In 1932, at age fifty, Agnes Pelton, moved from Long Island to the desert town of Cathedral City, California, and, shortly thereafter, witnessed a great storm. She captured her impressions in the…
Seemingly an odd sideline for a trained architect, Jean-Jacques Lequeu's sexual image-making is in fact key to his legacy, evidence of an artistic project sparked by revolution.
Combining fleshy silicone and spindly nickel-plated steel rods in strangely alluring ways, the sculptures in Hannah Levy's show, "Pendulous Picnic," suggested the elegant fantasies of a paraphiliac.
Katherine Hubbard makes carefully considered references to Minimalism in her photography, with particular attention to Minimalist sculpture's ambition to reorient the viewer's relationship to the…
The standard narrative of American painting has long focused on the notion of European-influenced modernism erupting into postwar Abstract Expressionism. But this potted history obscures the work of…
Indonesia-born, Amsterdam-based artist Fiona Tan began her career in the 1990s, when digital technologies began transforming—or bastardizing, depending on whom you ask—the mediums she took up: film…
Though water is a central theme, the approach to it is muddied by the fact that each work says more about its own format than anything else.
Noah Davis's paintings are weird, dark, and intoxicatingly beautiful—a range he hit with subtlety and ease. He used muted colors, diluted pigments, and washed-out drip marks to render black figures…
Peter Saul is an utterly feverish colorist, heir to Bacon and Delacroix, and you can't help but admire his tense, syncopated compositions. But his style is so given to extremes that, almost by…
Juanita McNeely's exhibition comprised two large multi-panel paintings that transmit the pain of their female subjects with an intensity that is almost too much to bear and a painterly confidence…