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…
From the start, Ruppersberg has turned banality inside out, mining the heady mystery of the obvious.
A sizable contingent of artists today produce striking aesthetic effects with photographic methods that are deliberately slow, antiquated, and physical.
Christina Forrer’s weavings are as engrossing on the level of the individual stitch and strand as they are jolting pictorially and thematically. Idiosyncrasies of the hand ally with order imposed by t…