Art Review
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Reminds Us of Our Humanity
It feels like an important time to be highlighting moments of intimacy amid strife, given that we live in a time of famine, war, and genocide.
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Karin Davie’s Oceans of Color
Davie lays everything bare in her brushstroke, while withholding how she controls sometimes two or more colors within a single mark.
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Duncan McGillivray-Smith’s Game of Shadows
His mysterious narratives, arising out of common human activities, are inventive and uncanny, caused a sense of disquiet.
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The Anti-Caravaggio of the Baroque Era
Georges de La Tour incorporated chiaroscuro into austere genre compositions, lending them a uniquely intimate and spiritual quality.
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The Feminine Abandon of Danielle Mckinney
The painter enshrines private moments of ease within small, intimate canvases.
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Howard Hodgkin Was Best in the Dark Spaces
Five paintings in a print-focused show on the late artist, fiercely spot-lit against much surrounding darkness, look and feel like the real thing.
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Michael David’s Art Gazes Back at Us
Instead of depicting objects, David’s shattered glass artworks literally mirror the viewer — looking into them, we are beckoned to reflect upon ourselves.
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Gideon Bok Goes Political
With Gaza on his mind, he pushes us to reconsider the relationship between the studio artist and activist.
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The Beauty in the IRL
In Marta Lee’s solo show, I found a measure for reality that had never occurred to me to try before: painting.
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How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape
The Los Angeles artist practices what she calls “abstraction in reverse,” starting from basic shapes to construct landscapes.
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New Painting of Charli XCX Graces Vanity Fair Cover
Artist Issy Wood’s edgy oil portrait captures the party girl’s arched brows and lethal stare with a surreal intimacy.
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Junk Food for the One Percent
In A Match Made in Heaven, Katherine Bernhardt and Jeremy Scott are so simpatico that the intertwining of their art feels natural — even divine.