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 Truly Rebellious Artist
Is Joanne Greenbaum making fun of collectors’ tastes, or is she enlarging the definition of art? The fact that you cannot tell is what is so great about her work.
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Unconstrained Paintings of Terror and Love
Joe Coleman is a hyper-realist who crams every picture with data, producing an image of all-over intensity that is at once a scrumptious meal and hard to stomach.
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Positively Ninth Street Women
By the mid-1970s, critic Thomas Hess acknowledged the critical favoritism shown to postwar male artists when he singled out the women of the Ninth Street Show as “sparkling Amazons.”
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A Fresh Direction for Printmaking
Sarah Amos’s work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.
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Basking in Sam Gilliam's Endless Iterations
The artist — still brilliant and brimming with artistic talent — will celebrate his 86th birthday on November 30.
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Living in the World of Art
It is a finely attuned openness to the world that we encounter in Suzan Frecon’s work, a sense of color unlike anyone else’s.
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Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough
These are the paintings of a modern master for whom dissipation and loss of control have become integrated into the work.