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Suzanne Jackson’s Ethereal Acrylic Hangings Connect Autobiography and Abstraction
Suzanne Jackson's exhibition at Ortuzar Projects was an autobiography in visual form.
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Photographer Mark McKnight Turns Queer Bodies into Abstract Landscapes
Mark McKnight's work is as concerned with negation as it is with affirmation, his images not only exposing their subjects but also anonymizing them.
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Julije Knifer’s Anti-Paintings Make a Virtue of Monotony
Julije Knifer spent virtually his entire career painting a single motif: a meander pattern formed from interlocking right angles.
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Rashid Johnson and the Age of Broken Men
Faces jumped out of his collages and tile mosaics, whether I was looking for them or not. The more crudely sketched they were, the more unexpected and powerful was my twinge of recognition—more…
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Internal and External Worlds Merge in Kristy Luck’s Atmospheric Paintings
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…
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Andrea Bowers Portrays the Future of Activism
Andrea Bowers's interest in social movements and political activism, such as workers' rights rallies and protests around the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, is central to her artwork.
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Gareth Long Puts a Spotlight on the Grift of Local Entertainment–and Dabbles in It, Too
We're attracted to grifters because they tell us what we want to hear, regardless of whether or not it makes sense.
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Joseph Sterling’s Mastery of Midcentury Photographic Innovations Was Both a Strength and a Weakness
Joseph Sterling died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow…
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Emmet Gowin’s Photographs of the Nevada Test Site Capture a Beauty That Cannot be Domesticated by Art
Emmet Gowin's aerial photographs of landscapes evoke the apocalypse. Shot in high-contrast black-and-white and rarely printed larger than a foot square, they avoid the easy grandiosity of their…
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A Show at Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts’s Plumbing Store–Turned-Gallery Highlights Their Eclectic Art
In 2016, Potts Plumbing Parts in Alhambra, California, stopped selling pipes and started showing art. The shift came naturally: brothers Tom, Joe, and Rick Potts—who took over the store, which their…
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