Claes Oldenburg's statement "I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic . . . or violent, or whatever is necessary" can readily be applied to the art of Ben Stone, whose six recent works…
Public Notice 3, a text-based installation conceived for the Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago by Jitish Kallat, is truly monumental in aim. The site-specific work engages the…
Christine Tarkowski set out to construct her own system of belief in "Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last," the 42-year-old's largest, most ambitious exhibition to date. Prompted…
Chicago-based Armita Raafat performs an archeology of memory in evocative mixed-medium installations that draw on architectural motifs from Iran, the country of her familial roots. Born in Chicago…
San Francisco-based artist, filmmaker and musician Clare E. Rojas spins allegorical tales in intimate paintings, large-scale murals and installations. Deriving motifs from quilts, Russian nesting doll…