by Amy Luo
I’m excited too see artists work with something new. Is it viable? Well, if I believe in something, I’ll make it work.
Interview with Jamie Angell
Category: FEATURES
Over the Rainbow: Seduction and Identity at Mocca
by Aurore Mathys
the show is interested in stereotypes commonly associated with queer culture, but also transcends them to deliver a powerful account of a universally shared human experience.
Rebecca Belmore: KWE at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
by Mia Guttmann
Art is often times described as a catalyst for change, but creating art with a predisposed agenda can lead to artworks that appears forced or cliché.
Interview with Attila Richard Lukacs
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
I still think that most of my paintings today are figurative, even when the figure is completely absent. There are also compositions where I use the figure but broken down so there’s just a hand
Michael Awad and The Vastness of Totality
by Mia Guttmann
When seen from afar, the panoramas appear pattern like, and reduce the subjects to mere form and color. When the viewer gets closer attempting to “take it all in” – the photos become overwhelming.
Virgine Bocaert: Body and Soul
Thompson Landry Gallery
by Carter Brown
The paintings include this idea of fragility of women but there is also a quiet power that exists in these mysterious figures.
Gordon Parks: Portraits at BAND
by Melina Rymberg
The exhibition celebrates Parks’ achievements with an incredible range in subject; from those who experienced severe marginalization and cruelty to those who were celebrated 20th century icons.
Late Blooms in the Garden of Modernism
Peter G. Ray: Confidential
De Luca Fine Art / Gallery
by Aurore Mathys
Ray presents a set of appealing and fascinating canvases that show his technical prowess, but that yet asks for a more systematic conceptualization of his work
Étienne Gélinas: Systemic Complexity
Thompson Landry Gallery
by Carter Brown
Gélinas plays with the idea of engaging both sides of the viewer’s brain, the right, which deals more with visual imagery, and the left, which handles logic and mathematical reckoning.
The Art of Marcelo Suaznabar
Articsok Gallery
by Ashley Johnson
One can salute the intention of the artist to maintain a moral integrity and to present art with a social message. That he also creates mysterious and intriguing work is an added blessing.
Eldon Garnet: Shadows and Shades
Christopher Cutts Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
If Garnet wears his pessimism on his sleeve, it serves to expose the bur under the saddle of all who are at ease in Zion at their peril.