Nature, the body, and the psyche seem to be one in Kristy Luck's paintings, but there is nothing saccharine or overtly mystical about her unifying vision. The Los Angeles–based artist depicts fields…
Over nearly two decades, Hugo Crosthwaite has applied portraiture's concentrated attention not only to individuals but even more avidly to place.
Dona Nelson's paintings have an inside and outside. Every dimension of her multidimensional work is made relevant.
Lari Pittman packs his planes with crisply rendered shapes and symbols that coexist in an exhilarating, sometimes alarming state of acrobatic suspension. Simultaneity is the operative term, collage…
Betye Saar, who turns 93 in July, remains both an evolving and an emerging artist. Though her prints, assemblages, and installations have been exhibited steadily since the '60s, attention to her work…
Kelly Akashi's hand was everywhere in this ensnaring show, and not just implicitly, in that the Los Angeles–based artist made its sculptural contents, but explicitly, too.
Ohio-based sculptor Matt Wedel operates on the principle of both/and rather than either/or. Joining forms typically considered disparate—flowers and rocks, humans and animals—his work radiates an…
"One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art" takes its title from another of Farber's essays—his most-cited one, however challenging it is to distill.
Liza Lou is the contemporary art world's preeminent poet of beads. She has sewn odes and lamentations with them, used them as a means of witness and a vehicle for critique, expanded their grammar.
EJ Hill stood at the far end of his installation in the Hammer Museum's apse-like Vault Gallery, where the altar would be if this were an actual cathedral. He occupied the highest spot on the kind of…
